The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-04-02
From Mondays Daily.

Mr.. Chas. Tom, OF Grant. is in town to.
day.
Hon. ). D. Lee, of East Portland, is in
tine city.
Mrs. P. E. Michel arrived in the city
yesterday from Columbus, Wash.
Mr.. A. l.. Peter. Of Seattle, WASH, is in
the city, visiting his sisters, the milliners.
The soil in Eastern Oregon is in better
condition for crops than it has been for a
number of J ears past.
Last Saturday Mr.. Geo. Ruch, the county
treasurer, paid into the state treasury $l0,-
| 2S9. so, part payment of the state tax.
Rey. A. G. Spencer, of the Methodist
church in this city, will leave on the east.
bound train this evening for Pennsylvania.
Three attachments were filed in the
clerks Office to-day on the goods of Wolf
Lake, at Cascade Locks, aggregatIng over
$4,000.
Mr.. E. II. Graham, arrived from Prime.
vile yesterday, will leave tomorrow for
Flagstaff, Arizona, to visit his parents, MIR.
and Mrs. r. Graham.
Notwithstanding the excitement conse.
quent upon the county convention, there
was a clean record In the recorders office
to-day, and consequently that official was
happy.
The delegates to the; state convention
from Sherman county are II. s. McDanel,
A. D. Mcdonald and F. Kelsay; from Gil.
liam, w. w. Steiwer.J. P. Lucas, = Royal,
A. A. Jayne.
A light frost covered the ground this
morning; but we learn from parties who
arrived from Mill creek to-day that tEis
will not injure the fruit crop, and the prod
uct this year will be unprecedented.
The little town of Arlington has bright
prospects for the future. Being contiguous
to come of the best lands In Gillian county,
1T will be the shipping point for wool and
wheat, and this will infuse life into business
of all kinds
The east. bound passenger train, due here
at midnight, did not arrive until o'clock
this morning. This delay was caused by
landslide near Shell Rock. The train from
the west, due in this city at 1920 P. M, did
not arrive until 1:20-one hour late.
In addition to the proceedings Of the Re-
publican county convention published In
our issue of Saturday, resolutions were
passed endorsing Hon. W. K. Ellis, for
. member of congress in second congressional
district, and Hon.. W. H. Wilson for dis
trict attorney.
Corvallis Gazette: D. R. N. Blackburn, of
Albany, has been mentioned by several Re-
publican papers as a candidate for the office
of supreme judge Mr.. Blackburn is well
known as a lawyer of ability and integrity
and if nominated would certainly make .
trong candidate.
Dayton Herald: The charge brought
against Prof. Lowe for kissing female pupils
was Investigated Monday evening before a
large number of the patrons and pupils of
the school. 1t was unanimously voted TO
exonerate Mr.. Lowe of the charge, the ac-
cusor voting as others did.
The nominations at the Republican con-
vention last Saturday at Condor, Gillian
L. Goodrich; clerk. J. P. Lucas; sheriff, r.
M. johnson; treasurer, NJ. Halstead; school
superintendent, W. w. Kennedy. The
other names oh the ticket we could not
learn.
Mr.. Ed. Burkhardt, manager of the
American Dressed Meat Co., Troutdale, was
in the city yesterday, and purchased 1914
sheep and six carloads of cattle. For sheep
5 cents a pound was paid, and these will
average 100 pounds each. These were
shipped from r. E. Saltmarshe & Co., in
this city.
On the high trestle over Mill creek the
passenger train ran into cow this morn
ing, and the animal was so thoroughly de-
molished that it would have been difficult
to have picked up the pieces. 1t is strange
that no serious accident happened to the
train, and it is fortunate that the cars were
not derailed.
Condor cor Fossil journal: Deputy Sher-
IF Joe Anthony returned Wednesday from
Idaho. bringing as his prisoner the redoubt-
able John Scott. Scott was bound over to
appear before the graLd jury last fall, in the
sum of 500. but skipped his bonds. He Is
charged with stealing several articles from
Pine creek sheep cabin.
A couple of years ago "keep your eye on
Pasco' was familiar to all. Now 1t is a
chestnut, and people generally think there
is nothing lett there. But there is at least |
a newspaper, as the following gasps from |
the Headlight will prove: 'Pasco is all |
right; it's you're liver that's out OF joint. |
If a man could subsist on climate alone