The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-26

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r. S. Guthrie prominent stockman
from Sherman county was in the city
last night.
A. W. Branner, proprietor of The
Dalles and Prineyille stage line is at the
Umatilla house.
w. L. Vanderpool and A. J. Brighm
of the s. B. Manufacturing company of
Dufur, were in the city today.
Tickets for the Mic-mac concert on
Wednesday evening will be for sale at
the store of Blakely C Houghton.
A. II. Jewett, the well known nursery
man of White salmon, is in the city.
4 J. WssFrench who has been resident
of oakland, California for the past year
or two arrived in this city on the noon
train today.
Mai. Weeds weekly reports to the
board of immigration from "Oregon on
Wheels read very fine, but he was
caught mapping at Galesburg, H.; on the
7th when Hon. w. j. Snodgrass, of La
Grande, attempted to visit the car in
company with friend. They found the
car closed, and voice from the interior
said: ''We are just like you people.
We think if we work six days we are en-
titled to rest on the seventh Gales
burg, Mr.. Snodgrass found, is place
where there are great many railroad
employees of one kind and another, and
the only day they can visit the car is
Sunday. He thinks the people in charge
of the car could better afford to rest any
other day in the week than Sunday, and
! says it is managed much differently from
the way it would be if man was work
ing for a com mission on every visitor he
could bring to the car.
Councilman Shelby, of Portland has
displayed good judgment in the selec-
tion of site for the New Park for Ore
CONS commercial city. He says: .sIn
the first place, there is one point about
which we shall be sticklers from the
start, and that is that we must see all
tracks offered before we buy any at all.
To my mind, the prettiest proposition
we have to consider is the one offering
Ross island. By fillingin with the Bowers
dredge, and building up, it could be
placed above the reach of the freshets
and made wonderfully beautiful. All
bridge could be put across the river there.
to accommodate the residents of south |
Portland, who must have one sooner or
later any way. The island is 300 acres
in extent, the owners claim, SO that 100
foot drive way of asphalt clear around
it would be fine one
J. j. Spencer, almost everybody in
this state know Jack; the man who
might have been Secretary of State for
Oregon at any election for the past
twenty-six years, only for his predilec-
tion to stand back and give his friends
show; and for that other reason perhaps:
that he disliked to hold two Lucrative
offices at the same time, having offici-
ated as recorder for McMinnville ever
since Mt. Hood was hole in the ground.
But he has at last resigned that position,
and is registered at the Umatilla House
today, enroute East, where he goes to
enter dime museum and prove con-
tradiction wherein it is commonly un-
stood that man in Office never does
resign. Jack is martyr.
That miserable old fakir DIR. (?) True.
who was in The Dalles recently, turns
out to be black-hearted scoundrel
worse than THE CHRONICLE put him up
for when he was here. The small girl,
the two boys, the girl with black eyes
and pretty face, about fifteen and the
young woman, possibly twenty two years
old, who sang songs to entertain the
crowds that gathered around the fakir's
wagon, were brothers and sisters, and
the old scamp actually stole them from
their father, a man named Pritchard, in
Wisconsin. 1t appears that the family
were in rather hard circumstances.
True came along and engaged the five
children, who are musically inclined, to
accompany him through neighboring
towns. The father had occasion to 90 |
to Texas, and on his return found his
family and the fakir missing. He ad- |
vertised in the papers and received a
letter from Portland, Or, stating that
the outfit had been there and that the
family were ill treated by True, who had
three times performed a criminal opera
tion on the fifteen-year-old girl. The
angry father Immediately came west,
borrowing money for the trip, and land
ing at Portland heard that the fakir was
in Pendleton. He followed on as fast as
the iron horse could carry him and when
he reached Pendleton found that the
scamp was in Walla Walla. There it is
supposed he found his children today,
where it is hoped that the. cause of his
wrongs may be punished.