The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-08-06
From fridays Daily.

An effort is being made to strike artesian
| water in Klickitat county.
The Condor Globe ADVISES the residents
of that city to sink wells. =
Mr.. William Bruen, one of the solid farm
ers near Rockland, Is in town to-day.
The public tank at Condor is being sunk
lower, as it is apprehended the supply will
| fail
Mr.. j. B. Warner, of White Salmon,
WASH, was passenger on the Regulator
last evening.
The bills are becoming smoky from forest
| fires, and the atmosphere will not be clear
again until rain falls.
The tailest man IN the United States is
| Capt. Smith Cook, of Shelby county, Ky,
who measures feet inches.
By reason of the heavy wind blowing,
| the Regulator experienced some difficulty in
making the landing last evening.
There is very little movement in the
stockyards. Until harvest is through farm.
ers will haye little time to look alter horses
or cattle.
Mr.. Frank Gabel. of Wapinitia, is In the
city,. He informs Us that harvest Is In
operation in that vicinity, and croops are
good-much better than expected.
G. W. Phelps & Co., in their agricultural
warehouse, ara doing good business, and
hardly a day passes that one or more
wagons, buggies, harvesters, etc., are not
sold.
The Tygh grade is now finished, and is
one of the best roads in the county. II
furnishes an available means of getting to
MAJ ket to those who live south off Tygh
creek.
Plumbers Oregon Blood Purifier Is the
great conquerer Of bIiiousness and liver
complaint and malaria. Relief certain
IN every case. Sold at one dollar q
bottle. Uui1m
Wheat will not arrive in market before
September lst. and it Is expected large
quantities will be received at the ware
houses in this city hom Wasco and the
neighboring county of Klckrtat.
A young man by the name of L. E.
Stevenson was bound over to the grand
jury on the charge of obtaining goods under
Ialse pretenses, and also for. larceny by
bailee at Condor last Monday.
A drunken Indian was arrested by U. S.
Deputy Marshal Jsmison and lodged In the
city jail this afternoon. 1t Is very evident
that the law forbidding the sale of liquor to
indians is being constantly violated in this
immediate vicinity.
The Woods Bros. will remove their
butcher shop next Monday from the corner
Of Second and Court to the opposite side of
the street. where they will be pleased to
meet any and all of their old patrons. They
will keep on sale the best meats of all
kinds that can be found in the market.
Deputy United States Marshal Miller, of
Portland, arrived In the city this morning
from Arlinhton with two prisoners, bound
over to the United States district court TOR
selling liquor to Indians. They were placed
In our county jall, and will be taken to
Portland on the evening train.
There was no response to the anxious in
quiry of the reporter for items at the re-
corder's office to day, and the same fate await.
ed him at the clerks and sherlf's headquar-
ters. These repositories of news furnished
no ''copy," and In such an emergency the
Ubiquitous item fend was forced to 20 else
where.
There are twenty-five men at work on the
distIllery plant at Grant, and the buildings
will be completed at tn. earliest posslb Q
date. Already there are signs OF great ac-
rivity in the little town, and it may be ex-
pected that the advancement of maDufac-
turing interests will be OF great benefit to
the vicinity.
Auction sale at Klein's Auction House
Saturday, August 6. 1892, at 10 o'clock A.
NJ, consisting of brussels carpet, bed and
other lounges, easy, rocking and other
chairs. bureau and commodes, bedsteads,
spring ard other mattresses, stoves, lamps,
refrigerators, fruIt jars, etc. J. B. Cross. n,
Auctioneer.
Life Imprisonment in the Oregon state
penitentiary does not mean life by great
deal, if the prisoner has any desire to earn
marks of credit for good behavior. The
co 10 defines life sentence as follow: If
for the term of fifteen years any person that
has been sentenced to be Imprisoned COR
lite Is reported by the superintendent to
the governor to haye earned two.thirds OF