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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

The manufacture OF beet sugar in Cali
fornia appears to be Il complete success.
The factory at China has been making
10000 pounds of sugar a day during a
part of the present month, and the fac
tories at Watsonville and Alverado have
also begun operations. All the sugar
tested thus far is reported as first grade
and entitled to the full bounty estab-
lished by the government. IfCalifornia
can produce first-class sugar beets, there
are certainly some parts of Oregon that
can do the same; and the addition of
sugar making to the other industries of
the state would be very important ele-
ment in the general prosperity which
the future seems to have in store for us.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

The first estimate of cost of the canal
and locks at the Cascades was made by
Major Michler in 1873 and called for
100000 to complete the works. The
second estimate was made by Major J
M. Wilson in 1873 and called for 81 1853,
767. The third estimate was made by
Captain Powell in 1882 and called for
81, ,460, 400. The fourth estimate was
made by Captain Powell in 1887 and
called for 81, 992 800 The fifth estimate
was made by Lieut.. Burr in 1900 and
called for $9,623, 900. The first appro-
priation of 800, 900 was made in 1876 and
the work commenced in October, 1878,
and now after nearly thirteen years have
passed one can scarcely hope that thir-
teen years more will see it finished.
This is simply an illustration of the
superiority and efficiency of government
tai methods, and yet there are thous-
ands who desire to turn over to the con-
troll of the government our railroad,
steamboat and telegraph lines under the
misapprehension that they wouh be
managed more efficiently and more
cheaply than it is possible to do by pri-
vate enterprise. The fact is, the gov
ernment is too slow for this fast age.
The work at the locks is fine beyond con-
troversy. 1t will be a monument to the
engineering skill of Major Handbury
and Lieut.. Burr. The trouble is the
people want canal, not a monument.
When we start to build monuments
Major Handbury won't be in it.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

The democrats OF Massachusetts, have
come out squarely in favor of an "hon-
est dollar In the convention held yes
terday they adopted platform declar-
ing in favor of "honest money" They
hold that all dollars coined by the Uni
ted States should be of an equal intrin-
sic value, and that all paper currency
issued by the government should be re-
deemable in either gold or silver, at the
option of the holder, and not at the dis
cretion of the secretary of the treasury
The platform opposes the free and un-
limited coinage of silver and all "dan.
gerous" silver legislation enacted by the
last congress. Such is the difference be.
tween tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee
Were it not for the last five words il
would make an excellent republican
platform
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

Ii there is one thing more tnan another
that brings liquor selling into contempt.
even with men who are in no sense en-
titled to be called temperance or prohi-
bition cranks, it is the practice of some
saloon keepers of selling whiskey to hab-
itual or periodical drunkards after they
have filed up to stupidity. There is
perhaps no town anywhere that has not
a number of men whose appetites for in
toxicants are so depraved that they can
not smell alcohol without getting drunk.
A saloon keeper should not sell such
men liquor, much less should they do so
after they are already full of it. The
law is against it; common decency is
against it; and every impulse of human
ity suggests that men whose self-control
is lost and gone through drink should
not have the weapons placed in their
hands for the utter completion of their
destruction
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

The impression seems to be generally
prevalent that this country is on the eve
of very prosperous times. The stimulus
that reciprocity has given to our export
trade, added to the immensely increased
European demand for breadstuffs, has
already started gold movement in this
direction, the effects of which will SOON
be felt through all the arteries of the ma
TONS life. A comparison has been
drawn between the present period and
that Immediately following specie re-
sumption twelve or thirteen years ago.
After a period of liquidation, which, how
ever, was far longer than it has been
now, good crops here and poor ones in
Europe sent the total of expectations
at that time up sharply and started a
gold movement in this direction which
gave the country two or three years of
increased business activity and conse-
quent prosperous time. All signs indi-
cate that we are on the eve of another
period of business extension and diver
sification.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

