The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-10-06

the powder up when an explosion TOOK
place, resulting in t,ighiful fracture OF
his hand, and 1t was forced to be ampu-
tated.
A correspondent of the Condor Itooe
gives the reformation that Lee Paul, one
dav last week. while hauling water near
Legality. in GIiliam county, was thrown
from the wagon By runaway team OF
horses and dragged a considerable distance.
The h avy water tank was hauled over his
hand, br, akiug several bones and tearing
u. arly all the he,h from it. After surgical
assistance had been rendered he was doing
as well as could be expected.
The Second Eastern Oregon District Ag-
ricultural society will hold its annual falr
10 this city beginning Oct 9th and contin-
uing live days This Is Intended to be the
Growing one Of the society, and greater
interest appears to Re mantle sted aud more
strenuous efforts are being made TO insure
success than on former occasions.
A social dancing p1riy was given last
evening in Fratern ty hall by some OF the
Young ladies and gentlemen of the city.
Good MUSIC was furnished on the piano by
| Miss ALMA Schmidt, and the numbers were
very enjoyable. This may be considered
the6rst of series Of parties to be given by
the young pefple of the city during the
fall and winter months. Sa
The Pendietnn East Oregonidn continufs
| to sh; n: ,,Debs and laws which eucour 'ge
| debt and SUSTAIN the credit system ere re-
spansibIe for the present condition OF things
I If there were NJ debts there would be pros
| perity and progress. The people ont OF
I-,iebt at the present time are comparatively
hapry and contented. AN laws for the col,
lect on of aehts should be repealed aud
abolished. Bosh.
Condor Globe: Most of the wheat
throughout this ccuntry has heen threshed
aud the yield is enormous, being from one
half to one third greater than was antic-
ipated. L. will take slmost year for our
farmers to baul their wheat to the railroad.
The only Questionable feature about 1t Is
the .saIl-fired" low price But it is sure to
put big lot of money in circulation anv-
wsy.
An exchange has revived this. There is
wanted in almost every town in the country
an editor VINO can read, write and argue
politics and at the same time be religious,
funny. scientific and historic at will; write
J to please all without asking or being told;
always have something good to say about
everyone else; live on the wind, and make
MGR. money than enemies For such men
!. good Openings will he Eade-in the grave
yard.
L H Rhodes the Jefferson fruit buver.
finished shipping prunes for this season last
week, He has shipped four car loads Of
| prunes and several hundred bushes Of PEARS
apd in p short time will commence ship
| pirg apples. He employed about thirty
har da this year and the packing house pre-
sented a very iiveiv appearance during the
working hours. Next year Mr.. Rhodes ex-
poets to 20 into business more extensively
| as great maLy new prnne orchards will
then be in bearing.
The clerks or the sher'ff's Offices have
furnished no it. ms Of great interest for the
reporters for some days, and the weary
| pepcil-pusher has made his rounds without
very little reward fer his labots In these
| quiet davs, when men are too poor to en- :
gage in lawsuits. aRd too peaceful to be pug
nac.ous or .quarrelsome, the item g,therer
is driven to many straits to furnish copy;
but thu galley slave must do so much each
day, and il it is not IN sight must produce
il from a sonrcs, which, if necessary, he
must create himself.
Walla Walla Union: A special freight
train consisting Of IA rs hauled by two
engines left this city Monday over the o.
II. q N. tOP OuicdSo wa, cpoh9uc 1uu INC
Great Northern. The cars were loaded
with about 40, 600 head of sheep. the prop
erty of Conrad McDanni Is. of Umatilla
county, and were consigned to George
Adams 4 Burke of Chicago. The other
shipment of Is cars will leave Athena today
for the same firm. The sheep nave been in
the mountains all spring and sumn and
are in excellent cor dition. Mutton brings
good price in Chicago at present and the
market is brisk.