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The morning call., 1891-01-20
Is Your Family Insured Against. Want ?
NV hon q ArnIalt I.,nr, tnl E

TUT IT fIIIIly Ihsured Against- Want !?
when n prudent man takes out a policy of
insurance on life or property. he first ascer-
tains the status of the company in which he
contemplates laying mis- risk, and that being
satisfactory, he takes out his policy with an
assured feeling of security And to this end
the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New
Ok oliers the lnducement of being upon
perfectly sound financial basis. Sboronob
examination of its affairs was reported upon
December 81, 1890, when its net surplus was
found to be $4,000. 1t has always enioyed
the confidence OF the public, and never more
SO than at this time. Mr.. f. b. Whitney,
the city agent Of the company, has his Office
at 2l9 Sansome street, where he will be
pleased to see any contemplating insurance.
Crowded with Freight.
The steamers coming down here from
Victoria and Puget Sound ports are crowded
The morning call., 1891-01-20
Hawaii, Us XoIcnnaes ana na.

, ms evening at o'clock, DIR. George L.
r ltch WI deliver a lecture before the
Dung Mems Christian Association, to gen.
u, tleRen only, on Hawaii. The lecture will
De iree. Young men are invited. "''i
The morning call., 1891-01-20
TriaI Trip of the San Francisc,

IT Is expected that t1e trial Trip Of the
new cruiser San Francisco will take place
about the 9th of next month. The following
naval officers will constitute board of in
The morning call., 1891-01-20

The billiard tournament of the Olympic
CLUB Is daily attracting members to the
billard-rooms, and they have begun to take
quite an interest in the contests. In the first
class Forsyth, Kruse, Burns and TAYLOR are
leading. In the second 1remper, Farnap.
Wood. Sullivan and Maroney are running
close. Egbert says that he will come to the
front when the balls will cease rolling.
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STATE OFFICIALS.
HELP YOURSEL YES.

The joint committee of the legislatures
of Oregon and Washington met and de-
termined to do nothing to open the Col
umbia. The legislature of Oregon has
yielded to the subtle influences OF the
opponents of an open river and will adj
journ without doing more than to appro-
pirate $50, 900, for a portage road at the
cascades; the influence of the large cities
on Puget sound will prevent any legisla-
tive. action in Washington, and the gov
ernment will make no temporary inn
provements. The increased acreage and
lack of increased transportation facili-
ties will add greatly to the past burdens
and endorsements of the producers of
Idaho, Eastern Oregon and Washington,
and no relief can be had for at least two
years, unless the people of the three
states join hands and independently of
Legislative or congressional aid make the
necessary improvements to open the
Columbia. The present is the time to
do this; the people are enthusiastic and
wonderfully i'll earnest. Should pri-
vate corporation be formed at once and
a live, well informed man, who is
thoroughly acquainted with the needs OF
the people and who could present the
matter to the people in it's right light,
be placed in the field no difficulty would
be found in placing a million dollars OF
stock in these three states. To Astoria,
Portland, Vancouver and The Dalles, an
open river is infinitely more valuable
than the Hunt, or any other system OF
railroads; it turns the commerce of an
empire down the channel of this great
river TO our markets. 1t would create
transportation line beyond the control
of any single corporation or individual
so far az the river itself is concerned it il
open to any and all, and the portage
roads should and could be so managed
as that they too would be practically
open to all. With this vast volume OF
commerce wrenched from the hands OF
the railway companies who now control
1T much of the strong influence always
exerted upon congress and the other de-
partments of government would be re-
moved and the time would be hastened
when POI tage railways would no longer
be required. Let us take hold of this
matter after the manner of business
knlen and open our great Columbia by
sour own efforts and with our own means
Portland is most deeply interested; we
look to her TO set the ball rolling.
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A Northern Hoodoo.

Slug No. 4 was pretty good printer
and Jolly fellow outside when the last
form had gone down. But he was a
southern man, and he couldn't, to save
his life, get rid of the dialect of the darky.
81 doan't know how it is.' he used to
say. ''but yo' fellahs seem ter see s1mpin'
berry sahprisin' about the way talk
The boys in the same alley used to have
good deal of fun with No. and his
dialect, and one day they teased him so
that, dropping stickful of agate type,
he turned upon the one nearest to him,
and raising both hands exclaimed:
81 cuss yo'! 1 cuss yo' 1 cuss yo' till
de hoodoo gifts yo'!''
That was all very funny for the boys,
but the strange part came three weeks
later, when the one who had been
''cussed" was discharged for cause. He
''subbed" around for a couple of days
after that, but couldn't find work again.
It looked as if the hoodoo had caught
him.
Slug No. 4 was treated very respect
fully after that. Somehow the boys
didn't like thGt hoodoo business. It was
too uncanny for them.-New York Even
ing Sun.
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coIumbus' Body.

