The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-11-23
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g From Saturday Daily.
e These are the times which try men
u wood-piles.
The atmosphere is very much impregnatet
with ozone these mornings.
q MIR. Fl. Maier returned last evenin;
= from short visit to his old home in Iowa
t There was heavy frost this morning
s and the thermometer was down to freezing
point.
2 Mr.. J. ]. Eoff has erected four nice boxes
: in the Eureka restaurant, which will be
t used for families.
The board of trade at its meeting last
night had a full quorum. This Is a very
unusual event In the history OF The Dalles.
} These cool mornings lead the lovers of
sport to hope that snow will fall in sufficient
quantities this winter to use the toboggan
, slide.
Miss Tillie Hollister, who accompanied
her mothers remains to Iowa is now visit
Ing her uncle in Chicago, where she will re-
main during the winter.
The two "Hyers" will be put on the road
tomorrow, between Portland and Chicago.
The schedule time of arrival and departure
from The Dalles has not been given.
The Historian says: "Mr. Durbin, of
Salem, is 96 years old, and his good wife is
95. They settled in Oregon in 1874" The
old gentleman is active for one of so great
an age.
Mr.. w. H. Gray, who died in Portland
last Thursday, was one of the oldest pio.
neers of the state, and was an associate of
Rev. Marcus " hitman at Wailatpu. and of
Revs Spaul6ing and Walker at Ft. Lap
avail.
Bellevue (Iowa) Leader: Henry Maier, a
former Bellevue boy, but now popular and
prosperous merchant of The Dalles, Oregon,
Is here visiting his parents and many friends
who extend to him warm welcome after
his two years absence.
At the board of trade meeting last night,
a committee was appointed to await upon
our citizens and see what sum they would
be willing to give to purchase seed wheat
for the farmers In this county. Personal
notes will be taken, properly secured, on
one years time.
The remains of Mrs. Eliza Hollister
reached Bellevue, Iowa, on Saturday, Nov.
I'd, and the arrangements were perfected so
that the funeral took place at o'clock of
the same afternoon. She was buried beside
her late husband, and large concourse of
friends followed her to her last resting
place. Mrs. Hollister was we'll known In
Bellevue and highly respected.
This is the dog-gondest town on record,
says the Vale atlas. Last Monday night
some one took our rooster and one hen from
the roost. As the most likely strangers in
| town, Judge Olmsted and John Harris were
promptly accused; the judge claims to be
able to prove an alibi, but would hate to,
while John says he was falling down the
corral ladder about that time. Judge Court
ney, also here, is above suspicion, of course.
1t is a great source of thankfullness that
they overlooked Pete, the turkey, further
along the roost, and the pig in the annex.
Since Chas. Stubling and Jim Mcdonald
slaughtered the ducks and geese around
Blalocks the attention of our huntsmen
have been attracted in that direction. Ad.
Keller, of the Orc Fino, and Chas. Gilgard,
we learn, will leave in few days for the |
duck and goose grounds of the middle Co.
lumbla. Ad will take miltrailleuse with |
him, of late patent, which mol only allures |
game to their destruction, but is death to
all birds within firing distance. We believe |
in granting full privilege to sportsmen to
shoot wild game; but such wholesale slaugh- |
ter OF wild birds as was inaugurated by the |
Chas. Stubling and Jim Mcdonald crowd |
Ad Keller and Chas. Gilgard are about to |
perpetrate another terrible destruction
forest birds. Our game must be protected |
against such voraclous nimrods.
The Wallowa Signal says: "Judge Fee is
our ideal of judicial officer. Upon the
bench he knows neither friend nor foe; but |
meets every question from the legal and
judicial standpoint, aid disposes of it with.
out making political speech to the 'peo-
Pile or the taxpayer The only speech we
ever heard him make was when the grand
jury returned no indictment against Suther-
land for having compelled his child to
swear to a lie. He said: The court finds a
strange state of affairs in Wallowa county.
When a man is indicted and remains in the
county, the indictments are stolen. If he
leaves the undertakings are stolen. A
party will 60 before the grand jury and
swear to a statement, then come into court
and testify that the statement to the grand
jury was false, compelled by another through
threats and duress. And now the grand
FURY returns mot true bilP against the
man who used the threats and compelled
the false swearing. The court is not re-
sponsible for this state of affairs, but if the
people can stand it the court can.' We re-
gard this as blow at the grand jury sys-
tenn, which is rapidly becoming farce, and
at the still stranger fact that country vaults
and safes will not hold the county records"
The case of the State vs.. Williams and
others, which has been on trial in the cir
cult court for the last two or three days,
went to the jury last evening at about 5
o'clock. and a verdict was returned for the
State, in about as short q time as it took
the jury to write their verdict. This case
is one that requires more than a passing
notice. II is one of far-reaching import
ance, one that involves the question of
bread and butter to hundreds. 1t INVOLVES
the right of the people to catch salmon, or
other fish, in the waters of the Columbia
river, at places IN the river opposite land
owned by private parties. The court in
structed the jury that the Columbia river
was navigable stream, and as such be.
longed to the people of the state, that
the title to lands lying alohg the bank of
navIgable stream extends only to ordinary
high water mark and no farther. ALI with
in ordinary high water mark Is the prop
erty of the people and cannot be owned by
private parties. 1t follows, therefore, that
the public have an inalienab.e right to fish
anywhere, in the Columbia river, whether
opposite lands owned by private parties or
otherwise, and the right to anchor their
nets and land their boats anywhere on the
shore below ordinary high water mark.
From Mondays Daily.
Heavy frost this morning.
Scarlet fever is prevalent at Goldendale.