The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-23
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
LOCAL BREvITIEs.


weeks visit to Portland.
The west bound passenger train was
five hours late this morning
Wasco county strawberries are selling
in this market at two boxes for 25 cents.
The Hon. Binger Herman is now on
his way home from Washington,% D. G.
The daughter of Mr.. Egbert was very
low at last accounts of neuralgia of the
heart.
We acknowledge pleasant call from
Mr.. Frank Lee editor of the Klickitat
Leader.
1t gives us pleasure to note that Mrs.
Isaac Joles is much better. She rested
fairly well last night and continues i'm
proving.
Mr.. o. Frasier, of the firm of Hitch
cock & Frasier who built the new reser-
voir, is in the city.
j. III. Cross has rented the Mckay
building, corner of Second and Union
and will move his feed store into it in a
few days.
Two hundred sacks of wool were re-
ceived at the Wasco warehouse up till
noon today, with numerous wagons still
to unload
Again we remind our readers that the
market reports of the CHRONICLE, apart
from any other feature of the paper, are
alone worth five times the subscription |
price of the weekly which is only $1.5O |
year.
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hundred new names have been added to |
the subscription list of the CHRONICLE
This record more than any words of ours
shows how much the CHRoNICLE is ap-
preciated by its readers.
We are more than pleased to hear, of |
the success of George Herbert as hotel |
keeper in the little town of Hood River.
gentleman who resides there, informs |
us that the house is full to its utmost
capacity and that its every appointment
is first class in every respect.
Ex-justice David Scott of Antelope
has just got word that by the death of a |
sister in New Zealand he has fallen heir |
to property worth from thirty to forty /
thousand dollars. Mr.. Scott and one sur |
viving sister are the sole heirs. He.is OH i
the way to Portland to consult his lawyer
with reference to his claim.
When it comes to gambling the Chinese i
can outdo both Celt and Saxon A new /
Chinese gam bling house was opened last |
night on the south side of Main street |
between Washington and Court 1t is
filed up in the usual Chinese style with
electric lights to boot and running last
night openly and in full blast.
One of the finest orchards in Wasco
county, or for that matter, any where
else, is that of Mr.. Patrick Ward, of
Kingsley. A man who has never seen it
can have no idea as to what can be done
under skillful management, in the line
of raising the harder fruits, in SO high
an altitude.
Mr.. F. M. Driver, of Wamic, has just
returned from the Prineville country
where he took .arge load of bacon to
sell, short time since. By peddling it
out at the rate of fabouta thousand pounds
a day he succeeded in realizing an average
of 131s cents all round, for it. He will
return with another load in a few days.
q. w. johnson, manager of the Port
land terminal company, has been trans
ferred to the Southern Pacific lines in
Oregon in the capacity of superintendent
and Ed. Lyons takes the place of Mr..
johnson as manager of the terminal
company. 1t is currently reported that
Mcneil has resigned as general manager
OF the Union Pacific at Portland
Our railroad commission should get
rid OF its corporation body guard when
1t goes about inspecting railroads in the
public interest and at the public ex-
pense: Intelligent railroad managers
should keep hands off and let the. COM
mission form its opinion unaided. The
Baker City Blade says: ''Clow and
Colvlg, OF the railroad commission, ac-
companied by the clerk, arrived here to-
day on special train and were Joined
here by A. N. Hamilton, the third mem
Der OF the commission. They spent |,
several hours in the city and were shown
about the town by Senator Dodson, who
introduced them to many of the citizens.
The party who are on an inspecting tour
left about three o'clock and will camp To
night at Durkee, inspecting the road and ,
orldges along the route. They are ac-
companied by several railroad Rofficials.
and will go as far east as Huntinoton
before returning" II