The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-12-28

than other counties of the state. The
petition was referred to the general jan
uary meeting.
still born babe wrapped only in a
coarse cotton cloth was found on one of
the streets of Portland on the morning
of the 26th.
The store of Hasbrouck & Co., of
Sprague, was destroyed by fire yester-
day. The building was insured for
$1,000, and the stock for $4,000. 1t was
owned by II. Herbring, of The Dalles.
thousand farmers or more were in
Walia Walla on Saturday, and all
spoken to were jubilant over the present
splendid prospects. The amount of
land seeded to wheat this fall will be
200, 900 acres, and probably fully as
much will be plowed for summer fallow.
A Union Pacific freight train was
wrecked at Garfield ON the 21st instant,
and the Garfield photographer was
promptly on hand to take a picture of
the wreck hut the train men objected
and drove him off. When outside the
right of way the Photographer set up his
camera and took several negatives of the
wrecked engine. Before he prints any,
the Milton Eagle saws, he retouched the
words ''Union Pacific till each letter
seems six feet long.
The Fidelity Trust company, OF Ia
coma, has instructed its attorneys,
Campbell & Powell, to begin suit against
the Fidelity and Casualty company, of
New York, for the payment of the $10.-
0Nn dc f,,,. aicha orl A1harfco,,
while cashier of the Fidelity bank.
President Wallace, of the bank, says
the directors have been unable to secure
settlement with the Fidelity and Cas-
ualty company, no res ponse having been
received to demands for the payment of
the $4,000 guarantee.
A petition is being circulated in Kla-
math county to have the name of Link
vile changed to Klamath Falls by the
postoffice authorities, and ihe Sun is
booming the proposition with its wonted
enthusiasm. The idea advanced is that
the name would not only be more eu-
phonious and more befitting prospec-
tive city of consequence than Linkville,
but that it would advertise the great
water power of the river between the
lakes, and make another Spokane Falls
of the town.
James Poole, of Canyonvile, has been
sentenced to the penltentiary for one
year for collecting $40 from the county
for coyote that was a dogs scalp.
Twelve years ago he killed James
O'Neill and fled to Idaho, where he
served term in the pen for cattle steal
ing. Last year he was brought back to
Douglas county and convicted OF man
slaughter, but the supreme court
knocked it out on a technicality. The
crime being so old it was never brought
up again. Poole's two brothers are now
in the Oregon pen for stock stealing.
Fl. r. Keylor, of Walla Walia, secre-
tary of the state medical examining
board, notified DIR. Powell Reeves that
DIR. H. w. Dewey, of this city, had pc
titioned the board to revoke his license.
DR.. Reeves was notified,to appear before
the board at Seattle at its next January
meeting, when the petition will be con-
sidered. DIR. Reeves has placed the
matter in the hands Of Lawyers Calkins,
Shackleford & Calkins, and will contest
the petition. In similar way, he
claims, the California statutes on this
point have been proven unconstitutional
and he believes the Washington law is
unconstitutional.