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

and merchants have been quite busy. Tt
spring trade Is opening IN very encourag
ing manner.
The Oregon Lumber Co. has conuecte
Hood River with Chenoweth, Wash, b
telephone by means of cable across th
Columbia river.
Mr.. Stacey Shown informs US that he ha
not been closed out in business; but is sti
able and willing to meet all his obligations
He considers all statements to the contrar
malicious and false.
Photos SO cents per dozen after April 2ttl
at Herrln's gallery. These photos are fin
ished in the highest style of the art and tn
very fact that Herrin makes sthem is suffi.
clent guarantee of their excellence.
During these pleasant days frequently
parties spend the day fishing in the creek.
in this vicinity. Some have been very sue
cessfnl, and members of the finny tribt
have formed the substance of many meals
Hon. Phil. Metschan and wife have beer
stopping In the city for few days, visiting
at this residence OF Hon. Geo. A. Liebe
Mr.. Metschan is delighted to bask again IN
the sunshine Of our climate. aud not ex-
perience constantly fog and rain.
The Weekly TIMES. .MoUNTAINEER this
morning contained twenty-five columns OF
reading matter, consisting of editorials, for
eign, miscellaneous and local news. This is
one of the largest papers ever printed in
this city, and its list of readers is constantly
increasing.
Grant Dispatch: The large cattle sheds
are going up fast at the distiliery, and all
about it is life>and buste The sage brush
fat of year ago, now looms up like part
of large and busy town The cattle got
about two weeks ago are filling out nicely
already, and with good weather will soon
be Mt for market.
Hood River Glacier: Will Langille, started
for Cloud Cap Inn this morning, accom-
panied by Hon. NJ. A. Moody, of The
Dalles, and W. K. Smith, Jr, of Portland. :.
The party will probably have to travel on
snow shoes from three miles this side of the
Elk Beds, eight miles from the Inn. Mr..
Langille thinks it will be impossible to open
the hotel before July lst.
civil suit was tried before Justi, e
Davis yesterday, In which the legality of
fence was the point In Issue. The plaintiff
sued for damage done to a horse by reason
of barhed wire. Mr. N j. Sinnott ap-
peared for the plaintiff aud Mr.. E. Schultz
for the defendant. Judgment was rendered
for the plaintiff in the sum claimed.
The counties of Wasco, Sherman and Gil.
liam are entitled to three more scholarships
at the state agricultural college. They may
be appointed by the joint senators or repre-.
sentatives of either county or all from one
county. One of them may be a female.
The college Is part of our public school
system, and is hourishing. having an enroll
ment last season of over 200.
McMinnville Telephone Register: Mary
Schmidt, nee Garfield, presented her Eese
lord with a male heir on Saturday. Mrs.
Schmidt will be remembered as the l4year
old girl who some months ago eloped with
her fathers hired man from the farm on
Salt creek. She is probably the Youngest
mother in the state, the child ARRIVING on
the 18th of April, her 18th birthday, j
Telegram: One by one the old pioneers
of the state are falling like the forest leaves.
The last who has passed away is Ebenzer
G.. Clark. who, at the green old age of 70
years, departed this life yesterday at Moss
Hill, about six miles from this city. De-
ceased came to this state In 1852, with the
late John Stephenson, FL. L. PIttock and
others, and has resided near Portland ever
since.
Inter Ocean: You can always judge a
town by its newspaper. Meyer buy town
lots or land where poor. half.starved news
paper is published. Newspapers these
days are a necessity, not luxury. They
are so cheap that the poorest m an can have
them unless he Is running bill at saloon.
1t matters not how many city papers man
nay take, he should give an honest support
10 his home paper.
Mayville, Gillian county, has produced
IN inventor of wonderful capabilities. The
Fossil Journal says he is going to Portland
20 arrange for the Wholesale manufacture of |
MS latest invention, an automatic rat trap
The inventor claims that h's trap sets itself, |
kills the rat when caught, |
throws out the carcass and resets itself for
fresh "varmint," keeping this up until its
;eeth decay from old age.
A statistician, who has been looking into
The matter of divorce, has found that the |
proportion of divorces to population is least
n Ireland only one divorce to every 4OO,-
300 Inhabitants. In the United States the
proportion of divorces is omlpously large,
IS. II to every 100, 600 population, the lsrg-
sst known, In fact, save in japan, the tig-
lres for that happy empire being 60S.45
divorces to every 100. 900 population.
Albany Democrat: II. d. McGuire, the
game protector, went to Niagara this after
noon with blood in his eye. Recently the
Lumberman gave the names of some men
who killed an elk, which was copied in val
ey papers, and Mcclure is after them. 1t
IS also said that the protector will be gwen
In exhibition of how fish do not go up the
,ream past the dam. A remedy is wanted
md Mr. Mcclure will be asked to use his
influence IN the matter.
Mr.. Emile Schanno has received his ap-
oointment as one of the committee on the
Fruit Industry at the Columbian ex-
position on parchment, with the golden
zeal of the "World's Congress Auxiliary"
attached. 1t is beautifully engraved and
printed, and states that this congress will
convene at the city of Chicago during the
week commencing Monday, October l6.
1893 This is very befitting appointment,
md is quite a compliment to The Dalles
n thus honoring one of its most promi-
1ent citizens.
Winter still fingers in the Grand Ronde
valley. and this is from the La Grande Cd
,ette of Yesterday: "Snow fell in this city
10 the depth of four inches Wednesday
,Ight, and at Kamela about two feet of
the beautiful ornamented the landscape.
reporter who started cut to ascertain the
opinion of the oldest Inhabltant on this
freak of the weather, failed to
ind this l-wise individual; and the sup
position is that he has housed himself in
Tor another winter.
Astorian: The body of A. Farlapd, who
met with such sudden death on Wednes-
iay night at Fort Candy, was brought over
TO this city yesterday on the steamer La
Can,as, and taken to the undertaking par
Iors of Mr.. Kuykendall. Much sympathy
is telt and expressed for the wife and chill
dren left destitute by the terrible affair.
Speaking of the deceased, Captain Scott
Johnson said yesterday that he was one OF
the most industrious men he ever had in his
employ, and always oblIgng and willing.
Condor Globe: The Roslyn bank robbers
were betrayed by girl, the sisterin-law of
a man at whose home in Coulee City the
was Matched. Ray Christensen
is his name, the woman's being Miss Sarah
Jane Morgan, beautiful young lady 20
wears of age, who lives in Salt Lake. She
betrayed the ROBBERS through revenge. She
is now in Jail at Ellensburgh. being held as
a witness against the robbers. Tom and
Bill McCarty, the leaders of the gang, have
not been captured yet. Among those ar
rested is Phllo Summers, formerly of this