The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-16
LOCAL BREvITIEs.
Sic transit gloria Moody.

Max got Vogt's enough to elect him.
Mrs. ]. M. Vanduyn, of Tygh Ridge,
is in the city.
This morning the divorce case of Tie
man VS.. Tieman is being argued by the
lawyers.
. The Misses F. F. and E. M. Folsom
left yesterday for California on their va
cation trip.
Seufert Brothers will have shipped at
the close of the season 1900 boxes of
Royal Ann cherries which will net them
one dollar per box.
Miss Ida Coffin, who has been in at
tendance at the Wasco Academy, re-
turned to her home at Arlington yester-
day morning.
The run of salmon has now begun in
earnest and the wheels are doing fairly
well. Seufert Brothers caught five tons
yesterday in four wheels.
The state teachers association, at
which Professor w. w. Smith, of this
city, will deliver an address, as reported
in Saturdays CHRONICLE, will not be
held at Eugene, but at Newport.
The poor, crippled, toothless old Times
Mountaineer has shown how little influ
encei it has in shaping the destinies of
the city and henceforth none will be so
poor as to do it reverence.
Prinz & Nitschke have added an un-
dertaking establishment to their large
furniture establishment, and as they do
hal 70 ha orta alya,- of
are prepared to give the lowest prices.
An old friend of the editor of the
Chronicle, Mr.. Andy Lytle, of Willow
creek, Crook county, is in the city. He
reports that the crops in his section
were never so promising as they are this
year.
The funeral of little Freddie Willig,
the only son of Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip
Willig will take place from the M E.
Church, tomorrow, the 18th inst at 2
O'Clock p. m. The friends of the family
are invited to attend.
Nothing was done in the circuit course
yesterday. Judge Bradshaw opened
court in the morning but the election
seems to have so absorbed the attention
of both lawyers and clients that there
were no attendants.
The CHRONICLE congratulates the Ore
CONTAIN on the successful issue of its
fight with bossism. The same regime
that has cursed Portland has for years
cursed The Dalles. In both places the
people have risen in their might and
rebuked it.
The election is year off yet, but itsis
believed in a good many parts of this
congressional district that if Hon. G. w.
Fulton, OF this city, were to accept the
nomination to congress it would be ten
dered him by the next republican state
conventlon.-Ast
The vote of yesterday substitutes the
name of Orion Kinersly for that of Judd
Fish as city treasurer. Mr.. Fish will
resign his Office without the shadow of a
stain upon his reputation as an honest
man and good citizen. On any other
ticket, in any other connection he would
have been elected by an overwhelming
majority.
1t appears that the Pendleton Militia
Company is yet in existence Colonel
Houghton declined to allow our soldier
boys to doff their uniforms, Law down
their muskets, and disband. He in
structed the commanding officer, Lieu
tenant White, to call meeting for the
election of captain, and to compel at
tendance if necessary. Accordingly,
this evening meeting will be held at
the armory at which a captain will be
elected.EEGst Oregofidn.
Wecall the attention of our readers to
the. advertisement of the Monogram
cigar store which appears in our columns
today. The proprietor Mr.. McGilI, car
ries full line of all kinds of imported,
domestic and Key West cigars as well as
everything of a fine grade In that line,
Drop in and sample his goods. 55ss
A very sad accident occurred yesterday
afternoon in the death by drowning of
the ten year old boy of Mr.. Phil Willig,
OF this city. The boy had been riding
on plank which floated in twelve feet
OF water, at the foot of Union street, and
by some means he fell off and sank to
the bottom. The body was recovered
shortly after by an Indian who diyed
five times before he was successful.
The citizens made up purse for the
Indian which amounted to something
like $25. Freddie Willig was a thor
oughly good boy whom his companions
and everybody who knew him liked, and
his afflicted parents have the heartfelt
Al