The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-07
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

A. C. Sandford and John B. Magill. of
Wamic, were in town today.
Emerson williams and Leon Rondeau
of Kingsley, gave this office pleasant
call today.
Walla Walla has Sunday closing law
which so far has been successfully
carried out.
r. H. Guthrie has sold to Jack Ander-
son 100 head of mutton sheep at So
head, after shearing.
Frank Driver of Wamic left the other
day with $500 pounds of bacon of his
own curing, for the Mitchell country,
where he hopes to dispose of it.
Lee Mccartney of this city caught
what appears to be veritable tarantula,
at his place in the Thompson addition.
The big spider may be seen at this Office.
DIR. Talmage's new tabernacle in
Brooklyn was opened for public worship
last Sunday. Its dimensions are 200 by
118 feet. 1t has two galleries and will
seat {, 5000 persons. The building has al
ready cost $41O, 900 and SAC, 900 more are
needed to finish it. The big organ cost
100000. There still remains a debt on
the building of $2OO,0OO.
We would like for our evening contem-
porary to explain what the "mayor"
has to do with the portage road at the
Cascades. s.-Times-M NJ Mountdineer.
"Our evening contemporary is strictly
minding his own business making the
best paper in Eastern Oregon and is
succeeding. If the editor of the Times.
Mountaineer will come up to the Office of
the CHRONICLE the "devil'' will. explain
to him the meaning of a typographical
error
The sickly combination of Ella Wheeler
Wilcox Higgenson and Abigail Scott
-Dunniway has proved too much for the
West Shore readers and its patronage was
Withdrawn to such an extent that the
directors have suspended its publication
and the West Shore is thing of the past.
AS a great illustrated weekly it was
failure.
From Mr.. Davis, the owner of the stage
line between here and Wapinitia, we
learn that crickets are doing considera-
BILE damage in Wapinitia and Oak Grove
q
pletely destroyed. So has Mrs. Capps
and the crop of Jim Abbott, on the j. B.
Condor place, is also cut down to the
ground.
This is the era of high prices among
horsemen. Very high values are placed
upon the foremost racers throughout the
whole country. The latest thing in this
line is the offer made Mr.. Bonner for the
privilege of breeding Maud S., the figure
being $l2, 2,000 Bonner refused, and will
breed the racer to "Happy Courier" of
Bardatown, KY, and will not part with
the foal.
1t was unfortunate that the presiden-
tial train came to stand in such
position that the militia boys were al
most as completely hidden from view of
the president as if they had been in
their own armory. We would have
borne the misfortune with greater resig-
nation if only his excellency had got
sight of the gorgeous uniform of our
drum major. AS it was nobody here
was to blame.
J. P. Manly, of Wapinitia brought in
a load of potatoes today for which he got
80 cents hundred. They are of a
special variety that he has raised with
good success for several years. He has
still on hand seven or eight hundred
bushels. These potatoes we're raised on
the bunch grass land of Wapinitia fat
without a drop of irrigation. Mr.. Manly
tells us that two years ago he planted
ten bushels of this same variety. The
product of these ten bushels supplied
his family during the following winter
and in the spring he sold what surplus
he had and realized the sum of $144, As.
This is good showing for an acre and a
quarter of ground. Mr.. Manly thinks if
he had transportation to Portland he
could starve the Willamette valley
potato raisers to DEATH
There is popular idea that the
minute letter'sM, - to be seen at the
base of Liberty on the face of the pres
ent issue OF silver dollars stands for
Mint" and is an evidence of the
genuineness of the coin bearing it. But
this is a mistake. The .'M'' stands for
Morgan, i George T Morgan, who is
the originator of the design. Upon
the same side there is another ssM''a all
so the initial of the designer. This is
TO be found in the waving locks of the
fairRoddess, and is SO cleverly concealed
in She lines of the design that it can
only be seen after a long scrutiny.
This is the season when milliner and
millionaire almost rhvme