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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-12
wAYsIDE oLEANINGs.
Random Observations and Local Events
of Lesser Magnitude.

The city marshal is having telephone
placed in his Office.
The weather bureau promises for to-
morrow fair and cooler weather, and the
chances are that the weather bureau is
right.
The city recorder is doing business
with the expressmen today, most of
them applying for a renewal of their
licenses.
A. M. Williams & Co. are offering
their entire stock of muslin underwear
at ridiculouslY low figures this week.
See ad on first page.
When you can buy 5O-cent garments
for % cents; 75-cent garments for SS
cents. etc., it is time to buy. A. M.
Williams & Co.'s muslin underwear sale.
See ad.
Friday the thermometer registered go,
Saturday 98, and Sunday "a at Mr.. s. L.
Brooks place here. At Hood River
Saturday it was "a, or four degrees cooler
than here.
The Bonanza team won the rock drill
ing contest at the 4th of July celebration
at sumpter. making the record of 40 SIG
inches drilled in solid granite boulder
in 15 minutes.
Two Cinnamon were arrested this
morning for violating the fish laws.
They were taken before Justice Filloon,
and their examination was continued
until tomorrow.
A special train passed through at 8 :15
this afternoon. 1t carried ]. ]. Hill,
president and general manager, of the
Great Northern and General Manager
Mohler of the o. R. & n.
George A. Young of Redgway, who
has been in Portland for a couple of
weeks, returned to The Dalles last night.
He has not yet sold his wool, of which
he has very choice lot.
July 18th round trip tickets to Pen.
dleton can be purchased for the sum of
$4.25. The great Democratic luminary,
W. ]. Bryan, speaks on the 14th, and
the o. R. & N. proposes to give all its
patrons who desire to do SO, chance to
hear him.
We note that the good work of placing
the o. R. & N. in the very best of con-
dition is being continued by the new
superintendent. At Mosier two bad
curves are being taken out, and at other
points wherever possible the road is be-
ing made straight.
Highest daily bowling scores at the
Commercial alley last week were: Mon
day, n. Fredden, As; Tuesday, Miss
Myrtle Michel, 40; Wednesday, W. L.
Bradshaw, 4s; Thursday, Miss lone
Ruch, 40; Friday, Vic Schmidt, AZ; Sat-
urday, F. L. Houghton, 56.
A Portland paper says the hosehesh
cannery at Linton will resume operations
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-12
by throwing their hats over.

The good old Regulator, with flags fly
ing and band playing, arrived at her
wharf at 7:15, and was met by nearly
everyone in town, who went down to
welcome the excursionists home.
The member of the hose team worked
hard, and it is too bad that their efforts
were not crowned with a greater reward.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-12

We sell Hoe Cake soap.-Pease &
Mays. a3-2m
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-12

Soap Foam exceIs all other washing
compounds. a2-3m
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10
horticulture Items.

Humboldt said that in destroying
the forests upon our mountains and
in our valleys men have, under all
chimes, prepared for subsequent gen
eratiOns two calamities at Once-lack
of fuel and a want of water.
1t is not wise to bank the celery
with earth during hot weather. This
way of doing is what makes so much
celery rusty. Use boards for bleach
ing until cool weather sets in.
One of the many things which it is
necessary for the grower OF straw
berries to know is that pistillate va
rieties will stand frost better than
the staminates.
Disease most readily attacks both
least thrifty. Give the orchard or gar
den good start, and then push them
right along, and you are pretty safe.
Theoretically there should be no
application to the bark of trees which
will stop the pores, but practically
washing the trunks with lime has
been found to produce clean and
healthy bark, and to be beneficial.
In packing fruit for market do not
permit even one imperfect specimen
to creep in. One damaged fruit will
detract from the value of all, and
may spoil twenty before they are
sold.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10

placed on the seed before mills were
established was twelve and one-half
cents per ,bushel, or $3.50 per ton.
1t will be entirely within the figures,
therefore, to assume that the cotton
seed now used in the south as ma
nure is worth to the farmer at least
So per ton. 1t is, therefore, very i'm
provident for cotton farmers to sell
their cotton seed to the mills for
$3.50 to $3.50 per ton, as many have
done recently. They had better keep
it at home and use it as manure. On
the basis of So per ton the residue
not used by the mills (2,325,OOO tons)
would be worth $1S,6OO,OOO as farm
manure.
The products of cotton seed have
recently become important elements
in our national industry. The main
product is the refined oil, which is
used for a great number of purposes,
such as salad oil, compound lard,
miners oil and the like. The poorer
grades of this oil are used for max
ing soap.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10
Ancient Gardens.

