The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-06-07

| 1861 he went TO Carlboo, traversing th
entire district as prospector and mine
sometimes on "grub stakes" and at other
ION his own hook''. Among other place
from which he got out "his pile'' wa
| Williams creek, and there, as elsewhere
| there was no one more willing 10 assist a
unfortunate "down on his luck", or
"tenderfoot" who was altogether out t
| his element. He was native of Corr
| wall, England, and though at first incline
| TO be bluff with strangers, was. whe
known discovered to be hearty and whole
| souled.
From Thursday Daily.
The election of 1890 is an event of th
past.
Mr.. j. E. Barnett, our next assessor, i
in the city.
Rev. G. B. Davis, of Wasco, gave us
call to-day.
Mr.. c. B. Upton, an attorney from Wall
Walla, is in the city.
The weather is becoming quite warm
Look out for high water.
The Daily Tribune, of Pendleton, has
suspended publication.
Mr.. Malcolm McInnis will leave on tn
afternoon train for Gray's Harbor.
Hon. j. E. Atwater returned this morn
ing from short visit to Sprague, Wash.
The state election is over, and the mex
excitement will be the municipal contest.
Mr.. E. M. Leslie, the sheriff. elect o.
Sherman county, gave US pleasant call to-
day.
Great credit is due onr street commission
er for the cleanly manner in which the
streets are kept.
Rev. w. c. Gray, formerly pastor of the
M. E. church in this city, came down from
Spokane Falls yesterday.
We are informed that crops in Sherman
county are needing rain very much. II
moisture falls within the next ten days d
good crop is assured.
The open-air concert at the corner OF
Second and " ashlngton last evening at
tracted large number of citizens. The
music discoursed was very excellent.
A very valuable young dog, the property
of Mr.. Fred Bronson, was found dead this
morning, undoubtedly from the effects of
poison. Such cowardIy act as to scatter
poison over our streets for animals to pick
up merits universal condemnation.
Among the new projects of woman re-.
form is one to arrange steeple.chases for the
ladies at Melton, at which ladies wearing
divided skirts will ride astride. A graceful
young lacy from America, and a fearless
rider, after the manner of men, has started
the idea.
''Mrs. Browning was far more of a poet
than MIR. Browning, writes Henry La
bouchere, land if it had not been that
number Of silly persons were desirous to
pass for clever people by pretending to un.
derstand the understandable in the case
of the husband, and that the wife was too
clear and poetlcal in her writings to have
gang of these esoteric worshippers around
her, this would have been recognized long
ago."
Sentinel: Mr.. J. W. Presby, who was tax
ing his large boat up to Pasco, had the
misfortune to get it wrecked when near Ar
lingtop. 1t struck a sunken rock and in a
few minutes was at the bottom of the
Columbia. Three or four men were ON
board at the time and all escaped safely.
Monuments have now been completed
oyer the burial places of the English, French
and Italian troops killed IN the Crimea dur.
ing the war of 1886. Russia's memorials
over her fallen soldiers on the same PLAINS
are on grander scale, as she still nolds the
East Ore9onian: On Sunday afternoon,
Charley Edwards, Of Portland, met with
rather an inconvenint accident while fishing
near Milton. In trying to land trout the
fish fell of and the hook few around catch
ing Mr.. Edwards in the proboscis and there
it stayed until he reached Walla Walla to
have it cut out
The latest news from Sherman county
concede the election of the Republican
ticket, with the exceptions of Hon. 9 NJ:
Scott, county Judge, Leslie, sheriff, and
tanned by Wasco for the next two years,
Wasco.
Mr. Frank Abernethy left this morning
for Burns in Harney county, where he will
make his future re idence. Mr.. Abernethy
has lived in The Dalles for the past thirtetn
wears, and during that time has made
large number of friends who extend to him
their best wishes for success in any under
taking.
East OreSonian: The station house at He
Tx was broken open and robbed the other
night, and box of tobacco, valued at S45,
stolen. 1t was at first supposed that the
universal scape goats, tramps, were guilty
of the burglary, but later it is thought,
from several suspicious circumstances, that
the robbery was committed by some one in
the neighborhood.
Franklin county, WASH, settlers have
formed an irrigation company and elected
officers. The object OF the company is to
build and maintain ditch for the purpose
of irrlgatIng lanfs and furnishing water
supply to the city of Pasco. The result
was left to vote of the citizens of Pasco
and not vote was cast against the enter
prlse.
The band last evening serenaded Mr.. J.
B. Crossen, the county clerk elect. The
boys discoursed several selections of music,
and Mr.. Crossen invited them into the
house, where bountIful rejection was
spread, of which all partook. After toasts
and speeches the party retired, all feeling
satisfied with their reception and voting it
one of the most enjoyable occasions OF the
season.
Walla Walla Union: The city and county
officers ere busily engaged in epdeavoring
to unrayel the mystery of how Mrs. Fra
zier, who lives on Sixth street, near Rose,
was robbed of $50 in iroad daylight on
Tuesday. The facts as told by the officers
are that Mrs. Frazier, in the presence of
several friends, wrapped the money up in
handkerchief, which she placed beneath her
pillow. Half an hour afterwards it was
discovered that the money was all gone,
though at no time had the room been de.
serted by any one, Just who took the
money isa knetty question.
When Geo. Francis Train passed through
this city on his return from lis trip around
the world, dispatch came to him, care of
Col. Sinnott. The colonel pencIled on the
back his congratulations to Tram on his
world-trip. and asked him if he recolleoted
the time, forty years ago, when salmon
were so plentiful that men walked across
the Columbia river on their backs This
morning an answer came from Train, SAYING
he we'll remembered the event, and also that
he would lecture if desirable. Among the
many mementoes that Col. Sinnott treasures
UP for the future will be this card frona; Geo.
Francis Train
Snohomish Eye: Three miles above the
city on tract of land owned by Ulmer
Stinson stands the largest tree in the state
Of Washington. It is a huge dead cedar
that has been followed out bYY fire and
broken off at the top, SO that it stands only
about go feet in fhe air. But its diameter
is % feet; in fact, it is mo.e than this at
the surface of the ground, for the writer
stepped ins de the trunk through the open.
ing made BY the fire and made nine three.