The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-25
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
LOCAL BREvITIES.


terday to Portland.
Mrs. Thomas Smith is in the city, the
guest of Mrs. H. NJ. Beall.
Gentleness makes children endurable.
women lovable and men admirable.
The friends of Mrs. A. Bunnell will be
sorry to learn that she is seriously ill.
The latest news from Mrs. E. Jacob
sen and child is that both are doing well.
Two car loads of cattle are being fed at
the stock yards. They came from
Grand Rond.
County school superintendent Troy
Shelly has moved his family to The
Dalles.
The friends of Mrs. Dunham will be
glad to hear that she is slowly improv
ing. The child, however, is still very
low.
F. c. Geutsch, ESQ.,, of Salt Lake,
Utah, superintendent of the western
division of the Pacific Express company,
is in the city on official business.
Sam Thurman wants to get a permit
of the mayor to catch a lot of trout that
he saw the other day in the cistern at
the intersection of Washington and Third
streets.
Elder j. A. Orchard will hold religious
services in the county court room on
next Sunday at IL O'Clock a. IN. and 7 80
d. m. cordial invitation is extended
to all.
The contractors for the reservoir at
the head of Union street have COM
menced to lay the concrete. 1t is now
believed the work will be finished in
about five weeks.
meeting of the Columbia Building
and Loan Association of Denver is called
for tomorrow evening at the county
court room for the purpose of organizing
a local board.
The one great big throbbing desire of
the heart of J. H. Larsen of this city is
only this: He has a lot of fine horses of
every class, trotters, runners, drivers
and work horses and he wants to sell
them.
The new firm of Thompson & Butts
have opened out for business and have
their Office next door west of Pat Pagan g
tailor shop. They deal in real estate
and all kinds of personal property in
cluding horses, cattle, sheep, etc.
The ladies of The Dalles will thank the
CHRONICLE for informing them that Mrs.
G. L. Phillips will have grand display
and opening of new millinery in all the
latest styles, at her store on Third street.
this evening and tomorrow.
Mr.. F. H. Dietzel the youngest of the
Dietzel brothers leaves today, in COM
pany of Mrs. G. w. Dietzel, to visit his
parents in Illinois. Mrs. G. w. Dietzel
goes to spend few months with her
mother.
The water is rising in the Columbia
river and if the portage railway commits
sion don't hurry up the work of building
the road the water will soon be so high
as to preclude the running of the inclines
sufficiently far into the river at the
upper and lower landings.
An alarm of fire was sounded today at
about o'clock. Not that there was any
fire but Joles Brothers wanted to sell a
lot of fat geese and the fire boys wanted
to get their pictures taken, SO they killed
the two stones with one bird. 1t was OF
course all done in due form. ga kid
called fire."
This is the way the Ochoco Revie,
speaks of its brother the Prineville Neaus:
,"Whenever this country can be ridded
such parasites as the lunatic who
Akes himself ridiculous by his commu
Nleations in the NeaDs and running dowr
the country, a season of prosperity may
be expected. 1t would be a God-send tC
the community if he would take the ls
grippe and never recover"
Mr.. Norton's surveying party haC
reached, at 3 o'clock yesterday the rancl
OF ID. j. Cooper on Ten-mile. They ar
making about three miles day. The,
report grade of forty feet to the mile
and have met no cuts to exceed six t,
seven feet. The point the surveyor
have now reached is two-thirds of tn,
distance to an excellent steamboat land
ing above Cello falls. As soon as Mr.
Norton has finished his present surve,
he will start from the most fayorabl,
point on the present survey and run tn,
line to the landing referred to- The OBJ
ject is to see if there can not be found .
practicable and easy route that will avoit
the heavy grading necessary to build .
roadsxlong the river.