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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE," FRIDAY-AUGUST 12, 1892.
The Weekly Ghfoniele.
THE DALLES,
OREGON
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
- ' From the Dally Chronicle, Tuesday.
Mr. Olsen ia still very low today, and
; liia recovery is doubtful.
Driving at the fair ground track ia
said to be excellent, now.
"The leave8 began to fall" along
Union and. Second streets to-day.
Mr. Josiah Marsh, the Wasco drug
gist, is at the Umatilla bonse today.
A. J. Wall's 8-Mile place was attached
. by LaDg & Co., of Portland, on Satur
day. .
. Mr. H. F. Hinman and Hoc. Dan
Butler, of Tygli, are at the Umatilla
bouse. -
"Mr. Allen Grant, and Mr. Frank Tr
; vine, of Antelope, are at the Umatilla
bouse, today.
; : Mrs. Powell is making fine progress
the past few days, and her friends hope
. to see her up 60on.
' Miss Nona Rowe and Mrs. Collins, of
The Dalles, are visiting Mrs. R. J.
YouDg, on Fifteen Mile.
bounty school ..examination and
teachers' institute to-morrow, by Supt.
Shelley, at the court house.
Mrs.Handley and Mies Belle Hood
were among the passengers for Portland
by' steamer Regulator today.
Miss Jennie Waterman of Eight mile,
left on the afternoon tram to join a
camping party at Hood River.
Mr. B. R. Tucker, of the mill above
Hood River, is preparing to enter upon
the fruit business extensively.
Mri M. B. Harrison and family and
MrsChamplin, the Hood River P. M.,
were in the Bridal Veil party on the
. i7th.
Hon. C. M. and Miss May Henderson,
' of New York city, W. W. Hale of Penn.,
and L. B. Hefter of Chicago, are in the
city today.
Several delegates of an eastern excur
sion dropped down on The Dalles today.
They are enjoying themselves at the
Umatilla bouse.
? C. L. Phillips and ; Wm. Butler
- cleaned Eight Mile out of mountain
trout on the 7th. No use to go there
fishing any more.
The DeMoss family are expected in
Oregon in time to participate in sing
K ing at the Hood River camp meeting on
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. B. F.'Laughlin arrived in the city
from North Beach last evening, tie
aays The Dalles colony are enjoying
: ' the season very satisfactorily. .
' The Dalles Citizens Band boys had
.fine .picnic up Mill creek according to
programme. They wish to return thanks
to Mr. Mesplie for numerous favors.
Prospectors frem Spokane have located
a placer claim up on the mountain side
back of Canyon City. "Good pay" ex
ists up there, but water Is difficult to
obtain.
Mr. McCoy informs us that the new
roller flouring mill near Boyd Is now
ready for wheat. The miller, Mr. Kor
kerline, says : "Bring on your wheat,"
after this week.
At Yakima the thermometer has been
- ranging between 100 and 106 degrees for
a week or so past. While this is slightly
tropical residents do not complain since
it helps the fruit.
The drawings of his transit, sent by
.' Christopher Fitzgerald to bis father of
' this city,' shows that be selected a pur
suit especially adapted to his taste when.
be chose to become a civil engineer.
Samples of golden chaff raised on the
Linton place, up 10-Mile, shows beads
fully 6J4 inches long, fine, plump berry,
' estimated to thresh 45 bushels to the
acre. The straw is not over 32 inches
in length.
The camp meeting at Hood River is
still in session. - Rev. J.F.Ford, of
Des Moines, Iowa, is among the minis
ters at present laboring at Hood River,
with people, and much good ie being
accomplished.
A. W. Branner, the popular stage
man, was in the city today. He drove
in free from dust, but expects to be
chocked down this afternoon as he Js
obliged to so out with the wind to his
back for Prineville.
"What could. we do without Ferris,
and the sprinkling , wagon," said one
lady to another passing The Chronicle
at 2:30 p. m. today. "Use our hose, of
course ;" "Not mine," was the rejoinder,
"at $3.00 per pair.".
