The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-09-23

inside out there is a suspicion of foul
play. Friends say he had 800 the day
before. Fulton came from The Dalles
few days ago. His sister, Mrs. Flora
Dell, of The Dalles, has been notified by
telegraph.
A serious cave in occurred yesterday on
Union Street, opposite the brick school
building. A defective sewer washed out
the clay underneath the surface, making
a trap into which team might have
been driven with serious results. The
recent rains softened the surface and
caused it to cave in before any damage
was done.
The attendance at the Wizard Oil show
seems to increase daily. Last evening
the largest attendance that has been
there since the show opened, witnessed
a good program entirely different from
that of the previous evenings. Two side
splitting comic sketches were rendered
while Jerry Sullivan made hit in his
negro turn and monologue sketches.
To praise any one turn too highly would
not be doing justice to the others, how
ever, as they all did their parts remark
ably well and gave the most satisfactory
show that has ever been seen in The
Dalles for the price.
The most interesting tournament of
the season will be boWled at the club
alleys tonight between the single and
married ladies. The young ladies have
taken but little interest in bowling this
summer and are consequently somewhat
out of practice, while the matrons on the
other hand are more in practice,
which causes many of the young ladies
who are in opposition to them to have
scruples about taking part in the match.
Those who will take part will be
Mesdames Blakeley, Seufert, Hunting
ton, Bradshaw, Fish and Houghton and
Misses A. Schanno, Annie Lang, Myrtle
Michel, Edna Glenn and Rosemary
Baldwin. As there is but five in the
latter tam ,one of the married ladies will
have to step out IN order to make the
sides even.
Along with the marked improvements
that are being made on the line of the
D. r. & n. between The Dalles and
Portland, in the way of strengthening
and ballasting the track is one of dif-
ferent character that will prove a pre-
ventative of what ls probably the great
est source of annoyance to that company
evil known as the sliding mountain
There is lake near the top OF this
mountain almost one-half mile in length
and of considerable depth which has
nothing but an underground outlet. It's
waters find their way to the river
through the soapstone formation, and on
account of the moisture underneath the
surface the mountain is gradually slid
ing towards the river and taking the
| track with it. A deep trench will be
| cut in the mountain which will serve as
an outlet for the lake and in this way it
will be drained dry and the difficulty
| overcome.
This morning w. A. B. Campbell had
little adventure which might easily
have been his last. He was hunting
ducks on the sloughs between here and
Seufert's. A band of teal flew to pond
near the river and the only way to get to
them was to cross small arm of the
river, which was between him and the
island on which the game was. He
hastily constructed a raft and started
across the stream which was little over
thirty feet between either bank. The
raft turned over, however, in the middle
of the stream. and before he could gain
his position on the raft it turned a
second and third time. The raft fortu-
nately drifted into shore and he sue
ceeded in catching on to the rocks and
dragging himself exhausted from the
cold water In the turning over of the
raft he lost his gun, valuable Parker
but was we'll pleased with escaping with
his life.