The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-09-22
From Thursdays Dal y.

The state fair is now being held in Salem.
city.
W. F. Snodgrass, of La Grande, has
leased the Gazette to William Stephenson,
practical printer,
Mr.. Chas. Schultz is making a survey Of
some of our streets, and finding corners and
monuments marking the cenler of streets.
There will be change in the arrival and
departure of trains in this city, beginning
in October. The schedule has not been
given out yet.
Mr.. T. q. Johnston, of Dufur, is IN town
today. de says farmers are busy threshIng,
and wheat is turning out equal to the most
sanguIne expectations.
The o. R. & N. Co. has dispensed with
the old.time pay-car method of making
monthly payments to their employees, but
send the checks to the agents.
Farmers in this county are busy heading
and threshIng. and the returns from the
crops are very bountiful; but the price of
wheat in the market still ranges at a very
low figure.
There is band of one hundred and fifty
head of cattle in e. L. Saltmarshe & Co.'S
stockyards today They came from Nor
row county. and will be shipped to the
Unien Meat Co. at Troutdale tonight.
Miss Ursula Ruch returned Tuesday
evening from summers vacation in the
Willamette Valley and at Newport. She
was accompanied by Miss Nettie Grimes,
who will be her guest for few days in this
city.
Street Commissioner Butts, Chief Blaser,
and Engineer Brown replaced the old bell
oyer the East Eud Hose Co.'S house with a
new one this morning, and, IN case Of
confagration its brazen tongue will sufi-
cienty alarm the citizens of that portion of
The Dalles
Delinquent taxes in the early history OF
Wasco county did not amont to much, and
the statements sre now on file that the sum
not paid IN 1856 was only S2l So; but in the
following year there was greater remiss-
ness In this regard. and there are SLAB IS
returned delinquent by the she rid.
Mr.. Emile Schanno received today a COL
ony Of Australian lady bugs from California,
which he will turn loose in some of the or
chards on Mill creek. These are very de-
strHctive to the San Jose scale, and this
vicinity should have several colonies of
these insects to rid fruit trees of this pest.
In the terminal shops at AlbIna the o. R.
& N. Co. Is employing q large force of
mechanics. who are working on full time
Very many of the locomotives that went
through the food need repairs, and . large
number of freight cars, rendered necessary
by the incrtased traffic: are being over.
hauled.
Late adyIces from Australia tell of the
discovery of q nugget at Coolgardie, which
weighs 1900 ounces and is worth $50, coo
1t IL said to have been taken from q reef
the whole face of which glitters with gold.
The wonderful find has created intense ex.
citement and attracted q tumultaous rush
to the rich diggings
The Tillamook Adrocute tells of farmer
OF that county who has made "a, 900 raising
hens and selling eggs In San Fr,ncisco.
Thus farmer had no money at all to start
with-only his industrious hands and good
horse sense. The farmers all over Oregon
mnst raise more hers hogs, etc. TneY
must market their grain in the hog pen and
the chicken yard.
Over in the state of Washington the
mortgage indebtedness is a little over $44,
900. COO. Oregon has little over oue-half
as much, her records showing 800. 900, 900
The population and assessment values in
the tHo states are about equal. Oregon is