The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-03

Dy IDe ODSCFuCLlOn WHICH turned an over
plus of water away from the main chan
mel of the stream.
Mrs. Frank Menefee returned from a
four weeks visit to Portland, Saturday.
Mr.. J. J. Filbin, late of the Sunday
Bystander, Butte, Mont, has taken
charge of the CHRONICLE office, as fore
man.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Wells of Sherar's
Bridge, who have been in the city for
the past week, left for home this after
noon.
Two hobos and one drunk were the
fruit OF the labors of Con Howe last
night. The drunk alone paid his fine
and was discharged.
Mr.. G. l.. Phillips has the thanks of
the editor of the CHRONICLE, for a nice
mess of trout which he brought with
him from Hood River.
carload of beef cattle belonging to
E. J. Cooper, of Union was fed today
at the stock yards. They will be shipped
this evening to Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. c.. L. Phillips and Mr..
Geo. Joles and Mrs. Frank Taylor re-
turned from the Joles Camp, Hood River,
Saturday. They report having had
fine enjoyable time.
!. A friendly trial OF speed was made
last Saturday, on the race track, between
the horses of Messrs. Schenck, Thomp-
son, Webster, Savage, Garretson, Tom
Ward and F. B. Wyers. These are some
of the fastest horses in Eastern Oregon.
Thompson's Anita has record of 2:37,
Tom Wards PAGER can go like-Sam
Hill, Garretson's can trot in less than
three minutes; yet Boney Wyers came
i'll second best. That is BUney says so,
but the story lacks whole lot of contir-
nation.
The Fossil Jonrnal says that it iearns
from good authority that the U. P. COM
pany has put a force of men to work Dig
every available man in the vicinity is
being hired and sent to the mines. The
company has long had an eye on Butter
Creek to which place it will not cost
much to build road from Heppner. 1t
has already spent tidy sum of money
in searching for coal at that place and
the Journal fears that the new move
ment may delay the development of the
Fossil mines.
Mrs. Slusher of Dufur is in the city.
Deputy Sheriff j. H. Phirman returned
yesterday from a seven days trip to
Harney county. He brought with him
a young fellow about sixteen years of age
well known in the Tygh country, named
William Jordan, son of Jim Jordan, for
merly rancher on Jordan Creek.
Young Jordan is charged with having
stolen horse from William Floyd and
another from Gabriel Deckert. He was
arrested within thirty five miles of Burns
just as he was saddling horse to go fur
ther south. He was to have an exami-
nation before Justice Schultz this after
noon.
Last week Ed. Mills, the gentlemanly
bookkeeper of Filloon Bros, packed his
valise for trip to Collins Landing and
left it in the office, ready to take it with
him on the boat next morning. During
Mr.. Mills absence from the office, Jno.
Filloon and A. G. Sanford managed to
crowd into it a lot of old greasy castings,
two old tobacco pipes without stems, a
pair OF superannuated shoes, a few
cigar stubs, dried out plug of tobacco
that had been kicked around the Office
for the past two years, lot of last years
almanacs, and a miscellaneous assort-
ment of advertising cards, dodgers etc.,
the whole weighing about fifty pounds
extra. Ed. innocently carried the valise
to the boat and at the end of the trip
packed it about mile to the camp and
never discovered the joke till he opened
his valise in the presence of Geo.
Filloon.
for himself, as hunter, at the Joles
Camp, Hood River. A few days ago, as
he wandered through the surrounding
woods he saw wild cat about rs yards
ahead of him. Hesitating a little, as a
careful hunter will, he saw it move and
presently blink one of its eyes, as if to
say ''come on George" The senator
drew careful bead and blazed away.
! When the smoke. had cleared off the cat
was still there and the senator suppos-
! ing it was dead walked toward it as he
drew his clasp knife with the intention
nf skinning it. What was his surprise
to find that the cat was nothing but the
stump of a pine tree and the eye that
blinked SO wickedly was simply a hole
that woodpecker had made in it.