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Things worth Knowing.

Words do seem so weak and value
less.
Fellow worker, companion, friend,
dear mother, dear wife-till we meet
again-adieu.
The person who furnishes items for a
newspaper is always friend to the edi-
tor Many persons hesitate about
sending items to newspaper regarding
the movement of friends lest the editor
should think them anxious to see their
names in print, He will think nothing
of the kind, bnt on the contrary, is glad
to get such items. Many seemingly I'M
i'm mportant notes when printed are news
to large number of readers.
British board of trade returns mark a
heavy decline in textile exports to the
United Stales. On the whole the ex-
ports are only about one half what they
were at this time last year. 1t is evil
dent that our country is manufacturing
more and more of the goods it consumes
and that the Mckinley tariff is contrib
f! uting to this result.
Frank Lee, of the Klickitat Leader,
has purchased OF o. P. Mason, the
Northwest Pacific Farmer, and will as
sumo charge about September first.
Three other parties will be associated
with Mr.. Lee, and the company will
publish the paper in the interest of the
oranges and grangers of the northwest
They have the endorsement of the state
grange of Washington, and have been
assured fattering patronage.-Dis-
patch.
In 1860 the total number of sheep il
the territory composing today the states
of Idaho, Wyoming, Texas, Oregon
California, Montana, and Colorado, and
the territories of Arizona, New Mexico
and Utah, was 2,774,965 This was l:
per cent. of the total number of sheep il
the country. which was 22,471 900. To
day there are in those states and terri
tories 22,437 ,931 sheep. being over 81
per cent. of the total for the United
States, and equal to the sum of The
sheep thirty-one years ago.
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PROTECTION RUN TO SEED.

The exigencies of political partisan
ship must be very pressing when it is
found necessary to condemn the super
intendent of the Bureau of Immigration
because he has decided that certain
Welch tin-plate workers may be brought
into this country without violating the
contract labor law. We have no opin-
ion to offer as to the legality of the su-
perintendent's decision, but we do think
it is in harmony with the dictates OF
common sense. With plants establishd
and material on hand for the manufac-
ture of Jin-plate, skilled labor is needed
in an industry entirely new to the
country. If the necessary skilled labor
were already here, the case would be
entirely different, but it is not here and
manufacturers cannot reasonably be
asked to put their plants in charge of
men who know nothing of the business.
A Washington dispatch of the 10th inst.
informs us that President Niedringhaus,
of the St. Louis stamping Company, re-
plying to Secretary Fosters recent letter
relating to the employment of foreign
skilled labor for the tin-plate industry,
simply claims that for the successful
operation of this industry, it is neces
sary to have number of skilled work
men, fresh from the business, as con-
Quoted in Europe today. "The foreign
labor needed" he says, twill not
amount to ten per cent. of the whole
number of employees. This sort of help
cannot he obtained in the home market u
This is very different thing from lay
ing down the bars for the influx of the
''pauper labor of Europe 1t is the adj
mission of ten per cent. of skilled labor
without whose presence the remaining
ninety per cent, already here, would find
no emyloyment in connection with an
industry that no man is justified in say
ing may not eventually attain immense
proportions and be of great benefit tc
the country. We heartily believe in
protecting the American Iaborer from
the pauper labor of Europe, but the pro
posal to shut out class of skilled labor
new to the country is protection run tc
good
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- WORTHY OF Special CONSID-
ERATTON."

The regular meeting of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce was held Mon
day evening and partial report of the
committee appointed to investigate the
proposition of the Columbia Railway &
Navigation company to open the Co!um-
bia river to navigation was submitted to
the meeting. An extension of time was
granted the committee to finish their
work and full report is expected to be
submitted to the next regular meeting in
September. Meanwhile the committee
informed the meeting that their "atten-
tion had been called to practical route
for portage on the Oregon side of the
river,' that the committee had gone
over the proposed line in company with
Il. E. Harbersham and Douglas w. Tay
lor, civil engineers of the city of Port
land" The committee stated that "the
Oregon line was worthy of special con-
sideration" and recommended that it be
referred to a special committee or to
themselves for investigation. Thus the
gentlemen who went over the proposed
route between The Dalles and Sherman
county last Sunday have fulfilled our ex-
pectations and brought the matter favor
ably before the Chamber of Commerce.
As they had not been authorized to in
vestigate the Oregon road, but merely
came here in a private capacity, at the
request Of the directors of The Dalles,
Dufur & Silkstone road, they have done
all we could expect and we shall watch
further developments with great interest.
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SOCIETIES.

