The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-06-09

of the gentleman on the fence. Just now
you can take your choice between the
potato patch on one side and the patch
of potatoes ON the other side.
Eleven ballots were wholly or in part
thrown out in the Eight Mile precinct.
Most of them had the state ticket mark
ed with more or less accuracy but the
county ticket was left without scratch.
Rev. G. r. Burnside will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon of Wasco Academy,
at the Court house next Sunday evening.
COMMENCEMENT exercises will begin at
the Court house some day next week.
The alumni will have its annual meeting
in. THE CHRoNIcLE building hall next
Tuesday evening.
The most singular bet yet heard OF in
connection with the election was made
between Billy Cantrel and CD. Van
Duyn Of Fygh. Charley Van Duyn
agreed, if Blakley should be. elected for
county Judge, that Cantrel should be al
lowed to- dip him in sTygh creek ten
times. On the other land if Thornbury
were elected Charley nigh dip Billy five
times. The dipping will be part of the
programme of picnic to be held at
Tygh on. the IS Of June. Admission to
the dipping will be 25 cents, the proceeds
to be given to the school fund of Wasco
county.
Portland is to have telescope for the
flights observatory which will enable
an obseryerSto see man climbing up
Mt Hood, that is if there is a man there
The telescope will even enable the obser-
yer to distinguish the ladies from the
gentlemen of party climbing the noun
tain, Many persons who do not care to
attempt the ascent of Mt. Hood would
like very much to have good view of it
through glass which would enable them
to see every rock and crag, and to see
snow storms raging on the slopes or per-
sons climbing up or sliding down, and
such glass will be a source of profit to
the person who erects it.
The Epworth League had chartered
the Regulator for an excursion down
the river on the Fourth, before it was
known that celebration would be held
at The Dalles. Since celebration has
been determined on here the League has
kindly surrendered their right to the
boat and the Regulator will leave The
Dalles on the morning of the Fourth, at
probably not later than 5 80 for Hood
River, and way points, to bring to The
Dalles all who may desire to participate
in the celebration at this place, taking
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be most convenient for the majority.
Whoever wrote the following got the
truth down fine in nutshell: eff you
have little farm or business, or steady
employment, and are ont of debt, do not
fret and work yourself and wife into the
grave for the sake of making money.
You have but one life to live, and that is
very brief at best. Take a little comfort
and pleasure day by day as you go along,
and try to do little good. to others. A
morbid, insatiate desire to possess the
earth, and to grab everything in sight, is
at the foundation of more misery than
any other one thing. Wealth alone will
never keep your memory green after you
! are gone"
| Olympia Tribune: During the past
five years the railroad mileage of the
United States was Increased by 3O,744
miles. No further proof is needed to
contradict the plants of the calamity
croakers who are continually talking
about hard times and the impoverished
condition of the producers of the land.
Railroad building is the most reliable
barometer of country's prosperity.
When money is scarce and crops short
it invariably ceases. The building OF
SO, 900 miles of road within half decade
is ample evidence that while money may
have been tight in one or two localities,
the country at large never was in a
healthier financial condition than at
present. III III E 80 .sS
Yesterday the Argus eye of a gentle
man of the Lo persuasion observed a
sack, containing a suit of clothes, in the
store of The Dalles Merchantile Co., in
theeast end and taking advantage of a
favorable opportunity the Indian picked
up the sack and made off with it. AS
soon as the loss was discovered R. b
Byram, who is clerking in the store, and
measures two yards and several inches
longitudionally and is built in proper
ton, was dispatched on horseback afte,
4 the missing sack. Arriving at an Indiar
camp overlooking the bluff eastsof town
4 Mr.. Byram hailed klootchman ane
enquired for her man. Hewas herdins
horses ~. the Columbia bottom and th.
Isquaw called him up, to find that he wa,
not the Indian Mr.. Byram was looking
for. A little beyond was another caml
and here Byram found his Indian ant
the lost sack. Returning past the frs
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