The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-06-09
THURSDAY JUNE 8, 1882
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George Cochrane, a native scion of the
''land o'cakes'' is inSthe city. s.
Secretary of state Geo. w. Mcbride
and part of his family are at the Uma-
tilla house. .t4-.-
U. Thorburn of Kingsley, native
clansman of the Scotch Highlands, was
in the city last night.
Twenty-six persons; chiefly from the
eastern states, accompanied Rev., o.. D..
Taylor this morning on the Regulator ex-
cursion to the cascades. $50
Allan Grant, descendant of one of
the heroes who fought with Robert the
Bruce at the battle of Bannockburn, is
at the Umatilla house.
Some fall grain on the lighter soils
4aear the Columbia river, is suffering
from lack of rain. Back from the river
along the foot hills and in the
higher latitudes grain is still in good
condition. nice shower fell the other
night in the Fifteen mile neighborhood.
The latent possibilities in ordinary
Columbia river sand, under the benefits
of irrigation, may be seen by looking at
the crop of rye, wheat and oats now
growing on the building sand in front
of the Prinz & Nitschke. brick, on Second
street, now in course of erection.
Portland Dispatch: The new ballot
system has been tried and found to work
satisfactory to the great majority of hon
est voters, perhaps few men have been
deprived of voting through ignorance,
but better that than have men driven
up to the polls like sheep and voted by a
boss. 2 ~
A gentleman stopped in Kingsley a
few night ago, on his way to The Dalles,
who had on his wagon $500 pounds of
produce that he had hauled up the new
Tygh hill grade with span of horses.
He allowed he could easily have hauled
500 pounds more. On the old grade an
empty wagon was a good load.
Mr.. John Argus, of Buffalo, and DR..
Cornell of Saginaw, left The Dalles this
morning upon the return trip to their
homes. DR.. Cornell goes via N. P. r.,
and will stop few days in Montana.
Mr.. Argus goes via the S. p. r., and
will visit California by the way We
look for them both to return to The
Dalles in the course of human events.
Brother Morgan's democratic rooster
is the sickest looking bird we, have ever
seen. He is running with dropped wings
and mouth agape, with break neck
speed, across the plane. of vision but
5vhethera going to therdevil or merely
srnnning after office the San says not
We are merely informed that he ''crows'i
Z but it's 'withia strain Of sorrow in his
voice. - e - = = a''sH' - s.
The Multnomah county election is q
good deal like that of Wasco county; il
is not satisfactory to either party. Tony
Noltner gives notice in the Dispatch that
he will have no more fellowship with
citizens movements but will make q
straight fight, inside strict party lines
in the approaching city election. He
says: The Telegram finds much con
ISOLATION in the result of the election n
thiscounty.g 1t takes very little to com
fort some people, ~
Washington ranchnen do not. tax,
kindly to Oregon sheep. Only shor
time ago in the neighborhood of Birt
creek, party, Of Washington farmer
attacked Sherman county sheep man
named Dougald McAlister, stripped hin
of his clothing and tying him to a tree
whipped him black and blue, windin,
up with burning every stitch of hi
clothes and leaving him stark naked
McAlister covered his nackedness a
best he could with salt sacks, till bette
clothing was procured.