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e Is the Weather
HOT ENOUGH?
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Don't look at the thermometer every day, but KEEP COOL when
obliged to go out, by carrying one of our elegant SUN SHADES.
Don't cost much to get one not if you buy it at
Our Saturday Special Sale.
SUN SHADES
PLAIN"
BLACK
FANCY
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At two-thirds the regular price.
A Discount of One-Third for Satur
day only.
ALU GOODS MARKED IN I
PLAIN FIGURES. I
PEASE & MAYS
Ths Dalles Daily Chronicle.
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 6, 1897.
NOTICE.
All persona having claims again at The
Dalles National ttanK, iiiaiirr jjauea.
Oregon, must
Wilson, receii
thereof, wi
date heipmTor thev
iington,
in i in ii i mtw ii
tAMfTbree
WaAme on. tJ. CV. JMrrr
WAYSIDE GLINGS.
Rudom OOBArRibn
to H. 8
the legal proof
months from the
be disallowed.
5. 1897.
H. Eckels,
Comptrollei
and Local BnnU
Magnitude.
Weather Tonight and Saturday, fair ;
continued warmer.
Scblitz and Hop Gold Beer on draught
at Stabling & Williams'.
The Pendleton Wool Scouring Co. ad
vertise elsewhere that they wish to pur
chase tallow. jul30-lw
The directors of school district No. 12
will receive bids for furnishing wood for
the district op to August 16th. The
district will require thirty cords of oak
and forty cords of fir.
The Oregoman evidently made a slip
the other day in mentioning the fact
that the Oregon delegation, consisting
of McBride, Tongue and Ellis, would be
home by the 15th. And it never men
tioned Corbett.
There is nothing so thoroughly appre
ciated by the ladies during the bot wea
ther as a delicious dish of genuine ice
cream. The Elite candy factory serves
just that kind. Also soda, ice cream
soda and milk shake. a5-tf
One of the most delightful places on
the Columbia is the Jewett farm at
White Salmon. The views are magnifi
cent, the fishing good, while the table
is supplied with every delicacy. Bates
from $3 to $7 per week.
J. C. Church, a prominent citizen of
Eugene, fell from the roof of the power
house of the Eugene Electric Light Co.
Tuesday and was instantly killed. He
was painting the roof and slipping, was
unable to stop. He fell about twenty
feet.
Dr. Doane returned from the Meadows
last evening, and from him we learn
that Mrs. Bolton will remain where she
iB for some time. She was resting com
fortubly when be came away, and will,
in all probability, recover in a great
measure from the attack of paralysis.
It is at least a coincidence that fo
ing the statement made by Tesla that be
"is producing a disturbance of the
earth's charge of electricity which can
be felt to the utmost parts of the earth,"
comes a terrific hot wave cooking the
corn In Kansas and sending moist hu
manity sweltering about its business.
That Tesla needs watching.
The board of directors ol the Prine-
ville Jockey Club met last Thursday and
elected the following officers:- Presi
dent, L. N. Liggett; secretary, John
Combs; treasurer, Ed. N. White. A
speed program was arranged and purses
decided upon. The club will bang up
$1050 in purses for the five days' race
meet, which begins October 28th.
The cold of the Clondyke can have no
terror for the man who had to work to
day. As the perspiration started from
every pore and trickled down under the
clinging underclothes, an intense desire
was created to take a tour on a glacier
with a through ticket, or to sleep with a
spirit thermometer that was loafing
around 70 degrees below anything. How
nice it would be to crawl into a snow
drift, or get shipwrecked on an ice floe,
or any old thing. Who is there wrestl
ing with 100 above but that would gladly
welcome 40 below? Is it any worse to
die and be buried as an icicle, than to
melt and be carried to your long home
in a couple of coal-oil cans?
Work on the Astoria Bold.
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The work on the Astoria-Goble rail
road is reported progressing satisfac
torily, and the general contractors ex
pected to complete their work within
the time stipulated in their contract,
namely October 1 ; but, owing to some
difficulties with swampy lands west of
Rainier, they will not be able to do eo
until November 1st.
The men on the rock work east of
Mayger's landing are making good prog
ress, and doing excellent work. There
are some 800 men at work regularly.