A ssEMBLY NO. 1927, h. OF L.---Meets in X
"A of T. hall on first and third Sundays at B
o'clock p. m.
WAsCO LODGE, NO. 10, A. F. JE A. M-Meets
w first and third Monday of each month at Z
Pm.
nALLES ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. g.
II Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesday
of each month at P. NJ.
MODERN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD
NJ Mt. Hood Camp No. SO, Meets Tuesday even
ing of each week in 1. o. .. F. Hail. at 1880 p NJ.
HoLUMBIA LODGE, NO. ), I. o. o. F-Meets
V every Friday evening at 7:30 O'Clock, in Odd
Fellows hall, Second street, between Federal and
Washington. Sojourning brothers are welcome.
Fl. A. BILLS, Sec'y Il. G. CLosTER, n. G.
ffRIENDsHIP LODGE, NO. O., X. of P.-Meets
l. every Monday evening at 7:S0 O'Clock, in
jchannO's building, corner of Court and Second
streets. sojournfng members are cordially in
gited. GEO, r. THOMPSON,
D. ". yAUsE, sce,y4 G. c.
{JToMEN's CHRISTIAN TEMPERENCE
w UNION will meet every Friday afternoon
It O'Clock at the reading room. are invited.
TEMPLE LODGE NO. 3, a. o. U. w-Meets
L at X. of p Hall, Corner Second and Court
Streets, Thursday evenings at 7:ss0
JOHN FILLOoN,
VS. MYEEs, Financier. VI. w.
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The Columbia river must beopened,
so that the river navigation can come
into competition with the rail-
roads reaching this city and the Sound
ports. This must be accomplished, else
the advantageous location of Portland
at the confluence of the two great rivers
of the Pacific northwest, and seemingly
designed by nature as the place for the
future great city of. the coast, will weigh
hut lightly in the balance. But what
ever plan adopted to secure this, care
should be taken that the power or influ-
ence of any of the great railroad corpor-
tions be completely barred from taking a
hand in its organization.-Por
World.
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death by horse Tuesday, the young
man being thrown off and his foot catch
ing in the stirrup.
John Simonis of Wolf creek, a pioneer
farmer of Baker county is dangerously
ill.
A small smeIter Will be erected at the
Galena mines on Middle fork, Grant
county.
George Ebell, one of Baker county's
most prosperous farmers, states that his
grain this year will average sixty bushels
to the acre.
W. F. Noble has shipped from Baker
county since the first of the year between
IS, GOO and 900 head of sheep, leaving
something like $40, 900 with the sheep
men.
The Albany wooden mills have pur-
chased this season 100000 pounds of
wool. The mills are running steadily
and will manufacture more than that
amount during the next year.
Rev. Father Metayer, of Albany, who
has been at the hospital at Portland for
some time, has so far recovered from his
severe illness as to be able to go to the
Siskiyou mountains where he will re-
main until he is able to resume his
ministerial duties.
F. j. Miller, clerk of the board of rail-
road commissioners, is busiIy engaged in
taking care of the mass of papers which
have accumulated in that. office during
the last five years. Previous to this
there was no system of filing the papers,
hax
without any attempt at keeping them in
order.
Oscar Oliver, OF Lost Prairie, Wallowa
county, aged Is, was thrown from his
horse and kicked by the animal in the
face. The lads jaw was broken in two
places and the accident may result
fatally. Mr.. Oliver lost two little girls
about year ago by a terrible accident,
and it seems that misfortune still pur-
sues his family.
The Southern Pacific is contending
with big slide about two miles and a
half north of West fork, that keeps 100
men busy to prevent it from covering
the track. There are several acres of
earth that are inclined to slide, and of
unknown depth. There is not much
danger OF the trains being delayed by it,
but as 100 men is all that can be worked
at a time it is giving them somewhat of
a steady job.
During the thunder storm at Mon
mouth last Wednesday, barn was
struck by lightning and destroyed.
When the rain was pouring down its
hardest young man, named Dolmeter,
I Il L. L 4
no sooner got inside the door than the
building was struck. The lightning
stunned him but he recovered himself in
time to get out of the way of the fire.
The horse did not get away and was
burned with the barn.
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rhs Ancient Mine. Of Laurium.


