The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-04-01

The NJ E. church, of this city, has
ordered from E.. Jacobsen & Co., a
magnificent vocation reed pipe organ for
their new church building.
Mrs. E. G. Pentland and children,
who have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. S..
L. Brooks of this city, left today to visit
Mrs. S. S. Hayes of Sherman county.
Another fine rain began to fall in this
section about four O'Clock this morning
lasting with little intermission till noon.
The indications are that it extends over
the whole county.
The regular meeting of the Young
Mems Mckinley club will be held in
their hall over the CHRONICLE Office to-
morrow night at O'Clock. A full at
tendance is requested. ~
The water will be turned off tonight
from 8 to II o'clock. One of the
hydrants put in place last night has
proved defective and will have to be
taken out and another put in its place.
A number of residents in the Fulton
their front gates stolen and concealed In
all kinds of out of the way places. Some
of them have not been recovered at this
writing.
Telegram. If the rumor that Jay
Gould is going to drop the Union Pacific
is true it must mean that the orange has
no juice left. There was not great deal
when Jay got hold of it. but it is safe to
assume that there is less now.
G. A. Lyon, bridge carpenter, work
ing for the company near Viento, was
struck Wednesday by a falling timber
and severely cut in the head. He was
brought to The Dalles where his injuries
were attended to by Drs. Doane and
Logan. The wound was found to be not
serious. Lyon went down to the Port
land hospital last night.
| A few days ago as a couple of well
known Dalles ladies were passing the
handsome residence of Mr.. and Mrs. S.
L. Brooks, one of them, with the quick
discernment peculiar to the sex, pointed
her finger towards the family clothes
| line, on which were suspended a miscel-
laneous assortment of baby 8 underwear,
while she whispered to her companion,
"Did you ever see anything in the world
to beat that?''
| The prohibitionists have met in Port
land and nominated full state ticket.
Winfield Taylor Rigdon, of Salem, is the
nominee for congressman for the first
district, and G. J. Bright, of Waseo, the
nominee for the second. Benjamin P.
Welch, of Portland, is the nominee for
supreme judge. R. B. Hood, of this
city, an alternate presidential elector,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Butler alternate
delegates to the national convention.
The Hood River horticultural Society
has recently reorganized with T. R.
Coon, president; Neil Evans, secretary
and w. j. Baker, treasurer, including a
membership of all the leading fruit men
of the valley. At the last meeting, Sec
retary w. j. Baker read paper giving
his experience with the San Jose scale.
Mr.. Baker presented proof that birds
carry this pest from one place to an
other, and that eternal vigilance is the
price of exemption from its rayages.
w. j. Hartman of Dry Hollow, called
at this Office yesterday and reported that
most people in his neighborhood have
got through seeding and the prospects
for good crop were never better. Dry
Hollow creek, that never had drop ot
water last year is now a stream six tc
eight inches deep and about four feet
wide. This shows sufficiently that the
ground is full of moisture, as this creek
does not rise in the mountains and il
not fed by spring, but is simply the sur.
plus seepage from the soil.
President Eliot, of Harvard university
will be in Portland about the 2OtI
though that time has not been set as &
definite date, owing to the unexpected
and elaborate reception with which ht
was met in California. The Harvard
men of Portland are making preparation
to give him royal reception on his ar
rival. This gathering together of Har
wards alumni has proven most enjoy
able feature in the arrangements fo
welcoming their president and will
probably result in the formation of
Harvard club in that city.
Smith OF Arlington has Donned His Wa
Paint.
Agent Alloway, of the D. P. and A. N
company informs the CHRONICLE that ]
w. Smith of Arlington, whom the Uniol
Pacigc lately defrauded out of $24.9O-
the full rates from Portland to Arlington
on car of salt shipped by the people
boats to The Dalles and thence hx rail I,