The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-03-11

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o day, and vegetation appear very much re-
vived.
|, Col. ]. B. Crossen, our genial county
: clerk, returned yesterday from a visit to the
: : metropolis.
. The salmon season will open in another
;. month, and fishermen are preparing for an
. | active season.
4 There are indications that telephone
e line will be in operation from The Dalles to
: Wamic during the summer.
The county court has granted four liquor
j licenses and the trea ,ury has been reim-
2 bursed to the amount of $500.
A light covering of snow on the neighbor-
ing hills indicates the fact that wanton win
ter still hngers In the lap of spring.
: Smallpox is in Portland and at Uanby
: An ounce of prevention is worth ponnd Of
cure. The children i'll the city should be
vaccInated
Grand Chancellor E. E. Sharon. K. of p,
will pay fraternal visit to Friendship
lodge, No. g. next Monday evening. A full
attendance of members is requested.
The stockyards of R. E. Saltmarshe & Co.
still play their usual activity, and day
does not pass that one or more carloads OF
cattle are not shipped to Portland or Sound
markets
The base ball season has now fairly be-
gnu, and our boys should get in and drill.
The Dalles can have as efficient nine as
there is in the northwest II the boys will
only try.
Mr. C. II. Southern, of Boyd, gave us
call to-day. He says farmers on the south
hiIlsides, in that vicinity IF Fifteen Mile
creek, are blowing; but snow still remain
on the north sides.
The building era has commenced In The
DalIes, and IN a fe w days may expect to
see several ge residences begun. Thi
year promises to be the most prosperous OF
| any for a long time in the history Of the.
city.
August Guinther IS organizing a crew of
expert sheep shearers in Sherman county,
says the Observer, and this week is making
arrangements with the sheepmen in the
] Bridge Creek and Cherry Creek sections to
| shear their flocks at an early date.
The K. of.P lodge in this city now num-
| bers over los members, and candidates are
beiug initiated into the different ranks every
meeting night. Friendship lodge No g. is
| king rapid strides after the banner at the
next meeting OF the grand lodge at Heppner
For several days there has not been an
occupant of the city Jail, and not single
arrest made bv the pulice officers for viola
tion of statutory provision or municipal
ordinance. The Dales undoubtedly enjoys
as m ch peace and quletude as any city in
| the northwest.
With the presence of smallpox in the
state, and the fear that cholera will prevail
this summer cities should be thoroughly
cleansed of all accumulations of filth and
debris. THIS is a good time for the common
council of The Dalles to enforce the ordi.
nance for cleaning backYards and alleys.
MILTON Eagle: The bill for the Weston
normal school provides that the buildings |
shall not be located within a mile and a |
half of any saloon or dlstillery. Wonder |
what Weston will do in the matter? This |
seems to be sort of fox-goose and corr |
roblem and will require considerable head |
Scratching to solve satisfactorily.
Baker City Democrat: Six lawyers were |
indicted by the last grand jury. None of |
them have been arraigned for trial. Some |
of the attorneys seem to be running Wild
Portland Welcome One or two discredIt-
able followers of Blackstone in Baker City |
had better mend their ways they will be
subjects of grand jury Investigation in the
near future.
Sentinel: Goldendale has some industries
she is proud of, and one of these is the flour
business. The past winter many car loads
of -four haye been shipped from this place.
During the past week the Goidendale Mil
ling Co., shipped one load to olympia, to
feed the members of the legislature and
another to Olex, small burg lying few
miles south of Arlington.
Messrs. Geo. JoIes, Isaac Joles, w. T.
Young and W. II. Drummond started last
Tuesday for Grant county, where they will
spend the summer working some placer
gold mines. which they discovered last
summer. They have made S. day with a
rocker and by carrying water in five gal
lou can. The prospects are excellent for
rich mines to be developed.
Mr.. Louis Klinger, of Dufur. gave US
pleasant call this morning. He and his
wife intend to start on their annual camp
lug tour about the lst of April, and will b
absent several weeks. HIS preparations for
these trips are very complete, and he
takes with him complete outfit, tent,
cooking utensils, grain for his hors, s, etc,
and Is at home wherever night overtakes (
him. X
AstoTiGD' There is a movement on foot to
have the mouth of the river represented at
the worlds fair. a local artist, MIR. Alfred !
Tee, has proposal to make a model. show
ing the mouth aud adjacent country. The
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complete representation of the Topographic
cal features for number of miles around,
inc uding Astoria and F.avel. 1t will be
about six feet square when completed.
A little after midnight this morning, says
the Portland Dispatch OF last Thursday. the =
knights of PythIas' hall at Mount Tabor =
Villa, six miles east, was destroyed by fire
The hall had been used in the early part of |
the night by the A. o. q. w. for social
dance, but the parry had broken up and !
everyone gone some time before the frewa !
discovered. The origin of the fire Is not
kn ,wn. Almost everything in the building
was destroyed
Portland Dispatch. 9th: At P. M. to-day
the funeral of w. NJ Gardner, who was un
doubtedly at the time of his death, yester- r
day, the oldest living Mason in the United :
States, having joined the order in Scotland
when 81 years of age took place. he was c
III his 9Sth year when be died. Mr.. Gard I
ner came here short time ago from Mis-
souri, The funeral ceremonies were con- J :.
Quoted by Portland, Harmony and Will
lamette lodges. I
Men seem bound to strike anyway. Here
is another cause told by the Re0ie,o: The r
employees OF the Roseburg & Coos bay rail- .
road struck the other day because Manager
Graham insisted on their taxing lunches
with them instead Of returning TO town
every day for dinner. They were imme-
diately given their time and paid off 1t is
thought that no serious trouble will occ
as the men had no other cause for com. I
plant. AMI are taking the matter very
quietly.
The Cleveland cabinet averages up pretty ;
well in avoirdupois. The combined weight :
Of the eight members is. according to the /,
most reliable data at hand, 1855 pounds, or :
an average OF 1913 pounds. Mr. Bissell is the =
heavyweight. tipping the beam at 325; =
Hoke SIN tn is the next heaviest with 225 :
pounds; Colonel Herbert, $50; Mr. Olney, .
I65; MIR. Carlisle. l60; Judge Gresham,
l60; MIR. Morton. l70, and Colonel Lamont. :
l5O The average weight of the previous :
cabinet was l65
The TIMES MoUNFAINEER has received I
from Bradstreet's small pamphlet giving c
list of the failures in business
during 1892 in the United States and Can
ada, and the causes producing the same.
To any one desirous OF studying the statis-
tics of the subject this will be ry inter- n
esting volume. In the United States the f
failures by reason of lack of capital heads :
the list, being 3343 out of 0,270, but it Is
to know that this is less num- VI
Der than during previous years. " 4
w. E. Fowler, of the First National, says