The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-02-25

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upon 1t. The soil is receiving full benefit
from the melting snow, and the crops next
season will testify of the good done by the
| storm.
| terday in the vicinity of AImota, says the
Lewiston Teller of the 10Th.
Mr.. A. P. Venen, the piano tuner, has SC
many orders to fill that he will be forced to
remain in the city for some days yet.
The Regulator was launched yesterday
about IL o'clock In the forenoon. She
gli1ed into the water like thing OF life.
The ice passed out of the river this fore
noon, and the Columbia is now free of OBJ
structlons until the placid waters reach the
Cascades.
Yesterday was the most agreeable of any
of the season, and was enjoyed by ladies
and gentlemen IN ticking long strolls through
our beantful suburbs.
After July l. 1894, the clerk of Wasco
county will receive $1,000 and the sheriff
$1,000. These offices will not be eagerly
sought after in the future.
Crook county CLAIMS to be especially ia.
vored bv light fall OF snow during the re-.
cent storm; but the loss of stock in portions
OF the country will be very heavy.
Eastern Oregon representatives express
themselves satisfied with the work of the
legislature, and would haye beea jubilant if
the portage railroad bill had passed.
D. S. Lamb who was brought from Kan.
sas on requisition, was arraIgned this
morniDg, and was given until tomorrow to
plead to the indictment for burglary.
Ssnator ]. A. Smith, of Sherman county,
arrived IN the city or the train to-day. He
WIS en- route to his home at Wasco, aud can
give good account of himself to his con.
stituents.
The people of Condor are feeling happy
over the prospect of railroad to their
town from point on the UnionIP Pacific, hut
the stakes have rot teen driven, nor the
survey made yet.
The little son of Mr.. Fiowerday. the pho
tographer, aged about years,died last Sat
urday, after being i'll several weeks. In
their sad afiiction the family have the sym
pathy Of friends in this community.
Hon. W.. W. Steiwer. of Fossil, passed
up the road yesterday. en- route from Salem.
He has made a good record tor himself in
the legislature, aud will receive welcome
fr m his constituency.
Several Umstila county farmers are still
holtIng grain harvested in 1891. One has
6000 bushels on hand. Au offer of 81 cents
per bushel was maze for the wheat after
the harvest of that year, and was declined
by the farmer, who believed that the price
would reach 81.
Rabbits are being killed by the wholesale
In crook county, as the following from the
Ochoco ReUieaC will demonstrates: A rabbit
hunt in the Rye Grass neighborhood last
week resulted 10 the determination OF over
300 rabbits. At this rate the county will
soon be bankrupt in paying the Ii cent
bounty per capita.
The relic hunters. Carlton Fault and Jas.
Chord. says the Baker Democrat. visited
the scene of the discovery of the remains OF
what was said to be an Indian on Rosebud
gulch, near the Virtue mine, yesterday. and
found after extensive digging that the re-
mains were those of mastodon, an animal
long since extinct
Hon. E. N Chandler returned from Salem
Saturday night, and was the recipient OF
many hearty compliments from our citizens.
He has proved himself an energetic, con-
scientious legislator, ami through his efforts
in the house WascC county remains intact.
The county never had a more faithful legis-
lator at Salem than Mr.. Chandler.
A shipment of building rock from the
quarry near Baker City will soon be made
to Salt Lake City to be tested for structural
purposes. Salt Lake visitors recently there
became favorably impressed with the stone
and are of the opinion that an extensive in
dustry can he created, and remunerative
one to the projectors.
Mr.. NJ. J. Anderson, Of Dufur, who has
held an important clerkship on one of the |
committees,in the legisl ,ture, returned Sat |
urday night He brought with him three |
pair of Mongolian pheasants, SIX pair CAL
ifornia quail and six pair Oregon mountain |
QUAIL. These he will turn loose on Fifteen |
Mile as soon as the weather will permit.
There is not enough gold to do the bust
ness of the country and pay our debts
abroad. A continuance of the present sys-
tenn means high-priced money and more
debts and mortgages. And in the meantime
the farmers products are following the
course of the hated white metal. 1t is not
strange that the people of our country are
osing sight of tariff reform and looking
after the real cause of their troubles.
East Oreqonian: There are five or six
scarlet fever cases in Pendleton, three of
them being in the family of DIR. E. f
Gnyon, whose wife and two children are
sufferers from the disease. The form is not
vIrulent, and the condition of none of the
patients is considered dangerous. Proper
care is being t,ken and there Is no proba-
bility of the disease becoming epidemic
There have been iso.ated cases for the past
year or two. however, and the contagion
should be entirely eradicated if possible.
Condor Globe: The chinook has at last
come out victorious, the stubborn snow and
CONCEALED elements having been yanquished
from the field. 1t has been an unusually
severe winter, but so far as we have learned,
there has been no loss OF stock. Stockmen
have learned fror bitter experience that 1t
is dangerous to face a winter without pre-
paring enough food to last at least two
months. Luckily this winter they were
fixed for it" The ground is thoroughly
,oobad and ali the farmara and afock mon