The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-08-13


IN voices, where soon shall roll human sea-
IL are heard.
,e After o'clock tomorrow evening the
festive salmon can ramble at leisure through
=, the limpid waters Of the Columbia, without
the least fear of being caught in fish whee
Ne or gill net, and its eyentful career beine
is brought to . sudden end.
z The cottage residence of Mr.. VIM Veg.
}, german Is now ready tor occupancy. It 10 q
> convenient building. Of neat architectural
design, and in every way much better than
4 the one that occupied the site before the
i conhagration Of last September.
!, The sewerage of the city should be care.
v fully overhauled these hot days, and every
4 break repaired. Sewer gas is not healthful
}. any season of the year, and during this
malarial weather it Is very urgent that every
dlsease-breeding cause should be removed.
: The Australian ballot law is an expensive
n luxury to put into operation, as shown by
l the warrants drawn for election purposes in
: Marion equity at the different terms oil
court. as follows: May, Sll95 so; June,
1 $3.50 AZ; July, 1927 80; December. S249. so.
II o: Weston & Bean have made pur.
chases of Umatilla county sheep to the
amount of some 5000 head, which will be
removed to their winter range in the Yak
INA country next November. Lately they
: bought 100 head from j. w. and Harold
Salisbury, and q band of 1900 from Suiste
Bros.
We have heard nothing this year about
Mt. Hood emitting smoke and flames.
What is the matter with the old mountain!
Is 1t weak and weary in its dotage, or have
the retailers of street news changed the
color and strength of their summer beYer-
age!
Glacier: The water troubles seem to be
increasing. the last being the stopping of
work by the Hood River Supply Co. by
Mr.. Winans, who forbade trespassing on
his lands, and now proceedings to get the
right of way will have to be commenced.
It is qnite probable. also. that there is
going to be trouble concerning Ditch creek
water before long.
Eagle: Bear is reported as having torn
the roof from the cabin in Greenhorn be.
longing to Jack Coyle, e. II. Lee and G. l..
| Williams, and carried away $50 pounds of
bacon. We are informed that o. Bureh
suffered likewise. They are reported quite
numerous in that locality Of the Greennorn
camp, this not beng the first depreciation
of the kind they have committed.
The Oregon Press Association will hold
the annual couvocation in The Dallee. be-
ginning Monday. September 26th. As these
pancil-pushers need ecreation, AID have the
meani Of making their qualification for
good treatment known, our citizens should
entertain them in generous mannsr. To
this end public meeting should be called
at an early date, 90 that preparations could
/ be made in time.
Salem Statesman: womsn from Union
county was committed to the insane asylum
here on Saturday, whose present attack
| was caused by reading the accounts OF the
trouble at Homestead. She went long
way ON home to find something to brood
over and 60 crazy over. No doubt she
could have found many things Of quite as
absorbing interest nearer home.
Mrs. Theo. Prinz and family returned
Sunday from few weeks visit at Bellevue.
Iowa. The lady was called there by the
sickness of her mother, Mrs. Tackman; but
she has recovered sufficiently to make the
| trip to Oregon with her daughter and grand
children, and is delighted with our climate
and surroundings. Mrs. Prnz does not
wish to live any place else than Oregon, and
| during her STAY in Iowa was yerv much dis
satisfied with that state.
Editor Hofer, of the Salem JoNrnal, has
been i'll for couple Of months, being unable
to write at all. Instead Of filling up with
editorials from the San Francisco papers he
| has used plate matter on ''Whispers about
Women" etc. This has troubled the Jour-
mails exchanges, and they have been show
| ing their interest 10 its business by poking
1t In its ribs. When Editor Hofer. who is
one of the most aggressive writers lin Ore
gon, gets home, some one will get . blood
vessel pricked with his trenchant pen.
Long Greek Eagle: One Of the richest gold
discoveries ever made in Eastern Oregon
-. (lliuo laIa l,ul laoI
CoyIe and B. II. Bennett. They have run
two tunnels in only short distance, when
assays were made, showing up STA ore In
the upper tunnel, and S2457 ore IN the
lower The figures were received IRON ore
taken from the ledge near the surface, and
ID quite likely that when greater develop
ments have been made, better grade Of ore
will be discovered.
Astoria Eran,iner: An interesting sight
presented itself yesterday at Grimes while
the tide was flooding. Eight large whales
were counted sporting around just outside
the surf, 50 near, in fact, that one could
almost cast stone out to where they were
playing about. Later in the evening two
mora monster whales were seen almost IN
the same spot. Sea lions are very numerous
around the beach now, and it Is a common
sight to see score of them sporting about
in the water near the surf. -
1t was in 1885, says the Salem Journal,
that the first wagon was vending It's weary
way across the desert wastes and mountain
businesses toward the lend Of the setting
sun. Dr. Marcus Whitman was bringing it
aud many hardships were encountered on
the way. At Fort Hall in 1886 the rear
wheels were taken off and with the axle
tied onto the front whsels, when the outfit
proceeded ss a cart. After Snake river
had been swan 1t was decided the wagon
could be taken no farther and it was conse-
quently left at point near where Boise
City now stands.
Salem Statesman: Mrs. R. Wait, of No.
II Court street, u Just now mourning the
loss Of her l7-year-old son. Omar, who left
home Wednesday morning on an errand and
has not been heard Of since. 1t is such an
unusuai thing for him TO "a from home for
any length of time, without Informing his
mother. that she is considerably worried as
to his whereabouts. As the circus wxs here
on Wednesday some think he left with it,
but Mrs. Wait thinks some accident has
happened TO him. Anyone knowing Of hIs
whereabouts will confer q favor by inform.
ing Mrs. Wait.
Andrew Carnegie was poor boy when he
arrived at Pittsburg with his parents from
Scotland and began life as telegraph mes
6euRcr. " ueu ne uhu b4V6u = utJlt money
he bought an interest in small fonndry.
and he made his first million by toe n.zau-
facture Of steel rails. To-day he is the
largest manufacturer of pig iron, steel rails
aud coke in the world. BE has q house on
5lst street, near Fifth avenue, New York,
residence in Pittsburg, summer house
In the south, highland castle in Scotland
and an English manor near the ASCOT race
track, where he 10 living at present. He
owns furnaces, mines, railroads and syn
dicate of Eughsh newspapers.
Gazette: Brakeman H. G. Wood, Of the
Heppner run, showed his nerve last Thurs-
day at lone by stopping a runaway. A
horse attached to cart occupied by two
ladies became frightened &C the tram and
started across the track. just ahead Of the
train, but the locomotive shut it out at the
crossing. 1t then ran alongside the train
until the forward end of the coach was OPP
posite the horse, when Mr.. Woods ieaped
from the platform Of the coach and seized
the halter strap and reins and brought the
horse to sudden halt and received the
thanks Of the much frightened ladies and
the passengers on the train. II the women
get to vote, Harry Will be sure OF any Office
in Morrow county.
Adia Argus: Twenty-Five years ago the
treaty conveying Alaska 70 the United
States was sigued. Russia thus transferring
all her possessions on the American conti-
nent to this Q. untry. The money consider-