The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-12-02
GENERAL NEWS.


On his CatskiIl park George Gould
Down in Wall street, however, he will
still continue to herd with bulls and
bears.-Athe1aG Press.
man in Missouri has twenty-seven
pet rattlesnakes that come when he
calls them, which is much better than
to live in Kentucky, and have snakes
when you do not call them.-AtheaG
Press.
Saturday in Pendeton 200 sacks of
Scotch Fife wheat were sold by Andrew
Nelson to W. S. Byers for 81 per bushel,
which is considerably above the regular
market figure. This by far the highest
price paid for wheat this season and 'is
an exceptional instance.-EGst Oregon
ian.
Five years ago Rev. Hugh Pentecost
was Presbyterian minister of great
prominence in New York. Doubts
drove him to a Unitarian pulpit; then
he became an agnostic. Our under
standing of an agnostic is a man who
doesn't know; doesn't deny or affirm;
simply doesn't know. From an agnostic
oentecqSt became an atheist. From
atheism he flung himself into anarchy,
and was an anarchist in Chicago. AS
anarchist he was the editor of the
that he will cease to be an editor and
will be lawyer. The interesting ques-
ton arises in Pentecost's career, t'What
neNt?"
j. E. Eldredge, of the government
works at the Coos bay jetty, had a
novel and thrilling experience last week
which he wilt not soon forget. He was
shooting in the vicinity of the ponds on
the sand hills when large flock of peli-
cans came trooping in. The bird is quite
curiosity and is not very frequent
visitor in that locality, SO Mr.. Eldredge
secured two or three with shots from his
gum and one of them which he picked
up was not dead, but screamed pitifully.
On hearing the cries of their wounded
com panion. the whole. flock shrieked
like band of fiends, came down upon
the astonished sportsman, tried to bite
him with their long bills. which look
like pair of huge shears, struck at
him with their powerful wings, and
mate such vigorous attack that club
bing his gun, he retreated into the
water and standing almost up to his
arm pits, and fighting for his life, killed
eight of the enraged birds in protecting
himself from injury. The flock at length
retreated, and, bruised and wet, Mr..
Eldredge went back to the works, bring
ing some of the birds with him.-Asto-
ran.
The Oregonian of December first has
the following &C. ]. Farley, superin-
tendent of the portage road at the Cas-
cades, is staying for short time at the
Perkins. He told an Oregonian reporter
last night that ''The Dalles City, boat
was meeting with great snccess. AL
though the Union Pacific boats said
he, are charging much less rate than
ours, we are carrying at least two-t thirds
of the passengers. The public seems to
appreciate the fact that we are strug-
CLING for existence against monopoly
and has come to our assistance nobly.
They seem to be willing to pay US for a
single passage and SO for round trip
4 when they could ride on the boats of the
other line for fifty cents and get round
trip for 81. The greater part of the bus
a mess the Union Pacific secures from
points above the Cascades. In reference
to freight the rates are the same over
both lines, but we are handling nine.
tenths of all that is handled. In refer
ence to the road around the dalles il
Mohr's scheme of building road on the
/ Washington side will. 1 think, fall
through. There is plenty of space for 8
road on the Oregon side, and think
that is where it will be built