,1898
r's Daily.
"Artisans will meet at
at 7:30 o'cloek. A
I attendance is requested.
Hon.'M. Isenburf, the well known
Hood River statesman, was In town
last night the guest of the Umatilla
House.
M. Cornett, of Mitchell, and D. R.
Gaunt, contractor an ex-contractor of
, The Dalles and Prlnevuie Diasje uob
l. A o tVin TTmat.illa HoUFB.
are rvK1Bbclc,u nw
' Doors will open for Bishop McCabe's
lecture on Thursday evening at 7:30,
V so that all may obtain comfortable
seats, but the lecture will not begin
' until 8:15.
- V Bonn Bros, have sold out the busi
ness of The Dalles Commission comp
any to W. P. Vanbibber and P. Stadle
man who took charge today and will
continue the business at the old stand.
Hon. J. M. Morton.of Hood Kiver.re-presentatlve-elect
of Wasco county,
was in town today. : Mr. Morton will
leave tomorrow or next day for Salem
to attend the special session of the
legislature.
A statement given out at the post
office department shows that the postal
receipts at Portland, Or., aggregated
$14,414 for the month of August, as
against $12,951 for the corresponding
period of lust year,
Prof. Lundell has returned from his
summer vacation and will again begin
giving lessons in voice culture,
harmony and the rudiments of music.
All who desire to take lessons will
please notify him at once. . - ..
The rain last night was pretty gen
eral over the country, having reached
as far as Shearer's bridge, and possibly
further, but reports south of that place
have not been received. The precip
itation was 57:100 of an inch.
Up till today when the rain put a
temporary damper on the business, be
tween 250 and 300 tons of wheat have
- been arriving daily in the city. The
- price remains unchanged for the past
Miss Rose and Nettie Michell re
turned this morninir from Denver
where they attended the meeting of
the National Press Associatian.
Miss Rose resumes her work as city
editor of the Chronicle tomorrow.
Al 9 o'clock last : ight while a west
bound freight train was waitibg at a
siding at Boonyville to let another
freight pass the rear end of the former
which accidentally stood out on. the
main track, was run into and a number
of cars wrecked. Nobody was hurt
and the damage is not beleived to be
serious.
A tract of 2500 acres of splendid
timber in the vicinity of Hamilton,
Wash., has been purchased by a Michi
gan firm, who expects to commence
operations soon. Other land, it is
said, will also soon be transferred into
the hands of active lumbermen, who
will build mills and make improve
ments.' HoDsrrowers who have not yet dis
posed os their crop are in high spirits
over the advance in the price of hops,
says the Eugene Register. The change
in the market has been quite sudden,
and the price has gone up in the past
two or three days from 8 to 12 cents,
the price at which hops are quoted.
This advance in price will add several
thousand dollars to the wealth of Lane
county. - I
IndUn John White, from the reser
vation, went to Kettle Falls Wash.,
Friday, got on a drunk, and undertook
to possess himself of the store of J. P.
Fogh. Mr. Fogh broke a board over
the Indian's head, whereupon the irate
aborigine went to the reservation and
undertook to kill his white wife with
a knife, but was prevented by the In
terference of friends. The Indian was
i . m .v l t 1.1
arrested on a cnarge oi aisturDing ne
peace."
The circus entertainment last night,
if a performance that has no horses
can be called a circus, was a failure, a
fraud, a bilk, a sell and rotten to the
utmost verge of spectacular putridity.
Ten minutes after the venerable clowns
had fired off their meaner accumula
tion of stale alleged jokes the hands '
began to pull up the tent pins and be
fore the fraud had well spent Itself the
aggregation had almost completely
folded its traps like a Siwash and was
ready for the trail.
, Col. I. N. Day, late contractor for
the completion of the Cascade Locks,
was in town today. Just what the
Colonels particular business here was,
this deponent refuses to tell, for the
best reason in the world, he doesn't
know. But as the Colonel is a man of
untiring energy, and possessed withal,
of a strong tendency to territorial and
financial expansion it is perfectly safe
to guess that he was not here simply
for his health, but on a scheme of benefit
to the public as well as himself.
Rain commenced falling here last
night at 10:30 and continued with little
if any intermission till 8;30 this morn
ing, during which time, according tn
Volunteer Observer Brooks, the pre
cipitation amounted to half an inch
The rain appears to have been quite
general. It will be of immense value
towards starting fall grain and grass
and packing the roads, althongb it un
doubtedly caught a number of farmers
with wheat unthreshed and unprotect-'
ed, who probably would have been
caught anyhow, if the rain had kept
off till Christmas.
-
Seven "boarders" occupy the
guilded corridors and palatial bou
doirs of the Hotel de Kelly, awaiting
an introduction to the grand jury.
One of these is indicted for burglary,
one for larcency, one for indecent ex
posure, one for assult with a danger
ous weapon, one for forgery, one for
uttering a forged check and one
for committing an "aggregated" as
sult, whatever kind of a breaches of
the criminal code this last may
be. This reminds the writer of a big
Dutchman of this city who asked a
local physiciaa to visit his wife and
explained to the doctor that her "in
ternational origins" were out of
.whack.
town today with his son Omer who is
going to Moumouth to attend the col
lege at that place.
