The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-22
Senator J. N. Dolph will deliver the
oration at La Grande on the Fourth.

Only fifteen cents pound was offered
for it this week.-NeaUs.
The Dalles has had two good academies,
the Wasco Academy and st. Mary's
Academy. Pendleton also has two, the
Pendleton Academy and st. Joseph's
Academy, and we are proud of them
both.-EGst OregoniGn.
The leprosy committee appointed to
enquire into the conditions under which
this disease spreads and breeds in India
are said to have made some astonishing
discoveries which promise the cure of
this hitherto irremediable curse.
The drive-well patent swindle, by
which many an honest farmer was
robbed of hard earned dollars, not many
years ago, is likely to be duplicated in
similar manner. The Scientific american
has an illustration and description of
such patent by Rice of Hutchinson,
MINI.
-, Kansas is having a hard time. Last
Saturday the southeastern portion of the
state was visited by a combination of
cloud-burst cyclone and tornado that
destroyed standing crops, in many cases
just ready for the reaper, and swept
away bridges and buildings, involving an
estimate loss of half million dollars.
Kansas is a good country-to stay away
from. -
Make your home premises beautiful.
Each citizen by his own labor and lit
tie money expended can add greatly to
the attractiveness of the town. Brush
up, take down the unsightly old fences,
sod the lawns, be unsparing with the
paint brush and harmonious colors, see
that the alleys are cared for and the
streets in front of home clean-these
things done, each will not only be
healthier and happier, but will add his
part toward making the town handsome
as well us healthy. MI
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Williams have re-
turned from camping-out trip to Yak-i
ina City and the Ellensburg country,
whittier they went two weeks ago for the
benefit of Mrs. Williams health, which
is much improved in consequence. Mr..
Williams returns satisfied thst there is
no place like Wasco county. He says
he would not give The Dalles for all the
country north of the Columbia river.
Ellensburg is as pretty town as he
ever saw but he never saw town with
as many empty houses. He counted
eight empty dwelling houses in one
short street, and the remark will apply
to the whole city. There is more life in
Tho no1lao tod ho IN oil hat ,frxy
They can raise nothing without irrigation
and when it comes to raising wheat by
irrigation it is an uphill business.
Along the borders of the bitches wheat
was up six to eight inches while SIX feet
back'it had never erappeared above ground.
The Klickitat valley is by far the best
country he saw on the trip and the far
mers there have every prospect of a
splendid CROP
Mr.. Leslie Butler returned this morn
ing from Hood River where he had
gone to attend the dedicatory services in
the United Brethren church at that
place yesterday. The new church which
is model of neatness and good taste was
finished and furnished at cost of about
$4,000. Of this sum $1206 remained as
debt on the society, but the efforts of
the brethren, yesterday, were crowned
with success and the society renews its
conflict with the powers of evil with a
balance of $94.30 on the right side of
the ledger. Bishop Hott delivered the
dedicatory sermon in the morning and
Bishop Castle preached in the evening.
There were besides these special service
at 10 o'clock a. m. and Sunday school at
4 O'Clock p. m. All the services were
well attended and the preaching was
listened to by highly appreciative au-
dience. Besides the two clergymen al
ready mentioned the presiding elder of
of the district Rev. Geo. Sickafoose was
also present as well as the pastor of the
church Rev. G. w. Wells. Revival SER
vices will be continued in the new build
ing during the present week.
A trip to the Tygh Ridge country on
Saturday has given ocular proof of the
condition of the crops in that fine grain
raising district. From present indica-
tions we should Judge that nearly one
fourth of the spring grain never germi-
mated till the late rains, and had it not
been for them would never have made
anything. We never knew the grounds
to be so well soaked at this time of year,
and we never saw grain presenting a
healthier color; at the same time the
late sowed grain, since it did not germi-
nate equally, presents, for the present,
spotted appearance which, however, will
disappear within the next month. For
tunatelY there ia very little volunteer