The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-06
LOCAL BREyITIEs.

LOCAL BREyITIES.
Progressive whist cards for sale at this
Office.
Hon. c. NJ. Cartwright, of H ay Creek,
is in the city.
Joseph McEachern went to Portland
this morning.
Hon. G. w. Cartwright of Crook
county, is in the city.
A large number of persons are in the
city filing on the forfeited railroad lands.
Four "drunks'' were arrested last
evening and are today working out their
fines on the streets.
The young gentlemen of The Dalles
will give hop at the gymnasium hall on
Friday evening next.
Chicagos mortuary record for the past
week was S51 death, which was IL over
that of previous week.
The city council of Burns, Harney
county has put tax on dogs of rs cents
quarter or $500 year.
The friends of Mrs. A. Bunnell will be
pttlACO W lCdIl bhC 10 5IlAl NCiy
sick with no hope of recovery.
The Salem Capital Journal says: ::
"What is selling for more in Salem now
than it has for three years before"
John Anthony late in the employ of
August Buchler is about to move to La
Grande, and go into the candy business.
The town of Fossil expects to have
$4,000 roller Touring mill in time for
the coming wheat crop.
The Kings Daughters will meet to-
morrow at Mrs. Harris, at 2 p. IN. All
men bers are requested to be present as
there is work to do.
Valentine Nehrbaner, subject of the
German Empire, today declared his in
tention of becoming an American citizen,
before County Clerk Crossen.
Hon. ]. E. Atwater, wife and Miss
Maie Atwater returned home from
Sprague where they have been visiting
their daughter Mrs. w. G. Eddon.
Messrs. Mcfarland & French are
putting in a spur from the railroad track
road and Federal streets.
B. Kelsay and Sons lost only go head
of sheep out of 5000 during the winte
Over fifty of the loss was in one band of
1000, the result of blind staggers.-Fossa
Journal.
A special meeting of the board of trade
is called for tonight. AS business of
great importance will come before the
meeting, full attendance is re quested.
From Pendleton paper we learn that
the Pendleton militia boys expect a visit
from Colonel Houghton tomorrow. They
want to I've enlightened on financial
matters.
Messrs B. F. Laughlin, M. T. Nolan
and H. Glenn, will go to Portland on
the morning train, to let the contract for
the building of the first steamboat for
The Dalles, Portland and Astoria Nav
igation company.
If the boys of the East End don't stop
throwing stones and large clods of dirt
and breaking in windows they will get
into trouble before they know it. They
are spotted. A word to the wise ought
to be quite sufficient.
Chas. S. Mcdonald night clerk at the
Merchants hotel at Spokane has ab-
seconded taking $3.50 of his employers
money and $52 belonging to quests with
him. He was formerly conductor ON
the Union Pacific.
The factional fight among the home
rulers in Ireland is getting down to a
fine point when they must have Parnell-
ite and McCarthyite candidates for poor
law guardians, as was the case in Cork
the other day when the McCarthyites
beat the Parnellites two to one.
An English physician who has been
travelling in Germany, says that ,he
found the opinion everywhere prevalent
that Kaiser William is little off his
mental balance, in other words that he
is manifesting incipient signs of the in
sanity of his maternal ancestor George
III.
A committee consisting of Paul Mohr,
Il. u. Hughes, = Osburn, J. X. Gill, J.
Lang, III. S. Rowe and j. r. Allen, from
the Portland chamber of commerce, Wis
tied The Dalles yesterday to examine the
north bank of the Columbia in connec-
ton with the location of the portage
railroad there. The committee informed
some of our citizens that they expected
to have the road finished within the
next six months. Work is to be COM
menced immediately