The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-03-03

lest In mining speculation.
/. Justice Schultz has civil business in
i'll court; but nothing of q criminal nature
20 been brought before the local judiciary
e the past few days.
Is One of Senator Squire's constituents
Eastern Washington writes to him for
ir copy of the latest "sensuoIs report" al
,. would he be so kind as 10 send few ''flo
/, seeds
o Candidates tor county and oity Offices a
q plentiful, aid there will not be near
enough positions to go around. The col
ventlOns to be held before elections will d
crease these considerably.
u As soon as the roads are IN a condition
be travelled several wagons from the il
terror will load with freight. The coDstal
rains that have prevailed for several month
past have made them impossible for loade
wagons.
A fire of mysterious origin destroye
property In Walla Walla yesterday mornin
to the amount Of $4,000. 1t happened
the Nhitechapel neIghborhood. and de
stroyed one building entirely with all tn
furniture.
After being dumb for twenty three years
Roseburg woman has recovered the fac
ulty of speech. She will now have lots t
tell her husband. The old man says b
wishes he cou spare the money to make
trip to the Holy Land.
Application was made In the superio
court at Tacoma Yesterday to have Mickae
Murphy, one of the best known character
in the city, declared an habItual drunksrd
Murphy Is worth over $780, 900, aud OWL
the largest truck business there.
The Alaskan Yukon mining party. with
Louis and Willis Mas and W. f Gelger Al
the head, was to leave Port Townsend yes
terday on the Merico for the north. They
| expect to be gone over year at least, and
will bring out pack tram loaded with mug
| gets OF gold.
T. e. Veece furnishes the Moro Observer
| nearly a column of the most trashy sophis-
! tries in favor of silver coinage and against
| the Republican party that we have read for
long while. If the editor consulted the
welfare of readers he would use stereo-
type plates instead of nch verbiage.
According t, the calendar count, Wednes.
day closed the winter 1t is the last day of
the last winter month, yet we know that
the calendar count doesn't always hold good.
In old times February was the last month
of the year, hence the origin of its name.
1t was named fer Februo, the god of the
dead.
The death of Pharis Wade, an old and
highly respected farmer aud pioneer of
Grande Ronde valley, occurred at the state
insane asylum Sunday. Mr.. " ade has
been broken down physically for a number
of years and as result OF his poor health,
coupled with the cares of business, he has
been subject to periodical attacks OF de-
meDtIa.
Collector Blackman, who has been lin
Walia Walla interviewing appli :ants for
positions uader him, will leave Thursday
next for Southern Oregon to continue has
thorough canvass of this states needs and
condition, and will about March 20 assume
the duties of his Office with a full and in
telligent understanding of what is de-
mauded
Alex Fargher, the well known stock
buyer for the Pacific Meat company of
Me ker, Wash has been IL the CITY on H.
way to the eastern portion of the state. He |
stated that "while the present prices are |
low, there is some Improvement over prices |
Of month ago out butchers on thu Sound |
are making no money at the present market
values
R. W. Baxter, E. S. Vankuran and A. J.
Borie have flied articles Of Incorporation for
the Columbia River Railroad, with a capi-
al stock of S. 600 600. to build and operate
railway and telegraph line from Portland
20 the town of Cob e and thence along the
river to Astoria. The projectors
.lso propose constructing line frem Flavel,
Tlllamook Head and INTO Lower Nehalem
'allev ami t, Vernonia Fields Ia the upper
Nehslem valley.
The following is gong the rounds of the
~ fha -Irk 1
hanged to suit the locations: A young
nan Gown in California took bis z ri out fer
buggy ride. She fell out and ne drove
nj 9 bzfore noticing that she was missing
GU IN bet that such a thing would never
appen IN 0 egon. The horses mIgnt fall
ut of the shafts and never be missed, but
he girl. never.
As compensation for the destruction of
runk and contents during the smallpox
care in Astoria some months ago, circuit
ourt jury yesterday awarded damages OF
so to Charies Olsen, in his suit against Dr..
1. M. Walker, the city physician, by
hose order the property was destroyed.
he court held that the ordinance appoin t.
~ DR.. Walker city physician did not del
gate to bin the power to destroy property.
Arlington Record: The revival at Hep
nat 1t will soon be compelled to come to a
lose for the want o. un1onYerted material
work on. To obyiate this We learn mis- I
onaries are being sent out to the adjoining |
,wns and counties to gather in the sinners.
here haye been some OF these a. Arlington,
nd the result is We have lost two of our
opulatIon already. Well, what Is our IUss
Heppner's gain.
Mr. A. B Ferrera, a well known citizen ,
Portland, who has been acquainted with
,r. CandIana fer many years, refntes the
tory published in the Oregonidn yesterday {
bis completely IN the murdrr for which
ionini, who confessed his guilt at the time,
now euffzrIng liie sentence ia the pen-
entiary. We stated yesterday that it
ivored of persecution. aud no one who
,ads tine statement of Mr. Ferrera can {
5ubt that DIR. Candiapi Is an honorable
sntleman, and that this attempt to cou- !.
sct him with crime of which he is limo.
mt, was malicious and diabolical.
According to the Waterviile Inde1, IN @
ieging well ON the farm of Mr.. John {
Walters, near Haitline. when the workmen /.
ad got to depth of 76 feet they detected
hollow, answering sound t. the bows of
lie pick. Tapping the SIDE of the wall, b
icy broke into u cavern with good sized r
rsam OF water flowing along it's bed
hey entered the space ior ten or twelve
ct. but declined to ex lore the subte ran Q
IN hall any further. The stream was b
lsily diverted into the well, and Mr. a
'alters will hive an iDexhaustible supply
pure runnIng water. The course OF the
rean parallel with the draw in o
hrch the we'll was being sunk. but crossed a
at almost right angles. b
Give us the Oregon girl for pluck. The t
RECON CITY Enterprise says: Miss Blanche
eatrice MeCord, the yIolinIst. is an D O-gon
Ity girl, who, at great expeuse. has taken II
course at the conservatory at L-Ipsr-, o
the greatest school of music IL
10 world. With true grit his young giri
alone from Oregon to Germany.
I'd without frienjs, a stranger ia u strange
nd, she entered the conservatory. Bat
e little American g,rl made her way to Il
e front, became the pupil OF Hans Sit, a
10 celebrated mposer, aud the famous DR.. Il
leng.i. Here for two years she enj ysd
q best possible instruction, aud again
one nded her way back to the William v
te valley. Miss McCord is very soon TO Il
axe her public debut" Fl
Mr.. A Sorenson, city editor of the :,
toraing Oregonian, and Mr.. Lionel Stage,
receiver of the Oregon National bank
ay on Thursday assume the management a
the Euening Telegram, says the Portland C
Toe former will be editor an1 :,
70 latter gentleman business manager. !
r. Geo. Fl Moffett, VINO has controlled Z
e paper for the past three Years, will v
yer his connection with il. Mr.. Sores b
n is an experienced | urHa,lst and b 3 T