The Inland Flyer left Portland this
morning at 10 o'clock, arrived at the
Locks at 2:15 p. m., and left for The
Dalles at 2:30.
The man who was murdered at Salem
and found in the river opposite that
place is supposed to be Roy Sink, of
Wasco. It is supposed he was murder
ed for money.
Tom Bradden, a prominent business
man of Cascade Locks, came up today
to consult a physician on account of
what it is hoped is only a temporary
indisposition.
Wm. Kulano, formerly Stewart on
the Regulator, la in town visising
friends. Mr. Rufano has spent the
summer on the Upper Columbia steam'
boating and is on his way to Portland
Hon. J. L. Story, now of Union
came down on this morning's passen
ger and will , remain visiting old
friends till Saturday. Mr. Story is
very well pleased with his new loc
ation
The carpenters commenced this
morning to lay the silis of W. A
Johnston's big store building on 2d
between Federal and Laughlin.'. It is
expected to have the building ready for
occupation in about three weeks.
William Ketch um will ship tonight
from The Dalles stockyards 1400 head
of mutton sheep to the Pacific Meat
Company at Tacoma. The sheep were
all bought in Klickitat county and are
in fine condition," coming fresh from
the range araumLMotrnt Adams. -
Ihe wool business sere is as dead as
Julius Caesar. " Two or three buyers
linger expectant around' the remains,
but the bulk of them, have abandoned
hope of .even a partial resurrection,
before the ides of November, and have
gone home to the bosom of their re
spective families.
J. O. Mack, secretary of the Second
Eastern Oregon District Fair, loaves
this evening for North Yakama. As a
partial result of Mr. Mack's trip, he
expects to see a good attendance at
this place, next October, of the horses
in attendance at the Washingto
State Fair at North Yakama, next
Monday.
Tom Cowdell, of Antelope ' leaves
this afternoon with a load of freight
for T. M. Dial of that place, including
a big bar mirror 18 -feet long. Tom
says Antelope is building up in fine
style. The new store buildings are far
better buildings than those destroyed
in the lire and look better in everyway.
The new Antelope will be one of the
bondsomest little towns in the in
terior, and for its size, one of the be9t.
The Wizard Oil-Co. will give an en
tire cbang of program tonight, intro
ducing many new .novelties in the
amusement line, aud will give away a
number of presents to people buying
reserved seats. This is the -most ver
satile company tbat -has visited The
Dalles for years, and the .entertain
ment they give is first class in every
respect. Mr. Gallagher carries no
dead wood, and the program is run
with a snap from beginning to end.
If you eo tonight, set your, buttons on
tight and be prepared to lagh.
E. G. Bolter, postmaster of Cross
Keys, Crook county accompanied by
hi son. J. Bolter and wife, and Mrs.
Shultz and her two children, were in
town last night on their way to the
state fair at Salem. Mr. Bolter is
much pleased with the seasonable and
much needed rain. Lower Trout
creek that runs through his- farm . has
been dry for months, for the first time
during his nineteen years residence at
that place. The springs have nearly
all failed and the wells in the valley
have all had to b6 sunk deeper to get
water for domestic purposes. Strange
to say, notwithstanding all this, sev
eral farmers in the valley have raised
three fairly good crops of alfalfa from
1 -id that had of necessity got water
ui.ly on the first crop.
Most people in. these parts have beard
of the sliding mountain a short dis
tance below the Cascade Locks, and
the trouble and inconvenience it has
caused the O. R. & N- Co. for many
years, through the moving of the track
toward the river. The company has
now a force of men at work trying to
remedy the evil. There is a lake on
the mountain side, several hundred
feet above the river, half a mile in
len?th,ana 100 feet deep in the middle,
whose waters find their way to the
river over the . soapstone formation
deep beneath its bed. As the lake has
no outlet except from beneath, it is
proposed to cut a deep trench in the
mountain suCBoient to drain the lake
dry. The result of the experiment
will be watched with interest and, it
is hoped, prove effective.
Vrrm ThnnidAV'S D&ilv.
John E. Barnett is buying wheat for
the Wasco Warehouse.
The wife of Professor Birgfeld pre
sented her husband with a daughter
this morning. .
Hon. John Michell returned this
morting from Indianapolis, where he
had been attending the supreme coun
cil of Red Men.
Martin Kohrman, a prominent sheep
man of Klickitat county, is in town
consulting a physician regarding his
Impaired health.
Folk Butler of Nansene came into
From Friday's Daily.
Judge Blakeley went to Portland
this morning.
Ex-Representative Jones is in from
his ranch near Shearer's Bridge.
H. D. Harkins and Pete Stadleman
returned from Portland today.
The school board has added the Cen
tury Dictionary to the high school
library.
Mrs. W. H. and Miss Maude Dufur,
of Dufur are registered at the Umatilla
House.
