N I
T l)c Dnllco
Chronicle.
VOL. X
THE DALLES, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1898
NO 817
BOTH LINES ARE FREE,
Underbills Not in Control
of Either.
Oi.DEX GATE WILL REMAIN OI'EX
Norttirrn I.lnr Not l.lkrly tit Inlrrfrr
With Ilic liiitfuilriict of the
Columbia Klvrr Itoait.
New Youk, Jan. 15, The Financial
Chronicle says ;
'Kegardinj: the reported control of the
Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Hall
way & Navigation Company by the
Union Pacific, through purchase of a
majority of the etock of the Oregon
short Line, we are authoritatively in
formed that there has been no change in
the situation regarding the OregonShort
Line Stocks since the Union Pacific re
organization, some weeks are, the block
of stocks amonnting to $8,400,000 from
the trustees of the collateral trust mort
gage of 1S91, securing the Union Pacific
gold notes, Cs. While this block of
stock gives the LTnion Pacific a prepon
derating holding of the Short Line's
stock, of which the total if fL7"S,G00, hi!
does not, we are informed, give the the
company a majority interest, nor is
taero any Intention to disturb the Ore
gon Railway t Navigation Company
voting trust, which runs until 1900.
"The importance of preserving the in
dependence of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company as a terminal in
the interest of three companies, the
Union Pacific, Great Northern and
Northern Pacific, is thought to warrant
the belief that no one of these companies
will attempt an independent control."
Work on tlie Wanhlpi.
Wammkgto.v, Jan. 15. The report
made monthly to Chief Constructor
Hichborn, showing the progress of the
w ork on the warships now building, in
dicates that the big battle-ships Ker
earge and Kentucky, at Newport News,
are more than half finished, the exact
figures being 53 per cent. The battle-
tup Illinois, at the same place, is 39
percent advanced towatd completion,
whne the Alabama, at Cramps', is 3G
percent, and the Wisconsin, at the
Union Iron Works, is 32 per cent along,
fluty one gunboat is in the builder's
Lands-, the Princeton, which is said to
Ik; f2 per cent advanced toward com
pletion. Civil Service liefiirm.
Washington, Jan. 15. The canvass
of the Republican members of the house
r n the question of changing the civil
t-ervice laws, which has been conducted
Ly the Republican steering committee,
la about completed. Of 202 Republican
members of the house the canvass is
taid to show that a majority varying
from 18 to 40 is found favorable to the
ihange in the law according to the de
gree of the change proposed. This last
factor leads to some difference of opinion
as to the result of the canvass.
Royal makrt the load pure,
wholesome and drllclous.
T?1
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
t.oi tAnsa rawoca CO.. u romc
WHAT A BILLION MEANS.
Tlia Cumins Woman
Who goes to the club while her hus
band tends the baby, as well as the good
old-fashioned woman who looks after
her home, will both at times get run
down in health. They will be troubled
with loss of appetite, headaches, sleep
lessness, fainting or dizzy spells. The
most wonderful remedy for these women
is Electric Hitters, Thousands, of sufler
ers from Lame Rack and Weak Kidneys
rise up and call it blessed. It is the
medicine for women. Female com
plaints and nervous troubles of all kinds
are soon relieved by the use of Klectric
A atuile of d'nrlnud'n
"JIAI'I'V TJIOUOJIT" HjUi
nifilcd
1o any 6ddrct. Try It,
Itiinidthultiyou buy Jar
DONNELL, m MllM
Price CO ceati .
Hitters. Delicate woman should keen
this remedy on hand to build up the
system. Only 50c per bottle. For sale
by Blakeley & Houghton. l
Coal Trunt Indicted.
Si'RInofield, 111., Jan 15. The grand
jury of the Sangamon county circuit
court today indicted ten of the com
panies forming the alleged Springfield
. jal trust. They are charged with con-,
spiring to defraud. The companies
formed the Springfield Coal Association
and advanced the price of coal 50 cents
per ton, claiming they were compelled
to advance the price to consumers be
cause they had advanced the wages of
their employes. The advance in wages
to their employes, was 7s cents per
ton.