The track is laid for ten miles east of
Astoria to the John Day river, where
the first drawbridge is located. The ap
proaches to this bridge are nearing com
pletion, and the center pier for the draw
is expected to be completed in about ten
days.
John Burke, of this city, has the con
tract for the pier work. The principal
drawback to the grading has been in the
marshes west of Rainier, these occurring
in patches and keeping seven dredges
busily occupied in banking the oozy
matter. - The weather has been excel
lent for the work, and the conditions
generally have so far been very favor
able. Oregonian.
Wheat doing Up. '
A dispatch from Walla Walla, August
4th, says : .
There was much excitement in the
wheat market today, and dealers were
ushing around like wild men after
every farmer that came to town, In order
I to secure the first option on what wheat
be bad to sell. The market opened this
orning at 71 cents, and representatives
f Tacoma and San Francisco dealers
began raising each other till this after
noon, when 75 cents was freely offered.
About 20,000 bushels were sold at 75
cents, and 30,000 at 71 cents this
morning. Many offers of 75 cents were
made, but farmer? are still inclined to
hold for higher prices.
Hundreds of thousands have been in
duced to try Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy by reading what it has done for
others, and having tested its merits for
themselves are today its warmest friends.
For sale by Blakeley tc Houghton.
TO MAKE BEET SUGAR.
The Opportunity Is Now GlTen to Get a
Bis Factory.
Of all the propositions submitted to
The Dalles people, that of the establish
ing of a beet sugar factory is the most
practical and the most important.
Tests of Wasco county sugar beets
made a year or two ago, showed a larger
percentage of saccharine matter than
those from any other place in Oregon.
There is unlimited area for their growth,
and the offer to put the factory here re
quires only that the beets should be fur
nished in sufficient quantity to demon
strate their value by a practical working
test. Steps should be taken at once to
procure from the farmers a few tons for
this purpose. As they will have to be
gathered probably from several hands,
it might be well for the Commercial
Club to take the matter iu band, see
how many can be secured and fix a day
tor their delivery, so that they can all
be shipped at once.
The establishing of factories here js
an absolute necessity. We have un
limited water power, are located at the
head of navigation, and have everything
in our favor. A beginning must be made
and the sugar proposition furnishes the
opportunity. Once this was established,
a scouring mill and woolen factory would
soon follow, for one successful enterprise
begets another.
The Chronicle would be pleased to
hear from all farmers who have sugar
beets, and to learn what quantity could
be furnished and when. While the
farmers would be greatly benefited and
can afford to donate something towards
the good cause, no doubt arrangements
can be made by which they can be paid
a reasonable price for whatever they
may furnish. Just drop a line to this
office and we will keep track of the beet
crop until a sufficient quantity is as
sured when arrangements will be com
pleted for forwarding them. The sugar
made from the beets will be returned to
this place.
Forgery Is Alleged.
Ernest F. Nieharge, formerly a shin
gle broker in Seattle, is a fugitive from
justice. He is wanted in Seattle for for
gery. Nieharge's system, it is said, was
that of forging the names of railroad
agents at shipping points to bills of lad
ing, and then attaching the bills to in
voices regularly made out on bis com
pany billheads, going to a bank where
he did business and collecting ninety
per cent of the amount named as the
Value of the Bhipment. The bank would
take the bills and forward them to its
correspondent at the purported destina
tion. It was by doing this and finding
no record of the shipments at the rail
way freight offices that the crooked nee s
was discovered. A year and a half ago
Nieharge got mixed up in 'much the
same sort of a scrape that he now finds
himself in, at that time operating with
the bills of lading of the Burlington and
a Settle bank. This time it ia the
Great Northern, the Seattle & Interna
tional and another Seattle national bank.
"The Delft"
Enameled
Ware.
Mixed Blue and White out
side and White inside.
"The Delft" is the latest
ware out in cooking .utensils.
Prices are about the same as
granite ware, and a great deal
cheaper than the ' aluminum
waro, and prettier than either
of them. Call and see the
goods at
MAIER& BENTON'S
,167 Second Street.
The harvest that resulted from the judi
cious sowing of bills of lading and bis
own billheads is said to have netted
Nieharge over $2000. He disappeared
rom Seattle about a week or ten days
, and is now, supposed to be on bis
y to the Alaska gold fields.
