The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-10-08

Geo. H. Hines has been appointed
Historian for the Oregon Press Associa-
tion. George would make good his
torian for Oregon, it was in the days
of 40.
Deputy United States Marshal Jane
son took his hobos to Portland yesterday
to stand trial on charge of selling or pro-
curing liquors for Indians. He will pull
the joint next.
There was just enough rain this morn
knobs on the passenger coaches. By this
means the cinders were widely smeared
| abroad in the city.
A sample of barley produced on the
dry hills by Hon. r. H. Darnille was
left at this Office today. 1t threshed
sixty bushels to the acre, and the straw
averaged four feet in hight.
The U. P. R. working force below The
Dalles have done an immense work this
season. The construction trains are still
at work putting from $50 to 200 car loads
per day OF shell rock into the gaps here
tofore bridged.
Mr.. G. L. Phillips has nearly lost his
identity in the business circles of The
Dalles, but to see him flying around the
corner of Alder and Third in the Consol-
idated City, one must readily concede
that he has found it in Portland. IF
Mr.. Houghton has left at this Office a
Seeding Salway peach which grew on a
tree in his residence lot on Court ST., and
measures III inches in circumference.
1t is firm, juicy and highly favored,
with beautiful appearance.
Miss Rose Michel, of THE CnRoNIcLE,
and Miss Sula and Mona Ruch, accom-
panied by friends, are visiting Spokane
and the sound with the Oregon Press
Association, guests of the association Of
our sister state of Washington.s-.,.e
The Columbia river, like Emil Schans
nos fig trees, is on its second raise, this
season. One reason assigned for the
rise is that Duke Taffe has caught all
the salmon that gorged the river at Cello
and the raise occasioned above is Just
now running off.
The steam combined harvester which
during the present season will be used in
ploTing this fall. 1t is thought that the
machine can pull thirty plows with ease.
1t has harvested the grain on 5000 acres
this fall at the rate of about 60 bushels
per day.
Eddie Michel, Willie Frank, Victor
Sampson, and THE CHRONICLE Imp of
Satan Harry Fredden are taking in the
Exposition at Portland today. The boys
reached the Consolidated City at IL a. m
yesterday, and started right out for a
round of pleasure, beginning with a
charter of the cable line for the Heights.
The problem of the sand drift in this
country has at last been solved, by the
discovery by tramp, that boards set up
a few inches from the ground keeps the
sand moving off till it just quits from
sheer exhaustion Cack of windy and is
left where it will do nobody harm. The
tie-walker and beam-rider who made
this discovery is now an important en-
ploye of the company.
A tourist, so Conductor Fowler says,
may be great scientist, a profound
philosopher or mighty statesman with
the logical brain of a Webster, and yet
no railroad conductor can make him
understand why ticket bought for a
certain train on a certain railroad is not
good for some other train on any other
railroad. He may get out his purse and
pay his fare, but he does it with the
feeling that he is being swindled