Uuw'i Thl:
We offer one hundred dollar reward
for any case of Catarrh that can not be
cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Chenkv & Co. Props., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be
lieve him perfectly honorable in all busi
ness transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by their
firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To
ledo, O., Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Pricet
75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Testimonials free. 1-5-9
Attendance Wilt lie l.arce.
IiniANAi'OUH, Jan 15. At noon today,
241 delegates had been chosen to attend
the monetary conference, which will be-
irin here January 25th. and over 100
more acceptances have been received,
but all the delegates are not yet select
ed. There will be probably :$50 dele
gates in the convention, as against 290
delegates at the first convention.
Free of Charge, to Sufferers.
Cut th'is out and take it to your drug
gist and get a earnple bottle free of Dr.
King's New Discovery, for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. They do not ask you
to buy before trying. This will show
you the great merits of this truly won
derful remedy, and show you what can
be accomplished by the regular size bot
tle. This is no experiment, and would
be disastrous to the proprietors, did they
not know it would invariably cure.
Many of the best physicians are now
using it in their practice with great re
sults and are relying on it in the most
severe cases. It is guaranteed. Trial.
bottles free at Iilakelev & Houghton's. 1
Foul 1'lay huiected,
Oakland, Cal., Jan. 15. The local
authorities are carefully investigating
the death of Joseph Raeside.the trainer,
whose mangled corpse was found along
side the railroad track at Shell Mound
yesterday, thero being a strong suspicion
that he was murdered and his body
placed ujwn the track for the purpose of
destroying traces of the crime.
ISuckleu'a Ariuca naive.
Tho beBt salve in the world for cute,
bruisea, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fevei
ores, tetter, chapped hands,, chilblaine
coniB, and al! skin eruptions, and posi.
lively cuipj piiee, or no pay required
It in guaranteed to give perfect Batlsfac
tlon, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by Blakeley and
Houghton, druggists.
To Car Cold lu Om Day.
Take Laxative Brotno , Quinine Tab
lets. All drugfcltta refand tte money if
they fail to cure. 25c.
tt Would Tnko Nearly Ten Thousand
Yours to Count It.
The following remarkable calculation
on the length of time which it would
take m person to count i, 0C0.0CO.0OO re
cently nppenred in nn issue of an Kng
:h periodical: What is a billion?
The l cply is very simple. In England a
1 ill ion is n million times a million,
il ,000,1 00,000,000). This is quickly
written and quicker still pro
nounced. But no mnn is able to
count it. You will count 1G0 or 170 u
minute. Rut let us suppose that you go
up as high as 200 a minute, hour after
hour. At that rate you would count
12,000 an hour; 233,000 a day, or 103,
JJ.OOO in a year. Let us suppose now
that Adam, at the beginning of his ex
istenee.hatl begun to count, and had con
tinued to do so and was counting still.
Had such n thing been possible, he
would not yet have finished the task
of counting a billion! To count n bil
lion would require n per.on to count
?b0 a minute for a pcilod of 0,512 years,
542 days. f hours ami 20 minutes, provid
ing he should count continuously. JJut
fi.ppoie we allow the counter 12 hours
daily for rest, eating and sleeping. Then
he would need 13,025 years, 319 days, 10
hours rind 45 minutes in which to com
; lete the task!
The Greedy Crocodile.
The moment that a young crocodile
breaks its shell it is to all intents and
purpose1; as active as it is at any time
luring its life. It will make straight
for the water, even if it be out of sight
and n good distance off, nnd it will pur
sue its prey with eagerness andrngility
during the first hour of its free existence.
me columDia Packing Co..
PACKERS OF
PORKandBEEF
MANUFACTURERS OF
Fine Lard and Sausages.
Curers of BRAND
HAMS & BACON
DRIED BEEF. ETC.
BENEATH THE EARTH'S CRUST.