Christopher Columbus died in obsourity
and poverty at Valadoiid. Spain, May
20, 1906. By special favor Of the monks
of St. Francis his body was, for time,
deposited in the vault of their church IN
that. city, but some years later, in pur-
suance of his own expressed wish, the
remains were translated to Hispaniola
and placed in crypt under the cathe-
dral of San Domingo. In 1899 the body
of Diego, the son of Columbus, was also
buried in the crypt, and some years
afterward that of Luis, the discogerer's IS
grandson, was laid with the other two.
In 1875 the Spanish part of San Domingo
was ceded to the French, but before the
cession permission was given for the re-
moval of Columbus body to Havana
A metallic case, supposed to contain
the body of the discoverer. was removed
and placed in the Cathedral of Havana.
and the matter rested until 1877, when a
metallic casket was found in the San
Domingo vault, which beyond all doubt
was that of Christopher Columbus. 1t
was inscribed both within and without
with his name and titles, and proved be-
yond question that, through haste or
carelessness, the persons who effected
the removal in 1795 had carried away the
body of Diego, the son of Columbus,
and that the remains of the great ad-
miral now rest beneath the Cathedral of
San Domingo.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat
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HAIL, IND FAREWELL.

If that is the course to be persisted in
by the senate, if all reasonable measures
are to be thrown overheard just because
the corporations now resist them, Ore
gon will be turned over in 1892 to the
alliance, labor and grange party, as sure
as the sun is to rise tomorrow morning.
Without turning over his hand, without
even enacting his theories in either
house, the governor will be made the
political autocrat of Oregon, so far as he
is capable of being SUCH The logical
result will be to force him into the posi-
ton of leader of the labor and farmer
vote, and under that enforced leadership
Governor Pennoyer will be made United
States senator from Oregon by legisla-
ture of the most radical kinda legisla-
ture that will storm the ramparts of
corporation power. and drive it forever
from its position of political power in
Oregon. Does the senate wish to pre-
cipitate this course? = Salem Capitol
Journal.
The CHRONICLE would like to know
who will be the alliance candidate for
the United States senate to succeed
Allen. Washington, too, will bid the
old parties farewell if it's legislature sue
cumbs as the Oregon legislature has
done.
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Remarkable Me,noriex.

There was Corsican boy who could
rehearse 10, 600 words, whether sense OF
nonsense, as they were dictated, and
then repeat them in the reversed order
without making a single mistake. A
physician, about sixty years ago, could
repeat the whole of Paradise Lost
without making a single mistake, al
though he had not read it for twenty
years. Euler, the great mathematician,
when he became blind, could repeat the
whole of Virgirs sAneid," and could re-
member the first line and last line of ev-
cry page of the particular edition which
he had been accustomed to read before
he became bIind.-Spare Moments.
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The effort to pass through the House
a bill to appropriate sum of money to
build a transfer boat to ply between the
Dalles and the Cascades, in case the
United States shall build portage rail
way, was most shallow and Shabby
attempt to dodge a responsibility
1t was a proposition to juggle with the
question in the hope of deceiving the
people of Eastern Oregon. 1t was alto
gether proper thing that so unworthy
an attempt was killed. 1t is useless to
play or palter with this question.
Nobody will be deceived. The govern
ment will not build any portage railway !;
a transfer boat will be of use only after
the portage railway is built, and the
state must build the portage railway if
such railway is to be built at all.
Build the railway first, and then it will
be time to talk about a transfer boat.
Till then, such talk is tricky effort to
dodge the subject.-Po Portland Oregonian
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Honesty.

Eugene Smith, secretary of the New
York Prison association, tells a remark
able story of the answer thief gave to
the question, SIS honesty the best pol
icy2" 1t was in the Elmira reforlnatory,
where class was undergoing instruc-
ton. A young man asked permission
to answer the question. .'I believe hon
esty is the best policy" said he, "be-
cause of a case where knew it to work
that way. See2 There was two young
fellows in New York and they was
crooked, see? and they didn't succeed.
They went to Philadelphia, and they
turned over new leaf and agreed to be
square and honest. They opened cloth
ing store, see2 and they prospered They
got every ybody,s confidence, and they Dor
rowed 800, 600 to enlarge their business,
and then they failed and got away with
every cent Of the money, which they
never could have done if they hadn't
been honest. See?"-San Francisco Ar
QOnaut.
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1t is reported upon our streets today
that Representative Mccoy opposed the
passage of the Raley Bill and spoke
strongly against it, giving as his reasons
for so doing that it would be impossible
the river around the dalles. We are 10th
to believe the report; if it is true Mr..
Mccoy has played false to his constitu-
ents. What will the people of Sherman
comfy say upon his return; we venture
the assertion that his reception will not
be a triumphal one.
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We opine the defeat of so many very
important measures in the legislature
which is just ending, in which the people
are SO directly interested, and especially
SO far as the transportation problem is
concerned will result in downing the
republican and democratic parties by
the farmers alliance at the next bien-
nial election and elect a legislature from
the producers instead of from the hord
of politicians who want Office at the .ex-
pense of Justice.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-20