Mr. W. E. Campbell was a passen
ger on the Inland Flyer this morning
for Portland.
J. Sichel came up from Portland on
the local and left on the stage this
afternoon for Prineville.
The Dalles and Tygh Valley road s
lined with teams these days hauling
wheat from the Juniper Flat country.
Representative A. S. Roberts will
leave for Salem to-morrow. - Senators
John Michell and E. B. Dufur will
leave Sunday. '
Miss Emma Roberts was absent from
her room in the third grade of the
public schools yesterday, and her place
was filled by Miss Violet Kent.
Bishop McCabe generously contri
buted $25 of his lecture fee towards
the fund for liqudating the debt on
the M. E. church building of this city.
Rev. C. P. Bailey, baptist mission
ary, and Rev. M. Martin, the new
pastor of the Grass ' Valley Baptist
church, gave the Times-Mountaineer a
pleasant visit today.
Why is it, asks a subscriber, that no
work is ever done, or hardly ever done
on the county road between Eight
Mile and Fifteen-Mile? Will some
body answer that knows.
Mrs. Stubliog is building an elegant
new green house, which will be com
pleted before the cold weather sets in,'
and will be a valuable addition to her
floral business.
John M. Roth,, a prominent Tygh
Ridge farmer and . politician, was in
town last night. Mr. Roth's - famous
roadster, John L. will strive for honors
in some of the races during the coming
district fair.
Vanduyn & Adams of Tygh, are put
ing in a private water system as a pro
tection against fire. Water will be
pumped from a creek to a reservoir on
the hill, sonth a hundred feet above
the store buildings.
Mrs. J. G. Robertson and daughter,
Miss Maude, accompanied by Mrs.
Robertson's mother, Mrs. S. P. Angel
were passengers on the inland f lyer
this morning. They will visit in Port
land and take in the Exposition.
A big break was found this morning
in the sewer on Union street, between
Fifth and Sixth. A hole big enough
to bury a four horse team was in the
street. Marshal Lauer immediately
proceeded fo have it repaired.
It has been found necessary since
the completion of the new high school
building to employ an assistant janitor,
and Roy Emmerson has been selected
for that position and given charge of
the Court street building.
There are two classes who shudder
when a bottle of wine is broken over
the prow of a new vessel the old
topers who grieve at the wanton waste
of the beverage, and the temperance
folk who think a dangerous example
is set.
On account of a broken wheel a
freight car loaded with lumber jump
ed the track this morning, this side
of the Crscade Locks. The car was
smashed to kindling wood, and the
noon passenger was delayed fifty
minutes before the track was cleared.
Next Sunday, Capt. Sherman will
bring the Regulator to The Dalles to
have the bull which is building in
Portland placed under the old house.
The wrecked boat is now at the dock
above the locks, and will be towed
here by the Flyer and another boat
from Portland.
Burt Campbell, while hunting ducks
this morning, above town, made a
raft to cross a small arm of the Colum
bia eorae twenty feet wide. The
water had n undercurrent that upset
the raft, entailing the loss of Camp
bell's fine shot gun and hat., and he
only escaped drowning by the best of
luck.
An opium . fiend who has a little
shanty in the alley back of the Snipes-
Kinersly drug store was seen today
firing a "shot" into one of his legs
chat was a mass of festering rottenesp
f'-om ankle to hip A. number of town
kids were watching the edifying spec
tacle and probably moralizing on the
damphoolishness of the human animal.
Robert Fulton, son of Richard Ful
ton, late of this city, now in the insane
asylum, died yesterday in the Walla
Walla hospital, from injuries received
in a mysterious manner. He was
found the day before lying beside the
railroad track a short distance from
town, w'th his back broken and an
abraison on the head. He never be
came conscious enough to tell how he
was hurt. As his pockets were turned
inside out there is a suspicion of foul
play. Friends say he had $100 the day
before. He bad just arrived in Walla
Walla from The Dalles a few days be
fore his death. His sister, Mrs. Dell,
of this city, was notified by telegram
Fulton was about twenty years of age.
John McNeil, our Dalles boy of the
First U. S. Cavalry who has just got
bick from Santiago de Cuba tells a
story of the storming of San Juan
heights that will bear repeating.
Everybody has read of the flunking of
the Seventy-first New York, how when
they refused to face the storm of
Spanish musketry a negro regiment
in their rear compelled them to lie
prone on the ground while the negroes
marched' over them: Mr.' McNeil's
regiment followed, in the rear of the
colored troops. As they marched
over the prostrate bodies of the New
Yorkers, one of the tatter's officers
lifted his head and addressing the
cavalry captain said: "Say , for Christ's
sake go no farther; they're 'fighting
like hell up there." "You damned
fool you" answered the captain, "did
you expect it was going to be a Sun
day school picnic?"
Bishop McCabe had a large audi
ence to greet him last night in the M.
E. church where he lectured on "The
Bright Side of Life in Libby Prison.',
Every available seat was occupied.
