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About The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1896)
O OiTCfccrQcrLCtLrLtf O O O O Q-r-a-rar jp r JPQ O O 9 o O PRICES TRlxK jj' " Our stock of Boys' Knee Pants Suins is very large, with, all the choicest goods of the season, and a complete line of sizes. Our special price is THAT PAKE TOWN SUITS 33 1-3 per cent. off the marked price. BARGAINS IN. Iiadies' Cloths and Broadcloths In order to reduce our stock still lower, we will make some tempting prices. Our regular 35c Cloth 25c yard Our regular 50c Cloth ...35c " Ourregular 65c Cloth 45c " Our regular 75c Cloth .....55c yard Our regular 85c Cloth 50c " Our regular $1.00 Cloth 72o " 3- 2 2 3 We Still Goniiaue Uur sale of suoes anfl llsis. PEASE & M AYS. All goods marked in plain figures. 9 The Dalles Daily Ghronicie. TUESDAY. DEC. 15, 1896 Weather Foiecast. Portland. Iec. 15, 1896. Fob Eastern Oregon Tonight and tomor row fair and cooler. Paguk. Obserrer. WAYSIDE GLEANINGS. Random Observations arm Local Events of Lesser Magnitude. Good, fat hogs aie in demand here at 3 cents. The A. O. U. W. have a social on hand, to take place Thursday evening. The 'river is coming up quite rapidly., owing to the heavy rains and melting snows. A large consignment of hay just re ceived and on sale bv Ward, Kerns & Robinson. The latter part of last week 300 hogs were shipped from Grant to Trout dale, and 200 to Seattle. Mr. Arthur K. Fuller made final proof on bis cash entry in Sherman county, at the land office today. Katie Putnam tomorrow night. Se cure your tickets and reserve your seats at the Snipes-Kinersly drugstore. Twenty carloads of sheep were shipped from Grant last Thursday to Ellensburg, Wash., where they will be fed lor the winter. Mr. Rolando, G. Brooks and Eli Hos tetlar made homestead entries on some of the forfeited railroad lands in Sher man county today. The ground is surely getting a thor ough soaking this winter, and it does not seem possible that the soil can dry out before next July. Out on 15-Milesall the farmers are busy plowing. TheSvfitround is in splendid condition, anda very large area ia being turned over. The regular Christmas vacation of the public schools will last two .weeks, school closing Friday of this week, and beginning again the Monday after New Years. Two applications were made today to have land ordered into market, for sale. This is under the law providing for the sale of isolated tracts, and we believe these are the first ever made in this office. The sturgeon catch is getting quite good again. Yesterday sixteen of the big fellows were shipped away, the five larger ones of the lot averaging 250 pounds each. Eight were shipped today, all about the same size and weighing nearly 200 pounds each.. , , The Regulator will be in tonight and will make her regular rnns hereafter. The people along the river on the Wash ington side will be rejoiced to -see her again, as they have practically been cut off from communication with the out side world ever since the ice blockade. Mr. Led better, representing the Ore gonian, ia in the city and looking after matters connected with the Cascade edition, which is to be published within the next few. days. The title page is Jithogra'phed, and is an artistic piece of work in five colors. Enormous expense "has been incurred in getting out the edition, but it will be worth all, and much more than all, it cost. The alarm of fire this morning was caused by a burning flue in Mf a. Hand ley's house on Third street. There were two stovepipe boles in the flue, the lower one being Btopped with the ordi nary tin arrangement made for the pur pose. It seems the soot had accumu lated and caught fire from the sparks dropping down on it. The blaze came out a foot or more .into the kitchen, but no damage was done, other than making a little dirt. Speaking of the run of Balmon with Fish Commissioner McGnire yesterday,' be remarked that next season would be a good test of the benefits of the hatch eries. According to the accepted theory of the fish coming back the fourth year, the ran next summer, if it depends at all on the hatcheries, will . be a very light one. In 1893 no fish were turned out of the hatcheries, so that the run of 1897 will depend entirely on the result of natural propagation. In the mean while the legislation we epeak of edi torially should be looked after and the means provided for carrying on the hatcheries. Washington already has a good law of this kind, and is now main taming a fine hatchery on the little White Salmon in Skamania county, about seven miles below Hood River. How Lively in Morrow. Henry Blackman, collector of internal revenue for this district, returned yes terday from a visit to his former home in ;Heppner, says the Oregonian. Mr. Blackman says that times are decidedly better in Morrow county. Heavy rains have prevailed, the snow has all gone, and with another week of the present weather, new grass will be four inches high, which will insure plenty of range feed. Last week 35,000 pounds of wool were sola at lleppner for 8 cents a pound, said Mr. Blackman, and a sheep buyer named Sherlock, from Illinois, bought 2500 sheep for shipment, and Sam Palmer of Nebraska is now there on the same mission. The farmers are get' ting from 62 to 63 cents a bushel for wheat, and a far better feeling now pre vailB in all parts of Morrow county. Beautiful Windows. The big show windows of A. M. Will iams & Co. are certainly things of beauty today. Window decoration has grown to the dignity of a fine art, and whoever arranged the display spoken of is an artist of undoubted merit. It is i tripos