The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-11-24
ITEMS IN BRIEF
From Wednesdays Daily.

From wednesdays Daiiy.
few of the farmers in the county ar,
plovipg: but the ground is not we
enough to be turned for fall planting.
Wheat still peurs into our warehouses
and hardly an hour passes that wagons
are not unloaded The price is still
quoted at ?5 cents per bushel.
The case of state OF Oregon VS.. Dar
Maloney was given to the jury last even
ing. and In a little while they returned
with verdict of guilty as charged.
Two carloads of sheep and one of hogs
were shipped from the stockyards of r.
E. s,altmarshe & Co. Yesterday TO Trout
dale. There were no shipments today,
St. Paul's guild, of this city, will hold
their annual election of officers on
Thursday afternoon at 2: 80 at tn lie yes-
try. Every member is requested to be
present.
The city wood pile is being diminished.
There have been four bucksaws a.
work at it for the past two days, and the
artists who manipulate these machines
receive only board from the city ior that
labor.
In Illinois the Republican vote, as
compared with that OF 1892, has increased
from 399, ,2SS to s5l ,555; the Democratic
vote has decreased from 426 2Sl TO 3l4,-
447, and the Populist vote has Increased
from g, ,207 to 59,065.
There was one arrest made yesterday
afternoon of a person who was drunk
and disorderly on the streets. Before
breakfast this morning he appeared be-
fore the recorder, paid his fine and went
on his way rejoicing.
A rumor is current on the streets to
day that the grand jury will find only
one true bill" against those implicated
in the express robbery-that of Frank
Klein, who confessed to the crime. AS
the grand jury has made no report today
this "rumor" must be without founda
ton.
The American union party of Hawaii
scored signal success at the election
held October 10Th for, senators and rep
resentatives of the legislature. 1t is be-
lieved that all the senators are in favor of
annexation, notwithstanding there is
disposition on the part of some OF the
planters to advocate the continued inde-
pendence of the republic.
The annual report of r. A. Maxwell.
fourth assistant postmaster general, has
The report covers the period tor The fiscal
year ended June Both. The total num-
Der of postOffices in operation in the
United States is 69S05. During the year
3,l36 postoffices were established and L.
734 discontinued. The total number of
appointments during the year was %, 1866,
A man in one-horse shay drove into
town this morning from Colfax, Wash
He said he was from North Dakota. but
had stopped little while in the Palouse
country. From that place, in his one
horse cart, he had made The Dalles,
camping out the entire distance, and
letting his horse feed on the wild bunch
grass He had not been in town but a
Ii tile while until he disposed of the rig,
and his next destination will be Southern
California.
No sensible man should get angry |
simply because a newspaper publisher |
duns him for money. A dun is not an |
of the subscribers integ- |
rity, but is simply an outcropping of the
publishers necessities For instance, a
men owe one man from two to |
ten dollars each. He has to dun them in |
order to pay his expenses. Instead OF get
ting angry and stopping the paper because |
iue, the subscriber should thank the
publisher for waiting on him so patiently
md pay up like man.
Chas v Berger VS. Oregon. Lumber Co
was tried in circuit court today. Tbe
Jury empaHelled consisted of G l. Morris,
X Snodgrass, Jas Futon, w ] Hartman,
b Woodcock, F Kemp, wv Zumwat,
l. Davis, W T Mcclure, G E Hill, John
Born and K Page. A verdict was rem
Tered for the plaintiff on the pleading,
lndsr instructions OF the court.
The Florence West has weird story of
he inquest held at night on the ocean
,each over the remains of Captain
Nillig. "It was," it says, 'an impress
i've scene. The pale noon cast its rays
,ver the little knot of men gathered
!round the body of the dead man; and
he voice of the judge, as he admins
cred the solemn oath to the jurymen,
vas the only sound that broke the still
less save the moaning of the breakers
IN the beach," l.
The secretary of the treasury has been
that the present currency OF
British Honduras was demonetiZed Oct.
S, 1884. The demonetized coins will he
edeemable at the rate of fifty cents of
urrepcy for each dollar of demonetized
currency. Gold dollars will hereafter be
he standard COINS of Honduras. Hitherto
be currency has been the silver coins of ,
Central and South America. The effect
# this action, therefore, is the demon
tization of silver. Ii
Over 5000 Indians were employed in
he Yakima hop fields during the past
eason. and most of them wanted whis-
ey bad enough to pay any price for it.
Ldventurers and desperados saw their
and secured liquor for these
WASHES, for which The red men were
ompelled to nearly mortgage their souls.
his made some of the Indians mad, and {
hey informed upon the contraband sa- g
BON men to the government officers.
here were as consequence wholesale
rrests, trials and convictions.
A party of Pullman unemployed and ,
ther families. numbering in all 800 per-
ons, will arrive IN Alabama this week,
nd will start single-tax colony after
be idea of Henry George, near Blakcly,
n Baldwin county. They have secured I
900 acres of fine land at $40 an acre on s
he very spot where the last battle of the a
ivil war was fought. The land lies 215
niles along the Tinsaw river. Asawmill {
nd brick making machinery have been
ought on time n ths o1ti))k Is favor I
BILE for the success of the CO 'ony.
An Interesting stery is told of Ephraim
Flint. the veteran lawyer of Dover, Me-,
rho died recently. He was once fined
" a country justice of peace for con-
empt of court IN telling the magistrate
90 bluntly what he thought of enc OF his ]
ecisions. MIR. Flint was not taken back
" the Justices order to his clerk. san
ight," he said. ~ have got note in my
'ocket against you which / have been .
rying to collect for the last ten years,
nd I'll indorse the fine on 1t. / never
expected to get that much; and, suiting
he action to the words he pulled out the
ote and made the Endorsement.
From Thursdays DAILY.
The trees are nearly denuded of leaves.
The Portland Savings Bank closed its