The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-05-06

Cufne0 last n1gnC Ir0m an EXTENDED Visit
to England. Mr.. Chandler has come
back with the intention Of remaining
here.
John Leaby, travelling freight agent OF
the Northern Pacific, and well known in.
this city, has resigned and has accepted
the position of manager of the Briola
hotel at Purdy, Warm Springs, in.
eastern Oregon.
Jay Gould's mother-in-law is said to
be living in a poverty-stricken district Of
/ Portland, Or. Her house is a humble
rented tenament one, occupied by two
families. She is poor in all that the
word implies, but is too proud to ask aid
from her son-in-iaw. She came from
Missouri with the early immigration to
Oregon and has ever since resided here
Governor Pennoyer says he does not
see how he can go out and make speeches
this year. for the democrats without
either stultffying himself or attacking
the platform. He says he would like to
see Veatch elected to congress but does.
not see how, as free silver man, he can
consistently remain q candidate. The.
governor thinks he will have to sit STILL
Hon. J. L. Crook, of Goldendale, form
terly of Miller's station, Linn county,
passed through town this morning on a;
! visit to his old home. Mr.. Crooks is the
father of B. w. Crooks and grandfather
of Mrs. John Filloon of this city. Mr.
lCrooks was q member of the Oregon
constitutional convention and several
times represented Linn county in the
Oregon legislature.
A warrant has been sworn out by
Joseph Folco for the arrest of Jack Law
Her, both of this city. Lawler is charged
with the double crime of assault and
larceny. The alleged crimes were com
mitted yesterday at Folco's cigar and
candy store in the east end. Folco says
he suspected Lawler Of stealing tobacco
day the opportunity came and while
Folco was busy in another part of the
store, he says Lawler went behind the
counter and stole plug of tobacco and q
cocoa nut. When detected, Lawler re-
turned the property but took out his re-
venge by stricking Folco violent blow
ON the nose, which broke that member
land involved doctors bill of $50 for
repairs. Lawler is reported to have left
town and has not yet been arrested.
The possibilities for fruit culture that
lie hidden in the valleys and hills OF
Wasco county, especially in that portion
that borders on the Columbia river and
I stretches from ten to twenty miles
southwark, will never be fully appreci-
ated by the outside world till men visit
this region and see with their own eyes
what has already been done in hundreds
of places, in comparatively small patches
and with all the Disadvantages of lack
of sufficient capital for the proper de-
yelopment of this important industry.
The earlier orchards were all planted on
creek bottoms or on the margins of
streams, because the first settlers had no
/ idea that anything, let alone fruit, and
excepting only bunch grass and sage
brush, could be grown on the hills and
plateaus. Now it has been proved by
years of actual experience that our very
best fruit and grain lands are on the
slopes and benches so long despised and
neglected. We have now passed the ex-
perimental stage with these lands and
the product of tens of thousands of grape
vines and fruit trees of every variety
possible to be produced in this latitude
abundantly testify that no better
fruit country than this exists on the
American continent. At the Port
land exposition of 1891 the fruits from
this section took the first premium over
the entire Northwest. In paper read
last fall by B. S. Pague, chief of the
United States signal service for Oregon,
at public meeting held in Salem, the
following testimony is borne to the cli-
matte conditions of this section: son a
strip of land extending fromthe Cascade
Locks to about fifteen miles east of The
Dalles, and extending southwark three
to ten miles, can be found the highest
or warmest night temperature of any
place in Oregon, and in the next ten
years this section will be producing the
best peaches raised on the Pacific coast,
and more peach trees, considering the
area, will be planted here than in any
area of ground of equal extent in the
state" Mr.. Pague should have said,
not that in ten years something is going
to be done, but that even now this sec
tion is producing the best peaches grown
in the state, and this is no truer of
peaches than it is of pears, apples,
plums, cherries, prunes and strawb berries.
Alas that after all, SO few should ap-
preciate the wealth that lies in the
valleys and rugged hiilsides of wasco