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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-02-28
e. IT. TURNER & GO.
Finely Illustrated.
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Owing to the bad weather we have de-
cided to keep the Millinery on sale a few
days longer to give those who had no oppor-
tunlty to see the stock chance to get some
OF the bargains we are offering in this line.
Take the elevator
Z. s. Every customer Throughout the
store will be presented with sheet of the
latest music.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-02-28

The "Sassiety" papers of Missouri
are on the verge of distraction over the
recently discovered fact that the new
Governor eats pie with knife. 1t GER
tainly is slow method, and not nearly
SO satisfactory as taking the allowance
of pie in ones good right Eand while
eating it. >-..S "a.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15
The. H.ndkercbi.f IN rr.n,..

Lace was used to ornament handker-
chiefs in France as early as 1884. In
64S they were embroidered and had tas-
sells at each of the four corners. In the
time of the Directory, that period of
fashionable eccentricity, they underwent
many vagaries. Those ladies who did
not care to wear the pocket attached to
the girdle and wished to have the hands
at liberty tucked the fan into the belt,
slid the purse into the corsage and had
the handkerchief carried by gallant,
to whom it was necessary to apply when
it happened to be needed If the hand
kerchief carrier could not be found, or
was insidiously flirting with another wo-
man, and the nose imperatively demand
ed blowing, the case was serious.
= When the: French blow the nose, it
should be remembered, it is for all it is
worth. No one who has not witnessed
the performapce could ever believe the
nasal passages possessed of such sonor-
Gus quality, and when the effort is sew
eral times repeated one might easily i'm
agine himself listening to the Angel
Gabriel rehearsing for the last Judgment.
The French fashion in this respectSis not
to be recklessly initiated like Paris STYLES
in laces, silks and satins, fans, dresses,
bonnets and other things pertaining to
female attire.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15
SHARP NEWSPAPER WORK.

A good piece of newspaper engineering
has been successfully carried out bv the
Oregonian. Some time ago 500, 900 was
raised as bonus for a democratic paper
in Portland. Just as soon as it looked
as if the movement for a new paper was
really being made in earnest the Oregon
ian made arrangements with Captain
Moffett, of st. Paul, to take the Telegram
which was owned by the big daily and
with it fell long felt want in the way of
a democratic organ. Under the new
management the Telegram was made a
bright and readable and thoroughly
democratic paper, and the readers of that
faith found that they were favored with
a paper that voiced their sentiments and
the aforesaid readers were not asked to
contribute fund to establish a daily
paper. Captain Moffett gave them with
out money and without price what they
would have had to have paid 500, 900 for
and naturally those who had subscribed
to the fund began to withdraw their
subscriptions, and though few sore
heads keep threatening to start big
daily it does not scare the Oregonidn a
particle. 1t has played its cards to win
and has done so. 1t has been the means
of making good paper out of the Tele-
gram and soaring a rival out of the field
and Scott and Pittock-the long and
short of it-have reason to congratulate
themselves on the success of the brightest
piece of journalism they have ever yet
undertaken.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15
CONDITION OF THE U. jp.

' e.
The report, of Jesse Spaulding, the
government director of the Union Pacific
railway CONF pany, is interesting. He has
just finished an inspection tour of Oregon
and Washington. After lengthy eulogistic
remarks regarding our resources, ETC., he
says:
81 have dwelt upon the Pacific north
west thus far because / would like to
have you share in my opinion that what
ever attention can be paid to that section
will be well bestowed, do not think it
can receive any too much of your thought.
The cities of the Columbia and Puget
sound district are certainly to become
points. of vast importance in the near
future. The Oregon lines were not in
highest condition when i passed over
them, but the local managers were exert
ing themselves to bring them up to the
standard. These lines had only recently
fallen into the possession of the Union
Pacific company; they had been allowed
TO run down for several years, and the
roadbed. ties, rails, bridges and viaducts
all required careful and constant atten-
tion. Over $4,000 new ties had been
laid up to the time passed over the Ore
gon lines; the old bridges in many in
stances, had been replaced by new and
substantial ones; new culverts were be-
ing put in; repairs were kept up, and
noticed, with great deal of satisfaction,
that the criticisms of the patrons of the
road were less severe when 1 left Oregon
than when 1 first entered it. This was
mainly due to the fact that a special
committee of the legislature, after max
ing thorough inspection of the line, had
reported its condition to be much i'm
proved and safe. Yet it was far from
what it should have been, and far from
what its patrons in western Oregon are
entitled to in view of the constant grow
ing Importance of the traffic which it is
intended to accommodate. Western
Oregon and Washington points are en-
titled to as perfect a railway service as
any service as any section of the country
now"
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15
:. Yietims by Thousnnds..

