The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-02-23
From Mondays Daily.
tt . weather is spring like.

| Tie weather is spripg like.
Tneie Were tu carloads Of cattle shipped
to Portland to-day by the Columbia Pack
ing Company, from the stock yards Of r. E.
Saltmarshe and Co. in this city.
Sheriff Driver took the morning train for
Salem today having in charge the two pri,.
oners who were sentenced to the peniten-
tiary Friday by Judge Bradshaw for two
years.
| A Jackson county man. who has inter
ests in Montana. tells of an acquaintance cf
his buying 1000 range horses in Fergus,
Mont, for So o head, killing them. boiling
the meat and using 1t to feed large Ium-
ber of hogs on his ranch,
| A sturgeon weighing 900 pounds was
caught near Crates point last Saturday.
This Is one of the largest sturgeon that was
ever caught in the Columbia river. aud as
this fish will bring 8 cents a pound the
days work brought the fisherman SO.
| Fred q. Wonder, of Portland, will be in
the city Thursday and Friday with cos-
| tunes which may he hired for the maquer.
ade ball on February 22i. The coatumes
may be seen at Prnz & Nitschke's furniture
store on Second street, as soon as they ar.
rive.
| The revival meetings mt the Methodist
church will be continued during this week.
| and preschiRg services will be conduc' ed
every evening by Rev. John ii. Woods. the
pastor. There is good religious influence
pervadiog the meetings, and great good is
being done.
| There appears to be a drifting of the
| bolters to Hon. Geo. H. Williams. Satur-
day he received the vote of all members cf
! kha nd o1o fla
plan was adopted. The ballot stood: DolDh,
3s; Williams. %; Hare, 10; Weatherford,
| l. Pared, s.
Revival meetings are being held in the
Methodist aud Christian churches, and the
Salvation Army holds forth on the corner OF
Court and Second streets every evening.
The city is besieRed by religious influences.
and the ''sirongholds of Sstan" at The
Dalles should show signs of weakness.
W. w. Saunders, who was pardoned
from the penitentiary by Governor PEN.
mover, has been admitted to the bar at
Spokane upon the recommendation of Geo.
W. Belt and J. E. Fenton. Saunders is
graduate of Harvard, and well fitted by ma.
ture and education for his new vocation.
The Regulator left her wharf at o'clock
this morriog, having good list of passen-
gers On board. Among those from this city
were A. s MacallIster, Fl Glenn, c. j.
Crandatl, F. Houghton, E. R. Smart and
s. L. Brooks. The beat has been thor
oaghIy repaired, and enters the trade as
good as new.
If we may place entire confidence in our
exchanges the songs of meadow larks. sure
signs Of spring. have echoed on Eastern
Oregon hills already, says the Canyon Citv
Neacs Bat in this precinct the meadow
lark has to duck MS head under a sagebrush
now and then to escape being battered by
snowhAkes.
There were six arrests made Saturday
night by the police force, five noboes. and
one for being drunk and dIsorderly They
were brought before the recorder this mcrn-
ing, and each was fined in tn sum of S.
10 default OF syment they were committed
to Jail, and the street commissioner will
have force Of workmen for any emer-
gency.
The bolts supporting the smoke divider
of the Court street school furnace burned
out this morning. consequently the pupils
of that school we're dismissed today while
the furnace was being repaired. The regu-
lar quarterly examination will be held on
Friday CT this week in the Court street
school and on Thursday in the other schools
of the city.
A big band of mutton sheep 5000 ia num
Der, wInter,ng in a large corral near Pendle. |
ton, and being fattened with wheat and |
barley. Is in excellent condition. A few
are ready for the market, and one sale has |
already been contracted. The lambs have |
In weight u lbs. durirg the last |
few weeks. averaging a gain of over two |
pounds per week.
Lakeview EramRr: Gus Schroeder was |
down from Silver Lake last week. He re-
ports that everybody Is getting along as |
we'll as possible. but some are in horrible |
condition. George Payne, the man who |
upset the death-laden lamp, was SO badly |
burnt that the flesh has fallen off his pack, |
leaving part of bis back bone aud three ribs |
exposed. Several others are in pretty bad |
shape.
Snme SIG. 900 Ill gold bnllion was brought
to Baker City from the Virtue mine last
and 1t is said to have made a neat
little pile aggregating about 500 ounces.
large number took advantage of the oppor-
tnnIty to view the small fortune; but we
are Informed that the editors of the town
we're excluded from viewing that large
amount on account of the fatal results
which might ensue.
PendIeton Tribune: News was received
ast evening from Echo relating, without
letail, q robbery which occurred on the
tsge line yesterday. The stage has for
ome time been driven by woman from
Echo to Heppner. making the trip three
lines week. Nothing further could be
earned about the affair. Deputy Marshal
Iohn Bentley accompanied by Postmaster
Iohrson. lett on last evenings II ain to IN
'estIgate the matter.
r A. Graham, representing the Coos
Say. Roseburg & Eastern Railway & Nav
cation Company, edvertises.for bids to fur.
ish 20, 600 white cedar ties. seven inches
hick: nine inches face and nine feet l.ag, |
D be delivered at the company's wharf at |
iarshtield, or at q suitable place along the
pad during March and April. As no such
number is needed for repairing it look 8 as I
the worK would be resumed 10 the spring
nd the work of completion toward Rosc-
urR pushed as fast as possible. =,
The Salem Statesman says: 1.-The Raiey
mate bill re-appropriatirg the unexp .nded !
alance ($l40 000) Of the 1893 app, opriation i
IT the branch Insane asylum at Union, yes. '
'rdaY received the approval of the gov t
nor Senate bill, No. 1876, authorizing 9
'staln corporations to appropriite lands for 4
Ght-of-way for fumes. etc, has also v
,ached the governor aud is uoder consider
lion. House bill $50 for the Incorporation Il
Harrisburg has also been approved {
hese three bills are the only ones that O
ent to the governor yesterday" t
La Grande Chronicle: The donations o
ade by the Graud Army people of Wal o
wa for the Nebi aska sufferers have been
rgely converted into money. 1t was the D
iginal intention to use tine fund thus COL II
cited in the purchase of grain and -four in t.
rande Ronde. as 1t was not expedIent to o.
.ul tina same from Wallowa to the railroad m
r shipms mt. But the railroads have sir ce h
,clined to haul further contributions, and "
is pr, bsble that the money will be sent fr
rect to the Grand Army headquarters 10
q drouth stricken state, to be dis sbursed ir "
manner that will do the most good. il
Geo. W. Meyers, farmer about 80 wears !e
age, residing six miles south of ColvlIle, Is
as found dead in his bed on Tuesday l, II
,rn,ng by Jack Snyder, neighbor, says u u
e Colyille Inder. Snyder had b, en- to p
e house on Mouday night but could not =
in a6 a6mittance. thinking everything was ~
t rignt he returned on Tuesday and fore u
Z en- entrance found Meyers dead, while "a
ing beside him in bed, all UNCONSCIOUS of N
3 visit OF death, lay his little grand child, al al
BOY of about three years. Tue other mem ~ ~
RS of the family were absent IN the Trial "
EEK country. se
The state treasury is liable to suffer in
name OF education without good cause
good sense. The rule has been for litte
olleges" in the state to have themselves nc