United States Consul Manatt, at
Athens, in a recent report on Greek min
ing and metallurgy, enters into the his
tory of the subject in an interesting
manner.
The mines of Laurium, now worked
for zinc, lead and iron, are, he says, the
very mines from which Themistocles
drew the silver supply to fit out his feet
and beat back the Persian invader at
Salamis (490 480 B. c., and SO to lay the
foundations of>the Athenian hegemony.
More than this, it is thought probable
that the Phpnicians delved here before
the Greeks came, as they are known to
have done in the Island of Thasos.
At any rate, Thoricus was free city
before Theseus welded the Attic bor-
oughs into single commonwealth Othat
is to say, before the name of Athens ap-
peared in history and its importance
must have been due to the mines; SO that
the mining industry at Laurium may
possibly boast an origin as remote as
thirty centuries back, while it is again
in full blast today.
In walking through the French COM
pany's great mine at Camaresa, in the
heart of the Laurium region, one tra-
verses here gallery in active exploita-
ton for zinc and lead and hard by an
other worked out by the old Greeks two
or three thousand years ago. These an
cient works are among the most inter-
esting monuments of Hellenic civiliza-
ton.
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GENERAL PERSONAL MENTION.

Prince Henry of Prussia has started
for England to visit Queen Victoria.
John A. Riley, brother of James
Whitcomb Riley, has been appointed
superintendent of the Bradstreet COM
pany for the Pacific coast, with head
quarters at Los Angeles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Packard, who
rside on farm near New Hartford,
Iowa, are the parents of twenty nine
living children. The eldest is forty-nine
and the youngest is sixteen years of age.
Robert T. Baker, of New Bedford,
Mass, read the Bible through for the
first time in 1928. Since that date he
has read it ninety-nine times. 1t
usually takes him two months to read it
from beginning to end.
President Diaz is again well enough to
attend to executive business, but he
bears traces of recent suffering. His
wife wishes him to go to Europe for a
rest, but his ambition keeps him at
home and will for some time yet.
Speaker Reed has apparently been
getting gay during his trip abroad. A
New York paper records that on his re-
turn "his suit of clothes was distinct
lively American in cut, wherever it was
made, but his silk hat, with a narrow
brim, was plainly built on a British
block. He wore it on the back of his
head
John G. Calhoun, grandson of the
South Carolina statesman of that name,
declares that alternate generations in his
! family smoked and eschewed smoking.
He never touches cigar himself, and
i he says the great apostle of modification
never did either; but his father and
and great-grandfather were inveterate
smokers.
Princess Milena, wife of the reigning
prince of Montenegro, has subjected
herself to severe surgical operation in
the clinic of Heidelberg. The princess is
now forty-five years old, but she has
been married thirty-one years. AS
Milena Petrowna Bukotitisch in 1S41
she was called the loveliest and most
! beautiful woman in Europe.
G. w. Mckay, the alliance judge il
Kansas, who recently tried to overrule
the supreme court, but found it was
not practicable, came originally from
Michigan, and studded law at Anr
Arbor. He removed to Kansas for hi
health, and derived so much benef
from the change that he soon threw
himself into his new profession with en-
thusiasm.
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Health is Wealth !!

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STATE OFFICIALS.

