The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-24
LOCAL BREvITIES.

Mr.. J. H. Menefee of Dufur was in
the city today.
Five tramps were arrested last night
found sleeping on wool sacks at the
East End.
A shoe factory on a legitimate basis
would receive substantial encouragement
in The Dalles.
The youngest child of conductor French
is reported very i'll at the residence oi
Mr.. French's father-in- law, Mr.. Frisco
in this city
F. j. Miller, clerk of the Oregon rail
road commission, came up from Portland
last night and remained over till the
noon train today when he left for PEN
dleton.
We believe within year a shoe
factory well managed in this city
would pay out as much money for labor
as did the railroad when the shops were
here.
School Superintendent.T Troy Shelly left
on last nights west bound train for
Newport to attend the State Teachers
will be absent about two weeks.
The run of salmon during the past
twenty-four hours has been rather light
Winans Brothers caught only about 1000
pounds last night while some of the
wheels caught next to nothing.
After next Tuesday the U. S. signal
service will be under different manage
ment. 1t will be transferred from the
war department to the agricultural de-
partment.
The stockholders of the Eastern Ore
gon cooperative association held meet
ing today in the parlor of the Cosmopol-
itan hotel, for the purpose of taking
steps to increase the capital stock of the
association.
1t is generally supposed that the pres
ent month has been an unusually cold
one, but the signal service observer says
that the mean temperature for twenty
three days of June is sixty-two degrees.
The mean temperature for the past
seventeen years is sixty-one degrees for
June.
During the last two weeks the follow
ing elections and promotions have taken
place in Company G, Sd regiment. o. N.
g.: First Lieut.. L. G. Chrisman to cap
tain; First Sergt. G. H. Moore to first
lieutenant; @. M. Sergt. A. H. Kennedy
to first sergeant and Corporal K. Gott-
fried to Q. M. sergeant.
The new boat, The Regulator, will, we
are assured by Mr.. Paquet, be launched
tomorrow. The hour cannot be def
nitely fixed, but Mr.. Paquet expects to
have her in the water somewhere be-
tween three and four o'clock Prepar-
ations for the launch are being pushed
rapidly and everything needed is on the
ground.
w. X. Menefee jr., of Dufur has Just
returned from Portland where he has
been since the first of March last, taking
course Of instruction at the business
college. Mr.. Menefee succeeded in TAX
ing diploma in the short term of three
months and is one of the only two who
have ever accomplished it at that insti-
tuition.
w ~ ehAO oOAAy W lCSTu IIldC LDo GWO-l
year-old child of Mr.. Andrew McCabe,
who lives between Five and Eight Mile,
was kicked this, morning by sucking
colt, badly fracturing its skull. The ac-
cident occurred at Polk Buffers place
near Nansene. Mr.. McCabe was return
ing from trip into the interior.
with load of wool, and was accompan-
led by his wife and child. While getting
ready for the road, this morning the
child ran up to the colts heels with the
result stated. The child was immediat-
ely brought to town and placed in the
care of DIR. Rinehart who succeeded in
making it as easy as possible. The doc
tor thinks that under proper care it may
recover. ~.
Lorenzen & Co., yesterday caught in a
seine at their fishing place ON the other
side the river below Crates point two
or three-year-old grey-hair seal. The
little fellow, we should judge weighs
about sixty pounds though we have
heard gentleman offer to wager that he
Will weigh hundred. The seal was the
oolect OF much curiosity to large num-
Der OF visitors at the old stone building
on the corner of Main and Washington.
Another seal said to be twice as large as
the one described above was caught last
night in one of the fish wheels of Win !
ans Brothers on the North Dalles side of
the river. Mr.. Aud Winans intends to
send 1t to small aquarium that there is
on Paradise farm, Hood River. |