In the semi tropical garden of the
present day the human race renews
it's youth. The cradle of civilization
was rocked by the breezes waited
eastward from the Mediterranean,
amid the splendid vegetation which
sprang naturally from the rich soil
in the valleys of the Euphrates and
the Nile, supplemented by the acqui-
sitions of fruits and flowers made by
barbaric tribes returning from their
excursions into distant parts of Asia.
Before the pyramids uprose, before
the most Chaldean records were in
scribed. mankind had learned to love
plants and flowers, and history dawns
upon peoples skilled in horticultural
arts and moved by horticultural SEN
timent.
Traditionally, the semi-tropical is
the pioneer garden. Of half a dozen
sites of Edens for which theologians
have contended, all we're in semi-trop-
ical situations.
Historically, the greatest gardens
of the world have been made in semi
tropical regions.
Naturally, the grandest results in
acclimation and the widest diversity
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10

of beautiful forms of plant, flower
and fruit are to be found in that fa-
vored belt of the earth's surface to
which both the temperate and trop-
ical zones have given many of their
best plant treasures, and when the
refugees from killing frost or burn
ing heat assume, in some respects at
least, perfection of form and fruit
age which they do not attain in the
regions of extremes whence they
came. 1t would appear, then, that
when man or nature, or both to-
gether, would achieve the highest re-
suits of gardening art, they have
chosen a location having character
stics intermediate between, or conn
mon to, both the temperate and trop-
zeal zones, which are the words the
Standard dictionary gives as a defni-
ton of sub-tropical or semi-tropical;
for these two terms seem to be prac-
tically interchangeable E. j.
Wickson, of the California State Uni
versity.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10
Florida's Health.

The annual meeting of the state
board of health, during which the
healHh statistics of the state for the
year 1896 were thoroughly canvassed
tAl!ed renewed attention to a fact
with which the people of Florida
have long been familiar, viz: That
there is no healthier climate than
ours.
Notwithsha nding the fact that vi
rulemt fever existed in Cuba, and
that conditions consequent upon the
quarantine ON the Florida coast a
matter of impossibiliIty, no epidemics
of infectious or contagious diseases
have been reported, and the general
health record of the state compares
most favorably with that of any 9th
err in the Union.
Florida may be classed as a nation
all sanitaltium. Hundreds of invalids
yearly die in the state who have
deaths are all included in the care
fully prepared mortuary records, and
yet the general average of mortality
is remarkably low. IF it were con-
fined to those who had been perma-
nent residents the percentage would
be materially reduced.
Our northern friends concede the
healthfulness of Flordda's climate
during the winter season, but they
have not yet seemed to realize the
fact that our health record is almost
unvarying Through the year, and
that Florida's summer temperature is
much to be preferred to that of their
own section, the mercury seldom
reaching the extreme height that
marks it's range i'm the east, west and
north. Times Union.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10
Orange Grove at a Bagain

Four and one-ha (4a) acre gr We (seedinR) 2
years OLD Good six (6) room house (paint. d..
with extra large barn and OutbuilGings; lawn 4Ox
$50 feet in front and back of house. About 5
acres of high pine land well timbered 20 hcres
cleared and under fence; q mile from station, so
this ear. 1t has been well cared for since tn
freeze. has had plenty of work all trimmed out
and fertiiized. On the place there are Peach
and is a very healthy place. Prce $500 Address
POSTMASTER, Glen Ethel, Fla
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10
LITERARY NOTE.

The Waverley Magazine comes
every week, and seems to be rapidly
growing in popularity. CHANGING over
a recent issue, it is not hard to see
why it's publishers expect to reach
the 100000 mark in 1897 Each week
you get ten or more complete stories
of Love, Mystery, and Adventure by
popular authors, besides many other
interesting things to please each
member of a family.
The Waverley can be procured of
your News Agent, or from The Wa
verley Publishing Company, Station
G, Boston, for 10 cents.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10
FLORIDA!!
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL and finely
located tract of land for
A Colony in Florida
Is located in Polk county, on the line
of
D1o,o+ Svc+oy,o
Plant System,

