The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-29
From ThursdaY,s Daily.

shire and John Hertz.
From Thursdays Daily.
Mr.. F. W. Silvertooth, of Granite, is il
ths city to- day.
Mrs. C. NJ. Buiger arrived from Portland
yesterday on the midnight train.
Very many of our citizens are preparing
to visit the worlds fair, and, we under
stand, will take their departure for Chicago
next Saturday.
| Deputy Sheriff Phirman took Strom, the
rape tiend, to the Locks this morning Il
| nave his examination for the crime he is al
| legged to have committed.
Mr. w. Lord returned yesterday from a
visit to the seacoast. = HIS wife and
daughter. Mrs F Houghton are spending
the summer months at Ilwaco.
The Dalles base ball nine will play the
Goldendale club next Saturday at the latter
place. Our boys are well drilled in the
game and look forward to the contest as an
opportunity to win fresh laurels.
The Herald, Vol. I. No. l, Is on our ex-
change table 1t is published at Oregon
City. is an eight page paper, and is an Or
gan of the pulists. Ably edited and
neatly printed it should be a successful can
didate for public favor.
The man Strom, taken to the Locks this
morning, had his examination before Justice
Candiana, was held in the sum of $40. 900
bail to answer the crime before the next
grand jury, and was brought back thus
evening and lodged in Jail.
E. j Duncan was brought up from Cas-
cade Locks last night and lodged in the
county Jail. He was brought before Justice
Csndaua yesterday, at the Locks, and sent
TO jail for sixty DAYS for being drunk and
disorderly and contempt of court.
Coroner E EASTWOOD received dispatch
this afternoon from Celilo stating that there
was dead man on a car side tracked at
that place. The telegram said his death
was caused this morning bv the humping of
lumber ar in which he was concealed.
The coroner will leave in the morning and
hold an inquest.
An attachment suit was begun in the CIR
cult court of this county this morning by
the Buckheit P tcking Company of Astoria
against Winans Bros. of this county. The
amount named in the complaint is $3.50
The firm owns property in Hood RIVER and
fish wheels on the Washington side of the
river, opposite r ,cktield.
EXTENSIVE preparations are being made
for the reception and entertainment of the
Veteran Volunteer Firemen's association,
which convenes in this city on September
h. There is quite large membership in
the association. and the vote by " hIch the
coming convention was to be held in this
city was quite complimentary to The Dalles
Teachers should RENE ber that the
county insti ute be gins at Hood River next
Monday. l. Is delightful place to spend
part OF your vacation, and every day ana
every hoCr there will be crammed full Of
good things for the profession The teach
ers' examination wall follow Immediately
after the institute and be held at Hood
River this quarter.
An old miner named Brown was arrested
at b ker City on charge of insanity pre-
ferred by man named Taylor At his trial
it was discovered that the old man was as
sane as his accuser, if not considerably more
so, and the evidence went to show that the
charge was brought to get the old man out
of the way so that his valuable mining
claim could be secured more than foI any
thing else.
a nephew of the late Senator Leland
Stanford mas turned up iu Owyhee county,
Idaho. He has received notice that ne has
Inherited $l00 600 from his uncle. HIS
name is Leland Stanford. There is story
to the effect that he incurred his urcle's
displeasure some years ago by contracting a
marriage to which his family objected, and
that he has sin e maintained no communica-
tlon with his rich relatives
Times in Tacoma are said to be very dull
This was illustrated to-day by an insurance
man who tells the story of business man
remarking to several men congregated there,
that IT pole cat was to come into Tacoma
he couldn't ra Sc cent. An old Grrman
who heard 1t went home and told his wife
that he had j st heard the best thing out
A man had remarked that times were so
dull IN Tacoma that if pole cat was to go
there it couldn't raise dollar.
The Heppner Gazette says: The question
that is agitatIng some of the f.rmers of
Umatilla county at the present juncture of
affairs re: Will it be cheaper e. let our
crops stand or pay 80 or 40 per cent for
money with which 10 harvest them? The
Morrow county farmers are in no such
qu4ndary; they have ho crops to harvest,
and many a farmer over this way, who is
dancing attendance in the money len 'ers'
court, wouldn't mind being 10 the same fix
The Oregonian IN its description of the
arrest OF Rev u D. Ysylor, inadvertently
say in speaking of the North DsIIes scheme
that those 'who invested their money in
The Dalles lost 1t ALL" Since the sensation
last Friday afternoon our citizens are very
sensitive about being connected in any
manner with the boom on the north side of
the river In Washington and the Oregonia
should have said and undoubtedly intended
to say that the people who invested their
money in North DaLes-not in The D D.lles-
"iost 1t ali
"OId Man Scott" who has been serving
3 term In the penltentiary for the supposed
Killing OF his wife, has been pardoned; but
the feeling around his old home, in Yamhiil
county Is sucn that he will stay away fran
there tor his personal safety He was con-
victed on clrcum tantial evidence, and
doubts as to bis guilt have always been en-
tertamed, especially since the partial con-
fession of the wretch Wilson last summer
Scott was right when he said he ought to be |
rec, or else executed. He is now given
the ben fit of the dou t and is allowed to
20 Tree.
According to the S,lem Independent the /,
mop growers not having mouey available 10 |
harvest their crop have adopted the follow |
ng plan: 1.-The farmers are to issue bills OF
credit In the denomination of one dollar |
,ach, TO the eX ent OF one hundred dollars |
,r less according to their credit. These |
bills are to answer all the purposes of any |
Kind of money in the district in viii b they |
ire issued, and are redeemable at the hop |
of that district. To this exchange |
Ill hops are to be delivered, aud sold, and |
,ills call I'd in. and returned to the party is
uing them"
Two insane patients were received at the |
lsylum yesterday. One was Mrs. Matte
Aeaton. of Caleb, Grant county, who says |
The is pursued by two girls who intend to
l-stroy her. She is 80 years of age. Mrs
sophia Walllne, OF Marshtield, aged IA |
,eafs, has desire to burn everything about |
Ter anG threatens to strike and kill her |
'iece. She has been insane often during |
he past two years. Deputy Sheriff VIM. |
horeland, OF Portland, brought to this city, |
ays the Statesman, last evening, Fl. P. |
Metcalf. resident os Portland, aged go |
Iears, and placed him in the asylum for the \
insane.
From fridays Daily.
Mrs. Snipes is visiting her son, Mr.. Geo.
&. Snipes, of this city.