The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-05-06
From MONDAYS Daily.
The lst of May.

| County court IS In session.
The street sprinkler has done a good worI
to-day in keeping the dust down.
Mr.. t. Fl. Johnston, of Dufur, is regis
tered at the Umatilla House to-day.
Miss Cassie Wiley, in atendancs at the
Normal school at Monmouth, is visiting he
parents In this city.
Baseball is beginning to receive attentIo
in Eastern Oregon, and soon the diamou,
field will be the chief attraction for ou
boys.
Miss Carrie Davenport. who has beel
visiting relatives In Portland for severa
weeks, returned on the l o'clock train yes
terday.
Messrs. Stoneman & FIege received las
Friday very complete stock of boots anC
shoes, and are now prepared to furnish ou
people with footwear of as good quality a
can be procured anywhere.
Mr.. Nj. T. Nolan, at the postoffice bool
sore, has on sale Harper's, Scribaer's anC
the Century for May. These are very ex.
cellent numbers, and contain many article:
on subjects of the utmost Importance.
The dancing party at fraternity hall Sat.
urday evening was verv largely attended,
and the music was excellent. Eacn numbel
was thoroughly enjoyed, and the may
dance was kept up until seasonab!e hour.
A boy named Harmon Harris, stopping al
Mr.. James More's residence at Nansene,
accidentally shot himself through the hand
yesterday, and was brought IN town to-day.
He is an orphan boy. and was placed 10 the
county hospital. Dr.. Logan attended to
the injuries.
From the Long Creek Eagle of the 21si
inst. we learn that G. F. Goff. commits
sloner OF the U. S. court ami recorder OF
that city, has skipped out leaving mis-
bondsmen TO pay various sums of money
that mad been entrusted to bis care.
Gambling was the cause OF the downfall.
An old Salem lady was asked how she
liked the new pastor. mot over well,
she said 'Why not?" asked the elder, in
surprise. "He's bin here now goiL' on six
weeks, praying each Sunday for better
weather. He don't seem to have any intiu-
epce with the Lord, for it's bin rainin'
harder all the time"
A complete train, weighing in the
neIghborhood of 300 tons, made the un
precedented time of 80 miles an hour for
ten consecutive miles over the New York
Central recently. Until lately eighty or
perhaps eighty three miles an hour had
been the fastest time made by any rail-
road.
Mike Fitzgerald and Martin Owenby
cane across the mountains from Mitchell
Wednesday. They found f om three to FIVE
feet of snow on the mountain. Mr.. FItz.
gerald said he and Mr.. Stephenson had
been quite successful with their sheep this
spring, having raised almost 100 per cent.
OF lambs, says the Ochoco Reviea0.
A fish wheel is now in operation in the
Umatilla river a mile above the town of
Umati'la. 1t is the first one ever triedsout
of the COLUMBIA, and ses ms to De doing
pretty WELL R. G. Hinton, who put the
wheel in, Is also the inventor of an irr1gat-
ing wheel which is now being used success
fully at several points along the Umatllla
rlyer.
A Portland exchange, usually very accur-
ate in descriptions of localities, says: "The
Haynes slough country back of The
Dalles is infested with panthers. A small
boy, on his way to school, disappeared sew
eral weeks ago, and it Is telieYed that he
was killed and eaten by these ferocious
beasts" This is mistake, as there is no
'.Hayne's slough" back of this city, or any
"ferocious beasts IN this vicinity.
The Eighth Annual Convention of the
Oregon State Sunday School Association
will be held in the Friends church, New.
burg, Oregon, by invitation of that church,
b, ginning Tuesday, May 10th, at P. M,
and closing Thursday, May 18th, at ii A. NJ
As this is a mass convention, all Interested
in Sunday school work are invited to be
and every Sunday school In the
state is urged to send one or more represen-
tatIYes.
Now on this bright, sunny May day
comes Carl Anton Horn, aud on oath de-
clares before the county clerk his intention
Of becoming an American citizen. BY SO
doing he renounced forever his allegiance to
the emperor of Germany, and thus fader-
land lost subject, and one more will be
added to the large number of those who
view the stars and stripes with patriots
pride.
Democrat: In room No. at the
Arlington Hotel there Is very sick man
whose life hangs by very slender thread.
That person Is 81. W. Cooke, OF Portland,
who slipped and fell last Sunday by the
depot, sustaining a strangulated hernia.
The unfortunate man has abandoned
all hopes of recovery and patiently awaits
The results. Drs. Atwood and Dodson
are doing all in their power for Mr..
Cooke, and still think there Is hope for
his recovery.
East Oreyonian: Ed. Swltzler took trip
TO Walla W ALA the other day on his new
safety wheel. He started from this city
Tuesday forenoon at ll:30 o'clock, reached
Adams at lilo P. M, left there at 2, arrived
At Athens at 2:30, left at 8, and at $3.50
rolled into Weston. He remained there all
pieht. left at S:25 the next morning, rode
throueh Milton at 9:25, and reached Walla
W ALA at lO:40 The journey, not includ-
ing stoppages, was made in i've hours and
i've minutes, a very fair record, the distance
being nearly fifty miles. The bicyclist re-
turned to Pendleton on Wednesday even
ing's train.
On Thursday Governor McGraw ap-
pointed Chas. E. Nye. of Walla Wall. di-
rector of the penitentiary to succeed Will
lam Kirkman. This Is a satisfactory and
popular appointment, for Mr.. NYe Is well
known to our citizens as a honest straight
forward business man, who will conscient-
ousIy perform his duty to the state. He
has long been a resident and b1siness man
of this city and it would be hard to find one
whose appointment would give greater
Wala Walla Statesman. Mr..
Nye was formerly resident of The Dalles,