North of Barlow, west of Gordonsville and
south Of Winter Haven, extending from the rail-
road to LAKE HANCOCK. which is two miles
distant, a nd it's area is bout five miles long by
two miles wide having beautiful lake fron's for
residences and hotel purposes. The fishing is
excellent, and all KINGS of game abound in it's
Immediate vicinity. The soil is adapted to the
growth of all kinds of fruits, vegetables. nuts
sugar-cane, tobacco. etc.
Price of land-$5.O0 to $1,000 per
acre, in tracts of 20 and so acres
each, one-fourth cash, balance in
three years.
We also have large and small
tracts of good agricultural lands in
almost every county in the state of
Florida, which can be had at So to So
per acre on easy payments.
Our Town Site Lots are1 acre each-$5O each.
For fine lithograph maps and full information
address
Florida Homestead Co.,
208 Franklin st..
TAMPA, FLA.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10
Citrus Nursery Tees.

All the lie ding varieties at lowest pri es. Car
ney, Parson Brown, Sanford, Nedt Swee P. r.
ST. Michael, Pierce's Ruby, Pineapple, Maiorca
Cunningham, Homasassa and Jaffa, Satrum
Tanger'ne, King, Pernamburo, Improved. Tri-
umph, Walters. Everett and Marsh's Seedless
Grape Fruit. Kumquats. All fine one We r buds
on fourand five year old sour orange. R. len on
pomelo stock. Will bud dormant to any
varieties parties ay desire. Fine Kumquat bud
woodfor sale. Address G. w FOX, Villa ak e
Nurseries. Fruitland Park Lake Co., Fla
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10

According to the deductions of a
we'll known astronomer, we receive
as much light from the sun as could
be emitted by $4,000 full moons!
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10

1t will be seen that this represents
only about A per cent OF the crop.
There remains, therefore, to be u6il
lied on the farm 1895 900 tons of cot
ton Seed which, if manufactured,
would produce, in round numbers,
$44, 100000 additional. In other
words, the value of the cotton seed
crop of the south at the present low
prices of OIL meal and hulls, would
be, if it were all pressed, $79,025 900
at the mills.
1t is more difficult to find out what
this manufactured seed is actually
worth to the farmer as now used for
feed or manure. In contrast with
the farmers of forty years ago, the
southern planter now appreciat ties the
value of his cotton seed, so that it is
quite certain that very little of it is
absolutely thrown away. Thus, farm
ers too remote from the mills to get
it pressed now feed to their stock all
the cotton seed they conveniently
can, and use the residue of their seed
either in compost or directly as ma
nure. 1t is practically impossible to
estimate the amount of seed used for
feeding purposes, so that we will
have to be satisfied with an estimate
of it's value as fertilizer.
The average of large number OF
analyses of whole cotton seed gives
the following figures for the fertiliz-
ing constituents:
Per cent.
Nitrogen .......... 5.Io
Phosphoric acid ...... .......... 1877
Potash .......... ........ ...... LIZ
besides small amounts of lime, mag
nesia and other valuable but less i'm
portant ingredients. Using average
prices paid for nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and potash when bought in large
quantities and in good forms, these
ingredients in ton of cotton seed
foot up as follows:
$3.50 pounds nitrogen, worth, at
IL cents per pound ........... $7.51
25.4O pounds phosphoric acid,
worth, at cents per pound :. .76
23.4O pounds potash, worth, at3
cents per pound ............. 10
$8.97
1t will be seen that, compared with
the commercial fertilizer which the
farmer has to buy, cotton seed is
very valuable material AS matter OF
fact, the valuation cotton7growers
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-10
Value Of Cotton Seed.

Mr.. Chas. w. Dabney, Jr., assistant
secretary of agriculture, discusses at
some length in the current issue of
the Southern States Magazine the
relative value of the cotton and cot
ton seed crops of the south. Mr.
Dabney estimates that the seed of a
given cotton crop is worth potentially
one-third as much as the cotton. Ac-
cording to MIR. Da,bney's figures the
value of the seed from a single crop
is approximately $4,000, 900. We make
the following extracts from the arti-
Gle:
From the number and capacity of
the OIL mills it is estimated that the
proportion of this seed pressed at the
oil mills in the season of 1S96-97 will
be approximately 100000 tons. This
amount of Seed milled in the average
way, will yield i'm round numbers:
S3,OOOOOO gallons crude Oil
at Is cents ............. 500, 75O, 900
100000 tons meal, worth
SIS per ton ............ 10,S0O,O0O
100000 tons hulls, worth
$3.50 per ton ........... 100000
Linters or short cotton,
worth ...... .. 80. 100000
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27
DR.. M'LEAN,

