The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-09-23

Another United States fish commission
car is in the Pacific northwest, in charge
of G. H. Lambson, distributing black
bass from Quincy Illinois.
Mrs. Smith French, Mrs. D. NJ. French
and MrAR B. Hood left for Walla Walla
yesterday yto-yepresent the M. E. Church
of this city at tRe-eonference meeting.
Th. Nast's Weekly has made its ap-
pearance, hailing from New York city.
1t bears upon its pages the impressions
of Nast's genius IN political caricature.
There will be service in the Scandina-
Wan language at the German Lutheran
church on Ninth street on Sunday at IL
a. m. and 7:30 p. m. A. A. Dolven,
pastor.
Hon. ]. B. Yeagley will speak at Hood
River tomorrow at 1.30 p. m, and at The
Dalles in the evening, lat the Court house.
Heis very able exponent of repubIi-
can doctrines.
Mr.. Malcolm Machines, assistant Sec
retary of the agricultural society, may
be found at the Office of VIM. Butler &
Co., corner of Second and Jefferson
streets, The Dalles.
The Grand Ronde fruit growers are
finding good market in Denver and
considerable is being shipped to that
point. The fruit crop in that valley is
said to be far better than usual and of
superior quality.
More red and white grapes, pears and
apples are wanted by the committee in
Portland, to fill up spaces in the Wasco
exhibit at the ex position, and to re-
place any fruit that may be removed on
account of decay.
| Mr.. Geo. Snipes was in attendance at
the opening of the exposition at Port
land last night. He says Wasco takes
the lead in fruits, The agricultural col
lege display of vegetables is ahead of the
balance Of the state.
Frank D. Creighton and Mr.. Klindt
have added to the fame of Wasco county
by contributions of choice grape samples
One bunch of Creighton's grapes
weighed four and half pounds. Six
1 buhOhSo WC411 ONOI ChACO pOuAdS CelS1l.
The Olympia Tribune says the farm
ers in Eastern Washington are begin
ming to figure out that the opening OF
the Columbia would reduce the freight
on wheat from Sc to So per ton whether
they sent it to Tacoma or Astoria. This
is saving of nine cents bushel, or $9
on every hundred bushels kept in their
pockets instead of being handed over to
the railroads, as now.
Rev. w. R. Butcher, writing from the
desert Sept. 10th, to Mr.. s. L. Brooks OF
The Dalles, says the contemplated trip
to this part of the coast must be post
poned in consequence of the sudden
death of Mr.. r. H. Avery, at Los An
geles, on the 14th, of peritonitis. He
adds: ''Our disappointment is great,
and we realize that friends in Oregon
share it, but we forget it in our sympa-
thy for our sister and family, SO sorely
bereaved.'
The first time we ever saw a patent
mail pouch grabber catch at pouch on
a pole alongside the track, was at Ce-
lilo recently. Mayor Taffe had been ex-
tolling the virtues of the machine. All
eyes were riveted on the sack, and as
the train dashed by, the fork reached
out, hit it a diff, and sent the pouch
about fifty feet away. Mr.. Taffe looked
surprised, ran and got the sack, and
placed it in the mail car; hurriedlJ
turned about as the train was pulling
out with his visitors and said: .sWell; J
never did see anything just like thatP'