The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-14
LOCAL BREyITIEs.

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Captain Lewis for sale at 81 per 100 at
this Office.
j. W. Gillian of Morrow county is in
the city.
Five car loads of cattle are being fed at
the stock yards.
Mrs. Pickett has been quite sick from
the grippe but is recovering.
Mr.. Butler is making up car load of
hogs to ship to the sound market.
viii Condor has been under the
weather for the past few days but is now
better.
Deputy United States marshal A. G..
johnson returned from Portland on the
the noon train today.
Surveyor Norton has got as far as
Tygh Valley and continues to report an
excellent and easy grade.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. W. Sparks leave this
city for Portland tomorrow where they
intend to make their future home.
The Baldwin Land & Live Stock COM
pany have fine lot of bucks at the stock
yards which they have imported from
California.
BY vote of over twelve to one the tax
payers of this city, yesterday endorsed
the policy of the, CHRONICLE. 1t was a
cold day for the Tin,es-Moumtaineer
From Mr.Dehuff we learn that the d.
S. Baker will not start on her daily trips
to the Cascades till the first of May, and
maybe not even then.
Jim Blakeney had a runaway at the
electric light. building yesterday evening.
One of the horses is badly hurt and the
truck nearly ruined.
Freight train number % bound, east
was wrecked this side of the summit
this morning on account of the sand
drift. Nobody was hurt.
Honor is like the eye, which cannot
suffer the least impurity without dam
age, it is precious stone, the price of
which is lessened by the least flaw
Bossuet.
The CHRONICLE man saw three fine
Chinook salmon at the ,.store of w. A.
Kirby this morning which. weighed over
123 pounds, One of them weighed ovel
fifty pounds.
Stock inspector, C, W.. Rice. is,. we re,
gret to hear, rather worse today. While
no serious result is apprehended,i the
progress of recovery from rheumatic fever
is necessarily slow.
The telephone at the Umatilla house
whose wire reaches to the Company
shops is not in working order, and in it.
present condition is more ornamental
than useful.
State Treasurer. Phil Metchan came VI
from Portland this morning, where ht
went yesterday to visit in company witt
the governor and the waterway eonven
ton, the location of the Cello portagt
railway. After reaching Portland it wal
decided to delay the matter for anothel
week, in order to get more information
from Washington.-Cap Journal.
From private letter received at ithii
Office under date of April 13, we learr
that Mr.. Norton's surveying party wa.
camped at the mouth of Bear Gulch
which is south west of Kingsley ane
near the head of Tygh Valley. Ths
route from Dufur follows natural pass
near, the foot hills of the Cascades. anC
taps fine timber country. The grade
is easy till Jordan Creek is reached
near where it empties into. Tygh, iwher.
there is a sharp pitch for short, dis
tance, as the road nears the Tygh Vale,
bottom, of 80 feet to the mile., For tn,
past few days they have made but SLOW
progress -only two or three miles day
They expect to reach Tygh1 Valley, to
morrow, when their progress may b,
less slow till they reach Deschutes
river.
County assessor Barnett left this after
Ito commence his annual. round o
assessing the county He will begin ol
the, other side of the sDeschutes. Th
county court yesterday instructed him t,
assess all property at rate of abou
three-fourths of its marketable value
This though higher than the assessmen
of last year does not necessarily, mea,
higher taxes. 1t really ought to mean
lower levy, now that we have a stat
board of equalization. We believe tha
under the circumstances seventy-fiv
per cent. rate is just about what it ough
to be. A lower one would be apt to b
raised by the state board. and "a highe
one would likely be too high and woul
call for reduction that might not b
made.