The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-06

bluff and will commence firing as soon
as the train arrives within one-half mile
of the town. By order of committee.
T. A. HoUGHToN,
Commanding.
The Mid-Columbia Association.
The Midi -Colum bian Association of the
Congregational church met in this city
at l 80 this afternoon. The following
ministers and delegates are in attend
ance:
From Condor, Mr.. Marlin Campbell,
Rev. E. D. Howell and Geo. L. Neal;
delegate.
Fairview, David Nelson, delegate.
Hood River, ''Valley Church, Rev.
Frank M. Aunks and wife, Mr.. 1. Armor,
Mr.. Head delegates Hood River, River
side church, Mrs. j. M. Mccoy and Mrs.
j. H. Dukes, delegates.
Lexington, Rev. E. r. Reach.
Pendleton, Rev. T. H. Henderson.
White Salmon, Rev. Warner.
Portland, Rev. Cephas Clapp, Rev.
Chas. H. Curtis, Mrs. L. NJ. Livermore
and Mrs. D. B. Gray.
Pointed Superintendent of Construc-
ton.
Mr.. G. j.. Farley, of this city, has
been appointed blythe portage commits
sion as superintendent of construction, of
the portage railroad at the Cascades.
Mr.. Farley is an old railroad man and
has had extensive experience in this
sort of work. We believe; no better ;ap-
pointment could have been made. One
thing is dead certain, when Farley gets
his final orders to go and build that road
it is going to be built and built right
away, and built without any red tape or
any monkeying or foolishness. AS soon
as Mr.. Farley became aware of his .-ap-
pointment yesterday he Immediately
telegraphed to Senator sDolph ito. have
orders given without delay for the loca-
tion of the road so the work could be
Immediately proceeded with. 1t is
probable Mr.. Dolph was absent from
Washington as no answer has yet been
received. ,- s.,-
Speaking of local freight rates J. J.
Lynch, the Mosier merchant, said to a
representative of the CHRONICLE: "The
rate for flour in less than car load lots,
! from The Dalles to Mos1er distance of
sixteen miles, is twelve cents per hun
dred pounds. From Walla, Walla it is
seventy-three cents. Last spring
bought a ton of seed wheat ins Walla
Walla and had it shipped to Mosier.
The freight averaged exactly eighty cents
a SACK This reminds us of story we
heard the other night, while sitting on
the porch of the Mount Hood hotel at
Hood River. The speaker was a travel
ing man, who had just come down from
The Dalles where he had put up at the
Umatilla House. Learning that we
were from The Dalles he Uhoughtfully
remarked: "You have some remarka-
BILE characters up there. 1 heard the
proprietor of the Umatilla House tell a
tourist that when he first came to this
coast he used to get dollar pound for
packing -four on his back to the Salmon
river mines. He made trip day and
carried 200 pounds each trip The
tourist expressed some surprise at the
greatness of the load but Colonel Sinnot
quietly remarked sob, that's nothing
A Erenchman used to make the trip
with me who never carried less than 400
pounds; but he died, poor fellow, We
were crossing the Columbia river one
day on the backs of the salmon (they
were SO thick in the river in those days
we used to do it often) when his feet
slipped through thin place among the
salmon and was he drowned. He was a
fine swimmer too, but once he went be-
low the salmon they were SO thick he
could not get back to the surface"
From private letter to the editor of
the CHRONICLE, which came to The
Dalles during his absence from town,
we are informed of the death, at his
home at Merced Falls, California of D.
P. Woodruff, the father of Mrs. W. H.
Davis of Wapinitia, and of Mrs. Frank
Amen formerly of Kingsley. Mr.. Wood