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SATURDAY.. ..DECEMBER 25, 1896
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
- (From Saturday's Dally.)
Work of repairing the canal and
locks at Oregon City was completed
' yesterday.
r" The people of Dufur will have a
onion Christmas tree in the Methc-
dist church, says the Dispatch.
- - For Christmas send views of Colum
bia river sceuery to your friends ia
the East. A large assortment at Mrs.
Herrin's gallery, 12i cents each.
... The O. R. & N. Co. reports a con aid.
' erable increase in business as com
pared with that of a year "ago. Both
through and local traffi is increasing.
' Farmers throughout Wasco county
; have pleasant smiles on their faces,
and well they may,- for the abundant
-; showers of late assure them of abund
ant crops next year. , - - -
The streets of The Dalles have pre-
r seated a livelier " appearance ; today
than during anyjday for the past three
weeks, and merchants report trade to
have been fairly good.
No fault could be found with ihe
Cascade Locks edition of the Orego
nian except the colored lithograph,
which has rather the appearance of
baying been prepared by ametuers.
Two fellows who had been imbibing
too freely were before Recorder Phelps
this inorning. One was fined 85.
- which he paid, and the other was fined
: $10 and is at presnet sawing wood for
-the city. .
- The Woodmen Circle entertainment
committee have made a slight change
in their program, and will give a first
: class entertainment on New Year's
'night at trie Vogt, followed by a social
V "hop. Remember the date.
" t Last evening George Ernest Stewart
'waa Informed by telephone message
;from Hood River that his cousin, a
" daughter of B. F. Miller, was danger-
- ously ill, and not expectea to live.
7 Mr. Stewart went to Hood River on
'his morning's train. --- - -
"Thn thlavea who robbed the Oregon
City postofflce Thursday night got
awif with $2784.61 in stomps
' 624.92 in cashr - belonging to the gov
ernment, besides $9 belouging to tne
aoiatjinfc " twatmastr. Three notes
amounting to about $500 belonging
the postmaster were also taken, ..
to
, The Crescent City, Cal., News says
that a salmon was caught in Elk river
last week having a copper tag fastened
to its tail bearing the inscription: "a.
B., Rogue River.'.'. Lester Bray was
the captor. The Wedderburn Gazette
! has made inquiry but can find no ODe
that knows of any such tag ever bein
put on a salmon io Rogue river.
Vtvat-AWTiiv afternoon JV D. Baker
fillnoed and fell on the walk la front
a. M. Williams & Co's store, and
hmlrn his left thitrb. Mr. Baker Is
rlnrla. having h&l the same limb
broken when a boy, and not having
good use of the limb was the cause of
- ihe accident. He was taken to Mrs
DW hotel and placed under the
. treatment of Dr. Holllster, : :
NextMondav Fred W.Wilson and
Ed. Wingate will leave for the Sand
wich islands, taklne- passage on toe
teamer Monmouthshire. They ex
pect to remain on the islands four or
six weeks, though may remain longer.
- -Their tnanv friends here wian tnem
'. pleasant journey and safe return, and
trust they will not be so favorably im-
pressed with Hawaii as to want to per-
manently locate there.
Pilferers about Dufur appear to con
- alder Harrison Dufur a sort of general
benefactor? and of late have been "help-
ine- themselves very freely to his goods
He informs the Dufur Dispatch that
he has been relieved, without any re
- turn therefor, not even the thanks of
' the appropriators, of between 50 and
60 boxes of apples, two pairs of
blankets that cost him $9 per pair
dozen jars of fruit and 3 dozen cans of
same, and his potato bin and hay mow
have also been perceptibly lowered
The culprit who attempts to get
away from Nighlwatchman Wiley
must indeed be fleet footed. This was
demonstrated last night, when Mr.
Wiley lead a wrong doer to the city
bastile, and while he was unlocking
the door the fellow started to run. He
had not proceeded far when the night-
watchman overtook and nunea mm
into the street, and for a time It was a
ouestion whether the officer had cap
tured his man or a quarter section of
mud.
This morning Constable ar
rested and brouerht into town L. Fran
cisco, a county charge,' who for some
time past .has been cared lor at tne
poor farm. Mr. Cushing, who has
charge of the farm, had been instructed
to make Francisco work or leave the
farm. He refused to do either, and
becoming very troublesome, Mr. Cush
ing had him arrested. . Francisco was
taken before Justice Filloon this after-
noon on . a charge of ; assaulting : Mr.
Cushing and was fined420. Not being
able to pay the fine He was remanded
to jail. v . ;
Oakesdale, wash., :has a populist
mayor, with a will of his own. The
city marshal became intoxicated the
other night and held up two young
men and a young lady returning from
choir practice. He drew his revolver,
commanded the trio to bold up their
hands, and gave them a lecture on
keeping such late hours. . One of the
young men was a feon of the mayor.
Mayor Williams and his two Bona went
down town immediately after, found
the marshal in a saloon)tookhis"gun',
and-shield from him, and put hioi in
the city "cooler." The next morning
r the office of marshal was declared va
1 cant.
. tr prom Monday Dally. - " '' ' "
- Mrs. A. K. Dufur, of Dufur, ia in the
city. ,.; t . . . j
Judge John Fulton and wife,' of
Biggs, were in the city yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. A.,.M. elsay returned
home from Portland Saturday evening.
Hon. Henry Blackman, collector of
Internal revenue at Portland, is in the
dty.i-li- J - -
Allie Henderson spent Sunday In
the city, and returned to Lyle this
morning.
