The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-02-04

at drink its fill when the chinook wind sing
IN Its song of gladness around our bills arc
le valleys.
&c These evenings are too cold for coastng
and the small boy hugs the stoye ratnei
it than the sled.
lie Snow shovelling Is now in order, and the
'r sidewalks have been cleaned of the con.
gealed element.
n The circuit court will convene in this city
e next Monday. From appearances the
e docket will be light.
So far the Prineyille stage has made reg
g ular time. To-day will be the roughest
e trip made this season.
Collectors had a rough day Yesterday on
which to make their monthly calls, and to
t day is no Improvement.
$ The attendance at the public school has
not been very large during the past few
days, by reason of the snow.
When the spring time comes, gentle An.
e ME, it will stop showing aud the mercury
will not be cavortIng around zero,
This morning it began showing at 6
8 O'Clock, and continued until neon, with the
, mercury ranging from to 6 degrees above
zero.
Mr. Thomas Burgess, of Bakeove re-
turned on the midnight train from s ilem,
and started for home on the stage this
morning.
Seighs are busily engaged to-day In haul
ing Ice from the river and storing it. The
article is nearly foot thick, and of a good,
clear quality.
The roads to the interior are almost
blockaded We are informed that between
here and Nansene for a distance of three
miles the snow is four feet deep.
Mr.. F. W. L. SkIbbe, at his hotel in the
East End, will furnish lunch for 25 cents to
guests at the MASQUERADE ball to be given
next Monday night at Armory Hail.
We are informed that a freight train Is
block AIDED west of this city with thirteen
carloads of cattle. Without the rotary
Gle RS the track these poor brutes will suffer
for feed
The senate has voted itself another dis
tribution of $5 worth of stamps. making
total Distribution of Sll per head up TO
| date; enough for each member to mail 500
letters aud 100 bills.
Next Monday night is the time for the
annual masquerade ball If Jackson Engine
| Co, No ], OF this city aud tickets have
sold quite lively. The people always dis
play great interest in the annual parties of
| this company.
Mr.. j. w. Armsworthy, of Wasco, is in
| the city. He IS editor and proprietor of |
| the NeaUs, and is very desirous of returning; |
but the trains being bio kaded he must con- |
tent himself with the hospitality of The |
D.les for brief season.
The juvenile Temple will give an enterA
tainment this evening In the Congregational
church, consisting of songs, recitations, et;.
A., ,l,, 60 IS
will be charged. and this will be devoted to
the benefit Of the temple.
The Union Pacific is blockaded between
this city and the Locks, and east. bound
trains will be late Somewhere west of this
city the rotary snow plow is at work, and
it is expected that this will keep the track
op y; but it is needed the mountain and
other divisions east of this city.
E. o Republican: Eben Sprague, boy of
about IL. met with a serious accident at
Kamea Friday. While coastng he ran his
sled under team Of hor=es, one of which
kicked him. bre liking his arm, and making
a compound fracture of the skull He was
brought here for treatment and Is In a fair
way to recovery.
Mr. John Vanduyu, of Clinton, Indiana,
died on JAN 18Th, aged 90 years. He was
the father of Mr.. G j. Vauduyn. of Tvgh {
valley, and leaves family of four SONS aud
two daughters, only one of whom is on the
Pacific coast. M Vanduyn was pioneer
resident of Indiana, and was highly re-
spscted all over the state. He was in good
b alth until few days before his death,
and apparently died from old age.
A remarkable curiosity, showing the dur.
ability Of Washington cedar, can be seen OH
the Austin ranch ON Lake Whatcom. 1t is
a cedar log two feet III diameter, over which
has grown sp uce tree four feet in
diameter. Over The main root OF this and s
directly over the log is another cedar three | ,
feet In diameter. All the trees. including
the log, are perfectly sound. The log has
probably lain there several hundred years
We have received the handsome illus
trated catalogue of James Vick's sons {
Rochester, N. Y. The pansies and roses /
have refreshing effect, especially when
viewed with the thermometer 10 degrees
above zero and the snow fakes crowding '
each other so as to render the atmosphere t
almost Opaque. This is a reliable house,
and those of our citizens desiring plants
cannot do better than send an order to
them. I
Up to 2 o'clock this afternoon no passen- {
ger train had left Portland for the east. and
the road was reported bnckaded The ro- ,
stops falling. As it Is now the track fills
behind the piow as soon as il is cleared. s
Not only n this gorge Of the Columbia Is I
great difficulty Experienced, but east of =
this city 1t is equally bad, aud the rotary
w:l have plenty of 81 ork between Huntipgl t
ton aud Portland.
q lIager, 5oot aud shoe maker, was
found dead in the street at Cottage Grove
Tuesday inorning, and Coroner Harris re-
ceiyed word to come up, anG went up on
the local, says the Eugene Register. The
telegram stated that 1t is suppo, ed the man
got drunk and fell in the street and per-
Isned from the cold He was single man,
about 60 years of age, and it is stated he =
has been in the habit of getting on spree '
at regular intervals.
1t Is not to be expected that the police
or justice courts do much business these
days, and it Is no evidence Of lack Of energy c
to see jndlcial officers reading Plato's dia- .
Iogues, Virgil. HAD, the Pandects of JUS | u
tinlan and Hale's Pleas OF the Or wn when :,
the thermometer Is ranging around zero.
This'ls not the weather to induce any waste L
of force N any direction. whether me ital or 81
physical, and the most intricate problem is v
to know how to keep warm.
hese strange freaks of the clerk of the q
weather bring the "oldest InhabItant" Into
prominence, and he unwinds a monstrous
long yarn regarding winters in early days e
AMI severe Februaries. After listening at r.
tentively to his long and sad tale of hard :,
ships undergone when Oregon was consid- :
cred the ultima thule of the continent we
light fresh cigar, journey further aud leave II
him alone In his g.ory, believing ouly what a
was necessary of his ott-repeated story. i a
A may weaken the physical organization; ;.
but it has strange power to increase the i'm u
agination aud leave on- to roam at large in a
the fertile fields of fancy. r
A pleasant social gathering was held last 81
evening at the rectory bv the Ladies Guild.
1t was of conversati ,nal nature, each
guest being presented with certain topic
to which they were to confine their coUver-
sation for the evening The topics were E
various, and covered many subjects from
to the vanity of men, aud brought
forth a great amount of various kinds of II
talk. After the conversation had been en- T
joyed for time, refreshments were served o,
Those present were: MIR. and Mrs w. E. -
Garretson, Mr. aud Mrs. w H Lochhead,
Mr. and Mrs. D Sutclffe. Mrs. j. T. G.
Peters, Mrs A. N Varney. Mrs 2. De- a
Huff, Mrs G. c. BlakeieY, Misses Kate De