The bishop gave a graphic account of
bis capture while actingas chaplain of
the 122d Ohio, his journey to Libby
prison, his amusing reception by his
fellow prisoners and a vast fund of
amusing as well as pathetic incidents
that occurred during the long monthB
he' remained there. Incidentally he
paid a generous tribute to several Con
federate officers whoBhowed him ex
ceptional acts of kindness during his
imprisonment. The lecture was well
received and generously applauded.
The bishop is a man of fins presence
and full of wit as clear and sparkling
as thi.' streams and lakes of the Emerald
land of his forefathers.
BACK FROM THE' WAR.
Dalles Hot Returns From the Battle
Fields of Cuba. .
John McNeil, son of Roderick Mc
Neil of this city and Mosier, who en
listed while in Michigan last Novem
ber in the First U. S. Cavalry, arrived
here last night on a thirty day's fur
lough. Mr. McNeil came here direct-
Iv from the New Haven, Conn., hospi
tal, where he was detained for nearly
a month by typhoid fever contracted
on the transport that bought him and
his regiment from Cuba. He was in
two of the fiercest engagements around
Santiago, the first at Guasmus, about
eight miles from tbe city, and tbe
second at the storming of the heights
of San Jnan. In the latter engage
ment he was struck on tbe cheek by a
piece of shell and felled to the ground
The wound was not serious and in a
short time he recovered from the stun
and resumed the fight. He bears,
however, the mark of the shell, and
will to his dying day. Mr. McNeil
has no comolaints to make of the
treatment accorded him while camped
on Cuban soil. His short service
as a regular had taught him
not to expect feather beds at night
and pie three times a day, and he was
not disappointed. He insists that so
far as his observation went, no one
had any reasonable right to complain,
except on one ground. For some
reason no adequate provision was made
for carrying the wounded men to the
rear and all of these unfortunates who
were able to crawl were obliged to get
to the hospital, seven miles to the
rear,by their own effort. . He saw one
poor fellow who had made his way
bank after being shot through the
the breast. Those who were
not able to go back of their own
effort were for the time left to
perish. This was a great evil al
though Mr. McNeil did not know if
under the circumstances it could have
been avoided. He knew nothing of
the hospital accomodations in Cuba
for the sick and wounded for he has
had splendid health until he took sick
on board the transport. Mr. McNeil's
troop has been ordered to its old post
at Fort Sheridan, 111., and he will join
it there at the expiration of his
furlough.
substantially'iis follows; Farmers can
make a good fair profit from 50 cent
wheat no great thing, to be sure, but
sufficient, with proper economy, to
keep everything on the ranch in good
order and to lay a little aside for a
rainy day. A ny thrifty, healthy far
mer can easily cultivate a half section
of wheat land by summer-fallowing
half every year.. He can do this with
out hiring any help except in harvest,
and as an offset to this he will have
abundant time to swap harvest work
with others so that his own harvest
expense need amount to little.
In this way a farmer who raises
three or four thousand bushels of
wheat which is not a particularly
large yield and sells it at 50 cents a
bushel, makes as good wages as tbe
same amount of energy aud capital
will make in any ordinary department
of labor.
A MENACE TO HEALTH
Death Lories in Rubber Closet Connections
in Portland.
The Portland Telegram . contains
the following, which will be of inter
est to builders and those who contem
plate erecting residences: .
The Portland health department
believes it has discovered tbe hereto
fore hidden secret of the orgin of the
malarial and typhoid conditions which
prevail in Portland at times withou
any apparent cause.
Oregon's climate being the most
healthy in the world, and Portland
possessing every advantage of sanita
tion in the line of pure water and sew
erage, the occasional outbreaks of
typhoid fever and the malarial epi
demics have been a source of as much
mystery as wonder. These epidemics
would break out in the most sightly
portions of the city without tha least
apparent provocation or cause.
Tbe cause of this condition of affairs
is believed to lie in the discovery of
rubber connections in closet vents and
waste pipes.
. Perhaps not half a dozen people in
the city of Portland outside of the
plumbers themselves are aware of the
fact that these dangerous connections
exist in their houses. Now, however,
that the health department has taken
up this matter, it is beleived that a
general overhauling of plumbing, will
ensue, and that thousands of rabber
elbow-joints will find their way out to
the crematory or public dump where
they belong.
W. F. Woodward, of Woodward,
Clarke & Co., who resides In Irvington
one of the healthiest suburbs of Port
land, has a child lying at the point of
death with typhoid malaria. How the
disease should gel'- a foothold was be
yond his comprehension. He had
spared no expense in the matter of
plumbing in his house, which had cost
him nearly $500. The mystery was ex.
plained to him when he discovered a
half-rotten rubber connection between
the closet-bowl and vent pipe.
Through this the poisonous gases had
been escaping for months, and the
sickness he has had in his family was
accounted for.
Life In the Philippines.
