The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-01-29
LOCAL BREvITIEs.
Our mayor is in Salem.

visiting friends here.
Rev. H. Brown and wife went to
Portland this morning.
Mr.. Thompson is getting along nicely |
and will be able to be out soon.
The west bound passenger was an
hour and half late this morning.
The Gymnasium Club will meet at Z
o'lock tonight instead of s as heretofore.
Mr.. Bailey who has been visiting
friends left for Albina this morning.
Four carloads of cattle arrived from
Snake river today and are at the stock
yards.
We understand The Dalles base ball
club will plav the Planets at Dufur next
Sunday.
Work is progressing rapidly at the
reservoir and some heavy blasting is be-
ing done.
The new charter which passed the
council Tuesday night has been sent to
the legislature for Endorsement.
1t is asserted at Olympia that when
dwelling idiocy was being parcelled out
Metcalfe drew the long term.
Mr.. ]. F. Magee who has been sick
for long time was on the street for the
first time in several months yesterday.
The truth is not always truthful if the
old adage is correct, for that distinctly
asserts that "Truth lies, at the bottom OF
a well.''
Hon, A. J. Dufur visited our sanctum
IL Ioe ;,,ct
and feels confident the portage railroad
bill will pass.
Mrs. E. T. Scott's lecture tonight in
Congregational church is "Sowing and
Reaping or what we give to Posterity."
Everybody should hear it.
The commissions for the examining
surgeons for the pension bureau have
arrived. Drs. Shackelford, Doane and
Logan comprise the board.
Mr.. John Bost reports the ground in
fair condition for the plow the other side
of Fifteen Mile, though it is somewhat
dry yet. Quite snow storm prevailed
there Tuesday.
If you want good meal cooked as
your mother used to cook it go to the
Baldwin. Mrs. Graham has charge o.
the kitchen aud that alone is guarantee
enough for US.
Parties having cows running at large
are notified by the city marshal to keel
them up, after February first all cattl'
found running at large in the city limits
will be impounded
A fine bunch of lettuce from Mr.. Beer
garden was left at this Office this morn
ing If there is another state in tn
Union in the same latitude that ca
grow garden sass in January we woul
like to hear from it.
Recorder Knaggs presented the horn
of judicial dilemma to one tramp thi
morning, who finding it was also tn
judges ultimatum, selected job on tn
street, rather than surrender the coin c
the realm.
The partnership heretofore existin
between Drs. Doane and Boyd has bee
dissolved by mutual consent. DIR. Doar
will retain the office now occupied b
the firm.
In a short time a change will be mac
in the rule giving east-bound trains tt
right of way. Under the new rule WEI
and south-bound trains will have tt
right of way over east and north -boun'
The East End is affiictedwith unusu
quietness. No stock shipments or an,
thing else. This cannot last long and
accounted for by the threatening cond
ton of the weather which keeps tt
farmers at home
Someone who understands the hot
business and has the capital to start ol
visiting Hood River. All the place nee
to make it one of the finest summer r
sorts in the northwest, is a good hote
and it would be filled to its utmost C
pacity all summer.
The commission to locate the nor
boundary of the Warm Springs reserv
! ton left this morning to begin the
labors, the first of which is to find MI
=. ton mountain. According to the Indi
theory the line runs from the base
Mutton mountain to an oak stump, a
thence "yawah."
Company A, Third regiment, had
large attendance at company drill IL
evening and Captain Thompson says
is his intention to have larger turno
next week. Several new recruits we
brought in, and we hope that the int
est that is now being shown may be &C
tinued.