The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-05-27


t. ting it to The Dalles over electrict
is wires.
l. At Canyon City Tuesday j. Fl. Nor
r. gan was sentenced to two years in the
t, penitentiary for larceny OF gold from
a the placer claim of Sloan & Haskell at
4. Susanville.
n Mr.. and Mrs. c. W. Emerson, OF
a Eight-Mile, left this morning for Cal
o iforna, where they will spend a month
t visiting friends and relatives in Sacra-
d mento and Oakland.
Miss Minnie Sandrock returned
9 Tuesday from WOODBURY., where she
q has been employed for the past three
: months in Mrs. M. J. Matson's milli-
merry emporium. Since leaving Wood
burn week ago she has been visiting
, friends in Salem.
Today the grand jury returned not a
, + true bill in the case of the state agai st
! F. N. Spicer, who killed W. D. Jones
at Antelope on April Sd. Some time |
sitter the killing Mr.. Spicer was
brought to The Dalles and given a |
preliminary hearing before justice |
Bayard who bound him oyer to the |
gran6 jury.
At o'clock this afternoon the grand |
jury nude its final report and was dis.
charged by Judge Bradshaw. There
being no cases for trial before jury
the Judge also discharged the petit
jury. Thus the May term of court has
gone through without a jury trial, a
very uncommon thing in this county.
The Regulator will rake trip to
Hood River next Sunday for the pur
pose of carrying load of sheep, and
in all probability arrangements will
be made to carry The Dalles baseball
team and other excursionists who de-
sire to visit Hood River on that date.
The boat will leave here at $50 in the
morning and return at 7:30 in the
evening.
Two days before he was hanged,
| Claude Branton wrote confession and
delivered it to Rev. E. M. Patterson,
sealed, with instructions not to make 8
it public until 10 days after his death.
1t was made public Tuesday. Branton
confesses to firing the shot that killed ,
John Linn. At the trial he maintained :
that Courtland Green, his accomplice, 8
fired the shot
The closing EXERCISES of The Dalles
public schools will be held at the Vogt
opera.house Friday evening. Children -.
of the primary and grammer depart =
ments will be admitted free. General
admission Is cents. Doors open at 7:30 :
and program to begin promptly at S:l5. +
Many residents of The Dalles will
regret to learn that George Brown has
about concluded to resign his position
as engineer of the fire department. r
George went to the horse and dog show
last night and after seeing how the
animals monkeyed with fire apparatus
concluded it was a waste of time for
human beings to devote their lives "
fooling around with engines and hose,
The session laws for the twentieth I"
biennial session are now published =
and make a volume of 124S pages. :,
This shows progression in the state, =
for in 1889, ten years ago, the session
laws made volume of only 705 pages. :"
Taking this as an index the state has &c
evoluted in laws (more properly called
grafts) at the rate of SAB pages in one
decade. Who will say Oregon is not ts
progressing? IL
A troop of cavalry from Walla Wal n
la passed through here on special d
train this afternoon en- route to San M
Francisco, where they will be joined 81
by the remainder of their regiment, el
the Fourth cavalry, and proceed to the II
Philippines. Among the troop was
Homer Barnett, half brother of M. P
N. Eastwood, of this city. When the a
regiment sails from San Francisco it Il
will take with it 1000 head of extra s
horses. T
About o'clock last evening F. W.
Silvertooth had a mix up with his p
splendid span of mules in the East =
End. The mules didn't want to go 1
just where Mr.. Silvertooth willed, and u
as q result the buggy was overturned.
and Mr.. S. was used up about as badly D
as some of the soldiers who have been b
hunting Filipinos. Fortunately no S
bones were broken, and both Mr.. F
Silvertooth and the mules are all 81
right today. il
Yesterday afternoon the sheepmen >
who we're here attending the wool u
growers convention conferred together
and agreed upon boundaries of ranges J
they will apply for in the Cascade forest le
reserve, and the boundary question n
was settled agreeably to all. The only t,
portion of the reserve from which %
stock is excluded is that portion north t,
of White river and east of the summit b
in Wasco county. The remainder of v
the reserve will be allotted to the d
flock owners who make application.
The wool market here is opening up a
quite satisfactorily, and within the 81
past few days some sales haYe been Il
made at prices in advance of IL cents fl
while there have been numerous offers b
of IL cents for choice clips of last r.
years wool and 10 cents has been G.
offered for few choice lots of this "
years clip. The prices that have |,
been offered emphasizes the fact that
The Dalles maintains its reputation as y
the best wool market in Oregon. :,
Pendleton is taking considerable t,
credit to itself as wool center because g
250.000 pounds of wool have been re- 4,
ceived there so far this season. If The 7
Dalles had received no more wool n
than that it would hardly consider il
itself a wool center, but owing to the fl
fact that something like 100000
pounds of this years clip have been T
stored at the warehouses here already, :,
brings this place pretty well to the h
front as the leader in the wool busi- =
ness of Oregon.
There are few sawmills operating il
on the Columbia river that are violat- O
ing the law preventing the dumping 8
of saw dust into fish streams. The n
mill near Cascade Locks is one of d