The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-25

passenger tOoAH'
George Herbert. the host of the Mount
Hood hotel Hood River, was in the city
last night.
The new supply pipe is of wrought
iron and meets the entire approval of
the city engineer.
Oil has been struck in Greece. There
seems to be good deal of eternal fitness
about that classic name.
Five men of the twenty-three en-
ployed in making the excavation for the
new supply pipe dropped off work yes
ierday on account OF the heat.
Mr.. J. A. Gulliford of Dufur, who has
been in the Pendleton conntry for three
or four days, passed through the city to-
dav.on his way home.
Hon. w. Med. Lewis has named his
fine thoroughbred colt DesChutes. The
colt was sired by Tilden, dam Ruby, is
of chestnut color and was foaled May
18th last.
The following appears in the last issue
of the La Grande Gazette:
Miss Minnie Bishop, of La Grande
and Simon Frazier, of The Dalles, were
united in the bonds of matrimony last
Saturday. ,
Mr.. Frazier will be remembered as an
old-time smRloye at the Company's
shops. The lady, we understand, came.
to La Grand some time ago from the
east.
Two tramps and a dead drunk were.
arrested last night and brought before
the recorder this morning. The drunk
paid the usual fine and the others, in
default of funds, were held to work out
their fines on the steets.
The. Portland Bridge Building
company have twenty-three men, all
from tl1isIcity and neighborhood, EN-
ployed digging the ditch from the new
reservoir TO tie receiving basin at Mes
plies. Faf eeac.e
Even Balfour has awakened at last to
the wrongs of Ireland. His. good inteH7i
Ittions are deserving of praise, but it,
should not be forgotten that 1t is Mr..
Gladstone WHO has made popular the
cause of Ireland in England, and forced
the tory government into policy de-
signed primarily to soothe the discomfort
and retain that partyin power.-SpOkGne
ReUieW.
The report that the operating depart
ment of the Union Pacific has arranged
for supply OF offgrty-six new and powerful
locomotives and ! 800 freight cars for the
handling of the wheat crop will not be
received with unqualified confidence by
the average farmer. 1t is to be hoped
fhat tho Y,,Y,, ic sand haf
Northern Pacefic will take equally radi-
cal measures; but similar reports were
circulated last year, and, like ''the letter
that he longed for" the new cars and
engines never came.-SpOkG ne RerietC.
water works have already arrived. The
contract for hauling has been let to w.
n. Wiley, who sub-let it to William
Neabeck, who has already commenced
Ethe work. The contractors have some
three months to finish the work so that
we may expect to have the new system
in operation by the month of November
at farthest.
Joseph Stadleman lodged a complaint
with the city officials charging three
tran1ps with having raided his melon
patch last night and destroyed lot of
garden truck. One of them, a colored
brother, was arrested by Chris. Bills
this morning but the ''other two white
fellows as the negro puts it, are still
at large. The negro says he ''didn't do
nothing but sit on de fence" as he knew
too much about water melons to risk
any danger from them at this time of
year. aB
He sat in his door at MONDAY;
He was lonely, glum and sad;
The flies, were buzzing about him.
! Let by blue-winged gad
i Not customer darkened his portals;
Not a, sign of business there;
But the flies kept ON buzzing
About the old mans hair.
At last, in misery, he shouted: ~
'Great Scott, Pm covered with fliesi'
And the zephyr that toyed with his whiskers
asked:
''Why don't you advertiser"
This tramp business is becoming an
insufferable and expensive nuisance. 1t
is costing the city at the rate af about
$12O month, for which she gets moth
ing in the world but an exemption from
a tramp's depredations during the time
of his confinement in the city Jail. The
whole system, as now conducted is
wrong. If we must run them in, and
there can be no two ways of it, let us get
enough of work out of them to pay their
cost of keep. A tramp is arrested and
brought before the recorder. This Off
Ger gets two dollars and the marshal gets
two for his arrest and commitment.
He is punished by a fine that means