davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
A Year of Abundance.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-statistician
Dodge, of the department of agriculture,
says:
The year promises to be one of abun-
dance in almost all lines of agricultural
production. Preliminary returns of
acreage made the wheat area about 40,-
O00, 900 acres. On that basis the crop
should not fall below 525, ,OOO, 900 bushels
Oats are the least promising Of, any ce-
reals. Acreage in rye is little changed,
but the August condition is better,
promising larger crop. Barley acreage
is apparently the largest ever seen, and
the present condition warrants that the
crop will be considerably above the
average
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE or 4
WATER MELON

Yesterday morning Marshal Gibbons
presented himself with big, luscious
watermelon, from the wagon of a farmer,
as the latter was in a store trying to sell
his wares. For some reason Ralph was
in hurry to get rid of it so he passed
into the city engineers Office and enter
ing the recorders Office by the side door
he deposited the melon in Il corner.
The recorder was absent and the door of
his Office was shut, so Ralph passed out
on the sidewalk by the way he had
entered, and then tried to look innocent
like, as he walked down the street and
turned the corner. At this moment G.
L. Phillips entered the engineers office
and enquired for the recorder. He
wasn't in. Then Charley peeped
through the side door and seeing the
melon, he picked it up and walked of
with it. short time only elapsed
when Charley appeared on the street
and hunting up Marshal Gibbons, l. J.
Norman, Jack Staniels, S. E. Farris and
the recorder, he invited them over TO
his soda water factory for a drink.
When they entered the factory they
were delighted to find fine water melon
cut up and ready for use. Charley told
them to fall in and they did and then he
treated them to ginger pop and sarsapar-
lila, while they thought he was the best
fellow in the world, but Ralph never
knew he had eaten part of his own water
melon, till he went back to the record
er's office and tried to find it.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
GENERAL Personal MENTION.

Barrett Browning, son of the two
poets, and now a resident of Venice, is a
painter as we'll as a sculptor, and in
clines to marines and landscapes.
Ex-senator Malone of Virginia, is a
comparatively poor man. He has been
too often at the wrong side of the post
when the wire was reached and the
prizes drawn.
Editor Henry Watterson has been
made doctor of laws by the university
of the South-probably recognition OF
his distinguished efforts in behalf of the
old constitution and bylaws of Kentucky.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Osborne, OF
Knoxville, Tenn, are soon to celebrate
the seyenty-second anniversary of their
marriage. They are respectively 1O1
and 92 years of age and have 290 de-
scendants.
Governor Van Zandt, of Rhode Island,
is described as fecund and inimitable
story teller; and people up at Richfeld
Springs, where he is staying just now,
like to encounter him on the hotel YER
andas.
Donald G. Mitchell (''Ike Marvel'') is
now venerable man with the locks OF
a patriarch. He leads quiet and stud
ious life in his country home on the
Connecticut hill, devoting his time
when out of doors to his beautiful lawns
and gardens.
The Morganatic wife of King Frederick
VII. of Denmark has just died. King
Frederick was very generous to her, and
she left behind her large estate. The
tie Jagersjeris were bequeathed for a
children's home, which is to bear the
name of King Frederick VII. Institu-
tion
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
THE TRUE CAUSE OF HIGH
WHEAT and Low WOOL.