Dean of the California Medical College,
Shot and Seriously Wounded by a JAM
itor-The Latter Commits Suicide.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 24--Dr.
Donald MacLean, dean of the Cali
fornia Medical college. was shot and
seriously wounded Friday afternoon
by Patrick Walsh, a janitor, who sub
sequently committed suicide.
DIR. MacLean was walking home ward
from the college when he encountered
Walsh, who taxed the doctor with
having failed to fulfill promise made
some months ago, to aid him in secur-
ing the position of janitor at the coll
lege. The doctor denied that he was
under any obligations to him. where
upon Walsh drew pistol
and shot him three times, pro-
ducing serious wounds. Walsh
then ran with crowd in pursuit.
After running for several blocks,
Walsh put the pistol to his head and
blew out his own brains At the
morgue it was found that he had writ
ten a statement to the effect that the
doctor had lied tc him and thereby
driven the nails into his own coffin.
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27
Excursion to Niagara Falls.

On Thursday, August 18th, the Cleveland,
Akron & Columbus R'y will run an excur-
sion from Columbus, GAINESVILLE and inter-
mediate stations to Niagara Falls via Cleve-
land and the steamer City of Buffalo, of
the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Co. The
round trip rate to Niagara Falls will be
$500 from Columbus and GAINESVILLE, $500
from Mt. Vernon, $500 from Millersburg,
$500 from Akron, and proportionately low
rates from intermediate stations. Train
will leave Columbus ii 80 a. m. and Zanes-
vile l2:O0 noon of that day, making fast
time. Tickets good returning five days
from date of sale. For special information
as to trips beyond Niagara Falls and all
details see special excursion bills or apply
to any agent of this Company, or G. f..
DAILY, General Passenger Agent.
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27
CHARLES A. KETCHUM.

Well Known Forger and Confidence Man
Dies in the Michigan City Penitentiary.
CHICAGO, July 24.-News is received
here of the death of Charles A. Ketch-
um, alias Kalston, alias Dick Wilson,
in the Michigan City, Ind, peniten-
tiary, by the bursting of a blood YES
sci. Ketchum was we'll known in this
city as a forger and confidence man.
He was only IA years old when he
commenced his criminal career in
Louisville.
In 1892 he was engaged as an ex-
press messenger by the Adams Ex-
press Co., his run being from Cincin-
natl to Nashville. In Novem Der he is
said to have robbed the company of
$25, 900 by substituting brown paper
for money.
Returning to Chicago he committed
many forgeries in the Maxwell street
police district and the police of that
station still carry warrants for him
passing bogus checks on various retail
dealers. When he learned detectives
were searching for him he left Chicago
and went to Indianapolis where he
robbed jeweler of a tray of diamonds.
Foc this he was sentenced to five
years in the Michigan City, Ind, peni-
tentiary. Before Ketchum died he is
said to have made a complete confess
sion of his criminal career to Deputy
Warden A. w. Sutton.
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27
Narrowly Escaped Lynchine.

CHICAGO, Ill, July 6-James O'Don-
nell, who lives the life of a recluse,
shot into a crowd Of small boys who
were playing ball near his home Sum
day afternoon. Thomas Good, aged
II, and Frank Spears, aged 8, colored,
were badly wounded. Spears will
probably die. AS soon as the shooting
became known, an angry mob of
neighborS surrounded ODonnell's S
home, where he was hidden. The
timely arrival of patrol wagon saved
his life, but by a narrow margin, as
the mob surrounded the wagon and
the officers were forced to fight to pro-
tect their prisoner. ODonnell said
the boys annoyed him with their noise.
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27

Mans two best friends are SAID 20 Ee 60
gun and dog It is easy to get gUou nude uvs
by ' the Winchester Repeating Arms Co77
New Haven, Ct, are not only always good,
but they are acknowledged the best MADE E IN
the world. For years the Winchester mas
been the standard of the worlo, and to any
one who has studied or examined Its many
points of superiority its popularity Is s;aos aos
and shot guns made by the Winchesters are
in demand all over the world: Although
they cost comparatively little, they are bet
ter than the highest priced hand made guns
in every way. Winchester ammunition IS
of the same high grade as Winchester guns
and can always be relied upon. Send lor d
large illustrated catalogue free.
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27
Hail Stones as Large as Hen Eggs.

