The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-02-20

Malheur county with car load of fine
beef for Wood Bros market. Mr..
Wood says stock have wintered well
in Malheur, there having been Io
severe storms since November.
A gentleman by the name of Rine
hart is here from La Grande buying
stock hogs for the eastern market. He
has 179 at the stockyards which he in
tends shipping either to Kansas OF
Nebraska.
Baker City has secured the next fire
mems tournament, having guaranteed
to hang $500 worth of prizes for the
regular tests and special prize for a
hut-and.hub race. The tournament
will begin on June 9Th.
Constipation in its worst forms, dys-
pepsia, sick headache, biliousness and
arrangement of the liver, are readily
cured by DeWitt's Little Early Risers.
These pills never grippe. Small pill,
safe pill, best pill. Snipes-Rinersly
Drug Co.
Today the Denton place on Mill
Creek was sold at sheriff's sale to sat
isfy the judgment of l. 2. Bains vs..
T. M. Denton ct al for S2,675,6S to-
gether with costs aud was bid in by
the Western Investment Co. for
$2744.18.
On the 25th and 26th the ladies of
the Christian church, assisted by mum.
erous friends, will give.a Dickens re-
cital and pantomine entertainment at
the Vogt. About 80 of the prom
inent characters in Dickens works will
be represented.
To cure cold in one day take Lax
ative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure. 25 cents. For sale by Blakely
& Houghton.
Representative Mckinley Mitchell,
of Marion county, is reported to have
deserted the Mitchell forces, and to be
in favor of any compromise that will
result in permanent organization of
the house. Other members Uf the
Benson house signify their intention
to pursue the same course before the
week ends.
The enterprising little.town of Burns,
the county seat of Harvey county,
proposes to have water works and elec-
trio lights some time in the future.
The town council has granted fran
chise TO a local company, allowing the
four years in which to COM
plete the water and light system.
An exchange puts the following Ian
guage in the mouth of one of our
preachers: "The hand which made
,ne mighty heavens made grain of
sand; which made the lofty mountains
made drop of water; which made you
made the grass in the field; which
made mo made daisy" And here
he congregation bolted.
What is poor, unfortunate creature
,oing to believe about the senatorial
ontest anyway? One boss says Nit
hell can be elected any day, while |
mother boss declares he is dead duck. |
Judging from the capers of the legis-
ature for the past 35 days one naturally
elieves the statement that he is q
one goslin.
The Enterprise, of Wallowa county,
ays from present indications the man
mo has cattle to sell next spring will
ave no diffiulty in disposing of them
good price. A number of outside
uyers have been around to see what
an be got hold of in the cattle line,
nd local buyers are offering S13 for
earling steers and s17 for 2-year-olds.
hose are better prices than have pre-
allied in that section.for several years.
Hetty Green, the richest woman in
le world, repeats her fathers advice
oout money in these words: ''It's
oor policy to lie awake nights think
g how you can get the best of people
i'd planning how to cheat ones
,ighbor. Instead, one should sleep
undly, eat light and work hard, and
us be in condition to manage what
oney one has and make plenty more.''
In the list of congressman published
the Congressional Record, which
YES the age, occupation, ETC., of each
ember, Senator John Sherman is put
wn as IA years of age and by occupa-
IN lawyer. Since Sherman entered
g 34th congress on Dec. 2, 1855, and
IS never been out of Office longer than
lay since, we would think he ought
be put down as an officeholder. If
years of Office holding don't make a
IN professional officeholder what i,
,uld?
We may reasonably expect pretty 6
gh water here next season. I'm
ense quantities of snow have fallen '
the Rocky mountains during the Z
nter, and twelve inches of snow has 7
len in the Big Bend country since
,ursday morning. In the country t
about WatervilIe it is 7
id there are now three feet of snow
the ground, while in some of the i
'tricts lying 10 or Is miles out, the
pth is greater. Various estimates, e
nging from three to five feet, are
lde on the total snowfall in that Sec
N this winter. r