Chrimfcli.
VOL. XII
THE DALLES, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1899.
NO 59
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BOERS BESEIGED
Dundee anil Dime Will ProSaMy Soon
leSifnnH.
ENGLAND HAS
A TOUGH JOB
Experts Agree That II Will Be Six
Weeks Before the English Troops
Can Assume the Aggressive and
There is no Hope of Ending the
War This Year.
London, Oct. Mi. The gradual cutting
oirot outlying points at the scene of hos
tilities in South Africa from telegraphic
communications reduces accurate news
obtainable to u minimum. Thus far,
therefore, no reliable information has
been received of anv actual fighting, ex
cept at Krauipan and an occasional ex
chance of shots at various outposts.
There is no lack of circumstantial stoiies
regarding fighting at vurious points, but
these are scarcely published before they
sro denied.
The only salient facts in this morn
ing's telegrams are that the Boers have
advanced beyond Newcastle and foi tned
a laager near D.inhuser (not Danpaueer),
bout 12 miles north of Dundee; that
Kiniberley is isolated and probably in
vested. Kimberley has thus become the im
mediate center of interest. The last
meat-age from Kimberley prior to the
cutting of the telegraph and railway by
the Boere, eaid: "All troops at Kimber
ley are well.
Cai'K Town, Oct. 10. The Orange
Free State troops have cut the telegraph
wires and destroyed tho railroad track
at Norvalepont, just across tho Orange
Freo State soul hern border.
A dispatch from Dundee, Natal, says
a Boer command, estimated at 2000 men,
with 10 field guns, have reached Dann
pttuser, northeast of Dundee, with the
probable intention of surrounding Dun
dee and, cutting oft" the garrison from
communication with Glencoe andLady
umith. it is supposed this force is com
manded by Commaudttut Wiljien, and
comprises the German gunners.
The best of the Boer force from New
castle is believed to be marching around
Glencoe to sever its connection with
Ladyemith. As the refugees in Cape
Town threaten to become troublesome,
and have hooted and mobbed it number
of leading Dutchmen, there is eome ex
pectation that martial lu.w will be proclaimed.
R
aVAi Baking
3-tBSCLUTELY "PURE
Powder
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
BOYAl DAKIWO POWDEH CO., NEW YORK.
MAKING GOOD
HIS CLAIM
Styuer, the Electric Doctor.
T do not expect you to givo mo credit
for my claims until I have proven my
nhility in electrical disease reading.
Will the indorsement of your friends and
neighbors convince you,' if you ore sick,
that I have a reliable way of ascertain
ing the real cause of your sleknesB with
out asking questions or without making
'ocal examinations. Many people are
ufraid of electricity. Why? I will ad
mit that if you touch a livo electric light
'iro it might kill you, but you don't
refuse to drink water because you may
have heard of a person being drowned.
My system of applying electricity (used
by yourself at your own home) cures
nervous and chronic diseases of men and
women, Saturday, Oct. 21st, is my last
hV in Tho Dalles.
Stvnkh, Tim Klkutiuo Doutoiu
Ooarr House. Hours from 10 to 4
ad 7 to 8 dally. Advice and electrical
alseMe-reading free.
Chicago to San Francisco in Three Days
Chicago, Oct. 10. Chicago to San
francisco in 71 hours 73 hours actual
time is the schedule on which tin over
land special on the Chicago & North
western road left the Wells-street sta
tion last ni(-hf at 0:30 and inaugurated
the new fast service to and from Cali
fornia. The time formerly was 75 horns.
The first stop west of Chicago under the
new schedule is Dekalb, tiie 60 miles
Leing covered in less than that number
of minutes.
The first train will arrive in San
Francieco on the third day at 5 :30 p. ni.
Western time. The east-bound service
makes tho same reduction in time.
A Night or Terror.
"Awful anxiety was felt for the
widow of the brave General liurnham of
Machins, Me., when the doctors Baid
she could not live till morning," writes
Mrs. S. H. Lincoln, who attended her
that fearful night. "All thought she
uitiet soon die from Pneumonia, but she
begged for Dr. King's New Discovery,
eaying it had more than once saved her
life, and bad cured her of Consumption.
After three email doses the slept easily
all night, nnd its further use completely
cured her." This marvelous medicine
i9 guaranteed to cure all Throat, Chest
and Lung Diseases. Only 50c and $1.00.
Trial bottles free at Blakeley &
Houghtou's drug store. 1
The Highest on Record.
Astokia, Or., Oct. 10. The price of
fall chinook salmon, steelheads and sil
versidea has reached the highest figure
ever ofTersd, 4 cents a pound, and 2.
cents IB being paid for dog salmou.
These prices are oflered by the cold
storage men, who can afford to pay, if
necessary, three times as much as the
ennnerp. As a result of this rise in the
prices of fish, eoveral canneries will
cense operations, being unable to run
at a profit. Fall fish still are scarce,
but it is hoped they will soon become
plentiful. The poor run is attributed to
the general late season this year.
Siuln'8 Orcutent Necil.
Mr. R. P. Olivio, of Barcelona, Spain,
spends his winters at Aiken, S. C.