An exchange asks: "We wonder what
the Mckinley bill has to do with the
rise in the price of wheat and the fall in
the price of wool?" The CHRONICLE
may be wrong but it is of the opinion
that the Mckinley bill has nothing to do
with either the one or the other. The pres
ent rise in wheat is simply the result of
an anticipated shortage in the aggregate
wheat supply of the world. Had the
products of the great wheat countries of
the eastern hemisphere been equal, this
year, to what they have been in some
years that are past, wheat, today, would
likely be selling in a dull market in
Chicago at eighty cents, instead of in a
highly excited market, at $1.O5 to $1.15.
And this would have been true if the
name of Mckinley had never been heard
of. The very best that protection can
do, in this regard, is to create home
market, by creating an army of consum-
ers who are not producers of bread stuffs,
and thus indirectly effect the foreign
market, by the shortage of our surplus
for export. This seems SO plain that it
requires no argument. The law of sup
ply and demand fixes the price abroad
as well as at home. Even where pro-
lection creates home demand the law
continues to rule and fix the price. And
the same law applies equally to the wool
market. Shut out foreign woods that
comes in competition with our home pro-
duct and the price must inevitably rise
in the long run. 1t cannot be otherwise
never was and never will be. Supply
and demand fix the price. Limit the
supply by protective restriction, and the
demand being equal the price must rise
This is history, not theory, fact, MOI
fancy. Whence then the low price o
wool? For the simplereason that the de
mand is not equal to the supply and il
much lesser degree because of thu
stringency in the money market tha
shuts off speculation in wool and limit
the purchase of that commodity to tn
actual requirements of theNmanufactur
ing trade. One consideration alone, tha
seems to have been very generally for
gotted by writer's on this subject, full,
accounts for the depression and lowe
prices that have ruled in the wool mar
ket during the present season. 1t is tn
well known fact that immense quantitie
of foreign wools and woolen nanufac
lures were imported last fall in antici
patton of the passage of the McKinle
bill. These importations have been es
tiinated by conservative judges to b
nearly equal to Il full years supply an
they are-siill an important factor in th
wool-situation. TIL this supply is use
up and passes into the hands of the con
sulner it is unreasonable to expect tn
full effect of an Increased tariff restric
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
Evolution Of the Knife.


This caseful of implements which
we have newly placed on exhibition is
designed to show the development of the
tool which we call the knife, beginning
from the earliest times" said Professor
Mason at the National museum. "First,
you observe, is the fragment of flint,
which the savage split by banging it on
top with stone hammer into a number
of fakes The smaller ones were used
for arrow points and the bigger ones for
knives, their edges being split off so
sharp that you might almost shave with
some of them Next you see the flint
inserted into handle of split wood or
bone, and as farther improvements, the
fastenings of this primitive knife in the
handle by the rosin of trees and by cord
of one sort or another bound around to
secure it.
"The most beautiful knife in the col
lection is this exquisitely nodded blade
of greenish jade, belonging to the stone
age, branded with walrus tusk. You
can hardly find a more admirably form
ed weapon among the products of mod
ern cutlery wares. Most curious of the
modern tools here is this sailors knife,
square at the end instead of pointed, to
prevent stabbing in row, or the dan
gerous falling of the weapon from aloft.
Its blade drops out at the end of the
handle when spring is touched, SC
that Jack can hold rope with one hand
and open the knife for service without
the need of ten fingers. w ashington
Star.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21

ton. The large demand for wool in the
Boston market, during the past thirty
days, gives assurance that manufactur-
ers believe that prices are not likely to
recede and better prices will surely come
when the immense expectations of gold,
that have been sent out of the country
in payment for goods purchased in an
ticipation of the passage of the McKin-
ley bill return in payment of our exports
of wheat and other bread stuffs.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21

Our Governors Opinion on Farming.
Governor Pennoyer, on his return
from an outing, stopped long enough in
Albany to tell Heratd reporter that he
was raised on a farm until he was %
years of age, and once knew how to
swing cradle-in fact was a pretty
good harvest hand himself. He said he
believed the multiplicity of inventions
in harvesting machinery, while it no
doubt saves labor, does not put money
in the farmers pocket, that a man on a
small farm could make more money to
go back to the old way of harvesting.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21

Rob Lucas and Glen Baker had quite
a mishap with the ferry boat across big
Klickitat at James Rusk's place last
week. While crossing they managed to
tip the boat which Immediately filled
with water and sank. The boys held on
to the cable and reached the shore. The
water was only about four feet deep at
this point but was so swift that no one
could stand in it. The boat broke away
and was carried down stream about 200
yards where it lodged on the sand
KlicEitdt Leader.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
SOCIETIES.

