The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-19

Folks Gazetteer and Business Direc
tory, which has become one of the insti
tutions of this coast, is just out for 1892
The development of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho can be realized in no clearel
manner than by comparing these book.
year by year, since 1885. Then it was 6
small volume; now it is a book of 2OOt
pages. 1t was delivered in The Dale.
today.
Danl Harrington from the Fairfield
school district gave US pleasant call
! today. He informs us of a marked re-
ligious interest manifested at the meet
lngs now being held in the Fairfield
school house by Revs. Baker of Dufur,
and Spencer of this city. About dozen
persons have professed faith in the Saw
iour and others it is hoped will follow
their example.
1.-Two men, says the Teleoran,,
"were accused of crime not long ago
in The Dalles. The crime was jointly COM
mitted and one man must have been
just as guilty as the other. But behold
the freaks. of American jurisprudence.
One offender pleaded guilty and was
punished the other, of necessity equally
guilty or innocent stood trial and was
acquitted. Now the one who pleaded
guilty is doubtless condemning himself
as fool" That is just about the size
of it Mr.. Telegram.
Miss Clara Story met with painful
deprive her of the full use of her right
hand for some time. She was using
hydra chloric acid to remove some
paint from piece of china and while
applying the acid with a swab on the
end OF a stick it ran down the stick and
came in contact with the tips of her
thumb and first and second fingers.
The powerful acid eat it's way into the
flesh and in spite of the use of the best
antidotes Miss Story suffered great pain
during the whole of last night and this
morning.
There is shop on Second street in
Astoria where clans are sold. Recently
a lot of CLAIMS were lying at the door in
a box waiting for some one who knew
how to come along and make chowder
out of them, when rat that was fooling
around met with serious accident. A
large clam who had his vest unbuttoned
and was taking in some fresh air. was
disturbed by something that
made it very mad, causing it to close its
doors very tight, and hold the intruder
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the rats hind leg. The rat squealed.
and all the Cinnamon whowere summing
themselves in front of the Chinese
Mason's headquarters on the opposite
side of the street came chattering over
to see the fun. The rat was slain, but
it could not be released until the shells of
the clam were smashed in pieces.
United States Statistician Dodge gives
the number of sheep in Oregon at 2 ,456,-
O77, at an average value of 50 "a, making
the total value s5,491 ,7s9. Only four
states of the Union exceed us in the
number of sheep. These are Texas,
Ohio, California and New Mexico.
Only four exceed US in the value of |
sheep. These are Texas, Ohio, Michi- |
gan and California. Texas has more
sheep than any state in the Union. The
is placed at 5.040,175 and the
total value at $1.55 per head is 81 $685.
239. Ohio comes next with 4,46S, ,OS7 |
head which at an average value of $3. 80
per head reaches the enormous total of /
S14, ,724, ,5S1. The total number of sheep |
n the United States is placed at A 1885,
'65 head at total valuation of $1l6,-
I21 ,27O. The total value of the hogs of
he United States is more than double
hat of sheep, being $241 OBJ AS. The
,otal number of hogs is placed at 52,-
'9s, ,019 and the average value per head
400.
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