The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-11
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The Dalles that Receives the Associated
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LOCAL BKEvITIEs.

. Mr.. Richard Signan of Dufur is in
kSthe city.
The Hon. f. o. Mccoy, of Grants, is
in the city
T. H. Johnston, of Dufur, is registered
at the Umatilla Hause.
Mr.. Rufus Wallace of Rufus, Sherman
county, gave US pleasant call today.
B. S. Huntington is attending court at
Goldendale. He is expected home today.
Every. thing quiet today, at the East
end of town, and nothing is doing at the
stock yards.
Within the last few days the price of
wheat has raised In Walla Walla. 1t is
now selling at sixty-three cents bushel.
The young lady compositors of the
CHRONICLE Office, very cordially thank
Mr.. David Garrison for beautiful bo-
quet of spring flowers.
The regular 80 a. m. west bound
passenger will have to rustic to get to
Portland on time. She is due here to-
night at seven o'clock-only ten hours
late.
The freight train that left the Cascade
q little after noon yesterday carrying the
prisoner Parr in charge. of constable
Knightly, made remarkable time about
four miles an hour, getting here about
eleven o'clock last night.
A gang of fourteen men are engaged
on Bridge street, near Ninth, breaking
mp the pile of rock, some time ago taken
out of the intersection of these two streets.
The broken rock will be ground up and
used for making concrete for the new
reservoir in the pines
The Shasta Courier says: A Shasta
county man has posted up this remarka-
BILE sign: "For SALE A Jersey COW to
some man who Will have calf in the
the spring at a Bargain" The quiet
waiting to see the customer. One of the
elders said he would give the contents of
the contribution box for the next six
weeks to see the man who is going to
have calf this spring.
The man Thompson, who is charged
with being an accessory in the shooting
scrape, at the Cascades, is out on bail.
His bondsmen are j. T. Peters of this
CITY and Mr.. Frizzell of the Locks Parr
has been committed to the county jail,
without bail, awaiting the results of Nc
Cormack's injuries. Mccormack is still
very low and his life hangs on in the
balance, with the chances very much
against him.
Mr.. Charles Schmidt of the Wasco
warehouse, reports that while little bus
mess is being transacted there, the wool
men are already making inquiries about
the prospects of prices for the coming
clip. In answer to the question, what
is the outlook? Mr.. Schmidt replied
that the prospects for good prices and
good times, all round, were never
brighter.
Captain Donovan has just returned
from a trip to Canada and the east.
He visited New Brunswick where he
found five feet of snow, and everything
frozen up. He says the people here
have no idea of the coldness one meets
on such trip. He came back by the
Northern Pacific and describes the trip,
part of the way, like running train
through narrow street. from the i'm
mence piles of snow on each side of the
track. He was exceedingly happy to
get back to The Dalles and thinks there
is no place like it.
The CHRONICLE reporter was shown
this morning some very neat and beau
tiful oil paintings, by Miss Maggie Larsen
daughter of J. H. Larsen of this city.
Miss larsen is a pupil of the Sisters
Academy in this city, and her work re-
fleets great credit upon herself as well
as her instructors. The subject of her
sketches are Mt. Tamalpaise, from Hip
Ross valley, California, the Falls of
Minnehaha, Mt. Hood scenes on the
Coltn river, and others. A little
picturecf pansy blossoms, struck our
special fancy. 1t displays the handy
work of an accomplished artist. Miss
: Larsen expects to graduate next June.
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