The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-14
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Ed Solomon went to Portland today
to retnrn Monday.
Tom Foley left today for Portland to
return early next week.
Mr.. W. S. Cram this week placed an
elegant sign in front of his store.
X. H. Norton who has been laid up
with pneumonia is again able to be
around.
1t is rumored that Billy Barnes the
conductor, is going back to his old job on
the U. p.
A box car filled with emigrants from
Dakota, bound for the sound, passed
through this city today.
The new time card will 60 into effect
on or about the Goth inst, and another
passenger train be put on at that time.
A hotly contested jumping match took
place this afternoon at the passenger
depot, in which Fred Clark carried off
the laurels.
Frank Huot of Eight mile has rented
the house lately owned by M. Robber-
son, and will move his family into town
in short time.
The west-bound passenger train was
delayed today between here and Grants
and an engine was dispatched from The
Dalles to her relief.
A. J. McHealy. of Eight Mile, ]. J.
Woolery, of Boyd, Aaron Frasier, J. A.
Gulliford, j. H. Hadley and James
johnson, of Dufur, were in town today.
The charming operetta of 'Little Bo
Peep" with cast and chorus of over
forty voices is in preparation, for the
benefit of the Episcopal church, and will
be given about April Sth.
Marsh Sylvester has bought himself
new farm in Clackamus county, and
team in The Dalles and intends moving
to his new home, in few days. A
number of friends gave him a fare well
party last evening.
The committee appointed by The
Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation
company, to inquire into matters con-
nected with the building of a line of
boats for the Middle Columbia left for
Portland today.
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"Some fortunate or unfortunate indi-
vidual, extremely modest, procured
. license to marry today; but we procured
good cigar and do not publish the
names" And has it come to this, that
an editor can be bought with cigar
My, arn't some editors cheap?
The purchase of the Hunt road by the
Northern ms po al riu 1..,ll
the more necessary. The people will
never receive what they should for their
products as long as they are at the mercy
OF transportation company whose sole
aim is to earn dividends on an enormous
capitalization.-East Oregonian.
It's an ill wind that blows nobody
good. The delayed west bound passen-
ger, which was expected today at one
O'Clock, but did not come at that time,
brought such a crowd of hungry waiting
passengers to the restaurant of w. H.
Butts that they almost cleaned him out
ofgrub.
The CHRONICLE is assured that the
company are contemplating putting an
increased force of men at the shops in
this city in the near future. The officials
have ordered estimates to be made of the
cost of putting the shops in working re-
pair, and the number of hands that can
be employed without any considerable |
enlargement. These estimates are on
their way today to Portland. Report /
will be made that $50 men can be profit |
ably employed without any enlargement.
Mrs. Harriet Vanderbrook, the wife of
John Vanderbrook, of Centerville, Wash
ington county, Oregon, died this morn
ing at Dufur, aged AZ years. She had
heen suffering from cancer, and came to |
Eastern Oregon to place herself under |
the treatment of DR.. Vanderpool, when |
she was attacked with pneumonia fever
to which she succumbed. She leaves a
husband and two children. i
So it would appear now that it was
Major Handbury who killed the Raley
bill. Who would have thought it? Mr..
Mccoy accepted the unofficial state
ment OF man who had never surveyed
the Oregon side of the river between The
Dalles and Cello, but who gave it as his
opinion that the building of a portage
road there would cost more than $780,
600. One excuse was about as good as
another, but if Mr.. Mccoy had not |
desired to kill the bill he would have re-
membered that if the people had got the I
$400, 900 appropriation, and it was NOT
found to be sufficient, they would have
got the rest.