The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1890-12-20
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

School superintendent Shelley came
up from Hood River to-day.
Sunday is the shortest day of the year,
but this is not caused by the financial
stringency in the East.
The other engine from the Coyote
wreck passed down this morning, look
ing like a late salmon.
Three cars of cattle from La Grand
were fed at the yards here, and shipped
on to Portland yesterday.
Filloon Bros. report their plow trade
excellent, which indicates that plowing
is being carried on extensively.
Mr.. T. NJ. A. ]. Parrish of Waldron,
accompanied by William Waters, and
Robert A. Gillian are in the city.
The shops at Albina closed yesterday,
perhaps only temporarily, but that
little city can now see how it is itself.
Mr. w. R. Kirk of the Brownsville
woolen mills is in the city, looking, after
wool. He has come to the right spot.
Mr.. Harry Blanchard, the gentlemanly
purser of the steamer D. S. Baker, took
his departure for Portland to-day, where
he will remain for the winter.
Mr.. A. M. Harris shipped a carload of
cattle to-day to Portland. They came
from Mountain home, Idaho, and were
taken off here to feed and rest.
Mrs. McNaill and daughter, who have
been visiting Mrs. J. M. Filloon, re-
turned to their home in Portland this
morning.
Deputy U. S. Marshall Sinnosett pasd
down on the train to-day with four U. S.
prisoners gathered in from the Umatilla
Indian Reservation and vicinity.
Col. Sinnott of the Umatilla House
excelled himself yesterday, and served
as fine dinner to the Portland visitors
as one would care to sample.
Mr.. D. T. Stanley, editor of the North
[hristiGn of Portland, accompanied by
mis- wife, were among the visitors to this
city and North Dalles yesterday. We
acknowledge pleasant call.
The wheat shipments from this point
sduringShe month of November amoun-
ted to 2,62S, $40 pounds or 1912 tons.
The warehouses are still filed with it,
but none is exposed to the weather.
The failure in Chicago of S. A. Kean,
doing business under the firm name of
S. A. Kean & Co., yesterday disclosed
liabilities to the amount of 81 ,400, 900
with assets of 81 ,353,O0O.
Mr.. c. G. Abbott, the fine stock man,
of Kingsley arrived here from Portland,
yesterday with some fine blood mares
which he has had below during the
summer.
The toboggan slide looks exceedingly
lonesome with the green grass growing
4round it. 1t may have a season of use
fulness yet, but We are pleased to know
that it must necessarily be short.
The company's boats are still making
daily trips from Portland to Bonneville,
so passengers desiring to go by boat
through the grandest part of the Column
bia canyon, can do so by transferring at
that point.
The only people who know how to
bring up children are childless the only
men who know perfectly how to run
railroad are those who never had chance
to try; and the fellow who knows how
to run a newspaper is the fellow who
never did it. East Oregonian.
We understand proposition to locate
a woolen mill here has been made by
solid business parties in the East. They
ask that our citizens take stock to the
amount of half the cost of the plant.
The matter is before the Board of Trade
and we will give particulars as soon as
it is made public property.
The subscriptions to the daily are
coming in so fast that it is almost i'm
possible for our carrier to get his route
book in shape. This will be done in
few days and then every paper will be
delivered, We ask our patrons indul-
gence for short time until this can be
accomplished.
Some days ago the Oregonian con-
tanned an article on Ghost dances and
the Messiah craze, in which the old
dreamer and medicine man, 'sSmohol-
1a," was called Sioux Indian. Smo-
holla was Columbia river Indian, who
inhabited the country around White
Bluffs, and was man of great influence
as a dreamer.
The school exhibition at Hood River
is said to have been one of the finest