The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-11-27

largest in the state, seems to feel less
effect of the prevailing hard times than
other more favored localities.
The teachers institute will be held
here next month, beginning on the 18th
and lasting three days. Heretofore the
Institutes have always been held in the
summer time, and the present departure
is pet idea of the county school super
intendent. The results. will, we think,
show that the change is good one.
There is plenty of room in Wasco
county for one-half the dissatisfied of
Dakota and Nebraska. Our foothills are
the finest orchards lands in the world,
and there is an immense area of them.
Santa Clara county, California, shipped
last year Sc, ,OOO, 900 worth of fruit, and it
was grown on 81, 900 acres, or one town.
ship and half.
Foreign newspapers have been shut out
of Turkey, on account of the articles con-
tanned in them concerning the Armenian
outrages. 1t now transpires that the
first account instead of being exaggerated
did not tell half the truth; ten thousand
OF the helpless inhabitants were MUIR
dered. AS result of the bodies being
left unburied, cholera has broken out in
| a malignant form.
Mr.. NJ. H. Nickelsen, clerk of school
district No. 8, was in the city today on
business connected with the building of
the new schoolhouse. The bonds of the
district were sold some time since, but
the money only arrived Saturday.
Work on the building will now be pushed
and by next summer Hood River should
have one of the best, most convenient
and best equipped school buildings in
the state.
| w. P. Watson of Hood River has been
visiting Memaloose island, and thinks it
the most wonderful cemetery in the
country. He estimates the number
is also convinced that the high water last
summer was the highest that has oc-
CURED in the Columbia for hundreds of
years, basing his belief on the position
of the bones on the island that were be-
low the present high water mark.
| 4AO 1Ol1OmAnR 10 d 1lSb VI Iu0 O41C6ES
nominated at Hood River last Saturday.
The election for the incorporation of
the town will be held Dec. 4th: Mayor,
G. M. Wolford; aldermen, F. H. Button,
Elmer Rand, DIR. Watt, S. E. Bartmess,
T. G. Dallas, A. B. Hartley: Treasurer,
M. Fl. Nickelsen; recorder, J. E. Soesbe
marshal, E. S. Olinger. This is the
regular ticket. but it is probable there
may be an opposition ticket placed in
the field.
The selection of a jury in the Savage
case began last night and six jurors were
chosen before the panel was exhausted.
The state used one of its peremptory
challenges, and the defense three. This
leaves the state two and the defense
three of this kind of challenges. A
special venire was issued and returned
this morning, but as most of those sum-
moned lived in The Dalles and had
formed an opinion concerning the case,
the jury did not grow very rapidly.
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