The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-04-22
From Fridays Daily.
Ex.Gov. Moody is in the city.

Ex.Gov. Moody is in the city.
Mr.. Henry Hudson is loading two six.
horse wagons with freight for DayvIlle,
Grant county.
Mr.. W. s. Graham, formerly restaurau.
teur of The Dalles, arrived in the city from
Tacoma today, and will remain few days.
The funeral of the late Mr.. Emory Camp
bell will take place from the Congregational
church next Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Mr. F. Reynolds of Lyle, Wash. is in the
city. He says the weather has been too
moist to plant grain, and he is anxiously
desiring cessation of rain.
The apportionment of school money from
the county funds amounts to 81 per scholar.
This i, less than usually, because of the de
lay in the payment of taxes.
The Odd Fellows will give an excursion
to Cascade Locks ami return on the, 26th.
| Those who desire may have picnic parties at
the Locks, or may spend the time on the
boat.
One more unfortunate individual, very
much intoxicated, found his way into the
city jail last night. He was very boisterous
ana made ''Rame howl" for time, until he
became quiet.
Gov. PennoYer, and State Treasurer
Metschan and wife left on the midnight
train for Baker City, where they will make
examination of that locality for the
branch insane asylum.
Judge Liebe and Mr. Geo. Ruch went
down this morning to the Klindt farm to
negotiate for right of way and water rights
in connection with the proposed site for the
branch insane asylum.
Hon J. G. Luckey. Indian agent at the
Warm Springs reservation, came IN town to.
day. he says everything is very encour-
aging on the reservation, and the outlook
tor gooi crops was never better. There is
larger acreage planted to grain than ever
before.
The prospect for wheat in Eastern WASH
iDgton TINS year is hatterIng. The vi Id, it
Is confidently expected, will be larger than
1t has been for two or three years past.
There was so much snow, and it melted so
gradually that the earth received most ef
the moisture.
The meeting of the citizens last night at
the court house did not attract many peo-
pie on account of the governor and state
treasurer being IN the city. This city |
should be the place for the tournament to
be held and our business men would ad. !
vance the interests of this vicin ty if they |
would make an effort to secure 1t.
The governor and state treasurer appeared |
to be favorably impressed with the Irvine
farm; but they carefully avoided giving any |
lntimation of their pref renee of a site for
the location of the branch insane ylum
As regards climate and desirable grounds
for this institution The Dalles has facilities
not surpassed by any city in Eastern Ore.
gon.
A special inducement is offered by W. Ell.
VanBlbber, for the location of the insane
asylum. who owns fine spring further
south of the Irvine farm. He agrees to
ionate this spring to the asylum, and, as 1t
S distant only few hundred yards and is
,ullv 200 feet higher in eleyation, its water
ould be piped at small expenditure, and a
ire and irrIgating supply of great value be
Afforded.
Dalles will be, held this evening in the
council rooms for the purpose of Civ
ng this city and vicinity a proper men,
ion in the Oregon Prospectus to be pub
ished for gratuitous distribution In Chicago
Turing the worlds fair. This will be good
opportunity for this place to advertise Its
esources, and should receive attention.
The meeting will be held at o'clock, and
are invited to be present.
Shall the farmer starYe?" is the heading
# an article in a scholarly eastern review.
The Grant Dispatch answers, well, that de.
bends on the farmer. If he spends good
,art of his time in sitting about town and i
Iiring his opinions as to how con gress or the ,
president or the legislature is making times .
lard, or talking politics on street corners;
he buys all his hay, eggs and butter in
own and his vegetables from Cinnamon, 1
md lets his place go to weeds, scale infested !
rees and tumble down barns and fences,
Vhv he may not starve in Oregon, but he .
md his family may get pretty ragged and
iungry.
Worthington's Illustrated Magazine for !
day shows remarkable progress and growth
n the part of this highly entertaining peri
dical, which has already won for itself an
nviable place among the choicest maga-
ines of the day 1t has been enlarged by
ixteen pages in order to give space for
lmely contributions, and also that the ex-
: llent papers in the varied departments,
which are marked and very valuable feat
re of this periodical, may hereafter be s
rinted in larger type, corresponding to /
hat in the body of the magazine. The in t
entions of the publishers were very liberal
the start, but they are proving them {