At Lewiston- ntty-two cents per
bushel is offered for new wheat. There
are few takers, as- it is thought prices
will advance later. It is estimated that
at least 300,000 bushels of grain will be
harvested in that vicinity this season.
fiherritt &Wagonblast start their new
thresher tomorrow. Beginning on 3
Mile ridge they will work this way, for
the next sixty days. They have a full
gang of webfooters, with J. E. McCor-
: mick and Frank Wagonblast as feeders.
' Deputy Sheriff Pbirman says Bonne
ville mosquitoes are not a patchiq' to
those on the Tygh. But, he says, the
moonlight drive homewards, after
whipping the stream for trout, as he
finds it, compensated for every blister
produced by the pests.
A private letter, from Murray, writ
ten by II. C. Johnson to his father, A.
G., in this city, quiets all apprehension
as to his fate. He is neither dead nor
wounded, and seems confident that the
results of the late unpleaeantncss will
be satisfactorily adjusted.
Christopher Fitzgerald has sent to
his father, Mr. E. P. Fitzgerald, of this
city, the diploma awarded to him at
Notre Dame. It is for first premium in
surveying, and second in Christian doc
trine, industrial drawing, analytical
geometry and English literature.
Fred W. Young and C. F. Hinkley, of
Union, were out five days last week on
a fishing, hunting and prospecting trip
to the Grande Rondo lakes. They
found two promising quartz ledges, an
antimony ledge and a meadow ol about
sixty acres that prospects well in gold.
You can break the new sil ver half dol
lar without shoving it into a glass of
beer and getting the change back. It is
so brittle that a solid blow of . a hammer
will shatter it. The most pleasing . way
to break it, however, is to buy your girl
forty-five cents worth of chewing gum
and get back a nickel.
Don't forget the fourth annual exhibi
tion of the second Eastern Oregon dis
trict agricultural society, embracing the
counties. of Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Crook, Morrow and .Umatilla, to be held
at The Dalles, commencing Tuesday
Oct. 11 , 1892, and continue five days.
Get a list from J. O. Mack, secretary.
As Caroline, the dusky queen .of the
West End, went to Portland today in
company with the Duputy United States
marshal, the belles of that division of
The Dalles have waved their premedi
tated assault upon U8i But we are down
upon our bended knees in abject apology
for having, in the remotest way, intend
ed'to create the sensation which followed
the announcement of the Sth.
Mr. and Mrs. Garretson and their lit
tie boy, received a sudden visit from i
large brown bear on Wednesday, while
fishing, about eight miles from
Dufur. As the bear was paying most of
his attentions to a cow and calf, rushing
away after them, Gajretson couldn't
catch him. But the family tried hard
not to appear frightened. They were
armed for bear, bat the gun was in the
carriage about a mile down the creek.
The Long Creek Eagle says that a
great mining excitement prevails at
Spanis'i gulch, a noted mineral belt on
The Dalles and Canyon- city road
Mines have been in operation in that
locality since the 'CO's but until - of late
was there any particular attention man
ifested in its mining enterprise. Only a
few weeks since, miners found that the
entire country was rich with placer gold,
and proceeded to locate claims and water
right. Others followed and today over
1,000 acres are held as placer ground
Several parties from Portland and The
Dalles are interested in the camp, -and
it is anticipated that qaite a stir will
take place in that mineral belt.
From the Dally Chronicle. Wednesday.. .
Miss Mosier, of the village of Mosier,
is a guest of Mrs. Judd S. Fish.
Mr. W. 8. Cram returned from the
consolidated city on the noon train to
day. Hon. F. Pierce Mays and family are
in the city on a visit to friends and rela
tives. A number of applicants for teachers
certificates, appeared before Supt. Shelly
this afternoon.
Bat two passengers left the city by
stage this morning. One for Goldendale,
and one for Dufur.
Prairie City willigive a series of races
this fall, commencing on Sept. 5th and
continuing four days.
September 10th fishing may be re
newed for silversidc salmon. "After to
day Chinooks and steel heads take a
rest.
Locomotive 512 has a whistle wbieh
calls express wagons to the levee when it
sounds in.the evening, it is so much like
a steamboat whistle.
The owners of the Tabor placer mine,
at Granite, are stilt at work with a
strong head of water. They are work
ing excellent ground this year, and it is
learned that they will realize hand
somely for this season's work.
