The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-27
PEASE C MAYS.

The flag on the Court House is at half
mast in respect to the memory of
Hon. Jas. CT. Blaine,
VIM. Henderson, who was to have
been hanged at Oregon City this week
for murder, has been granted a stav of
execution pending an appeal for new
trial. He was convicted OF stabbing to
death Cyrus Sutor over game of cards
in saloon in Candy last summer. He
is reasonably certain of at least three
months longer of life.
The E. O. Salem correspondent SAYS:
The democratic members of the Oregon:
legislature. excepting two or three, have
signed a petition to President Cleveland
to have John P. Irish-formerlv editor
of a Southern Pacific railroad organ and:
the gentleman who led the Oregon dem
ocracy teur years age to an 8 eco defeat
appointed as secretary of the interior.
Hon. Van B. DeLashmutt sends TO the:
Oregonian a number of onions of extra
lordinary size and strength, raised on his
Witch Hazel farm, ia Washington
county, merely to show that it can pro-
duce other things as well as record
Nbreaking colts. The onions, several of
which weigh five pounds each, were
grown on beaver-dam land, which Mr.
VDeLashmutt states is the best dam land
in the world. He should take to raising
roast geese and sage to go along vsth
the onions.
DIT IS probable, says Salem cores
pondent, that the committee appointed
to visit the Walla WalIa penitentiary. to
inspect the jute mill there, will report
in favor of establishing similar inetftu-
ton in the Oregon penitentiary- Al
member of the committee told your cor
respondent that the evidence was
strongly in favor of such action. Jute
bags, he says, cost the state four and
one-half cents, and are sold within the
state of Washington for six and one
fourth cents, while in Umatilla county.
just across the line, similar bags sold for
from eight to ten cents apiece, and the
same in the Willamette valley. The
plant of Il mill capable of employing 800
men will cost about $115 900, with water
power; if steam power is necessary,
about SIC, 900 more This is beside the
costof the building
The Demorest medal contest, Wednes
day evening at the court house. greeted Y
u full house. The contestants Misses
Martha Schooling, Stella Harvey, Rachel |
Morgan, Jennie Russell, Ruth Fisher |
and Daisy Alloway fairly excelled in
their work. The medal was awarded by |
the judges, Messrs. w. II. Wilson. DR..
Schnedaker and Mrs. c. ]. CrandaiI. tot
Miss Jennie Russell An enioyabIA
feature of the evening was the solo hI
Miss Myrtle Michel, accompanied bI
Mrs. Patterson. The programme passed
very pleasantly and at the close tnreel
little boys '-got uD and Iaugfed'' a dist
missal to the audience. ~
People living twenty five miles south
west of Pendleton have just taken cour-
age last week, possibly from the hope of
an open river, and are threshing wheat
that grew in 1891, and 90; think of that
Thresh;ng wheat two years old in mid
winter. The East Oregonian is our au-
and NJ. L. Fix and his son are
the threshers. They have been at it
two weeks, and expected to keep at it
two weeks longer. Mr.. Fix says he
averages about 200 bushels of grain a
day. He has threshed several crops OF
wheat grown in 1891. The wheat is OF
fairly good quality and the yield is satis-
factory, considering the possibility Of
shipping it. But now, should the RALRY
bill be defeated these threshers may turn
their attention to fxing the senators
y no 6xed them on The 25ih al sa1en.