A SSEMBLY NO. 1927, K OF Meets in K
"A Of T. hall on first and third Sundays at 8
WAsCo LODGE, NO. Is, A. F. 4 A. M-Meets
w first and third Monday of each month at Z
PM
nALLEs ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO g.
~ Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesday
of each month at P. NJ.
MODERN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD
w Mt. Hood Camp No. SO, Meets Tuesday even
ing of each week in 1. o. o. +. Hall, at 7:3O pm.
COLUMBIA LODGE, NO. 5, 1. o. o. F-Meets
~ every Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in Odd
Fellows hall, Second street, between Federal and
Washington. Sojourning brothers are welcome.
q. A. BILLS, Sec'y R. G. CLosTER, N. G.
FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. o., K. of P:-Meets
T. every Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in
5channO's building, corner of Court and Second
streets. Sojourning members cordially in
vited. GEO. T. THOMPSON,
D. w. VAUsE, Sec'y. &C.
WTOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE
w UNION will meet every Friday afternoon
1t O'Clock at the reading room. All are invited.
TEMPLE LODGE NO. 8, A. o. U. W.-Meets
Il at K. of P. Hall, Corner Second and Court
streets, Thursday evenings at 7:3o.
JOHN FILLooN,
WIS MYERS, Financier. N. w.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
THEY LIKE OUR STYLE.

Inventions and Plans.
SAN Francisco, Aug. 20.-Aisistant
Engineer T. w. Power, United States
army, arrived yesterday from the east,
and will leave by the steamship Oceanic
on Saturday, for Corea via Japan. He
is on special mission for the United
States government to that of Corea, to
establish a large number of electric
light plants at the request of the king
of Corea. The Corean government has
also asked for assistance in establishing
a mint on tht plan of that of the United
States
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21

!drews, a girl.
They tell good joke on a Sound
statesman who was recently visiting in
Spokane, Riding on the train through
the night, while chatting with his fellow
travellers, they were suddenly startled
by ansexpression of amazement on the
face of the visitor. First he would stare
at them and then gaze with the utmost
interest at some object IN the sky.
They rushed to the window expecting
to see shooting stars or a comet, but
there was nothing but the bright round
orb that nightly sheds lunar refulgence
on the earth. Turning to his compan-
ions, the man from the Sound said
"Gentlemen, for Gods sake, what is
that?" Poor fellow, long years of resi-
dence mid summer smoke and winter
fog had caused him to forget that there
was such thing as moon.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21

One of the south's most successful
evangelists is William Evander Penn,
who has just finished great revival in
Mississippi He is man of sixty-three,
and has been constantly preaching day
and night for sixteen years.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
STATE OFFICIALS.

The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
Health is Wealth !!

DR.. E. C. VESTS NERVE AND BRAIN TREAT
MENT, guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizzi-
ness, Commissions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia,
Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use
of alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Mental De-
preston, Softening of the Brain, resulting in in
sanity and leading to misery, decay and death,
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power
in either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermat-
orrhoea caused by over exertion of the brain self
abuse or over indulgence. Each box contains
one months treatment. $1.00 box, or six boxes
for $500, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price.
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
To cure any case. With each order received by
us for six boxes, accompanied by $500, we will
send the purchaser our written guarantee to re-
fund the money If the treatment does not effect
q cure. Guarantees issued only by
BLAKELEY & HOUGHTON,
Prescription Druggists,
175 Second st. The Dal1es, Or.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21

All the members of Mt. Hood Camp
No. SO, Woodman of the World are re-
quested to be at their hall at z 80 o. m.,
Tuesday, August 25th, as business of
Importance will come before the camp.
8-19-t-d VIM. Mccoy, v. G.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
Notice.

City taxes for 1891 are now due.
Dalles City tax assessment is now in my
hand and will be held in my Office for
sixty days. Sixty davs from date, July
Is, 1891, city taxes will be delinquent.
o. KINERsLY,
City Treasurer.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
Real Estate transactions.

The Eastern Oregon Land company to
the Prineyille Land and Live Stock Co.,
Fractional section No. 10 township s
south of range 19 east, containing 622 .98
acres. Consideration $778.72.
The following was handed in by a
friend with the request to publish it.,
says the Eugene Guard. Mrs. Lucian
Mayberry, of Little Rock, Ark, is the
happy mother of ten boys, all born with
in q married life of thirty-nine months.
pairs Of twins. They are ali well
formed, bright, aud healthy in body and
mind.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21

Mrs. Louis Rorden and family have
returned from camping out at Hood
River.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
FIGURING MILL TO LEASE.

rT,HE OLD sDALLES MILL AND WATER
i Company's Flour Mill viii be leased to re-
sponsible parties For information apply to the
WATER COMMISSIONERS,
The Dalles, Oregon.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
Advertised Letters.