Fisherman must be powerfully in
clined iri the line of duty to resist the
temptation to fish on to-night, as the
river is said to be alive with fine Royal
Chinooks, and they come into the traps
and wheels without an invitation. " -
Col. Sinnott has been presented by
Mr. Kelsay with some fine specimens of
rich minerals abounding in the vicinity
of . The Dalles, including an elegant
specimen from the Greenhorn camp, in
which the native silver is visible to
the naked eye.
For several days past it has been next
to impossible for the average Dalles man
to keep inside of a starched collar. But
good for the sea breezes. Owing to their
manifold endeavors on behalf of human
ity, today witnesses the return of the
blissful temperature so noted here.
The millions of government money,
transferred from San Francisco, crossed
the continent safely inside of five days,
This transfer is made at this time, as
the sub-treasury of San Francisco has a
plethora of gold and it is constantly ac
cumulating, while there is a dearth of
gold in the sub-treasury of New York,
especially of small denominations. . '
To the other gayeties of. her apparel
the summer girl is now adding a tan
colored collar and a complexion to match
her shoes. -
. Hon. John Tobin, who lesides- eight
miles southeast of Goldendale, has
just bored a well117 feet, and . got a
good flow of water with such force that
it came Within six feet of the surface.
The well was sunk on the highest clc-.
vation in that vicinity.
Mr. George McCov, of Wapinitia,
paid The Chbonicle a visit last even
ing. He has been in the employ of the
government, as industrial teacher at
Sipeuiasho.-and the crops were eo large
this year that the barns have been en
larged to double their former dimen
sions. In fact, there is now reported to
be "too much hay" on the reservation.
We are pleased to hear that represent
ative 'citizens of The Dalles have today,
started a movement to remove the pres?
ent doubts as to whether we shall be as
long in the future securing plants and
specifications for ' the contract for
the completion of the cascade
locks, as we have been in the past
sinking money in schemes to keep the
Inland Empire bottled up. .
Mr. Bone the Cloud Cap Inn
Jehu, was a diner at the Umatilla house
at noon today, passing through en route
to Grants. He made arrangements with
Judd S. Fish to sell through round trip
stage tickets to Cloud Cap this month,
from Hood River. .There are many
moic Dalles 'city people at Cloud Cap
this year than from Portland ; which il
lustrates the difference in favor of the
good judgment of Dalles citizens.
The lleppncr merchant Hon. Henry
Blackman, recently chosen to represen
the democracy of Morrow county in the
Oregon assembly, passed up today en
route to his home from a trip to the
United States of America. He is look
ing hale and hearty. Whilo in New
York City he was fortunate to
have a - place on the committee
designated to "notify" Clove and Steve
that the National Democracy bad chos
en them to bear the standard , in the
present campaign. It was a. complete
surprise, and you just ought to've seen
how Cleve looked when the sudden
truth flashed across his mind.
' A lodger at the Umatilla.house early
this morning came in at the west portico,
inquiring lor the room he bad been as
signed to. . He'was so bewildered that
he bad forgotten his name ; but after t
while Fenn Batty, assisted by Judd, lo
cated him, and . sent him on' his route
with a pilot who lead the way to 116
The guest had arisen,, and when be left
his 'rdbnqi'neglected to blaze his way, and
in the mists of the labyrinthian ; hails
and crossings couldn't get back', There
are only 30Q . rooms in the Umatilla
house and it would seem easy for any
body to find one of them after haying
been put to bed once, but it is a trifle
puzzling sometimes.'.
In reading this paragraph, the thought
which suggests itself is : "Capitalists of
The Dalles, go and do likewise.". "The
Tacoma woolen mill, on the 5th day of
June, broke ground for the erection of
their works on 25th street, and on the
30th of July t networks were in active
operation, giving employment to about
150 bands in the various departments.
The rapidity of construction will be ap
preciated from the fact that the works
consist - of . main buildings, 124x60 feet.
four stories high ; preparing, dyeing
and washing room, 126x50, one and one
half 'stories high: engine and boiler
house, 50x35 feet, and that the whole,
including the setting up of the machin
ery, was done in 46 working days."