Weak nerves had caused severe pains in
the back of Ills head. On using Electric
Bitters, America's greatest Blood and
Nerve Remedy, all pain soon left him.
jJe says this grand medicine is what hie
country needs. Ail America knows that
it cures liver and kidney trouble, puri
fies the blood, tones up the stomach,
strengthens the nerves, puts vim, vigor
and new life into every muscle, nerve
and organ of the body. If weak, tired
or uiling, you need it. Every bottle
guaranteed, only 50 cents. Sold by
Blakeley & Houghton, druggiete.
SlekJIeadacho absolutely and perma
nently cured by using Moki Tea. A
pleasant herbdriDk. Cures constipation
and indirection, makes you etit, sleep,
work and happy. Satisfaction guaranteed
or money buck. 25 cts. and 50 cts.
Blakeley & Houghton Druggist''.
Double Tralu Hoi vice to Nun fruueisoo,
On October 15th the Southern Pacific
Co. will inungurato a ''Daylight Ex
press," leaving Portland at 8:30 u. m.,
and reaching Sun Francisco at 7:45 next
evening only one night out. Both
standard Pullman and tourist sleepers
will be attached. This new train is in
addition to the present 7 p. m. Shasta
Overland, and will give many passengers
the desired opportunity to see enroute
tho Great Willamette, Umpqua aud Sac
ramento Valleys without loss cf time,
aud still arrive in Oakland and Shu
Francisco at a eeutouablo hour.
"It did me more good than anything
I ever used. My dyspepsia was of
months' standing j after eating it was
terrible. Now I am well," writes S. B.
Keener, lloislngton, Kau., of Kodol;
Dyspepsia Cure. It digests wlmt you
eat. Butler Drug Co.
Feed rye for sale at the Wasco Ware
house. "
COLUMBIA WINS
FIRST RACE
She Crossed the Finish Line Eleven
Minutes Ahead of the Shamrock.
Western Union Cable Boat, 3 :55 p.
in. Columbia crossed the finish line at
at 3:54, in a nines. of canvass, amid the
shrieking of whistles of the few boats
present. Shamrock finished at 4:05:00
unofficial time.
Boat Wanda, Olf Long Beach, 2:45
p. m., Oct. 10. Result of the finish fight
between the Columbia and Shamrock
for America's cup nnd yachting supre
macy of the world is a complete victory
for the American boat, the American
skipper and the American crew. Col
umbia did it all in windward work. She
surprised even those who knew her
best. It was not a. hard thrash to the
outer buoy, but a good beat in the top
sail breeze with something of a sea on.
At no time after Columbia began to
pull away to the windward, ten minutes
after the starting gun was fired, was the
first race of the season in doubt. The
defender rounded the outer mark nine
minutes aud forty-Eeven Becond ahead,
official time.
Washington's to be Mustered Out Oct. 31
San Fiiancisco, Oct. 15. The next
regiment to go to the Philippines after
the Thirty-first infantry, which has been
in quarantine on Angel island, is the
Forty-ninth infantry, U. S. A., a colored
regiment. Several officers of that reg
iment have arrived, and the regiment iB
expected to arrive from the South tins
week. The Eleventh cavalry is rapidly
getting into shape to go to the front.
Tho First Washington regiment will
be mustered out October 31, and will
leave immediately for home.
The First Montana regiment, Colonel
H. C. Keseler, will be paid off tomorrow,
and will leave for home Wednesday
evening.
The Kaneas regiment expects to bo
mustered out on November 3.
Acetylene Gun.
Be independent of Gas and Electric
Light coroorAtions and own your own
lighting plant. Tho NATIONAL genera
tor does not have to bo cared far oftener
than once in 15 days. It is positively
safe and is recommended by all Insui
auce Boards. Wo light churches, resi
dences, stores, factories and towns at
40 per cent less than other systems with
double the illumination. To responsible
parties will ship machines on thirty
days' trial. Send for freo booklet on
Acetylene Gas,
We want good agents.
National Acktvlene Gas Co.,
16-17 Buffalo, N. Y.
On tho 10th of December, 1807, Rev.
S. A. Donahoe, pastor M. E. Church,
South, Pt. Pleasant, W. Vu., contracted
a severe cold which was attended from
the beginning by violent coughing. He
says: "Alter resorting to a number of
so called 'specilicj,' usually kept in the
house, to no purpose, I purchased a
bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
which acted like a charm. I most cheer
fully recommend it to the public." For
sale by Blakeley & Houghton Druggists.
"I wish to express my thanks to the
manufacturers of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, for
having put on the market such a wonder
fill medicine," says W. W. Massliigill.
of Beaumont, Texas. There are many
thousands of mothers whose children
have been saved from attacks of dysen
tery and cholera Infantum who must
also feel thankful. It is for sale by
Blakeley & Houghton Druggists.
Use Clarke & Falk's quinine hair tonic
to keep dandruff from the head.
REMARKABLE TOWNS
One Is Built on Stilts in the Ocean,
the Other on the Ice.
