The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-01-08

QoclQ6 tno IaG6 OF SendGOr han q.
From all appearances he will be rele-
gated to private life.
A Kentuckian drank gasoline by
mistake for whisky and there was a
largely attended funeral In conse-
quence. But think. OF q Kentuckian
mistaking gasoline for whisky! No
one would imagine such thing could
happen.
The Ohio legislature has set an ex-
ample that Oregon legislators might
profit by. They only took one day to
organize both branches of the legis-
1ature and get down to business, while
the would-be Oregon law makers
couldn't organize in 40 days, and the
split was no worse in Oregon than it
was in Ohio.
Ohio politics are assuming rather a
dangerous turn. Legislators who re-
fuse to follow the lead of Boss Hanna
are being threatened with dire dis
aster, and 1t is said they will not be
allowed to return to their homes il
they persist in exercising their own
judgment in voting for United States
senator. From the threats that sre
being made by Hanna's strikers, one
would judge that it was an unpardon-
able sin to oppose Marcus in Ohio.
BY the building of the Columbia
Southern railroad, The Dalles ia GER
tain to loso some of the trade of Sher-
man and Crook counties, but what is
lost from those sections can be made
up from trade that may be attracted
from the southern part of Gillian
county if the proposed wagon road to
Fossil is built. A few hundred dollars
spent on this road would be worth
thousands of dollars to The Dalles in
the future.
President Mckinley has given the
big tree another shake and one big,
golden plum fell in Oregon, but it did
not strike either Ike Patterson or Tim
Geer. John Fox, of Astoria, had mis-
hand out and caught it. 1t was the
to be collector of Gus
toms for the district of Oregon, and if
the senate does not refuse to con firm
the appointment, he win soon step
into Tom Blocks official shoes.
Thanks to the fact that there is
limit fixed to the time of their session
the members of the state board of
have adjourned and. egon
home, after devoting month to doing
nothing except drawing their $40
lay. Their laborsshave been in vain,
because the law creating
,he board does not vest it with sufi-
,ient authority to make it of any
practical use.
The Baltimore Methodists in a re-
.ent issue remarked editorially: "Will |
he brother who inadvertently ac-
luired an umbrella during the recant
ession of the Baltimore conference !
eturn it to this Officer" The ordinary |
'orldly man under similar circum-
tances would have believed that his
was stolen,
The N. Y. World publishes list OF |
he bank-wreckers who have been |
'ardoned by the president In each
ase the man whom Mckinley freed
Fas convicted upon conclusive proof of
ross dishonesty. and received sem
ence that was at its fullest extent too
mall for such grave crime. But
hey are goldbugs, you know.
Since the agitation concerning the
publication of the list of pensioners
as commenced, Commissioner Evans
as received several LETTERS from per-
ons equesting a cancellation of their
ensions. One pensioner in Michigan
nclosed his certificate, and stated his
esire to have the same recalled, as he
7as not entitled to the governments
county. He added he would endeayor
o retur2 all the money drawn since
e95 when :he pension was granted.
A move is on foot to change the
lace Of meeting Of the Second District
agricultural Association from The
bales to Pendleton, and unless some
arly action is taken, the change will |
be made. The Dalles cannet
'ell afford to lose the annual fair, for