The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-12-24

z sOcIatiun was hell III PEND On, Tuesday
An organ z .IIun was f cted by the eiectI0l
ui I n Crawford, oil Uuiou, president, ant
= A D. StiImau, secretary The a.socIatl0I
recommended that the sixth anh seventh
judicial districts be divided ieto districts a
| tOiiows: The sixth to consist of Umatiil'
: and Morrow cnuuties; the seventh to re-
a,aIn as now, except tnat Nor, ow county
| will be adhed to he sixth; the eighth Il
/, consist of Uaiou aud WaIlowa counties, anL
the ninth To consist of the counties OF Baker,
, Grant, Harvey and Malnrur This arrange
ment wou Il giv each district population
of abnut l6 600 A COMMITTEE as appoint
ed to irAtt au act to the above effect to be
presented to the legislature. They also rec.
UnnIen,iei that two terms OF the supreme
court be held iu PeDdletun, to run not less
than thee weeks each year.
From Fridays Da ly.
There is a great deal of q ,ating ice in the
rlver but 1t hal not closed up co the time
OF goiug to p ess.
Snow-shoveers, at Is cents an hour, had
Qui bonauZ To-day, aud had as good a
business as must wage earners.
There has been only one occup pant of the
city j,i for the last two days, and he was a
hobo and renamed ON y QUE night.
The passepyers n ho are SHOW bound man.
| age to pas away the time we'll as could
be expected under the circumstances.
Hou. L B. Cox, OF Pendleton, who has
been IN " a. hington CITY in attend ance on
tine q. s. supreme court, Is IN the city.
Hon j. b. Eidy, If P"rtland. is in the
city. He Is On the block sdei train, and
was Gu route to his home from PendietOn
The sidewalks were cleaned this morning
in many places. and wslking, If not convenl
| ent, was possible with some muscular exer-
ton.
The poor should not be forgotten during
| Chri- aud thuse less fortunate than
! Others should be remembered ou trees aud
III the dI-trlbut On Uf gifts.
| In tn. crop OF qlali killed at Ithaca,
Much. lOl p"lato bug were found. Fnls
seems to snow while quail on toast are good,
on potato bugs hey are tough.
Snow is heIng hauled away IN wagons
from the piles on the sides of the walks.
rhis will make room for more, which It Is
very probable will fall during the ncxs few
ua.s.
Weather prophets are very much puzzled
over this recent storm. Their ptogno-tica-
ti0ns did not prove correcr, aud the "b;au-
tiful snow" Came down without giving them
proper warning.
For the TOUR day. ending last night t ere
has been contIuuOu, tall Ut snow, and the
ground Is covered TO the depth OF shree feet
Slrighlug has been exc .iient IN the streets,
aud greatly eujoyea by the citizens
We acknowledge the receipt of an invita-
ton to the annual bail of the Gsruiao Sing
ing suc,ety Of this civ, to be gwen at HIn
ysle's nall. De-. 81, 1892 The grand
IN arch will take plsce al 8 o'clock
Tine snow on the ground and resting on
the Ieafless lin 0f trees, together with the
merry Jungle OF sieigh-bIIls, gives the ap
peara,ice of an old fasnione. CnrIst'nss, not |
witnessed in thus portion of The northwest
Tor many years.
Mr.. N .chols says last Tuesday, when he !
left Prinevlile there was no suoS on the |
grounai. AMI the irst that he met was at |
Bakeoven. Uudoubtediy the $40 IN of |
"Wednesday AMI yesterday reached that por-
ton OF the northwest.
We apprehend no serious loss of stock |
frop the severe wealth experienced during |
the past few days. Nearly all cattlemen
are we'll prepared with feed for any emer-
geDcy, and have enough TO last them during
inauy weeks Of winter.
The snow storm which we have expert
enced during this week has been general iu
almost every portion of th. northwest. o.
the SCUM travel b ~ beeu inpeded. and III
Seattle and Tacom. street cars have beeu
forced to stO,, their usual trlps.
The surveyors on the Paul Mohr portage
road are snO" bound IN u house near Win
a . ii Eery We are informed they out
of fuel, and Mr.. Thos. Gilmore, VINO lives
near Rock land. WASH. has undertaken to
suppl, their necessities in this regard
Mr. Mespie brought iuto the city to day
several boxes OF .''ladY apples, small,
beautiful variety wnicn are quite orna-
mental and have pleasant h.vor. He In.
forms Us that be picked twenty one boxes
OF these apples from single tree the l.st
season.
A q G,ldendale exchange says: Merril
Short Was arrested last Saturday on a
charge of cattle stealing. rne friends OF
the young IN n are fully CO WINGED Ut ms in
nocence and a vigorous defense will be ma e I
to establish it II necessary. We sin ;erely |
nupe that he will establish mis- Juno :euce.
A social dance at W eston Friday night is
8 iI,i to have been broken up by some goddess
person with malice IN his heart, who scat
tered cay eine pepper over the Hour, prior
to the festivities. When the dance began
eyer, one Was compelled to. stop Co sne. Il,
aud sudden end was put to the evenings
pleasure.
Hon. B F. N chol-, OF Crook county, ar
rived 10 the city last evening from Prime
vile He will take the first train for Walla
Walla, where h will visit his dau9
ars Winck er, for few days. apd then
proceed to St,ern In time for the meeting of
the leg stature. of which he Is member
from MS cUuutY.
A dispatch dated at Moscow. laho, Dec.
22.i, says: when the new president. Prot
destun, went to take charge of the WASH
ipgtou > ate agricu tural college at Pullman
the students refused to allow HIM 60 enter.
rotten eggIng him aud the. all left the c l.
iege. They say they want President Lilly
Trouble Is looked for.
The voice Of Christmases past may have
weird aud solemn sonnd TO many; but sor-
row ami sadness should be masked for one
iav, SO tnat all may feel joyful over al
event that angels Celebrated on the
plains OF Judea nearly nineteen huDdrrd
years ago. Christmas should be merry with
tine young aud old, the rich and poor, the
high and the low.
The Indians have given Agent Lynch, of
the Yakima reservation. 5000 for invest.
ment IN canals tor 'he Improvement OF their
lands. The Republic says: ''As near as
can be learned, the money Is to be put into
small canals taken from the main ditch of
the Sun yside company. Shich Is to be Cum
structed on the reservation, thev holding a
grant from the government for that pur.
pose"
Trains come through the city drawn by
two or three locomotives. Tne UuiUu Pa
cific is making every effort possible to keep
open with the outside word;
but the difficulties are almost insurmount-
able. The gorge of the Cascades is where
the storm king rules with the most despite
sway, aud he dar-s any interference. Com
with Portland will be very un.
Certain tor days, and perhaps Cor weeks.
The arrival aud departure OF trains are
very uncertain. No. from the east ar
rived here at about o'clock this morning.
aud backed up To the depot. No. 2, due
last night, has not arrived yet, ann is Dlock
AIDED. A freight train attempted to make
the thr ugh trip to Portland, but became
blocked near Mosier and could proceed na
farther. NJ g. west.bound, due at 4:05
was several hou,s late.
William Newly was hurt quite badly as
he was descending the Wailowa hill