The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-28
LOCAL BREvITIEs.


the city. le
= Mr.. Jas. NJ. Smith, of Seattle, Wash,
is in the city visiting friends and attend
ing to business. -
The high winds of today are blustery
enough to change real estate in lively
manner. '-'', r;
% Mr.. and Mrs Clark of La Grande
made flying visit to this city, and were
the guests of Mrs. J. L. Story.
ID. M. McLauchlan, master mechanic
of the Albina shops, came up from that
city last night and is in the city.
The contractors of the Laughlin street
sewer are laying down the eight inch
terra Gotta at a brisk rate, and are doing
a good job of it. &c "a. ,.,
Said Mrs. Mary Lease, of Kansas
''The alliance plow is strong enough to
turn a furrow and hide both of the old
parties from thelight efday.'p'
E. E. Griffin, the man spoken yof. yes
terday as partially insane, was taken
east to Ellis, Kansas, by his brother
this morning, instead of Iowa as our
types made us say.
The farmers on Ochoco are about
through their spring seeding. The fall
grain on the ranches looks healthy, and
shows no indications of having been in
jured by cold weather.-Ochoco Review.
The attendance at the, Academy is
first-rate for the last term and the stu-
dents are doing good work under Prof.
Ingalls, and his corps of teachers. This
institution will graduate three young
ladies at the commencement,
No appointment has been made yet to
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
tion of Judge ]. H. Bird, district judge
of this district. The general opinion is
that an outside person will, wear the
honors. ftf4~
Brigadier General A. w. Greely, chief
U. S. signal officer at Washington, D.
c., will be in Portland the, last of the
week on official business. He will visit
the Sound before returning east.
Reports come in from the country that
within the past week more or less rain
has fallen and that all kinds of vegita-
ton and grain are growing finely and
that the outlook was never more encouag-
ing for a very large yield of farm pro-
ducts. = , s
The reporter noticed today several
wagons loading and unloading at the
Wasco warehouse. Mr.. Schmidt in
formed him that he purchased one
round lot of 5000 bushels of wheat pay
ing 721e, cents. per bdshel, and that 1t is
being delivered at the.warehouse daily,
Our police judge, complains bitterly
because his institution is verging bank
ruptcy, simply for the'reason the in
come incident to his profession is grad
nally being shut off and no visible out:
look for an improvement. "Alas poor
Yorick.''. -.
F. H. Lamb, assistant superintendent
of the Western Union Telegraph Co.,
arrived in the. city on the II O'Clock
train from San Francisco, and will go up
the road on the l o'clock passenger. Mr..
Lamb comes to The Dalles in the interest
of the company. att
=, H. B. Reed, late of the Pacific Fence
works of this city, has changed his oc-
cupation to that of hotel man at Jack
sonville, Southern Oregon, having
launched into that enterprise. He is a
shrewd business man and will evidently
make success of it, ~.
We are pained to learn that Mrs. James
Force, one of the few surviving lS42
pioneers, is lying very low at her
daughters. Mrs. d. w. Edwards, in this
city, with no hopes of her recovery
Should she be spared until this autumn
she will have lived in Oregon 40 years
long enough to see Oregon grow from its
infancy to manhood.
= G.. H. Mattoon, of Independence, Or.
is preparing history of the Baptist de-
nomination, in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, which he intends To have printed
: It will give the doings of the Baptists
from the time the first minister of thai
denomination first "came the plains
across =. in about 1874. The book viii
beswide in its scope and will ,be valuable
aas n history ii
.ie To x-Goxernor Moody, whose home
is in Salem, but whose business interests
take him TO The Dalles, belongs the
pr6udsdistinS StiQhsof being. the largest
offginal dealer of Wool in America, if moi
IN the-world: During 1888 Governor
'eMoody handled over 5000, 900 pounds o.
hfaeekes The SAME year something oyel
rs ,OO4 900 pounds of wool were handled
at TIE B8lles,k making it the largesi
wool-growers, c,delivery point in the
pUnited StatessTSate'h Statesmen.