THE HANGTOWN HOTEL,.
Ml
It- Elitner Played a Blair, and Was
Promptly Called Down.
n reading the Oregonian last night
le ran across an article beaded "Uold
Liners' Adventure," giving a brief
iume ot prices and cost of living in the
irly days of California. Among other
nngs was a bill of fare of the Eldorado
lotel at Hangtown (now Placerville) in
1850. The prices ranged from $1 for
san soup to $3 for "a square meal."
IVhat caught our eye, however, was the
lame of the proprietor, M. Elstner,
are old "Milt." Elstner, afterwards a
sident of Carson City, .Nevada, with a
art in him as big as bis ribs would
permit. He was secretary of state along
about '78, and was known by everybody
in the state. Many a time have we
whipped the waters of the Carson for
the big trout in company with him and
listened to his rare store of tales of early
California.
Stampley, another California pioneer,
located at Carson, told a story of Elstner
when be was keeping hotel at Hang
town that sho.wed somewhat of the style
of the man. It was along about '54, the
winter had been severe and the work in
mines practically stopped. Towards
spring the boarders were all broke, and
Elstner was pushed pretty bard to fur
nieh his table and carry them. One
day, in a fit of desperation, Milt, went
into the barroom where twentv or more
of bis regular boarders were loafing,
waiting for the dinner bell to ring,
Milt, looked at them a moment and
then blurted out: "Hoys, I can't stand
this thing any longer. I don't get in
money enough to pay first cost for grub.
and something has to be done. The
fact is, I have either got to raise your
board or close up, and as I don't pro
pose to close up, I will have to do the
other thing, raise the price of board."
A dead silence followed for a moment,
and then a tall, gaunt and grizzly miner
stood up and, casting a friendly glance
at Elstner. spoke': v" Milt, I and the
balance of the boys have always liked
you. ',We have stayed with you all
winter and, realizing how bard it is for
you to supply your table with even the
necessaries of life, we have never grum
bled at the fare. We don't intend to
begin now. I can't speak for the bal
ance of the crowd ; but as for me. Milt,
I'llbed d if I don't stand the raise."
The balance of the boys stood it, too,
and so did Eletner, who pn'led through
and made money, too.
Wanted.
Upright and faithful gentlemen or
ladies to travel for responsible, estab
lished house in Oregon. Monthly 65
and expenses. Position steady. Refer
ence, Enclose self-addressed stamped
envelope. The Dominion Company,
Dept. H., Chicago. jy20-3td
Bio; Drop it) priee$
of Bieyels.
The season is getting late, and to close out
. our stock now on hand we have marked them
down to
tess tt)3T) Qost .....
' MAYS & CROWE.
Jos. T. Beters & Co.
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DEALERS IN
Agricultural Implements,' Champion
Mowers and Reapers, Craver Headers, Bain
Wagons, Randolph Headers and Reapers.
Drapers, Lubricating Oils, Axle Grease,
Blacksmith Coal and Iron.
Agents lor Waukegan Barb Wire.
2nd Street, Cor. Jefferson, THE DALLES.
SPECIAL, SALE!
PIANOS
and ORGANS,
For ONE WEEK ONLY at '
Jacobson Book Music Co.
Bed-Rock Pries and terms to suit purchaser.
Ne-w Vogt Block, The Dalles, Oregon.
GEORGE RUCH
PIONEER GROCER.
Successor to Chrlmnan dt Corson.
11 FULL LINTS 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.
who
has the best Dress Goods
has the best Shoes
has everything to "be found in a
first-class Dry Goods Store.
C. F. STEPHENS,
Wasco Warehouse
Company
Headquarters for Seed Grain ofaii kinds.
Headquarters for Feed Grain of ail kinds.
Headquarters, for Rolled Grain, ail kinds.
Headquarters for Bran. Shorts, SmTed
Headquarters for "Byers' Best" Fendle-
ffyri TT'loni This Flour js manufactured expressly for family
. uUli A. iU Ui . nBe . every Bacfc ia guaranteed to give satisfaction.
. '' We sell our goods lower than any bonse in the trade, and if you don't think so
call and get our prices and be convinced. . - - - -'; .1 -
Highest Prices Paid for Wheat, Barley and Oats.