The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-28
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

Mile.
Hon. F. p. Mays and family came up
from Portland yesterday to remain dur
ing court term.
Mr.. William II. Bagley, adjuster of the
State Insurance company of Salem is on
"a visit to The Dalles.
The sixty days allowed by the land
department for filing on railroad lands
close on the 18th of June.
Twelve applicants are undergoing ex-
animation for teachers certificates. Mr..
Aaron Frasier is a candidate for a state
diploma.
Geo. H. Knaggs has announced him
self a candidate for recorder at the city
election to be held On the third Monday
in June.
Joe Robinson came in today from
Nansene. He SAYS that it rained so hard
out there that the roads were flooded
this morning.
1t is reported that the U. p will re-
duce fares for the Fourth of July cele-
bration at The Dalles from local points,
to half fare tickets for the round trip.
Nearly $500 have been already raised
for the Fourth of July Celebration, with
the prospect of making it $500. Any
one who thinks The Dalles is dead will
find himself miserably mistaken.
Mr.. Jesse Crandall was out to the late
H. Stones place last night. He says it
commenced to rain there at III O'Clock
land never ceased till after five this
morning.
Walla Walla shipped ton of straw
berries the other day whereat the Union
Journal feels proud. Bless its simple
heart the little valley of Hood River in
Wasco county shipped whole carload
the other day, and they are the best
strawberries on the Pacific coast to boot:
Only as we become absorbed in other
people can we know that high and noble
Joy which no self-seeking can ever bring.
Only as we thus lose our lives shall we
ever reglly find them. Of couIse intelli-
gence must guide every attempt to iden-
tify ourselves with the wider fields of
humanity.
E. c. Fitzpatrick of Tygh has just re-
turned from South Bend, Wash, where
he went about month ago with a band
of horses. He reports very good success.
The horses brought from $3.50 to 1875 a
span. One span he never offered for sale
but bought an express wagon and set
Frank Swift to drive it.
The selection of Senator Fulton to de-
liver the Fourth of July grafton at this
place is an exceenlngly happy one. A
better fellow than Charley Fulton does
not live. He is an able and eloquent
speaker man of fine presence, many,
straightforward and honorable; to hear
him as well as to know him is a great
treat.
The Haworth & Thurman oil-can
cruiser has been heard from. She has
entered the fishing business on the big
slough above the city. The first turn of
the wheel was suspicious. 1t caught a
sucker. 1t is fact. Then it got down
to business in dead earnest and caught,
last night, nearly as many salmon as the
biggest wheel in the neighborhood. Sue
cess to the Oil Can Company
Colonel j. H. Mapleson, manager of
Her Majesty's Grand Ita. ian Opera Com
pany, said, in speaking of Abbie Caring
ton ''The brilliancy of execution; the
perfect intonation in recitative and ca
dence; the grace and evenness of action
is something remarkable in an artist so
young in experience, and her costuming
is study in richness and ppropIiate-
ness"
Mr.. Davis, the stage driver, says they
e had a fine rain out at 'Wamic, Wapinitia
and Tygh Ridge. There is nc. doubt an
abundance of rain has fallen to insure a
good crop from nearly all spring sowing.
From Sherman county comes word that
copious rains have fallen all over the
country. In fact the rain fall seems to
have extended over all this and adjoin-
ing counties.
!. Department Commander Summers,
since his election to the head of the
{ G. A. Rim this state is endeavoring to Wis
c it every post in the state as soon as posi-
BILE. He has already visited most of
those on the west side. His next trip
will be to McMinnville and Sheridan.
and after that to all on the line of the
Southern Pacific tas far, as Ashland.
When that tour is made he goes to East
ern Oregon.