The following is the list of letters re-
naming in The Dalles postoffice uncalled
for Friday, Aug. 21, 1891. Persons call
ing for these letters will please give the
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21

UdI0 OH WHICH CHVy W0TU dUVtTIIstU
Bost, Jack Clark, DIR
Chapman, VIM Davis, A NJ
End, George Hammett, Frank
Jones, w F Hewitt, Mrs L A (2)
Lee, Miss Ida Linwood, Master
Miner, Mrs Ida E Moeglenn,J
Moffett, Thos Mcdonald, Jas (2)
Mckee, Bert Staples, Delbert
Smith, Mrs Mary Sportsman, Billie
Yoacham, Miss Quinn, w H.
The Dalles Tannery.
M. T. NOLAN. P. M.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
Born.

Yesterday, to the wife of John An
drews, girl.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
!, Our Governor,s Opinion ON Farming.

M. T. NOLAN. P. M.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-04
THE EVANS ACCOUNTS.

Boston, Nov. 4.--No effort will be made
to collect on the joint accounts Of I. A.
Evans a. Co. by the estate of A. p. Potter
and his assignee Mr.. Potter estimates
the creditors of the firm will get 80 cents
on the dollar.
LATER-The Maverick Bank is still in
the hands of the examiner Mr.. French
had not secured bail at 1920 this morn
ing There is no charge against Cashier
Work. The Irregularities are wholly, so
far as ascertained, over loans upon the en-
dorsement of the three directors and to
those connected with them in specula.
tions These are misdemeanors and not
felony under the laws of the United States
and are punishable at most by an impris-
onment of ten years in the common Jail.
The condition of these loans is said to have
been called to the attention of Comptroller
Lacey over and over, and Bank Examiner
Magruder went TO Washington and per-
sonally emphasized the rotten condition
of the bank loans before the Department,
but he appears TO have been headed off
each time by the influence of Potter at
Washington.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-04
Chicago Grain Market.
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL.
The Annual Meeting With Reports
and the Election of Officers,

The annual meeting of the Rhode Island
Homeopathic Hospital Corporation took
place this forenoon at 265 Benefit street,
President Carpenter presiding. The sec
retary, William Won Gottschalk, read the
records OF the last annual meeting which
were accepted. President Carpenter read
the report of the executive committee of
which he is the chairman. The proper
ty of the hospital was judged
to be in fair order, but money
is needed To use in repairing. Since April
the matron has been Miss Mary Hall,
trained nurse from Boston. The reporter
ended with an answer TO the question of
why Homeopathic hospital was needed
when there was also larger one in the
city.
The treasurer William A. Spicer, re-
ported a balance in the treasury of SilS.S7.
DR.. George b. Peck, the admitting
physician, gave the report of the medical
and surgical staff. On Nov. /, 1890, there
were in the hospital four surgical
patients and four suffering from iniirmi-
ties, three of whom have died. There have
been admitted since then sixty surgical
patients of whom one died, twenty-five
medical and six suffering from infrmi-
ties with one death. Patients have been
received from twelve cities and towns in
Rhode Island, from eleven in Massachu-
sets, from two in Connecticut and from
one each in New York, New Hampshire
anu Ma np. s~lNIN-INc Oh IHc pdlltnUS
were of American nationality; seven, Irish;
four English: two Swedes; two Scotch and
two Nova Scotians and one Bohemian.
Up to date 1853 have been received from
the founding of the hospital.
DIR. G. A. Barnard, of Centredale; DIR.
Henry Whitmarsh, of Providence, and
Mrs. Albert Horton were elected mem
bers of the corporation.
The committee on nominations gave its
report, which was accepted. The follow
ing officers were elected: President,
Charles f. Carpenter; vice presidents,
Isalc II. Southwick, William G.. Greene
and A. Augustus Wightman; secretary,
Mrs. William Won Gottschalk; Treasurer,
William A. Spicer; Trustees for Provi-
dence, G. A. Barnard, NJ. d., Miss Eliza
beth r.. Andrews, Israel B. Mason, Mrs.
James Shaw. George B. Peck, NJ. d., Mrs.
William II. Reynolds, Henry Whitmarsh,
NJ d.. Mrs. George ID. Wilcox, Mrs.
Robert Hall, Mrs. Thomas j. Hill, Cliff
ton a. Hall, j. G.. Budlong, NJ ID. and
A. l.. Ordway; Pawtucket, Mrs. James L.
Wheaton, the Hon. j.. b. Darling, Mrs
Frederic G. Sayles, the Hon +. G. Sayles;
Bristol Mrs. Edward Brunsen; Lin
coin, the Hon. II. a. Stearns; Newport, e..
Il. Squirer, NJ. ID.
After the discussion of several questions
the meeting adjourned.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-04
East Providence Taxes,
1891.

