The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-04-01
From Fridays Daily.
To-day is Good Friday.

To-day is Good Friday.
spring goods.
! Col J. b. Crossen left on the train this
morning for Portland.
Ice Cream, Cream Sodas, Soda Water,
etc., at Columbia Candy Factory.
Elk Gov. Moody was passenger for Sa-
| lem on the delayed train this mornIng
Mr.. ]. A. Gulllford, one of the pioneer
farmers of Fifteen Mile creek, is in town
to day.
Next Sunday will be Easter. and the diff
ferent churches will be properly decorated
| for this festival.
There was light furry of snow on the
| Klickitat hills last night. Wanton winter
still fingers, etc.
Mr.. d VanHorn, the piano tuner, is In
the city, and orders left at either OF the
music stores will receive prompt attention.
| Goods for the interior are arriving at the
warehouses, and these will be sent to their
! destination as soon as the roads are IN the
,ndition for frelghting.
There will be services at the Catholic
\church at Kingsley Saturday. April Sth, at
| s o'clock in the morning, and on Sunday,
ADrli Stn, at Lne usual muir.
| Whether crime is in an increasing condi-
ton in our nation or not, the fact tnat there
are over 100000 inmates of penitentiaries
and jails shows that mischief is not asleep.
The Moro Observer says that Judge Deadly
! ssded in Portland at the advanced age of
! eiqlsty-nine years." This makes the Judge
twenty years older than the date of his
birth would.
Mr.. G. Schmidt, at the Red Front gro
Gerry, has a very complete stock of goods,
consisting of everything needed in the
culinary department. His groceries are
fresh from the manufacturers and of tbe
best quality.
Grand Padisha Zaleuka 0ttoDanshe con-
ferred the Orient on several candidates,
in Fraternity hal, after the w orkmen closed
their meeting last night. The solemn and
impressive ceremonies were witnessed by
large number of princes of this degree.
Exchange: Every country editor IS
acquainted with the fellow who takes papers
as long as he can get them on credit and
then attempts to pay for them by writing on
postal card, ''Stop my paper" HIS mean
ness would make Judas Iscariot ashamed to
be in mis- company.
All old residents feel certain that the
June freshet will cause the Columbia to
overflow it's banks considerably. There is
sufficient snow in the mountains to cause as
high water as was IN 1876, and some expect
the mark spoken of by Mr. Crate IN 1874 to
be reached-the bluff south of the Methodist
church.
Mr.. Alex Mcdonald, direct from Scot
land, arrived in the city to-day. HIS brother
has farm on the Deschutes. and Alex
L., 1.o,t
make his home with us. We always extend
a welcome to Scotch thrift and industry.
and cannot have too many immigrants from
that country.
The west-bound passenger train did not
arrive in the city until halt-past o'clock
this morning. 1t was due at 4:l0 yester-
day afternoon, and No. i, due at 3:l0 this
morning, was abandoned to day. The delay
was caused by bridge heing washed out
east of Huntingdon, which it will take some
days to repair. 30
The large irrigation wheel put in by DR..
N G B!alock, at his extensive fruit farm
near Blalock station, has proved success.
The water was raised to an elevation OF 60
feet and then distributed by pipes. With
the current of the river running at the rate
of only 2A miles an hour. the wheel raised
l6S gallons of water per minute.
Mr.. Neil Mcleod, of Grant. came down
on the morning train He says the milling
and distilling company are running full
force of men, and are working their
machinery night and day. They have sunk
a well forty feet deep, and sixteen by forty
feet. This furnishes good supply of water
for distillIng purposes.
The careless handling of firearms is con-
stantly furnishing subjects for coroner's IN
quests, and the latest item of this kind
comes from Centralia, Wash, yesterday.
when Willie Winkler was killed by his
cousin. These boys were playing soldier,
nd in trying to extract a shell Wlnshes-
ter rifle was discharged, and young Wink
Ter was killed instantly.
At Hot Springs. near Tacoma, Ludwig A.
Klein, citizen of the latter place, COM
mitted suicide by jumping from bridge
into Green river yesterday He was taken
out before llfe was extinct, but he was ia.