The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-05-06
From THURSDAYS Daily.

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There has been no use tor the street
l-sptinkler for two days.
!. Mr.. w. N. Wiley returned from his
/ sheep camp near Antelope last night.
The sheepmen of Morrow county are
busily engaged having their hocks sheared
| of their feeces.
Jim Corbett will be in Baker City next
Saturday evening. and the people are COM
ing IN town to see the champion.
Circuit court in Crook county is in session
this week, and Judge Bradshaw and Die.
trict Attorney Wilson are in attendance.
Parties from Sherman county say that
grain isin very excellent condition, and a
very good harvest is confidently expected.
Squirrels are very plentiful in Morrow
county. and the Gazette says John Edwards,
of Sand Hollow, Killed 720 with poison one
day last week.
Mr.. Neil Mcleod, of Grants, is in town
to-day. He reports every thing hourishing
at the metropolis of Sherman county. and
prospects good for crops.
Mr.. Alex. Campbell and wife, of Astoria,
were on the afternoon train to-day en- route
to Chicago. They will spend few days
there visiting the exposition and return.
Mr., George M. Harrison has returned to
The Dalles, and resumed partnership at the
Baldwin restaurant with Mr.. John Done
hue, where he will be happy to see all his
old ir ends.
Some inexperienced persons attempted
boat ride on the Columbia yesterday, when
the waves were rolling high, and consider
able interest was manifested by spectators
for fear that there would be fatal accident.
Fortunately the boat did not capsizs, and
the parties reached the shore IN safety.
Burns Herald: The department of the
interior has ordered the U. S. surveyor gen.
eral, of Oregon, to have tine unsurveved
lands around Malheur lake surveyed.
The register and receiver here have been
adylsed to suspend dlsposals of the frac-
tional parts surrounding the lake until the
survey is made.
The loss of lambs in the vicinity of Ante.
lope has been very heavy, and it is estimated
that not over so per cent. have survived the
severe weather. Snow has fallen every
week for some time past, and in many in
stances ewes were taken to the corral dur
ing lambing time to protect them from the
severity of the weather.
Governor Pennoyer. speaking to an Ore
gonidn reporter, said: 1.-THE Gresham tele-
gram is an insult to Oregon. wlll'enforce
the laws of the state, and the president
should enforce the laws Of congress. 1t
com with poor grace for the president to
ask me to enforce the state law while he,
without warrant, suspends the exclusion
law"
Farmers from all portions OF the county
are very much encouraged with the fayor-
able conditions of the spring. Grain Is
growing nicely, and. all vegetation is in a
better condition than for many years past.
Without something unprecedented happens
between this time and harvest Wasco will
produce the largest crops TINS year than she
has ever done in her history.
Our reporter called at the clerks Office
this morning, and the deputies were busy
attending to official duties, and to our in
quiry: How are you hooked up?' did not
look over the records and write several real
estate transactions which had not been
made or marriage licenses that had not been
granted. This is outrageously discourteous,
and the county clerk AMI those in his en-
ploy should furnish items whether there are
any or not, without putting the newspaper
man to the trouble of ascertaining the fact.
"We protest the action"
Tuesdays Albany Democrat: This morn.
ing Deputy U. S. Marshal r. I. Gregg
brought oyer from Yaquina bay eight or
ten sailors recently on the Alice Blanchard,
whom he had arrested on the Charge of mu-
tiny, and took them to Portland, where
they will have to answer before Judge
Belllnger, on the very serious charge against
them. One of the sailors recently went to
San Francisco, and hence will escape pun
ishment unless arrested there.
Mrs. Nyman, of Astoria, was demonstrat.
ing TO her husband last Tuesday her knowl-
edge of loading rifle; but in her maneuvres
the cartridge became fastened in the barrel,
and, graspIng the weapon with both hands,
she dashed the butt against the floor. In
stantly there was an explosion. and the lady
dropped apparently dead. Medical aid was
and it was found that the bullet
had entered at the lower and outer edge of
the left breast, and was found above the
shoulder blade, having passed through the
lung. Ihe' lady may recover, but is in
very critical condition.
Monday a man by the name of Andrew
Martin walked into the clerks office, with
only one shoe 90, and his clothes in very
ragged condition. He claimed to have come
from Portland, and was suffering from the
effects of the morphine habit. His condi-
ton was pitiable in the extreme. and he
was complete wreck physically. 1t seemed
for him to live without the drug,
and ne wanted to be taken to the insane asy.
lum to undergo medical treatment for the
habit The sheriff took charge of him, and
YESTERDAY he was sent to Salem. Such de