The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-18
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.


Mill creek TODAY.
Second hand baby carriage for SALE
Apply at this office.
The CHRONICLE job office is being run
to its fullest capacity.
The great violinist Ovid Musin is soon
rare treat.
Mr.. Silas Beezley is going to Burnt
Ranch on visit to his neice who Is re-
siding there.
VIM. Bird was in the city today tran
sacting business at the land Office in re-
gard to his timber culture claim.
''Good times aheadl'' exclaims a rural
exchange. Yes, we've heard so.
They've been just ahead for some time.
Capital Journal.
Henry G. Coe and wife, of Hood River,
have given bond for a deed in the sum
of $1,000, for lots three and four in section
A, town of Wacoma, to J. E. Rand, of
Hood River.
Freight rates from Portland to Heppner
are A to So cents per hundred less than
via Baker City, and as it costs less to
SntP WOOl lTOu IlCppUcT, Gllc ET6dCtT
portion of the business from this section
during the wool season is via the former
town.-GrGnt County Neaos.
The first horse show ever given by the
Gillian County Horse Improvement
association was held at Fossil last Satur-
day. 1t was thoroughly successful, fully
$20, 900 worth of animals being present.
ol. - 81
calls the editor of the Goldendale Sentinel
a "beef-faced bull-necked big-shanked
town bull" and yet there are some folks
who think The Dalles the worst place in
the world for fighting editors.
Mr.. E. B. Dufur is just in from Dufur
and Tygh Valley and reports that Mr..
Norton is getting along finely with his
survey. good grade, easy of construc-
ton, has been found from this city to the
divide. The people are much pleased to
find that the route will be so easy for a
railroad. They are all giving Mr.. Norton
a pleasant reception. Mr.. Dufur says
the farmers of that part of the country
are all pleased with the outlook for crops
the coming season.
In the first base ball game of the sea-
son the Portland won against the Spok-
and by score of five to three. Yester-s
day the Spokanes were saved from a
whitewash at Portland by rainstorm
which broke up the game. The score
stood Portland 4, Spokane o, when the
rain drove them from the grounds.
IaG r.
what is involved in the expression, ''An
inch of rain" 1t may aid such to fol-
low this curious calculation: An acre
is equal to 6,272, $40 square inches; an
inch deep on this area will be as many
cubic inches of water, which at 227 to
the gallon, is $4,000 gallons. This i'm
mense quantity of water will weigh 222,-
600 pounds, or 100 tons. One hundredth
of an inch alone is equal to one ton of
water to the acre
II. HI. Wheeler, of Grid creek, paid
Fossil the first visit since the town was
located, last Wednesday. He has been
here, however, before the town was. For
seven years, in the sixties, when Canyon
City was great mining camp, and the
country between was full of treacherous
Indian savages, Mr.. Wheeler stocked
and ran stage between The Dalles and
Canyon City. Mr.. Wheeler's stage stock
were frequently stolen. He was seriously
wounded on Bridge creek during the
outbreak by old Paulina's band. We
would like to see history of this country
during those perilous times written by
Mr.. Wheeler. He was regarded by the
early settlers as one of the bravest men.
and good Indian fighter.-Fossil Jour
nal.
The Warm Spring Indian commission
consisting of Mark Fullerton, of Colfax,
WASH, ]. F. Payne, of Alma, N. c., and
w. H. H. Dufur, of Dufur, Or, which
es appointed to locate the northern
boundary of the Warm Spring reserva-
ton and which has been at work since
the 10th of January last, has just COM
pleted its mission. The commissioners
now go to the Colville reservation to make
arrangement for the cession of portion
OF Its lands to the end that they may be
thrown open for public settlement. In
the matter OF the Warm Spring boundary
the commissioners have taken the depo-
sitlons OF nearly so Indians and between
20 and 80 whites. The report has not as
yet been made out but it is believed that
the commission see their duty SO clearly
that the report will be unanimous. We
sincerely hope it will be in favor of the
whites as we have always believed that
they had the right side of the question
and believe so STILL