The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-25
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

l0uS peacn plumS %- ~
Judge Thornbury has not a doubt in
the world that the present insafferably
hot spell is caused by the Mckinley bill
Elder Richardson, of Klickitat county,
Wash, will hold meeting at Wapi-
nitia, in this county, on the first Sunday
in August. s4s.5 IL
A Japanese coal -heaver narrowly es-
capped being ground up by the wheels of
passing freight train on theaU. P.
trestle this morning. fT q
Miss Matte Johnston was a passen-
ger on the Baker this morning. She
goes to swell'the majority OF Dalles peo-.1
pie in camp at the Cascade hot springs.
Near Bogus dwells paralyzed man
with a wife and son. Last weelyathe old
lady was seen working hard in the hay
field, while the son was staggering home
as drunk and happy as a lord
u The Spokane Review believes that the
time will come, and at no distant date,
when wheat will be carried to the sea-
board for two dollars ton.
Services viii be held in the German
Lutheran church, tomorrow at 10 80 a.
N. and p. m. Sunday-school services
at 80 a. IN. cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all. a. HORN, Pastor.
Mr.. &c. Nickelsen kindly furnished,
this morning, each member of the
CHRONICLE staff with a fan. The only
pity is, we are all so busy getting out
the best paper in Eastern Oregon that
we have not time to use them.
Mr.. c. w. Rice and family will leave
on Monday for a months summer out
ing. They intend to go by way OF the
Barlow road and stop part of the time
near the base of Mount Hood and the
rest at the Wilhoit soda springs.
r, Mr.. Geo. Filloon, wife and child, Miss
Sadie Whitmer and Mrs. ] j. Marshal.
Mrs. Filloon's sister. went down on the
Baker this morning to go into camp,
dHring the heated spell, at the Cascades
hot springs. Mr.. Filloon will return
Monday.
They have four assessors in Clatsop
county and here is the result, as summed
up by the AstoriGn
The city assessment roll will be COM
pleted this week. The school assess
ment and the state assessment aud the
county assessment and the street assess
ment and the road assessment and the
poll tax assessment is in present fash
ion, too.
We have heard of all sorts of battles,
but the most unique battle on record
took place in this city on last Thursday
night. 1t was a battle of hats. High
tiles, low tiles, narrow tiles, summer
tiles-all kinds OF tiles were wrecked
and ruined. But the boys must have
fun, even if half of them had to go
home barefooted.
Mrs. Jane Ferguson, widow lady of
comfortable means, from the Willamette
valley, was in town yesterday filing on "a
homestead claim which she has taken
up adjoining the claim of her SON, Mr..
Vincent Tapp of Wapinitia. We under
stand there are still some good claims
tural section, to which the settlers
would gladly welcome new comers.
The discovery has been made that men
:. in The Dalles who have crossed, the con-
tinent dozen times, who were born and
practically raised by the sounding sea,
and who have hundred times battled
with the pillows of the Atlantic and Pa
cific Oceans can get deadly sea sick rid
ing hobby-horse ON the merryzgo-
round.
The Alabama Theatrical company now
billed to play in Portland, passed
through the city this morning. About
4 dozen of the troop changed cars for the
boat. They had their own special bag
gage car on the side of which was painted
in large and striking characters, cres-
cent surrounded by wreath which they
use, we understand, as a sort OF trade
mark or advertising sign. !.
1t is rumored that Col. Houghton will
tender his resignation as colonel of the
Third regiment, to take effect Septem-
Der 1st. This is, of course, a matter
which largely concerns the colonel and
thefegiment, but we shall be sorry, in
deed, if the colonel's resignation should
result III the removal of headquarters
from this place, as, in the opinion of
some, is likely to be the case, and sor-
rier still if the city should lose that
which has, for SO long, been the pride
and pleasure of the communicable
regimental band.