A Bittingin was a passenger on the
Begnrator this morning going " to
' Portland. ' "
William Whitaker, a prominent
merchant of Baker City, died very
-suddenly just after entering bis store
in that city last Saturday morning
' Mr. and Mrs! E. Al Adams, who have
been visiting at Hay Creek, arrived in
the city : yesterday and will leave
tonight fortheiy home at Spokane.
r,.i,. r.u.v la liable to be atoiost de
populated ere long.' since the papers of
that place are advocating that all per
sons who have no visible means of sup
port be forced to depart.
Messrs. John Sommerville and J. P.
Van Houten arrived last evening from
Hay Creek. They report a very pleas
ant winter so far in Crook county.
Grass is growing rapidly, and sheep on
the range are getting all the ieed
necessary.
The German b:irque,Potrimpos,went
arouud at Pacific Park, seven miles
north of Ilwaco, last Saturday. The
vessel was under charter to the Port
land fiouriner mills. It is thought the
ship can get off the sands without
material damage.
Indications are favorable that Cas
cade Lode, No. 303, B. P. O. E., will
become the possessor of that white
deer vet. The lodne has passed reso
lutions thanking Mr. Klnnersly for the
donation, and about all that Is possibly
left for Mr. K. is to buy the deer and
make the presentation.
Four teams running away at one
time made things lively on Second
street this morning. Charles Cath-
cart's dray team started the ball roll
ing, and as it passed d in the street
every team that could tret a fair start
joined in the race. Fortunately no
material damage was done.
' Saturday evening a number of th
friends of Fred Wilson and Ed Win-
gate gave them a farewell supper at
the Umatilla House, after the session
of the Elks had closed. It was an im
promptu affair, nevertheless was a
pleasing farewell to the young men
who left today for Honolulu.
Mr. Herrick, proprietor of The Dalles
cannery, came up from below last night,
and returned to Portland this after
noon. Mr. Herriok reports having had
a good run of fish , at ; Aberdeen the
oast season, and having put up a large
amount of salmon in his cannery at
that place. He will return here in
few weeks to put his cannory in shape
for the spring run.
Hush Glenn is again in the city,
having come up from Astoria to spend
the holidays with his .family. Mr.
Glenn says work is progressing on the
Astoria & Columbia River Railroad,
and at present he is giving work to all
who applv. The principal work on
thn road at present is in rock, and this
can be prosecuted in spite of the un
favorable weather.
. This morning Ed Wingate and Fred
W. Wilson left on the Regulator for
Portland, and Wednesday morning
will board the steamship Monmoth
nhirw for Honolulu. A "number of
their friends were at the boa't to see
them off, and wish them a pleasant
journey. They will probably be ab
sent from the city for two months,
they expect to spend a month or six
weeks on the islands.
James Shaw, proprietor of the Dallas
woolen mills, is in the city, and today
had a conference with a committee of
the Commercial Club with reference
to establishing a woolen mill at this
place. Mr. Snaw has been looking
toward The Dalles for several years as
a suitable place for starting a woolen
factory, and is still convinced it is the
best locality in the Northwest.
An Opportunity for The Dalle
C. J. Crandall, the well known archi
tect of this city, is in receipt of a letter
from the East Portland Mill & Fixture
Co., stating that the company desires
to move its plaining mills and sash
and door plant, consisting of some 28
machines, from Portland to some point
in the interior, and inquiring about
the outlook for establishing a business
in The Dalles. Certainly there is an
opening here for - such an industry.
While the planing mills of J. T. Pet rs
& Co. are well equipped and are doing
a thriving business in this city, they
are not prepared for turning out all
kinds of work, hence thousands of dol
lars are sent away each year for sash
and doors, moulding and boxes that
had as well be manufactured here.
Most assuredly there is an opening in
The Dalles for such a plant as th
Portland company his, and its
location in this city would be a valu
able addition to the manufacturing
industries of the city. Mr. Crandall
has referred the letter to the Commer
cial Club, and no doubt some action
will be taken to induce the company to
locate their plant in JThe Dalles.
Absolutely pure, perfectly harmless
and invariably reliable are the quali
ties of One Mimute (Jougn (jure, .it
never fails in colds, croup and lubf
troubles. Children like it because : it
is pleasant to take and it helps them
Snipes & Kinersly Drug Co. ;
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(lightly Mixed. '
The peace officers of the city were
kept busy Men 5ay endeavoring to get
matters straighted out between Thos.
J. Reed, of Spokane, and Albert Pucb,
the man who was arrested here last
Friday morning on a telegram from
Spokane. Reed claims Puch is guilty
of selling stolen goods, but the facts
seem to be that be bad furnished Puch
goods to sell on conl?umen, and that
the latter had gone beyond the limits
agreed upon. Reed arrived here with
out either warrant or requisition
papers, hence Puch was discharged
from custody.- When he was released
he had Reed arrested for false im
prisonment, but the change was not
sustained and Reed was discharged
Reed then had Puch rearrested on a
charge of larceny.
Will Kick the Pigskin.
A number of our young -men have
determined that The Dalles shall not
be behind other cities in any respect
and have organized a football 'team,
which is about all that is necessary to
bring us up to the standard in athletic
sports, since we have 'baseball players
and bowlers galore, besides the cham
pion hose team of the Northwest coast.