The people of Wasco County were
disappointed again yesterday by the news
from Salem, this time on account of the
vetoing of the wagon road bills. For the
first time in many years we had asked
state aid for the con struction of road
and the senators and representatives
had granted our request. The proposed
road over Tygh hill would have been of
great service, not alone to the people of
this county, but to all who pass through
our county on the way to the Willamette
Valley by the way of the Barlow road.
1t is sorely needed and was an entirely
proper object for state aid. We believe
that stinginess in the matter of good
and permanent wagon roads in state
like Oregon is the opposite of true econ
omy. We sincerely hope these bills
will pass over the governors Veto
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-20

III the death of Professor Alexander
Winchell, of the university of Michigan,
the world has lost one of the ablest
writers upon and teachers of the science
of geology. He was the author of sew
eral works of recognized authority, and
as teacher he stood in the front rank.
In the strata and various formations of
the earth he found only corroborative
evidence of the truth of the Biblical
record of the creation, and in him both
science and religion had an able and
enthusiastic advocate.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-20

Gen. va1Ieio's Position in California.
One has to go back TO the days of the
famous Spanish marches" or frontier
towns built and defended in Spain's he
roic age by her proudest knights, to find
held by Gen. Vallejo during the closing
years of the Mexican rule in California.
He had absolute sway for hundred
miles or more, and he .fkept the border" !"
His men rode on horseback to Monterey
and to Capt. Suffers fort on the Sacra-
mento, bringing him news and carrying
his letters. Spanish families colonized
the fertile valleys Under his protection,
and Indians came and built in the shad-
ows of the Sonoma mission.
He owned, as he believed by unassail-
able title, the largest and finest ranch in
the province, and he dispensed hos
pitaity so generous and universal that
it was admired and extolled even among
the old Spanish families. j. Quinn
Thornton, who visited the coast in 1s48,
and published his experiences, says:
Governor General Vallejo owns 1000
horses that are broken to the saddle and
bride, and 1900 that are not broken.
Broken horses readily bring 800 apiece,
but the unbroken ones can be purchased
for trivial sum-"
More and more in the closing years of
the epoch and the days of the conquest
Gen. Vallejo became the representative
man of his people, and 80 he has re-
ceived. among many Of the old families,
the reproachful name of traitor to Cali
fornia and to his nation. The quiet in
tensity of this bitterness, even today, is
startling thing. I have seen men OF
pure blood, famous in provincial history,
leave the room at the name of Vallejo
Charles Howard Shun in Century.
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HER SENATORIAL SU
TERFUGE.
ANOTHER

Portland Oregonian: The hou sc did
we'll to reject the senate substitute for
the haley portage railway bill. The
substitute promises no relief of the pres
ent situation. 1t appropriates $125, 900
to build transfer boat, to run between
The Dalles and the Cascades, in case
congress builds portage railways about
those two distractions. This amounts
to nothing. Congress will not build por-
tage railways. If the building of a
transfer boat is made contingent upon
this action by congress, it will not be
built. The result of the passage of this
bill would be that nothing will be done.
The transfer boat idea is good one,
as it would save breaking bulk twice be-
tween Cello and the Cascades, and it
ought perhaps to be made part of the
portage railway scheme; but a transfer
boat is of no use without railway, and
if there is to be a railway, the state must
build it. To spend s125, 900 for trans
fer boat in the expectation that congress
will build railway is to throw it away.
To appropriate $125.OO0 for that pur-
pose, conditioned upon the building of a
railway by congress, is to do nothing at
all. The condition is an impossible one.
Nothing will ever be accomplished in
this work until all reliance upon the
federal government is abandoned. What
congress will do and what it will not do
in improvement of waterways is made
perfectly clear by precedent and practice.
1t will complete the canal around the
Cascade, but it may be ten years about
it. 1t may some time dig canal about
the dalles, but it will be at least fifty
years about that. But congress will
make no improvements that are not per-
manent. 1t will do nothing to afford
present relief. If there is to be port
The alternatives are, Il portage railway
built by the state, or endurance of the
present embargo upon Columbia river
traffic for generation.
This ought to be clearly understood by
the friends of the portage railway
scheme. 1t is understood well enough
by those who are urging the transfer
boat plan, as a substitute for portage
railway. AS well propose wheel as a
substitute for cart. The transfer boat
is simply useful accessory to the rail-
way. Time enough to build it after the
railway is built. At the present junct-
ure, the transfer boat substitute is made
to serve the same purpose the city hall
commission amendment was intended to
serve, To speak the plain truth about
it, it is another senatorial subterfuge
intended to defeat the portage railway.
This will be the practical effect, if it is
adopted. The same result may follow il
it is rejected. The senate may refuse to
pass the original bill. if the house per-
sist in rejecting the transfer boat sub
stitute. In this event, the people OF
Eastern Oregon will know just who is
the jailor who turns the key on them for
Il new term of commercial imprisonment
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-20