= Records of great earthquakes fn q
large space in the worlds history, and
instances where people have perished by
thousands from this cause are mourn
fully numerous. An earthquake accom-
panied by q volcanic eruption destroyed
the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum
and buried most of their inhabitants in
the ruins in the year 70, A D. > The en-
tire world was shaken from pinnacle to
foundation stone in the year 543 In 557
Constantinople suffered terribly from an
earthquake. which killed thousands of
its inhabitants. In 742 an awful shock
visited China, India, Persia and Palestine
killing hundreds of thousands of human
beings, besides beasts beyond calculation.
In 1853, 10000 person perished from an
earthquake shock in Syria alone; in 1858,
60, 600 were killed or buried alive in
Ciicia. In 1856, 40, 900 were killed in
Naples. In 1881 Lisbon, Portugal, had
her first great shock-that which killed
30, 900 people. In 1925 Naples was again
visited and had 70, 900 of her people taken
away by the earthquake demon. The
next year the Schamald was constantly
rocked by earthquakes for three months,
during which time 80, 900 persons were
h1led.-St. Louis Republic.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15
Nsn-conauetor.,ofsfze.s.'

-
Ground cork and some other bsrks,
and the sawdusteaf the soft steodss as
well as the charcoal made of these sub
stances, are very good retainefsof hest.
Lampbiack also works well. When the
thing to be kept, hot Il at . very high
temperature, some light, incomb bus6ble
powders are very suitable. Among the
best of these are fossil meal and the cal
cined magnesia and magnesium carbon
ate of the druggists. Fossil meal con-
sists of the silicious skeiesons of micro
scopic vegetables, called diatoms, ex-
ceedingly various in; shape and size, the
very largest5o of them hardly reaching the
length of the hundredth of an inch. It
is found abundantly in some peat mead
.ows and in the bottoms of ponds. Both
fossil meal and magnesium carbonate
have been largely used in covering steam
pipes. All f -
Obviously, when the same light sub
stance is tried in both the first and sec
ond apparatus above mentioned, and the
results differ, it must be owing to the in
ability of the substance to hold the in
cluded air still in the first arrangement.
So powdered plumbago or black lead,
which is very slippery, shows nearly
twice as much transmissive power in one
case as in the other. Loosened asbestos
fiber also lets through about twice as
much heat in the vertical arrangement
as in the horizontal Yet this fiber may
be split up exceedingly fine, but the great
difference in its behavior as compared
with cotton or wool must be owing much
less to its own greater specific conduct
ing power than to the smoothness and
inelasticity of it's sfbers-Professor John
NJ. Ordway in Popular Science Monthly.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15
A Difference in Boys.

There is vast difference between the
ways and ideas of amusement of the
small boy uptown and the small boy
downtown who makes his living by sell
ing papers, shining muddy boots or be-
ing messenger. For instance, the down
town newsboy scorns to throw snowballs
as a usual thing. He will shake dice,
match" coppers or smoke cigarettes and
discuss some melodrama playing in his
favorite Bowery theatre, but he abso-
lutely declines to throw snowballs. On
the other hand, his more innocent broth
er seven or eight miles higher up on the
island still cfings to the good old fash
ioned sport of ''pasting" everything and
every body with SNOWFALL That's all
association, of course.-New York Trib-
une es.g
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15
Bosro~ed' Skates saved n1r. Flower. LII

