The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-06-30

ID. ii. Rlddell, OF this CITY,
The state military board is consider
ing the advisability of making the day
of the arrival of the volunteers etate
holiday. When the date of their ar
rival is definitely known. a meet
ing will be held and a decision arrived
at regarding the matter. This will be
the best of news to those who have been
scheming to get away from business
duties On that day.
It may be a fact that the race of
"noble red men" is diminishing rapid
"; but one would never judge such to
be the case by looking around the streets
of The Dalles the past few days. The
town is fairly 'painted red'' with their
presence, and if all the small pappooses
which are 80 much in.evidence at present,
shy clear of the happy hunting grounds
there'll be enough of the race left to fill
the reservations for some time to come.
A local reporter on one of our neigh
boring papers got into trouble last
Thursday by making the wrong heading
to an account of the marriage of q couple
in his vicinity. The mans name is
Avery and the lady was a Miss Small,
and the local scribe made the heading
read, ga very-Small Wedding" The
groom, who is a strapping country youth,
went after the reporter to wipe the
earth with him for saying it was very
small wedding.
A letter received by friends in this
FaIIo 0f tho lint of EronR
Newcome as clerk of the Park hotel at
Mt. Clemene, the finest hotel in the
state of Michigan. Many will remember
Mr.. Newcome we'll, he having spent
some time in The Dalles and was for
many years resident of Wasco county,
having stock interests with his brothers
near RIdgeway. As Mt. Clemens is
health resort it will be just the place for
Mr.. Newcome, whose health was much
impaired when he last visited this city.
During the entire season Astoria has
evidently been catching all the salmon
in the river. At any rate somebody has
been en- ticing the succors into their
traps, seines, or whatever they may be,
for none OF them have succeeded in
making their appearance in the wheels
at The Dalles. In vain have the fisher
men here kept their wheels running,
for very few have condescended to give
US even a passing glance. At Astoria
Wednesday the fishermen came up from
the lower river loaded with fish, and
steelheads CONT nue. to increase.
! Every once in awhile the people of
Oregon, who are so situated that they
have good view of Mt. Hood, imagine
| that mountain has again taken up the
bad habit of smoking, and declare they
saw column OF smoke Issuing from it.
However, Mt. Adams is seldom accused
of like offense; but this morning many
residents of this city were attracted to a
column of smoke around the eummit,
which seemed to be curling around just
as if coming from it. AS there certainly
can be no foresG fires, at pres to cause
it there was quite little speculation as
to what it was.
There IL no mistake but that the en-
ployes at the laundry will have an op.
portunity of celebrating on the Fourth,
A few mornings since when Mr.. Mac.
Allister eat down at his desk in that
establishment document met his gaze
J which upon inspection proved to be 6
Ground robin" 1t was petition from
the employees for cessation of duties or
our nations birthday, which was &c
worced that It could not fail to accom-
, plish the end desired. The names be-
ing signed in circle it was impossible,
, to tell who was the promoter of the
scheme. No doubt the manager in
tended they should celebrate any way
, but this settled the matter.
3 You cannot enter the Umatilla Hous,
, now without being greeted by the swee
> strains of music; not the ''old songs
either, but the very latest airs. 'Tis no
the musical voice of Jud, for fish dom
, sing; nor the baritone of the genia
, clerk, for Rog at present has something
else to think about. III the night clerk
name were spelled with P, instead of B
one might think it is Patty; neithe
can it be Patricio McNeal for there ar
no Irish airs put on. The strains emi
mates from the bar room, where is place
an automatic music box bought fror
: Jacobsen this morning. It is one of
superior make and is worked somewhs
: on the plan of a nickel-in-t -the-slot ma
~ chine. It will play any number of all