The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-03-11

Brown, E N Chandler and James Lewis
Up to the time of going to press testimony
was being taken and the case had not gone
to the jury.
Hon. o. P. Hubbard, special agent of the
government to look after damages suffered
from Indian drepredations will be at The
Dalles on the Sth. His business at Pendle-
ton has been of a larger volume than he ex.
pected.
The Inauguration OF President Clevevand
took plack Saturday in Washington City
with the most imposing ceremonies, and the
| Sunday papers devote pages In giving the
details and pictures of Mr.. Cleveland and
his cabinet.
Mr.. L. O'Brien, of Centerville, WASH, is
In town to-day, and is witness IN the
| case on trial in the county court. The
snow has disappeared from Klickitat
county, bat the weather is cold aud the
nights frosty.
The stockyards of R. E. Saltmarshe &
J Co. shipped three carloads of cattle and 400
mead of sheep to Portland last evening.
Beef and mutton from the bunch-grass hills
of Eastern Oregon always supp'y the tables
Of the metropolis.
Paul K. Richter and party, Of Chicago,
were registered at the Umatilla House yes.
terday. They came the noon tram and
returned to Portland in the afternoon. The
| trip was made evidently for the purpose Of
viewing the scenery on the Columbia.
The Annie FdGon is making three regular
| trips on the river now each week, says the
Lewiston Teller. The boat leaves Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays. The freight
| traffic is considerable on the river just now
The boat brings up from thntY to forty
tons each trip.
Everything was quiet aud serene at the
sheriff's office to-day, as well it should be
so soon after the Inauguration of the Demo
cratic president. There were no late ar.
rivals at the Jail, and aside from suFensing
jury for the county court the head of
''New Business" could have been passed.
Ponce matters were very quiet yesterday,
and the city jail was lonely and vacant.
No arrests have been made for two days,
and the recorder has had no important in
tervieWs, where, IN few words, be could
unloose the purse strings OF inebriates or
other vioators of the ordinances Of the mu.
nicipaiitY.
Lewiston Teller: Word is reported that the
steamer ON its trip up last Tuesday, located
the body of the man drowned Thanksgiving
dav. An investigation was to have been
made on the trip down Friday. If the sup.
position proves correct, the last one of the
unfortunate victims has been found. The
last one is the man Harvey.
Thomas q. Sladden was killed at the
Union depot in Portland Saturday evening
about o'clocS. He was standing on the
rear platform of the next to the last car of
the Southern Pacific tram, and by some
means fell off and was dragged by the front
steps of the last car under it. His head
and chest were badly crushed, and he lived
only ten minutes.
Tuesday morning. says the Springfield
Messenger, an eagle was seen descending in a
lowering circle above Kelly Butte. When
within a hundred feet from the ground,
it swooped down upon the back of a yearling
colt. The colt started down the hill at a
rapid rate with Mr. Eagle clingpg to his
back. After an apparently enjoyable ride
of about fifty yards the eagle rose and cir
cled up beyond the clouds.
The Portland Telegram has discovered an
idiom in use in Eastern Oregon and no
where else. 1t is peculiar to the judges of
the Sixth judicial district. "Shake the
box, Mr.. Clerk. and let the Jury come.
1t is a peculiar expression and Is a relic of
Judge L. L. McArthur's service on the
bench IN the Sixth district. and it is a not
able fact that every judge that has served
in that district since judge McArthur's
time, uses that expression which Is not used
in any other district in the state.
"Wales," says western Welshman. ''has
given three presidents to the United States
jefferson, Adams and Monroe. Thomas
Jefferson was pure Welsh, too. and the
Welshmen of New York are now organizing
a mo ement to erect a grand monument to
him. There are 100000 Welsh and their
immediate descendants in this country, and
over 1900 600 pure Welsh and their first
descendants. The Welsh. Irish and Scotch
are in my opinion all offshoots of the little
band of Aryans that passed over from little
Brittany and settled on what are now the
British Isles"
Salem Journal: The new assessment laws
leave deficit in future city and school
funds, and 1t is the opinion of gentlemen,
who have investigated, that the city and
district will have to borrow money to run
the schools with for 1893 1894. The school
warrants will not draw interest. Incompe.
tent clerks got in this work and the state OF
New York appears several times in the
Lawton tax bill and other minor defects run
all through it. Gentlemen are now exam
ming the matter, and the people will prob
ably be forced to manage very closely until
the new system gets under way.