The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-12-23
ITFMs IN BRIEF
From Saturdays Daily.

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streets presented, for time,s busy appear
anCe.
Democrats in Boston are mad over tt
clause the Wilson bill taxing beans. Tai
hits Boston where she "lives and moves an
has her being"
Instead of bowling for more mauufacto
ries, says the Eugene Guard, 1t would he
splendid idea to patronIze those we have
Then new industries would soon spring up
Twelve inches Of snow have fallen iu Co
vile valley, Wash. Mercury fe to Ii be
low, Monday II is ared stoolmea vii
have to feed hay earlier than usual AMI thai
hay will lie very dear.
One OF the latest notions in the New
| England town of New Bedford IS "Llzz e
| Borden club" The presiding officer uses a
hatchet, III place of a gavrl. aid the pass
words are Not guilty"
Our local nrmrods are finding excellert
sport in Mill creek past few days
almon trout are now coming in quite
freely, and are being hooked in considerable
numbers. hey are very gamey fish, AM
fis ing for them is sport of high order.
Any one buying twenty-five cents worth
of goods, between now aud Christmas
Eve, gets chance on a handsome doll,
which will be displayed this evening in
the window of NJ. T. Nolan's postoffice
book store. Drawing to take place Christ
mas Eve.
MIR. G. F. Lauer has fac lot OF perch,
Puget sound herring and Hood River trout
on sale III his market on Second street
These are exceile t fish, and anyone desr-
ing brain food should feed the cellular tissue
of the cerebrum on this phosphorescent SUBJ
stance.
The records at the county clerks office
show considerab e. falling off in the num-
ber of marriage licenses issued, over the
earlier months of the year. 1t must be that
the boys are afrai of hard winter or fear
that the Wilson tarff bill will have disas-
trous effects.
The medical commission, on tour of ip-
spectIon of the different points in Eastern
Oregon for the proper sanitary conditions
for establishment of branch insane asy:
tum. were expected here this morning; but
hey did net arrive and tomorrow they are
are anXlously looked for.
The state board or equalization has set
apart Deceu ber 22d as the date to hear rep
resentatives from Wasco county, relative to
a change in the assessment. This will be
the opportunity for all those who are dissat-
ished with the action of the county assessor
and the county board of equalization to Sc
cure an equable assessment.
A young man named Melon called at the
Walla' Walla postoffice for letter. The
clerk;told him it was too late in the season
for melons. As the young man was leaving
he asked he deputy if his name was not
Ford. Upon an affirmative answer he re-
marked that it was d shallow one.
They were even.
The paving of Second street is progress
sing rapidly. The crushed rock is now be-
ing filed in between Court and v ashington
streets, and we will, from all appearances,
soon have an opportunity to go about the
streets without wading through this inter
minable mud that has rendered our streets
like those of London in the time of Dickens.
District Attorney Mccain, of McMinn
vile, in reference to query as to neither
or not he would bring second injunction
to restrain the location of the soldiers home
at Roseburg says: 81 have fully consid-
cred the matter If joining in the proceeding
to rest ain the location of the soldiers
tome at Roseburg, Ore., and have arrived
at the conclusion that the proceeding is not
in the public interests and that it i. not my
duty to join offici ,ily on such proceeding"
Linn county hunters after reading the
following cougar story from Jackson county
will hav to make another attempt: An
old hunter, James Farren, S4 years of age,
encountered a cougar while in the mount
aims hunting for bear. Not wishing to
waste ammunition, he hurled rock at the
animal, struck it on the head, and while It
was dazed from the blow, jumped upon it,
and split its throa with knife, all b fore
the astonished beast could say 'Jack Rob
inson" or anything equivalent to it in the
cougar tongue. The beast measured IL
fe in length, and MIR. Farren has the hide
to pr We the jury. Be ides this hi dogs
were there a. witnesses and do not contra
dict him. The ,ougar hims If declines to
be interviewed.
The Salem Statesman says: A condition
unprecedented in the hop history of Oregon
p esents itself to-day, when three and
half months after the market opened, there
are actically no hops on the mar ct. All
have been shipped out of the country. Here
tofore Oregon hops have ranked next to
New York's which were said to be the
finest in the county, but this year the New
I ork output had to take a back seat tor us.
mere was uculduu IOT OrtgOu uOpS Wueu
buyers turned up their noses at the New
York crop. Or gon has produced Sc, 900
bales this year, and they were the best hops
ever grown in the state. Growers waited
unit the hops were ripe before they began
picking and this fact is responsible in
great measure for the excellence of the
crop.
Corvallis Times: From time jmnemorial
it has been generally conce ed that every
man charged with crime had a right to trial
by jury of his peers. The federal consti
tuition and our high judicial decisions tend
that way, but the whole theory was ex-
ploded in justice court over in Alsea last
week. The case was the state versus v IL
liam Nelson. charged with cruelty to ami
mails, and according to his sto y, when he
dema ded jury, the presidin. justice
informed him that be could haye
a jury b. paying the jurymen. Nelson re-
fused to do this and the trial proceeded.
Nelson was convicted. sentenced to two and
one-half days in the county Jail. He ar
rived thursday, served out his sentence,
aud has gone home with information about
jury trials that he picked up while here
which fills his bosom with wrath and a de-
sire for vengeance.
From Gondav's Daily.
DR.. Hollister was again called to Hood