Borrowed Skates Saved Mr. Flowers LiSe.
,getsLike all boys, had my trials andsvi-
cissitudes, said iMr. Roswell p. Flower.
while skating one day I slid into an
airhole.. I would have drowned had not
my companion; at considerable risk to
himself, succeeded in rescuing me after
several attempts, during which he was
more than once ON the point Of sliding
in with me- When we reached the vii
lage he tried to say that he could not
have pulled me out if he had had his
skates on, but what he eventually did
say was that he would have let me sink
if I had not had his skates on" Epoch.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15

The Moscow Gazette speaks with re-
spectful sympathy of American claims in
the Behring sea, and says that it is
time that England was taught that the
possession of a powerful feet does not
entitle her to treat every bit of open sea
as her peculiar property. The Gazette
the question without reference to Eng
land.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15
The Hunt system.
Salem Statesman.

The Telegram gives history of G.. w.
Hunt and his system of railroads, which
shows that he is regular bull in a
china shop, so far as railroad building is
concerned. His great ''system" began
nowhere, and ended nowhere. He knew
enough to ring in people all along the
line, in aid of his scheme, and even man.
aged to work Portland for couple OF
millions, but when real railroad men
got swipe at him, the bottom fell out OF
the thing, and the great "Hunt SYSTEM
of railroads instantly collapsed.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15

All the open street-cars at this season
are grip-cars. s ,i tatt4
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15
Eexs of Grabs ana Lobster..

Grabs and Holsters are Matched from
eggs, resembling upon birth nothing so
much as the animalcule shown by the
microscope in a drop of ditch water
They are as unlike the shellfsh they are
to become in mature life as a grub is un-
like a butterfly, In the case of the crab
the egg clusters are attached beneath
the animal after extrusion, while with
the lobster they become fastened to the
tail. which, by its tanning motion, in
creases the stream of oxygenated air
through and among the ova--W Washing
ton Star.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-15

y The following statement from Mr. w.
B. Denny, well known dairyman of
New Lexington, Ohio, will be of interest
to persons troubled with Rheumatism.
He says: 81 have, used Chamberlain,s
Pain Balm. for nearly two years, four
bottles in all, and there is nothing / have
ever used that gave me as much relief
for rheumatism. We always keepla bot
tie of it in the house." For sale by
Snipes & Kinersly. .A .-s=af f-ss
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$500 RewardI
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

TNHE PARTNERSHIP OF, BILLS q WHYERS
Il is this day dissolved by mutual consent
The business viii In the future be conducted by
N. b. Whyers who will pay and collect all part
nership debts. g. c. BILLS.
Dated April 18th, 1891. B. WHYERs
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STATE OFFICIALS.

