The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-09-09
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From Wednesdays Daily.

the CITY,.
The smoke is SO dense on the river tha
the majestic scenery on the banks of II
Columbia Is hid from view.
There not being quorum last nigl
the common council adjourned to met
tins evening at s O'Clock.
Messrs. Ed. Bergeron, A. Watt, job
Sullivan and Thos. Bladder, of the Cascad
Locks, are in the city to-day.
One drunk and disorderly tramp foun
his way into the city Jail last night, an
was interviewed by the city recorder thi
morning.
The Prineyille Nesos says that town i
not visited by tramps, and the people d
not suffer this afflicton because of thel
isolation.
The camp-meetlng services at Cascad
Locks have been discontinued, and tn
next place the Evangelists visit will b.
The Dalles.
Mr.. e. E. Bayard was elected, ,at the las
meeting of Friendship lodge, delegate II
the grand lodge X. or p, which meets il
Heppner next month.
Henry Deerhake was arrested in thi
city last Saturday tor robbery of sheer
camp in Crook county. He was taken Il
Prineville this morning by deputy
sheriff.
The services in the Christian church il
this city will continue every night this
week. Rev. McGuffey will preach the
sermon and Miss Moore conduct the sing
ing service.
The type made us say yesterday thai
the judges awarded the prize in the New
York test to the Oregon City team They
should have stated 10 the Vancouver team
which made the quickest time, 1:l2.
The boat was we'll loaded this morning
with returning f1remen, and u. it pulled
from the wharf cheer followed cheer from
our visitors for the citizens of The Dalles.
and the persons who had entertained
them during the session Of the associa-
ton.
The judges ON the hose tournament yes
terday and the day before were Geo. c.
Sears, of Portland; C. AIisky, Portland,
and j. FL. Worsley of this city. Tune
keepers were j. 0. Mack, OF this city, and
j. R. Trimbath, OF Oregon City.
The funeral of little Linn Cooper took
place yesterday afternoon from the resi-
dence of the parents IN this city, and the
remains were followed to their last rest
ing place b. large concourse of friends.
A large quantity of flowers was donated,
and the grave was nearly covered with
them.
The Dalles Lodge, No. 2, 1. o. q. T
will give an ice cream and literary socia-
BILE at Fraternity hall next Friday even
ing. An admission fee of twenty-five
cents will be charged, but no extra charge
for ice cream. A good programme OF
literary exercises has been prepared for
the occasion.
The remains of MIR. o. G. Stevens were
followed to their narrow cell Gin the Odd
Fellows cemetery this morning by the
members OF the order and friends OF the
family. He had been a sufferer for long
years, and only succumbed to the disease
after strong constitution had been un-
dermined by persistent attacks of an in
vidious enemy.
The Dalles may well feel proud of their
hose team. In both trials, the stralghta
way race and the New York test, they
excelled the others in running, and was
only surpassed IN the latter IN coupling
the hose. 1t is charged that the Van
ceuver team used fresh men to couple
and uncouple the hose, aud this was
great advantage.
A few people are still left outside the
pale of knowledge as 10 what constitutes
a ratio. A ratio of l6 TO 1 puts sixteen
times as much weight into silver dollar
as the gold dollar contains of gold. A
ratio of 20 to l would put enough mo
silver into the silver dollar to make the
silver twenty times as heavy as the gold
in the gold dollar.
Here is a chunk of bard sense from the
Portland Dispatch: ''A proper economy
IN everything is laudable at all times, but
there is such thing as carrying this vir-
tue too far. Times are hard, but to make
them still harder, stop all public i'm
provements, reduce wages to the lowest
rates, and then hoard up the money.
This will make hard times If nothing
else does"
Now that the firemen's tournament is
a thing of the past the next affair of in
terest that should attract the attention of
the citizens is the district fair that con-
venes in this city on Oct. 10TH Every
farmer or other person interested in the
development of the resources of Wasco
county should do everything possible to
make the fair success, and If they work
together this can be accomplished
1t is supposed that man by the name
of Lewis, residing on Lost creek, nine
miles above Mckenzie bridge, is lost in
the mountains or has wandered away,
says the eugene Guard. Parties who
went into his house Friday found his
dining table set as if for several days, but
nothing had been touched. Lewis is
bachelor, and is regarded as eccentric. A
party started Saturday IN search of the
missing man.
Mr.. L. e. Hattabaugh showed us yester-
day photograph taken OF the wrecked
steamer Annie Fdron, after the accident
had occurred, says the North Idaho Star
A person in viewing this picture does not
wonder at the fatality of the catastrophe,
but wonders how IN the world single
person aboard the fated craft ever escaped
with their life. 1t was literally blown TO
atoms from stem to stern, and those who
escaped uninjured surely had mircu-
lous escape.
Another cunning accident has happened
in Lane county. We copy the following
from the Guard: Last Saturday afternoon
Ernest Matthes, a l4-year- son of Mrs
Mary E. Matthes of Pleasant Hill precinct,
while returning home from a bird hunt,
carelessly, after getting over a fence,
grasped his shotgun by the muzze, and by
some means the gun was dIschar ed. the
contents of the barrel, consisting of No 7
shot, entering his right fore arm at the
wrist, badly shatterIng the bones and tear
ing away the soft tissues Doctors were
called and they think the arm can be saved.
Exchange: The silver bullion in the
treasury OF the United States is practically
nothing more than junk. 1t is held as a
basis on which certificates and treasury
notes are issued, and yet it is never DIS
turbed. The obligations based upon it are
paid in gold when presented, just as'if they
had been issued against gold and not the
silver in the treasury. And yet when gold
was offered for some of this helpless junk at
the treasury the other day. the offer was re.
fused ON the ground that the silver had to
be held for the payment of the paper is
sued upon 1t. In other words, the silver in
the treasury seems to be perfectly gooG a.
security SO long as there Is gold enough in
the treasury to pay the obligations issued
against that silver.
Last Monday morning Robert G. Uoch-
ran committed suicide at Brownsville by
shooting himself in the head with u 3S-
callber revolver. The deceased, who has
had bad health for some time, was men
tally depressed, and 1t is presumed he
contemplated suicide for number of
days past. A coroner's jury was sum
moned, who rendered verdict OF suicide
The deceased was we'll known and re-
spected, and was wealthy, influential
farmer 1t is supposed that his suicide
1yac caused nv mental denressiOn He