The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-12-29
From Mondays Daily.

at IL o'clock. All are cordially fnyited.
There will be work in the third rank al
the Knights of Pytbias lodge tonight, and
all members arc requested to be present.
The many friends of MIR. W. A. McFsr.
land in this city will be sorry to learn that
be is very sick at his residence in Seattle,
Wash.
There was the usual arrest last night ol
the drunk and ditorderly person. He was
fined S., and will do some work on the
streets IN payment thereof.
The Christmas dance at Wlngates hall,
by Smith Bros, should not be forgotten.
The best OF music will be furnished, and .
very pleasant time may be expected.
Services will be held in st. Peters Cath.
Olic church tomorrow morning at 80. 7:3O
and high mass at 10 80 There will be yes
per services in the evening at O'Clock.
Astoria Budget: The meanest man on
earth was found at the Methodist church
asst night. He dropped a counterfeit SO
| cent piece into the contribution plate and
took out forty cents change in good coin.
A new gold 6ud recently made in Alaska
is said to haYe yielded seven dollars to the
nounce new rich mines These rich discov-
cries are generally made about this time Of
the year; when it is too late for adventur-
ers to gobbie up the new big pay in them.
On being asked by Post reporter what
he would do when his term OF office ex-
pired, Governor Penpoyer said, 81 did In
tend to saw wood, but don't believe that
can find any wood to saw as long as we
stay on gold basis" The governor never
opens his mouth unless ne says something
over the average.
Benjamin F. Hunter, calamity prophet OF
Washington, d. c., has sent a warning
proclamation to Governor NJ Graw that God
| will destroy Olympia within two Years,
though he says God under no circumstanc' 8
allows his prophets to make a mistake.
What special wickedness the Oiympians
have BEEN guilty of is not stated.
Last evening at the meeting of the Saliva
tfon Army there was disturbance created
by some hoodiums. Two of them were ar
rested by the marshal, and this morning
were intervieaed by the recorder, There is
no law compelling any one to attend public
meetings, but every one who visits the bar
racks or other places should behaye himself
properly or be punished.
The Press. Tines says that the Rainier
heights in Seattle are sinking; that the
sink is similar to one last year. This sink
ing is accounted for in several different
ways. One theory ia that the heights are
underlaid with a stratum of sand aud that
the numerous springs above the sand are
washing away the sand, and that Is the
cause of the earth sinking
Senator Morrell, of Vermont, very aptly
depominates the PETER financial bills as
.'some marvellous senatorial bills aud quack
panaceas for real and imaginery grievances.
The niae bills referred to appropriated over
nine billions OF dollars in paper money. A
study of this might be ad led TO the famous
Populist text book as the eighth financial
conspiracy whose ain. was to ruin the Amer
ican people
Remember the magic lantern show Christ
mas n ght at Armory Hall for the benefit of
St. Paul's Sunday school. A selection will
be made from four hundred We've, both IN
structive and amusing. Ths lantern IS a
very large one and shows sp endid picture
An interesting programme, aside from the
lantern show, has been arranged. A6mIs-
siop, Is cents; children, 10 cents. Exer-
cises begin at O'Clock
The December bulletin of the National
Association of Wool Manufactures in its
annual estimate of the wool clip Of the
United States for the year 1894. shows that
Oregon had on January Ist 2 1923, 759 sheep.
and on April 1st, 2.4Sl ,6y4; l9. S53 552
pounds OF washed and unwasned wool, the
average weight being eight pounds to the
d -ece, while the percent OF shrinKsge was
65 and the pounds of secured wool 6,948,
743
Prinevile Revieu: On Thursday Henry
StrickiiD, j Ie Wilson and Geo. Stevens, all
OF Black Butte, were given a preliminary
examination b.fore Justice Elliott on a
charge of having killed cow belonging to
L. e. Wilks, aud were held IN bonds of
$500 each to answer before the next gtand
jury. Deputy District Attorney Bel and
Mr.. r. Biggs conducted the examination
for the state, and Geo. w. Barnes appeared
for the defendants.
There is great difference in people. A
Kansas man will stand in poverty and rags
amid the ruin ard ashes of his third corn I
crcp, burned by the hot winds of JuIv, and |
swear to the passing stranger that Kansas
IS the hest state in the Unioo, while the |
Oregon man who gets but forty bushels to |
the acre one season, when he wanted sew
enty. five, and had sixty the year before,
will go off on a visit dressed in his best SUIT
of clothes, and tell every man on the train
that Oregon Is too dead to skin.
George Patrick, of Grants Pass, was at
the Josephine caves this fall and explored
As far into them as anyb body, which Is a dis.
lance of l60c feet, although Captain A. B. |
Smith claimed to have driven IN % miles
with four -horse team, and the Examiner
averred that 10 miles would not find the
and. The utmost distance which any re-
liable person has been able to penetrate i.
1900 feet, and this is done by crawling on
lands and knees. clio bing over bowldcrs
md wadiDg numerous cool pools of clear
mountain water,
A peculiar phenomenon is reported by a
aocher five mites south OF Spraaue. Thanks.
irving dav he heard crash like a clap cf
hunder, followed by sharp vibration of
he earth. The following day he discovered
he cause OF the noise. A large mass of
ock, 100 feet high, IN scab land mile
outh OF Icehouse LEX, had slumped into
ne eartn. formiog a huge depression nearly
alf q mile IN extent Tbe basin Is slowly
iii, 6 with water, and people In that neigh
'orhood are all watching it closely. the
'asin IS now nearly half full, forming
mall lake in the widest of the barren scab
and.
The Milton Eagle says: Every tow 10
Nashir gton fur i,hes candidate for the
pardenship of the Walla Walla penIten-
iary, and some of these that make metro
olItan professions send forth three or four
he suiciGe of Warden Coblehtz, sad as it
Fas, viii yet cauee maoY men tears of grief
nd anguish, for only one man cau succeed
0 the position and the hundreds of aspi
ants, will 60 into mourning because they
7ould, but cannot. There is mania for
ublic patronage in the United States and
seems to be especially pronounced in
Washington.
Public spirit means different things in
ifferent places. 10 Malheur county, for
xampie. killing rabbits is worthy express.
ion of it, as this admonition from the o.
ario Ne,os bears witness: Every one
heuld subscribe at least a small amount to
he fund for purse to be gIver fJr the kill.
,g OF rabbits. And every one should kill
II the RABBITS they can, whether they ex-
ect to get one of the purses or not. 1t will
ay well next summer in the increased
mount of produce you can saye from de-
truction by these pests, to say nothing of
'Hit trees you will save. When you kill
a5bit, cut off both ears and string them
ee how many OF the pests you can kill.
For the Universal Exhibition to be held
Portland December lst to January Is,
S95, the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
ill sell excursion tickets at rate OF one and
ne fifth fare for the round trip, plus fifty
,uts for two admission eourons to the ex-