The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-31

About forty men are now employed in
various ways at7the c9mpanys shop.
Mr.. Joseph McEac6ern and wife are
iregiaered at the Umatilla House.
Deputy Sheriff J. H. Phirman has
gone on business trip to Harney Coun-
ty.
There will be preaching service at the
Congregational church next Sunday
morning.
Frank Peabody of Nansene and Henry
Peterson of Wapinitia were in the city
yesterday.
Mr.. w. H. Wilson leaves this evening
to join his family at Yaquina Bay. He
expects to return in a few days
License to commit matrimony > was
granted this morning to William Wide
kind aged % and Mrs. Annie Schroeder
aged %.
Mike Adnet, citizen of the Republic
of Switzerland, declared his intention,
this morning, to become citizen of the
United States.
The examination of the Chinaman,
charged with making felonious assault
on the Earl of Taffe comes off this after
noon before Justice Schultz.
Engineer Morris Cavanaugh from
Boston is registered at the Umatilla
house. Three days ago he ~as-accord-
ing to the register = in Jerico, twenty
miles south of Jerusalem.
If there is anybody in The Dalles
more glad to see Joe MacEacbern back
here than is the editor of the CHRONICLE.
if he will call at this Office we will buy
him a five-cent water melon.
Elder Richardson of Goldendale,
called at this office today on his way to
Wapinitia, to hold a weeks protracted
meeting at that place, commencing to-
morrow evening. At the conclusion of
the meeting he will return to Dufur and
remain oyer Sunday, preaching there
Saturday night and Sunday morning,
The Normal Institute which meets in
The Dalles, August oath, will be an ex-
cellent training school for teachers.
Most of our teachers in this
county have never attended a nor
NAL school. Now is your time. Young
teachers here may learn more in week,
of new methods and applications, than
in five years ordinary teaching. If the
schools of Wasco are to keep abreast of
of the times some forward steps must be
made. Will the teachers and parents
respond with their presence and help.
]. II. Ackerman and w. A. Wetzell are
employed as assistants.
The burning of the round house at the
Cascades and the destruction of the en-
gines, demand investigation. If the fire
originated in any unavoidable way, all
right. What could not be prevented
must be endured, but if it was the work
iiof an incendiary the miscreant ought to
be ferreted out and brought to judgment.
portage road in the predicament, that
teams will have to be hired to do the
work which the engines formerly did.
| Fortunately the greater portion of the
track is laid but there is yet much to be
done that could be accomplished more
cheaply and more expeditiously by a
donkey" locomotive than by wagons
and teams. The people are too familiar
with accidents (?J of this kind to rest
satisfied with anything short of the ar
rest and punishment of the offender or
the clearest proof that the fire was purely
accidental.
A party of seven persons, under the
guidance of Mr.. Will Langille of Hood
River made the ascent of Mount Hood
last Tuesday. The party consisted of a
Portland nan. Yale student on his va
cation, four gentlemen from the Hood
River valley and Miss Carrie Graham,
a school teacher, from Chicago. They
started from Cloud Cap Inn at Z a. M,
and crossed the Hood River glacier (not
Mr.. Cradlebaugh's Glacier on the east
of the mountain and from thence
veering round to the south of the
mountain they gained the top at 80 p.
m. Miss Graham has the honor of be-
ing the first lady who has made the as
cent by that route. The party had to
Eslide down part of the mountain, on
4 their return, on the, side fornest their
backs and arrived at camp with tattered
clothes and skinned fingers at the late
hour of 2 O'Clock the next morning.