The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-03-04
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From weanesday's Daily

Capt s. v. Short, of the Dalles City, L
visiting friends In the city.
Next Monday will be held the annua
school meeting for this district.
Snow has disappeared from the ylcinit,
of Mitchell, and flowers will soon be il
bloom.
Mrs. F. Sherman, wife of Capt. Sher-
man, left on the Regulator this morning t
visit friends IN Portland.
The news from Crook county is very
encouraging To hockowners, the loss dur
ing the winter months being very light.
Burglars and foot-pads are plying theil
vocation in Walla Walla, to the injury Of
citizens and the financial benefit Of police
courts.
The grand jury of Clatsop county has
found an indictment against John K
Rathon, editor of the Astorian. for crimi.
nal libel.
R. Edmundson was arrested yesterday
for selling liquor to Indians. He is in the
county jail awaiting examination before the
q. s. commissioner.
Mr.. Geo. McCulloch, occupies the posi-
ton of steward on the Regulator. He is
reported to give general satisfaction to
officers and passengers
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Portland, but the city physician, DIR.
Wheeler, says they are doing well, and
has no fears of the disease spreading.
There is no accounting for taste. A
woman married Chinaman in Connec-
ticut one DAY last week, and crinoiine will
be adoptet by ladies the coming summer.
In the north end of Crook county the
grass Is about an inch high, furnishing ex-
cellent sheep feed. Two weeks of warm
weather will make feed on the hills very
nutritious for focks.
When you cast bomb into crowd you
can tell who is hurt worst when the vel,
goes up. Free. one enlarged picture with
every dozen cabinet photos at HerrIn's gal.
lery over the posroffice.
Frank Ohlegscblager, the murderer of
William 81 Woodbridge, IN Portland, has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for
life, the jury having fousd him guilty of
murder in the second degree.
Mr.. A. Genres returned last night from
California, where lie has purchased as
complete plant for the manufacture of
soda as there is anywhere, and will soon.
begin making first-class article.
East Oregonian: j. +. Temple feels as
sured that there will be far crop of fruit,
except peaches, along the Umatilla river.
A careful examination leads to this belief.
Prunes and piums have been dam aged oaly ]
to tr.hing extent, and cherries, pears and
apples escaped injury.
A man named Carl Duncan, a residen,
of Spokane, lost leg Saturday night at
Mera, on the Short Line, east OF Nampa.
He was riding in a caboose and IN some
way fell out and was run over. The man
was taken to Caldwell, where an amputa
tion was performed. He Is being cared
for by the knights of Pythias.
Mrs. E. B. Cowau, Mrs G. Norton, Miss
Martha Cowan, Miss Mae Norton, Miss
Gaynor, Miss Alameda Zap, W. Z Cowan
and Edward Norton OF okaulockwa, Wash, |
were registered at the Umatilla House to-
day. They visited different parts of the
city during the afternoon. and appeared |
highly -peased with The Dalles and vi |
cinity.
We have received copy of sIdeala,"
romance of Iieallsm, by Chas. Grissen. of |
McMInyille. Greg n. We haye not had |
time to PEI use the poem carefully; but from
a cursory glance, the imagery approaches
grandeur, the subjects are well chosen, and
the verses are metrIcal. 1t will bear Sec
ond reading, which we shall deyote to it at
the first opportunity.
The average loss of stock in Gillian
county to dale, from the commencement
of winter, will not go over per cent, if
that much On the .Iohn Day river, at
the Clarno ranch, 900 head of cattle were
fed through The storm, and of this num-
Der not one died, except COW that was
hooked aud had to be shot. AT the same
ranch $4,000 sheep were fed, and but
twelve OF this number died.
One of the escapes from the Jail at
Huntington last FRIDAY was arrested Sun.
day morning near Express by Deputy
Sheriff Harmon and taken to Huntington
to await the ARRIVAL of an officer from
Boise City, Idaho, says the Baker City
Democrat. The fellow when arrested had
articles of merchandise in mis- possession
showing conclusiyeiy his guilt of the rob
berry of a store recently in Boise.
Erwin Taylor returned from Ellens-
burgh last Wednesday, where he had been
"camped" for the past two months as
witness in the bank robbery trial, says the
Antelope Herald. Erve was able, thror Oh
lbe kindness of the district attorney 10
get his witness fees before he came home,
amounting to over q hundred dollars, nut,
he says, that after paying his travelling
expenses, board bills and other neces.
saries, he is "out OF pocket"
Herald: Petitions will soon be circu-
lated in this section praying for an exten-
sion of the Grant Rutledge stage line on
to Antelope. Every man getting his mail
at this postoffice should sign the petition,
as the accomplishment of this move
would be an everlasting convenience to
them, as well as another boom for Ante
lope. Ii it meets with the success it merits,
daily stage will be spinning along be-
tween here and Grant before many weeks
roll by.
1t is reported that man named Swan
son, q former section boss at Eas land, [
three miles this side of Adams, took his !
departure for pastures new about the 2Oih / ,
of January last, leaving his wife and four
children in the section house without !
cent of money or any provision for their
support. Swanson is a drink ing man, and |
was on spree at the time he left His
vile lately received letter from him,
say ing that she could come and JOIN HIM
if she wished; but as he had deserted her c
four times previously she is not anxious
for reunion.
Statesman: Those who have looked UT
the new school laws give it as their opin- d
ION that things are left in decidedly bad J
way for the school districts in cities af- c
fected by the new law. The law is now IN c
effect and provides that some notice
SuOuiQ udtC fCCu SifCu WI T6DTudTy ISL, L
to make the assessment valid. Of course 5
this notice cannot now be gwen and there
is no possibility of making The assess '
ment by the time required. so there can {
be no levy tor school purposes this year, {
they say, which Will leave the districts
without funds or authority to contract IN
debtedness on bonds.
The editor of the Prineville Ne,cs is !
wII,and the following from his pen would {
be no disparagement to the genius oil Q
Mark Twain: "There is barn In Prime '
vile that leans away over towards Wig
glnses' with yearning sort of lean like |
a tired soul reaching for eternity. Some !
day when the wind blows hard and
town COW gets behind the barn for shell {
ter, she will think clam shell has shut | h
on her or that en overgrown cheesebox ;
has gathered her in. We don't know who II
owns the barn, but he or she. as the case '
may be, should give it new start in the ]
straight and narrow way"
The following bit of hnmor is from the 4
columns of the Prineville Ne1s: "The c
town COWS held convention on the flat
near the school house last Sunday after d
noon. Ex- Mayor Belknap's yellow COW
with black head presided, and 'Bossy
News acted as secretar, of the meeting
Solemn conclave was had until about a
p. NJ, when the convention adjourned,
alter adoption of the following: Resolved,
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