The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-07-20

AS yet no quarantine has been es
tablished at Portland against small pox,
but this will be done should cases begin
to arrive either by boat or train.
An attempt will be made to ascend
Mt. Rainier this week, when the advisa-
bility of establishing weather station
on the summit Will be determined.
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Hadley, recently
OF Aransas Pass, Texas, are visiting Mrs.
Hadley's mother, Mrs. l.. Clark. They
are going to make their future home in
Sissons, California, where Mr.. Hadley
intends to engage in the mercantile
business.
The photo OF a magnificent salmon
recently to have been taken by Herren,
but he is no small fly; was not taken,
because one of the two gentlemen who
were to appear in the picture, with the
salmon on r bar between then, objected.
He said his friends might take him for a
sucker.
San Francisco house, writing for in
formation without stamp for reply, of
course) concerning the whereabouts of a
recent employe of the writer, isrespect-
fully referred to the registers of the
Pacific Northwest penitentiaries. They
ought to be able to find him in some one
OF these, if justice holds its own.
Last week one day the express delivery
wagon stopped at the residence of Mr..
Norman and left package labeled Bird.
As Norman had the promise of rare
bird from friend who had gone east
he thought the feathered songster had
arrived. So it had, but it don't sing
it was big fat frog.
Eugene city has 4 queer law. Listen
to this notice by the city marshal: ''No-
tice is hereby given to all property hold
ers that they are required to cut all
thistles on their property, and in the
streets adjoining, Immediately. If they
neglect SO to do, the thistles will be cut
by the marshal, at the expense of such
property holders
Secretary j. A. Armstrong, OF the
Moro meeting of the peoples party, held
on the 10th, sent us set of resolutions,
one of which "denounces the laws of
any state of this union that permits
corporations to employ Pinkerton forces
to butcher men who labor for bread in
mills and mines" Most anybody, OF
any party, would stand in with such a
proposition as that.
Mayor Mays arrived III the city yes-
terday from his Antelope farm. He
says the Saturday shower spread out
over an expanse OF at least 100 miles.
He has header at work in a barley
tract near Dufur which will thresh from
thirty to thirty-fiye bushels per acre
safely, that three weeks ago was pro-
nounced actually OF so little value that
it was hardly considered fit for hay.
The highest hills are our most produc-
tive lands this year.
1t is said that Wasson, the Polk county
farmer, who lost his orchard by an ap-
pllcation OF kerosene is alone to blame
Tor u. He took the recipe literally, like
the fellow who swallowed the leach. He
| was told to apply it. He simply swal-
lowed 1t. Wasson read the recommen-
dation to use kerosene to destroy borers
and accordingly procured small syringe
and loaded it up with the inflamable
fluid, injecting small quantity into the
opening made by borers in the roots
having first dug away the earth to ex-
pose the roots. He has abundant proof:
that the borers are dead in 522 peach
and prune trees, chiefly prunes, but un-
fortunately the 522 trees are all dead
dried and shriveled nm