The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-06-28
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From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Wool is being sold to-day for l9a CEN
The Columbia is slowly receding to
usual low stage.
Saltmarshe shipped carload of cattle
East Portland last night.
A boat loaded with lumber is anchored
the beach at the foot of Court street.
Pasco will give moonlight excursion
Priest rapids and return on July Sd and At
Hon. J. E. Atwater returned this NOR
ing from attending court in Sprague an
Spokane Falls.
The city is thronged with wool buyer
and sellers, who can be seen at every war
house and hotel.
Gospel temperance meeting at Y's ha
next Sunday at 4 o'clock P. NJ. Everybod
invited to attend.
Mrs. Isabella A. Clarke, of Kamloops, B
C, is visiting her daughter. Mrs. Fanny F
MacEachern, in this city.
The police courts have not been busy fo
some time, and marshal and recorder hav
the greatest effort to skill time.
The East End saloon is improving the in
terror very much, and when finished it viii
have very beautiful appearance.
The corn-doctor gave an open.air per
formance with his trained rats last night t.
large crowd at the corner of Second ant
Court streets.
Historian: Joseph Christopher was kill.G
at Stanley, Pacific county, Wash, a few
days ago while working TN a pile driver,
falling pile striking HIM on the back anG
crushing him to death.
The census enumerators are not yet
through with their work, and almost every
hour OF the day one can see these tireless
people with their books under their arms
hunting up stray inhabitants.
Mr.. A. E. Burton, of Henderson. Gowen
& Burton, of Seattle, is in the city. He
will sell some choice lots at auction to-
morrow evening and the following day in
the metropolis Of Washington.
An old soldier and Mississippi river
steamboat man, named George Kiger, who
came to Oregon from Illinois some years
ago, was found dead in the water closet of
q Salem saloon last Thursday He died
from apoplexy, superinduced by excessive
strong drink.
II. Menefee & Sons have filled the mill,
formerly used by The Dalles LAUNDERING
Co., with agricultural implements of all
kinds and varieties. They have splendid
assortment. and our farmers would do we'll
if they desire machinery to give them a call.
A shoe factory at New Canaan, Conn,
has just made pair of shoes for q Char.
lotte, N. G. man. They are the biggest
ones ever made. The size is No. 80. Each
shoe is 20 inches long and eight inches wide
The man who is to wear them is clergy.
man, feet 10 inches tall and weighs 40
pounds.
East Oregonian: Two small boys went
into baggage car near the depot the other
day and commenced tooling with the mes
senger's gun. The gun was loaded, and
exploded while in the hands of Clark Wat
son, one of the youngsters, whose face was
blackened by the powder. Two frightened
boys crept out of the car and slid tor home.
The train did not stop as it passed by the
+. Umatilla House this morning, and this was
a great disappoIntmnt to some who were
waiting to meet friends. II TINS is to be
the run-directly through the city to the
little passenger depot-and no comfortable
place to wait for delayed trains it will be
grtat Inconvenience to our people.
Mr.. C. L. Richmond hired saddle horse
to man last Friday morning, and few
hours afterward the man came back and
said the horse had got away from him.
This morning the horse was found few
miles from the city tangled in the brush
without having anything to eat for four
days. The horse was brought to town and
fed, which he appreciated very much.
East Oregonian: Constable E. E. Gates, of
Union, had charge of an insane unfortunate
named Joseph Kisozky ON this mornings
west bound train. Kisozky IS beset with
the hallucination that some one is pursuing
him to kill him, and during his insane at.
tacks, it is said, will run like the wind to
escape hls imaginary pursuer. He has ra-
tional intervals, however, and it is hoped
will recover.
Pasco Headlight: In answer to telegram
sent to Cokedale, Mont, respecting the
disposition of the remains of Joseph Brantz,
the man who shot himself last Friday,
Sheriff Parkinson was instructed to have
the body inferred here, and this was &C.
cordingly done. The Cokedale parties are
remarkably reticent regarding the antece.
dents of their fellow townsman, and furnish
no clue whatever to the cause which promp.
ted the man to commit the rash act.
The newly-elected board Of directors of
the Oregon Railway & Navigation Com.
papy elected the following board OF officers:
Edmund Smith, president; D. P. Thomp-
SOD, first vice president; w. 81. Holcomb,
SECOND vice president; w. W. Cotton, Sec
retary; Oliver w. Mink. comptroller; Jas.
G.. Hardie, treasurer; Charles F. Holcomb,
local treasurer; w, w. Cotton, general at.
torney of the Union Trust Company of New
York transfer agent. u
Journal: A cheerful pioneer has lust
passed away at Eddyville. He was the
founder of the town, which consists of two
houses, his own cabin and postoffice. For
years this strange man slept every night in
bin own coffin and there he died. He had
also performed the task of selecting his own
burial spot, and if he had had time ne
would have dug his own grave. He now
sleeps in his coffin day and night. have
not been alb Q to learn whether he belonged I
to the order of the Trapplst monks or not,
but he certainly deserves to be enrolled
among their membership.
Oregonian: A 5-yeir-old son of Robert
Richardson, of Albina, found a watery
grave yesterday afternoon in one of the
sloughs in the lower end of that town. Iu
company with four or five boys, the little
fellow was playing on raft. He unfortu-
nately lost his balance ana fell into the
water. At the time the wind was blowing
quite hard, and carried the raft away from
the boy vino was struggling in the water
The other boys were badly frightened and
gave the alarm. The water was deep, and
nothing could be done to save the poor little
fellow. Efforts were made at once to re-
coyer the body, but up to q late hour In the
afternoon the search was fruItless. The
boy was drowned at the same place where
the son of DR.. Fisher lost his life about two
years ago.
Eugene Register: In an interview with
Geo. W. Hubbard, the hop buyer, Monday,
we learn that there is quite an increase in
the acreage of hops in Oregon and Washing
ton this year. He thinks Oregon will pro-
duce about 1000 bales more this year than
last. The outlook for good price this
year is favorable at present. He states that
he will contract for limited number of
bales now at l31 cents pound the price
He said growers should take great pains in
drying their hops if they want to get the
highest price. Oregon now has the reputa-
ton of shipping to market the best cured
hops of any state in the union. MIR. Hub.
bard sent several samples to Europe last
year and they were reported the best from
America. At the price offered now there Is
good profit in hop raising and it will pay all
to take good care of their yards.
Sehome Gazette: In an interview with
Myron Stockwell, who liyes in school dis
trict No. IS, located at the upper end of the
formed that the residents of that part of the
COUNTY are sguatters and have no title
whatever to tile land upon yhlch they live.
ss It is yet gnsuryeyed, yet besides clearing
their farms and constructing roads, they
have lately built a log school house lOx3O