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for the next year.
English and Belgian cements, very best imported brands, for sale by the Wasco Warehouse Co..
Either a half-witted fellow or one who is a rascal too lazy to work yet smart enough to play crazy, is annoying the residents of Dry Hollow by making frequent calls on them for food at all hours of the day or night.
The resignation of S. B. Ormsby as a member of the soldiers' Home board was received and accepted by the governor yesterday and H. H. Northup, county ijudge of Multnomah county, was appointed his successor.
Within the past few days there has been a fair catch of salmon along the river, showing that fish are beginning to run, but as the season will close in a few days the run can be of no material benefit to local canners.
Editor Ireland, of the Moro Observer, was in the city last evening returning from a month's visit to Webfoot, where he lay in the shade and lived off the fat of the land for four solid weeks. He said he enjoyed the recreation hugely.
Kansas boasts that it had a hail storm the other day in which the hail stones were as large as an ostrich's egg and it is said that one enterprising farmer filled his cellar with stones, covered them with sawdust and will sell them to families that need ice.
A Massachusetts postmistress, who has just become a bride, opened the letters of the patrons of the office in order that she might know just what they thought of her alliance. Woman's curiosity can always devise means for getting her into trouble.
Dan Roberts and Frank Menefee were out on the Deschutes yesterday in the neighborhood of the free bridge, and say crops in that section are fine with the exception of some fall grain and volunteer. The spring grain is ripening rapidly and will give an immense yield.
Few women can go to the Clondyke; but the Clondyke widows, in the absence of their husbands, will have increased cares and responsibilities and will be thereby made more competent to attend to business affairs so that in reality they will make progress in development.
A boy named Robert McKenzie arrived this morning from Montana, and will go to the home of his aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Baxter. Young McKenzie has put in several years on a Montana cattle ranch, and says he is desirous of leading a more quiet life on an Eastern Oregon farm.
The following gentlemen have been appointed by Chief Gibons of The Dalles Fire department as a committee to solicit subscriptions to a fund for paying the expenses of the forthcoming touruament: J. S. Fish, A. Sandrock, H. L. Kuck. Capt. John W. Lewis, T. A. Ward and H. J. Maier.
Wasco county will have a damage case soon if the large rocks are not removed from the Deschutes grade. The rocks are large and easily lift a wagon off its balance. Dalles papers please copy. Moro Observer. How about the rocks over on the Sherman county side? Bro. Observer.
Greer, Mills & Co., of Chicago, have begun action in the federal court at Portland against the receiver of The Dalles National bank to recover $13,500, which the plaintiffs claim they had paid into the bank on a sheep deal with J. H. Blake, $8,500 of the amount having been paid by them after the bank closed.
Japan has an income tax. If a taxpayer protests that he is rated too high by the officials he is thrust into a dark room and told to "think it over carefully." Sometimes a man stays there 24 hours, buried in darkness and thought, and finally he is apt to agree with the officials that he is richer than he had at first supposed.
The state treasury was relieved of $135,154.24 Monday, that being the amount of the annual distribution arising from the interest on the irreducible school fund, which was apportioned and paid off. The apportionment was on a basis of 126,956 children at $1.04 per capita. Wasco county's portion of the apportionment is $4,142.
The supreme court has affirmed the decree of the lower court in the case of the state of Oregon vs. Kelsay Porter. The defendant was convicted of having committed the crime of murder in the first degree by killing one Joseph Benjamin Mache, whose wife and son, named respectively Mary E. and Benjamin Mache, jr., he also killed at the same time, residents of Union county.
Hon. W. H. Biggs came down from Biggs station on the train this morning, and reports everything pushing on the Columbia Southern road. Connection with the O. R. & N. track has been made at Biggs, and track laying is under way. Track will be laid as fast as the grade is ready, and it is now a certainty that the road will be completed to Wasco by September 1st.
A little ripple of excitement was caused on the streets last night when it was reported that there was a smallpox patient in the city. Investigation however proved the report to be untrue. The supposed small pox patient was Elzie Hollingsworth, of Newberg, who had been at work on the Columbia Southern railroad and contracted the measels, and had come here for treatment. Being out of funds he was declared a county charge, and was placed under Dr. Shackelford's care for treatment.
The deputy county clerk of Clackamas county, E. E. Martin, is in a bad box, having been arrested for embezzlement of funds belonging to a Denver loan association, and has acknowledged to having sold "raised" county warrants. Martin is a nice young fellow, being prominent in the Y. M
