The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-12-12

= Cubans place little credeuce in th
" reported death of General Macet
They claim it is Spanish fake" t
create prejudice against the Cuba
cause.
Harvey Belknap aud Ike Ward al
- rived here last evening from Prime
vile after freight for merchants at tha
j place. They will load today and star
for home tomorrow.
w. c. Allaway went to Cascad'
Locks this morning to look after th'
/ D. P. & A. N. boats. 1t was the inten
tion to take the Dalles City to Port
land today to have her put in repair.
}, The. ice gorge between The Dalle'
, and Klindt's went out sometime dur
ing the night as did also the jam be
tween Klickitata and Memaloose island
. leaving the river clear from here to
Portland.
/ J. Y. Todd came in yesterday from
the Warm Spring Agency. He says
the snow has all disappeared from that
| section, the ground has thawed clear
down to bedrock, and the roads are
next to impossible.
| J. M. Howard, the Junction City
merchant and farmer, has made an as
sigument to w. S. Lee, of Junction
City, for the benefit of his creditors.
Mr.. Howard's liabilities are s12,937. .93
and his assetts. S8, ,425.
| The city council of Union has passed
an ordinance prohibiting boys and
girls from lettering on the streets be-
tween the hours of 1880 P. NJ. and 5 A. NJ.
Such an ordinance should be passed by
| every city council in the state.
Eight cash entries were made at the
land office yesterday and today.
Settlers are making grand rush for
] land within the railroad limit at pres
ent, since the date on which purchases
may be made expires on Dec. 81.
Attention of readers is called to the
liberal offer made on another page to
furnish winter reading with the TINES
MoUNTAINEER. Renew your subscrip-
tion now and get two books and two
papers extra.
The jury in the case of the govern
ment against ]. H. Taft came up on
last nights train in charge of Deputy
U. S. Marshal Humphrey, and went up
on a special this morning and looked
over the ground which the govern
ment seeks to condemn for the boat
railway.
John Donohue. for many years pro
prietor of the Baldwin restaurant and !
one of the most popular hosts ever in
the city, has bought the Clarendon
restaurant, taking charge this morn
ing. Jack is now better prepared than
ever before to cater to the demands of
the public.
In some parts of the country there
are in circulation counterfeit silver
dollars made by cutting good dollar
into two parts, and moulding on each
half the missing part in baser metal.
They are so cleverly made that by
casual inspection they can not be told
from genuine coin.
Mrs. Lizzie Wiggins, of Medford,
wife of DR.. l.. Virgins. deputy stock
Inspector of Jackson county, under the
new administration, published an Off
cial notice in the bedford papers
any person selling her hus-
band intoxicating liquors, that she
will prosecute them to the full extent
Of the law.
Judge Mayes is still in critical con-
dition, and fears he will not be able to
attend the convention of county judges
TO be held in Portland on the 17th. In
event of his inability to attend he has
County Clerk Kelsay and
School Superintendent Gilbert as the
representatives of Wasco county at !
;he convention.
There is danger that if the present {
warm spring-like weather continues I
or few days it will cause the buds to
start on the trees and when another
,old spell comes, as it surely will, the
'ruit prospects for the next season will 6
be greatly endangered. 1t would un- 6
loubtedly be better for the country to s
,ave our winter all at once and not in 8
broken doses.
Farmers who have been in the city 8
rom different parts of the country say Q
he recent cold weather did no damage
whatever to fall grain. 1t was we'll
covered with snow during the extreme /,
,old, hence was well protected from ,
he freeze. Should an extreme cold
,pell occur now, since the snow has
rome off and the ground is thoroughly
cooked with water, they say grain 6
would suffer.
Surveyor-General Habersham'has re- t
eived notification from the commits q
ioner of the general land office that i
he survey of w. E. Campbell's con- s
ract, in the land grant lOf the Will q
annette Valley Cascade Mountains b
Wagon Road Company, has been ap-
roved. OF the five contracts for sur a
eying lands in that grant let last year, y
his is the first to be approved. Two =
ave been rejected and one has not v
'een heard from.
A grand skating carnival will be
leld on Saturday night, Dec. 80. The d
will be under the personal b
supervision of John S. Booth, and I
many novel features will be introduced i
which will make it the affair of the .
eason. Those who remember how +
uccessfully the military ball of last C
ear was managed by Mr.. Booth will {
laYe no doubt of the carnival being a g
rand success. The list of prizes, 8
which will be very elaborate, will be a
later. q
From r frlaay,s Daily
A. E. Lake, of Wamic. is in the city. h
The rainfall last night and today p
to 23-l00 of an inch.
n r. Mora of Nansene bror1bt