The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-04

From n recent article written by Gov
.rnor A. B. Fleming and published by
the Manufacturers Record, the following
paragraph is taken:
Perhaps the industry most advanced
Is that Of coal and coke production.
Rapid has been the expansion of the
industry in West Virginia, it is mani
testify but in its incipiency. The great
Appalachian coal measures, are known
to embrace the entire State, with the
exception Of the lower Potomac counties.
One.thirtcenth Of the the aggregate coal
area Of the country is contained within
the borders Of West Virginia, and tax
Ing into account the greater thickness
Other workable seams, the State easily
ontranks all others in the extent and
value OF her coal beds. Her coal
area is computed at 10000 square
miles A great portion Of it is easily
and chcaply mined, all Of it is OF the
highest grade Of excellence, much OF it
lies in close proximity to vast deposits
ctiron ore and limestone, and is admir-
ABLY located in point OF accessibility to
the best markets. In 1880 the State
produced l,5GS000 short tons Of coal,
ranking seventh among the coal pro.
GnCing States Of the Union. In 1850
Me,produced 4,72G,0i7 long tons of coal
and COS, 1913 tons Of coke, advancing to
fourth rank in coal production and
,scond in production Of coke. From
ne official report Of 1890 OF the Second
district may safely estimate theState's
output OF coal in 1890 ut $3.50, 900 long
t IONS Snd the coke production at l,O00,-
w tons. Comparing the output Of 1880
WI WIN that of 1890 shows an increase Of
~ per cent or an average annual in
crease e. Of IS! per cent"
:, The lNTELLIGEScER Is indebted " Mr..
!; L: Sayward, Of tho New York Coal
51faaI journal, for advance sheets Of his
NCSlew OF the coal trade for the year
iSO from which the following informa.
. .o9 regarding the West Virginia coal
Trade is taken:
CHESAPEAKE \ ONO RAILWAY coALrRApE
FVV
The road carries the output from the
TToIylertSs along its line, distant, say,
S Nom SG5 to 500 miles west OF Newport
seTs, its tidc-water loading port. The
notions: '' ''"' O''"'
iiS%.,"',,,.-l Gfa ISL tons. 1897. S7sor7 tons
", ','''"lSS'Slitons. ls9O..."... SsG,6OS tons,
o.! ms was made up, in 1890, of: .25S,-
c r.o IONS OF steam coal; 500, POS tons Of
Jus COAL and 2SO,055 tons Of coke.
THE ELK GARDEN DISTRICT.
IN the Elk Garden district, on tho MP.
per Potomac, the development has been
n y. bclow-gross tons:
b. !9oll tons. lSS9......,. S7so,7 ton,
~ '9Ia97 tons is9o...... 1850 tSu s,
sr INC coal shipped in 1890 was pro-
i. Sa e + Railway Company. AIS tons
ly,C G S,S Georges Creek Comm. 6i2SO tons.
WI Ha Ens AMI TScmSs, an IONS toms
%3n'a Coal and Coke Co........'''a,, SS1g TONS TONS
Distance to Baltimore from Elk Gar.
~ s'a Is stated to be 2ls miles; to Phila.
S Slpaia by B. 4 o., Sl2 miles; to Phila.
waapPla by Pennsylvania railroad. SS0
rs rs 10 New York harbor, 800 miles
p WV Fledmont and Cumberland railroad
IN y connection from this district to
Cn,,ir ennsylvania railroad system Mt
Vs,r"aoH,r,iand; over this line 307, $50 tons
n, Nupu.N' IN the wear 1870.
'"s'e were 1894 tons Of coal used in
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-04

A sample OF the Gauley Goals, from
six.foot bed that had been driven in but
short distance, was recently analysed
by competent analyst, with these re-
suits: Fixed carbon, 7l.155 per cent;
volatile matter, 25.655 per cent; n1ois-
ture, 1.l50 per cent; sulphur, 0.690 per
cent; ash, 1850 per cent.
There is q new coal field coming into
prominence known as the Twelve Pole
region OF West Virginia. The Ohio di-
vision Of the Norfolk & Western railway
runs through this region for $50 miles
The Goals belong to the lower coal meas
ures and are very superior in quality.
being hard, dry-burning Splint Goals and
Cannels. At the southern end of the
field the Goals become softer and belong
to the coking variety. The veins run
from three to six feet, all above water
level, and lie directly along the line Of
the Norfolk & Western railway, It is q
coal field Of great promise.
THE GAS COAL AREA.
Regarding the gas Goals of this State,
Mr. iii H Gc.!4dasas -sEsl, Pittsburgh
seam, which underlies the whole north
western half of the State, and which is
found again in the easternmost counties
and across the Maryland State line as
the famous Big Vein Cumberland coal,
is the sole source of gas coal in the West
Virginia region. While it is mined
along the Ohio River on the western
border Of the State, and in other parts,
it is nowhere oithe sufficiently strongly
marked "gas" character as in this dis
trict. We may name Monongalia, Pres
ton, Taylor, Harrison and Marion coun-
ties as defining the gas coal area. There
are no gas COIL operations east Of New
burg, whichlies close to the eastern crop
of the seam, nor west of Wilson,
burg, beyond which point the
vein sinks, to rise again as It
approaches the Ohio river. F" On
the Kanawha and New rivers the gas
coal seam, which is known as seam No.
Q, runs from four to seven feet in thick
ness, made of three benches with clay
partings, and with seams OF Spiint four
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-04

