The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-05-19
From Mondays Daily

| Judge Bradshaw returned Yesterday from
holding a term of court at Prineville.
Mrs. L. Booth and children are visiting
Mr.. W. Sharp, who resides on Three Mile.
Mr.. A. Nj. Kelsay and two daughter,
| Lotto and Leila, left this morning for Ante.
lope.
District Attorney Wilson returned Satur.
day evening from attendInga session OF
| circuit court at Prinevilie.
Several loads of wool have been received
| at Moody's warehouse. They were from
Dayyille, Prlneville and Antelope.
Mrs. E. Martin and son. of San Fran
cisco, are registered at the Umatilla House.
Mrs. Martin Is the mother of our deputy
county clerk.
Yesterday morning at the 7 o'clock mass
at St. Peters Catholic church there were
two boys and five girls who made their fret
communion.
The stockyards of r. E. Saitmarshe &
Co. presented quite an animated appear
ance yesterday and today. There were two
carloads of cattle shipped today to Portland
and carload OF sheep to Troutdale
Another irrigation project is on foot in
the neighborhood of Pasco. Ir is to take
water from the Snake river by mesns of
tuf bine wheels and duplex pImps and irri.
ute from 5000 to 10000 acres. Theodore
Newcomb, OF Bro klyn, N. Y, is the pro-
Doter OF the scheme.
Mr.. W. B. Cowne is in the city from
Portland en- route to his home at Caleb,
Grant county. He is deputy o. s. marshal
tor Grant county, and accompanied Body
Smith who is accused of rebhing the mail
of registered letter, to the U. s. district
court in Portland.
Mr.. W. N. Wiley arrived in town Satur-
dav from his sheep camp near Antelope.
and will return IN few days. He will be-
gin sheariog as soon as he returns.
The wool. he says, il 100 ler cent
better than it has ever been. and should
command good figure in the market.
Salem Journal: The city Is visited al
most daily by persons Of al kinds solicit
ing aid ON some pretext. The latest is a
lady raising money for a miners home In
British Columbia, and che has rustled good
many dollars. We have our own poor and
ought not to be asked to support foreign
charities. especially when we know nothing
about them or their solicitors.
There is no further news of the robbers
wh, blew open the safe of Johnston Bros
at Dufur Thursday night Their camp was
found near Five Mile creek, whers evidently
they had pirtaken Of breakfast Friday, and
then made for the nearest point on the rail-
road. No description of them can be fur.
nished, ss they have not been seen by any
one, and perhop, by this time are 10 dis
tant state plying their nefariou- vocation.
Several of the Republican aud Democratic
candidates returned yesterday att. visiting
Dufur and Wapinitia These gentlemen.
although opponents, politically, were the
best OF friends socially, Among those who
returned were Hon. T. r. Coon, A NJ
Kelsay. A 8. Blowers, F 81. Wakefield,
w. q. Butts and r. E. Williams. Mr.. 7
J. Driver went to his home at Wamic and
Messrs. L E. Morse and e Martin left
Tygh Sunday morning en- route to Antelope.
Grant County Ne,cs. Mr.. Anderson, a
Swede living at the lower end of town, is
missing. It appears he had been on visit
to MIR. A. Anderson on Beach creek last
Friday, and sometime in the night he arose,
took his pistol and started out. mixing the
remark that he was going to kill somebndy.
This is the last seen OF Mr.. Anderson and
it Is feared he mas gone crazy and done HIM.
self injury Parties have made search
but can find no trace Of him.
They were returning home from pohti-
cal convention lately held in Eastern Ore
gon, and naturally the conversation turned
on the subject of money, says an exchange.
The chief speaker was a gentleman of Pop
ulist procllvities who insisted that money
need not possess any intrinsic value. All
that wss needed was the government sta mp
The government could put its stamp upon
q piece of leather and make it a dollar
"The hi it could. said one of the listen
ers. Suppose the government took you
to the corral where they brand the govern
ment mules and clapped the brand on you
woulf that make you government mule?" |
The only answer was roar OF laughter In |
which the fiat money advocate joined at his |
own expen-e.
Salem Statesman: Superintendent Row |
lands April report of the number of pa
tients iD the state icsane asylum shows the
figures: Number Of patients on
April lst-male~ 644. females 292, total 936; |
number received during April. males seven
teen. fen ales twelve; number of returned
escapes, two. making a total of 967 under
,are and treatment. During April seven
we're discharged as reeovered-tive males
md two females; seven died, two were dis
charged as much improved; one was dis
charged as improved. two as not Improved,
me Uped; making the number remaining
10 the Both, 947 The number OF employees
vas 102 and the average Dumber Of pas,ents
iailv $40 making the total number 1912.