The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-24

bicycle "farm."
The White Stars will hold bust
ness meeting at the council chamber:
Wednesday night. All members are
urgently requested to attend.
The o. E. & N. Co.'S. boat D. S
Baker, arrived here Saturday evening
and has been tied up at the incline be
low the coal bunkers.
The west-bound passenger was de-
layed on account of washouts in the
Blue mountains, and did not arrive
until 10 o'clock this morning.
Twenty bags of mail were received at
the postoffice here this morning, the
largest mail that has been received at
the Office at one time in the past three
| mo 1ths.
Messrs. J. w. Armsworthy and V. c.
Brock, of Wasco, were in the city yes
terday. They report that city prosper
GUS, several new buildings being under
course of construction at present.
The Columbia has got to be quite a
good sized creek at this point. 1t reg
listers "a feet above low water and is
rising at the rate of an inch an hour.
We can easily stand such rise for II
days, but after that the water would
become troublesome.
Mrs. J. M. Blakeley, of Joseph, Wal
Iowa county, spent Friday and Satur-
day in the city visiting Judge and Mrs.
G. C. Blakeley, and left Satul day night
for home. Mrs. Blakeley had been
visiting her sister, Mrs. j.. Fl. Mosier,
at Mosier the past six weeks.
Rev. o. D. Taylor, pastor of the
First Baptist church, received hearty
welcome from his people yesterday,
the occasion being his first appearance
| in the church since his return from
| Michigan. The subject of his dis
course in the evening was "God Rules.
Measles are interfering with school
work in The Dalles schools. About
half the pupils in two of the rooms at
Academy Park are out, either sick or
afraid of taking the disease, while
quite number are absent from the
hight school and the Union street pri-
mary.
In L. Sandoz' orchard on Mill creek
are number of Swiss walnut trees
that are in full bloom, and Mr.. Sandoz
expects to have quite lot of walnuts
TOR market next fall. Last year the
trees bore few nuts, but this is the
first year they have been loaded with
blooms.
Astoria will not license gambling
after all. Mayor Taylor vetoed the
ordinance and the council has refused
to pass it over his head four council
men voting to sustain the mayor. 1t
is fortunate for the good name of
Astoria that she has four councilmen
who will sustain her morality.
A ball game was played on the fair
grounds yesterday between the Cham
pions and a picked nine from the
Athletic club and White Stars. The
game was good one, the score being
reported 10 to Z in favor of the Cham
pions, who now insist they are the
best ball players in Eastern Oregon
and are open to challenge from any
amateur club east of the mountains.
E. Jacobsen returned Saturday
from an extended tour over this and
Sherman counties, and said he never
saw finer prospects for grain and fruit
than there are at present. In some
sections the ground was getting rather
dry on the surface, but the rain of to-
day will put it in fine condition again,
and it will be difficult matter to esti-
mate the volume of the crop that will
be raised this year.
Messre. W. II. Biggs, E. E. Lyttle
and J. M. Murchie returned this morn.
ing from a visit to Wasco. Mr.. Biggs
and Mr.. Murchie say that during their
residence of nearly 20 years in Sher-
man county they have never seen such
crop prospects as there are this year.
The fall grain is just splendid, and the
spring sowing is coming on finely.
Wheat sown now sprouts in five days
and begins growing like weeds.
Eastern Oregon can indeed supply a
variety of climate. Last Saturday we
were sweltering in summer heat, the
mercury registering 80 degrees, and
today we are shivering around the
stoves reminded that winter has not
yet been folded in the arms of summer.
AS it were, we have experienced a
change in temperature as if we had
been moved from Southern California
to Alaska in side of two days.
On the mountain several hundred
feet above Canyon creek on the east
side, lies a well-known gravel deposit
that prospects well in coarse gold, but
is so high up that it is almost impos-
sible to get water onto it. There is a
move now among a few practical
miners to locate this ground and build
reservoirs and bitches during the sum-
mer months, and next spring as the
snow melts they expect to obtain a
supply of water sufficient to run five or
six weeks.-Grant County News.
In accordance with law, the April ap-
of the county school fund
was sent out from the Office of the |
county superintendent today. The
total amount distributed, 81, ,612.65, after |
deducting the $50 for each of 80 dis
tricts entitled to funds, gives S1.15 per |
capita on the school enumeration. In |
April '96, the amount distributed was
BIO, III, the per'capita being So. The
greater percentage of delinquent taxes
Ihisnno na the shortaga~ip