Ben Ulrich of this city, who enlisted
in the Second Oregon Volunteers and
who is now at Manila, writes a very
interesting letter to his parents under
date of August 16. This was three
days after the capture of Manila in
which the Oregon boys bore an hon
orable part, and were the first to scale
tbe wall of. the captured city. Ben
speaks kindly of the Spanish soldiers
He is oi tne opinion tnat ir there is
any trouble in the Philippines it wilj
be with the insurgents. Tbe Spanish
soldiers were glad of the surrender as
many of tbe poor fellows were home
sick and auxious to get back to their
native land. The victors treat the
vanquished- kindly or as Ben says
We did not do any bragging or
crowing to make them feel bad but
treated them right."
We gather from the letter that the
mtDU of an Oregon volunteer would
hardly suit the palates of the pluto
cratic gourmands of the Delmonico.
But Ben makes no complaint. He
speaks of "canned horse" as if it were
an everyday dish st home, and as com.
mon as hard tack or coffee. He had
the luxury of a glass of beer at 20 cents
in Spanish money, and a can of sar
dines at 20 cents in the same currency,
followed by a cigar at Z cents or one
cent American. Flour was a luxury
and brought $25, Spanish a sack, but
pop", with wbich the boys loaded
themselves to the gunwhale at the first
opportunity, was only four cents a
bottle.
WHEAT IK KUSI,A, ;
A Distinguished American Says There is
a Big; Shortage.
John W. Bookwalter, the political
economist of Springfield, Ohio, who is
traveling in Russia, writing on Aug
ust 14 gives a gloomy account of tbe
condition of that country through
wbich be passed. He says: "Through
out tbe whole distance to the Ural
mountains, from Moscow, nearly 1000
miles, tbe crops at best were very poor,
but in five governments, of which Sa
mara is the center and embracing a
region fully 500 miles square tbe crops
even grass, were an absolute failure.
In tbe government of Samara, twice
as large as Belgium, they were
burned out, and the farmers will not
raise enough to supply one-fifth of the
population. This stricken district is
the Volga region, and the finest spring (
wheat and cereal section in Russia,
It usually produces immense crops and
generally a large exportable surplus,'
As the population of that region is
about 12,000,000, a large importation of
grain will be required to supply the
necessities of the people.
Mr. Bookalter was informed by
Russian official that they expected to
import into those provinces iiot less
than 80, 000,000 bushels of grain this
year; that the stocks in Russia are
completely exhausted, and with the
stocks of the world so completely de
pleted, he says he cannot see ho
wheat under the circumstances is to
remain down. This being true, and
there is no reason to doubt Mr. Book-
waiter's statement,. the wheat growers
have much to encourage the belief
that with him they cannot see how
wheat is to remain down at the present
prices. . Under the conditions which
exist for a large honre consumptive de
mand, Russia wiil have little or none
to spare for export.
passenger for Portland, for which
they leave on a wedding trip to Victor
ia, and the Sound. The bride has
grown to womenhood near this city,
where she has a host of friends, who
earnestly wish her and her husband a
long and happy life.
WHOLESOME ADVICE.
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A MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
Body of an Unknown Man Found tn
Willamette.
the
in Bad Sanitary Condition. ,
There are four cases of typhoid fever
in the city, and happily only four, so
far as we can learn, and each of them is
easily traced to unsanitary surround
ings. Three of them ui o iu oud Louse
near the Ninth street bridge, where
dirt and filth and bad well water easily
account for the sickness. The fourth
case is in one of theBeezley buildings
on Fulton street, immediately north of
the old Beezley residence, from which
another victim of bad drainage or
rather no drainage at all unclean and
gorged privies and vitiated air and
water, was carried to her grave a short
time af o, and from one of which the
red ensign of scarlet fever has been
floating for weeks. From a sanitary
pointof view the surroundings of these
buildings could not be worse, and the
authorities of the city will be justly
chargeable with criminal negligence
if stops are not immediately taken to
have the evil remedied.
Both Mirthful and Pathetic.
John H. Johnson, of the New York
Cash store, says: "Two years ago, -at
Belloit, Kan., I had the privilege of
listening to. Chaplain McCabe in bis
intensely interesting lecture, 'The
Bright Side of Life in Libby Prison.'
From beginning to end, he held bis
audience spellbound, his many funny
incidents eliciting roara of laughter,
while his sad, pathetic pictures of
prison life filled all eyes with tears.
It is a great treat to hear so gifted a
man, and I am glad I again have the
opportunity."
Kstray.
Left at the Columbia Feed yard
about July 10th one light bay saJdle
horse about 10 years old, will weigh
950. Wire cut on left fore foot, a white
on right hind foot, branded L. on left
shoulder, small star in forehead. Owner
can have him by proving property and
paying charges. ' .
L. S. Davis.
The Dalles, Or., Sep. 5th, 1898.
A Salem dispatch dated Sept. 20.
says: With hands and feet securely
tied and each weighted with iron, a
body was found floating in the Will
amette river, 200 yards below the steel
bridge, near the Polk county aido, to
day. The discovery was made by boys
in row-boats. Coroner Woods of Polk
county was notified, and held an in
quest on the riyer bank opposite
Salem this afternoon. A wound with
a blunt instrument in the forehead, a
knife wound below the right jaw and
'vidmce of a hard blow in the mouth,
breaking the upper jaw, were found.
