The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-08-03

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cures business and population it will be
all Lnat its projectors desire.
Some portions of Harney county are
so dry that the crickets, driven to des-
peration, are digging wells in the des-
ert and carrying the sand to the sur
face in tobacco pouches.
G. W. Phelps, city recorder: F. W.
Wilson, of our cotemporary and Sheriff
Driver made trip to the Locks yes
terday afternoon, and returned on the
passenger train at midnight.
That civilization is marching on is
proven from the fact that q. body of
white caps in New Hampshire have re-
Gently used molasses instead of tar in
expressing their dislike of certain
citizen of that part of the world.
T. Up in Minnesota they are gathering
the grasshopper crop by new machine
that harvest 5000 bushels per day, so
the dispatches say. That section evil
IDENTIFY has an over production of grass
hoppers as we'll as Eastern Oregon.
w. Fl. Butts, coroner of Wasco
county, was in the city yesterday on
his way home from the l. o, r. M.
meeting at Astoria, says the Oregonian.
he eXults in the fact that he was more
conspicuous in ladies' society than
Sheriff Sears.
At the Locks the bulkhead is being
rapidly narrowed, and the work is
being pushed by large force of men.
The Days are determined that water
hall flow through the canal by Christ
mas. and there is every prospect OF
This being accomplished.
Hon. Geo. W. Johnston, one. of the
leading merchants of Dufur, was in
the city today. He says harvest has
not fully began in that vicinity yet.
although considerable grain has been
cut for hay. Crops appear in fine con-
1ition, and the prospects are good for
an average yield of grain.
Mr.. Herrick sold all the fish that he
had canned this season at good price
today, and feels somewhat encouraged.
On the prospect of there being good
run of salmon this season he erected
cannery this spring at great expense,
and has not had a good days run since
The season opened. Another year the
river may be full of salmon, and the
enterprise of Mr.. Herrick will be re-
Harded.
The recorder had a pleasant smile
on his countenance this morning as
the solitary inhabitant of the city
jail was brought before him. He had
been arrested for being drunk and
disorderly, and after examining into
the case he was fined in the sum of S5,
which. like a true bimetallist, he de-
posted in silver on the table. 1t
goes without saying that he left with
beam Of JOY on his countenance.
The wool season is over, and the
next crop to be harvested will be grain.
A large yield is expected, and, what is
equally as encouraging to farmers, the
market shows q firmness with pros
poets of an increasing price. The
activity of the wool season will be re-
amount of wheat handled. We
expect as much grain will be
marketed this year as at any former
season.
News received Tuesday from Vale,
Malheur county, says the La Grande
Chronicle, stated that the sheriff had
succeeded in locating the safe crackers
Who robbed Hopes safe on the 18th
inst. They already have one man in
custody and have the other cornered
on an island in the Snake river near
Weiser. The man they caught had
sixty dollars in two-cent postage
stamps and funnel for inserting pow
der in safes.
Rider Haggard, the novelist, who
was running as Tory candidate, had
In experience at the hands ola Liberal
mob that made him prefer the South
African. savage on paper to the British
rough in person. He was mobbed,
while sporting in four-horse drag, so
that he had to be protected by mounted
police, and to add to his discontinue
was defeated for parliament by 200
votes. The idea was that he had bet
Ter go back to "King Solomon's |
Mines"
Hood River Glacier: Wild black |
berries and cinnamon bear are quite |
numerous around the hills now.
About two weeks ago, one morning |
while Mrs. Antoine Wise was picking |
Wild blackberries in the woods near
1er house, she heard a noise behind
ner, and turning around, beheld a
arge cinnamon bear. Woman like,
'he tried to scare Bruin by shaking
ler tin pail at him, but the bear
scare worth a cent and Mrs.
Wise thought it wise to run for the
louse.