Nevada's gold yield for the past year
is estimated at $1,220,700, and the sil
ver yield at 007,500 ounces.
After drilling down 5,000 feet in
search of water in Sew Haven, and not
finding any, the job was given up.
Coal of excellent quality, and in ap
parently enormous quantities, has
just been discovered in Arizona, in the
Dos Cnbeas district, only six miles
from the railroad.
Vice Itezal Invitations.
An invitation from the lord lieuten
ant in Ireland is supposed to be, like
one from tlr. queen whom he represents,
a command. Irish society, however,
does not always treat it as such, but,
according to convenience, either hon
ors it in the breach or the observance.
A 'Voeiety" person may throw over a
previous engag?ni.'nt in favor of a vice
legal invitation without being consid
ered to have commit ted a breach of man
ners. He may also refuse the vice regal
invitation if ko minded. Irish society
is not servile on this point, but exer
cises common sense and the liberty of
choice in the matter of amusing itself.
Will Itejirevent Oaktuiiil.
Oakland, Cal., Jan. 15. Frank A
L'iach. aunerintendant of the mint at
San Francisco, has been elected by the
Oakland board of trade as their delegate
to the monetary conference to be held m
Indianapolis, January 25th. Mr. Leach
is now in Washington.
KlliuiuuU-il.
WAbiiiMiTON, Jan. 15. Tho subconi
mittee of the Eenate committee on ap
propriations, considering the urgent de-
liciencv appropriation bill, decided today
to eliminate the provision inserted by
the house, requiring owners of bullion
to pay transportation on it from the as
tay office to the mint.
Next Year' 31 lututf ch1.
Coi,i'iiiL', Jan. 15. The United Mine
workers of America decided today to ask
for an advance of 10 cents per ton on
next year's contracts for pick mining,
and three-fifths of the pick-mining prico
for machine mining, in Ohio.
JiidUinjiolln Decided Ujioii.
Coi.umiius, Jan. 15. Tho minors have
decided upon Indianapolis as a head
quarters for their union.
Mr. Klisha Rerry, of this place says ho
never had anything do him bo much
good mid give such quick relief from
rheumatism as Chamberlaiu's Pain
Halm. He was bothered greatly with
shooting pains from hip to knee until he
used this liniment, which affords prompt
relief. IS. I'. Raker, druggist, ht. fans
Ohio. For sale by lilakeley & Hough
ton.
When you can not sleep for coughing
take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It
always gives prompt relief. It is most
excellent for colds, too, as It aids ex
uectoratioo. relieve the lungs and pre
uenti any tendency toward pneumonia.
a' WW 1. a.
rot Mte Djr Diaxc., , iiouguiuu.
..GflflS. TWM"
Butehets
and Fafmefs
..Eehange..
Keens on draught tho celebrated
C01.U.MIII.V H KK It, ncknowl
cdRisl the ln'st beer in The Dalles,
nt the umiiiI price. Come In, try
It mid be ron vl need. Aim the
Klneft brands ot Wines, Lienors
and Cigars.
anduiiehes
of all Kinds always on bund.
r
FRENCH & CO.,
BANKERS.
rilAXSACT A GENEKAL BANKING BUS1NES
Letters of Credit issued available in the
Eastern States.
Siuht Exchanee and Telegraphic
Transfers sold on New York, Chicago,
St. Louis. San Francisco. Portland Ure-
gon, Seattle Wash,, and various points
in Oregon ana Washington.
Collections made at all points on fav
orable terms.
THE
NEW YORK WORLD
THRICE-fl-WEEK EDITION.
18 I'uRes a Week. ISO l'apers a Year
It stands first among '"weekly" papers
in size, frequency of publication
freshness, variety and reliability of con
tents. It is practically a daily at the low
nnce o a weekly : and its vast list oi
subscribers, extending to every state and
territory of the Union and foreign coun
tries, will vouch for tho accuracy and
fairness of its news columns.