The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches
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SEW WE'LL. YOUR WHiE4TsAcKs

A well known local wheat buyer sug-
gests that farmers this year ought to
take particular pains to have their wheat
sacks sewed in the best possible manner.
1t is expected that great deal of Wasco
county wheat will be forwarded to Port
land by boat and when the sacks are not
well sewed there is liablo to be a good
deal of waste.
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nR1Er STATE NEWS.

George Waldroi,, the i9-year-oId snn
of William Waldron, a prominent farmer
living near Prairie City, was dragged to
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$50 REV ARD.

WILL BE 1AlD FOR ANY INFORMATION
w Leading to the conviction of parties cutting
e ropes or in any way interfering with the
wiz poles o. lamps of THE ELEcTRIc LIGHT
Co. Fl. GLENN.
Manager
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$1,000 Reward

Lost, diamond scarf pin-the above
reward will be paid by returning to G
E. Haight.
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THE CHURCHES.

JHIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-Rev O. u. TAY-
L LOB, Pastor. Services every Sabbath at IL
l.. NJ. and 80 p NJ. Sabbath School at II NJ.
Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at
o'clock.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-Rev. W. C..
" CURTIS, Pastor. Services every Sunday at IL
!. VI. and 2 P. NJ. Sunday School after morning
erYice. Strangers cordially invited Seats free.
II E. CHURCH-Rev II. Brown, Pastor.
VIZ Services every Sunday morning and even
ing Sunday school at 12I2 o'clock NJ \ cordial
invitation is extended by both pastor and people
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Money to loan.

800 to $500 to loan on short time.
BAYARp & Co.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-12

United States Senator John ii. Mitch
ell is just in receipt of very kind inyi-
tation to stump Ohio for Major McKin-
Is this fall. 1t is from the republican
state executive committee and is signed
by Chairman William X. Hahn and
Secretary w S. Matthews.
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ca1ifornia,s Brush Fire subdued.

SAN RAFAEL, Aug. 1.-THE brush fire
which started in Coleman's addition
yesterday afternoon was subdued early
this morning. About 1000 acres of pas
ture land was burned. 1t required the
efforts of seventy men to gain control of
the fire.
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Corner Second and Washington Streets, The
Dalles, Oregon.
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kKWIL CHE
kHWILCHIE
& Grav's Harbor Railroad.

The terminus of the Puget Gays Harbor Railroad
aturalou or Grays Harbor country.
which the
makes daily round and the point
receiving much attention from the Seattle Chamber OF
Commerce evidenced by following report submitted:
h resources have immense capb
should be made tbu
giving the there for coming
going shipment goods has been making nroads
looking carefully trade there than IS Sc
day making OF the
and Kamchie
Kamche be with this by direct
they require
My the business resulted the OF the
c merchants shipping goods the Gas harbor patone
route1-Seatte Press, December
Kache placed the market for the first
should be taken this opportunity of purchasing good
business residence al low figures.
The viii be WITH but viii be increased the
fifty lots thus enabling those who purchase first make
principal being
every VIII be offered homeseek Lots
Kamchie daily mails and daily rail
connection with the Grays Harbo cities
The liberal viii be made with those desiring business
OF build themselves
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ROULETTE HIS Ruin.
Bankrupt Through Gambling, a Bavar-
ian Baron Commits Suicide.

Bankrupt Through Gambling. a Bavar-
ian Baron Commits Suicide.
NICE, Jan. Especial THE season has
opened here with splendid weather, plenty
of Americans and lots of suicides at Monte
Carlo. The latest painful story is one Of
the ruin of noble Bayarian family.
For several weeks Baron Won Issny had
been stopping at Mentone, and had been
in the habit of going daily to the gaming
table at Monte Carlo. About a fortnight
ago he found himself practically bank
rupt. He had not only played heavily at
Monte Carlo, but had a roulette table set
up in his room and induced his friends TO
play with him there also.
Among his guests were two English
ladies who state that on Tuesday last the
baron sat st his table. but instead Of play
ing as was his usual habit. he said he
would act as croupier, which he did.
When the company was separating he
called the ladies aside and said:
ssYou see have not played tonight. Il is be-
cause am ruined man ] have lost all that
had in the world az Monte Carlo, and hare not a
louis left to stake. Tomorrow i shah have LETT
the hotel Adieu.'
The next morning he was found in his
room dead, poisoned by morphine. His
relatives were notified and they succeeded
in getting the body away without rolice
inquiry or an inquest, and the sad affair
was kept a profound secret The next
morning the remains Of the wretehed man
were taken 10 Bavaria"
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NEWS OF NORTHWEST
Joint Inspection Of Union Pa
cific Line to Seattle.
pousLE TRAGEDY IN MIssouLA.
Ghsrf3 Kills Drunken Man, who Had
Previously Fatally Wounded
. Policeman.

