The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-04-29
From Wednesdays Daily.

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From Wednesdays Daily.
The Columbia is rising quite rapidly.
Fish wheels are catching few salmon
lncipally chinook.
To-day has been delightful-all that coul,
desired even In Eastern Oregon.
The pleasant weather has stimulates
enterprise IN different directions, and house
hre being repainted and new ones built.
Mr.. j. P. McInerny, who has been con-
fined to his house fer several days past by
severe attack of pneumonia, was able to b.
on the street 70 day.
Eastern tourists are making their annua
visit west, and yesterday party OF six per
sons were taken to the dalles to view thi'
narrow passage IL the river.
The increasing volume of water in the
Columbia river causes considerable high
water talk; but wait TIL the latter part O
June, and one can give more intelligent
opinion on the matter.
The following deed was fled with the
county clerk to-day: Shannon and
wife to Geo. W. Mccoy; right of way
through the sw or OF NV or, sec l9, tip :,
II east; 81 aud water rights.
A train of loaded dirt cars passed
the city this afternoon to fill IN the places
washed out near the Deschutes. The cloud
burst in that vicinity not only damaged
wagon roads, but played sad havoc with the
railroad track.
The East Oregonidn claims that the PEN
dIeton postofice twill become a second
class one and entitled to free delivery"
We believe the editor is mistaken in this,
for all second-class offices are not free de-
livery ones.
Mr.. Geo. P. Morgan is making township
maps for the assessor of this county. These
are divided into sections, and large enough
for the owner of each quarter to be written
thereon. They also show the revised bound
aries of the road and school districts.
An item is going the rounds OF the press
to the effect that Frank Hickey. arrested
tor the murder OF Col. Clayton in Arkansas.
was in Jail IN this city at the time the crime
was committed. This is a mistake. He
was working in restaurant in The Dalles
at the time.
A Linn county man had a horse that
slobbered so much as to excite the owners
disgust. He read an advertisement in an
eastern paper where man for a dollar
promised to send receipt that would
cure the horse of his annoying habit. He
sent for the receipt. which simply read
Teach your horse to spit"
Work has begun on the Christian
church on Court street, and several loads
of lumber and shingles have been hauled.
The foundation walls were built last sum-
mer, and the contractor will finish the
building as rapidly as possible. There
are very many of this denomination in
the city, and a place of worship is very
much needed.
And now on this 26th day Of April comes
Alexander McCartney-a native of New
Zealand and subject of her majest.. Queen
VIctoria-when the trees are leahng aud
the flowers in bloom and the birds singing
their songs in the forest glades, and under
oath declares his intention of becoming an
American citizen. May he live long and
prosper and always vote the Republican
ticket.
1t is estimated that $4,000 persons paid
fer admission to the worlds fair grounds
last Sunday. Inasmuch as the fair is not
yet open, the Sunday closing obligation
is not yet In force. The attendance served |
to illustrate what hardship the closing |
of the gates on Sunday is going TO be on
the vast majority of The poor people who |
can Ill afford a day off from their regular |
occupations.
Salem Statesman: Yesterday the state |
officers having in hand the matter of the |
pu chase of the Northwestern Stoye |
foundry at the state penitentiary consum-
mated the purchase of that plant from the
Northwestern Foundry Co The price paid
was $40, 600, the proprietors of the foundry
and the state officers having effected a COM
promise BY splitting the differ nee in the
amounts estimated by them as being fair
price for the foundry.
Two aborigines, with sufficient whisky
imblbed to make them quarrelsome, were
arrested yesterday afternoon a. the East
End IN very belligerent attitude, one of
them having in his possession very
savage looking knife, with which he
threatened to carve his antagonist. They
were taken to Jail and given quarters,
where, perhaps, this morning, they regret
having allowed Their angry passions to
overcome their better judgment.
The Union Pacific has contracted for the
coming season, says the La Grande Chronicle,
an item of expenditure in the shape of
$500, 600 ties, the cost of which will
amount to $1,000, 600, or forty cents each.
EXTENSIVE preparations are being made for
building branch lines to tap the main por-
tions now in operation west and northwest.
In different departments of the shops at
Omaha several thousand men are busy turn.
ing out material for new rolling stock. the
locomotive department has completed seven
unusually large engines, besides building
number OF new vestIbule cars, many of the
old ones are being run into the shops for
alteration and renovation.
Winter holds on with vengeance in
Northern Washington, and the following
from the WatervIlle IRdez will read like an
item from blIzzard-swept Dakota: about
four inches of heavy, wet snow once more
enyeloped Waterville and vicinity Thurs
dav morning. The ice is still servlceable
for mid-April skaters at the rink. Farmers
coming to town give the most jubilant re-
port of their prospects. Under the snow,
green grass and healthy grain shoots are
found to be growing, the pesky squirrel
emergeth from his hole hutto chill. starve
and die. Oh. what will the harvest b.?
1t may be depended upon, all conditions
give as urance of that. Just % weeks of
snow now. but we bide our time"
A skull, apparently of young or small I
person, was found Sunday by some boys
east of the fai ground. The place where
it was found has been thoroughly ex-
amined, and no other remains were dis
covered. There is small quantity of
dark hair still adherIng to the bones, and
hole in the back of the head similar to
one made by bullet. Fart of the front
teeth are missing, and the theory is that
these were knocked out as the ball passed
through. Conside; able excitepent has
been created by the discovery; but if a
tragedy has been enacted, 1t was COM
mitted so long ago that it would be al I
most impossible to ascertain the facts in
connection Herewith.
In regard to George P. Sears, cigar
dealer of Vancouver, Wash, whose friends
are much concerned about him because
nothing has been heard of him since he
took passage for San Francisco on the
steamer some time last month, it seems
that there is no need of any one wasting
much time worrying about him. Mr..
Henry Gerson, cigar dealer of Portland,
has direct information that Mr. Sears was
IN Los Angeles a week ago, and that he |
himself as much pleased with
the place. He was spending money freely,
and enjoying himself hugely, and asked
the person to whom he impaired this in
to take drink half dozen ,
times within an hour. 1t is quite evident |,
that nothing's the matter with George Z.
Sears, he's all right.
Colonel Mendel and MAJOR Hanbury, :
United States engineers, returned from :
the Cascades Monday evening, says the :
Oregonian, and Colonel Mendel left for !
San Francisco last night. The object of
their visit to the Locks was to note the
condition of things when turned over to