county, large bodies exist; vicinity Of
Greenland gap, Grant county, five feet
thick, parallel seams.
Brown hematite Cimonite) Is deposit
ed as follows: Near court house, Raleigh
county; Peters Mountain, Monroe
county; South Fork Mountains, and
Franklin, Pondleton, county, with fossil
ores; Salt Spring Run knob, Cunning
ham tract, south OF Mooretield, Hardy
county, large deposits; North or Capon
Mountain, Hardy county, have long
been mined, associated with red hema-
tites; Walkers Ridge and Knobly
Mountain, Grant county; Bloomery,
Capon Mountains, Hampshire county,
long worked; Sandy Ridge, Morgan
county; Martinsburg, Berkeley county;
along Potomac, opposite Antietam
Creek, Jefferson county; near Bolivar
Heights, Harper's Ferry; Malthy's ore
bank, Jefferson county.
The developments already made have
demonstrated that as fine iron ore is
found in West Virginia as anywhere in
the country, and that it exists in prac-
tically inexhaustible quantities. It is
now only a matter Of small time when
the northern iron men will be compelled
to turn their attention to the South, and
in West Virginia and Virginia, where
the facilities of getting the ore to the
market are much cheaper, and where a
superior quality of iron can be mined,
will be their principal field Of opera
tions. Coal and lime are within q short
distance or upon the ground in every
section; so that manufacturers can pro-
duce at the minimum cost, and at the
same time, by reason of tho excellent
railroad facilities, can control the mar
kets.
On the maps printed in this issue Of
the INTE1L1oENoER, the references to
iron ore are only in part. As indicated
by the above list OF sections in which
ore is found in paying quantities, there
is considerable iron which is not placed
on the maps. For instance, in Preston
county, lat Irondale) important develop
ments have been made. A bed is being
worked there which yields through the
furnace about 5000 tons of metallic iron
to the acre. The bed varies in width
from mile to mile and half and is
seventeen miles in width. The nature
Of the ore is lime carbonate, and the
following analysis shows that 1t is equal
in quality to any found in the country.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-04

to fourteen inches thick interstratiied.
The conl itself is clean, with clear
black resinous lustre, of cubical cleav-
age and conchoidal fracture. Its den
sity is not quite so great Us that OF the
Pennsylvania gas Goals, and 1t conse-
ouently suffers more than thoy do from
the attrition of transhipment Its gen.
eral preparation for market is the same
as that Of Pennsylvania Goals, save that
it is screened over one and one-half
inch screens, to increase its lumpiness.
1t is also more highly sulphurous; but
with those two exceptions it is quite the
peer of the Pittsburgh coal, giving o
large yield OF high candle gas, and hav-
ing very low percentage of ash"
4 reorganization OF the output is pre-
scented herewith: - 49,. - 80,
From Elk Gardcn..". 66i,9T S76'OH H4''H
Fen G. 66sna%n@. gss 100000 10000 100000
fT %ateF A%na%nn' oy $4,000 100000 1,Sooo
From Line Of Ii. 80 800. ...o,,
y1 S9s9 Other sources s SSS 5SS S sSSSSS S
Last year compares with others US below-gross
i is 10000 tons 1900 tons.
looS..'.'..!4' IVJ'VOV tOlIS 'Nn'
Coal shipped over N. & W. R. r. is
credited as OF Virginia, although as is
well known some portion is mined In
West Virginia.
A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTORS.
The above is an eloquent showing and
demonstrates the rapid strides West
Virginia is making in the coal industry.
And yet scarcely beginning has been
made in the work of developing her
10000 square miles of coal territory
enough TO supply the world for centur-
les. Vast tracts of coal lands are I'M
touched and may be obtained at reason
able prices. Thousand of acres pur-
chased at astonishingly low figures be-
fore the work OF development began are
being approached by tho railroads and
will be available for development in the
near future, while thousands OF acres
more are undeveloped upon existing
lines o. road. This is true OF every
region-in the gas coal and coke area a
hundred miles south Of Wheeling, in
the Elk Garden region, the Kanawha
and the Flat Top regions, as well rs in
the newer but no less valuable fields OF
the interior For the men OF energy
who come to West Virginia great for.
tunes lie locked in the hills and noun
tains OF the West Virginia coal territory.