The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-12
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

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the city.
H.. H.. Riddell returned from Portland
this morning.
C. f. Haight has returned from trip
to Shearer's Bridge.
Jack Nolin went out on the Wapinitia
stage this morning to teach a term of
of school in district No. 4S, on Juniper
Flat.
Mrs. C. l.. Phillips has received the
larger part of her'new millinery for the
spring trade and has it now ready for
inspection.
Miss Rosa Michel is quite ill from
what is called la grippe. We will be
pleased to hear of her immediate
recovery.
We shall publish in tomorrow's issue,
The Dalles Water bill, from a certified
copy sent to the secretary of the water
commission.
The subscription price of the weekly
CHRONICLE is only 81 so a year, or rs
cents for six months. This makes it the
cheapest paper of its class in Oregon.
We regret to hear that the wife of SEN
ator Watkins is still suffering quite
severely from an attack Of erysipelas.
She is not so well today as she was yes
terday.
Mr.. Frank Gabel, of Wapinitia, came
into town yesterday to hire five or six
men to help him in the lambing season.
He reports about three inches of snow
and that is rapidly disappearing.
Two car loads of sheep were shipped
from the stock yards this morning by ].
A. Anderson. They were bought in this
county and are booked for the Union
- stock yards, Portland. The sheep are in
prime condition.
Mr.. H. G. Nelson is in receipt of his
spring and summer clothing for gentle
man and boys. His selections are fine
and the styles are the latest out, while
his prices are extremely low. He carries
fine stock and will not be undersold
j. L. Thompson is preparing the
foundationfor another new building on
the old mint property, between the
building now nearing completion, cor
ner of Madison and Second, and the
Touring MILL
The little word cts the possessive
case of the neuter pronoun "it," }" as much
as it is used in all current literature,
never occurs once in the Bible. 1t is
comparatively anew word in our Ian
guage and was not in use 250 years ago.
E. n. Chandler came in town last
night to make preparations for opening
of the new grange store. Mr.. Chandler
will soon be full fedged citizen of The
Dalles and to the maner born,. as it
were, and the CHRONICLE bids him a
hearty welcome.
Professor Hagal has been busy all day,
at the fair grounds, making preparations
for his balloon ascension next Sunday at
2:30 O'Clock. He has had to build q
large temporary furnace in which to
make the gas to initiate his big balloon,
which is 20 feet high by 55 feet in
diameter. He has put the charge for
cents and promises to exhibit, rain or
shine.
There have arrived in Portland a
= larger number of vessels than usual for
this season, purposely to load with
wheat for Europe, and we notice wheat
has jumped up in price to $1.35 per
GENITAL for Eastern Oregon, which means
81 cents per bushel there. Buyers are
only offering 5S cents in this city. AT
Walla Walla 200 miles further inland 81
cents is being paid. Why this differ
ence in price we don't quite understand
ItiAnot the railroad this time sure, as
tfNyate is 101s cents bushel from here
to Portland.
Jack Hickey, an old timer of The
Dalles, has just returned from the Ar
gentine Republic. While there he was
compelled to secnre the necessaries O.
life, by strengthening at the munficent
remuneration of a cent and a half head
paid in currency based on mortgages or
real estate, worth about forty cents OF
the dollar in gold. While so engaged
they fed him on meat straight, without
bread or anything else. He reports
their methods of shearing to be very
primitive. Little girls and boys of eigh
to twelve years of age hold the sheer
while being clipped. He considers that
country good place to stay away from
and was glad to get back to God.
country.