The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-10-10

DIR. F. Workman and Mr.. John R.
Duff, of Portland, are at The Umatilla.
Next Wednesday, the 18th, is the last
day to pay city taxes without costs
added. ga word to the WISE" etc. -
The Wasco county board OF equaliza-
in session this week, at the Court house.
The John Day Sentinel has been
brought up by the Alliance Publishing
company of Grant county, and will here
after be run in the interests of the
Farmers Alliance and Peoples party.
Mr.. D. Van Horn, the piano tuner,
arrived on the noon train. Mr.. Van
Horn is ready to repair and tune pianos,
and guarantees first-class work. Orders
may be left at 1. G. Nickelsen's music
store.
Four samples of four kinds of N inerals
for assay, went forward for the east to-
cay in packages securely put up by Linus
Hubbard. Something is going to drop
hard, with metallic thud; in and about
The Dalles some of these moons shortly.
Pendleton, Walla Walla and all points
passed IN daylight, greeted the Oregon
Press Association all around the circuit
as they went by. The Walla Walla
Statesman scribe suggested that $50
much brain on one car must have been
quite strain on the springs" He must
have been the least bit jealous
Gold is found in paying quantities this
fall on the banks of the Columbia above
Arlington. Two men have located a
claim on the Washington side near
Castle Rock, and are taking out from
So 80 to $4 per day to the man, by the
primitive process of panning. The
Columbia river bars have long been
known to be impregnated with line gold,
and were profitably worked many yeaps
ago.
By courtesy of Linus Hubbard, our
show window has picture of the fastest
modern steamer of the day, the Richard
Peck, which beat the Puritan on Long
Island Sound last Saturday. A river
steamer, with sufficient draft of water,
of this construction can be run with
one-third the fuel, handles better, carry
more freight and would be far more
comfortable and convenient for pas
senger travel than any stern-wheel boat
ever built on the Pacific coast.
Statistician L. P. McCarty is III the
city today with his 10th annual. 1t is
an almost invaluable book, and is yearly
enlarged in its scope. That life is too
short for the attainment of desired know
ledge is a common complaint. He,
Wherefore, who Sits from the vast mass
lof obtainable information those facts
whose novelty or importance makes
them a valuable basis for either thought
or action, offers help to any man, and
Aconfers boon upon overtaxed human.
vity.
A man who has invented portable
dam, to be used in clearing sand bars
I out of the river channel, has turned hi.
Invention to other uses. He offered il
ITO Frank Dekum in Portland last week
to help him d a numbskull for de
! facing his beautiful new building OF
Washington street. The fellow was al
awning maker and he had, to Mr.
Dekum's intense disgust, drilled severa
holes in the stone near the corner with
out permission, in order to fasten up
rachel for raising the awning. AS tn,
holes had been made, he was allowed to g,
ahead with his plan, but when he fount
that he had got the holes in the wroni
place and started in to drill some more
Mr.. Dekum happened along, and onl.
for the portable dam he could not hay,
done the subject justice.