Our football kickers will have their
first practice on the fair grounds next
Sunday, and have arranged with the
Portland high school team for a "kick
oft" on New Years day. The person
nel of The Dalles team is as follows : ,
. F. Snipes, center; J. MaloneyWght
guard; J. Elton, lelt guard ;-.U Jen
kins, right tackle; V. Schmidt, left
tackle; G. Dufur, right end; C.Burget,
left end; B. Barrett, quarter, captain;
J. Clyatt, right half; R,. Fisher, left
half, manager; H. Clyatt, half back.
Kew Freight Tariff.
The opening of the locks has cut off
the expense of the transfer at Cascades,
and in line with the former policy of
the D. P. & A. N. Co. to give their
patrons the benefit of all possible re
ductions in expenses; by giving them a
reduced freight, the company will, on
January 1, 1897, put a reduced tariff in
to effect. The Regulator company
pursues a live and let live policy in all
its transactions, and ia indeed one of
the most popular transportation lings
in the Northwest. - . - j..-v
TCn mnrA ROTLs. no more PIMPLEST
use Kinersly Iron Tonic The Snipe
hicersly vrag tjo., xeiepnone no.s
WITHOUT A THKlMtK.
A King Who Was Without EOQOf
In His Own Country.
History In Brief of the Ite Count
Paris His Services as a Volun
teer in the United
States Army.
Louis Philippe Albert, Comte de Paris,
whose death occurred recently, writes
Pierre Cominges in Golden Days,
claimed to be the king of France. He
was, however, never on the throne and
never acknowledged king in France.
The monarchical governments of Eu
rope, as a rule, professed to believe
that he really was king, but, of course,
to preserve- their friendly relations
with the republic, they were forced to
recognize the president as the chief ex
ecutive of that country.
Nevertheless, Louis Philippe was re
garded as a king by quite a strong par
ty, who will now turn to his son, Louis
Philippe Robert, a young man of twenty-five,
who is very much in earnest in
his pretensions to the throne of France.
Comte de Paris was born in Paris on
August 24, 1838, and became, by the
death of his father in 1842, the imme
diate heir to the crown his grandfather,
Louis Philippe, had picked up when
Charles X. dropped it in his flight from
Paris, after the "Three Glorious Days"
of July, 1830.
When he was ten years of age Comte
de Paris was, with his grandfather,
King Louis Philippe, driven from
France by the revolution of 1848
- Though too young to remember his
father's death, Comte de Paris doubt
less always remembered the scene
when his brave mother took him and
his brother to the chamber of deputies,
only to escape therefrom at the peril of
their lives. After many dangers, the
fugitives succeeded in crossing the
frontier, and went to live at a country
house belonging to the grand duke of
Saxe-Weimar.
The exiled king and queen reached
England, and there the ex-king died in
1850. Ever afterwards Comte de Paris
has occupied the position of pretender
to the French throne.
O He has lived a very quiet life, en
livened by very slight conspiracies,
none of which involved any very dan
gerous schemes, and as a result he has
been very little before the public eye.
The only time, indeed, when he came
very prominently before the world
was in 1801, when, accompanied by his
brother. Due de Chartres, and his
uncle, Prince de Joinville, he came to
America and offered his sen-ices as a
volunteer to aid in the preservation of
the union. Gen. McClellan, then com
mander of ythe army of the Potomac,
made him and his brother officers on
his staff, with the rank of captain.
John Jacob Astor, whose name will
always be a synonym for millionaire in
the United States, was also on the staff
of the general. Both the distinguished
foreigners were obedient, well-behaved
and thoroughly acquainted with
the duty of their positions. Combe
de Paris was repeatedly intrusted by
Gen. McClellan with important and
dangerous commissions, which he fulr
filled with credit and ability. For
more than a year the comte partici
pated in the varying fortunes of the
army of too Potomac, accepting no pay
for his services.
France began shortly after this to in
terfere in Mexican affairs, and there
arose a coolness between this country
and the comte's, which led to the
comte 's resignation, lest he might be
called upon to fight his own people. He
therefore resigned his commission, , in
spite of Gen. MeClellan's efforts to re
tain his services. .
The overthrow of Napoleon III. and
the downfall of the second empire at
last enabled the comte to return to
France. The third republic, very soon
after it was established, fell into the
hf of a Coalition of royalists, who
permitted the Orleans princes to return
to their native land and restored them
their estates, which had been confis
cated by Napoleon III., with forty mil
lion francs as an indemnity for the
deprivation of their revenues. The
comte received his share, and also his
ancestral estate.
For awhile it seemed very probable
that the monarchy would be restored;
but, as the partisans of the other
plaimants refused to help them, the
French people at last got tired and became-for
the most part good republic?
ans. In 1873, when it was too late to
do any good, all the claimants to the
French throne, except the Bonapartists,
recognized the comte as de jure king of
France. . ,
A royalist demonstration in 1886 led
to the exile of the comte and all mem
bers of bis family.
He took up his residence in England,
apd from that country issued mani
festoes declaring that the men who
were ruling France had lost the confi
dence of the people, and the only sal
vation of the nation was to restore the
monarchical form of government. '
The new head of the French royal
bouse Louis Phillippe Robert is
quick, intelligent, active, energetic,
passionately fond of movement, and
uncompromising in the expression of"
his thoughts and feelings. In dispor
sition and temperament he is singu
larly unlike his father, who was one of
the best informed men living, a deep
thinker and a scholar. :
- What influence the new pretender
Will exert on the destinies of France
eannot be guessed, but the probabil
ities are that, like his father, be will
live and die a mere pretender a king
without a throne or a crown.
