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

little bit slower than her neighbor, but is
on a more solid hasis.
We receiyed call this afternoon from
Mr.. Homer Mcfarland. who is in the city
| from Heppner. Mr.. McFarlsn1 will poon
remove to Los Angeles. Calf where ne
will engage in business.
| In replacing the records in the vault
of the clerks office many old documents
| are brought TO light, some bearing date as
early as 1854, Wasco is one of the Oldest
| counties in the state. and formerly em.
braced all the region from the Cascades to
| the Rocky mountains. There are election
returns W on file in the clerks office
| from Walla Talla precinct, Wasco county,
| Oregon territory.
Union Republicans: About 1000 head of
steers and cows have been sold by local
sto,kmen this season, and probably 3,OOO
head more will be disposed of during the
next six weeks, says the Wallowa aurora
The average price is about $40 per head
Five thousand head at $40 will be the means
of bringing Sl00, 900 into the county, and
will give the people chance to pay their
taxes, store bills and other small debts.
Last Sunday morning at $50 o'clock F.
u
dea6 body of j. w. Gearhart floating in
the Willamette river enc and a half miles
below Salem near the Polk county side.
He at once notified Coroner A. NJ. Clough.
who brought the body to his undertaking
rooms Deceased was patient in the asv-
lum whence he had made his escape the 10Th
inst, and it Is generally believed he COM
mItted suicide by drowning.
TIE remains of the poor, unfortunate
Sfelow who was killed in the train wreck
Yesterday morning, were boxed IN a rude
coffin and buried this morning from the un-
dertakiug rooms of Mr. VIM. Niche |. No
one knows his name, and his sad death Will
bs arother stone added to the temple OF
mystery. whose record will never be made
public until that grelt dsv when the 'books
shall be opened" and the secrets of this life
be made known to an astonished world.
There were three arrests made last night
of individuals VINO had imbibed too freely
from the "naddening bowl" aud were con-
sequently violating the CITY ordinances in
such cases made and provided. They were
brought before the city recorder this morn
ing to receive at his hands the proper pun
ishment due for such breach of the laws
governing Dalles city. They were fined
S5 apiece. and went their ways rejoicing.
after replenissing the city treasury to that
amount.
Attorneys Chas. F.. Hyde and Thornton
Williams, the former acting for the defend
ant and the latter for the state, returned
last evening from Pine Valley where pre-
liminary EXAMINATION of John Young, for
the killing of Mrs. Murphy in Eagle Valley
a few weeks ago, was held, Young being
charged with manslaughter. says the Blker
City Democrat The defendaa. waived ex-
animation and Justice Compton placed his
bonds in the sum of $4,000 Bail was
speedily forthcoming the best men in Eagle |
and Pine valleys going on the bonds as
sureties.
John j. Hall, one of the Oldest and best |
known hotel clerks In Portland, says he |
Salem Independent of Tuesday died last |
night at lIquor-eure institute, where he
was undergoing treatment for the alcohol |
habit, He had taken the treatment twice
before, but the cure never proved perma-
nent Mr.. Hall had been chief clerk In
dozen of the leading hotels in Portland, and.
until few weeks ago, occupied this posi-.
tion at the Perkins. He had many friends
amoag the travelling pubic. and was con-
sidered one of the most competent clerks in
the northwest,
The court-marshal of Capt. Goodwin at
Vancouver has been concluded, but the re.
suit will not be known until the findings
lave been approved or disapproved at
W Washington There is little doubt, from
The testimony, that the verdict will be one
IT acquittal. 1t will not mean that Captain
Goodwin had not been drinking on the oc.
,asions In que.tioD, but that he was not
lrunk enough to Incapaotste him from
performing the duties in hand at that time.
" sjor Wahn's trial has been postponed
Until September "a, he having besa ar
aigned and pleaded not guilty.
Receiver Mcneil of the o R. & N Co
donday appealed to the United States
ircuit court for instructions as to what
curse he must pursue when the wages of
Employees, money due parties for stock !
illed by the company's engines, and sn
orth, are garnisheed Judge Bellinger gave
nstru ,tions that when writs of alta schment
r garnishee summons are served up n hi
10 eshould pay no attention to the matter,
nd the parties bringing the suits must ap-
ly to the United States court for relief, q
Governor Pennoyer, through his private .
ecretary, Mr. Mnnley, says the Salem
tdtesma, yesterday placed the following
ale in force at the capitol, the text of which
certainly not ambiguous. 1t reads as
pillows: /''Under sectIon l54i of the laws
Oregon, the governor must report to each
egislative assembly all cases of reprieves, {
and pardons Owing to per-
isteut and malicious representations, no res r
'ort hereafter. of such cases. other than
nat provided by law. will be made from
he executive Office
James A. Marston, the insurance adjus.
er. returned yesterday from trip to Col :
ak and Pullman, Wash, says the PendIeton
Tribune. He states that W. n Chambers,
f the firm of Chambers, Price & Co.. Is in
he market to purchase 100 carloads OF {
amsged wheat at Pullman, at 20 to "a s
ents per bushel, and that farmers were
elling it rapidly. It is the crop of last
ear, a great deal of which Is just being
hreshed, having lain in the stack for 8
ear, and would have been total loss had !;
not been for an offer from the east from
man VINO wanted wheat to feed to stock
1hich made market.