The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-12-16
From MONDAYS Daily.


Mrs. A j. Michel, of Columbus, Wash
is in the city.
Mr.. James A. Crossen. deputy county
clerk, has been confined to his room for a
few day past by severe cold.
The hills around the city on the north
and west have donned their wintry rament
and are now cold and forbidding in appear
ance
The Stuttz Dramatic company left on the
train last night Tor Heppner. where they
| will give performances for three nights, and
where they will be greeted by good houses
A preacher who came out west to Idaho
was shot dead by cowboy recently. Dur
ing revival meeting he turned suddenly
| ON the cowboy and asked him if he was pre-.
| pared to die.
State of Oregon ex rel, Lark and Lamb VS.
j. N. Moser ct al Is being tried to-day be-
fore HIS Honor Judge Bradshaw. This is a
case in which the boundaries of school dis
t'Ict No. s are in question.
Work OH Second street goes on very
briskly, and the mud is being removed, and
the places filled with crushed rock. 1t will
be rough for few days; but W II soon be
leveled down, and b. come hard and endur-
able.
There is delicate case pending in the
London courts A young woman who fell
and broke her leg while dancing at ball
has sued her partner for damages. She al.
leges that his excessive awkar mess was the
cause of the accident.
Snow is reported four or five feet deep on
the road across the mountains between this
valley and the Malheur country, says the
Canyon City NeWs A sheepman who
started across with his aocks had to turn
back, ana will no dou5t be compelled to
winter in our more genial climate.
Representative Hermann has been caught
for S65 by cashIug check for Frank M.
BurlIsop, young mau who presented a
letter from w. Fl. Jameson of Rose
burg. The letter was a forgery and the
check bogus. HermaHn had shown the
man much kindness before on the strength
of the recommendation of his friend jamie
son.
1t is stated, as result of the most care
full experience, that the cost of producing
hops in New York state is l3 to IA cents a
pound, while in the Pacific states they can
be raised at cents. With the freight less
than two cents to New York, shipments
from Oregon TO England of hops comp ting
with the German growers, has already be-
gun.
THIS from the Astoria Budget will be in
teresting reading for some OF our citizens:
Lots in some of the additions to Astoria
that sold two or three years ago from $50 TO
5000, wouldn't bring $40 to-day if they
were put up at auction. The man who
would buy them at that price would get
BADLY swindled.
Grass was never better on the hills at this
season of the year than it is at present, and
reports from all portions of Eastern Oregon
say that cattle are in excellent condition
Ii the severity of winter is experienced in
the next few weeks very little loss will be
experienced by focK-masters; tut If fine
weather continues until February, there
will be heavy loss of livestock.
Ochoco Review: John Templeton 90
home Monday from his duck hunt at Silver
Lake, disgusted with himself and with the
lake as hunting ground. He don't want
to go there any more. His companIons. the
Poindexter boys and Leslie VanderPco,
were not satisfied with the result of their
hunt on the lake and returned by way of
Upper Deschutes. They were expected
home last night.
Venison was obtainable IN the city this
week. says the La Grande Gazette, having
been sent in from the vicinity of Beaver
creek, where number of fine deer were re.
Gently killed. The snow in the mountains
has driven the deer from their summer
grounds, and quite number OF them have
been seen lately at no great distance from
the city. One hupter killed three on Rock
creek last week.
Last Sunday David Young, the old gen
tleman who has been a county charge for
the past twelve months, died at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Boyd In PripeYille, says the
ReuieD. Nothing Is known of the old gem
tleRan's history more than he was a Scotch
man by birth, and had followed sheep herd
ing in Eastern Oregon for number of years
past. He was suffering from paralysis, and
for nearly year had not been able to wait
on himself.
The report of Superintendent RoYland of
tine insane asylum for November, which was
filed Friday at the meeting of the trustees,
shows net gam of ten patients for the
month. Thirty-two were received during
the month, two OF whom were returned
escapes, fifteen were discharged as recovered
or improved, nine died and three eloped
The total number of patients Nov. Both was
90S, and the number of officers aud en-
pIoyes of TIE institution Just 100.
The other day, says the McMinnville
Telephone. Register. w. F. Delschnelder,
jeweler, missed several small diamonds
worth from SIS to $25 each. Diligent
search was made without avail. 1t was
finally concluded that the gems had been
dropped on the floor, and in sweeping had
been gathered up and thrown In the stove.
An old miner was hired and the winters
ashes were carefully panned out and all of
the gems were found, none the worse for
their baptism OF fire.
Albany Herald: Frazier Wallace, a
brother of T. L. Wallace Of this city, re-
Gently leased piece of hop land of the old
Maxwell farm in the SantIam bottom seven
miles east of Albany. The land grew hops
so well that he concluded to purchase
small tract in that vicinity, and found what
he thought would suit him in an adjoining
piece, but after diligert search could find no
owner. He then began searching the records
and discovered that it was government land.
and contained AZ acres of the richest land
IN the Santian bottom. He lost no time in