The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-04-22
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From Wednesdays Daily.

MIR. James Mccormick, of California
is Spending few days in The Dalle
looking around for vacant land on which
to settle.
Mr.. c. NJ. Grimes, OF Huntington, is il
tine city to-day. He Is Dalles hoy. and il
engaged extensively in shipping cattle from
Eastern Oregon to Portland and the sound
Rev. Geo. W. Grannis, of Portland, is
in the city. He stopped over day en-
route from Pendieton 10 visit old friends
and will return on the evening train.
Mrs. H. Prlnz and Mrs. M. Laporta, OF
Monterey, Calf, arrived on the aflerno ID
train to-day, and will visit a. the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. 7. Prinz, in this
/ city
The railroad commissioners left Port
and this morning, and NAV be expected
u the city this evening. They are in
specting the lines of the Union Pacific,
and will arrive on special train.
One disastrous result Of the backward
lason is the loss entailed on sheepmen by
the death of lambs. These losses have been
very severe in some portions of the country,
Band they will continue until the weather
becomes warmer.
Mr.. E. L. Boynton, has opened far
mers feedyard on the Mint block, opposite
Skibbe's hotel in the East End He will
board horses by the day or week, and will
also keep hay and grain on sale.
We received call to-day from Mr.. }. M
Hagerty, representing the Chamber of Com
merce Prospectus, a pamphlet descriptive of
oregon and her resources, $4,000 copies of
which will be issued tor gratutous distribu-
tion on the grounds at the Columbian ex
position.
Last Saturday Mr.. o. NJ Crimes took
to Portland from Huntington twenty-four
carloads of beef cattle. These were gath
cred in Malheur county, and were in
prime condition. This was the largest
shipment of cattle ever made from East
ern Oregon.
A warrant of arrest for assault and bat
terry was issued yesterday out of Justice
Davis court, and the trial is set for to-
morrow morning at 20 o'clock. The facts
In the matter should not be made public
until after the trial, and we simply men
ti0n the fact of the arrest.
P.J White was arrested by Officers
Gibbons and Bills last night In Ben Will |
sons saloon in the East End, and placed |
him in the county Jail. Nothing was |
taken from the saloon as far as could be |
ascerfained, and his manner of entering |
could not be definitely determined.
DR.. Blalock, Of Walla Walla, is in the
city. In speaking of the pump that he has |
in operation on the Columbia river near his
farm at Blalocks, he says it does it's work
admirably and furnishes all the water re
quired for irrigation. His young orchard is
growing nicely, and in few years he will !
have an abundance Of fruit. 81
The sheep. at this side of Cold Camp,
says the Antelope Herald, seem to have
done better in lambing than those at that
side Eugene Looney and brothers lost
$50 lambs up to April 9Th, and probably
have lost several more since that time.
Last week they had frightfully rough
lambing weather up there.
There are different theories about high
water. Some old residents say they cannot
see what can possibly stop a flood in June,
while others are not apprehenslve of any
freshet, because this cool weather, they
claim. is likely to continue until the snow |
has gradually melted in the mountains.
This question will be definitely settled IN a
few weeks, and if there is high water the
grade of the city will be above its ravages.
Mr.. C. E. Haight made an affidavit to-
day before Mr.. Frank Menefee, that
Frank H. Bowen was continuously in his {
employment in his restaurant in this city q
from the I'd of December, 1888, until the
1st of February, 1889, and this will be
forwarded to Mr. Bowen's attorneys at a
Morrilton, Ark where he is imprisoned {
for the murder of Col Clayton, committed f
there ON the 29th of January, 1889 p
1t would be well for our business men +
and citizens generally to hold meeting z
tomorrow evening TO take some action in
regard 10 having The Dalles and vicinity t
properly represented in the Chamber OF K
Commerce Prospectus. which will be dis s
tributcd during the Columbian exposition r
in Chicago. This will furnish an avail 4
able opportunity to advertise our advan- o
tages to the thousands of visitors who a
will be at Chicago during the summer. t.
While riding from Arlington to Will J
lows, distance OF ten miles, the passen- !,
gers on yesterday mornings eastbound :,
train experienced a remarkable change IN
climate. At Arlington the ventilators
were all open, fires in the stoves had been l
allowed to die out,and the cars were com ri
fortably warm. At Willows the temper az
ature became SO chilly that the sleepy 81
travellers imagined they were nearing the =
north pole, and it took red-hot fires to Il L
afford relief.
The matter of park reservations, lu the n
parts of Oregon and Wash 7.
ington, to preserve the timber from w
which Is being agitated to RI
extent, is one that is ques-
tlonable TO the results which it promises.
To the close observer it would appear =. =.
that the facilitating of settlement, under an Sl'
49,, - to,.a - o aHaeo " :o til
plan, and that the withdrawing of such =. ua
large tracts of country from settlement is W. W.
not conducive to the best interests. ~
Tourists in passing through The Dalles en-
spend considerable time in viewing the en- tn
vironment of Grand Dalles, Wash. From 60
the porches of the Umatilla House mag co
niicent view can be bad of this rival (?) of
Chicago, the ''great railroad center of the
[udand Empire" and site of the defunct shoe i ~.
factory, the prospective glass works and S,' a."
,oller mills and iron furnaces terminus Of aa ..a
the sympathetic telegraph line with Berlin, ps =.
Paris, ,Constantinople Jeddo, and Yakoutsk, =" -"
Siberia and of the ship railway over the d. d,
ialles portage and of several lines of aerial So
machines. These are in pros lro ,r.
oectiye, bnt the sand and rocks are tangible D.
realities, the force and power of the former 20 20
If which can easIly be demonstrated by tax -" m
ng walk through Duphcity avenue, ~,
Grand Dalles. WASH, when a gentle zephyr Sr sn'
,loweth. ~
Very few salmon are being, caught at ~.
present, and In q conversation with Mr.. F. Gn Sn
4. Seufert this morning we learn that he g.
loes not expect to catch many until the last ~.
ew days IN the month. Usually about the 60,
18th or 26th of April the wheels make their su ~,
argest haul. Then the water IS high, and -. -.
lie rapid current in the center of the river 81. so
rives the salmon into the eddIes on the ,ea ',a
ide, where the wheels are situated One Mo Mo
about the chinook and blue back W W
sh is that they swim through the swiftest mn ,sn
urrept and often over falls, while the @ .ea
ilrer.sides jump In the air when they meet L. sI,
Distractions and fall INTO the water above Sos oos
be rapids. Mr.. Seufert has frequently ''e'
7atched these salmon in their mIgrations up
he river, and has been astonished at the a y
gllity they exercise in making their pro- pia
ress against apparently lnsurmountable life
bstacles. II the modus openandi these In
almon use InstInetively could be utilized In SUI
boats could be propelled against put
he swiftest currentj but so far instinct has we
nperseded science IN this regard ane
tioi
From Thursdays Daily. kill
Mrs. Walton is very sick at Ter residence .De ,ho
this city. the e
Mr.. T. II. Johnston, the merchant of in !,
ufur, is in the city. but
Mr.. j. L. Story returned from Portland VIII
lis evening on the Regulator 7
Geo. W. Filloon and wife, of Portland, a tt
% raoistered at the T1mafilla Honsa w