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COURAGE IN SURGERY.
. Way xperleneed Practitioners Are Cool
While Operating.
An old surgeon, engaged for the mo
ment in dissecting a cold roast quail,
and making, it must be confessed, only
an indifferent job of it, had been lis
tening incidentally to the conversation
of his table companions who were dis
cussing the calmness and nerve dis
played by the average practitioner dur
ing surgical operations, says the New
York Herald., Both " agreed that the
poise and coolness shown by-surgeons
jit times were extraordinary and hard
to understand.
"Now, - friends, if you will permit
me," interrupted the surgeon at this
point, "I would like to tell you that
there is nothing extraordinary about
). The 'nerve,' as you call it, of the
surgeoq uuder such circumstances is
the rnost natural thing in the world.
It is not a display of calmness which
has been put on for that occasion, or
an exhibition of courage summoned pp
for an unusual emergency, but simply
the normal demeanor of a practical,
matter-of-fact man who knows, what
he has to do and bow he is going to do
it. .
"The trouble with many people who
marvel at what they call a surgeon's
courage is that they fail utterly to
comprehend the conditions under
which he performs his work. They
imagine that he is experimenting, or
that he doesn't know his ground, or
that he will cut something -that he '
ought not to cut. Nothing could be
further from the facts. No movement
in science or mechanics is preceded by
a more accurate foreknowledge of its
results than the average -operation in
surgery. There is no such thing as
guesswork about it. . The operator
knows ho is performing an operation
which is based upon an exact science.
He follows rules which apply to all
cases, and is secure in the confidence
that causes which have produced cer
tain effects in given instances will do
so in all others. - I
"Why, then, should there be any
need in his work for extraordinary
courage? There are cases, of course,
so critical or so unusual as to excite
even the calmest and most self-con-tained
operator, and when these are
under treatment the surgeon's powers
of self-control are frequently taxed to
their utmost limit To the man who.
In such a case, can tb reiS
without a tremor, when life itself de
pends upon the accuracy and delicacy
of his touch, we must award the praise
due to real heroes. But in the aver
age case, say of amputation or of skull
fracture involving cranial operations,
the surgeon neither needs nor possesses
rnnrA than lhr nmir&ire of an intelli
gent, sincere man, who knows his duty
and has learned now to periora it.
Hia ff.hni'nl knowledue of anatomy
and its methodical habit of work ac
custom him to conditions which alarm
and excite non-professional minds, and
he goes about his task with a certain
quiet, vigorous, assertive confidence in
the result of his movements wnicn tne
observer is quite likely to mistake for
a marvelous courage summoned up for
that particular occasion. It is courage
nt a Art.ain sort. I confess the cour
age of absolute confidence in the in
fallibility of the science ne .repre
sents." ALI-BEN-ALI, THE COBBLER.
Bow He Lost Bis Wives and Bis Faith at
the Same Time.
Ali-Ben-Ali was and is a renegade.
He believes in three gods, and drinks
spirits of wine, corn and rye. He also
believes that women have souls and
that, while there are many houris in
heaven, there are more in hell. When
the muezzin calls to prayer he puts his
thumb to his nose and spreads his fin
gers out, which is his Turkish way of
expressing derision. Once upon a time
he owned seven slaves, four of whom
were white. Great men were his
friends. Now he cobbles shoes, says
Vance Thompson in the New York Ad
vertiser. He might have been a happy man to
this day had it not been for that devil
of an Alcibiades. Ali-ben-Ali was sit
ting on his feet, looking through the
open door out on the blue waters of
the Bosporus and the low sandy
shore beyond when the Greek came up.
He was a low-browed Greek. He was
peddling slippers with long red points
which curled over like rams' horns.
Ali was absorbed in thinking of his
seven female slaves. He kicked the
Greek in the back violently two or
three times, but otherwise ignored his
presence.
The subtle Greek departed. Under
his low brow he devised this revenge.
He wrote a letter to the sultan.
"We'll see about this," said the sul
tan. "Mesrour, off with Ben Ali's
head and bring me his seven nice
wives." '
Mesrour returned in half an hour, the
6even slaves, of whom four were white,
trailing after him.
"Ben Ali is dead," he said.
Mesrour lied. Ben Ali, by bribes,
bad secured his escape and, disguised
as a bale of tobacco, was stored away
in a hold of a vessel bound for New
York. He is in New York now to prove
that this tale is no lie. He cobbles
shoes. At times he drinks strong
spirits. Then he curses the com
mander of the faithful and Alcibiades.
the low-browcd Creek. The sultan is
a Mohammedan, and him Ben Ali
curses; the Greek is a Christian and is
cursed of Ben AIL
MEXICAN TRAIN ROBBERS.
Dlas -Set a Thief to Catch a. Thjef a
Soon pop Kid of Them.
Apropos of the recent train robberies
in this country, a western railroad
man suggests to the New Orleans
Times-Democrat that we should adopt
the Mexican plan of dealing with
them, which proved so effective there.