Bishop Morris writes Bro. Mitchell
an "essay" on "the infringements of a
patent," and. thinks it would bo "a
vulgar display of a religious rite that
would be offensive to cultivated, intelli
gent people," to open the Portland ex
position with a christening. Perhaps
Bro. Mitchell was not thinking of the
rituolKor the liturgy, when he proposed
to properly christen the exposition, any
more than did Tom Osborn when he got
up that "ceremony?' for laying the cor
nerstone of the chamber of commerce
building. The quality of being divine
is not now so strained as it was in the
days of early Christianity, and yet .peo
ple generally are about as reverent now
as our forefathers were, if not a trifle
more so.
From tho Dally Chronicle,' Thursday.
Mrs. Kinersly is visiting friends in
Portland
Pririz & Nitschke have begun moving
new stock into their new store. .
There is more scare than small-pox in
the Victoria and Puget sound quaran
tine.' When needing shoes do not fail to ex
amine Stoneman & Fiege's line of shoes.
Guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Robert Mays, jr., left yesterday, and
Mr. Ed. Mays left today, by the steamer
Regulator, returning to their studies in
college.
These are times when men remember
How they sweated last December
At the weather and the plumber,
And declared they wished 'twere summer.
- Some faint hopes are cherished that
the astronomers' determined search
over the surface of a' neighboring planet
may possibly reveal the whereabouts of
Maj. Ilandbury. -:
Every girl is taught that fihe enhances
the value of a privilege by .withholding
it, ' but she usually learns for herself
that it does not pay, as a rnle, to persist
in withholding it too long.
. The Higby farm of the Columbia River
fruit Company is shipping fruit to the
Portland market' now, where it meets
with ready sale at remunerative orices.
An adventurer "with a champagne
appetite in a beer, town" as he expressed
himself to The Chbonicle man today.
ia doing The Dalles on a fake advertising
scheme. Look ont for hiin.
: The 8. B. Medicine Co., which ?b a
humane society, were not allowed to
drive one of their teams through the
streets of Spokane, because the city
dada conetrned it to be an advertising
dodge. -
Precipitate matrimony is the latest of
the horrible instruments of devastation
which threaten the soldier. A recent
attack at Fort Sheridan notably weaken
ed the national fighting force by sweep
ing away a private.
It has leaked out how Phillips & But
ler swiped all the trout in a popular
stream last week. They had both hired
the same boy, a guileless country youth
who was wise enough to keep his own
counsel. . . .
Snipes & Kinersly h9ve laid a trap to
catch al( the flies in town.- After the
sale of their job lot of 12,500 double
sheets' of tanglefoot, it will be safe to
bet that there are no 'flies on The
Dalles.
W. R. Johnson, the Tuna Hedge man,
ha gone to La Grande for a few days.
When he returns he will bring his team
with him, and make a canvass of Wasco
and Sherman counties. - Letters ad
dressed to The Chronicle ofb'ce wi 1
reach him.
Thete are more salmon in the Colum
bia about here today, than at any former
period of time since-the discovery of
George Francis Train. . This goes tc
prove that when fishing is restricted
salmon multiply, and ft may be necess
ary tochange the close season from fall to
summer.. , -
An old gentleman was in The Dalles
last night taking a leisurely walk about
town, and meeting a representative of
The Chronicle, he volunteered to say
that the town . had changed materially
since his first visit here in 1852. He
found no one here now whom he knew
thirty years ago.
- The Dalles City Directory, 1892-1893,
ia in course of preparation. It is needed
badly and will be a clear and compre
hensive exhibit of the city in respect of
its population and commercial etatup.
The services of a thorough j experienced
directory man have been engaged on this
important work. !
Wedding day 'at Portland, exposition
this., year .promises to be a gala day The
Superintendent, not satisfied with secur
ing. the, usual number of couples, desires
to got a half dozen, or more. Last year
the two. couples married received enough
presents to .start house-keeping - and
store some in the attic .
Judge Thorn bury has a hammock
strung np under the trees in his beauti
ful lawn, in which it is a luxury to re
cline, if one is only fortunate enough to
get into it. Hudson says : "To lie in a
hammock is blissfully sweet, if you're
quick as a cat and can light on your
feet." Dr. Sutherland "seconds that
motion.
