The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-03-15

their spacious clothing department an
order has been placed for second one.
These arcs shed a very, bright and at
tractive light, and serve to dispel the
usual objections to buying goods in the
evening. Let the good work go on.
Coroner Butts has removed his Office
to the undertaking parlors of VIM.
Michel, on the corner of Third and
Washington. If you have died from
any unknown cause, call on the coroner
there and he will sit on you. But if you
only wish to take up your abode in the
city. or near the city, and are desirous
of consulting him about it. you'll 6nd
Dad Butts at that same headquarters.
Ruben Clue" which will be played
tonight by the Noble company, is one of
Neble's best plays, and exclusively their
own. Though the Yankee character is
the prominent one in the play, tits not
the same old Yankee that we meet in so
many productions, but a different in
dividual. The opening scene is laid in
England, while in the last we are trans
ported to Australia. Go and have
good laugh.
The fourth winter scene in this years
drama met our gaze as we psered out of
the window on arising thik morning.
Snow covered the ground, AID instead of
March it looked like DECEMBER. But
twas not cold .and before Ne knew it the
aforesaid .scongealed eleyhent'' was gone.
The stage driver from IGoldendale says
there was little snow at that place, but
about two inches and half on the
mountain as he came over.
A regular meeting of the Board of Fire
Delegates was held in the city hall last
evening and the old board having
finished their labors, retired. The new
board was instituted, after which the
following officers were elected to serve
for the ensuing year: President, Chas.
F. Lauer; secretary, E. M. Wingate, and
treasurer II. A. Falk. Matters of I'M
portance to the fire department were
taken up and discussed, after which the
meeting adjourned.
Last night Mrs. D. w. Vause received
word of the death of her brother, Leslie
Knaggs, in Ainsworth, B. c., on the
night of March 18th, of laryngitis. BE
was about 3e years of age, and it has
been about eighteen years since he left
The Dalles to run on boat on the
Snake river. From Lewiston he went
to Spokane, afterwards going up into
British Columbia, where he has since
been engaged in mining. Eight years
ago he visited his mother and sister here
for a day or two; but having been away
from the city for SO many years he is
remem bered by Dalles people m 0re as a
mere boy, going to and from school, for
later as he was growing into manhood
he left his boyhood's home and never
returned for any length of time.
No ead of trouble has been caused by
the similarity of the names of the two
places The Dalles and Dallas. Most OF
this has been caused by the mail in
tended for one place being sent to the
other. The latest trouble, however,
was with another kind of male, and
if that piece of humanity isn't walking
the deck of the boat today swearing
vengeance on those who named the two
places, it is Because the scenery has
captured him. He is a member of the
Third Artillery and was bound fol
Dallas, but by some unaccountable
means hied himself to the D. P. & A. N
dock and purchased ticket for The
Dalles. Nothing 10th he boarded the
boat and blissfully unconscious landed
at the dock Last night to find that he
Il H. Ii !, sG1E T.
shook the dust from his feet, bought 6
return ticket, and has by this time
found out that the difference between
Dallas and The Dalles is about 81, anc
two days. travel.