The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-04-15

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species.
From Fridays Daily.
Mr.. Frank Kincaid, of Antelope, Is
, town to-day.
Mr. VIM. Walker, of Biggs, was in tow
yesterday.
Col. Crossen returned yesterday from
short sojourn at the metropolis.
There was nothing of which to make
note in justice courts this morning, and re
porters cleaned no harvest of items.
Mr.. VIM. Michel, while working at hi
fish wheel to-day, had his foot bad bruised
by b avy weight falling upon it. Fortu
nately no bones were broken.
Mr.. NJ. McLennan, Of Antelope, was in
the city yesterday. He is one of the sheep
kings of Wasco county, and says hocks VIE
tered all right, but the spring has been very
cold for lamblpg.
| The county court was in session to-day to
consider the petition of ]. D. Tunney for a
license to sell spIrituous liquor in less guam.
! titles than one quart at Antelope Licens e
was granted, and the court adjourned.
The executive committee of the W R. c.,
elected at Pendleton yesterday, are Mrs.
| Gwilt, of East Portland; Mrs. Hobbs. OF
| McMinville: Mrs. Hurd, of Weston; Mrs.
Frasier. OF Eugene; Mrs. Patterson, of The
| DaIles.
Mr.. Chas. Stubllng, assignee. will sell at
public auction to morrow at 2 P M, a
bankrupt stock of liquors and cigars at the
Niche bach brick, corner of Union and Sec
ond streets. This is rare opportunity for
bargains.
Hon. w q q. Dufur, of Dufur, came in
town yesterday. He reports farmers uusy
in that locality blowing and seeding. The
spring is very backward, but the season is
favorable to the growth OF grain, and far.
mers are satisfied.
Mr. Michael B. Ward, an old and re.
spected citizen of Walla Walla, WASH,
died very suddenly at his residence IN that
town last Wednesday morning OF heart fail.
ure. He was born in Ohio in 1918. and
came to Walla Walla 10 1861.
A man in SEATTLE went to sleep with
Sc, 600 under his pillow, and when he
awoke there was not cent there. There is
a moral to this, but few there be who need
ts find 1t. as the habit of reposing the ear
on Sc, 900 wads is not dangerously prev
alent.
Salmon are quite plen tifuI in our markets;
but the wheels are not catching many fish
yet. The weather has been too cold so far
for salmon to take their usual trips up the
Columbia; but with hi h water and warmer
weather they may be expected to swarm IN
the river near this city.
At recent decision of the supreme court
of the United States, the town of Bristol,
which before was in the state of Tennessee,
is now in that state aud Virginia too: The
main street makes the boundary. Now
there will have to be two city governments
and jurisdictions, when before there was
but one.
Wednesday night the Willard House at
Pendleton was entered by robbers, and $45
were taken from roomers. the day before
the gentlemen who were robbed went to La
Grande and deposited a considerable amount
with the land Office in payment for land, and
if this money had been in their rooms the
thief or thieves would have been amply re-
warded for their trouble.
The Chicago board of aldermen have pro-
hibited the further construction of all
bulldogs in that city over ten stories high.
But when brick falls from even the tenth
story, as it dld the other day while the
building was undergoing repairs and strike
the head of a man below, it will kill him as
it did w s. Weed, the owner of the North
,oestern Druggist and the Chicago Graphic
Chronicle: The members of the La Grande
militia company are fortunate in having se-
cured permission for the organization of the
regimental band for the THIRD Regiment. A
full set of twenty Instruments will be pur-
chased, and a competent instructor, for
whom the sum Of $50 per month Is allowed
from the militia fund, will be engaged. The
band will be fully organized in a short time
The Prineville Neaos gives the following
advice to visitors: Gentlemen, when YOU
spit at the stove in our office, please do not
make target of the stew pan of dried april
cots that are cooking on top of it. The
liquid extract of the fruit that feeds this
paper, and of your narcotic lunch are first
in the matter of taste. Please spit in the
cuspidor; it was formerly water bucket
and will most likely hold it ALL
Salem Statesman: Rev. w. D. Nichols,
well known In Oregon many years ago, and
missionary in Africa, Is dead. His field of
work was Liberia. Some months ago he |
was taken ill and went to the Canary |
islands. Getting better he started on his |
return to Liberia, died suddenly on ship !
board, February 4th, and was buried at sea. |
He was educated at Salem and Forest |
Groye, and many in Oregon will remember |
him.
Mss Jessie A. Ackerman, the worlds |
of the W. G. T. o.. varied the
monotony of winning new recruits for that |
on a recent trip from Australia |
to Singapore. The steamer stopped two |
days among the pearling grounds, where
1900 men were working. Here Miss Acker.
man put on the diving dress and went down |
sixty feet to the oceans bed and saw for |
herself the wonders of the deep. She Is
the first woman to make the experiment,
and much relief was felt when she returned |
to the boat in safety.
We learn from the Arlington Record the
proceedings of the circuit court |
at Condor: in the case of VIM. Cunning |
ham, more generally known as Bill, the
Butcher, the grand jury returned not a true
bull. aud the poor victim was after SIX long |
months of Imprisonment turned loose, not
being able to give bonds, as they were
placed at the enormous sum of $1,000 Mr..
has made many warm friends |
IN Condor He is the man the Fossil Jour-
nal accused of playing the crazy act soon
after he was thrown 10 Jail.
The special agent of the government
who was here last week, says the Eugene
Register, taking testimony of citizens of
thi- country in claims against the govern
mept for Indian depredations, had SIX
claims submitted to him. The largest
claim is the Belshaw, which Is for about
$500. A brother of George Belshaw of
this city, accompanied by another man,
obtained load of apples down the vale
ley and were taking them to Southern
Oregon. when they were attacked by the
Rogue River Indians and killed and
their property destroyed. The claim is
for this property.
East Oregoniaa Judge M. L. Olmsted is
Justly proud of the record which his son,
Percy N. Olmsted, has. made at the An
napolis naval academy. Percy is the cadet
for Oregon, and has been honored by the
grade of commander of his class This po-
sition Is one which ls attained purely by |
merit and hard work. The class graduates
June lst. after which Percy will be sent |
abroad for two years, before being COM
for regular service. He holds the
second best record In the world for artillery
shooting, the first being held by Minnesota
boy, who is cadet at Annapolis. AS soon +
as vacancy occurs Percy will go into the