The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-12-15

A dispatch from Salem informs us
that tomorrow morning the board of
equalization will leave Portland for
tour of Eastern Oregon, for the purpose
of obtaining information from the coun
ties along the road as TO values and
methods of assessing.
Plows are still running through the
regions tributary to The Dalles. Mr..
Benson, of SMILE, says he still finds the
ground dry in places, but is not alarmed
but that it will be well soaked in due
time. as it is now in better condition
than it was last winter at this time.
Mr. James Burlingame of Wamic,
who has just returned from an eight
weeks visit in the Willamette valley,
says there is no lack of rain down that
way. While absent he contracted to
deliver his surplus flock of turkeys, $50
head, to Portland dealer at fair prices
for the Christmas and New Year holi-
davs.
The Small and Early dancing club,
composed of many of our pleasure loving
young people and under the guidance of
! MISE w illiliC .hdSOh, PdoSCu a FCi.
pleasant time last evening in threading
the mazes of the popular dances. The
people of our city are determined to en-
joy themselves during the coming wiuter
and with the whist and dancing clubs
that are being formed the winter will
pass quite merrilly.
1t is now the season for Beautiful
Snow" poetry, but in The Dalles more
appropriate subject would be: "Lud,
lLud. Lud, what shall we do with the
bnud, mud, mud After all said and
done, however, it must be admitted that
mud in the streets is far preferable to
lgrase, and the mud is evidence of the
fact that there is a very considerable
amount of business transacted on these
streets which prevent the growth >of
grasses. -
Besides working the U. s. land office
into nluddle, HARRISON has worked
nearly every one in The Dalles into a
fever of bitter hatred of himself. He
has contracted bills he will not pay ;
moved the land office from one street to
! another; bought a flag, and asked the
public to pay for it raised pole for it OH
credit; and has generally put on more dog
than Washington city ''lunch fiend" at
a Chesapeake watering place. 1t is
time for him to get out, before somebody
| aggravates the muddle by taking the
value of an unpaid bill out of his snoh-
! bish hide.
| We hut echo the sentiments of the
! 10, -
suita BILE man can be found in Oregon
to fill the place OF U. ;. Marshal for
| this district than our townsman Col. j..
! B. Crossen, the present efficient clerk of
! Wasco county. We would not damage
/ his prospects for the place by suggesting
the thought, but may be permitted to
state that his appointment would give
perfect satisfaction to all parties where
he is best Known, and we are pleased to
learn that he has an excellent endorse
ment for the office.
Julian Hawthorne has not advanced
his reputation very largely by his "Story
of Oregon, as it comes to US from the
press of the American Historical Pub
fishing Co of New York. In substance
the work is very cheap and unsatfsfac-
tory write up in two volumns, and
the books have not even the merit Of a
4 more than ordinary style about them.
They contain but about 400 pages to the
volume, and the sketches which are pre-
sumed to he steel illustrations are cross
between common wood cut and poor
electro. The only steal about it is the
price, $1,000 per volume, which would
be dear at $780,