The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-21
LOCAL BREVITIES.

LOCAL DINE AAAAS'.
Geo. A. Leibe and Chas. Schmidt went
out to Dufur this morning.
John Jack was for long time asso
ciated with Booth and Barrett.
Mrs. J. K. Mccormack is visiting her
parents Mr. and Mrs. P. DeHuff.
Sunday natural wood cane was found
at the new reservoir. The owner can
find it by calling at this Office.
Annie Firmin is the lady who created
the part of Mercy Merrick in Wilkie
Collins great drama ''The new Mag
dalene.''
Rev G. Vallman and Rev. A. Horn left
last night for Tacoma to attend the con-
ference OF the Greman Lutheran church
in that city.
Long Ward has five sons whose aggre-
gate length is 81 feet and six inches.
The aggregate length of father and sons
is 81 feet and ten inches.
The storm of last Saturday played
havoc with the incipient mustaches of
of some of our young men of this city.
LhC SChl<bi AHAOoS oSOiAC hoo AOoN his a.
and cannot find sign or trace of it.
Mr.. and Mrs. julius Wiley leave to-
morrow for Bay Center to visit Mrs.
Wiley's mother Mrs. Captain 1anfare.
They expect to be gone a month or six
weeks.
d. ]. Cooper, U. S. special land agent,
has received four lists of swamp land
selections in the Roseburg, Oregon City,
Dalles and La Grande districts COM
prising about one hundred tracts. He
will begin work on the same May 1st.
The friends of Messrs. Dufur and
Bradshaw have got up petitions to the
governor for their appointment to the
vacant judgeship of this district. AS
they are both good men we are kind of
sorry they cannot both be appointed.
w. j. Richards, Portlands s young COM
poser, is the author of the exposition
march which created such furore in the
musical world during the late exposition.
His limitations of Blind Tom are inimata-
BILE, winning applause nightly.
The Portland chamber of commerce
has sent to the board of trade of this
city supply of sugar beet seed which
will be distributed freely to all who wish
to experiment with planting it. The
seed has been placed for distribution at
this office.
H. P. Head, of Hood River gave us a
pleasant call today. He reports the
fruit prospects of his section as being
everything that could pc desired, and
that nearly Uhree-fourths of the fruit
will have to be plucked from the trees
to keep them from breaking down.
Mr.. John Bonn, of this city, was
married last evening to Miss Margaret
Saldren. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. A. Horn at Mr.. Bonn's residence
The CHRONICLE wishes the couple many
happy days.
Mr.. E. w. Winans of Hood river, sent
up to this city today a stuffed female
cougar which one of the Winans boys
shot short time ago. 1t is very large
animal and looks exceedingly natura
and lifelike. 1t was shipped to N
Whealdon and is now on exhibition il
the office of o. D. Taylor.
The tin-can brigade gave an entertain
ment last night on the bluff in front o
the residence of John Bonn. The enter
tainment was in the form of weddin,
serenade, but the band committed tn,
improperly of commencing operations
while the solemn ceremony was yet il
progress.
Mr.. Jank Meins had runaway OF
SATURDAY. hich resulted in the fractur
of one of his arms and other severe in
juries. He was breaking colt in a car
when the animal SHE'D and threw hin
out on a pile of brick in front. of tn
armory building. He was, we under
stand, quite severely injured and will b
laid up undoubtedly for some time.
Surely no, city on earth can boast of
better natured set of public officers Jtha
The Dalles. This morning while
CHRoNIcLE reporter was looking for item
he saw the kind hearted marshal con
veying. engineer Brown, who is tenn
por4rily crippled with rheumatism, in
wheelbarrow from the east end to tn
store of Fish & Bardon, were George ha
some city business to transact. iTh
marshal handled the wheelbarrow a
tenderly as if his own baby had been i
it.
Lost.
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