The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-08
LOCAL BREv1r1Es.

Stock Inspector Rice returned to the
city last night.
George Filloon returned last night
from Portland.
Hon. w. II. Wilson went to Heppner
on legal business yesterday.
J. w. Blackburn of Grant has been
appointed county judge OF Sherman
county.
The safe of Mays & Grove was opened
today when its contents were found to
be in good condition.
NJ. v. Harrison of Hood River will
prepare and forward an exhibit of fruit
to the Portland Mechanics fair.
John Pashek, the tailor, and G. w.
Adams, the shoemaker, have rented the
store two doors west of Haight's restau-
rant.
A reader of the East Oregonian recently
presented its editor with bottle of per-
fumery. Now that was very appropri-
ate gift.
T. Bardon has lost a large steel engra-
wing of cherub, walnut frame, and q
picture of q flower girl, colored, with
ebonIzed frame.
Mr.. Weggerman reports the loss of a
music stool and rack, parlor banner
and two boxes containing small articles
of house furniture.
The Heppner Gazette has hoisted its
flag for Hon. w. r. Ellis as candidate
for congress from the second congress
sional district of Oregon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Al Bettingen returned
home last night from their wedding trip.
Ed. Williams returned last night from
n business trip to the east.
That The Dalles will yet become the
leading city of Eastern Oregon is certain
and those who have the grit and patience
TO stay with it will reap a rich reward
Glacier.
Complaints are very justly made that
the p. P. steamers plying between
Portland and Astoria charge $3.50 for
the use of state room for the six hours
day trip.
The people of The Dalles very highly
appreciate The generosity of Wasco in
generously contributing the sum of $50
to the wants of the sufferers by the late
fire in this city.
1t is reported that W. S. Ladd and H.
w. Corbett, each eonditionally offers to
give million to endow a college to be
located in Portland under the auspices of
the Presbyterian church.
The same old red wicker chair again
sits in front of the store of Crandall &
Burget and the familiar form of DR..
Logan again fills it, all the same as il
there had never been a fire.
The steamer Baker gave a free excur-
sion, it is said, to a large number of per-
sons from the Cascades to The Dalles
last Sunday. This, if true, is an amsz-
ing sample of Union Pacific generosity,
but it smacks considerably of the in
fuence of the Regulator.
A boat load of salmon, weighing
twenty pounds each, was sold in Port
Townsend at a cent apiece and the run
was so great that the fishermen said
they could make big money at that price.
One man caught fourteen with gill
net attached 70 q hoe handle.
A modest but earnest young Christian
lady who was very unwilling to give her
name but which is believed to be Miss
E. Taylor, last Sunday contributed the
sum of $z2, her entire months wages, as
a contribution to the building funds of
the three churches destroyed by fire, to
be equally divided between them. The
young lady has the sincere thanks of the
members of the three churches and
. their earnest prayers for her future
temporal and eternal welfare.
TKe Regulator will be inspected todsy
and make her trial trip next Thursday,
leaving her dock for the Cascades at 8
O'Clock a. m. sharp. Paquet & Smith
have extended invitations to all stock
holders and to the representatives of the
press to accompany the boat on her trip.