The undersigned, Collector of Taxes as
sessed for the year 1891, hereby gives
notice that for the purpose of receiving
taxes, he will be at the following places,
at the times specified, and requests all
persons to call and pay the taxes assessed
against them on or before Nov. 80, 1891.
At the store of Levi 5. Winchester, Riv-
erside, on FRIDAY, Nov. l3, 1851, from
1890 O'clock A. NJ. TO 1870 O'Clock Z. M.
At the store of Oliver +, Medbury, East
Providence Centre, on SATURDAY, Nov.
IA, 1891, from IL o'clock NJ. TO l o'clock
Il. NJ.
At all times not above mentioned (Sun-
days and holidays excepted) he may be
found at the Town Clerks Office, from o
O'Clock A. M. TO 3 o'clock u. NJ.
Interest at the rate of per cent. per an
mum from Nov. 20, 1891, will be charged on
all taxes not paid on or before Nov. 3OlS9l.
In compliance with the vote of the town,
he hereby gives notice that all taxes not
paid on or before June /, 1892, will be
collected according to law.
GEORGE +. HUNTER, Collector.
East Providence, r. l., Oct 90, 1891
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-04
Market Notes.

The par Of sterling exchange Is k.s6.7. The
rate of dcmd nd sterling bais al uhich gold can
~ exported to London pithOm loss Is L.SS5s for
bars and Lsg4 for coin, and the rate at lChtch u
can be imported tCHlOid loss Is L.SSs4.
NEW YoRK-Sterling rates are 4.s1-
a. S4L
NEW YoRK-The traders are selling the
market on vague rumors of Iurther
trouble i'm Boston.
NEW YoRK-Sales of stock TO noon were
107, 200 shares.
NEW YoRK-The amount of gold re-
ceived to date is So, ,S95. 900.
New York; G.. Quinlan & Co. have
advices that the winter wheat crops in
Hungary and Southern Russia look badly.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-04
--.... ..::. EXIT THE ALLIANCE.

OMAHA, Nov 3-Reports from over Ne
braska indicate the total annihilation OF
the Alliance. Republicans have won by
large majorities
In Omaha the ticket was divided about
evenly between the Democrats and Re
publicans. George p. Beemis, Repub-
lican, elected mayor.
TOPEKA, Nov. 4-Returns are slow. ke-
ports show Republican gains everywhere.
HURON 5. d., Nov. 3.-Returns from
fifty precincts show that Jolley, Republi-
can, for Congress leads both Of his com
petitors,. Woods Democrat, and smith,
independent. He is elected.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-04
WORLDS FAIR AGENTS RECALLED

CHICAGO, Nov. 4. - Director General
Davis has ordered the worlds fair agents
out of Chile. They had been at work in
the smaller cities along the coast after
pretty thoroughly canvassing Santiago
and doing as much as they dared to do in
Valparaiso.
The order to leave the country was in
spired, not so much by the fear for the
physical safety of the agents as by fear
that il would be impolitic enough 10 press
the subject of the worlds fair appropria-
tion while public sentiment against
Americans was running high.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-04
PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 4.-The> Re
publicans will regain the State, electing
Gen. Gregg (Rep.) State Treasurer by s5,-
600 to 10000 majority. The proposed con-
stitutional convention is overwhelmingly
beaten.
Philadelphia, Lancaster and Allegheny,
the Republican Gibraltars of the United
States, three-fourths of whose 100000
workingmen are ardent Republicans, came
upwith old time Republican majorities
Last year Allegheny went Democratic
This year it is $1,000 Republican
George ID. McCreary (Rep.) is elected
City Treasurer, over Redwood Wright by
q handsome majority.