The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-11-03
PEASE AND MAYS

Mrs. Ferris of Portland, who is in The
Dalles for relief from the asthma, is
guest of Mrs. Frazer at the European
house.
Some thief stole horse last night out
of the Riverside pasture; saddle from
Lochheads feed store, and an overcoat
from August Buchlers. He got away
with all of them.
Everybody who went to Dufur yester-
day was delighted with the trip, the re-
ception, the speeches, etc., etc., and
everybody who did not go were disap-
pointed, and sorry that they did not or
could not go.
Mr.. Lyman Chittenden, for eighteen
years assistant postmaster in Portland,
and who has for two years past filled the
same position in The Dalles, leaves to-
morrow for Moscow, Idaho, to take a
similar position in the Office there.
A leading Weaver man informs us
that Chairman Murphy has the mortal
sinch on the democratic nominees for
electors in Oregon, and they will be
obliged to step down and out before
Tuesday. A vote for either of them is a
vote thrown away.
Thos. Shaw of North Yakima, says
the fields and orchards of that region
have bountifully rewarded the husband
man this year, but if the voters vote
next week to adopt the new state consti-
tuition, good crops will be needed to sat-
isfy the rapacious tax gatherer.
The telegraph informs US that an Es-
quimaux baby was born to two members
of the colony from Labrador, now quar-
tered on the worlds fair grounds. Murat
Halsteadls is called upon to decide whether
it is to be called a sucker because of
the accident of birth in Chicago.
A leading business man in the black
smithing line up town, who has always
voted the democratic ticket intends to
vote for Harrison electors on Tuesday.
times, but you can never drive him, to
vote as you please unless it suits him.
]. w. Atwell is in the city from Cas-
cade Locks. Residents down there be-
gin to realize that soon after the con-
tract is let for the canal they will be in
the condition of Micawber. If the work
is completed in one year, as contractors
say it may be, whole lot of tenements
in that once fiourishing borough will be
tagged "To Let"
Duke I. H. Tafe who returned from
Portland on Thursday, reports that city
very dull, the general public being i'm
poverished by real estate speculations
from which at present, people cannot
realize a dollar and what is worse, as
things look, will not be able to do so for
years. 1t is the old tale, people have to
grow gray before boom speculations be-
come profitable.
The remains of Captain Marshall B.
Short, who met with an untimely death
iat Astoria by the sinking barge Colum-
bia, were placed in the family burial
Jground at Pleasant Hill, Oregon city.
The deceased was brother of Capt.
Sherman Short of the Dalles City, and
hCapt. Pen. Short, steamboat men we'll
known on the upper Willamette.
y "Let us spray!" should be the uni
versal motto among fruit producers in
the Inland Empire. An experienced
horticulturist of twenty-five years stand
ing in the Willamette valley, tells us
that fruit in the valley is doomed to ex-
tinction, so far as future profits are con
cerned, until the old orchards are re-
moved and new ones grown at least, al
because of neglect to spray.