It is splendidly illustrated, and among
its snecial features are a fine humor
page, exhaustive market reports, an cue
latest iasnione tor women and a ion
series of stories by the greatest living
American and English authors,
Conau Doyle, Jerome K. Jeroma,
Stanley Weyinnti, Mary K. Wllklns
Anthony Hope, Itret Hurto,
lirandor Slalthewa, Ktc.
We offer this unequaled uowspaperand
The Dalles Twice-a-Week Chronicle to
gether one year for $2.00. The regular
price of the two papers is fj.uu.
Sheriff's Sale,
Notice is hereby idvcn that under and by vlr
tuu ol an execution and order of sale, usiicd
out of the Circuit Court of tho Htato of Oiecoti,
for Wasco County, yu thu nth day oi uecemner,
lh97, upon a decree and Judgment rendered
therein on the llrst day of December, 1'J7, In a
unit then mill theretofore nendlin;. wherein
Northern Counties Investment Trust, Limited, a
CorHrutiou, was jilalntlll, mid .Mary .!, binmi
James 11. Smith, Jr., Khun A. Hmlth and Clem
hinllli. were neicnuants, i ma on mo i uu nay in
December, 1W7, duly levy upon, and will, on
Weduewiay. the tilth day of January, IS'.H, at tho
bourof one o'clock In tho afternoon of said day,
at the front door of tho county court houto In
Dalles City, Watco County, Oregon, sell at pub
lic auction, to thu highest bidder, for cash in
hand, the following described real estate, to
wit: Uit5 anil filn block a. Laughliu'tt Addl
tlon to Tim Dalles City, and Lot '. in llloek hi
Trevltt's Addition to Tho Dalles fJlty, nil hi
Wusco County, Oregon, together with all and
singular the tenements, hereditaments, nd up
peru-naneos thereunto belonging or In any wise
appertaining, or so much thereof uu shall bo
necessary to satisfy and pay thu said several
Minis due to plulntllt' mentioned in said writ, to
wit. f.'uvoo, and interest thereon from thu
llrst day of December, 1897, at tho ratu of eight
is;r cent, per milium; thu further sum of IJMMJO
as u reasonable attorney's feu, and the costs and
disbursements of said suit, taxed and allowed
at 2'J.OO, together with accruing costs mid ex
penses of such sale.
Dated at Dalles City, Oregon, this lflth day of
December. 17. T. J. DIUVF.lt,
Sheriff of Wasco County, Oregon.
H H WILSON.
8 HUNTINGTON.
HUNTINGTON WILSON,
ATTOWNKY8 AT LAW.
TIIK DALI.Ko, oueaoN
Office ovrr tint Nit. Mink.
A. M. WILLIAMS & GO.
Onr January (Man
at
Makes easy buying for you in our
Pants Dep't
Wo have taken from our regular stock a quan
tity of our $3.00 and $'4.00 pants, and have reduced
the price to
$2.37
All eizES and a great variety of patterns.
.Better Pants.
All pants left over from our suit stock.and also a
large and fine lot of $5.00 values, taken from the reg
ular pants assortment, make up the bargain table at
$3.37
Special numbers to sell at $1.50 and
$2.50 a pair.
Boy's Knee Pants at Reduced Prices.
Special
Reduction on....
Gaps.
...All Styles...
Golf, Yacht and Windsors.
Special Assortment
15, 25 and 50e.
Showing the best assort
ment of styles.
A. M. WILLIAMS & CO.
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
for Seed Grain of ail kinds,
for Feed Grain of ail kinds,
for Rolled Grain, ail kinds.
TJvin v, QVis-ntci and all kinds
llU 1X 0111, lO,
of MILL FEED
Headquarters
Headquarters
Headquarters
Headquarters
Headquarters for "Byers' Best" Pendle-
TrimiY This Flour is manufactured expressly for family
IAJJJ. JC lUUli U8e. every Hack is Karanteed to give satisfaction.
We sell our goods lower than any house in the trade, and if you don't think so
call aud get our prices and bo convinced.
Highest Prices Paid for Wheat, Barley and Oats.