The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-07-30
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
This weather is very uncomfortably hot
Farmers are busilY harvesting in Sherman
county.
Mr.. W. Henrichs, the assessor of Sher-
man county, is in the city to-day.
In some portions of Sherman county
wheat will harvest 20 bushels to the acre.
Mr.. ). F. Hawortb, printer in this city,
cut the index finger of his left hand yester-
day in paper cutter.
Mrs E. B. Mlchell and daughter Maude
left on the afternoon train yesterday ON a
short visit to Portland.
Sheriff E M. Leslie, of Sherman county,
came in town on the night train. He says
the crops are turning out much better than
expected.
Mr.. Truman Butler left this morning for
Portland. He will assume the position. OF
purser on the Daltes City. when she again
enters tbe trade.
MIR. Vivian French, who has been spend.
ing his vacation with his parents in this
city, left this morning for Berkeley college,
to pursue his studies in that institution.
S. J. Pearson, a workman On the govern
ment jetty near Fort Stevens. was drowned,
while swimming near Snag Island last FRI
day. He was unmarried and aged about 30
years.
There are cooling breezes on the ocean
beach. That is the consolation an editor
receives while laboriously grinding out
'copy" in The Dalles with the thermometer
in the pineties.
John j. Moyhahan, superintendent Of the
Gem mine, located about three miles from
Wallace, in the Ceur d'Alene country, has
removed with his family to Portland, and
Is residing at No. 245 Fifth street. Mr..
Mcyhaban incurred the enmity Of the
miners union during tine early part of the
present strike and was compelled to fly
from the country to save his life. His
story Of the hardships he endured while
making his escape reads like novel.
The census OF 1890 shows Oregon to
have had at that time 81, 925 dwellings,
which is an increase of 100 per cent over
1880. In 1850 there were only 2.374 rest
dences in the state. II 277 in 1860 ID 49,
372 in 1870. In 1890 tue average nnmher
of persons to the dwelling was ) o. IL
the same year there were So 79l families
anu al dNeEdRS vi TO- pcieObs W tfic latliip
The size of the family has decreased in ten
years from 5 %.
Heppner Gazette: On Saturday T. Browns
boy, Harry, Of Black Horse, was thrown
from his horse. The animal kicked at him,
striking him 10 the shoulder, fracturing the
arm bone and severely bruising the shoulder
lint. He was found IN this condition by
Ell. Sailing who was on his way to Hepp.
ner. He. took the boy home, and coming
into town, summoned the physician. Dr.
Gagen was called to set the limb, and he is
getting along as we'll as could be expected.
Nicholas A. Freeman and his brother-in-
law, John Austin, went bird.shooting soath
of Corvallis. The men were careless, and
as Austin fired at "a bird Freeman stepped
in front OF him and received the whole
charge of shot in his back between the belt
and the shoulders, except few pellets, one
of which went through the lobe of his ear
and two more lodged in the back of his
head. The surgeon was more than, an hour
in removing shot. As 1t TURKS cut, tho ac-
cident Is not serions, though quite painful
Vim. Turnbow was committed to the in
sane asylum at Salem this morning, by a
lunatico ioquireado CO vened by his honor,
Judge Blakeley, with DIR. Shackleford, as
examining physician. The unfortunate man
has lived hermit-like existence about three
miles from The Dalles for number of years.
His family has all left him, aud loneliness
no doubt preyed upon his mind until he be-
came demeuted. He imagines somebody
was murdered near his lonely habitation,
and the people are trying to make hlm the
criminal. MIR. Turnbow is 81 years old, has
a wife living somewhere. and several chill
dren, neither of whom are now with hini.
A cloud burst up the Natchez last Satur
day night might have been We disastrous
to the big Selah ditch, had it not been for
the foresight of the oldest sen OF John A.
Stone. Mfr. Stone was in Yakima when
the storm came up, but the boy knew what
to do. Saddling the horse in the rain anj
darkness, he road to the headgate. closed
it. and returned down the Glitch, opening all
the waste gates as he came. The result
was that when the cloud burst came. the
ditch was completely dry and no great
damage was done. Had the boy not been
so much of q man, says the Yakima RepH6
lie. Mr.. Stone might have counted his dam
age in the snm Of $4,000.
A BOISE dispatch of July q says: An
incident which has just come to light here
will probably lead to an Investigation Of
one George Hunters right to receive favors
a. the hands of the federal government
During the Nez Perces Indian war. which
ragged IN Idaho during the year 1877, the
man Hunter was captain of company OF
volunteers. One of his lieutenants was a
bright young fellow named Eugene Wilson.
Hunter was hard man to serve, and he and
hrs subordinate officers frequently INDUCED
IN bitter quarfels. One day he savagely
attacked Wilson, who had to shoot at him
to preserve his life. The bullet from his
pistol entered one of Hunters arms, not
doing much damage. and the captain
speedily recovered. Now, however, as a
reward for this serious wound, received
upon the field of battle, Hunter Is an at
tache of the pension Office at Washington,
drawing monthly salary of $77.
Grover Moore, ! year. old boy at Klam-
ath Falls, says Peter the Poets Star, 1t
from his pony on Saturday morning and flew
to his mo hers arms with bleat as joyful
as that of long.lost lammIe just returned
to his mammie. He was the Pladdest kid
IN klamath inst then. Friday morning
while out shunting with his l9 year old
BROTHER, he fell behind and couldn't get to
the front any more. He wandered hitter
and thither on the back Of his pony, his
heart growing more and more dismal as he
rode farther and farther into the gloomy
forest shade of the mountains. He rode
around the edges of precipices so narrow
that the searching parties had to dismount
and travel afoot. spd so deep that a fall
would haye blended both boy and pony In
hr,r al of he oI