In the pocket was a business card of
"William Gadsby, housefurnisber,
represented by McGrath, Portland."
A business card of "R. H. Weeks,
warm-air furnaces," was also carried.
An excursion ticket on the O. R. & N.
from Tbe Dalles to Grant's, good un
til October 15, and a rebate check on
the Southern Pacific from - Junction
City to Brooks, dated August 17, a
poster announcement of the Ten
nessee students, wbich were to appear
in Sllverton Sertember 10, and a cir
cular advertisement of the 'Tearless
prune evaporator were also found on
tbe person, -and an open faced gold
filled watch, which had stoped at 7:12
The verdict of the jury was that the
unknown person came to his death on
or about September 12 at the hands of
a person or persons unknown, by be
ing stabbed in the neck and mouth,
and tnrown into the river with weights
attached to his hands and feet.
Profit of Wheat Raising-.
J. D. Woodruff, a prominent mer
chant of Hood River, was in town last
night tbe guest of the Umatilla House.
Mr. Woodruff still retains his large
landed interests in Sherman county.
His farm there, which he managed in
part this year himself, yielded him
7000 sacks of No. 1 wheat which is
yet unsold, but which he has offered
to a local buyer for 50 cents a bushel,
believing as he puts it, that he can
better afford to lose 5 cents a bushel,
by selling too soon than take chances
on getting 5 cents more later on.
There are few men in the country bet
ter qualified to offer an opinion as to
the lowest price at which Eastern
Oregon farmers can afford to sell
wheat and yet have a fair profit for
their labor than Mr. Woodruff. His
opinion, as stated to the writer, is
A New Irrigation Project.
Fen Batty, who has extensive landed
interests in the Juniper Flat country,
accompanied by Sam Brown, L. C.
Hennigan, Roy Batty and County
Surveyor J. B. Goit made an examina
tion and preliminary survey this week
of the county west of the Flat, with a
view of taking water for irrigating the
Flat from White River, or some of its
tributaries. The survey, which was
largely tentative and necessarily limit.
ed on account of time, satisfied the
party that a much better and shorter
route can be obtained than by what is
known as the McCoy ditch, which has
been so long a deffered hope that the
settlers dispair of "its completion. In
good sooth, in view of McCoy's well
known ways that are dark aud tricks
that are vain, if McCoy is to retain
ownership of the ditah after it is fin
ished, the settlers don't care a picay
une if it is' never finished. It was
found that water can be put on the
Flat from White River, by a flume
and ditch six and a half miles long, j
The cost of this project has not been
estimated but it would largely depend
on the size of. the flume. It is even
hoped that a'' more convenient' and
cheaper ; though necessarily longer
rout may be discovered on further in
vestigation, which it is proposed to
make in the near future. This is a very
important move for the settiers of an
extensive ' track of very excellent
wheat land. The Flat has this year
produced 80,000 bushels of No 1 wheat,
and is capableof producing much more.
It can hardly be less than 50,000 acres
in extent and its only serious draw
back is lack of sufficient water ' for
domestic purposes. -
Coronors Jury Verdict.
The verdict of the jury in the case of
the young man who was drowned at
Hood River, last Sunday, arrived here
by mail this morning-and is as follows:
We the undersigned jury summoned
by Geo. T, Prather, J. P. and- acting
coronrer of Wasco county, Oregon, to
enquire into the cause of the death of
the body of the deceased now before
us find:
That the name of the deceased was
Homer Houghton; his age about 21
years; height about 5 feet 8 inches;
weight about 150 pounds; fair complex
ion; blue eyes; dark hair, occupation
laborer.
That he came to his death by acci
dental drowning while bathing in the
slough opposite Mason's camp, on the
O. R. & N., near railway bridge, No
117, on the afternoon of Sunday, Sep
tember 18 1898 near Hood River Wasco
county, Oregon .Dated, September 18,
1898. '
Frank Noble,"
H. L. Howe,
T. B. Kent.
. Rort. Rand.
G. S. Evans.
Water Works Extension.
The Dalles, Ore., Sept. 20, 1898.
Sealed proposals, addressed to
Simon Bolton, clerk of the board, and
endorsed on tbe outside '-'proposals for
water-works extension" will be. re
ceived at this office until' 8 p. h., Oct.
10. 1898, for .furnishing and laying
2400 feet 12-inch cast iron water pipe,
1,000 feet .10 inch, cast iron water
pipe. "
810 feet 8 inch cast iron water pipe.
2000 feet 6 inch cast iron water pipe.
275 feet 4 inch cast iron water pipe.
About 11,000 lbs "specials." .
Sixteen double nozzle fire hydrants.
Eighteen gate-valves -with cover
boxes.
Taking up and relaying 2400 feet of
8 inch pipe.
Bids may be made for materials and
labor separately. Plans and specifi
cations on file in this office. A certi
fied check for $500.00 must accompany
each bid. "The board reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
Simeon Bolton,
Clerk of Water Commission.