Mexico offers great advantage over
this country for train robbing, - It is
thinly settled; the land is out up with
mountains, offering hiding places for
. the robbers and a safe retreat; its peo
ple are not so advanced in civilization
as ours, and there is a much larger
dancerous element, ex-bandita and
revolutionists, to whom train robbing
would come as a natural trade. The
railroads, moreover., are. a new ipptitU;
tion, and it was natural to suppose
that train robberies would be numer
ous. During the first extension of our
railroad system into Mexico they were
so frequent that a passenger thought
himself lucky to get from the Rio
Grande to Mexico without several
stoppages from these "knights of the
road." Detectives, bloodhounds and
other means of suppressing the evil
were tried, but with little more
Buccess than in this country, when
President Diaz, on the old theory of
"set a thief to catch a thief," hit upon
the happy idea of utilizing the bandits
and railroad robbers to protect the
roads by organizing them into a police
force known as the rurales, or rural
guards. He had some of the men who
were suspeotod of this business sum'
moncd beforo him and offered them an
opportunity of entering the govern
ment service as mounted police, and
told them that if they did so he would
furnish them with fine uniforms, im
proved firearms and the best horses
that could be bought, but if they did
not be would have the soldiers hunt
them down, . They knew that Diaz
was a man of his word, and - they- en
tered the government service, and,
being daredevils, as ' far as courage is
concerned, and thoroughly acquainted
with ' the ways and methods of the
train robbers, to whom they showed no
mercy, they very soon suppressed these
j robberies. When a train was held up
;:the rurales,' who knew every moun
tain recess, never stopped until they
had hunted down the last robber. The
plan worked splendidly, and there is
to-day less interruption to railroads in
Mexico than in this country, although
the chances for robbery are so much
better there,
TO flGHT FOB CUBA.
Company Being Organised In Boise City
. ' for That Purpose.
It is learned that a movement is on
foot here for the organization of
company of volunteers to assist the
Cubans, says the Boise Statesman. Ai
it is necessary to avoid a collision
with the government over the neutral
ity laws, it is essential to conduct any
such enlistment with great Becrecy
It is not known who is at the head o!
the movement. ' A prominent man in
Boise who has an enviable record for
courage, gained during frontier ex
periences in the early days, has stated
that he intended to go with the party
In this connection it may be stated
that a non-commissioned officer at
Boise barracks, whose term is about
to expire, has recently received a letter
from the Cuban junta in New York
makiner him an offer to enlist. ' He
states that the junta has evidently se
cured a list of all those in the army
whose terms of service are about at an
end and who have such records as to
commend them to the revolutionists,
Efforts are being made to induce these
men to enter the service of the Cubans,
A Fine Edition.
The Cascade Locks edition of the
Oreconian is at hand. It is a 32-page
edition, and is replete with statistical
information concerning Oregon. A
full page is devoted to The Dalies, in
which are illustrations of the Wasco
county court house, St. Mary's acade
my, the Vogt block, A. M. Williams
& Co's store, French & Co's bank:
building and Pease & May's store,
also pictures of ex-Governor Moody,
Judge Bradshaw, Judge Mays, S, L,
Brooks and D. M. French, The de
scriptive article concerning The Dalles
and vicinity Is well written and is re
plete with information concernlngathe
city and country tributary to it. The
edition throughout is a credit to the
Oregonian and is a splendid advertise
ment for the state.
r Soothing and not irrltatlng,strength
ening and not weakening, small but
ffectlve such are the qualities of De
Witt's Little Eirly Risers, the famous
little pilL Suipe & Kinersly Drug Co.
RKSOUKCKS Or THE OALI.ES.
It is One of the Largrst Shipping Point
no the Paeille Coaxt.
The Ca,-cadn Lock edition of the
O egonian gives some interesting
figures concerning iho resources of
The Dalles and the amount of busir.es
transacted here, from which i!io fol
lowing are taken. Tho litpires aro
not absolutely accurate, being rather
an underestimate in referi-nco to many
commodities, though theyservetopive
an idea of the immense business doue
in this city, and its importance as a
shipping point:
While the exact figures aro not at
tainable, a conservative estimate of
the number of c:ittlo shipped from this
point each year shows that th3 grar.d
total reaches the handsome sum of 20(
carloads, or about 5500head. To thi
should be added 220 carioads of sheep
and 60 of hogs. It is' estirnite:l thtt
the cattle and sheep shipped annually
from the country tributary to The
Dalles will amount to 2i,(W0 of the
former, and more than 200,OCO of the
latter.
It is hard to estimato the atnouut of
woo) grown in this country, f r that
from Morrow, Grant and Crook coun
ties finds market at Tha Dallp",
Wasco's county sent, : id contiJcrub'.e
comes from Klickitat c.-iunty, Wsh.,
on the north. It is probably in the
ueighborhood of 2,000,000 pound. The
D lies i? the treatost wool shipping
point in the United States; that is,
there is more wool gathered here from
first hands. The amounts will run
from 4,500,000 to 8,0O0,CO0 pounds, or
03 an average about 300J tons.
The wheat shipments from The
Dalles is no small item. Besides all
the wheat raised in Wasco county, a
considerable amount is brought from
Sherman and Klickitat counties. Last
year's shipments amounted to over
600,000 bushels.
As we have shown, the wool and
salmon industries yield annually from
$750,000 to $1,000,000. The stock ship
ments?, which include, of course, the
country south of us and not in this
ciunty, will amount to 8500,000 more,
and our wheat will swell this to a grand
total of $2,500,000. Yet, notwithstand
ing the vast total, the fact is plain tha
in a few year9 one other ipflustry, at
present in its infancy, but a growing
giant, will yield a revenue far greater
than that from all other sources com
bined. That is the fruit industry.
