The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-11
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LOCAL BREvITIEs.


\ city.
:. Mr.. Davenport, of the Colfax Commons
er is in the city visiting friends.
y Wool is coming in lively, and the east
end is quite brisk with teams.
We noticed the old Brooks and Beers
feed yard was chock-a-block with teams,
which reminded us of old times
We found it impossible to make room
for the remainder of the county court
proceedings, to-day, but shall try and
find room tomorrow.
With the prospect of bountifuI crops
of wheat and good prices as well, the
farmers of Oregon have reason to antici-
pate year of unusual prosperity.
land Tidings.
"A monument fifty feet in height mark
ing the center of population as shown by
the last census, was erected last Satur-
day on a farm twenty miles east of Col
umbus, Ind.
The Kesler Sisters, in connection with
their dressmaking establishment are put
ting in selection of millinery and as
they are experienced in both lines they
Indians are all over the mountains
slaughtering deer, while the law prohib-
its white men from providing their hun
CRY children with mess of venison. 1t
should not be thus, but white men must
grin and bear it, we suppose, until the
short time when deer will be no more.
Interest in the fabulous ''Blue
Bucket" gold diggings has again been
revived in the southern part of Harney
county The Grant County NeWs man
says that when he visited Burns lately
he was informed that man had just
been in the town who claimed to have
found the hoops and bail OF the old blue
bucket"
Never before has there been such d
marked increase in lambs as there has
been in this section this spring. All our
sheepmen say they are owners of double
the number of lambs they expected this
season. In consequence the sheep rails
ersI are greatly encouraged, and will
more than make up for the disastrous
loss sustained year ago last winter
Condor Globe.
c. L. Phillips claims to be the cham
pion chicken raiser of this town. He
has about l25 young chickens of this
years crop, und he says he is going to
eat them all himself except what he
gives to newspaper editors. In that case
the CHRONICLE predicts that the editors
will have to steal them.
The steamer ID. s. Baker, after having
been tied up since last fall, resumed her
daily trips to the Cascades this morning.
She will connect with the Lurline on the
lower river. This will be good news to
ho Af Ha ],
side of the Columbia, who have been
shut off from all intercourse with the
rest of the world, except by skifs, for
the past six months.
Saturdays baseball game at the fair
grounds between the academy and city
mines resulted in a draw, but four inn
ings beings being played. The batting
all through the game was good, but the
fielding did not come up, to the usual
standard of excellence which the bows
have hitherto shown. One feature of
the game was the large number of
passed balls, which occasioned more
than one score. Post having sore
finger was bothered in his delivery and
was batted all over the field. Some
good runs were made all through the
game and some neat playing DONE
Quite number of spectators watched
the progress of the game and manifested
their delight at each good play by the
usual vociferations. Some small boys, in
the judges stand at the race track kept
ringing a bell at each poor play, to the
great dislike of the boys, who apparently
did not enjoy any allusion to anything
that savored of chestnuts. o,..,, 49,
Julius Wiley and Mrs. Wiley returned
from their trip to California last night.
They had very enjoyable time and
came back with an addition to the fam
lily of a Charming little girl that Julius
says he would not take a million for.
They had stopped at Astoria and after
registering at the hotel they went out to
visit friends, returning at 9 o'clock p. m.
When they entered their bedroom the
little stranger was lying on the bed with
a liable attached to her clothes on which
was inscribed, ''To julius Wiley Mr..
and Mrs. Wiley made the best of the
situation and brought the child home
with them. julius declares that neither
he nor any of his friends in Astoria
know anything of the child nor where
she came. She is remarkably bright
and afectionate little one about two and
half years old and has already won a
warm spot in the hearts of her adopted
parents t2 gs.