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

From Thursdays Daily.
Mrs. A. Bennett and children are viSltin
her parents In Dayton, Wash.
There were 375 pupils enrolled in tn
public schools of this city on the first day 0
the term.
The Columbia Packing Co., shipped
number of cattle this morning to the Cas-
cade Locks on the boat.
The west bound tram due in this city a
$3.50 A. NJ, did not arrive until 6:45. /
| burned bridge near Grant caused the delay
| Mrs. A. Macleod and children, who hav,
been visiting friends in this city for few
| days past, returned to Portland this morn
| ing.
| Wheat is being received at Moody's ware
| house in good lots daily. The price quoted
| is 45 cents bushel for No. l, and the
\ quality is very much better than last year
Salem Independents Tuesday the Oregon
| Fruit and Produce company Ioa ed a car o
line Oregon pears and plums, destined fol-
| Chicago. The fruit presented handsome
| appearance.
Mr.. Allen Grant. formerly a sheep king
of Antelope, Is III the city He says since
the Cleveland administration has been in.
augurated he desires to have nothing to do
with sheep or wool.
We received call this morning from Mr..
Thos. M. Roberts, VIII arrived in this city
from Colfax this morning, and will leave for
Eugene tomorrow, where he has accepted a
jOsItion as tutor in the state university.
Between IS and 100 Warm Spring In.
dians with about 200 head of panIes and an
innumerable lot of dogs. arrived here to-
day, says the Eugene Guard. They will
go to Harrisburg with the expectation of
picking hops for DR.. Davis.
The rock crusher lately received by the
city, was tested on the Brewery hill Yester-
day, and it chewed up the rocks fed TO it IN
a snrprising manner. There is no necessity
for this machine to go hungry for meal in
the suburbs of The DalIes
Rain fell copiously yesterday afternoon
and last night, and this morning the atmos-
phere Is very clear of smoke and has It's
usual brightness. The rain may have done
some damage to. hay and grain not stacked;
but no great injury is expected.
There Is g man down in Lincoln county,
Oregon, who has discovergd method/5y
which he can graft asparagus on to the big
fern that grows in the country. He has .
brother who has taken up lot of aband.
oned tunnels which he calculates to work
up into sections and sell for post holes.
Charles Hungate, who has several thou
sand acres of wheat on the Umatilla reser-
vat;on, is IN the midst of harvesting. He
had a combined binder and thresher at
work, which cut and threshed 500 acres the
frat IA days. 1t is drawn by 26 horses,
cuts, threshes, sacks and sows the grain as
1t passes along. The yield is not heavy,
but the quality is excellent.
A sad case of destitution was discovered
at Astoria recently. The wife and family
of George Baker, a fisherman, who is at
present at one of the coast canneries, were
found in almost starving condition. The
two little children, both girls, are very ill,
the youngest being in dying condition.
The wants of the family were quickly re-
lleved, and the father was telegraphed for
The sermon last evening at the Christian
church by Rev. P. Ii. McGuffey was a prac.
tical, forcIble discourse on the importance
OF sowing the seed of the harvest we expect
to reap. We cannot sow wrath and garner
harvest of love, and the same is true Of
all the carnal elements of our nature There
the preacher gave several Illustrations of
this part of his subject.
Some of Our business men canvassed the
city to-day for subscriptions to make ferri-
age, from Washington to this city, free to
wheat haulers, and are meeting with great
encouragement. The Dalles is the best
grain market in the interior, and if Klcki-
tat farmers are not charged ferriage without
ID ~ h. l.,ll -
tion of Washington will be sold here.
This was true last year, and we may expect
the same this season.
Our readers are at liberty to believe the
following from the Roseburg Plaindealer.
We don't. "Oregon is great country for
sportsmen, but it IS not every day IN the
week that deer can be killed from a car
platform. Ed. Laugh. a brakeman on the
Southern Pacific does it occasionally how
ever, as relief from the monotony OF too
vigorous twisting brakes, and one morning
last week, while going through Cow creek
canyon, killed three of the beautiful
creatures with his little gun."
+. Albany Democrat: Ora Copeland of To-
ledo, Lincoln county, has Just returned
from his third annual seal hunt in the
northwest waters. His trip of four months
netted him just 81 ;604 This is considered
a big haul for a boy only 20 years old His
Is year-old brother. Gene, who went along
as cook, stopped in Japan, where he will
spend the winter, as will Dan Hurley, an
other young man who was on the ship
This was his first trip and his returns for
his efforts among the seals was $500. The
three intend to go again next year.
A party of fifty or sixty Warm Spring
lndlans passed through the city to day,
with all their earthly possessions, consisting
of ponies and babies, bound for Klickltat
county. We presume they will work In the
hop fields OF Yakima county, and, before
returning, will gather supply OF huckle-
berries. When they again reach their ilLahe
they will be bountifulIy supplied with pro-
Visions for winter, and it will make little
difference whether the purchase clause of
the Sherman act is repealed or whether the
factories in the United States still remain
idle.
The Long Creek Eagle has received word
from the Elk creek mines of Sloan & Has
kell of the finding of 1915 nugget in their
digging last week. The beautiful specimen
Is absolutely free from quartz, and is by far
the largest nugget that has been found in
their placer mine for several years. Their
miEe yielded quite handsomely this season
and Messrs. Sloan & Haskell are to be con-
graduated for their success during the sea-
sons run Eagle. There is no use in be-
coming excited over this find" because
such nuggets are not picked up every day
in the northwest.
According to the report of Superinten-
dent L. L. Rowland, of the Oregon state
insane asylum, the total number of patients
received at that institution during the
month of August was 26-males II, females
IA. The total number at the institution
during August was 905-6lS males and 2S7
females. Five males and four females were
during the past month as re-
covered. The average daily attendance
was S74; the number of officers aud en-
ployes is l03. At the close of August the
total number of patients in tine institution
was 500 males and 274 females.
The Salem Independent says: Mrs. Mary
Spencer was brought to the asylum from
Gates. Mrs. Spencer is granddaughter of
William Morgan, the man who, about sixty
years ago, wrote an exposure OF Free Ma
sonry and afterwards mysteriously disap-
peared. Mrs. William Morgan was slightly
and her granddaughter properly
inherlts it. The patient is 80 years old, but
looks younger. She is ofttImes violent and
thinks that people are continually making
signs. 1t is supposed she gets her idea of
the signs from close perusal OF her grand
fathers work.
Hillsboro Independent: A sad case of
drowning occurred at SeholPs Ferry last
Tuesday. A fourteen-year. old daughter OF
James Spidel, with perhaps others, were
bathing IN the river and at the time resting