The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-07-23

The salmon season will continue only a
few days longer. and the run has not been
at all good.
Besides the residences in the burned DIS
trict erected this summer there have been
several built in other portions of the city.
The Dalles has witnessed more substantial
.rowth in the last few months than at any
period during her history.
Mr.. George M. Stiles, the druggist at
oyd & Shown's drug store, graduate of
the St. Louis school of pharmacy, has been
appointed on the staff of Lieutenant
Colonel Thompson, of the Third regimen t,
as first lieutenant and commIssary.
The Dalles is advantageously situated or
commerce and manufactures, and if our
business men were properly influenced
would be the leading city In the northwest.
Business grit is only necessary to make
this city the leading one of the Inland
Empire.
The editors of the state meet in this city
10 September and the citizens should give
them becoming welcome. We will have
ne opportunity of showing the superior
advantages of The Dalles as a commercial
and manufacturing city and the benefit
an open river would be to Eastern Oregon
and the Inland Empire.
1t is high time that our city council
should take some action regarding the erec-
5ion of an engine house, where there,wouid
ne a convenient rendezvous for the different
;ompanfes.. We have now an excellent fire
department and the city should at least
urnish some place where they could meet
and transact business.
AS young man by the name of English
was attempting to put a cartridge into
pistol, on the Flat, Saturday evening, it ex-
ploded aud the bullet going down through
his pocket IN which was half pound can
Of powder, set the powder on fire and flames
flashed up into his face, burning his eye
brows and eye lashes off aud came very
near burning his eyes out.
The Oalles is the metropolis of Eastern
Oregon. and should enjoy every faculty of
trade which nature has rendered Adaptable.
The opening of the river will make this an
assured fact, and when the work is COM
pleted this city will be the leading one east
of the Cascade mountains. Location and
advantages of trade make The Dalles the
metropolis of the inland empire and the
merchants should see that this is an estab.
lished fact.
Statesman: Down at the Willamette Val
ley FIGURING mill yesterday, while the water
was out of the race, an aged mud turtle was
captured. On his back were engraved the
following characters, ''R HI P P o
1879" What do these letters mean, and
who engraved them, and when and where
was it done? Probably the ''S P D" refers
to Salem neutrality-suspicious.. Maybe it
was the work of some prisoner who cap
tured the turtle in the race at the prison.
The two militia companies in this city
should be encouraged in proficiency of drill
and all accessories necessary for a soldier.
During the last few weeks the necessity has
been demonstrated of well.drilled mill
tary arm of the government, and our citi.
zens should lend every aid possible to make
the mllitiamen proficient in every detail
A good armory should be provided. and
some of the necessary expenses should be
betrayed by the citizens.
Talk about cranks. They have a suicide
club at Dallas, Texas. A few days ago at
Tillers, Ind, Allen Collins, presidnet Of the
club, committed suicide in response to the
customs of the club. His body was burned.
During the fiye hours the body burned, i'm
pressive ceremonies were enacted about the
blazing pile. When consuming flames
n,
ed together with reverential care and placed
IN an urn, on which loyIng hands had traced
in many hues pictures symbolic of the prin-
ciples which had once animated him. 1t was
written to friend named honora Jackson.
he asked that his body be saved from the
dissenting room and concluded: "Please
see that my body is turned over to the
WhItechapel club, and that the organIza-
ton iBcinerate it according to the custom
OF the boys, who have always been my
friends and well-wlshers. 1t Is growing
dark; minute more and all will be light
or eternal darkness. Good bve, old friend.
Salem Statesman: The census of 1890
b ws Oregon to have had at that time 6l,-
925 dwellings,, which is an increase of 100
per cent over 1880. In 1850 there were
only 2374 residences in the state, IL 277 in
1860, and 1892 In 1870. In 1890 the
average number of persons to the dwelli
was 5.07. In the same year there were
SO, 79l families and an average OF 4 90 per-
sons to the family. The size of the family
has decreased in ten years from %. In
this. connection 1t may be mentioned that
IN the United States the average number of
persons to family has steadily decreased
since 1850. The figures show that in the
newly settled western states and territories
the average size of family Is small at first,
but increases steadily as settlement go on.
The Statesman learns from the census b le-
tins that In Oregon there are 6343 dwell
ings inhabited by single person, and there
are nearly Thousand more houses In which
only two people live. There are more
dwellings with four persons in them than
anv other number, while there are 372 in
which the number exceeds twenty-Une.