The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-11
LOCAL BREvITIEs.
Meeks of Mosier is in town.

Meeks of Mosier is in town.
S. g. Roberts has returned to the city.
T. M. Thompson of Dufur and S. NJ.
Meeks of Mosier are in the city.
visit to beyond Shearer's bridge today.
The dining room of the New Columbia
holel is being newly painted and calso-
mined.
Surveyor Norton has got as far as
Tygh Valley and continues to report an
excellent and easy grade.
The committee authorized to let the
contract for the new boat after fulfilling
their mission returned to The Dalles
this morning.
The druggists of this city have unani
mously agreed to close their stores on
Sundays from one to 8 O'Clock p. m. un-
less called upon for medicine prescribed
by physician.
School district No. 8 at Mosier is hav-
ing some trouble over the question of a
division of the district. Superintendent
Shelly is trying to adjudicate on the
equities of the case.
Henry Van Asslet, late of Hood River
now of Seattle, has given a bond for a
deed for his property in Hood River, to
James Chistian sNestergard in the sum
of $4,000.
The committee of The Dalles, Port
land and Astoria Navigation Company
which was authorized to let the contract
for the new boat returned from Port
land this morning. 1t is already we'll
known that the contract has been let
and that the boat will be finished in
one hundred days.
The Portland Catholic Sentinel is
pleased to say:
Whoever it is doing editorial work on
The Dalles CHRONICLE is all right when
it comes down to splendid diction. Were
it not immodest we would say "there
are no flies on the CHRONICLE"
AT Mrs. Booths funeral, yesterday, o.
G. Stevens lost his cane. 1t is of man
zinita wood, polished ivory handle with
silver band, marked o. G. S. The old
gentleman sadly misses the help the
cane afforded him and will feel deeply
grateful to the finder if he return it to
this Office, or to himself.
Next Monday the tax payers of The
Dalles will decide the question of bond
ing the city fora further indebtedness
sufficient to complete the water system
now in progress of construction. The
necessity for voting in favor of the meas
ure requires no argument here and the
election can have but one result; the
measure will pass.
G. E. Bayard brought into this Office
today an egg which he vows was layed
by hen belonging to the "bald-headed"
Cochin variety, the property of c. w.
Dietzel 1t measures IA by 934 inches.
The foreman of the CHRONICLE says it
looks like the clay of the last minstrel. :"
goose egg. Charley Bayard says it is a
hens egg. The horse editor thinks it is
an egg and knows that the measurements
given above are eggs-actly correct. If
any "bald-headed'' rooster in Oregon
can beat it let him now crow.
A meeting of the directors of The
Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation
Co., was held in this city today. The
committee which was charged with the
duty of letting the contract for the build
ing of the new boat reported that they
had let the contract to Paquett & Smith,
of Portland, for $25 900, to be finished on
or before the first of August next.
The boat must have speed of not less
than fifteen miles an hour and shall give
proof of this capacity before being ap-
proved by the company. The boat is to
built on the Columbia river at any point
from the Cascades to The Dalles in
elusive.
Four beautiful bicycles of the 'New
Mail'' variety arrived at the express
office this morning for the following per-
sons: one for E. B. Mcfarland, one for
Ward Mcfarland, one for DIR. Tucker,
and one for Carl Tucker Willie Crossen
the enterprising young agent of the
Portland Telegram has one en- route from
the east of the ''Ideal Rambler persua-
sion. The next thing in order will be
bicycle clubs and bicycle races and
"bucking bicycles, and broken shins and
scratched cuticles,'' but the new bicycles
are beauties, nevertheless, and will afford
lots of fun and healthy enjoyment for
their owners.
To the Public.