Wizard Oil Co Tonight.
The Wizard Oil Co. gave another
very good performance last night to a
crowded house, and all who were in
attendance enjoyed themselves im
mensly. They have an entire change
of program tonight and there will be
several beautiful presents given .away
to people buying seat tickets. Gen
eral admission 15 cents and reserved
seats 25 cents.
Orange wine is recommended as a
most delightful table drink, being a
cooling and invigorating beverage. It
Is for sale by C. J. Stubling,
Back From the Yukon.
J. A. Wilson, a prominent citizen of
Hood River, was in town today. Mr.
Wilson returned home yesterday from
Dawson City whither he went July 30,
1897, on the first trip of the Elder. He
left Dawson City Sent. 1st. and lay
over four days and a half at Skagway,
thus making the trip from Dawson in
about 17 days. Mr. Wilson found
nothing for himself of any particular
value.
Ho located a promising bench claim
but was euchred out of it as only a
Canadian official can euchre. When
one discovers a claim in that vast
country he notifies the gold com
missioner and this autocrat notifies the
mining inspector .who examines the
claim and reports to his superior. If
tbe claim is of acy value the gold com
missioner gives it to one cf his pets and
then the original discoverer is let out
with some polished lie. If Mr. Wilson
had succeeded in getting the claim he
discovered he believes he could have
easily have sold it for $20,000. Mr
Wilson used to think American pol
iticians were about as corrupt a set
of vampires as they make them. ' His
trip has modified bis opinion mater
ially. The mounted police, who are
a nne body oi men, always except,
the Canadian, officials are the rottenest
set of bloodsuckers it was his misfor
tune to know. The government, else
is of the grafters, by the grafters and
of the grafters. Mr. Wilson thinks
there are not more than' 100 good pay
ing placer claims in the wrole Yukon
district. Only three such claims were
discovered while he was there. His
health was fairly good all the time.
There was no scarcity of food last
winter. ' Flour that was held by specu
lators during the winter at $100 a sack
sold in the spring, before an ounce of
supplies come in, at $10. Mr. Wilson
will not go back to the Yukon as a
gold hunter. If he ever goes back it
will be on some commercial specula
tion. The first eggs brought to Daw
son last spring were sold for $18.00 a
dozen. At half that rate he would
embark in the egg business .without
hesitation, but in gold hunting on the
Yukon never.
For People Whose Stomachs are Weak
and Digestion Poor.
Dr. Harlandson, whose opinion in
diseases is worthy of attention, says
when a man or woman comes to me
complaining of indigestion, loss of
appetite, sour stomach, belching, sour
watery risings, headaches, sleep
lessness, lack of ambition and a gen
eral run down nervous condition I ad
vise them to take after each meal one
or two of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets,
allowing tne tablet to dissolve in the
mouth, and tbus mingle with the food
eaten. The result is that the food is
speedily digested before it has time to
sour and ferment. These tablets will
digest food anyway whether the
stomach wants to or not, because they
contain harmless digestive principles,
vegetable essences, pepsin and Golden
Seal which supply just what the weak
stomach lacks.
I have advised the tablets with
great success, both in curing indigest
ion and to build up tbe tissues, In.
crease flesh in a thia nervous patient,
whose real trouble was dyspepsia and
as soon as the stomach was put to
rights they did not know what sick
ness was.
A fifty cent package of Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets can be bought at
any drug store, and as they are not a
secret patent medicine, they can be
used as often as desired with full as
surance that they contain nothlcg
harmful in the slightest degree; on the
contrary, any one whose stomach is at
all deranged wMl find great benefit
from the use of Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets. Tbey will cure any form of
stomach weakness or disease except
cancer of the stomach. ' Full size
package at druggists 50c or $1.00 or by
mail from btuart Co. Marshall, Mich,
Stylish
Wraps .
Will soon be in demand. Wc
say Stylish because no one
wants the other kind, and if
they did they would have to
pass us by.
Our stock of Stylish
Capes and
Jackets
For the fall and winter of
1898-9 is now ready to be seen,
and we can proudly say is the finest collection of
garments it has ever been our privilege to show.
Right styles for Ladies, Misses and Children.
Looking brings no obligations to buy.
A. M. WILLIAMS & CO., 2
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Millinery Opening.
The regular opening of fall and win
ter hats, millinery and trimmings, at
Mrs. Peirano's will occur on Wednes
day, Sept. 28, when there will be
shown to the ladies of The Dalles and
yicinity the handsomest stock of ladies
and misses millinery ever opened in
the city. They are requisted to re-
reserve their orders until having Been
my stock.
Mrs. J. M. Peirano.
. The Leader, the World Over.
OREGON
dioD
aktria
MPO
OPENS in
PORTLAND SEPT. 22,
CLOSES '
OCTOBER 22, 1898,
The Finest and Greatest Exposition Ever
held in the .Northwest.
3. 'Tfi2 . v (Z .
Horticultural, Agricultural,
Products of Oregon and Washington will
be displayed in wonderful profusion, in
cluding more varieties than ever before
gathered together in one exhibit.'
