The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-11-18

and then thrown open to settlement. Com
missioners have already negotiated tn
purchase tor Sl65, 900, but congress has no
yet confirmed it by making the necessar
appropriation.
Invitations are out for social dance Il
be given by the Mignonette dancing cub al
Wingate's hail on the eve OF PennoYer'
Thanksgiving day, Wednesday, Nov. % 1
The best music will be engaged for the oc-
casion, and a very enjoyable time may b.
| expected.
Messrs. Nolan & Stats, running thresh
ing machine in the vicinity of Dufur since
the last harvest, have threshed 25,00C
bushels of gram; but fully one-half of this
amount was damaged by rain. They have
prln lpally operated in the vicinity oi
Dufur ana Nansene.
| The grand jury this morning returned
mot a true bill" IN the case of State of Or
| egon VS.. Richard Brookhouse and Frank
| Watkins, arrested and held for driving a
| horse off the range. In the case OF the
State of Oregon vs. Mel Kulp, for ass ult
and battery, the jury returned true bill.
The rock crusher is dong good work on
Union street. That, highway is nearly
cleared to the full width. and the roadbed
is better than it ever was. Ii the machine
is worked economically and eDergetically it
will be the means of improving the roads Of
the city and county to wonderful degree.
MIR. William Fl. Stats, of Dufur, Is in
town to- dav. He was the hero of a run
away yesterday coming down the hill this
side of Eight Mile. HIS animals became
frightened and he lost all control of them.
The wagon was turned over and badly
damaged; but the horses were unhurt, and
Mr.. Staats received slight bruises.
Tramrs must be very numerous in the
Willamette valley. This is the way they
visit towns, as cleaned from the Eugene
Guard: "About forty tramps got off the
freight train which arrived here at 3 o'clock
this afternoon. 1t would be good idea for
the city authorities to give EN- something
to eat and fire them out at once. 1t Is
cheaper than to hire extra watchmen."
Eggs are now being shipped from Iowa
to be sold IN Oregon markets in carload
lots. The hens of Iowa are doing their
duty and drawing gold dollars all the way
from Oregon to fill Hawkeye hen mems
pockets-hen men who know how to raise
and feed hens SO that they will lay when
eggs are gh The farmers of Oregon
should become hen men enough and at once
to stop this importation of Iowa eggs.
Saturday morning the body of Thomas
Bulwer, residing about two and a half
mil, east of Sumas, WASH, was found
buried in his root house. which had cav9d
in upon HIN. He had not been Sc n since
Thursday, and his neighbor, F. G. Lutz,
becoming curious to know the cause of his
went to his place and seeing |
the dilapidated condition of the root house,
procured assistance and dug until the body |
was found.
The clear surplus of the Chicago fair |
amounts to more than million dollars. II |
the country could have understood in time |
the wonderful merits 1t the show, the at
tendance would have been many millions |
greater. 1t is pity the million In cash |
could not be used to perpetuate the most |
striking features of the White City. There
is ready there for stroke of executive |
genius an enduring wonder of the world.
such thing of beauty as the fairy city of
the fair should be Joy forever.
At Pocatello. Idaho. an edict has gone
forth that hencsforth no married woman or
unmarried man shall be employed IN the
public schools as teacher, and the publ.
are trying to discover whether this action
s meant TO encourage or discourage matri-
mony, and secondly. what marriage has to
do with ability to teach. Tie plain infer
ence is that woman who don't know bet
Ter than to get married has no business try
ng to tell any body anything; while man
who has not persuasive powers to win
woman would never succeed in coaxing
cube root into the brain cells of Idaho
ouu2sters.
David Lucs OF John Day. met with a
nishap which came near proviag fatal. He
vas driving cattle on his ranch. and iu
unning after them 10 the brush suddenly
.ame upon a steep bank, 10 or Is feet high.
He was upable to check his hurse in time
md the animal lesped down the embank-
nent. The jolt which Luce received made
lin go sick that he was obliged to dis
Mount, and after lying dawn he was unable
o rise again. He lay on the wet ground
lbout an hour calling for help before he
vas heard, and when found he was ID an
,ntirely helpless condition. He is confined
o his bed with the extent of his internal
INJURIES still in doubt.
Hillsboro Independent. The way Cap
ain SIadden kills apple and plum tree
,orers Is to slack lime in barrel till white.
wash of desired consistency is obtained,
md then mix in blood from the slaughter
rouse until the lime is nicely Redeemed.
This he applies with brush to the lower
iuuk Of the tee, even to uncovering the
oots for few inches in the grount. The
luimal matter is poisonous to the vege-
able eating pests as a smallpox blanket to
wigwam of Indians. Several applications
# the dope will be required but the last
me need not be later than May. 1t is
probably that it is the animal matter in
whale oil soap that does the killing of those
praying mixtures of which it is an ipgrs-
lieDt.