The circular that the green goods
men send out over the country to induce
dishonest persons to purchase their
counterfeit money contains these words ::
GOD never intended that one man
should have millions while hundreds
toll in poverty all their lives so WHY
not deal in my goods and restore the
equality of wealth belonging to man by
reason of his inherent rights These
words bear 81 remarkable similarity to
many of the socialistic speeches that
now TEEN from the press and platform
of thousands of so-callei reform politi-
clans. They have but one tendency, the
entire overthrow of the present social
fabric. A man has a natural right to
every dollar he has earned or inherited
honestly, and no more. Any other doc
trine is anarchy and destruction.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

Neal Dow wants the liquor sellers of
Maine to be punished by whipping. 1t
is safe to say that he won't succeed.
And even if ne should get law passed
to this effect, its very severity would pre-
vent its infiiction. If the people of
Maine only believed such law was
right it would not be necessary to pass
it. The business would be SO unpopular
that it could not be carried on profit
ab1v
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

The Northwest Pacific Farmer is now
under the management of Frank Lee.
late of the Klickitat Leader. 1t is a
bright, clean, honest, we'll conducted
paper, just as we would expect it to be
when Frank has hand in making it.
long and prosper
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

Uneaty lies the head that wears the
night cap of pension commissioner.
Tanuer's reign was short, and now the
story goes that Raum's head is soon to
be cut off and ex-senator Blair appoin-
ted as his successor.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30
SOCIETIES.

A ssEMBLY NO. 1927, K. OF L.-Meets in K.
"A OF P. hall on first and third Sundays at 5
o'clock p. m.
WAsCo LODGE, NO. is, A. F. d A. M.-Meets
w first and third Monday of each month at Z
nALLES ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. g.
II Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesday
of each month at PM
MODERN WooDMEN OF THE WORLD
WI Mt. Hood Camp No. 80, Meets Tuesday even
ing of each week in 1. o. o. f. Hall, at 7:SO p M
COLUMBIA LODGE, NO. 5, I. O. O. F.-Meets
~ every Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock in K
of p. hall, corner Second and Court streets
Sojourning brothers are welcome
III. CLoUGH, Sec'y. H A. BILLs.N G.
FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. g., K. of P.-Meets
4 every Monday evening at 730 O'Clock, in
Schanno's building, corner of Court and Second
streets Sojourning members are cordially in
vited. GEO. T. THoMPsoN
D. w. YAUsE, Sec'y. c. c.
WOMENS CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE
w UNION will meet every Friday afternoon
at O'Clock at the reading room. All are invited
TNEMPLE 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,
WS MYERS, Financier. NJ. w.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30
THE CHURCHES.

CT. PETERS CHURCH-Rev Father BRoNs-
y GEEsT Pastor. Low Mass every Sunday at
A. NJ. High Mass at 1880 A. NJ. Vespers at
CT. PAUL'S CHURCH-Union Street, opposite
y Fifth. Rev. Eli d. Sutcliffe Rector. Services
every Sunday at II A. N. and 7;30 P. NJ. Sunday
1880
ENIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-Rev. o. d. TAY-
II LoR, Pastor. Services every Sabbath at IL
A. NJ. and 7:30 P. M Sabbath School at u NJ
Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at Z
O'Clock.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-Rey. W. c.
~ CURTIS, Pastor. Services every Sunday at IL
A. NJ: and P. M. Sunday School after morning
service. Strangers cordially invited. Seats free.
AZ E. CHURCH-Rev. II. Brown, Pastor
Nlo Services every Sunday morning and even
ing: Sunday School at 1213 O'Clock n. A cordial
invitation is extended by both pastor and people
to all.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

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, 1891-09-30
BRIEF STATE NEWS.

