The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1891-11-28
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Port Townsend Leader: Colonel Will L.
VIsscher Is lecturing on "The Seven Wise
Men" and the Portland Telegram wants to
know who are the other six. An explana-
tion is now in order, and the world is wait
ing to learn who are Colonel Visscher's six
associates in the ''wise men" business,
Idlewilde Lodge, No. 107, 1. o. .. F..
will give an entertainment Thursday
evening at Hood River. This lodge has
lately been instituted, and has a very
fair start to do good work for Odd Eel
lowship, and in this landaole object it
should receive the support of all who
love their fellow men.
There are three occupants in the city Jail,
who are not at all satisfied with the manner
of life. In the first place they are out of
tobacco, and this causes them great sorrow.
Again they have no spring mattresses on
which to sleep, and the corridor is not
lighted by electricity. II these things were
remedied, life TO them would be pleasant
dream, and it would make little difference
whether they were inside prison bars or not.
CORVALLIS Times. Every county in the
state will be compelled to purchase cleo
ton booths next June IN order to comply
with the recently adopted Australian
ballet law. In consequence the woods
are full of canvassers trying to make
contracts with the various county courts
in Oregon. Some of the booths are offered
at exorbitsnt prices and it will be we'll
for the various officials to be cautious in
making their purchases.
Very many visitors, not knowing the
country tributary TO this city, are surprised
at the amount of business done at this
point; but when they visit the warehouses
and realize that The Dalles is the market
for a radius of country several hundred
miles in extent, and that wool and wheat In
Eastern Oregon has its most available
market here they understand our capabili-
titles and are willing to give us the credit of
being the great market for productions of
all kinds in the Inland Empire.
Albany Herald: Boats are running again
on the upper river and their number will be
increased Immediately. 1t is the intention
of the Oregon Pacific company to run to
Harrisburg, forty miles beyond Corvallis,
after little time, but as yet the channel
needs some improvement, or greater depth
of water. The warehouses of the Oregon
Pacific along the river are packed to over
flowing, while good deal of grain is going
to San Francisco from the Willamette yal.
ley. The steamers, Three Sisters and the
Hodg, will probably be put on the upper
river just as soon as the rush in the lower
river traffic is over.
S. S. Fndicott has this week presented US
with a sample of fine sorghum. 1t was
from the sugar cane raised by
DIR. ii. A. Davis as an experiment, says the
Courier. The syrup is some-
thing extra fine. It is of rich amber color,
yet so clear and clean that when placed in
a glass jar you can read new enterprise
with Mr.. Davis, but to see it is to conclude
that it will be success. The doctor has
Quite a patch OF cane, and though it was
planted nearly two months later than 1t
should have been, he will get not less than
l50 gallons of syrup. He will next year
put IN several acres, which is evident proof
that he is confident it will be satisfactory
A single track railroad is to be built from
Seattle to Tacoma, which 1t is said is ulti-
mately to be extended to Portland. Many
advantages are claimed for such road.
There cannot possibly be any spreading of
rails and the machinery to operate the road
is comparatively light. The locomotive is
kept from topping over on either side by
an overhead guiding beam. Among the ad-
vantages claimed for the system are speed
and economy in transportation with reduced
cost OF construction and great saving in
the expense of grading and land damages;
a large saying in friction in rounding curves.
by the substitution of bicycle splndles for
ordinary car wheel axles; greater safety
and a greater saving in the cost of fuel. All
these things and much more are claimed for
the road.
Colone. D. K. Allen, editor of the Ari-
zona Sentinel, civil engineer, was CON-
missioned by the Mexican government to
make survey in lower California, and
with party OF sixteen men in four. boats
left Yuma September 18th. Reaching
Lake Mejor, sulphur mountain rising
$50 feet in pure yellow stood before
them. Near by were thousands of acres
of alum deposit and vast bed of pure
nitre. At Lake Jululee the waters, which
were once salt, were found to be fresh,
and the area, once five miles long and
half mile wide, was expanded to twen-
ty-fve miles long and twenty wide, the
work of an earthquake. The "lske Of
ink'' is body of water covered by iron
and sulpur. Near the. banks 1t is ten
feet deep with temperature of ITO de-
yrees. The water is oily to the touch, to
he taste hot, salty and bitter. 1t does
not discolor the skin. A few yards north
ire several springs of boiling water, from
TWO of which flow large streams as white
IS milk, so colored by lime in solution.