The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-13
pleted, Mr.. Crossen administered the
oath of Office to his successor.

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oath of Office to his successor.
As soon as the watergets down enough
to admit of it, Messrs. Seufert, Winans
and others will put Indians at work
dipping the royal chinook with hand
nets.
The lawns that have been covered by
the flood look decidedly rusty. A few
days. sunshine will bring back their
color, and the sediment should prove
splendid fertilizer.
Lew Morse and G. A. Bell are running
thousand or more telephone poles
down Hood river. Captain Dukes and
others have just finished bringing down
10O, 900 cedar fence posts.
It makes no difference to Harry Ma
hear who is elected governor of the state
or justice of Smile precinct. It's
nine-pound boy this time, and it amt
a populist either. All are doing we'll.
A train loaded with wheat for Port
land was left on the track near the
Wasco warehouse. During the food the
water got into the cars to the depth of
about two feet, and the result is a vast
amount of good chicken feed.
The river fell at Riparia in twenty
four hours, ending at 8 o'clock this
morning, one foot, and at Umatilla ten
inches. The weather is slightly warmer
in the upper country. The weather
bureau expresses the opinion that the
river will continue to fall for four or five
days at the least.
Reports from all over Eastern Oregon
and Washington state that the wheat
fields are in better condition than ever
known, and the indications are that the
crop will be phenomenal one. If the
price will get up above zero the country
will get even for last years lack of re-
turns in coin.
In pumping out the cellar of the Col
umbia Packing house this morning a
fish six inches long got into the pump
and choked the valves. As the cellar is
cemented, the sucker must have come
up the sewer. This ought to settle the
question as to whether fish will follow
an underground channel.
We are told that the berry growers of
Hood River have about given up the at
tempt to get their products to market,
and that recently 100 crates were given
away. We think they could find
market here for some of them at prices
that would at least pay something over
the boxes and picking.
The new fire hydrants are all self
bleeders. In use they should be opened
full, as when only partly open the water
from the bleeder soon washes away the
dirt, leaving the hydrant unsupported
and in that condition few twists
loosens them and they blow off. There
are two in the city now in that condi-
ton.
Q. Thompson was brought up from
Hood River last night by Constable
Olinger to serve out sentence of ninety
days. He was charged with stealing
"one pair of mems pants and one pair of
mems shoes" The property was stolen
from the Oregon LAUNDERING company,
and as the defendant admitted his guilt,
he is presumably satisfied with the
result.
Monday we elect a new, or re-elect the
old corps of city officers. Put on your
thinking cap, and see that you elect
good and efficient men. The city is in
pretty bad shape owing to the food, and
good, careful council and mayor should
be selected. men who will guard the
city's interests and more particularly