Atkoi, on the Const of Macedonia, tlio
Most Cartons Community In the
Universe A Town Wit li
on! Women.
The marine village of Tupuselci, In
New Guinea, would take a lot of beating
on the score of singularity. Here the
houses are all supported on piles, and
stand right out in the ocean, seme con
sidcrablc distance from the shore. The
object of this strange position is to pro
tect the inhabitants against sudden at'
tncks of the dreaded head-hunters, who
ure always on the lookout for victims,
Other villages in this happy land are
perched up 111 nil but inaccessible trees,
for the sume weighty reason.
Another curious place is a town with
out a name on one of the arms of Lake
Huron. This consists of some 5C0 wood
en huts. During the summer these lit
tle dwellings are hidden away in a clear
ing on shore, and the town contains not
a single inhabitant. But on the arrival
of winter, when I he lake is frozen over
with a thick coating of ice, the owners
of the huts arrive, and proceed to mote
their houses out on to the surface of the
lake. The floor of the huts is tii.'en up,
and a hole cut through the ice. Througli
these holes the residents fish, carrying
on their operations until the spring re
leases the lake from its icy bonds, when
this extraordinary town is once mort
broken up, the shanties go back to their
resting pliue, and the fisherir.cn seattei
over the country. This place even
boasts a curing factory and a church,
not to mention several saloons all on
the ice.
Athos, a town situated cn a promon
tory on the coast of Macedonia, well de
serves the title of the most curious town
in the universe. The peninsula is known
as "The Mountnin of the Monks," from
the fact that a score or so of monas
teries arc dotted about the rough hill
sides or the valleys. In these estab
lishments dwell a numerous bedv of as
cetics, kind and hospitable to wander
ers, but full of superstition, and believ
ing in t he doctrine of separation to a
wonderful degree.
The actual town, as distinct from its
monastic environs, is called Carves, and
supplies the simple wants of the monks.
Here are to bo found streets of shops,
crowded bazars, flourishing trades aud
all the bustle and energy of a modern
town. But one Hung soon strikes the
visitor as strange. There is not a fe
male to be seen anywhere, for the
gentler scn is rigorously banished from
the place. Even the small Turkish gar
rison, from the commandant down to
the privates, consists of bachelors
Tills extraordinary law is earned out
even among the domestic animals. Only
the wild birds evade it, and then only
when fiee, for no female bird hi ever
brought to table: the fowl one has for
dinner is sure to lie a cockerel. For thiu
unparalleled state of all'airs, there is
only a legend to account. Although to
our practical minds flimsy ton degree.
it is implicitly believed in by the inhab
itants. It appears that in one of the
chief monasteries on the promontory
there is a miraculous icon, which is a
picture or image sacred to members of
the Itiisso-drcok church. This particu
lar picture is n representation of the
Virgin, and the legend says that one
day as Kmpress I'lilcherhi, who had lib
erally endowed the church, as well 11s
beautified and restored it. was engaged
in her devotions the Virgin .'poke, ask
ing what she, a woman, was doing in the
church. The pious lady, no doubt
amazed, did not reply, whereupon the
voice commanded her to leave, saying
that the feet of 11 woman should never
ngaiu tread the floor. The empress,
probably surprised at the beeining in
gratitude of the speech, as well as awe
struck, left the plaee, which no female
Iins since entered How the prohibition
thus arbitrarily established came to
comprehend the length nnd breadth of
the promontory is not very clear. As a
residence for bashful bachelors, we
should imagine, Alhos would be hard 10
surpass. Household Words,
C. S. Smith,
TIIK
ilp-to-dateQroeer
Fresh Eggs and Creauiory
Butter a specialty.
2d Street.
'Phone 270.
We resow all rips free of charge,
Today we mention
SCtlOO
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Shoes
$ which it will pay you to see if
w you are in the market.
tjf very pairuaratd
Misses' and Children's Kid nnd
Kangaroo Calf Shoes, with good
plump soles, comfortable round
toes, neat plain or patent leather
J Hps.
H Sizes 8 to 11 $1.10
Sizes llf to 2 1.25
Select your wants from the lar-
rest stock in town. F
Our Assortment of
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merits everyone's attention who
has a bov to clothe.
Wo tinira Qilita aa nhnan aa a Ar .
lar and others as high as seven
fifty for the boy a, but the lines wo
particularly recommend for school
wear are those eelling at
Misses' and Children's Box-calf
anil Seal Goat shoes; the most
suitable leather to be had for win
ter shoes, and especially satisfac
tory for children's wear.
Sizes 8.K to 11 $1.25
Sizes IVA to 2 t.... 1.50
These shoes are made of special
ly selected stock and are guaran
teed to give'
Petfect Satisfaction
or money refunded,
Free-Writing Tablets Free
$3.00
and
$3.50
Why? Because every suit at
these prices is made of good, de
pendable, ell wool cloth; have
pants made double at seat and
knees, and every seam is sewed
with silk and linen thread, aud is
warranted
Not to rip.
We give a new suit free for
everyone bought of these lines
f.hat fails to give perfection satisfaction.
School Bags Free.
I A. M. Williams & Co. $
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