The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-02


any other paper on the frs.l tiay'f q
year IL with all other good ':itiz;
will observe the holiday
The State Teachers Association
at present in :, s.ion at Ss.i.m. SUI
Gilbert. ofthi- county is in atseudanc
i'aic Snprintf nd'f irwin is pre-.
d-nt an'i J B lIam u : ,,ry nf :.
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: stated lhal ms, n j.
tot among the young pcup;.- nf q
ci towards eff ::;i the ora izaiio
of literary soci,t AND Gb t II NEE
ing will be called some tine Gext wee
for that purposr.
I A Northern Pacific freight car wer
off the end of the track last night int
a sewer that was being repiirfd nea
the electric light wOrks.and was puile
ont this morning. No danger wa
done either to the car or sewer.
Today the German Aid society sen
the family of Charles Wagner to Port
land, where Mrs. Wagner has relatives
Wagner was a cook in the Umatill
house some time ago, but deserted hi
family, leaving them in destitute cir
cumstances.
Hon. D. P. Thompson, the Multno
NAH county member of the state boare
of equalization. proposes to ask the
legislature to abolish the board. and
in the event of the board not being
| abolished that the salaries of the mem
bers be cut in two.
| Last evening MIR. Kerr arrived from
Grass Valley and stopped for few
/ minutes in front of Peters & Cos
store, when his team became fright
| ened and started to run. They kept
down Second street to Union, where
Mr.. Kerr-managed to get them under
control.
Cut worms arr doing considerable
danger to fall grain in the vicinity of
Oak Grove, says James Mcclure who
was in the city yesterday. The cold
spell in November did some damage to
grain in that part of the county, but
the injury was not great.
1t is not likely the people of The
Dalles will ever again have an oppor-
tunity to hear Ellen Beach Yaw for
the small admitance fee of 81. 1t will
only be a few years when it will cost
from S. to 500 to hear her. Go out to-
night; it is the opportunity of a life
time.
The state hoard of equalization has
about completed its work for the year.
The board raised assessments S9,413.-
293, making the gross equalized value
of property in the state $l51, 1863, PA.
The exemptions are s8,6S4,699, leaving
the net taxable property of the state
AT the regular business meeting of |
the Christian Endeavor Society of the |
Christian church last evening, the fol-
lowing were elected officers of the |
society for the ensuing six months:
A. G. Hoering, president; Miss Hattie
Lane, vice-president; Miss Nonah
Skaggs, Sec; Miss Alice Rowland,
treas.
State Senator Tolbert Carter, of
Benton county, and Representative
Norman Miller, of Columbia county,
both republicans and favorable to John
q. MItchell's reelection to the United
States senate, are seriously i'll and it
Is doubtful if either of these gentle
men will be able to attend the nine
,eenth biennial session of the Oregon
legislature.
The Woodmen Circle will give
literary and musical entertainment at
Fraternity Hall on Friday evening,
New Years night. A talented elo- [
Miss Griswold, of Portland,
will recite on this occasion. 1t is
worth the price of admission to hear
ler. The entertainment will be fol-
owed by social hop. Admission,
aides 10 cents; gentlemen 25 cents.
Old Sol showed his shining face to
The Dalles today for the first time in
nearlya month. The fogs that have
been resting over the city for SO long
quietly gathered themselves together
and stole away revealing a bright,
clear sky and the sun shining out in
lis old glory, making all feel that they
mad been transformed, or rather lifted
rom Webfoot back into Eastern
Oregon.
At the last meeting of the board of
;rustees of the Soldiers Home il de-
,ided to recommend the erection of a
for the accommodation of $50
more inmates, a dining room and
Iitchen and to provide for a better
upply of water; also to clear up the
balance of lhe land. These improve
nents the board thinks are necessary
or the efficiency of the home.-Rose-
,urg Plaindealer.
The old custom of receiving" on
New Years day has about gone out of
Practice. but it is happy old style and
hould be revived, for it affords pleas
for friends to extend
and express happy
wishes for the incoming year. Though
his custom of receiving callers occa-
ionally becomes burdensome when
'oung ladies receive singally, so in
ONE places several have found it con-
'enient to receive together. Should
my of the lady readers of the TINES
desire to receive OF
lew Year day, we would be pleased to
make announcements in tomorrow's
ssue.
The Burlington, Iowa Hawkeye has
his to, say with reference to the noted
inger Ellen Beach Yaw, who appears
n the Vogt tonight: |,
cali expectations and the fondest
lopes being realized, the audience was
lot slow to recognize the fact, and was
instituted in its praise. 1t is not ex-
ggeration to say that Miss Yaw met
ast evening with the most fattering
eception which has been accorded a
niger in this city. for twenty years;
vhen an audience time and again
,ursts into spontaneous applause in