The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-01

MT. M. u. Anderson, the "keno" CORE
pondent of the TIMES. s.MoUNTAINEER, Is
the city to-day.
Police and justice courts furnished
items to-day to the reporter, and the wa
taken was charged to the account
health.
Mr.. G. B. Balch, the druggist at Dnfu
is improving his place of business. VIII,
finished it will be the most elegant dru
store in Eastern Oregon.
Judge Bradshaw heard argument,
chambers, this afternoon, on writ of r
view in road CASE The highway in di
pute is road up Mill. creek.
Geo. A. .Liebe, jr., who has been In a
tendance on the agricultural college in Co
yaliis, arri, ed home yesterday. He WI
spend the vacation with his parents in tn
city.
MISS Maggie Anderson, of Sacramento
CalIf.. sister of N. J. Anderson, of DufuI
arrived on the afternoon train to-day. Sn
accompanied her brother to his home thi
afternoon.
The campmeeting at Dufur closed las
Sunday night, and the ministers In charg.
Keys. Motor, Mcdonald and Baker, went 1
Golderdale to conduct the services nea
that town.
bountiful shower of rain fell ON Fifteel
Mile creek last Saturday, and grain is In ex
cellent condition. 1t is confidently believed
there will be good crops, even If theiweathe
should becore very warm.
The wool market remains the same
Millions of pounds are in the warehouses
IN this city; but no quotations are being
made. There has been change" in the
administration, and its effects are being
felt In the produce market as we'll as in
finances.
The Portland editor, who wrote the fol
lowing, was evidently thinking about the
picture of Collector Black recently In the
Oregonian: Ii the esteemed daily news
papers of Portland are unable TO secure
new artists, they most certainly owe 1t to
the public to kill the present ones.
Next Saturday afternoon, at O'Clock,
Hon. s. A. Clarke, of Salem, will address
the fruitgrowers of this vicinity on matters
In which they are greatly Interested. There
should be full attendance of orchard
lists, as MI. Clarke is thoroughly con-
versant with the subject, and will advocate
many practical IDEAS
A son of Hon. w. Lair aill, E. G. Hill,
competed for and won the one mile run
at the amateur contest In Portland last
Saturday. The young man Is graduate
OF the university of California, aud is
well-known in this city, having completed
the course of studies at the Wasco Inde-
pendent academy number of years ago
A calculation based on the receipts OF
bullion at he two banks of this city, says
the Baker Democrat, taken from the books
places the amount of gold snippei by the
banks from Baker City during the present
month at $40 600, not to mention various
other amounts Passing through the express
office and postottice of which no account eau
be had.
A Portland paper says: Joe Day, form
;ly leading detective here, now In the
employ OF the PInkertons at Chicago, is
Gagged in six-by-six cell on the worlds
fair grounds, watching Tiffany's million
dollar diamond exhibit Joe writes
friend that he longs for the old time Ore
gon showers and sniff of our refreshing
zone.
II. A. Lesvens, OF Cascade Locks, has
genuine curlo in the shape of a pocket
book that was carried by his grandfather
through the revolution. The pocket-book
was the property of Capt. Turner Fenner,
who gave 1t to MIR. Leavens' mother
shortly before his death and she in turn
bequealhed the heirloom to Mr.. Leavens.
1t is red merinO cloth and lacks consider
able of being valuable except for the his
tory connected with it,
PrInevllle Ne,cs: A killing frost oc-
Cured in this valley last Sunday. night.
and vegetation suffered accordingly. In
the country ON the higher lands il
amounted to freeze; ice quarter of an
inch thick WAS formed on Standing water.
and several pitcher pumps were SO frozen
up that they had to be ihawed out with
hot water. Garden vegetables in some
localities suffered an irreparable backset;
especially was this true of the tender va
rieties.
Ochoco Revieao: D. w. Allingham, of
Maioles, was In town Wednesday. Mr..
Allingham is enthusiastic about the pro-
posed free road across the Cascades to
connect with the o. P. railroad. He saws
the settlers on Matoles and Squaw creek
will make liberal donations of money
and work TO apply op 'he road should the
county court determine to bulld it. He
thinks the distance from the summit to |
the end of the railroad is not so great as
We stated short time ago, probably ten
miles shorter.
There WAS weighed at Dutur last week b,
Mr.. Ha mes, Sr., of Nansene, a span OF
colts that are hard to beat in any country.
One Belfounder flly years old, weighing |
l 100, AID :he other a three fourtbs breo |
English Draft colt, l3 months old, sired b, |
'Sprotsboro Dandy, owned by r Sigma, |
weighing ll3O. measuring feet inches |
around the heait and nearly I6 hands high
The latter will take irs chances at this |
ye RS fair against all Oregon's fine horses.
n IN uvIl IpIx ~. L
ance before October lst.
East Oregonian: Two expert vaqueros, r
N. Adams and John Bryan were riding
on the upper Mckay creek range the |
other day, when they ran across brown |
bear. Wishing to haye some sport, they
adopted an approved method used bv |
Mexicans in capturing grizzlies. The
animal tried its best to get out OF the |
way, but could not reach cover and with
q dextrous throw bob" lassoed it around |
the neck. Johns rope crught its feet, and |
IN tWlnkllng 1t was helpless. Adams |
then shot il to death with his revolver,
and choice bear steaks are now one of the |
camps delicacIes. Bears are quite nu-
merous in the Mckay creek mountains.
A young lady, Miss Bunch, of Port
land. while attending the campmeeting at
Dutur last thursday evening, went INTO a
trance and remained unconscious for I
twelve hours. Alter she became resusci-
tated she related her experience During
the twelve hours she journeyed through
tho unknown world an. saw several per I
sons in the future place OF punishment
and some in the heaven of reward. Some
people who still reside in Dufur she saw
In her trance as suffering the torments of
Iuture punishment. This created consid-
,rable ea acitement. and the community, as
might be expected, is divided in regard to
he advisability of the proceeding.
The grizzly bear is nearly a thing of
he past in Oregon, but occasionally one
8 heard from. The Ashland Tidings tells
he foil wing: George Farlow, who is in
own this week from the ranch of Farlow
Bros. on upper Butte creek, tells of some
un the ranchers in that neighborhood
lave been having with bears this sprin
md summer. A big grizzly, whose tracks
n the snow measured at least twelve
nches in diameter, has been living on
resh beef while waiting for the berries
o ripen. He has Silleu at least five head
# cattle In that ghborhood-three of
hem three-year- old steers and one big
ow with q bell on her.
The Bdker. Huntress and the wharfboat
,assed over the Cascades yesterd,y without
njurv to either. 1t was reported that the
vhaifboat broke the line and drifte on
Bradford island; but this has been contra
licIed. Capt Baugbman was at the wheel |