Attractions at Spokane.
It looks as though the grand moving
pictures of the war which are to be
shown at the Spokane fruit fair will
induce more people to attend that an
nual exposition than any of tbe other
attractions or than all the floe exhibits
of fruits, vegetables and grains, and
the display of minerals, all combined.
At least these attractions with the
performances of the Japs are talked of
more than anything else by those
people who are planning to take in tbe
fair this year. Nor is it surprising,
for -these moving and stereopticon
pictures are certainly the marvel of
modern photography. Some of these
pictures will be seen for the first time
at the Spokane fruit fair for their pre
paration is being hurried along in
Chicago expressely for the fair.
Those who have seen similar scenes
on the canvas say such a sight as the
destruction of Cervera's fleet, or the
bombarding of San Juan by the flag'
ship New York and other pictures
which will be shown must be very
grand as tbey are made real by the
latest triumph of science.
.Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals.
WILL BE AWARDED
MarVelously Rich Specimens from Our
Gold, Silver and Other Mines.
Bennett's Renowned Military Band
Has been engaged for the season.
Astounding Aerial Feats and Acrobatic
Performances,
Very Low Rates on all Railroads.
ADMISSION
Adults 25 cents. . Children 10 cenU
"Pot-Poori" bnpper.
At the Chi istian church on the even
ing of Sept. 27th, the ladies will serve
a pot-ponri s upper, after which, tbey
have for sale ornamental and useful
articles, such as stand scarfs, carpet
Dinah's etc. All are cordially invited,
BILL OP PARE. '
What old maid school mams owe no
man, but earn themselves.
Porto Rico.
Old Lady's brew.
Chuck.
After dinner Chow Chow.
Tea arts.
Dallas.
Cure for love-sickness.
Sea-aches.
Our possible ancestors.
What old maids are not.
Humane Advertisements. .
. One of the few.
Grand Display -or Millinery.
On Friday afternoon and evening
there will be' a grand opening of fall
and winter stock at Mrs. Phillips' mil
linery parlors. In the stock will be
displayed a beautiful line of pattern
hats, seasonable trimmings, etc. In
the evening a splendid musical pro
gram will be rendered for the enter
tainment of visitors. The ladies of
The Dalles and vicinity are invited to
be present. 2d
Wedding" Bells.
Mr. G. R, Stephenson, of Portland,
was -married today at high noon to
Miss Anna M. Roberts, the second
eldest daughter of the late Rev. E. P. J
Roberts of Dry Hollow. Tbe marriage
ceremony was performed by Rev. C.
Wells, of Cathlamet, Wash., in the
presence of a large number of friends
of the high contracting parties. After
luncheon (the party separated, Mr. and
Mrs. Stephenson taking the 3 p.' m.
HEATERS
HEAT EES
HeaterS
Carload of the celebrat- -ed
Wilson Heaters just
received ;all sizes and
kinds at your own price
Our fire sale is still on.
All goods from 25 to
50 per cent reductiou.
JAGOBSEN
BOOK & MUSIC GO'Y.
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THE DALLES. OREGON.
Wall
Paper
Oils,
DRUGS
Paints,
. . BRUSHES
WINDOW GLASS
SMPES-KINEBSLY DEUG CO.
129 Second Street
Pioneer Bakery.......
I have reopened this well known Bakery, and am
now prepared to supply everybody with
BREAD, PIES and CAKE
7 ..... .Also, all kinds of .
STAPLE and FANGY GROCERIES
Pioneer Grocer.
MAYS & CROWE
. At present uext door to
the Land Office. . .f"
Star Feed Grinding Mill
Reliable, rapid, economical and a
money maker. Capacity from 500 to
10,000 pounds an hour. Agents wanted.
Address
T. BROWNHILL,
Grass Valley, Oregon.
Are You Interested?
The O. K. & N. Co's New Book on the
Resources of Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho is being distributed.
Our readers are requested to forward
the addresses of their Eastern friends
and acquaintances, and a copy of the
work will be sent them free. This is a
matter ALL should be interested in.
and we would ask that everyone take
an interest and forward such addresses
to W. H. Hurlburt, General Pnssen-
ger Agent, O. B. H. Co., rortlanO.
Piellu
These are the three merits possessed by my
new stock of Fa.ll n 1 t -ry
and Novelties just received, and to which
I invite the attention of the ladies of The
Dalles and vicinity.
MBS.
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Ben Wilson Saloon
Second Street, opposite Diamond Mills,
THE DALLES, - - - OREGON
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Free Lunch 'served at all hours .
Stadleman
Has opened a RETAIL DEPARTMENT in con
junction with his wholesale business and will sup
ply patrons with the best Fruits, Vegetables, Melons,
Dressed Chickens, etc., at lowest rates. Fruits and
Vegetables fresh daily from their own farm near
the City. All invited to call and examine stock.
Cor. Third and Washington
Job Printing
Of all kinds lone at
short notloe and to
reasonable rates a
this offloe
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