The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-07-29

next Monday their busy hum will be
heard at various points in the interior,
while in Sherman county the massive
combines will be utI'ized to cut and
thresh the rich harvest as rapidly as
possible. Although the weather is ex-
tremely warm, it is fine for harvesting,
and the farmers will take advantage of
it to get their grain under cover.
The Salem Statesman says: We learn
from private source that there is some
danger that the new beet sugar factory
at Union will not be able to handle all
the beets raised thereabouts to supply
it. The acreage was based on the pro-
duction of Utah lands; and the Grande
Ronde valley lands are go rich and SO
we'll adapted to the cultivation of sugar
beets that there may be q surplus, a
tonnage beyond the capacity of the fac
tory"
Prof. G. V. Piper, botanist of the Pull
man agricultural college. after having
carefully estimated the coast gives it as
his opinion that it will necessitate the
expenditure OF $4,000 to eradicate the
Russian thistle from the wheat fields of
Umatilla county. Ii the matter is post
poned two years 100000 would not be
enough to do what the expenditures of
$40, 200 would accomplish next spring.
This is a serious matter to the owners
of wheat land throughout the entire In
land Empire.
Yesterday morning DIR. Doane re-
ported to the city authorities a family
residing in the pines on the hill, south
of I. ]. Norman's property, that was
afflicted with scarlet fever. The fami-
ly was promptly quarantined, The par
ties afflicted are named Eastburn, and
live in a small house where they have
no means Of caring for the sick, though
as yet the disease has not appeared in a
malignant form. Every precaution will
be taken to isolate them from others,
and there is little danger of the disease
spreading.
On Monday and Tuesday evenings
of next week the people of Hood River
and Cascade Locks will have a musical
treat, as the instrumental quartet of the
Alpha Mandolin and Guitar Club of this
city will play in these towns on the
evenings stated. The quartet consists
of the well-known musicians, Prof.
Ryan, J. R. Reese, Irwin Parkins and
Clinton Alden. The playing of the
young men in this city has delighted all
who have heard them, and that they
will please the public in other places as
well as here, cannot be doubted. They
will be at Hood River Monday evening,
the 1st, and at the Locks on Tuesday,
the I'd inst.
Colonel Robert w. Mitchell started
Wednesday evening from Portland on
his annual trip of inspection over the
Willamette valley and Cascade mount
ain wagon road. At Salem he expects
to be joined by "By" Geer, and at Leb
anon the start by wagon will be made.
At Fish lake Colonel Mitchell will camp
several days in the fragrant hay that
grows rank on the trees there, and will
see if any of the trout he and Colonel
Jackson rubber stamped their initials
on have returned from South America
to again snap horse flies on their old
grazing ground. Colonel Mitchell will
traveree the entire length of the road,
passing Prineville and winding up at
Ontaria, on the mystic Malheur, from
which point he will return by rail.
RED MEN ELECT OFFICERS.