sible to give any description that would do justice to the artistic grouping of beautiful things. The only way to get an adequate conception of the work j.s to take a look at it yourself. Word painting will not fill the bill. 1 Wanted. A young lady desires housework in family. Apply at this office. GOLD BY -THE YARD. the Gliding Used In Ornamental Decoration Is Prepared. The beating of the innumerable .little square pieces of gold .which are used to cover domes and signs and so forth, forms 'a distinct industry in the gold trade, which employs a large number of hands and requires no small amount of skill. The long, low building in which the work ja carried on is filled throughout the day with the sound'of hammers. On every side little boxes containing tiny rolls of gold are to be seen, which although only measuring an inch and a half in length, are worth each about 10. The gold is received in bars one-eighth of an inch in thickness, an inch in width, and weighing 240 pennyweights. This is rolled into a ribbon thirty yards n length. It is then given to the workmen in strips measuring seven "yards, each of whidh is cut- up into 120 pieces. These are now ready to be beaten out by hand. They are placed (protected by fine Bkins) in a tool known as the clutch, nd are thoroughly pounded out on a great granite block Bet in the ground in Buch a way that there is absolutely no vibratory movement. The process is repeated several times, the gold as it spreads being continually subdivided until it ia of the exact dimensions required. The skins in which the gold is beaten are so, delicate that they -will tear as easily as paper; nevertheless they will withstand the continual hammering for several years. The gold, which is finally , beaten down to - .200 of . an inch, is rubbed with "brine" before be ing placed in the skins, in order that it shall not adhere to them. Easy as this work of beating out the gold may seem, it is in reality an art of a very delicate description. The work' man must know to a nicety exactly bow hard or gentle the blows of his hammer must be, and also the exact Bpot on which they should fall. Accordingly, a very superior class of men are employed in the business. Pearson's Weeklv. though he exercised good judgment in doing so. Judge Bellinger and Attorney Murphy were not satisfied with the verdict, and agreed to leave the matter to a jury to decide. After doing so and getting left they kicked, and both went back on their implied agreement to stand by the verdict. Unfortunately they bave the game in their bands and can keep on trying the case until Taffe's money is exhausted. The second jury probably took into consideration the extra expense Taffe was put to in law yers' fees, etc., ia fixing the second ver dict. Of course Taffe will have to go on spending his money until he is broke. He can't help himself, but suppose the new juries should go on indefinitely raising the verdict each, time, what would his honor, Judge Bellinger, do then? The case will be re-tried. To Down Taffe. Judge Bellinger, according . to the Telegram, was quite wrathy at the last jury in the Taffe case, because it gave Taffe a larger verdict than the first jury. The United States attorney was not satisfied with the first verdict, and with all due deference to the statement of Judge Bellinger, neither was Taffe, True he consented to accept the amount. in satisfaction of all damages, but he never even intimated that he thought the sum sufficient to cover all damages Judge Bellinger might aB well try to bold a party who offered to take 50 cents on the dollar in payment of a claim as bound by that offe; after it was refused and suit brought. Mr. lane was never satisfied with the judgment, but con sented to accept it rather than be kept in litigation for monthB and at great ex pense. With a United States judge and attorney both against him, it looks as The Army at Work. Up till the present, quite a number of families have been found by the Salva tion Army in actual want of food and and cjothing. They, the army, expect to solicit donations during the next few days, any one not called upon, who de sires to assist, may address Ensign R. Stevens, Box 309, City. Refrigerator Line. Attention of shippers is called to the new refrigerator line operated Dy tne Oregon Railway & Navigation Company between Portland. Huntington. Spokane and intermediated points, leaving Port land on train 22, Wednesdays and Satur days. j. i.. Lytle, Agent. Do not fail to call on Dr. Lannerberg, the eye specialist, and have your eyea examined free of charge. If you suffer with headache or nervousness you un doubtedly bave imperfect vision that, if corrected, will benefit you for life. Office in the Vogt block. ' Anyone desiring their chimneys cleaned can have it done bv calling upon or addressing Mr. Ike -Peary or James Hogan, The Dalles or telephone to : No 89. - ol7-tf There's more '"clothing destroyed by poor soap than by actual wear as the free- alkali - rots them. Hoe cake is pure. Iy24-ij ' Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. Most Perfect Made. 40 Years the Standard, All-Steel Clamp Skates 50e Pair. MAYS & CROWE. School Books Supplies. Jacobson Book & Music Co. No. 174 Second Street, New Vogt Block, The Dalles, Oregon. GEORGE RUCH PIONEER GROCER. Successor to Cbiisman & Corson. " FULL. LINE OF. STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES. Again in business at the old stand. I would be pleased to see all my former patrons. Free delivery to any part of town. Remember- We have strictly First-class FIR, OAK and r MAPLE WOOD To sell at LOWEST MARKET RATES. Phone 25. JOS. T. PETERS & CO