The M. E. church camp meetings
will open at The Dalles on the 18th,
Thursday next, in the pines. The pub
lic generally are cordially invited to at
tend. Caariages wilL run regularly be
tween the city proper and the camp
grounds and. an array, of talented
ministers will be present at the services
daily. '
Mr. Baldwin informs us that the ar
tesian well boring at Tekoa is a success.
The water pours forth in a volume of
40,000 gallons per day.- As it will re
quire 150,000 gallons per day to supply
the town and keep the reservoir full, the
hole will be sunk deeper in hopes of EC-
curing a stronger flow. He has moved
his family to Tekoa, and has perma
nently ..located there worn out with
waiting for The Dalles to get a move on ,
incident to an open Columbia river.
Buffalo, N. Y., and The Dalles, Or.,
are becoming somewhat allied by busi
ness association. The Express notes
the incorporation there of the Vanden
burgh laboratory of chemical industry.
The object of the concern is stated to be
to conduct a general business as ana
lytical, consulting and manufacturing
chemists iu all departments of the in
dustry and to sell chemicals and scien
tific apparatus. The amount of capital
stock is $25,000, divided into shares of
$50 each.' The duration is. to be fifty
years. Several citizens oi ine uanes
are identified with this incorporation. .
Up on 8-Mile lives a genial old farmer
who has such an abundant supply of
this world's goods that his orchards,
his fields and his barns are overstocked.
His berry patch is laden with luscious
fruits, going to waste for want of a mar
ket. - A party of pleasure-seekers from
The- Dalles stopped with him a few
days ago, and when they started on the
return, offered to. recompense hin for
the accommodation. He politely re
fused the proffer, and pressingry invited
them to come again, to come often and
bring their friends with them. Can
each another incident of fraternity be
found outside of Wasco county, where
people generally are proverbially noted
for their genuine, unstinted hospitality?,
A Card From Mrs. Birgfeid.
I see in the Oregonian of Ang. 4th a
statement that a report is being circu
lated here, that William Birgfeid, my
husband, was with my father in Caf.
at the time of bisdeath, and that certain
parties in The Dalles are intimating
that my husband had something to do
Their story is as nhjust and without
fonhdation as are other stories that are
being industriously circulated by my
husband's enemies.
The facts about my fathers death are
simply as follows: In May 1888, my
father, who had been ill for over a year
became so much worse, that the doctors
here advised him to go to Cal. for his
health. He thought a great deal of Mr.
Birirfeld, and desired him to sro with
hinrto take care of him which Mr.
Birgfeid consented willingly to do.
Mr. Birgfeid stayed in San Francisco
two . weeks. My father seemed much
better, and Mr. B. returned to The
Dalles, where be remained but a short
time, when my father got worse and
te egraphed to him to come down, as he
needed him to take care of him.
Mr. Birgfeid went at once to Califor
nia in response to the telegram, and,
upon consultation with the physicians,
fnund my father in eo dangerous a con
dition that ho telegraphed immediately
for my mother, who went down, and
Mr. Birgfeid came home, leaving my
mother with my father, and did not see
him again until he was brought up here
for burial. He was not with my father
tnd did not see him for nearly two
weeks before h 8 death, my mother be
ing with him all of that time.
It seems impossible that even a man's
most bitter enemies would start such
unjust and malicious reports against
Mi ui, and surely the object of all these
fabrications that are going around,
without any foundation, must be for the
purpose of deliberate persecution, and
to prevent my husband from establish
ing his innocence of the terrible charge
now pending against him. I know
hat my husband has many enemies
hut it seems to me that for mv sake an'
or the sake of our little children, if not
for his own, neoplo should accord him
common ju. ti e and a fair 6how to prove
nis innocen e, and not be constantly in
venting and spreading these false and
unjust stories for the evident purpose of
prejudicing his case.
Lauua E. Birgfeld,
Fossil News mod Notes.
Our regular correspondent at Fossil
says the fire, of which a full account was
published last week, has accented the
wish of the people for a system of water
works there. The only wonder is that
the whole town was not destroyed
Preparations were immediately begun to
rebuild most of the Burnt district.
