The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-01-27

city: virsie Cooper, Hattie Marden.
Frances Fouts, Rachel Morgan. and condi-
rional certificates. by reason OF back studies,
we're granted to Jim Mcneil, grammar;
Anna Hawthorne. U. S. history.
The recorder had eleven hoboes to inter
view this morning. They were hauled IN
last night out Of the cold, and Recorder
Dufur tried them under the police ordinance
regsrdilg vagrancy. The usual fines were
Imposed, and the rock crusher will furnish
employment for them during the next few
days.
Early IN the year it was announced thai
Walter Fl. Kirby, saws the =" ALA u ALA
Union journal, late of Pepdleton, had beer
killed in San Francisco. Now comes let
ter from Kirby dated at Olympia. Jan 10 h
N which he declares he has not en kiilet,
insists he Is Dot dead. but "well and III the
best of health MIR. Kirby writes it is al
most impossible to obtain work in Olympia.
William Ballard, an old miner of Alder
Gulcb, Montana, who died at San Francisco
| iptestate: few weeks ago, and was sup
posed to be a poor man, left fortune
over $500, 900, $500 600 of whicn was hard
| cash, dc posted in no less than seven ba ks
IN that city, the balance being IN Spring
| Valley water stocks and bonds His sister,
| Mrs. Fl. 81 Kir' y, OF Omaha, is the onlV
| known heir.
| A friend in Chicago write. t. the editor
| of the Walla Walla Statesman that the
mounted bird heads etc, that were on ex-
| hibition in the Washing or building Sc CHI
cago are for sale at A Booths fish store
there, but the prices asked are very hlgh
! The Statesman says it would BE- interesting
| to know how they are for sale. as the st'st
i of Rarsf
a salary of Sl00 month to collect and
| mount them
JIM Deico, the man who claimed to be
married TO his boy part ner, and had him ar
rested on charge of adultery. did not ap-
pear last Saturday-the date fixed for hear.
| ing the case IN Justice E:liott's court-and
1t is the general supposition that the ro-
matte life which he claimed to haye led was
all in his mind At all events, the record
of his marriage could not be found in Gil
| liam county, where Delco alleged the mar.
riage was performed -Ochoco ReUieto:
At Winan's Bros. fishery ou the Wash
| ington side of the ri er, We are informed. q
| ferry boat was picked up last Saturday
while it was floating down the Columbia.
| Some Indians who came down from Co
| lumbus, Wash Saturday. sal the beat
used for crossing from that town to Biggs
| had been carried down stream, and this was
| undoubtedly the craft 1t was not vrry
much damaged con D.idering it's rough voy-
| age.
Teleorcm: Internal Revenue Collector
| Henry Blackman is being besieged With
verbal and eoistnlsrv applications for
| places in his office. soon as he assumes
actual charge. He has sufficient applIca-
| tions to stock dGzeu internal revenue
| offices with clerks, but so far none of them
| have received any encouragement, 30 far
as the public are aware. II Mr.. BIackma
| has already chosen his corps OF assistants he
Is keeping the fact to himself.
During the storm Saturday night the te'-
egraph and tel phoue wires were Frustrated
in manv places. and it took some time be-
fore these were placed in position. Snow
hung on the wires in this city in large
masses, and these were tangled IN many IN
stances that required considerable labor to
untwist them. We have been informed
that along the railroad track telephone and
telegraph iInes fell on the rails, and the cars
passed over them cutting them in pieces
About IL o clock this forenoon a man
came to the recorders office desiring a war
rant of arrest for pa, ties at the East End.
His head had somewhat the appearance oil
having passed through threshing machine,
and he said that man held him while his
wife belaborei him with a potato masher.
The man was referred to the district at
torney, and as the matter will very likely
come before the courts the TINES MOUNT
| AINEER may have occasion to publish the
facts when the trial Is had.
Stevenson Pioneer: The people of this
vicinity will be panied to hear of the acci-
dental drowning of Hazel Nichols of this
place in the Columbia river on Saturday.
January 6. Reports are meager as yet. but
| it seems sudden squall struck the boat
which had up full sail, and capsiz,ng sent
| Hazel into the cold water. He called
| three times. but those on shore were power.
less to help him in time and before aid
could reachs him, he was out of sight The
boys were ont dragging four days before
| the body was recovered
Oregon has always been free from light
4 ming rod men; but. alas, our railroads and
hard times have brought the curse to our
doors. Two men have been operating in
Marion county. In order to introduce their
rods they sold an outfit to l.. q. Griffith. OF
Waldo Hllls, for S670. When the rods
had been put up man appeared with bill
| for $3.50. which he claimed was due under
the peculiarly worded contract MIR. Griffith
had been induced to sign. A warrant was
issued for the arrest of the men. c Castle,
| Jim Doe and Richard Roe. The pen is
the proper place for such men.
A meeting of trans Mississippi congress
will be held at San Francisco during the
next month, convening m the 18th. AT
this Oregoa will be represented, Gov. Pen
| mover having named the following dele
gates: H e Hayes, worthy mast of the
Oregon state grange. Salem; Chas Miller,
Jefferson; Geo III Moffet, editor of the Port.
land Telegram; Attorney General Geo Z
Chamberlain, Salem; Van B De Lsshm t,
Portland; ] 81 Raley, OF Pendleton; Gen II
B Compson. of Portland; w Easterbrook,
of St. Helens; H Gullixson, of Portland
and c Fullerton, of Roseburg
Do psople really love trashy literature, OF
do they read it chiefly becau-e it is cheap
and easily accessible? Much light is
thrown on this inquiry by the experience Of
the Forum, which is the very furthest re-
move from sensationalism. This leading
monthly is reduced price r. from SIS to S. a
year, and d scovered alnl It Instantly that
the nu bsr of readers of erious literature
in the United States was as great-or we'll.
| nigh as great-as the number of readers OF
| the popular" magazines. The publishers
| report q ntipusus ILcrease, and an in
crease at a faster rate since the January
number appeared than before. The edition
| for February will. it Is believed, be larger
| than anv edition of any review ever hither-
to published anywhere.
The friends of Mrs. c. F. Stephens gave
her surprise party: Saturday evening at r
residence in this city. Sunday being the
anniversary of her birthday, those OF her
sequsintances having respect for the
Sabbath, gave the party on the previous
evening. The hours we're spent very sgres-
ably in games and other zmusements, and,
before retiring, each one extended congrat
ulstions to Mrs. Stephens, and wished her
many returns of the anniversary.
The Southern Pacific company are expe-
riencing considerable difficulty from the
deep snow fall In the SiskIyous. A dispatch
from Ashland says: ''Soowstorms in the
SiskiYous still keep the Southern Pacific
track forces bisy clearing the road for traf-
hc. TIE overland train arriving here from
the north this morning was held in the
yards in Ashland until this evening, when
1t started south. preceded by big rotary
snowplow. which piloted this afternoons
north bound overland oyer the S,skIyous
nearly on schedule time. About four feet
OF snow is reported ons the summit of the
Siskiy Us nov. and it is still storming. The
wind drifts it into the cuts and. keeps the
snowpow stesdily at work.
In referring to the state levy of four and
three tenths mills, the Salem Statesman save:
'.No additional levies were made for the
new wing and improvements at tho peni-
tentary. nor for the jute mill, the fi.hway
at Oregon City, nor for the Eastern Oregon
insane ASYLUM for the reason that the ann,