HUNTINGTON, W. Va, July "a. AT
5:45 o'clock Friday evening hail and
wind storm passed over this section,
causing immense damage. No reports
can be received from the districts
south of here, as all wire are down.
Many small buildings were blown
down and corn crops are completely
ruined. Window panes an eighth Of
of an inch thick were broken here by
the hail. The streets were white for
20 minutes, and some hail stones were
as large as hen eggs
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27
ADMIRAL MILLER
Go rake Command of the Pac nc
s'asion-Large Number of Postmasters

n q
Appointed.
WASHINGTON, July 24.-Conpress
probably will adjourn it's extra ses-
sion Saturday night This opinion is
helo oy most congressman, and unless
an unexpected obstacle presents itself
the opinion will be verified. It is in.
tended that the house shall first adont
the final adjournment resolution. and
tnough some objection may arise in
the senate TO its immediate considera-
tlon' thls is not expected to be pro-
ionged. Speaker Reed will announce
his committees Saturday. With the
tariff bill disposed of shortly after 2
p m., an adjournment could follow
within the next two hours
Orders were issued by the secretary of
the navy Friday detaching Adm. Mil
ler from duty with the BROOKLYN on
the 9th instant, and ordering him to
take command of the Pacific station.
leaving San Francisco for Honolulu on
the 5th proXimo. He will be accom-
panied by Lieut.. L. S. Rodgers and
Lieut.. T. Andrews. Orders were also
issued Friday detaching Rr Adm. l..
A. Beardslee from command Of the Pa
cltc station on the reporting of his re-
lief IN August, and ordering him to
Washington, d. c., for duty as presi-
dent of the naval examining board.
The largest number of appointments
of fourth-class postmasters ever made
on single day was scored Friday
with an aggregate of 163. The best
previous record was 157, made June IL.
WASHINGTON, July 24.-Harry A.
Rucl1er, who was Friday nominated
for internal revenue collector for
Georgia, is colored man residing in
Atlanta. He has but recently come in
to the contest for the place and the
Georgia senators had only brief notice
of his probable appointment Neither
of them had met Mr.. Rucker until a
day or two ago and they expressed
themselves as unprepared to say
whether they will favor or oppose his
confirmation. They state, however,
that so far as they are informed Ruck.
er is a man of good character.
WASHINGTON, July 24.-The senate
has agreed to vote on the tariff bill
Saturday at 3 p. m.
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27
kLoNpYKE BASIN.

DID Time Miners Beport of the Country
No Ordinary Man Can Stand the Hards
Ships.
GREAT FALLS, Mont. July "A. frank
Moss, an old time miner in this sec
ton, who four years ago was one of
party of Americans to first visit the
Klondyke country, returned Friday
and tells story of horrors and starva-
ton seldom equaled even in modern
novels. He describes Klondyke as a
placer camp seven miles long and 13
miles wide, located in sink and
walled in by boulders of rocks 5000
feet high. Gold, he says abounds, but
no ordinary man can stand the hard
ships of the uncivilized region. When
Moss left here four years ago he was
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27
Three Men Drowned at Detroit.

DETROIT, Mich. July 26.-Three De-
troit young men were drowned Sun
day afternoon by the capsizing of a
row boat off Sugar island, near the
mouth of the Detroit river. The
drowned are William w. Shier, Frank
E. Russell, jr. and Edwin Stubensky.
Young Russell's father and brother,
who were also in the boat which up
set, swan ashore but narrowly es-
capped from going under.
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27
One Hundred and Twenty
Drowned.
People

LONDON, July ga dispatch from
Sin gapore says that the Chinese steam
er Srihengann, bound from Singapore
for Malacca with 100 passengers, was
wrecked in a squall off -Malacca on
June 49, One hundred and twenty
persons, including the captain of the
steamer, were drowned The re-
mainder of the ships company were
rescued by a passing steamer.
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27
Miners Gain n Victorv.

SHARON, Pa, July 24.-Mercer coun-
ty miners have gained a victory in
their strike and the operators have
conceded to their demands. The men
were out about three weeks and will
now return to work at once The op-
orators will pay them 43 cents for run
of the mine coal. About 1000 miners
are effected.
The Bourbon news., 1897-07-27
London Graphic on the Tariff Bill.

LONDON, July 2e.-The Daily Graphic
commenting editorially on the passa ge
OF the new tariff bill by the United
States congress, predicts a sorry time
for the American consumer and prob
able revival of currency heresies and
Organism in an infinitely aggravated