The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-06-08
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Sunshine and showers, and midnight
hail storm, followed the election here. !
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Burlingame of
Dufur, visited the Chronicle Office today.
When you make war ON the gophers
and squirrels bury them in the orchard.
They are great fertilizers. Ns
Moro has won the victory for the
county seat in Sherman county by a
majority of over 100 votes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cooper of
Sonoma, California, are visiting the fam
lily of Mr.. G. v. Champlin on Chenoweth
creek. ss
There was a big run of salmon last
night. Sam Thurman caught $50 pounds
in his fsEpous tin cruiser at {the mouth
of Three mile.
M. M. Watermanof Eight mile, re-
ceived today, by express from Philadel-
phia pair of thoroughbred Yorkshire
pigs. They are beauties. b
Instead of winking out. the Astoria
Herald puts in its appearance now in
the morning daily, and with dispatches
almost as good as THE CHRONICLE.
The vote in The Dalles Monday was
within about forty of being equal to the
days when the vote of the shops was a
factor in the population of the city.
Engineer George Brown received in
formation Monday of the sudden death
of his father at Portland. Mr.. and Mrs.
senger yesterday. -
Labor day, Sunday, and election day,
-all falling in heap demoralized busi-
ness SO much that the next assembly
will be asked to shove labor day few
notches further down on the calendar
Major Ingalls, brought to this Office yes
terday head of lettuce which measures
five feet and three inches in circumfer.
ence and 81 inches in diameter 1t was
grown on the old Hill ranch on Mill
creek. t.i,sff ~
Sheriff j. Mclean of Sprague, WASH,
was here yesterday and took
back with him man named John Nc
Glynn who was arrested last Saturday
at Tygh Valley, by Marshal Gibbons OF
this city, charged with the crime of forg-
ing a check for $500. McGlynn con.
sented to return without a requsitior
from the governor of Washington.
Grass Valley in Sherman county, i.
the center of a fine farming community
and is rapidly becoming an important
trading point. 1t has two large genera
merchandise stores; one owned by
8 Moore g. Rolling and the other by Scot
e q Go. A new livery stable, and black
smith and wagon shop are now in course
sof erection, and other Improvements ar,
anticipated.
Portland is urged, by some parties in
'terestedin real estate perhaps, to resor
ito deep wells for her water supply. Th,
Dalles will not object. The water here
from pure mountain streams, woulC
then be a great source of attraction t.
Portland's emaciated and sickly people
inquest of a healthy locality in which
to recuperate. Bore your wells, bu
give us The Dalles water, every time.
A. j. Dufur, ir., of Dufur is running
cheese factory on his ranch on Fiftee,
mile. He turns out two cheeses a da,
that Isigh about 20 pounds each. The,
are fHil cream and ought to be good, a
Mr.. Dufur is an old, experienced chees
maker, having run a cheese factory man
years ago on the Columbia bottom, con
venient to what is now known as Clarn
station, on the old Dufur homestead, an
there. was. made the first cheese eve
manufactured in Oregon. Mr.. Dufu
viii not place any. Of his cheese ON th
market till about the last of July.