The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-23

The residence of A. ]. Webb, of Block
House, was entirely destroyed by fire,
Jan. 18th. The family were all away ut
the time, and Mr.. Webb was in The
Dalles. By the timely assistance of the
neighbors nearly all the household goods
were saved. Loss, about 81 800; Insur-
ance, 1900.
There are more Oregon apples in the
Portland market now than there were
last November. They come from South
ern Oregon principally, and some from
Eastern Oregon. Growers who had good
crops evidently held them back waiting
for higher prices, and it appears that
they have not been disappointed, for
$3.50 per box is asked for very choice
varieties, but common are considerably
cheaper. The supply is quite equal to
the demand at present.
The Scout thinks that addition and
multiplication would be of greater ben
eft than division in Eastern Oregon
counties, especially where they have not
-one-fourth as much population to the
square mile as have the least productive
counties in the east. There are counties
in Oregon that could be added to an ad-
joining county with profit to the tax
payers.
The Glacier is right on to one OF Gov.
Pennoyer's cramps. The recommends
tion to abolish wheels and traps catch
ing salmon, and allowing them only to
be caught with seines or gill nets. The
reason he gives is that the wheel fisher
men, by getting certain favored loca-
tions, catch fish plentifully and cheaply
and are monopolies. Tt is quite true
that all of us cannot have favorable
point for locating fish wheel; it is also
true that all of US are not able to buy q
gill net and boats, nor strong enough to
manage them. 1t would be proper,
then, under the circumstances, to make
he law more stringent yet, and pro-
fhibit catching the toothsonie salmon ex-
Acept by the common method of hook
sand line.
4 A Tacoma dispatch says the litigation
soyer the Grant Brothers. eollapsible
Hcylinder wrecking process was eompro-
missed and the right to use the invention
sold to Gen. Thomas 81. Cavanaugh,
representing eastern capitalists, for
$500, GOO. $50, 900 payable as soon as a
successful test is made, $l00, 900 in sixty
days, 100000 in six months, and
the balance in one year. They will
probably test the process on Vanderbilt's
yacht, sunk in Long Island sound.
Gen. Cavanaugh and the Grant brothers
will go east at once and conduct the
test.
Hon. Lark Bilyeu, a member of the
last board of equalization. is of the epin-
ion that the present state board of
equalization. made mistake in as
snming to have power to- make hori-
zontal and sweeping raises of valuation.
He says ifsthe stats board, to make the
tax levy, would levy OH the valuation OF
lands from the rolls as returned by the
counties no one would raise an objection.
The Union meat company are having
cara constructed so that they can ship
the whole side of beef from the cooler
in Troutdale to their cold etorage at
Portland. They are to have their own
locomotive to haul their meat to Port
land. The sausage mandatory is to be
removed to Portland also. and the ice
| plant from Clarnie.
w. n. Clark went out the otbe,
afternoon and located quartz ledge
about two miles above Canyon city thai
assays well in free milling gold. Chi.
nese miners on the creek q few years
ago found it, but covered it up because
they were not allowed to hold quart,
Slams hsss.