The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-05-12
From Mondays Daily
County court Is IN session.

trouble.
From Mondays Daily
County court Is IN session.
Mrs. L J. Lawler Of Spokane is visiting
friends and relatives IN this city.
The sheriff reports having collected $63,
600 taxes out of the SIS, 900 due on the last
assessment roll.
The county clerk has received official
notification Of the list of the candidates for
offices to be filed by the election OF the
state at large at the coming June election.
Seven carloads of sheep were shipped for
Troutdale today from the stockyards of R
e. Saitmarshe & Go. They were sent to
the American Dressed Meat Co. at that
place.
New dress-makipg parlors have been
opened on Liberty street. between Third
and Fourth, where competent dress max er
guarantees a 6t and makes designing a
speciality.
The funeral of the late Miss Jennie Hedge,
aged % years, who died last Saturday of
consumption, took place yesterday from the
residence of her sister, Mrs. Hunt. on Mill
creek Services were conducted at the house
by Rev. q. D. Taylor.
Pendleton Tribune: There Is talk in rail-
way circles that the Union Pacific will
again inaugurate the double train system,
running fast mail train to Portland. It Is
said such plan has been under con ,dsr,
tion at headquarters.
There we're two loads of merchandise left
Moody's warehouse to day for Dayville IN
Grant county. The Dalles is the distrIbu-
ting point for large portion of Eastern
Oregon, and our warehouses handle freight
for places 200 miles distant.
The babe born at Weston without eyes in
a family named Curtis. several years ago,
and taken away for the purpose of exhIbi-
tiou, is now pretty and smart little girl.
She lives with her parents who are prosper
ing, AID attends school for the blind.
The Oregon soldiers home at Roseburg is
about completed. The contractors will
turn the building over to the commission on
the 9th of May. aud it will be formally ded
icated on the 10th. The annual state en-
campment of the G. A r. will be in pro
gress at Roseburg at that tim. and the
event will be one Of interest and note for
Southern Oregon.
Two loads of wool were received today
from the shearing camps on Chenoweth
creek. Work is progressing very rapidly
at these camps, and la, e. force of smear
ers are busy every day. There are thou
sands Of sheep to be sheare5, and being
convenient to The Dalles the feeces will
be loaded Immediately and brought to the
warehouses ln this city.
{ Mr.. w. G Johnston, the electrician of
= he Talouhora oompapu iufoyuns hot he
will be forced to leave the city without there
are more subss ribers to the exchange. There
has been n W switch board put in the GEN.
tral Office, and this will be useless without
there are more telephones. ANY one de-
string the exchange may have the phone put
in free until Tuesday. but after that date
extra charges will made.
Ellensburg Localizer.. A man by the name
Of Fred Jeffrie was drowned whilst fording
the Chewa on the 25th of April He was
by three other men, but was
behind at the time. The accident was
caused by the horse falli' down, the horn
If the saddle striking him on the head. At
ast accounts the body had not been re-
covered. These facts were communicated
% rs by James Irwin.
On Tuesday last, at Colfax, Clarence HIM.
IN eoa 0Sro W SASbs oHSh ACoGoS-ifCty Q |
md 10 years, were arrested foI horsestealIuy.
The charge was that they unhitched horse |
to o. H. Bartleson and staked |
lin out near town. They were charge II |
With grand larceny. During the progre s
# the trial yound Handrick suddenly rolled |
lown the stairway leading from the court |
DOM to the street and tried to escape, but |
vas afterward re-captured.
r
ng: .'Au Iiwaco man has new form OF |
elirium tremens. He was once shocked
" live electric wire, and now that he is /
fiicted he makes frantic eff ,rts to get |
way from live wires, which he imsgines
re writhiDg and sputtering all around him.
lie must have wandered across the Colum-
ia and imbibed some of the justly cele-
rated lightning they have over there"
We received this morning from the Rus.
ell Art Publishing Co., Of 92s Arch street,
Pa, a copy of beautiful
publication called series No. l. Theirs are
altered from the leading galleries of the
gorld, and are reproduced 10 excellent style
" photographers. They are issued on the
st and 18th of each month at the subscrip-
ion price Of $24 per year. and are gems
art. as they haYe been collected from the
Master pieces in the galleries of all nations
Prineyil.e Ne,os: ]. n. Shearer and wife
rriyed in this place Wednesday of this
1eek. Mr.. Shearer Is with ns for the pur-
ose of looking over the roads which the
ounty court have advertised bids for, es-
ecially the one known az the Sichel road
lie claims the present survey Is very i'm
and that the survey should be
hanged SO as to max the grade higher up
n the mount,in side. Mr. s. is good au-
hority on roads aud it might be well to
eed bis council.
The destruction of fruit 10 the east is
reater and more extenrive this year than
yer was known before. Ordinarily thu
,ss of fruit in the east opens the way for
iarket for that OF the Pacific northwest,
ut we cannot hope to be teneftted uutIi
here Is adopted me- h VI of ricking and
ackiug fruit that vii insure safe transpor-
,tion. To this end ne horticultural as
,ciation will find a brood field of labor
resh fruits are perishabIe and the market
long way of.
Mr.. VIM. Buskirk, of H cd RIVER, az
Zen IN the CITY for few days past de
ossed the plains to Califo,n.a la 1850.
I'd has resided in Oregob for many ,e .rs.
r. Buskirk is 10 his 18TH r., aud his
collections 90 back long distance in the
story of the country. He remembers the
lrd times of former epocus in our history,
pecially those OF 1888, lS43 and l84S, and
. years following the latter date up to
e dawn Of the rebellion. The pre- ent
ancial depression, be says. is nothing new
the history Of the country, and 10 but a
petition of past epochs.