The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-08-23
METHOD OF GRANTING LICENSES:
Comforts OF Numerous Campers in the
Cool Retreats OF the Cascade
Mountains.
Special to THE cIrnosIcLE.l

CASCADE LOCKS, Aug. give of the
Cascade Locks have had a visit during
the last few days of Jupiter Pluvius,
who in all his generous impulses in the
torrid, and all the rest of the wide
world, has not failed to be present and
made his presence Objectionable to US
denizens of the mountains. The nights
are cool, however, and the light elysium
breeze from off the cataract of enchant-
ment renders sleep a luxury and re-
freshing. We can do no more than pity
you, in your warm condition, and
breathe silent prayer that Boreas may
temper the sunshine and shade with a
cooling draught of the elixir of comfort.
Quiet reigns supreme here, and as a
consequence two saloons have closed
their doors to fate, for the want of
patronage, as there seems to be an exit
going OH from these parts to other fields,
where there is more of the wherewith
in sight.
Jim Hill, not the Great Northern Jim !;
who has tried to dispense forty rod" in
several places in your city in the past
few years, came down here a couple of
weeks ago for the purpose of opening
out in business, but the outlook is so
dark for successful accomplishment
that he has concluded to move on. BY
the way, is there not a law in our Ore
gon statutes prohibiting saloons or the
sale of liquors within two miles of any
place where government works were
prosecuted2 If this be SO, what author
ity has our county court to issue licences
at this point? County courts have done
some strange things in the past.
For instance, some years ago, q county
judge and his commissioners accepted
from the o. r. & N. Co.;-a patch which
they careIessly put on The Dalles and
Sandy wagon road at Shell Rock and
subsequently, without any apparent
legal or moral reason, abandoned the
whole road from Hood River to Eagle
creek, in this county,. while the road
from Hood River to short distance
west of Viento and from Shell Rock to
Cascade Locks, was as good buggy
road as there is in the county.
The same county court could appro-
pirate. funds for bridges and road be-
tween Hood River and your city, but
could not do less than abandon five or
six miles of connecting link, which
would give a valuable outlet to those
along this road and those of the western
boundary of the county, right and
privilege which they claim and deserve
respect for. There is and always has
been mystery attending this move by
our county court.
Mr.. j. NJ. Waugh, father of Mrs. JUS
tin of this city, died last Friday after a
short illness, aged 76 years. His re-
mains were buried in the cemetery at
this place.
There is quiet but determined move
on foot being worked for division of
the county down this way which is. en-
gineefed by leaders who are not polite
ians but by those who feel that The
Dalles is for itself, at the expense of the
outsiders who get what inadvertently
falls by the wayside.. The couplet of
Bret Harte, paraphrased. "That for
ways that are dark and tricks that are
plain, Wasco county courts are pecul-
iar." fits the point admirably.
| Major Handbury was here last Thurs
I'day and Friday looking over affairs.
Mr.. G. E. Wyley has been temporarily
transferred to the dredging department
of the Willamette, where he will re-
main couple of months. His family
will remain here for the present. In
the engineer department here, there are
three civil engineers busily engaged in
completing details for contractors and
will have them ready by the 1st of Sep
/ tember.
Mr.. L. w. Heppner and family re-
turn home from their summer camp
at this place tomorrow, by the Regulator.
There is a camp of ten or twelve persons