The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-07

Mr. J. H. Cradlebaugh of the Glacier,
is in the city today.
Rev. J. C. Baker will preach in the
academy tomorrow morning.
The town is unusually lively today.
Many farmers from the surrounding
country having come in.
We call attention to the ad of Mr.. A.
Velarde in another column. He is we'll
fixed, for house moving, etc.
The millennium has certainly come, at
least it looks that way. For the first
time in many years Baker city is with
out faro Tank and her royal Bengal
highness has succumbed to the inevit.-
BILE.
Gov. Pennoyer has forwarded to the
secretary of state at Washington, certif-
Gates OF the election of Caples, Dunno
and Irwin, republicans, and Pierce,
people 's-democrat, the presidential cleo
tors of Oregon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Faurie, late of IL
linois, have arrived in The Dalles to re-
main. They became converted to this
section OF the Inland Empire by having
had TIE Chronicle sent to them the
past six months. They will certainly
never regret the change.
In putting pulley on the derrick at
Winans fishery this morning Mr.. NJ. P.
Nef had his fingers pinched consider
ably. The fishery is only about three
miles above the city, bnt when the re-
port reached the town it was to the effect
that one of the expensive cribs for the
superstructure had washed out, entail
ing damages Of at least 81 900.
Mr.. James Cameron of this city was
married in Buffalo to Miss Maude Eurn-
side, daughter of Rev. &. R. Burnside
on the 2Sth ult. Mr.. and Mrs. Cameron
will make their home in Oregon. The
ceremony was performed at the Dear
born street Baptist church by the father
of the bride. The International Gazette
says the presents were numerous and OF
a costly nature.
During the past two years there have
been 757 commitments to the state pen
itentiary at Salem. This is one thing
in which Wasco county has been
exempt. There are none charged up
against US in the statistical reports of
crime in Oregon, as entering that insti-
tuition. Multnomah heads the list with
300; Umatilla is next highest, having
sent sixty-three; Marion 70, ty-seven !;
Douglas tllirty-two; Union twenty
eight. Thirty counties are in the list
] The annual masquerade ball of jack
Eon Engine Co. should receive liberal
patronage, as this is the pioneer fire
company of The Dalles, having been or
ganized in 1868 During the many
devastating conhagrations that have
visited the city, this company has always
done its duty towards saving property.
Nearly all of ehe original members have
passed away to the 'silent Shore" and
among those who still remain are Judgd
Liebe and Mr.. Henry Whitmore. These
are the only ones, it is said, who are
alive whose names are on the charter.
Clifton D. Stevens, young man about
20 years old, student of the university
of Oregon, at Eugene, was killed about
midnight Sunday night by a shock from
the electric light wire. He was with a
party of friends returning from watch
party, and playfully jumped and swung
Ihis weight on the cable which suspends
lthe arc light. His weight raised the
lamp so as to turn the current into the
cable which he was holding, and when
he touched the ground he was immedi-
ately killed. His death should be a
warning to others, not to fool with cleo