The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-15
From EIidaY'a Daily.

> From fridays Daily.
! Mr.. Arthur Kennedy, of the Arlington
$ Record, is in the city.
Mr.. c. l.. McAlpine, of Bristol, England
is registered at the Umatilla House.
, The Columbia river is rising slowly; bu
the waters have spent their fury this year
! A row among the demi.monde in this city
last night replenished the treasury to the
amount of $40 this morning.
Mr.. J. P. McInerny has purchased the
) celebrated race mare Ruby. This is fine
, aulmal. aud is hard to be beat on the turf
: An iuebriated individual found him self N
J jail last night for violation of city ordi-
nance, and this morning was fined by the
} recorder. He gave a pledge in lieu of
money, and was discharged from custody.
Miss Maggie Roberts, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Cnas. Roberts, arrived from PEN
deton Tuesday. where she was graduated
from the academy, and left on the boat
| Wednesday to visit her parents at Hood
River.
The meeting of the horticulturists to-
morrow afternoon is one of great import
ance, and full attendance OF all persons
interested is requested. There will be mat
ters of vital interest to all fruit growers
discussed.
On account of low water in the William.
ette the Oregon Pacific boats will discon-
tinue the service between Portland and
Corvallis on the 10th inst. The Hodg will
| leave Portland on her last trip for the sea
| son on to morrow morning.
| Washington has a forestarea of SO, ,5SS,.
| 5l2 acres with standing timber amounting
rn 4l3 333 345. 900 feet, valued at S269, SOL
| 329, more than all the state east of the
| r ,cky mountains. THIS valuation is based
on Is cents PER 1000 feet stumppge. L.
Minnesota the value Is 50 Sc per 1000.
We receiye special telegram to-day from
o j. Gale, at Spokane. as follows: "The
| fourth big silver meeting will b, held here
| Saturday night. Idaho's senator, Hon
| Willis Sweet, will speak there before leav
| ing for congress Three hundred names are
on the roster of our bi metallic club"
The clerks office was quiet to-day, and
| the item -gatherer reaped no harvest in max
| ing notes of deeds, marriage licenses or
other matters of public records. He re-
ceived a princely welcome from the en-
plopes, but his questions met with no res
ponse. How can these things be, and the
republic still prosper.
Eugene Register: A female tramp was put
off the sound bound overland tram at this
place Sunday night. she had been beating
her way this far. She went into the wait.
ing room az the depot and pulled off her
shoes and ran around barefooted for awhile,
and to all appearance is not in her right
mind. She says she came from Chicago.
Her manner indicated it.
The Salem Statesman says that at the
Sal-m BuliIng aud LJan Association meet
Ipu SD000 at Of ruanths Gdll lat
rs The one at I26 months interest IN ad
vance was the high water mark for this as
sociation since its Organization four years
ago the first of next November. THere Is
some demand for fifth series of stock, and
this will probably be issued before long.
The following notice appears at the heal
of the local columns of the Grant Dispatch:
"Papers exchanging with the Grant Dis
patch needn't do so any more, as said paper
will he hereafter dead" 1t is the intentl n
OF Bro. Brooks 10 remove his plant to his
old home in the Willamette valley, which
he considers more healthful for newspapers
than the bunchgrass region of Eastern Ore
gou.
The report of Superintendent Downing,
Of the Oregon state penitentiary. for the
quarter ending June 80. has been filed with
the secretary of state. 1t shows the mum
Der of convicts IN the institution to be 364
gain of one during the quarter. Earnings
of the penitentIary during that period were
So 092 80, of which $500 was for board of
Uuied States prisoner, 81, 523 O4 tor con
vict labor furnished the foundry, S42 for
rent of cottage, S. 35 for old iron and rags
The expenses foot up $40, 652.
Mr. S. G. Thurman says yesterday even
ing about ha f-past 5 o'clock, while sitting
on his scow in the river above town, he heard
crash against the sides of the craft and
saw sail fall into the water. He imme
diatelv ran to the edge of the scow and was
just in time to pull Mr.. Hall on board, who
| II sailing his boat over the river had col
lided with the stationery craft and cap
sized. In minute more he would have
been thrown into the water, and the cur
rert being swift it would have been difficult
for him to have swami
Exchange: A prominent clergyman in
Boston needed an errand boy, so he adver-
tised in the want column. One reply read
this way: 81 seen you advertise for boy.
l am one. can do things as you want'em,
and can hustle. Most folks al t got no use
for boy betes hel how hard times is. 1
want the job. Joe White" This rather
preston Of many letters this one held his
attention; it pulled on both his curiosity
and sympathy, and he took to the boys
frank and original way of putting it. Joe"
got the job.
The newspaper business in Astoria is full
Of interest. The Budget SAYS: It is getting
to he fashionable to go up Salt river. 1t is
SAID that the poor old Historian is preparing
for the Journey. She has been on the ragged
edge for long time, and mortgages hav,
undermined her constitution and hungry
creditors have SO long gnawed at her vItals
that she is frail and almost ready 20 totter
oyer into the boneyard where lie bleaching
the bones OF the AdUocGe, independent
Gdte,Day Herald. Pioneer. Transcript Co.
tumbidn, the hobo sheet. Bulletin, Stipping
List. aud the fresh and odlous carcass OF the
defuDct Eraminer, which died of starvation
and an overdose of gall on the liver.
Arlington Record: The editor of this pa
per met with quite mIshap last Saturday
On his return from Cleveland. where he had
been attending to some legal business, he
met team on the grade coming down
Wood GuIch. He picked out place where
the team could pass and stopped his horse.
When the team came up his horse took
fright and with a snort and sudden Jump
started down the mountain, running his
best. Soon the buggy turned over, throw
log the occupant about twenty fest on the
rocks, i6ficting very painful bruises 1t Is
hard to tell which is the worst wreck, the
driver or the buggy. new buggy can be
bought for money, but 1t would be hard tca
replace tie editor.
A hobo this morning entered the house of
one of the residents on Fourth street, dur
ing few moments absence of the person,
and on her return she saw him going throu h
the alley with jar in his hand. She fol
lowed him aud he dropped 1t into barrel.
On examinat alton IL was found to be a jar of
fruit from her pantry. The alarm was
gwen and the marshal overhauled him near
the railroad bridge and lodged him in Jail.
He was making good time leaving the city
when the marshal overlook him, but being
on horseback he soon made him halt and
turn mis- footsteps toward town. He was
taken hefore Recorder Dufur, and found
guilty OF larceny and fined $l0 in default
of which he was committed to Jail.
It's no more than we might nave ex-
pected. Citizens of Tacoma have put up
lob and measured and remeasured Mount
Raicoma, until they now declare that this
great mountain sentinel, the pride of Ia.
coma and Seattle, and the whole state. Is
actually l5,006 feet high Mount Whitney,
IN the Sierra Nevada mountains in Cali
fornla, has held first place as the highest
mountain in th United States, it beng a..
S9S feet high Mount Shasta is IA, 442 feet
high. Pixies Peak is IA, 1856 feet high.
Mount Raicoma has for years been rated at
IA, 444 feet high. Something had to be
dnaa 70 ra;sa Tho fnuraa eveu if the Lake