The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-08
LOCAL BREv1TIEs.

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Mr.. Phil Brogan sen. and Mr.. Phil
Brogan jr., of Antelope, are in the city.
Information comes tn this office that
there is an average wreck of one day
on the old o. R. & N. Co.'S road.
Don't miss the entertainment at the
opera house tomorrow evening. The
exercises will begin promptly at o'clock.
The many friends of DIR. SheckIeford
will be pleased to hear that he is slowly
recovering from his tedious illness.
good thing that other fellows would
like to have but cannot get.
Harry Blanchard, purser of one of the
U. 2. Sound steamers, came over to give
testimony in the Skowtowe case, and
will return this week.
A few head of horses, the property of
Charley Cooper, were sold Saturday after
noon at the stock yards by J. B. Crossen,
auctioneer.
The young ladies of st. Mary's Acad-
emy will give an exhibition on Saturday
the 18th of June at two O'Clock p. m. at
which the Right Rev. Archbishop Gross
is expected to be present.
A band of sheep said to number 10 900
head were shipped today across the ferry
to Washington. They belong to Messrs.
G. Butler and Jack Anderson and are
destined for the Sound market.
Rev. Father Brongeest requests us to
announce that the usual service held at
Kingsley on the second Sunday of the
month is for the present month post
poned to the third Sunday on account of
the exhibition of the young ladies of st.
Mary's Academy on the 18th inst.
Benedict Arnold has turned up at The
Dalles. He informed the u. p. R., con-
corning the plans of the people for boat
to ply in the opposition line, and before
the Intention of the people was carried
; out the "system" had the boat tied up.
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Mr.. #. T. Turner, the gentlemanly
operator of the Western Union, who has
been confined to his room with Grippe
for the past few days, we are pleased to
hear, is recoveiing. By the advice of
his physician however, he will not be at
his post for a week or ten days.
A Walla Walla paper says money is
relic of barbarism." If this definition
is correct, it follows that all earth's in
habitants, at all times, have been and
are relic hunters and barharians, green
hackers and their successors alone ex-
cepted.
The San Francisco Chronicle of the
31st ult., informs us that at the annual
games of the Pacific division of the
Amateur Athletic Union of the United
States, held in that city on the 30th ult.
Mr.. Ed Mays of this city took the first
prize in the four ur-hundred- and forty yard
run, making the time in 5115 seconds.
A number of the fruit growers of this
neighborhood met in the old court house
last Saturday afternoon for the purpose
of organizing a Fruit Growers Shipping
company. A committee was appointed
to draft articles of incorporation which
are to be submitted to a meeting to be
held at the same place next Friday at
2 o'clock p. IN.
Ex-congressman w. r. Morrison
passed through the city on the noon train
Saturday going east to Spokane. Mr..
Morrison had luncheon at the Umatilla
House and when he came to the counter
to pay for his meal Colonel Sinnot recog-
nized him at once as the "Bill Morrison
he used to know nearly 40 years ago
away back in Peoria, Illinois.
Mr.. j. H. Sherar of Sherar's bridge is
expected to arrive in the city this even
ing or tomorrow forenoon. There is
nothing singular III this save the fact
that as he comes for the purpose of buy
ing wool and has always shown himself
willing to pay the utmost fraction it is
worth we may fairly expect that the
deadlock that has been on the wool
market for the season will be broken.
We believe the same state of affairs ex-
listed this time last year and that Mr..
Sherar's purchases were the first to fix
prices and open the market.
At Pendleton last Friday evening a
man named Culbert, who had been steal
ing a ride attempted to Jump off the
:, train before it came to full stop. On
touching the ground he fell upon his
face and Iyrelled over, when his left leg
was whirled under the wheels and his
ankle crushed inside the shoe till it dam
gled from the bleeding stump The doc
tors aIhputated the foot above the ankle
and the .mansat last acpuuts, was dotnp
we'll.