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

1t is cloudy with all indications of rain.
The atmosphere is clear and invigorating.
Free lecture at this court house tonight.
Mr.. B. Kelsay, of Bakeoven, is in the
city.
The Columbia is receding to its low water
mark.
Mrs. Mollie Bulger is visiting her parents
on Eight Mile.
With good crops this fall Wasco county
will be all right.
All the clerks in the Office of the Union
Pacific in this city leave tonight for Albina.
Mr.. John Bird, brother of Judge Bird,
Is in the city visiting relatives and friends.
Mr.. James Baldwin, who has a place of
business on the nacadamized road to the
White House near Portland. is In the city.
Among the employees in the service of
Queen Victoria is the ''gueen's ratcatcher,"
who receives the modest remuneration of
ELS year for keeping the palace free of
vermln.
Joles Bros. have purchased the goods of
W. A. Mcfarland. and will remove to that
stand, corner Third and Washington streets,
op or about the lst of July. They will
always have on sale the choicest groceries,
provisions and canned goods.
Mr. Samuel P. Putnsm will deliver a
lecture this evening at the court house ON
the Demands of Liberalism" Mr.. Put
nam handles all sects and creeds without
gloves, and gives cold. ice-clad facts to his
heaI ers upon which they can cogitate.
Capt. H. Anlauf, our lndefatigable book
agent, is receiving subscriptions every day
for SIN Darkest Africa" written by Mr..
Stanley himself. This is true and concise
statement of the adventures of the great
explorer in the heart of Africa, an9 the pen
pictures are so vivid that one can almost
Imagine himself or herself taking q birds
eye view of Afrlcas sunny, CLINE.
A new scheme OF swlndling. A fellow
appears at the house of farmer several
miles from town, and showing samples of
cloth, tells the farmer what grand bargain
he can obtain in town on a certain day, and
by buying suit nice hat will be given
free. Ten dollars is advanced for a mein.
bershlp ticket of this syndicate, and that is
the last seen of the agent, the cloth, the
samples or the $40.
The settlers of Dawson county, Montana,
are much disturbed over atrocities COM
mitted recently by the few remaining bands
of Cheyenne Indians, and have called upon
the governor of that state for arms and am.
munition with which to protect life and
property. These Indians have been unlim
tied in their devious barbarity ever since
the world began and it is time they were
exterminated before they kill off all the un.
protected settlers of northeastern Montana.
In the matter we mentioned Yesterday
regarding Mr.. Cramer who had to pay
$l7. so costs in $3.50 bill, the facts are:
The sheriffs charges were So and the just
ices fee bill $5.85, making IN all So. S5, in
stead of $3.50. The trouble was the re.
suit of q misundersta nding of the intentions
intended to leave the city without settling
the bill. To see themselves safe the firm
attached the horse in transit, which was
simply business proceeding.
Lewiston Teller; Chief Joseph, we'll
known as tho leader of the Nez Perce war,
is and has been for some weeks on the reser-
walton at Lapwai. He is at present visit
ing at Kamai. Surveyor Briggs says that
Joseph is here by permit of the agent at the
Moses reservation and has a leaye for 60
days. He also carries letter of recon-
mendation from Gen. Gibbon stating that
the bearer, Chief Joseph, is we'll known to
the writer as man of integrity and hon.
esty; that he is free from treachery and
perfectly reliablei further, that he is his
friend. That is something of send-off
from man who, few years ago, hunted
Joseph through the ranges Of the Bitter
Roots as an enemy and outlaw.
W. w. Statesman; During the circus pro.
cession this afternoon Mrs. ]. w. Stearns
and infant child and Miss Nellie Prather
narrowly escaped serious injury. They
were proceeding down Main street IN sin-
gle buggy. Mrs. Stearns driving, when the
horse became frightened and suddenly
turned into Fourth street opposite the
Stine House. The buggy was nearly oyer
ground, one wheel passing over her body
but dong no serious injury. Miss Prather
had in the meantime grasped the lines and
stopped the fractious horse, when it was
found that the baby slipped from the grasp
of that young lady and was lying in the
bottom of the vehicle unhurt.
Vancouver Independent: Last Wednesday
afternoon shooting scrape occurred on 9th
street, in a house near Reserve street.
Three soldiers were walking on the street
when they heard the screams of woman in
the house, which does not bear very good
name for the inmates. Upon a repetition
of the screams they determined to go in
and see what was mp. They found Claude
Baker choking and whipping his vile.
They made Him desist, and Inaliy took
seats. After fay words Baker drew
revolver aud fired at one of tho men The
ball striking some silver coin in his pocket
glanced off without breaking the skin, but the
man was badly damaged for time from
the shock. Baker was arrested and jailed,
and held by the superior court to answer
for the murderous assault at the October
term of court.
Mr.. s. B. Ives. who was steamboat cap
tain on the Columbia river between The
tsai.es ana the upper Cascades IN 1862 and
1859, Is in the city. His recollections Of
early days are very vivid, and he has an
ipexhaustahle fund of information of pio.
nesr times. Strange as it may appear to
present citizens hespeaks of ':Jim" Condor
Aud .sTom" Condon-the Hon. J.. B. Con-
don and Prof. T. J. Condor of the state
university. Mr.. Ives navigated the Colum.
hia river when the Inland Empire was little
known, apd relates some thrilling exper-
,enoes of early days when every employe,
from captain to deckhand, kept his hand on
his revolver, to be ready In any emergency
for an attack from Indians. It is very in
tesesting ami instructive to meet with an
old pioneer like Capt. Ives and have talk
about pion ,er days.
The nun who srrested Mcintyre, the
murderer of Marshal Keller, was not Mr..
Peter 4 .fner,-as stated in yesterdays g
paper-bus Mr.. Emile Schults, sheriG Of
Wasco county. Mr. Schultz hasa splendid
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