The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-05-22
From frlQay's Daily

er, puDllshed at Portland, IS In The
:, city.
;. DIR. Hollister came down on the
. was called last night to attend the
;. wife of A. B. Craft.
A big fight is on between the sheriff
/. and clerk of Lincoln county and the
, county Judge, who has refused TO pay
!, salaries and the matter has gone to the
e supreme court.
9 A tramp doesn't understand Ameri-
/ can ways. At Chico he was arrested
for getting on a train and at Ashland
! he was threatened with arrest if he
; didn't get on the train.
The Pendleton Tribune plant will be
: sold at public auction on June ., to
satisfy chattel mortgage for 81, $40. 10
{ held by J. w. Furnish, cashier of the
Pendleton Savings bank.
1t is easier to learn sometimes how
not to do certain things than tits to do
others. Every mile of county road in
Oregon contains many a lesson OF how
not to build public thoroughfares.
On the 9th "a car loads of sheep will
be.shipped from The Dalles east over
the Northern Pacific, and Kerr &
Buckly will ship IA cars over the Great
Northern to summer range in Dakota.
The Pendleten East Oregonian says
that Mrs. Kunzie, of Umatilla, has the
largest and most valuable collection of
Indian curos on the Pacific coast; that
her collection is worth at least $4,000.
| Today a petition for the sale of land
belonging to the estate of Frank Ire
| land, deceased, was argued before
Judge Mays. w. II. Wilson appeared
for the petitioner and Il. b. Riddell
for the estate.
Call on G. w. Phelps for the light
running Jones reapers, binders, mowers
and headers, also the Buffalo Pitt |
! thresher. Extras for all these ma
chimes kept in stock. Prices right and |
| terms reasonable. WIN
Yesterday was the date fixed for 1.
Il. Taffe and Edward Killfeather to
plead to the indictments in the U. S.
circuit court at Portland. The former
is charged with offering and the latter
with accepting bribe.
DR.. Lennerberg arrived home last
night from Prineville where he has
been the past two weeks. The doctor
looks bronzed aud rugged and shows
the effect Of having encountered the
suns and winds of the interior.
. W. B. Presby, a leading attorney of
Goldendale, is in the city today. Mr..
Presby yisays his partner, w. T. Darch,
who was shot accidentally few weeks
ago, is recovering rapidly, and is now
able to attend to work in the Office.
The river today has remained station
AIRY at 40.6. and the best informed per-
sons in the town predict that it has
reached its highest stage, notwith
standing the fact that Observer Pague
says there will be considerable rise
on Sunday.
J. F. Bennett, official organizer for
the United Artisans, expects to institute
q lodge at Dufur in the near future
The people of that city are in
terested in life insurance and readily
accept the theory of system offered
by the Artisans. -
Eastern Oregon wool is quoted at
8 and 10 cents in Boston, but there is
M ;,npoadiota da,oon5 for II bara in /
The Dalles where it is to be sold. 1t
will be in demand however within the
next three weeks, and considerable
activity is expected.
The salmon catch this year has been
very light at Astoria and much fear
that there will not be enough to snp-
ply the demand, but the amount of old
stock on hand will amply make up the
shortage in the catch. There is Sl12,-
320 worth of old stock on hand.
Justice N. J. Swift, of Wamic, is in
the city, land says that the people about
Wamic have nothing but fine crops
and Mckinley prosperity. The crops
are the best ever known in that coun-
try, and as to the prosperity it is abun-
daut, though the quality is not the
best.
Providence was particularly wise
and kind on the day it entered into the
counsels of the bicylye trust and keyed
prices up to the present notch. If
they were so cheap everybody could
afford them there would be no further
living for those of US driving, on foot
or on horseback.
Mrs Gordon, whose husband was
killed in the Point Ellice bridge ac-
cident in Victoria last May, has been
awarded $4,000 against the city. An
excursion car loaded with people went
through rotten bridge and many peo-
pie were killed or wounded. Other
suit are to follow.
Attorney General r. E. Mcfarland,
of Idaho, has given his written opinion
that playing cards for drink or cigar,
unless it is first agreed or understood,
by the players. that drink or cigar
shall stand for, represent and entitle
GQ6 winner GQ6reOI 10 Stdteu Suu VI
money, is not gambling.
Farmers throughout the county feel
little alarm regarding the ravages of
grasshoppers. The. hoppers have
Matched in great numbers in some To-
calities, but the farmers think they
have hatched so early that they will
leave before the grain is far enough
advanced for them to do any damage.
The reports from above indicate that
higher water may be expected after
Sunday. Pague telegraphs today that
there is rise of three-tenths of foot
at Umatilla, and two feet three-tenths
at points, above. The rise at Lewiston
was seven-tenths last night. Beginning
Sunday he predicts rapid rise of the
river here.
All members of Temple Lodge, A.
o. U. w. are requested to attend the
next regular session which will be
held on Thursday, May %, at which
time delegates to the grand Lodge will
be elected. Grand lecturer D. G. Her
rim will meet with the lodge that even
ing and address the members on mat
lers of vital importance to the order.