The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-12-01
The Times-MOuntaineer
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From Wednesdays Daily.

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From Wednesdays Daily.
Tomorrow will be Thanksgiving day
The post office will be open tomorrow
from to 10 A. NJ.
Shutz's smokeless shells loaded-goo6
supply at Maier & Benton's.
At Skibbe's in the East End there
will be turkey dinner tomorrow.
As we go 10 press we learn the jury in
the case of Srte vs.. Otis =. Savage has
been completed.
Nov. 28.-Fred N. Jones to Cordelia
A. Jones; 1T .35 acres in secs 6 and 81,
tips and g., 9, r Is e; 81.
Last night there was arrested one per-
son for being drunk and disorderly. He
was brought before the recorder and
fined IS.
The only entry on the law docket in
the circuit court today was: Pekin Plow
Co. vs.. c. L. and L. Moore; motion to
strike out answer.
A sunrise prayer and Thanksgiving
service will be held tomorrow morning
in the Christian church at O'Clock, to
which all are invited.
Russia has in its treasury gold ruohles
to the number of 646, 28l 900 or nearly
$500, 900 900 in gold The czar has been
pretty cd Republican in paying cur
rent expenses, cancelling debts and
keeping comfortable surplus in unim-
peachable money.
BY order of presbytery, the pulpit of
the Umatilia Indian Presbyterian church
on the reservation has been declared va
cant, Rev. Mr.. Noyes having been dis
missed. The church has about 80 men,
bers, and an attempt will be made to Sc
cure another pastor
A number of the members of Friend
ship lodge, No. 9, K of p, of this city,
will visit Pythorogoras lodge No. Al at
the Locks tomorrow evening. There
will be work in the three ranks, and
The Dalles team are first class in the
rendition of the ritual.
The fifth annual ball of the Gesang
Verein Harmonic will be given this even
ing at the Baldwin opera house. Music
will be furnished by The Dalles Or
chestral union, and this insures to those
who delight in the may dance, delight
full strains to which time may be kept
easily.
Ata O'Clock this afternoon there were
nine persons selected In the case of state
vs.. OTIS 8. Savage. There have been two
special venires issued, and the last panel
will be exhausted this evening. The
names of the last three jurors chosen are
John w. Adams, Andrew Crabtree and
y. B. Hartley.
They say funny things back in Kansas
when a political fight is on. For in
stance, newspaper back there, refer
ring to the newly elected governor: "The
reason horses do not bring more is be-
cause street cars are run by electricity,
threshing machines by steam, and the
state by donkey"
w. E. Page shows the Tillamook
Headlight some samples of seal and sea
lion leather, also shoes of the same ma
terlal. made by him at Netarts. He |
SAYS the seals and sea lions are very |
valuable for their hides and OIL and that |
they are easily procured. The leather
is very tough and soft, and takes fine |
finish. Mr.. Page is an experienced tam
ner and shoemaker, and may shortly be
in position to utilize the seal and sea
lion skins that may be secured at
Netarts. He contemplates starting a
tannery and thinks it would pay.
There will be union Thanksgiving SER
vices at the Congregational church, at II
A. M. Thursday. Sermon by Rev. ].
Whistler, pastor of the Methodist church.
A contribution will be taken, the same
to be given to the Kings Daughters OF
the Young Womens Temperance assoc
iation, for distribution among the poor
of the city. All are cordially invited.
Messrs. Slnnott and Fish, OF the Uma-
tilla House, will give one of the most
recherchs meals tomorrow ever furnished
in the city. The menu contains every
thing that could tempt the appetite.
yenlence of cooking dinner at home
when such meal is furnished at such
reasonable rates at well known hotel. ,i
TWENTY-FIVE years ago The First Baptist
Society bui a church Ia Oregon City
which, at that time was ample to hold all
the congregation, and more. There were
then four other churches; now there are
nine. Sine, that time, the Congregation
alIsts and MethodIsts have erected new
buildings, the Presbyterians have en-
larged theirs, and the Baptists are just
compleiing the remodeling and enlarge
ment OF theirs.
The fling of articles of incorporation
for railroad to diagenaily biseet the state
from Astoria will probably never extend
beyond the paper stage. 1t has not even
q sufficient appearance of success to con-
stitute bluff against the Oregon Rail-
way and Navigation Company, whether
il is backed by the Union Pacific or not.
The Unien Pacific is hardly in a position
to handle ITS present mileage to say moth
ing of constructing any new roads
We were informed that three of our
nimrods visited Sherman county last
week for the purpose OF shooting geese. T
For three days they tramped through {
harvest fields, mud and mire; watched {
for hours in pits, crawled through pools
of water and suffered other hardships /
incident to a hunters life, and ceme |
home with--two geese. They say that
wild geese are not good game, and there
is not the least sport hunting them.
The China storekeeper of Susanville :
PLAYED sucker" last Friday evening
and today mourns, the loss of 500. Last
Friday evening stranger came in and
bought $40 bill of goods and presented
q 500 Confederate bill in payment ;
therefor. The Chinaman, without ex-
amining the bill, promptly gave the
stranger $50 in gold In return. The mis-
take was not discovered until the follow ,
ing morning, when the stranger had
disappeared. Il
If can of milk is placed near an open
vessel containing turpentine, the smell
of turpentiue is soon communicated to
the milk. The same result occurs as
regards tobacco, parafin, assaf9tida, .
camphor and many other strong smell
ing substances. Milk should also be
kept at distance from every volatile :
substance, and milk which has stood in
sick chambers should never be drank.
The power of milk to disguise the taste
of drugs-as potassium, iodine, opium,
salicylate, etc.-is well known.
From Fridays Daily. I,