The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-28
E.JACOBSEN &Co

=. The New Year party to be given by
the German Gesang Verin Harmonic,
will take place at Armory hall New Years
Eve. Dec. 31st, 1892. A good time may
be expected, and all invited may be as
sured of a pleasant evening. Tickets
may he had at Kellers bakery at $l.OO
each.
Umatilla county stockmen have suf-
fered from thieves considerably this
winter, and the maximum of impu-
dence on the part of the robbers was
reached Saturday evening when a
strange COWBOY rode into Umatilla and
tied his horse in front of the hotel. For
a time nothing was seen of him until he
was noticed going from hotels to board
ing houses taking orders for dressed
beef. A. R. Jacks engaged a quarter OF
beef, but soon missed his valuable
milch COW. His hired man went in;
search of it, and upon passing vacant
house, heard COW believing. Going
inside, he saw the lost animal awaiting
it's fate, surrounded by butcher tools OF
every description. The commercial
COW boy, smelling a rat. very quickly
mounted his horse and escaped.
How much better it would be all
round, if the U. P. K. Co. officials had a
istanding order for employees to let the
public know about matters which inter-
est the public. The narrow escape OF
a passenger train from 40-foot plunge
at Columbus trestle this side of Grant,
a broken rail having been discovered
lust in the nick of time and not one in
slant to spare, was what delayed the
4 20 D. m. train yesterday. The train
backed up to Grant, sent for detail oi
section men who came and made the re-
pairs. But it was very close call, and
the waiting public had perfect right to
know the particulars. Just such cir
cumstance happened at Latourelle
MONDAY night. A bridge went out un'
der the weight of the locomotive, bag
gage and mail and express cars. The
two cars went down with the bridge
The locomotive fortunately escaped. anc
it was providential that the passenger
coaches kept the track. This acciden
delayed the train twenty-four houIs bu
, not a word could be learned by thos
{ having friends on board, or by waiting
passengers at the stations, when tn
3 facts properly belonged to the publ
to know, as the public we're interested
3 A paragraph ia going the rounds {
j the press which does the Inland Empir
e great injustice, especially just at thi
9 time, on the eve OF the conyening of tn
9 assembly, which it is expected will pre-
9 vide for q portage railway around tn
dalles obstruction. The paragraph i
question reads as follows: "During tn
year 1890 the Oregon Railway and Nav
n CATION company carried to Portland o
- its line in Oregon $4,000 tons of whes
: and in 1891, $4,000 tons. In 1890, II
a carloads of sheep, cattle, horses an
70 hogs we're shipped to Portland, and
n the following year the number of ca
4 loads was increased to z93." The abo'
20 figures are misleading. Sherman count
N alone, has shipped an aggregate equ
- to the above sum, which leaves Bake
,a Union, Umatilla, Morrow, Gillian
! Crook and Wasco counties to be heal
;. from. THE CHRONICLE gave the mo
10 reliable and authenticate figures on Il
"A 18th, for the period of eight years, sho,
is ing shipments OF wheat alone aggrega
n, ing 2 100000 tons, which would prese
3 the sum of over $525 200 at the price,
60 cents per ton transportation a su
more than equal to the cost of constru
j. ton, equipment and operating expens
e. of the.road for the entire eight veal
h. These matters should not be improper
represented. at this time especially.