The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-04
PROBABILITIES.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

ION, Omatllla county Is III the 0ley'
Marshal Gibbons took in fourteen new
boarders last night. -Four of them vol
untary asked to be locked up,
County court is still in session. Judge
Thornbury and County Commissioner
Leavens are in attendance.
There is rumor that the Union Pa
citic intends building $4,000 hotel at
Bonnyville during the coming summer.
Chas. w. Haight, of Cow Canyon,
came into town yesterday. He reports
two feet of snow all over that part of the
country.
MIR. Thomas Batter of the firm of Bat
ter, Mckenzie & Co., of Cascade Locks,
was in town today attending business in
the county court.
The fire alarm was sounded last even
ing at exactly % minutes past seven.
1t proved to be only burning fiue, in
Schano block, and no damage was done.
J. f. Mccormick is organizing sing
ing school in the city. Parties wishing
to join the class will please call on Mr..
Thos. Mccoy at Mccoy Bros barber
shop.
A wreck occurred this morning on the
U. P. of west bound freight train No.
%. No particulars have reached us.
4 wrecking train left for the scene of the
accident about 10 o'clock this morning.
Eighty per cent. of the weather pre-
dictions published in the CHRONICLE
and indicated by the weather signals
above this office, during the last month,
were correct The per centage of sim
liar predictions at Portland was sixty.
Dick Barter, the late popular hotel
man of Nansene, on the Canon City
road, has rented the hotel at the Cas-
cades' Warm Springs, and will move
there, as soon as the winter breaks. He
proposes to make that place a first class
sanitary and pleasure resort, and he'll
do it,. d.
A man went into County Clerk Tren-
chartl's office Yesterday and asked for ga
lottery ticket When questioned
further he said he wanted a marriage
license-that sit was the same thing"
He left amid the cry of ''rats'' from the
jurymen waiting to be summoned up
We regret to hear that Mrs. Mary Gar
rison, who resides on the bluff, was
taken suddenly i'll last evening of con-
gestion of the stomach. For time her
life was dispaired of. Doctor Reinhart
was called in and at last report she was
resting easier.
Portland politicians are already en-
gagged in laying the wires to secure the
congressional nomination of this district.
Now is the time to get in and knock
them out, instead of waiting till the last
moment. Let them know that Eastern
Oregon is entitled to the congressman
from this district and that she intends
enforcing her rights this time.-Oregon
Blade.
1t wasn't all fun with the coasters
last night. Several got painfully hurt
and are today laid up for repairs.
Joe Fitzgerald was hurt in the arm,
Tom Mccoy had his thumb sprained,
j. w. Stewart, sustained an injury to
one of his knees, a young lady, whose
name we did not learn, was also injured,
and sled ran into buggy and smashed
it badly. But the fun will go on just
the same, till the thaw comes, which
cannot be long now.
r. H. Norton, the mining engineer,
returned from Arlington this morning.
He was accompanied as far as The
Dalles, by G. G. Locke, the coal expert
of the U. P. Railroad, who has just re-
turned from visit of inspection of the
Fossil mines. The U P. is pospecting
Fossil was made with the object of gain
ing some information to guide him to
his exploration further east. He freely
admitted that the Fossil coal was by far
the best for quantity and quality he had
seen in Oregon. Mr.. Locke continued
his Journey on to Portland.
1t is rumored that joint stock COM
pany has been formed with Col. n. B.
Sinnott, of this city, Doctor j. HI.
Leavens and Doctor Candiana, of the
Cascade Locks, as directors, for the pur--
pose of placing the old General Sheridan
blockhouse, at the Cascades, on exhibit
ton at the Worlds Fair. OF course
Gen. Sheridan never saw the present
blockhouse, but that makes no difference
to the directors. They will exhibit it as
his, just the same. The board of
directors were selected with great care,
and after long consideration, because it
was believed they could spin the biggest
yarn out of the smallest hank of wool of
any men in the north west. The CHRoN-
'1cLE reporter was informed that all the
stock was bought up.