The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-10-12
OUR COUNTY FAIR.
a Fair commencement and Promising
Outcome.

OuCcOIne.
For the first day the attendance might
be said to be good yesterday. In the pa
vilion the display was being added to SO
extensively that our reporter deferred
making special mention until later on.
The ladies have made a very creditable
display of fancy work, the floral corner
was well filled with beautiful plants, the
fruit tables loaded with choice speci-
mems, and Mr.. Curtis was out in full
with display of Diamond mill products,
while Mr.. Booth was preparing to paint
another booth red.
In the stock pens and stables were to
be seen many fine animals, horses,
cattle, sheep, pigs, and on the side poul-
try, ETC.. which will be considerably in
creased today.
OF vegetables the list will be larger
than many supposed. but one pumpkin
been exhibited by Hon. Robert Mays,
will be shown in fragments, as the Hon.
Mayor was informed that his twin
grand daughters had arrived at Mr..
sThompson's residence justat the critical
moment when he held the pumpkin on
| a poise, unloading it, and he was so sur
prised and taken back that he for the
instant forgot what he was doing, and
the pumpkin took start and fell with
a thud splitting it into fragments. 1t is
thought that there must have been some
design on the part of the gentleman who
thus 'broke the news" to Mayor Mays,
as it is said that G. w. Haight OF Bake
Oven had a pumpkin he wished to enter,
and he was afraid Mays would walk the
,chalkior first prize.
!. The first race yesterday was quarter
dash, won by Mamie S, L; Rockland, 2
land Frank Hastings, 8. Time, :25.
Il Next came saddle horse race, half
] mile dash. Six horses entered; purses
were awarded the three fastest, in the
order in which they came in: John s.,
1st; Hartland Boy, 2nd Dandy, 3rd.
Time, :251s.
Following this was one of Bill Nye's
Jockey Jokes. To carry it out the man
agemenu secured three two-year-old colts
to trot the race, mile heats, best two in
three. After persuasion, Mr.. Snipes
allowed his Nancy Hanks to enter, then
Schooling put up Rooper's Bunch Grass,
and Walker put Dandy in.
1t was a Dandy race.
But Dandy was sent to the stable, as
he didn't get in after the first heat had
been given to Nancy Hanks until the
clock run down. Time, 4:39 standard !
Poole Haraf
the race, however, and until the horses
came on, at the expiration of the 10
minutes between acts, it wasn't known
outside just where Dandy had gone.
After the usual backing and filling one
of the men i'll the judges stand got mad
that is according to Nye; and as the
horses were passing under the wire he
raped the drivers up and notified
Schooling that he must win that heat,
OF. he would be fined $40.
Schooling won the heat. Time 4 :52.
Four hours and fifty-two minutes?
1t was now late, and as one of the gem
tlenlen in the judges stand had to go to
Portland to see bow things were running
at the Hotel Perkins, the finish was
postponed until today.
The race was intensly interesting to
half dozen Indians who remained 20
see it, but to almost every white man.
woman and child, who didn't under
stand that it was a burlesque, it was dis
gushing. a
About the only men left on the track
at the close of the second heat, WERE