The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-03-18

was elected mayor; H. n. Frazier, recorder
q. w. Rinehart, treasurer; John Maddox
S. P. Shut and D. NJ. Rinehart. council
men.
Last Friday night there were six hoboe,
in the city Jail, bat Saturday and Sunday
nights the lookup was free of any occu-
pants.
Feed is reported scarce in the Haystack
district in Crook county. and if snow con
tinues much longer the loss of cattle will bs
heavy.
The west-bound passenger train did not
pass through the city this morning unit
half past 10 o'clock. A bridge was washed
out east of Huntington, and this caused the
delay.
From State School Superintendent Nc
Elrov's annual report We learn there are
III, $50 persons in the state between the
a, es of 4 and 20 years. beng an increase Of
569S over asst year.
Mr.. T. q. Woodcock aud wife are in the
city. en- route to their home in Boise City.
Idaho Mr.. Woodcock was resident OF
| The Dalies for many years. and has been
looking around. the city viewing old land
marks.
Our city is being visited by very many
old residents, who during the wars with the
aborigines ID earv days have suffered from
Indian depredations. Mr.. Hubbard acts as
| attorney for the government, and is very
| highly spoken of for his gentlemanly quail
tiles.
Rev. John Whistler left on the afternoon
tram to day to visit his family in Denver,
Colo. he will return In a few days and at
tend to his pastoral duties. During his
pastorate Mr.. Whistler has made many
friends IN the city, and his weekly services
are attended by large congregations.
Arthur StablIng while playing In the
school yard at noon to-day fell and broke
his right leg JUST above the ankle. DR.. Hol.
lister was called and reduced the fracture,
and the patient is resting easily. THIS is a
deplorable misfortune for the boy, IS the
accident will confine him to his room for
some time.
Judge Bradshaw. Hon. A. s. Bennett,
District Attorney Wilson, Hen. E. Dnfur
and Messrs. B. 5. Huntington, II. H. Rid
dell and j. L. Story left on the afternoon
train yesterday for Grant, from which place
they were driven IN hack to Moro, where
circuit court for Sherman county will con-
vene this morning.
The first man ever hung at Salem was
Kendall, who in 1852 killed man IN a dis
pute over claim. Then in April, lS5 81
Charley Roe had his neck stretched for slay-
ing his wife, who was a half breed, an d It
was IN May, 1865, that Beal and Baker met
the same fate for numbering old man Della
ney for his money, about $1,000.
Condor Globe: Doc Brown narrowly es.
capped disastrous conf igration at his home
near this city on Thursday night. His
smokehouse caught fire from some unknown
cause, and it required the most determined
efforts to extinguish it. A large quantity
of hay was stacked only few rods away,
which was saved by hard work.
We regret very much to learn that K.
Graham. uf Mayville, has had very heavy
loss in his cattle band, says the Fossil Jour
nal, forty five head having succumbed dur
ing .his week. Mr.. Graham is now In Mis-
sour, where he went ON business about two
months ago, and his boys have been attend
ing to the stock. We hear of no other
losses from that section.
The Oregon Press Association will attend
the meeting of the National Editorial asso-
citation which convenes IN Chicago May 10th
to Goth Inclusive. All members of the state
association will be entitled to all courtesies
of the trip, but no arrangements will be
made for publi-hers who are not affiliated
FROM private letter received from MIR. Al
bert Tozier, secretary o. z. A., we learn
that names must be sent in by April lst, in
order that accommodations may be secured.
At recent meeting of the worlds fair
commissioners at Salem the fund is appor-
toned as follows: Department of agricul.
ture, $4,000; department of forestry,
$4,000; department of horticulture, $1,000;
department of minerals, $4,000; department
of tisherI,s. $4,000; department of education,
$1,000; ladies department, $4250. Not one
dollar was set aside for newspaper work, the
most important OF all. But, of course, news
papers have no use for money.
Fossil Journal: Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Slater, of Lost Valley. stopped in town
Wednesday night. They were riding the
range after cattle. Mrs. Slater Is an expert
horse woman, and can head refractory steer
boys. We are glad to learn that their little
daughter, who is now with relatives at
Sauvies Island, is slowly but surely recov-
ering from the effects of the lye she drank
about six months ago. The child is now
able to partake of solid food.
Fifty years ago last December s. W.
Moss surveyed the townsite of Oregon
CITY for DR.. John Mclaughlin, using a
rope and a compass brought in his
pocket across the plains just so years
ago this month DR.. Whitman arrived
In Washington after his famous winter
ride on horseback ,rt IN Oregon to the
states. Mr.. Moss talked with him at
WaIla Walla Just before he started, and
entertained him on his return in 1S43. ]
This was the great boom year for Oregon |
City, when 1000 people came with DR..
Whitman from the states. Mr.. Moss is |
still living at Oregon City.
Osburn, daho, StatesmaR: We don't sup.
pose our three cash subscribers will object |
to an occasional reduction IN the size OF the |
Statesman. This paper started out as an all |
home printed sheet of % columns three
years ago, being then the largest paper in