Isaac Coy, aged so, one of Marion
county's most prominent farmers, was
thrown ont of his wagon by his team
running away. An hour or so later he
was picked up unconscious and taken
home. His limbs were paralysed from
the effect of injuries to his spine, but at
last accounts he was slowly recovering.
News from the Poorman mine is very
encouraging. New silvered plates and a
fine screen arrived at Brownsville for the
company, and Thursday Messrs. ELL
for the mine. A good report is looked
for when they get the mill in shape
again, although il is now saving some
gold.
Horace Cline has brought suit in the
state circuit court at Eugene against j.
c. Goodale, asking for the annulling OF
a contract entered into between the
plaintiff and defendant on March 10,
1891, which was for the sale of the Co.
burg sawmilI, lumber and water privil-
eyes, the consideration of which was to
be $40, 900, and for the sum of $45O0
paid on said contract.
]. A. Warner. who has been engaged
in surveying the lands that are being al
lotted in severalty to the Siletz Indians,
says the Indians are quite Indifferent as
to whether they receive the land or not.
The most of them have no higher am.
bition than to have the government pro-
vide them plenty of food and blankets.
/ A few, however, are good farmers, raise
good crops and want to farm their owT
land.
John Wink, of Pendleton, will sue the
Union Pacific for damages. Wink is the
I young man.who was thrown, with others
from a handcar which left the track neal
Hilgard, and badly hurt. His eyesighi
was affected and he was rendered totally
deaf. As it is claimed the accident was
caused from spreading rails, Mr.. Wink
/ wants remuneration from the company
! 1t is understood that he was offered $500
but declined to settle on these terms.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

DIR. Meek and W. H. Spease, the two
men arrested short time ago in PEN
dleton for procuring an abortion on the
person OF Mrs. Weaver, a widow whose
husband was drowned at Arlington some
years ago, had an examination on the
18th which resulted in both being bound
over to appear before the grand jury IN
the. sum. of $1,000 each. They were un-
able to furnish this amount and were
again remanded to Jail.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30

The opinion Of BE washington attor-
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-30
Important Announcement

On and after this date our prices for
books used in the public schools will be
as follows:
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Terms of Subscription.

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Parties ordering by mail will add ten per
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THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING co.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-10-02
An Obedient Egg.

''This is queer egg you have given
me, MOTHER" said Woodruff at the
breakfast table; ''see how it stands on
its smaller end!" Every one at the
table looked up in astonishmcnt Sure
enough there the egg stood as Wood
ruff had said, and what was more
wonderful still, in perfect balance on
the brim of bowl.
The boy took it down. and 10 ii as
sumed a slanting position on the edge
of the table, seemingly in the act of
falling down and yet not falling. All
the girls ,lmost screamed in their
amazement.
Next Woodruff took the egg and put
it in a different position again on its
broad end, and finally clappcd it, as it
were, slanting on the head of bottle
of mineral water. The positions
which an oLedieat egg may be made
TO assume are not all told here. 1t may
be placed in any other position at the
will of the person who handles It. 1t
can stand on end, sideways, inclined
to the right or to the left, half reclin-
ing, etc.
The preparation or "fxing" to OBJ
tain such an obedient egg is very sim
PIE. Let an egg be emptied through
small hole and then thoroughly
dried. Put into it about two thimble-
fuls of fine, dry sand, and plug the
hole with white wax. The sand in
side will act as ballast, and by slightly
shaking the egg thus "fixed," you can
change at will the centre of gravity
and make your shell assume any po-
sition you like to the amazement of
beholders.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-10-02
The Roma nee Of a Trotter.

The remarkable two year old Eagle
Bird colt Monbars is cred ted with
another very fast mile. This time he
cnt mile in 2.21, which caused his
owners, Rchtield & Leathcrs, to be-
lievc that he will break the
two-ycar-old stallion record of
Regal Wilkes, which is a quarter of a
second faster than this trial of Mon
bars. The history of Monbars reads
like romance. Less than year ago
his owners placed him in the hands of
q horse dealer TO be sold for $4,000.
While lie was good-looking colt, his
breeding Oh his dams side was not
sufficiently attractive TO cause any of
the horse fanciers to pay the seeming
ly exorbitant price. Fortunately for
his owners, he was given TO ''Uncle"
Dan Brown TO train, or rather break.
Brown was driving for George w. St.
Clair at the time, and about the twelfth
time the colt was handled, he showed
a quarter in 0.40.
This fact was communicated to his
owners, who Immediately raised the
price for the youngster to $4,000.
Messrs. Richfield & Leathers had been
importuned to buy the youngstcr at
$4,000, but they did not see enough in
him to warrant the expenditure of so
much as $4,000. When they, learned,
however, that he had gone a quarter
SO fast, they Immediately opened up
negotiations looking iowa d his pur.
chase. They were not willing to give
$4,000 for him, but few days later
when Monbars had gone another quar-
ter in 0.9S they concluded to buy the
colt. When they had met his owner
again the price had risen to $4,000,
but SO anxious were his present own
ers to obtain possession of the colt
that they never ceased their impor-
tunities till Monbars had become their
property at a private price. The
other day these gentlemen were Of
fered, so it is stated, $50, 900 for the
colt that, ten months ago, could have
been bought for $35OO.-[Times-Dem-
ocrat.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-10-02

