The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-01-06
From Saturdays raily.
The sun shone brightly this morning.

1894, no TIMES MoUNTAINEER will be !
3" sued from this office.
The rock-crusher is kept busy to its fu
capacity, and as soon as Second street
. finished, the squares at the intersection
= cross streets will be flled-in with thes
crushed stones.
A shipment of fourteen carloads Of sheel
left Ar ington Wednesday, destined for tn
Chicago market. Before arriving at t. eli
f d stination they will be stopped a som
point in Hin is and fed.
Seventeen tramps were housed in tn,
county Jail last night, says the Eugen,
Guard. They Were furn shed with about
on dollars worth of cheap food at the ex
pense of the city. The railroad company
is now bjecting to these in iividuals riding
on trains without pay.
Rev. w. Walker, Of Wa>eo, but fol
many wears resident Of this city. is very
sick at ms home He has bseu confiaed to
his bed for the past two months, and his ill
ness is OF a'vsry serious azure.
The regimental commander, Lieut. Col
Thompson, desires to return his thanks to
the members of Aurora Lodg. No "a, K.
of P. at Wasco, for the use of their hall
for tn mastering in exercises of a. Co,
Judge Fullerton heard arguments ester
day at Corvallis on the motion to accept
the resigna ion of Receive Hadley of the
o. P. r. r. 1t is expected that the court
will order another sale of the road at date
rot later than six months.
Severa' wheels were out this afternoon,
and bicycling on the sidewalks was in
| duiged in to considerable extent. Two
days before New Year, sunshine and blue
skies, and the temperature as mild as
spring cannot be truthfully written of
many places in this latitud-.
The largest fish caught in the Columbia
river so far this season was a sturgeon
measuring II feet in hes long and weigh
ing 755 pounds, which was landed at KNAPP
pton, Wash, a week or so ago. Tie head
alone weighed $50 pounds, and the fish
yielded 427 pounds OF edible meat.
The 3year-old daughter of f. o. Davis,
says the Eugene Guard, living near Hs dley-
vile, was seriously and perhaps fatally
burned Morday by falling into the fire.
The flesh on her right side wa horribly
burned and large patches came off with the
clothing which remained after the fire was
smothered.
Condor Globe: The Walter c. Hume
well property, 16O acres near Mayville, was
sold by Sheriff Wilcox Saturday. It was
bid in, for the plaintiff, ". W. Steiwer, for !
sl5O-just enough to pay off the indebted
ness and costs of foreclosure. This is
pretty low for good decided land, being less
than 81 per acre.
Mr.. Stokes and his force of line-repairers
have been busy during the past few days on
the telegraph lines in the vicinity of The
Dalles. The w U. T Cos property needs
constant repairs, and this season of the
year lines and poles are liable to be mis-
placed and damaged by accidents caused hy
the rainy weather
.Astorian: TIE interesting question lis
said to be raised in Washington whether
there are fifty Democratic members of The |
house who viii vote against the Wilson bill.
Mere than that number are said to be DIS
satisfied, but the conditions are so involved
it is difficult to find a solid basis for obser-
vations or calculations.
l
Crccker, the Tammany boss, used ur
columns of a newspaper in an attempt to
explain how man with legitimate income
of nothing year can buy s250,O 900 stock
farms, $50, 900 residences and other trlties
He did not succeed, but it is encouraging
that he fears public opinion sufficiently to
have even made the attempt.
The steam shovel has been at work for
some days on the slide on TIE railroad
track beyond Mosier, and all the loose dirt
and rock is beirg cleared away. This will
be continued along the line of the road, and
the company are determined that the road
bed between The Dalles and Portland shall
be made1as solid and safe as possible.
Heretofore prominent saloon in this
city has had its walls ornamented by por-
traits of President Cleveland and Vice
President Stevenson; bat one day this week
the proprietors took these pictures down
and sent them away, saying that they uld
not support he party they represented any
longer. The ''change" which has taken
place did not suit them
Astorian, A large lump of beeswax was
recently brought up rom the Neha cm by a
ettler in that section and sold to NJ. j.
Kinney for s25. Its diminsions are about
3Ix2xl feet, and ON one of the sides are
three letters, but so indistinct that they
cannot be deciphered. 1t was found near
The spot on the beach where Spanish yes
'el is supposed to have gone ashore many
years ago, and where so much of the wax
has been found from time to time for
twenty years.
The Grants PAS Courier says: "The
nidwintsr fair folks are endeavoring to
work the country papers for freeadvertising
Is did the Chicago blow out State pride ;
5 appealed to in the old way. The mid I
winter fair IS started as money making {
cheme and its promoters should pay for |
heir advertising or do without it. San
francisco is liable to turn into refuse for
II the buneo,steerers in the country and
hey will lay for people whom the
ountrY papers have in duced to visit the
how"
Pac.fc Banker and Investor: Oregon t
an justly boast of as clean financial rec t
I'd and as so id a standing as any state in !
be union With debt describable by the
se of ciphera alone, she has sos, ,773. 90 in
warrants issued the present il
ear, payment of which is provided by ?
tate levy, and redeemable at any time. b
)uring 1892 she received S672, ,57S. Al and C
xpended s576, ,335.24. including sS7, l56 Is .
efficiency. Her educational funds are in a
lost healthy condition, and in all other re-
poets she is doing very we'll indeed.
Says the Goldendale Sentinel: Within
he past two weeks y placer mining claims
ave been located in the Three Creek
eight or ten miles northeast
# Goldendale. These claims cerer an area