Eugene H. Evans of Crook county,, a
prominent educator, was in Fossil last
week, on business connected with the
schools. Fossil has a enviable reputa
tion for good educational advantages,
which it will do well to guard against
losing. .Prof. T. L. Donoho, of Hood
River, will make an application, for the
principalship at Fossil.
Iceal Estate Sales.
The following deads were recorded
to-
day:
Mary and J. B., to J. W. Condon, lots
10, 11, and 12, blocks 9, Laoghlin's ad
dition, $2,200.
J. W. Condon and wife to Mary Con
don, lot 10 and west 42 feet of lot 9,
block 7, Dalles City, $2,200.
A. Urqubart to Wm. St. M. Barnes,
1.35 acres, Wasco county, $1.
The Long Creek boys are still at work
an their Marysville placers, and with
good results.
jBonthly meteorological Report.
Weather bureau, department of agriculture.
Station, The Dalles, Oregon, for tho month of
July, 1892.
Latitude 45 36' 18". Longitude 121" 12 K'J west
Altitude 116 leet above sea level.
1...
2...
07
73
78
74
61
62
61
70
67
71
63
60.
65
72
70
61
63
f.0
6S
67
CO
63
02
69
09
71
.74
78
m
77
69
59
60
66
2
52
43
49
67
60
56
47
60
52
63
SS
51
52
60
52
59
53
50
68
55
60
67
61
6"i
64
63
1715
59.5
7
8
9
10
11
12. ...
13.. ..
14...'..
15.....
16
17
18
19
20
21
22.....
23
24
25
26
27.....
Oil
29...;
SO. . . . .
31
80
75
S3
73
73
73
81
81
87
91
95
95
90
91
Bums. . .
Means . .
2151 I
09.4
2518
81.2
o.-.n
Mean barometer, 29.9C0; hlRhext barometer,
30.326, on 7tb : lowest barometer 29.758 on 21.
Mean temperature 69.4; highest temperature,
yo on j, 2, tj, lowest temperature, in, on vm
Greatest dully range of temperature, 42 on 8tb
Least dally range of temperature, 13 on ltith.
MEAN TEMPERATURE FOB THIS MONTH IN
1872 1877.. ..71. 5
1873 1878 74.0
1874 1879.. ..66.0
1875..;. 70 0 1880.. ..68.5
1876.... 75.8 1881.... 66.0
1882.. .. 71. 5I1SS7.... 68.0
1883.... 67. 6 1888.... 71 0
1884.. .71.0 18X9.. ..74. 8
1885 67.0 1890.... 69.0
1886.. -.70.011891. ...70.8
Total deficiency in temperature during
the
mourn, u.uo
Total excess in temperature since January 1st,
1891, 11.9.
Prevailing direction of wind, westerly.
Total precipitation, 0.27; number of davson
Which .01 inch or more of precipitation fell, 1.
. TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOB TniS MONTH IN
1873
1874
1875.... 0.14
1876. .. .0.07
1877. :... 0.28
1878.... 0.08
1879... 0.31
1880.... 0.02
1881. ...0.11
1882.. ..0.12
1R83..
0 00118SS.
.0.29
.. T
-.0.06
1884... 0.41
18S9.
1885.... 0.10
I8S6....0.19
1887. .0.07
1890
1891.... 0.21
1892.... 0.27
Average precipitation for 1892, 0.16.
Total excess In precipitation during month,
O.lllnohcs.
Total deficiency in precipitation since January
1st. 1891, 8.49.
Number of cloudless days, 26; partly cloudy
days, 4; cloudy days, 1. ' -'
Note barometer reduced to sen level. T iudl
catcs trace of precipitation.
. SAMUEL. L. BROOKS,
Voluntary Signal Corps Observer.
THE AMTILOfE REGION.
Latest Information Through the Hplcy
Columns of the Herald.
, Last and this week were the hottest
experienced in the Antelope conntry
this season. Last Saturday the ther
mometer registered 101 in the shade.
Although July and August are the ex
tremely dull months of the year in this
country there is more business done here
right now than there is in most towns in
the busiest season.
Where drummers are to be found "in
abundance" there is where an "abund
ance of business" is transacted. Ante
lope has been ewnrming with drummers
all summer.