and sentenced to be hung.
The story of the crime iS one of tho
most sensational on record. Three
years ago, Thomas L. Olson, we'll
known inventor, was murdered in
III. No clue to the CRIME was dis
covered at the time and the matter
died out. Some months ago, how
ever, William Laurens, while travel
ing through the small towns Of the
state giving exhibitions with the pho
nograph, and incidentally explaining
The working of the invention, stopped
at M. After the entertainment,
one of the townsmen, j. G. Nettleton,
approached Laurens and claimed
that he once knew a gentleman who
had invented the phonograph prior TO
Thomas A. Edison. This claim natur-
ally aroused the curiosity of the ex-
hibitor, and lie asked for proof to
substantiate it. Nettleton took Laur-
ems to his home, aud from n garret lit
tered with rubbish resurrcctcd a re-
ceiye' identical with Mr.. Edison's.
Laurens, on examining it, perceived a
series of indentations on the wax, in
dicating that il contained message.
Mr. Laurens, learning the circum-
stances under which Nettleton had be-
come possessed of the receiver was
eager TO use it i'll his phonograph.
When the cylinder crank was turned
this is what it revealed:
"I, Tohmas E. Olson, have been
murdered by Sam Hall, the postmas-
er of this town, for the purpose of
robbery. Hall knew that | received
large sums of money through the
mail. have no strength to say
more, but if this wonderful instru-
ment, which is the fruition of long
years of study, becomes known, what
have spoken into the "receiver" will
tell who my assassin is. May God
have mercy OH my soul, and for
"Such is the story of the detection
and conviction of Hall. If Laurens
had not given his exhibition in M,
probably the guilty perpetrator of the
horrible crime would have remained
unknown for years to come, as the
people in the staid little burg had
never-up to the time of Laurens'
arrival in the town-heard of Edison's
invention for the transmission of
sound. What makes it more remark
able is the efIrontery and subtility dis
played by Hall. lie it was, when Olson
had not been seen for several days,
who suggested that search be made
for the missing man. No one sus-
pected that Hall was the principal in
such terrible crime, and his arrest
stirred M from centre to circum-
ference. ~ Atlanta Constitution.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-10-02
The Trouble an Umbrella Caused.

"An overturned umbrella blown
from a room in the Hotel Ryan, at St.
Paul caused peculiar flood recently"
said ii. C. Calkins, an Erie, Pa,
drummer, at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
"The umbrella blew so as to OBJ
struct the corner CATCH basin during a
terrific rain. Down came the flood
and the cutters became swelled into
young creeks. Slowly the water in
the bitches increased, until it ran over
and flooded the Easements of the
neighboring merchants, who found
gallons of water in their cellars, and
hundreds of dollars worth of goods
were destroyed, all because of an up
turned umbrella -IChicagQ NeWsA
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-10-02
A Man Of Nerve.

