The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-20
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

F. c.. Sexton, of Dufur, is in the city.
The town is remarkably quiet today.
Frank Fulton, of Biggs, Sherman
county, gave us pleasant call today
Erwin NJ. Shut, foreman and manager
of the Wasco Observer gave us pleasant
call today.
A. McDonaldof Monkland, Sherman
county, and James Baldwin OF Portland
are in the city.
The Wasco Observer is out with two
and a half columns of criticism on fAr-
mold McCoy's defense
Mrs. Robert J. Marsh of Portland is
visiting friends in The Dalles. She is
the guest of Mrs. Roscoe.
The city assessor expects to commence
the assessment of city porperty for the
current wear on Monday next.
A number of farmers and sheep men
are in town looking for men to work on
their ranches and assist during the
lambing season.
Nothing doing at the city Jail or
recorders court. Marshal Gibbons and
Recorder Knaggs talk of gong on strike
unless business improves.
The household goods of DR.. J. q.
Boyd are already packed and addressed
for shipment to Bernalillo, N. M, where
the doctor intends to make his future
home.
The marriage of John Nachter and Miss
Borstel. both of Bake Oven was cele-
brated yesterday afternoon by Rev. Mr.
Horn at the German Lutheran church
in this city.
J. H. McDonough returned last night
from San Francisco where he has been
under treatment for paralysis OF the op-
tic nerve of one of his eyes. He reports
having been much benefited.
We would call the attention of stock
men to the advertisement of merino
sheep for sale which appears in another
column The sheep are very fine and
will be sold at bargain.
Reports from all agricultural points
tellu us that the farmers are all busy
plowing. Winter fingered so long in
the lap of spring that the season for
planting will be necessarily short and
every moment must count.
The new goods for the Eastern Oregon
Cooperative store have arrived, and are
being opened up, and put in place. The
store will be opened for business on the
18th. E. N. Chandler and S. r. Hus-
bands will conduct the business for the
present.
The new flag has flung to the breeze
on top OF the brick school house. Mr.
McCrum who set the flag staff in posi-
ton and raised the flag says it is the frs
time he has hoisted the American fal
since he licked the Jonnies and sup
pressed the rebellion.
gentleman of this city whose posi-
tion gives him opportunity to know
what is going on in certain quarters in
accessible to a newspaper man was heart
to say: "Last fall would have sold m,
property in this city at almost anythin,
/ could get for it, now l would not sell i
at any price.
The Dalles, the starlit city of com
merce, in summer paradise and il
winter a flower garden, possessed ever
now of the bones and sinews and arterie
of mighty city-the pride of the stat
and the apple of every eye-shall ASSUME
all the charm of rarest beauty with tn
power and luxury that wealth can give
She sits today at the feet of her owl
possibilities, while passing stars sing TO
gether of her coming glory.
The executive board of the Klickita
County Temperance Alliance offer
standing reward of $25 for the arrest an
bonviction of any doctor giving permi
to any person to purchase intoxicants i
violation of the laws of the state; and
further reward of $25 for information
leading to the arrest and conviction c
any druggist or other person selling in
toxicants in violation of the law of tn
state.
Speaking of the street rumors amen
the coming back of the shops to thi
city it is beyond all doubt that two em
plopes of the company were here only
short time ago to make a report on tn
cost of repairing the old shops and othe
estimates. They reported that it woul
cost more to repair the old shops than i
would to build new ones. This, take
in connection with the purchase by tn
company of IA acres in the new Wes
DaHes addition may mean the buildin
of new shops there.