The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-04-29
From Monday's Daily.

Mr.. d l.. Gates. of Cascade Locks, is IL
the city.
Hon. C. NJ. Csrtright, of Crook county
drove i'll town to-day.
Mr.. Hollis Johnson passed through the
city yesterday to Portland from Wallace,
Idaho.
Yesterday was most delightful day in
this city. The sun was seen in Portland,
the first time for many months.
Mr.. Dan MaIoney, city marshal, is con-
fined to his residence by illness. During
4 his sickness Mr.. Page watches over the
peace and order of the CITY.
The funeral of MIR. Emory Campbell was
largely attended yesterday afternoon, and
very many friends of the deceased mani.
tested their respects to the remains.
There were two carloads of cattle shipped
from R. E. Saltmarshe & Cos stockyards
yesterday for Port Townsend, Wash, for
the meat market of Mr.. Chas. Butler.
County court convenes in this city for
law business next Monday; the next day
will be devoted to probate business, and
Wednesday to the commissioners court.
The following residents OF The Dalles
spent yesterday in Portland: Messrs. Max
Vogt and John Hampshire, and Misses Cas-.
sic Wiley, Daisy Hampshire and Rose
Michel.
The stages between here and The Dalles,
Priueville, Mitchell and FOSSIL, says the
Antelope Herald, are now running to suit
the patrons of the various lines better than
they ever did before. Antelope is better
supplied with stage lines than any other In
land town in the state.
Saturday afternoon washout occurred
on the railroad near the Deschutes river.
Ninety feet of track was washed out and
two bents of a bridge. This delayed the
west bound train several hours, and the one
due in this city Yesterday at 3 A. M. did not
arrive until 9 o'clock.
Antelope Herald: Sheep shearers from
nearly all parts of the union are here await
ing the advent of spring. Everyone of
them seems to have an old grudge at the
sheep and say they will rob the poor brutes
of the last fleece of wool oD their backs.
There seems to be no law to prohibit this.
CrIckets are appearing on the Warm
Springs reservations, and it is feared that
they will destroy the growing gram as tn y
did for three years past. The Indians are
becoming discouraged in their efforts at
farming, and if their crops are destroyed
this year they will have little ambition to
The loss of the small fruit crop in the
I Paluuse country is estimated to be not less
than Sl25, 600. What effect this may have
upon the market in that state is not quite
clear, but it will no doubt greatly increase
the demand on other fruit growers, and
create correspondingly higher prices. THIS
is encouraging to horticulturists there, but
a gloomy outlook to respondent buyers.
There are several panthers in the Haynes
slough country, and parents are afraid to
send their children to school. especially
when the little ones have to go through the
timher Some of the residents believe that
Andrew Hansen's boy, who disappeared
some weeks since from his home. ON Will
lanch slough was carried off by panther.
No traces of the child have yet been found.
Hon. j. G. Luckey was a passenger on
train to Hood River yesterday. His object
was to examine the islands in the river, and
see what dissertations had been made of the
Indians buried on them. He was informed
at the Warm Springs that frequently the
bones had been carried away by curio hun
ters. and the Indians make great complaints
of this sacrilege on the part OF the whites.
Arlington Record: Lieut.. Col. Thompson,
Captain Wells and Adjutant Collins COM
prIsed the board for the examination of
Captain Henry, of La Grande, for major
and Private Stages, of Weston, for second
lieutenant. Both gentlemen failed to pass
the examination. and AdJutant Collins says
that officers will be from this on required to
know something military in order to obtain
or hold commission.
The state asylum for insane at Salem Sat
urday received two recruits from Malheur
county. They were James P. Grimes and
s. ". Green, one of WestfaH and the other
a native of Iowa. Grimes is aged about 20
and Green about SO and both are laborers.
Green imagines he IS under spell of mes
merism by certain parties, while the old
man imagines he has an immense sack of
water on his abdomen.
Mr.. VIM. Thompson, who was for many
years in the U. s. navy and for long time
on the old Constitution, Was quartermaster
on the battle ship Ohio. during the Mexican
| war, when Admiral Gherardi was mid