Wasco county, although only a few
yearj ago not ranked as a fruit jro.
ducer, stands today confessedly the
best fruit county in the state. The
climate and rainfall are perfect for the
growing of winter apple?, and thi
frrtt will eventually place her in the
frjnt rank financially.
if of Over Frty xsars.
An Old and Well-Tried Rem
edy. Mrs. Wmstow's Soothing Syrup
has been used for over fifty years by
millions of mothers for their children
while teething, with perfect 9uccss
It soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is
the best remedy lor oiarrnoea.
pleasant to the taste, bold by drug
gists in every part ot the wond,
Twentv-five oents a bottle. Its valu
19 uncalculable. Be sure and ask for
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and
take no other kind. .
Eastern Oregon Good Knonffh.
Messrs. Peery Rerd,Rennick Jesse
anl Ben Jones, of Crook county, who
left here last month with 300 head of
ctttle for Omaha, returned on Sunday
morning 'd train. They not their cattle
through in (tooj condition, and found
a roidy salo for theTi within three
hours after they were unloaded. Cat
tie of all kieds were in good demand
la Omaha, and the prices obtained
t'lere paid them well for shipping.
They say, while business appears to
be good in the cities in Nebraska, the
farmers are by no means prosperous.
and the masses of the people are in
straightened circumstances. The peo
pie here 1 o are complaining of hard
timrs, they say,do n it realize the mean
i-ig cf the term,. Thousands of eople
in and about Omaha aro living fron
hand to mouto, aiv unable to get
work, and have no visible means of
support. While there i9 an apparen
abundance cf everything, an immei.se
crop ha.ing been harvested, still there
is want and poverty on every band. All
these gentlemen are satisfied that
Eastern Oregon is good enough for
them, and they are satisfied to cull
home.
CONDITION OF TRADE.
The Past Week Ha Been Dull Through
out the Nation.
Bradstreet's report review of th
condition of trade for the week says
Wholesale trade continues of smaller
volume than expected, practically the
uly activity in the wholesale line.
jeing in grooerles, candles, fruit-
ind nutt. Tbe weather interferec
.vitn seasonable business which ai
nany centers is smaller than in pre
seeding years, in that a larger propor
tion of purchases are of a cheap gradt
of goods. The downward tendency o
prices pointed out a fortnight ago it
continued. This includes quotation?
for hides, which caused boot and shoe
job dealers to restrict purchases, an
ticipating cuts in prices " for shors
steel rails, steel billets and Bessemer
pig-iron. Cotton, too is lower on con
fidence of a larger crop tha i expected;
'For Charity Saffereth Long."
Mrs. Laara C. Phoenix, Milwaukee, Wis.
"Matron mf m JteneeoCeMC Hmm
and knowing the good Dr. Miles Nervine
has dona me, my wish to help others, over
comes my dislike for the publicity, this
letter may give me. in Nov. and Dec. 1893,
IM tmmuitem hud th "XcSrijme."
and I was one of the first. Besoming duty
too soon, witt the care of ao many sick, I
did not regain my health, and in a month
Jf (teeaifte ea debilitated mud nerrsws
froin sleeplessness sod the &aJt4 made on
nj vitality, that it was a question if I could
go on. A' dear friend advised me to try
pr Mife? Jteert Servinc
I took a bottles and am happy to say. I am
to tiotter health than nvav. I still continue
JB omasfenof km, mm m tcmrv food,
as my work Is very trying A letter ad
dressed to Milwaukee, Wis, will reach me."
Jane C IBM. . Has. Laura O. Phoekix.
Dr. Miles Nervine a sold on a positive
Karantee that the first bottle will benefit,
idrnggists sell it at tl. 6 bottles for S5, or
It will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price
by the Dr. Miles Medical Co, Mkhart, ind.
Dr. Miles' Nervine
Restores Health
prints cloths, as the products of that
staple, and bocausa of the large stock
... f.. ... .,
of the same, bt-.-ady or practically un- .
J 1 f , !
changed quotations are reported for j
pork, lard, conee ana sugar.
There were 350 business failures re
ported throughout the United Suites
this week. 22 fewer than last week, and
26 less than in the corresponding week
one year ago. As compared with the
liko week in 1894, this week's total
shows a g;iin of 50, ami with the cor-j
responding week in 1S93, the gain is
six. Iu tbe third week of December,
1892, there were CI fewer failures than '
this week. !
wumtn nu iitnuuu,
What One of the l air Sex Remembered oi
the World-Famous Battle.
"In my early days I knew a lady who
happened to be in Urussels that memor
able June," said Mrs. Newton Cross
land to the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser man. "She was then newly
married and only twenty-three years of
age. So little certain of victory did the
English on the spot feel that her hus
band insisted on her dressing like a
Normandy peasant, thinking such a
costume would be a protection
"Vividly have I hoard her describe
the parting she witnessed at the door
of the hotel where she was staying and
the despair of wives who were left be
hind wives soon to be widows
"Very graphically, too, did she de
scribe the next day's events, ' when
women many of whom, too agitated
to change their attire, were still ele
gantly dressed made their way some
how to the field of battle, returning in
the army wngons, sup-iortin? the heads
of the wounded on their knees, bathing
their brows and Mnding up their
wounds, while a steady rain poured
down on the faces begrimed by powder,
which yet allowed their pallor to be
seen.
"I once met at a dinner the widow of
an officer I forget the name whe
fought at Waterloo, and the lady
narrated her experience of the 'after
battle' scene. For some reason she had
to cross the field of Waterloo, which
was still strewn with the dead, and for
this purpose she was blindfolded and
placed on horseback, the teed being
led by a trooper.
