The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-07
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The Dallestthat Receives the Associated
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LOCAL BREvITIEs.
All quiet ON the Potomac.

city.
March 10th is the last day of grace on
school taxes. =
Ex-Governor Moody came up from
Salem, last night.
Mr.. Bailey, formerly chief clerk at
the company's shops in this city, passed
through today on his way to Portland.
Mr.0 NJ. Pope the artist has retur.
ned from Portland and will take charge
of the Eastman gallery from this date.
II. c. Nielsen, left today for Portland,
to lay in new stock of goods. He says
tariff or no tariff he is going to sell
cheaper than ever.
John F. Webb, one of the victims of
the recent U. P. accident near the Cas-
cades, died at st. Vincent hospital yes
terday morning. This is the first death
among those injured.
We notice the new legend "Mays &
store lately owned by Abrams & Stewart.
Tt is an excellent work of art, by our
townsman Mr.. Hardy,
The delinquent city school tax list will
be turned over to the sheriff in two or
three days. To save further costs parties
who have not paid their tax should call
immediately ON the new school clerk, j.
NJ. Huntington, and settle up,
Messrs. G. Burlingame of Cleveland,
Ohio and L. Hubbard of Buffalo, New
York, arrived this morning, in company
with Rev. o. ID. Taylor and are his
guests for the few days they remain in
the city.
Col. n. B. Sinnot received, this morn
ing, letter from the president of Notre
Dame, Indiana, university, in which re-
terrence is made to the Colonel's two
sons. being in excellent health, md max
ing excellent progress in their studies.
A new grocery and notion store will
be opened about the 10th instant, by
Messrs. c. w. Rice and John E. Barnett
in the building lately occupied as a cigar
and notion sfkTe, by Mr.. Robertson and
which has recently been purchased by
Mr.. Robert Mays.
A boycott has been declared by the
tramps on the Hotel de Gibbons. Only
two boarders now remain The rest, we
hope, have betaken themselves to their
-'out of town. residences; and The
Dalles win try to struggle along without
them. ' '"' = =
We print today one of the sermons of
Rev. DIR. Talmage. This will be one of
the features of the CHRoNICLE for awhile
ne we have made arrangements for hav-
ing the sermons sent to us, and we trust
they will be acceptable to our readers
The l 10 p. m. west bound freight
could not leave today till a crew came
in from below to take it off. Ten or
twelve passengers were kept waiting at
the depot till another freight would
come in from Portland, so the same
crew could turn around and go back.
This is specimeno of Jay Gould economy.
Stock Inspector, G. w. Rice, has just
received a private letter from Antelope
which says: ''There has not been any
scab broke out, in this precinct as yet.1
i think there will be but few cases. We
are in the midst of a snow storm about.
two feet on a level. No loss Of stock re-
ported as yet.
The bitterly contested elections in
Canada with which religion, annexation
and nearly everything else was mixed
up, have resulted in victory for the gov
ernment by a reduced majority. The
annexationists are whipped, and we
have no tears to shed, What do we
want with Canada an yway? ~tf
The )ple of Walla walla county
promised Mr.. Hunt subsidy of $780,
900 to build his road. They actually
gave hJm $65,Oo0. Now that, Mr.. Hunt
has sold the road they are asking the
question 'Did it pay us to give the sub
sidy?" and they seem to have conclu-
ded by a large majority that it did.
Michael Pelez, former subject of
Kaiser William swore today that he
would forever renounce all allegiance to
all foreign princes and potentates, espec-
tally mentioning the name of the German
emperor. Clerk Crossen made a note of
it in his little book, and gave him GER
tificate accordingly. Frederick Lewis
Sandoz did some swearing to the same
effect