The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-14
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Ad. Keller WIS elected captain of A
company last night.
The CHRONICLE has turned out num-
ber of handsome briefs lately.
The captain of the Charleston says
''Show us the Itata and we'll do the rest. :"
ID. M. French has returned from trip
to his ranch. He reports the crops as
looking well.
Mrs. Amelia Burkhart came up from
Portland to-day and is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Henry Wentz.
La Grippe is proving the greatest
scourage which has visited this country
for years, and were cholera to claim as
many victims panic would result.
1t is thought that the salmon pack on
the river to date will not exceed 81 900
cases. Many of the canneries are idle
two-thirds of the time.-AstOriGn
The Fourth of July committee will
meet tonight. They have met with a
generous response in securing money for
the Forthcoming celebration.
The contractors of the new steamer
are very busy laying the foundation and
getting the frame work in readiness to
set up.
Every member of the committee on
the celebration on July 4th are urgently
requested to meet at the board of trade
rooms at O'Clock Thursday evening.
BY order J. S. FISH, Chairman.
The fish wheels are almost idle, as the
run of salmon yesterday and last night
had nearly stopped. The wheels only
caught from to 10 fish each, during the
night-better times in the near
future-for our wheel men are expected.
"A, Portland paper says that it costs
$500 to get a place on the Portland
police force. Even at that figure, says
the Astoria,,, it is said to be paying in
yestment An appointment which is
accompanied by the right to rob, filch
and take will always "pay" no matter
what is paid for it.
The late King Kalakaua held $4,000
membership in an American life insur-
ance fraternal order and many lodge
member throughout Ohio and other
states therefore received official notice
of the .monarch's demise. The notice
gave his occupation as king and his
residence as Honolulu.
Last evening the members of the as
tronomy class of the Wasco Independent
Academy met in the art room, and were
entertained very profitably by the exhib-
ition of some fine astronomical views,
and other studies connected with that
line of INSTRUCTION, through the assistance
of the academy stereopticon. The views
were fnlly explained by the instructress,
Miss f. Folsom.
Hon. j. HI. Mitchell informs the New
York Reporter that the rumor that he
and his family will spend the summer
in Europe is incorrect. On the con-
trary he expects to return to Oregon
early in the summer and look after the
interests of the state and fortify himself
for the strong fight he expects to make
in her behalf next winter. Mrs
Mitchell is advised by her physician, to
take treatment at AK la Bains, in Savoy,
France, and it is not improbable that
she and her daughter may go there for a
short time.
The boiler and furnace being made at
Willamette iron works for Captain
Scott's Flyer is the largest ever under
taken in this state. The furnace is four
teen feet across and thirteen, feet high.
The boiler is thirty feet long, and has
1856 tubes in it. 1t is of steel almost
three-quarters of an inch in thickness,
and is to furnish 25OO horse power. The
whole complete weighs. about fifty tons.
When the president and good, smooth
John and Uncle Jerry were in California
the warm, bright, summer-like spring
and. yerdure and flowers were the most
delightful experience of their lives.
When here they found our dark, damp,
dismal day really refreshing and most
enjoyable. On getting into cool, bracing
AR and under clear sky again at The
Dalies, they were glad they had got out
OF the wet. And so on. All of which
only shows that they are much like
otner mortals, especially if they are
politicians.-Tslegrdm.
1t always pays a purchaser to study
the advertising columns of the home
paper. The merchant who is a wide
awake business man attentive to the
wants of his patrons is the one who will
give you the best goods for the least
money, he has learned that in order to
keep select and fresh stock of goods on
hand, he must make quick sales; the
man that make quick sales is the man
that advertises