"She held a handkerchief to her nose
steeped, I think she said, with vinegar
and not until she had reached ar;
acclivity nearly a mile from the scene
of carnage was the ban.laju removed
from her eyes. Then she looked back
The field of Waterloo appeared like a
field of tombstones, for the bodies
were all stripped of clothing and sbont
white in the sunsliiuo like stones.
The camp-foil owiujr ghonls bar1 done
their work effectually."
WITHOUT A NAVY.
Kingdom of nelglim Has a Water Front,
But No Ships of War.
No ii. citation has been extended to,
the uaval authorities of one neighbor
ing country to participate in the festiv
ities at the opening of the ship canai
between the North sea and the Baltic,
which are to attract the armed ships of
various European and American
governments. That country, says the
New York Sun, ia Belgium, and it is
peculiar amon, European countries
haying a water front from 4 he fact that
it has no navy.
This is the more remarkable when it
is considered that Belgium includes
within its borders, cuio of the oldest
harbors in Europe Antwerp which,
at the aonith of its commercial success,
had as many as 3,000 ships. The com
merce of Antwerp is still considerable,
and a fair share of it is. done with the
United States.
When the war of 1S30 culminated in
the independence of Belgium from the
rule pf i th? Netherlands, the two
Gauntries were so divided that Holland
had the larger share of the seacoast
line, and Belgium had a larger measure
of the inland country. Holland re
tained all the colonial possessions ft
the two countries, and, in order to keep
up connection with them and protect
them from hostile assaults, the navy
was maintained by Holland.
Belgium, having no foreign colonies
to protect, was under no obligations to
maintain a navy. Holland has now A
considerable navy, having 100 ships and
7.500 sailors., but Belgium is able to get
along without any navy at all, though
the Belgium army, on a peace footing,
is 2,000 men stronger than the Butch
army, and, on a war footing, has 100,000
men more.
FOR AN UNSPOKEN SPEECH.
Tha Irish Patriot Jailed for Words He
Didn't ay.
A member of the Land league was
sent from Dublin to a certain district to
get up a meeting and make a speech,
says a foreign exchange.
Cm reaching the town where the
meeting was to be held, the speech-
maker met a friend, and, both being
genial feUows, they retired to a public
house and had something, l lien tney
began talking over old-time rem
iniscences, and the first thing the land
leaguer knew was that the attendant
had come in to light the lamp.
"Great eoodness! ho said, "1 was
sent down from Dublin to get up a
meeting here, and now it is too late."
i'Oh, well, it doesn't matter," said the
Other.
"Yes. but it does matter," said the
organiser, "I have to report to my su
perior that tbe meeting was held."
"Oh. that's all right," said his friend.
"Here, yon write out a speech and 1
will send It to the local papers, who will
print it just as if the meeting was held,
then the folks in UuDlin won't Know
the difference."
This.- was quickly dono. and the
speech that was never delivered ap
peared the next day in the papers.
The fun of the thing comes in over
the fact that the leaguer was arrested
and was sentenced to four months in
jail for a speech thathencver delivered,
ai a, meeting that was never held
UtNtKOUb IU LESS EPS.
The Sues Canal Company- Provision for
the Aged Engineer and His Family.
It is truly characterretieof the warm
hearted and -forgiving nature of the
average Frenchman, says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, that not a word of
protest should have been raised any
where against the grant by the Suez
Canal company of an annual allowance
of about twenty-four thousand dollars
to the De Lesseps family, even those
whose entire fortunes had been swal
lowed up in the disastrous Panama enr
terprise expressing their satisfaction
at the measures thus adopted to pre
serve their illustrious compatriot from
Want, Notwithstanding all reports to
the contrary, the De Lesseps had
actually been reduced to penury, and
their situation was most precarious.
Not only all the shares which Ferdi
nand de Lesseps possessed in the Suez
Canal company, but even his fees as
director, the annuity assigned to him
personally by the company, and all the
money he had been able to lay aside,
were attached by the liquidators of the
Panama bankruptcy. The only re
sources that remained at the disposal
of the countess were the house which
she owned in the Avenue Montaigne
and the Chateau de la Chesnaye, both
of which were more a source of ex
pense than of economy, and were
mortgaged up to the very hilt besides,
ith the object of averting, all dan
ger of seizure by the creditors of the
count the allowance just granted by
the Suez company has been made in
favor of the countess and of the thir
teen children of the count. The two
eldest of these are Charles and Victor,
who are the sons of his first wife. Of
the eleven children of the present
Countess de Lesseps three are serving
in the army, one is married to that
Count de Gontaut-Biron whose fin an-.
cial difficulties were a themo of much
discussion in the Parisian press two
years ago, aud the remainder are still
dependent oq their father and mother
for care and maintenance. Meanwhile
the grand old Frenchman, now in his
eighty-eighth year, passes bis exist-
ence in a sort of semi-somnolent con-
. . , , . , , , , ,
dition in the arm chair, which he only
leaves fop his He can no longer
walk, he has become stone deaf, and
when he is not gazing in silence at his
children he reads newspapers, care
being taken to select those which con-
tain no uncomplimentary references to
I his name. Having lost ell notion of
time, those placed before hiin are most
ly of dates four.and five years ago.
when he was still in the heyday of his
glory, and when the press, still richly
subsidized by the Panama managers,
was never weary of referring to him
as "the greatest and most illustrious
of all Frenchmen." To this day
no one, not even the countess, can
say with any degree of certitude
whether he has any knowledge or
even inkling of the misfortunes that
have overtaken himself and his son
Charles. At any rate, he has given no
evidence thereof, and there is a gen
eral disposition to hope that his once
grand intellect passed into its present
somnolent state in such a manner as to
have spared him any such sorrow.