A pretty exhibition was given by
the students of Springfield Medical
College under the auspices of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
1t was the resuscitation of a man who
had been smothered by smoke. In q
large hall had been erected wooden
structure, which was filed with Roman
candles, firecrackers and other COM
bustibles. II the midst of all these
the unfortunate had been placed for
suffocation and the building fired.
Shortly afterwal d. the victim of the
experiment was taken from the house
of smoke in thor Jughly unconscious
condition. He was put through
process of pumping and rubbing and
in the course of thirty minutes was
again walking around the hall. This
Mr.. Taylor thinks the quickest process
he has ever seen for bringing TO life
person who had been smothered or
one who was suffocated from smoke.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-10-02
Instincts Of tnttIe for Rlnod.

The following incident will show
how violently blood passion sometimes
affects cattle when they are permitted
to exist in half-wild condition, as on
the pampas. was out with my gun
one day few miles from home, when
l came across patch on the ground
where the grass was pressed or trod-
den down and stained with blood. |
concluded that soma tlievish gauchos
had slaughtered a fat COW there Oh the
previous night. and, TO avoid detection,
had somehow managed to carry the
whole of 1t away on their horses. As
l walked on, herd of cattle, number-
ing about 800, appeared moving slow
ly on toward a small stream a mile
away. They were travelling in thin,
long line, and would pass the blood
stained spot at distance of seven to
eight hundred yards, but the wind
from it would blow across their track.
When the tainted wind struck the
leaders of the herd they instantly stood
still, raised their heads, then broke out
into loud excited bellowings, and
finally turning, they started of at
fast trot, following up the scent in
straight line, until they arrived at the
place where one OF their kind had met
its death. The contagion spread, and
before long all the cattle were congre-
gated on the fatal spot, and began
moving round in dense mass, below
ing continually.
1t may be remarked here that the
animal has peculiar language on
occasions like this. 1t cmits sue
cession Of short believing cries, like
excited exclamations, followed by a
very loud cry, alternately sinking into
a hoarse murmur and rising to a kind
of scream that CRATES harshly on the
sense. OF the ordinary "cow music"
] am great admirer, and take as
much pleasure in it as in the cries and
melody Of birds and the sound Of the
wind in trees; but this performance
of cattle, excited by the smell of blood,
is most distressing TO hear.
The animals that had forced their
way into the centre of the mass to
the spot whore the blood was,
paved the earth and dug it up
with their horns and trampled
each other down in their frantic ex-
element. 1t was terrible to see and
hear them. The action of those on
the borde the living mas in per-
petually mosing round i'll circle, win
dolorous bellowings was like that of
the women in an Indian village when
a warrior dies, and all night they
shrek and howl with simulated grief,
going round and round the dead
mans hut in an endless procession.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-10-02
HARLOW BROS.
L. M. SWITZERLAND.
"A u q II 10 NEER.
Port Tobacco, Charles County, Ma.

win attend to all business entrusted IN
him, in any portion Of the County. Com
nlunications addressed TO i'm at port
Tobacco will receive prompt att ntion,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-10-02

The result of the inquest and full
account of the murder were published
in the county paper, but no one ap-
pearcd to idcn ify the dead man. No
clue to the pc 'petrator of the crime
could be CLEANED, tic town d county
authorities doing all in their power to
ferret out the guilty person. Tie
deed remained mystery.
The owner of the house in which
Olson had lived took possession Of the
murdered mans effects, slowing away
in the garret the instrument found in
his workroom, where it was forgotten.
In time the story of the only crime of
its kin ever committed in the village
became a tradition-and nothing
more.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-10-02

Another mail day, three years af-
terward, and frcm the appearance of
the town of M one would suppose
the inhabitants of the whole place
were collected around the postofficc.
Such, indeed, was the fact. A stu
pendous event had taken place in their
quiet little habitat. Great interest
was depicted on the faces of the as
semblage. They were waiting for
their weekly papers.
At last the mail coach was seen in
the distance, coming up the main
street, the horses in a brisk trot "a
pace, it is safe to say, they had not
struck for years. As it rolled up in
front of the store and the mail was
carried in, the crowd became wildly
impatient.
"Read the news out loud!" shouted
the people. One of the humber
mounted a barrel, paper in hand.
Quiet prevailing, he read:
"Sam Hall, formerly storekeeper
aud postmaster at M, is convicted