The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-02

vibrations of those same chords are no
doubt responsible for the recent frosts.
The Puyallup Citizen says the price
of hops is from 81 to cents pound.
The duty on them is cents pound.
We would suggest if nothing else will
enhance the price that the duty be
raised.
The Examiner fund for bringing the
National Republican convention to
San Francisco grows steadily and has
now reached the sum Of about $4,000
The Examiner thinks the convention
will be secured by San Francisco.
The Arlington Record yesterday
said "We are praying for rain" AS
clouds are getting quite plentiful in
the western sky the good brother is re-
:quested to keep up his kick. We need
rain and don't care how it is procured.
According to the Salem papers it
I costs over. $4,000 to assess Marion
Ecounty. Besides this the same papers
say it cost 81, 500 to take the census. At
the government price for the: same
work, Marion would have population
of 125,OOO.
One day the dispatches have it that
| the Turks have murdered lot of Ar
menians. and the next day the papers
are filled with accounts of massacre
of Turks by Armenians. It keeps a
fellow awfully busy trying to keep
track of which side his sympathies be-,
long on.
What the Stephens-addition school
at Portland needs is a principal big
enough and gritty enough to whale a
couple of editors. From the manner
in which both the dailies in Portland
keep rubbing, it into Adams, it is fair
TO presume that he has run counter to
their wishes in something besides
whipping refractory kid.
The very latest about the Cerbett-
Fitzsimmons fight is that the sheriff is
out with warrant for Fitz. and wants
him at Hot Springs. The governor
has called out the troops to keep him
out of that same city. Between the
sheriff, the militia, the governor, Cor
bett, the d. and the deep blue sea
Fitz is having real serious time of it.
Our woolgrowers pay $4,000 year
to the railroads for carrying 2100 tons
of Eastern Oregon dirt to Boston along
with their wool. At IL cents pound
this would require 100000 pounds Of
wool to pay it. By securing the wool
here this amount could be saved, and
employment given to our own people.
How long are we going to continue
this "business proposition?"
Judge Arnold, before whom Holmes
is being tried in Philadelphia, is either
very green Judge or the statutes of
Pennsylvania are of a remarkable
kind. Yesterday after the jury had
been selected, Holmes asked that all
the witnesses be excluded from the
court room. Judge Arnold refused to
grant this request, but Graham, the
prosecuting attorney, requested the
witnesses to remain outside of the
court room. Arnold is trying that
case along the lines of least-resistance.
The Duke of Marlborough is frugal
little fellow who does not yet realize
that he has fortune in sight. The
wedding presents sent him from Eng
land were of course subject to customs
duty, and rather than pay the same
the duke ordered the present, even
those sent him by the good Queen Vic
toria. returned to England. The
granddaughter of the old ferryman,
who is to marry him, will ere long dis
cover that duties OF all kinds will be
refused recognition by the title she
marries. - =
The news is confirmed that Russia
and China have made an arrangement
by which the former gets the right to
extend her Siberian railroad to Port
Arthur. This news has been a regular
tail-twister for the British lion and the
result is genuine roar. The Russian
bear, however, is an animal not easily
scared, and is is safe to presume that
Russia will go right on with her rail-
road schemes regardless of who objects.
If England has any rights in the mat
ter she is not afraid to maintain them,
and SO there is chance for a. pretty
bit of war.
The dispatches again announce to-
day that the great fight between Cor
bett and Fitzsimmons is off. We do |
not believe it. By special grapevine
we learn that Corbett is still |
in training gargling his throat with a
of oak bark, while Fitzsim-
mons has bought a new typewriter.
The battle will probably be con-
tinued indefinitely unless some enemy
should dope. Corbett with that indg-
anous product of Arkansas, green
Nothing short of laryin-
yismus or writers cranp will ever stop
;he fight.
There are no flies on the San Fran
,isco newspapers. The other day the
Examiner suggested that fund be
'aised to equal the S100, 600 offered by
2ittsburg to secure the next meeting
# the Republican national conven-
Ion. 1t took the ground that it would .
'eneft California, and consequently
was to the interest of the Demo-
ratio party to assist in getting it. The
Examiner thereupon headed the sub
cription list with $1,000 and the rel ,
mark that that was only feeler, and !
hat it would: do more. The Call at
nee put down $4,000, the Chronicle
1900, and the Examiner added Se560
its original gift, making S2o, 200 for .
be three papers.
The Illinois Central railroad, owing q
, the foresight and wisdom Of Stephen I
:. Douglas, furnishes an immense rev.
nue. to the state. Under it's charter it 8
ays to the state per cent of its gross i
arnings in lieu of all taxes. A few b
eeks ago, the state treasury being at T
low ebb, President Fish of the Gem
al railroad, paid over to the state
easurer. $3.50, 900, and paid it too
onth and half before it was due.