The demand in British Columbia for
Oregon mutton, has somewhat stimu
lated a great interett in this line
amongst stock commission denlers.
On Friday" last Frank Irvine became
very ill and tho Drs. Beers, who hap
pened to le passing through al the
time, were called in. It was discovered
to be an attack of pleurisy, and while
under the doctor's examination Mr. Ir
vine fainted away and remained uncon
scious for considerable time. . Finally
he was resuscitated and is now gradu
ally getting better. Mr. Irvine wroto
down for bis partner, E. M. Wingate,
who has been visiting bis relatives in
Tho Dalles for several weekb.
Seventeen years ago whilo Win. Hinkle
and JohnieClarno were bringing a bran
new freight wagon belonging to Mr. H.
over the John Day river on the ferry
boat run by Mr. Clarno, one of the
wheels came off tho wagon and sunk in
the river. The wheel was never dis
covered u u til last week when Johnnie
Clarno saw it sticking out of the water
about 200 yards below where it bad sunk.
The wheel, having always been under
and preserved by the water, was found
to be solid and sound as ever, with the
exception of a little wearing by
water. - .
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CASCADE LOCKS.
Some
Local Notes and Fertlncnt
Ke
marks by the Way.
Special to Tub Chbonicle. ' ' ..
Cascade Locks, August 8. This place
is very quiet since Uncle Samuel has
shut down on canal construction. All
the surplus men and hangers-on are off
duty: Speaking of the suspension, in
looking over the plant, everything is
cleaned np and stored away as neatly
and carefully as if the thing was put
away in its little ted, to go to sleep for
a long repose. In conversation with an
authority I leaan that those in charge
here are in' waiting for orders from the
engineer, who is in .waiting for orders
from headquarters. One cannot but be;
impressed with the. feeling that the
slumbering delays of the past are a
precedent for fears of a repetition of the
former fifteen years, which has wea
ried the jratienco of the Inland Empire.
.The contract clauso, as interpreted by
some, means wearisome years of fooling
and a lingering construction of the locks.
One thing most be corrected, which has
gone abroad through the press, and that
ie the charge of recutting stone. Only
in a few Instances has it been done and
that, was when a certain dimension
stone was needed to finish a certain
course which bad not been cut as di
rected. Your correspondent is not an
apologist for the engineer in charge if he
does give you the item.
The discovery of coal on Tanner creek
has resulted in running a tunnel in on
the vein nearly one hundred feet which
does not Bhow any great encouragement
to the discoverers however. The vein,,
is twenty-two inches thick, and does not
appear to be of much value in quality.
Tub Chbonicle of late had something
to say about The Dalles and Sandy
wagon road, which is impassible be
tween Hood River and Wythe. We Cas-
caders think Wasco county should see
that it ia put in a traveling condition.
And, since, the railroad company des
troyed it, they should be made to put it
in as good fix as they found it. We
have hopes that our new county judge
will look into the matter.
I ' There is a party of gcntlelnen from
j Portland in camp, a few miles from the
j river on Herman creek, where they are
! having a good time hunting and fishing,
j Messrs. Cram, Shontel, and Wm.
Michell are in camp near the railroad on
this stream.
The Misses Lang of The Dalles, are
tho guests of Lieut. Taylor of tho en
gineer corps, and are ctittparoned by
Mrs. A. L. Newman.
Messrs.' S. L. Brooks aud L.W. Hepp
ner, with their families, are in cauip at
a lovely spot opposite the Regulator
landing. They are delighted with the
Cascades as a summer resort and ex
press themselves as being surprised at
the idea of going to the sea coast when
this locality affords such attractions in
the way of magnificent scenery and
a cool, bracing atmosphere.
The steamers Dalles City and Regu
lator arrive' on railroad time. Tho
Dalles City arrives at the lower lockH
at 12 o'clock sharp every day, and the
Regulator at the upner locks at 10 a. m.
daily. Cash.
Judge Sbattucks Outing.
Telegram. Judge Shattuck is now
east revisiting the scenes of bis boyhood
away back in old Vermont, where forty
years ago he hunted, fished, trapped and
tramped. ' He la having a most enjoy
able time and will probably not return
until late during the present month.