The Raley bill, as amended, failed to
pass in the house yesterday, beaten by
three votes. This, while not unexpected
is serious setback to the project of an
open river. 1t is unfortunate that the
house could not take a broad gauge view
of this matter; doubtless the difference
of opinion regarding Washington Is
action had something to do with it, and
the antagonism or Indifference of South
ern Oregon was also a factor of obstruc-
ton. 1t is now in order to agitate the
question, shall private enterprise and
the manifest requirements of the situa-
ton make up in energetic action what is
lacking in legislative desire to furnish
needed relief.-Astoridn.
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Notice of Final Settlement.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ undersigned, administrative of the estate
OF CT John Smith, deceased, has filed her
hnaI account, and tha0Tuesday, March 3D., 1891
at 9. o'clock T. NJ at the county court room in
Dalies City, Oregon, has been duly appointed as
the tune and place for hearing said final account
and Objections to the same, ii any there be- and
the final settlement thereof
This notice is published by the order of Hon.
Z. n Thornbury, county judge of Wasco County,
oregon LAURA SMITH,
Administrative of said Estate
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THE DALLES

The Gate City of the Inland Empire is situated at
the head Of navigation the Middle Columbia, and
is thriving prosperous city.
ITS TERRITORY
1t is the supply city for extensive agr-
far south as Summer Lake, distance of over two
hundred miles
THE LARGEST wOOI. MARKET
The rich grazing country along the eastern slope
of the the Cascades furnishes pasture for thousands
of sheep, the wool from which finds market here
The Dalles is the largest original wool shippino
point in America, about 100000 pounds being
shipped this year.
THE VINEYARD OF OREGON
The country near The Dalles produces splendid
crops of cereals and it's fruits be exceed 1t
is the vineyard of Oregon, its grapes equalin Cali
fornias best, and its other fruits, apples. pears
prunes, cherries etc., are unsurpassed
ITS PRODUCTS
The salmon fisheries the finest on the Columbia
yielding this year revenue Of 100000 which
and will be more than doubled in the near future
The products Of the beautiful Klickital valley find
market here and the country east has this
year filled the warehouses and all available storage
places to overhowing with their products
ITS WEALTH
is the richest city its size on the coast and its
money is scattered is being used to develop
more farming country than is tributary to any othe17
city in Eastern Oregon. J
It's situation is unsurpassed It's climate delight
full It's possibilities inca1culable It's resources un
limited! And on these she stands.
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Executors Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned
~ have been duly appointed executors of the
last Will and testaments of Daniel HandIey
deceased All persons having claims against the
estate OF said deceased required to present
them, with the proper vouchers, within six
months from this date, to the undersigned at the
office OF Mays, Huntington & Wilson, The Dalies,
Dated January 90 1891.
GEORGE A. LIEBE
J. W. FRENCH,
KATE HANDLEY,
Executors.
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signs of Death.

Bellows What makes you fear your
son out In Colorado is dead2
Fellows with sign)-He hasn't writ
ten for money for nearly month
Epoch
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Dissolution Notice.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ partnership heretofore existing between J.
firm name of Drs Boyd l. Doane. has been dis
solved by mutual consent
All accounts belonging to the late firm are
payable to DIR. Boyd. Those to whom we are
indebted will please present their bills at once
to either DIR. Boyd or Dr. Daone
J. q. BOYD,
The Dalles, Or, Feb. ., 1891. O. D. DOANE.
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FINE FARM TO RENT

THE FARM KNOWN AS THE "MOOR|
i Farm" situated on Three Mile creek aDo9
two and one half miles from The Dalles, Will
leased for one or more years at a low rent 70 an
responsible tenant. This farm hae upon It
good dwelling house eud necessary out buili
ings, about two acres of orchard, about thru
hundred acres under cultivation, large portici
of the land will raise good yolu1eeer Wnei
The farm is well watered. For terms and Partic1
lars enquire of Mrs. Sarah A. Moore OF at the ON
of Mays Huntington & Wilson, The Dalles,
SARAH A MOORE, Executrlx
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Massachusetts, is whole population
out in search of religion.
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The successful merchant is
the one who watches the mar
kets and buysto the best advan-
tage.
The most prosperous familyis
the one that takes advantage of
low prices.