The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-18
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

from Portland.
Geo. Matthias, native of England
was yesterday admitted to citizenship.
About 800 men are said to be now en-
ployed on the government works at the
Cascades.
mencing about eleven O'Clock and last
ing for a few hours.
One drunk, who was arrested last
night by Marshal Gibbons, paid this
morning a fine of ten dollars.
Mr.. W. H. Hennick, of Ota, came over
to our city yesterday and added his
name to the CHRONICLE subscription list.
The T5mes-Mountainee yesterday got
new subscriber to the daily edition and
boasts loudly of having doubled its cir
culation.
Mrs. W. H. Davis, OF Wapinitia, left
this morning for California, in answer to
a communication announcing the
dangerous illness of her father.
The editor acknowledges the receipt of
a complimentary ticket to the Third
regiment ball to be given at the armory,
on Friday evening, April 3.
A bright Sabbath school boy friend of
the CHRONICLE, says that the oldest man
that ever lived died before his father.
Strange but true. Who was he?
Sheep that have been sold to Eastern
buyers thus far have brought a good,
round price, $3.50 per head being the
amount paid, to be delivered after the
shearing season.-Graiu Co. Neaes.
Billy Darragh of this city, who was in
dicted yesterday in the United States
court at Portland for selling whisky to
Indians, was sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary.
We were shown curious specimen of
petrefed wood which was found about
four miles below this city, entirely
encased in solid rock. 1t is undoubtedly
wood but looks remarkably like asbestos.
The man Mccormack, who partici-
pated in the recent shooting scrape at
the Cascade Locks, is slowly recovering
from his wounds. 1t will be several
weeks, however, before he will be able
to be around
The school directors have ordered VIM.
McCrum to position the new flag pole in
place on the brick school house. The
flag is eighteen feet by ten and was pur-
chased by the united subscription of the
pupils. 1t is expected to be thrown to
the breeze for the first time this after
noon.
The Tableaux and Art Company,
assisted by the best vocalists will give
their first entertainment at the Vogt
Opera House, Wednesday, April 1st,
Pictures from history and mythology,
also plastiques and poses by fourteen
girls in Grecian costume. Calcium
lights from Portland.
Judge Moreland comes out in the
sEUeringl Telegram, and writes a long ar
gument to prove that the name of Ore
gon came from Catherine of Aragon the
divorced wife of Henry the Eighth.
This isfarfetched. We always supposed
the state got its name from a man nam
ed Dennis Oregon who used to live in
Chicago, before the war.
We regret to learn of the sad death,
last night, of Josiah Marsh, the only son
of A. Y. Marsh near this city, at the
age Of. nearly fifteen years. He has been
constant sufferer for the past two
years of that dred scourge consumption,
intensified by virulent attack of white
swelling on one of his knees. His suf-
ferings during the last twenty four hours
of his life were very severe. Two years
ago his mother preceded him to the
better land. Among the last words, he
said to those standing around his bed
side Il am not afraid to die. Il am go
ing to meet my mother
r. FL. Norton and party are camped
at the mouth of Three Mile and the sur
vey to the Fossil coal mines will be COM
pleted as rapidly as possible. To correct
a wrong impression that some of the
subscribers to the fund have, Mr..
Norton wishes it distinctly understood
that whether the parties negotiating for
the mines this week, make a trade or
not cuts no figure on this survey uues-
ton as the work is being done in the in
terests of English capitalists who NAV
be induced to interest themselves in this
country, by developing the timber and
mining.