The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-06-24
ITEMS IN BRIEF
From wednesday,s Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Mr.. o. L. Stranahan, of Hood River, is
In town to day.
Mr. F. Nj. Thompson, stock inspector,
came in from Dufur to-day.
Mr.. T. W. Denton hauled in town and
shipped 500 boxes of stra wberries yester
day.
MIR j. H. Cradlebaugh, OF the ii cd
River Glacier, came up on the afternoon
tram.
Hon. ". H. Biggs of Wasco, is in town
to-day shaking hands with his numerous
friends.
John Datling. German, was made
full American citizen by the county court
to-day.
The river is nearly on stand.still; bu'i
another rise is expected, as telegrams trunl
above state that the water is Increasing IL
valume.
Rev. W. p Walker will leave for
Wasco tomorrow, to be In attendance on
the campmeeting now being held in that
place.
The seven U. s. prisoners are still in
the county Jail. They comprise native
and aboriginal Americans, MengolIans
and other races and natlonalities.
Mr.. j Rath brought in town this morn
ing new variety OF vegetables, called the
honey peas. They are excellent for cook
ing, and are very agreeable to the taste.
The Lane county bank, the Oldest tinau-
cial institution In that county, failed to
opon Its doors yesterday morning. and a
notice was posted on the shutters Stating
that it had closed temporarily.
The Riddle Enterprise, published in
h.x-< -.
exchange table, It Is a seven CO umn pat
ent.outside paper, and is an exponent of the |
best interests of the community IN which 1t
is published.
The county court held an adjourned ses- |
sion this afternoon to decide the question OF |
granting licence to j. Delk of Hood |
River. There is a petition numerousy |
signed, and also remonstance with a Ion. |
list Of names.
Twenty young ladies and gentlemen went
on a picnic excursion to White Salmon,
WASH, yesterday. Tney had very enjoy
able time IN the groves near the Ian ing, !
and returned home very much delighted
with the trip.
Before hi, honor, the recorder, this morn.
ing, was argued motion to vocate judg-
msnt by default. The attorneys we.e L
Story aud II H.. Riddell. After taking the
matter under adYlsement the court over
ruled the motion.
Marshal Maloney is ridding our thor
oughfares of wandering members of the
bovine species, and this is 10 his credit
During his umbency of the Office cows
and hoboes should keep away from the
street of The Dalles.
Considerable interest was manifested
to.ay in the argument on the question of
granting liquor license to j. L. Delk, of
Hood River. The attorneys for the peti
TONERS and those who demonstrated were
81. s. Wilson, J. H. Cradlebaugh, of Hood
River, and Mr.. Esteb, of this city.
Hood River strawberries find ready
sales in the east, and shippers at that
point have an order for carload daily
from Omaha, Neb. The harvest will
continue for several weeks yet, a. there
are patches just ripening. Another year
the acreage will be increased, and this
town will receiYe considerable revenue
from the crop.
Another Oregon farmer has been "bun-
coed" by sharpers, and this time it is
German named William Abraham, who
lived near Albany. The amount secured
was $l30O,and the usual ii box was used
as the trap. Mel who devote their time
to sharp, dishonest practices, rarely fail
of finding sufficient victims to furnish ,
them an easy means of eAistence.
In conversation to-day with one of the
most extensive sheep owners in TINS portion
of the state we learned that he intended TO
ship his heeces this year direct to Boston.
Notwiths landing the dullnes of the marker Z
he does not think 1t advisable to store the :
product He believes the supply and the
action OF congress on the tariff question Will 5,
regulate the demand for the home clip. /,
Mr.. Frank Hill, the agent of the Pa
cific Express Co., received word yester- ,
day from Houston, Texas, thai the fish
shipped to that city had arrived in excel
lent condition. This is a long distance
from The Dalles, and shows that Colum
bla river salmon can be shipped to almost !.
any place in the United States that may l
be reached by rail without impairing its :
value.
From what a former United states con- !,
sui at Canton says, the cause of the Chris ,
tian religion will not suffer material In =
jury by the absence OF American mission !.
aries in China One of them, who was !
engaged there for forty years, when asked
to say how many real converts he had :
made, frankly said, "FiveI" The mis-
sionaries number more than half the
Americans in the Flowery Kingdom.
East Oregonian: Ed. Kitson, who sho Z
Nick Ghangran tn: ough the arm aid dis {
appeared IN the mountains, eluding the !
Indian police, came voluntarily to Pen /
dleton Monday morning and gave himself q
up, having been advised to do so by his {
father, at whose mountain camp he
stopped. Kllson was arraigned before {
Justice Bishop on a charge of assault
with intent to kill, and his examination
was sci for Thursday, at loon.
L. e &b No. oIxo
Jail charged with assaulling Emma Hail,
ag,d 5. The little girls father is farmer ,
living near Milwaukee, aud Bier was d G
laborer in the vicinity. Bier was arrested I
and taken to Oregon City before the peo- {
pie of Milwaukee became aware of the | 8
fact. The WIisOn-Walsh outrage is still Q
fresh in the memory OF the Milwaukee q
citizens, by whom Bier might have been ,
roughly handled had he not been quickly ,
and quietly taken to the county seat.
A Camas prairie rancher named Rudolf ,
Born was brought in Monday afternoon bv | I
his brother. says the East Oregonian. exam I
ined before the county judge al committed
to the asylum, whittier he was taken on the ,
night train Born Is 20 years old, and he is |
a native of Switzerland He was attacked |
about two months ago with insane fancies, ,
and thinks people, cattle. horses and things |
in general are unnatural to him. Mental
worry and the fact that he has for four
years lived life of soil ude at bis mountain
home is ascribed as the cause.
The schooner-load of iron ore now be-
ing taken to Oswego on barges, is from
the island of Rodondo, sixty miles north
or the island of Tuxedo, IN British COlum-
bia, and will be mingled with the low
grade ore from this vicinity, says the Or
egonian, now being used at the Oswego
furnace. Ii runs as high as 68 per cent
of iron, and Is the best-known iron ore
found in the Pacific northwest 1t will
make a superior article of pIgIron.
Twenty-four thousand tons of this excel
lent ore are to be shipped here by schoon-
ers.
The Salem Democrat says: The governors
salary is $500, and we believe that under
proper construction that is all he is entitled
to draw, but he receives in addition to this,
$500 as prison inspector, $3.50 as a member
of the domestic animal commission, and
about 5000 as trustee of the refol m school
aud asy um. making total of about $25O0.
As the governor puts in but two days and a
half at the capital each week, or only l3O
days III the year, compensation amount to
over $40 per day, which strikes US as
rather plutocratic salary for a populist.
Really, though governor is a governor
wherever ne is. and S2500 is not too much,
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