WEBSTER'S LEGAL EARNINGS.
A Little Leather-Covered Book That Gives
His Receipt.
One of our correspondents has been
so lucky as to fall in with a little
leather-covered book, like those of
bank depositors, which contains Dan
iel Webster's autograph record of his
legal receipts. This chronicle, says
the New York Evening Post, fills twenty-eight
pages and extends a little
more than from 1833 to 1836, inclusive.
The first entry, dated September in
the .former year, is of S-0, and the
second is of 20, for retainers on the
New Hampshire circuit. The first fee
of 81,000 was paid in May, 1834, by a
Mrs. Badger. Services regarding Cil
ley's will commanded $800. The total
amount for the first year was footed up
as $13,140, with the remark: "Septem
ber 3, 1834, thus done and concluded."
A similar summing up appears at the
close of each other year. The second
total is S15.1S3.74; the third is 831,793.
The first entry of $3,000 was in 1835,
March 7; the first of 83,000 December 7
in the same year. The last payment
was in respect to Florida land. The
largest single honorarium was 87,500.
In February of the fourth year $5,000 is
set down as bestowed in a case of Trin
ity church (New York). In turning over
this record leading metropolitan and
even provincial lawyers are astonished
that Webster, already twenty years in
Boston, so undervalued his services.
He learned better at last. When Rob
ert C. Winthrop looked up the earliest
date he said: "That's just the time I
was ending my studies in Webster's
office," and the chirograph led him to
add that Webster never wrote a firm
hand. Nobody has surveyed the relic
with more interest than Dr. O. W.
nolmes. Among other things he said
4 Had the influx been ten-fold, Web
ster's purse would have remained
empty still. Had its capacity received
like the sea, whatever entered there
vtould have runoff like water from tha
back of a duck."
Latest Style
Lowest Profits
: In Mens and Boys :
Clothing, Dry Goods
KENS FUF.MSH'UGS. :
HONEST VALUES IN : :
Boots and Slioes
c.
F. STEPHENS
134 Second Street.
Next rtoor to the Dalle National Rank
i
A Nl'A'
w UNDERTAKING
5k establishment
'eairi;
Prinz & Nitschke
DUUU HI
FURNITURE AND CARPETS
Ve have Med to our bukineM a compute Under
taking K$tt.b shment, and at w are la no wtjr
eoooected with tbe UtJarUera" Troit, our
tree will be low accordiurly.
-TO TBI
GIVES Th.
Cioxfi of Two ' -reo toenta Routt
VIA
SPOKANE
EISKEAPOLIS
S.PATI
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OtfAEA
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Low Rates to All Eastern Citiei
OCKAN STEAMERS leave
Ave days lor
Portland every
m FRANCISCO. CAL.
For full details call on the O. R. & N. Agent
it THE DALLES, or address
K. MrNElLX, President ana Manager.
W. H. HTTRLBTJRT. Gen. Pass. Aift..
Portland, Oregon
New O. K. a M. Schedule.
Train No. 1 arrives at Tho Dalles
1:45 a. M.. and leaves 4:50 A. M. -
Train No. 2 arrives at The Ealles
10:15 P. v.. and leaves 10:20 P. H.
Train No. 8 arrives at The Dalles
11:50 a. M.. and west-bound train No. 7
leaves at 1 P. si.
Train 23 and 24 will carry paseD(r rs
between The Dalles and Umatilla,,
eavina- The Dalles at 1 r. M. daily rEd
j-rivin? at The Dalles at 1 P. M. daily.
tonnectiner with train Nob. 8 and. 7
Yqm Portland. E. E. LYTLE,
Agent.
Washington
Real Estate....
A number of choice trrcts of
AgTicnliural Land, bolh in pro -ed
and unimproved, for s.'Ie on
easy terms: in Yakima county.
...Every Pieci: is a Bargain...
B rae o( the trar will be be
tr-Tlfd, fir cattle or sheep. . .
Address,
J. 7T. WHTERS,
Zi'Ia. Yak'ma County, Wash.
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olumbia Packing
CORNER THIRD
BEEF, VEAL, Mil ITJN, PORK AND LARD.
Cured and
sati-a;e3 of
ORDERS DEUYEO TO ANY PART OF THE CITY
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391. 393 KND 395 SECOND STREGT.
(Adjoining Railroad .Derot.)
Consignments Solicited
Prom t attention will by pill to thosa
THE CELEBRATED
Columbia
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AUGUST BUCHLER, Prop.
This well-known brewery is now turning out the best Beer
ami Porter east of the Cascades. The latest appliances for tho
manufacture of good healthful Beer have been introduced, and
only the first-class article will be
East-Second Street
The Dalles, : Oregon.
You will And one ooupon
inside each two ounce bac
and two coupon lmldo each
four ounce bag-ofBhtckweira
Durham. Buy a bag of this
celebrated tobaeoo and read
the ooupon which (Ives a
list of valuable prosenu and
how to get them.
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french and german.'
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Dried Meats
Al C Kinds : :
who rtkvor'ma with thalr patronage
rewery
placed on the market
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