The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-27
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

w. n. Wiley left the city this morn
ing for his ranch near Antelope.
More snow fell again last night, but it
is melting rapidly under warm sun
shine, and every drop is sinking into the
earth
The city is well supplied with all kinds
of wood and sells at the following prices,
oak $3.50; fir $4.0O; pine $4.0O and slab
wood at 1900 per cord delivered.
All the members of the &. A. K. are
requested to assemble at their post, on
special business. on Saturday evening at
the usual hour.
The umbrella thieves did a wholesale
businers at the NJ. Z. church Iast night.
Mr.. TiIos. Mccoy lost his, and lady,
whose name we did not learn. suffered a
like causality.
Kansas claims the honor of electing
the first Knights of Labor to the con-
gress of the United States. W. A. Pfef-
fer, Senator, and John Davis. Congress-
man.
The special services at the Methodist
church closed last evening. The total
members of those who united with the
church, as the fruit of the mission. is
said to be in the neighborhood of eighty.
The storm of yesterday and last night
was general throughout the interior.
The precipitation from the melted snow
was 42-100 of an inch, which was about
five inches.
We hope no further objections will be
raised, and that our citizens will COM
plete the subscription list Immediately
40 that Mr.. Norton may commence the
work next week as already arranged.
The very many friends of Ed. Solomon
are glad to welcome him back to the
city after his long absence and to know
that he has assumed control of his
fathers store which means ne has re-
turn ed Z stay.
The Congregational church Sabbath
school Wsn hold concert Sunday night
in placoef the regular evening service.
A fine Programme has been arranged
and the exercises promise to be enter
tanning.
IL,
who with three minor offenders escaped
from the custody of Sheriff Sampson in
the county Jail of Oregon City last Satur-
day, was re-arrested in Portland last
Tuesday night.
1t is expected that the Portland Cham
bers of Commerce and some of the most
public spirited citizens will advance the
money for an Oregon exhibit at the
Worlds Fair, in the hope that in two
years the legislature will pay it back,
aud that liberal appropriation will be
provided.
and surveyor, expects to commence the
survey of the railway between this city
and the coal fields of Gillian Co., next
Monday. Eigth hundred dollars of the
thousand needed for the work was al
ready subscribed last evening.
A touching little incident occurred at
the late wreck near Wyeth Station. One
of the lady passengers had canary bird
in cage which was sitting in corner
of the car that was smashed most, and
where the passengers were hurt most,
but the cage was scarcely scratched. 1t
was taken out and set on the track when
the little prisoner commenced to sing as
though bent on cheering it's less fortun-
ate companions.
The snowballing nuisance is upon US
and while we would not curtail any
healthy enjoyment, some are carrying
the sport beyond all decent bounds.
We are informed that very respectable
elderly lady, living on the bluff, was at
tackled by lot of hoodlums night before
last near the corner of Union and Third
streets, and hit with snow balls as many
as twenty or thirty times. At the M. E.
church last evening crowd of the same
kidney stood near the entrance and
made the night hideous with profanity
and snow balls. This thing is going too
far and ought to be stopped.
Some of our citizens are refusing to
contribute towards defraying the ex-
pense of q preliminary survey to the
Fossil mines on the ground that man
can take an aueroid and by making a
feH. observations make profile, thus
ag ohe Inousahu uoiiArs Aor practlc-
ally nothing. Mr.. Norton wishes it dis
inctiy understood that this is not the
;ase. A fully equipped party of six men
will be engaged all the time, the line will
pc run with a transit and afterwards
grades demonstrated with a level; stakes
will be set every hundred feet SO that the
inc cazbe traced, examined and verified
t any AID every point on the route.