YoR1LAsD, Jan. 4.--rspecial 1.-The party
Of engineers, consisting Of Messrs- Bogue.
Becker. Cameron, Collins. Kennedy and
Gates, who left here about week ago for
the Sound, to make an inspection Of the
line of the Seattle extension Of the Union
Pacific, returned Saturday night. They
looked over the work which has been done
north Of KaiaEaa, visited engineers IN dir
fercnt towns and examined different routes
proposed for the line from Tacoma 20 Sc
aftie, in regard 70 which there has never
BEEN any decision made The party viii
st once proceed % make an inspection Of
the line from Vancouver to kalama. aud
then each will make report 20 the COM
pany be represents. As to what thai re-
port viii be or what effect 1t will have,
nothing can be said, and as 10 the proba-
biiities Of work being resumed on the line
none OF the engineers care 10 venture an
opinion. Mr.. Becker, when asked ques-
ton rs TO the reported opposition Of Jim
Hill to touching Olympia with the main
line, on the ground that construction
would be very expensive. said:
II do not know that such question has been
ssifstsd- 30 much work has been done On the
road with view 30 going % Olympia that TO
change the route now would cost more than it
would 70 build 60 Olympia ! feel confident
that no change Of the nature you mention viii
be made No. we bave not completed cur wcTk,
nor have We sent IN any report 70 View York or
elsewhere OF what We have done. We have
merely Inspected terminals and grades in towns
snd e;ties. We found superior rosdhed con-
etsEctsd, and The grades are lighter than tbose
81 any other road reaching the sound. OF
c0ures cannot tel you WHIST our report VIII be,
o. for what purpose the inspection is made. We
xiii 70 out again tomorrow and get back into
the country. can give you no further intor-
nnfson"
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TRAGEDY ar mIssoULA.
Louis sisnons shoots Policeman Houtch
ms and IL Killed BY the Shertn.

MfssorIA, Mont, Jan. a-lSpecial T.
Much excitement was caused here this
morning by the killing of Louis simous
by Sheriff Houston and the perhaps fatal
shooting Of Policeman II. NJ. Houtchins
by Simons. About O'Clock Simons en-
tered the Exchange saloon, Of which his
brother, William Simons. and Charles
Cowell are proprletoTs. He was partially
iptoxicated, ard commenced playing faro.
He lost q small amount, and got into a
dispute with the dealer
After this Simons went 70 his room over
the saloon and commenced to abuse his
mistress. Policeman Houtchins was called
and vas met at the door by Simons. who
shot him through the stomach. Simons
then returned 10 the saloon aud with a
drawn revolver made the bartender hand
over the cash in the till, and also made the
dealer at one of the faro layonts give him
the bank money. He commenced shooting
Qdiscrimlnately about the room, defying
eli about 10 attempt TO stop him, and
swearing he would kill his brother and
Coweli
Sheriff Houston was called, and Simons
deiied him TO arrest him, and started to-
ward the west part OF Front street, loudly
eursing the officer and stating he would
never be taken alive. Houston tried 10 in
iimidate by shooting over his head, bu,
simons returned the fire, shooting several
times, saying ''Shoot, you
and shoot 70 KILL"
The sheriff finding his man perfectly
desperate, shot him through the shoulder.
one ball passing through his right lung
and another shot through his len groin.
He lived about an hour. Simons is we'll
known in the cities in the Northwest.
Houtchins' recovery is doubtful