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    THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. AUGUST 11, 1900.
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Published in two parti, on Wednetday
and Saiurdavt.
SCBaCRIPTIOS RATES.
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LOCAL BKKT1T1B8.
Weduesdav't Dallv.
Klickitat republicans will bold their
county convention next Saturday.
The tervicet of the) Third Regiment
infantry, Oregon National Guard, will
be tendered the United States govern
ment immediately for duty in China.
Taking the cental return already
unmnleted as a guide, the indication
are that the total population of the
United Sutee la between 75,000,000 and
78,000.
The machinery at the toda work ot
Weaver k Hayward wa not damaged
in the least by last Monday's fire, and
the company will be ready for business
just ae soon as their Iobs is adjusted.
A Pretoria dispatch of the 6lh says it
is stated positively that President
Kruger is willing and anxious to sur
render, providing a satisfactory promise
is given as to his ultimate destination.
State Senator J. N. Williamson, of
Prineville, yesterday rented the Carey
house, near the Catholic church, in
order that his children may have the
benefit of The Dalles schools during the
coming winter.
On September 1st the commission,
headed by Judge Taft, will become the
legislative body of the Philippines, with
power to take and appropriate insular
uionejs, establish judicial and educa
tional systems and to make and pass
laws.
Major Hall, of the O. R. A N. Com
pany, last Monday settled with Mrs.
Mosier, the Mosier beirs and Larkm
Lamb, of Mosier, for damage recently
-done to their pastures by fire which
ignited from sparks from a passing
locomotive.
Pillar Rock cannery has packed this
Beaeon about 26,000 cases of salmon,
which is said to we the largest pack
made on the Columbia this season, and
the Laird of Dunmore, resident partner
and manager, walks around in the al
leys between the piles of cans and looks
as if he did not care whether the school
kept or not.
Mr. Smead, of the Smead Fruit Drying
Company, of Blalock, met the fruit
growers of th3 Mosier neighborhood last
Monday and made arrangement to erect
fruit dryer at that place in time to
handle this year's crop. They estimate
their prune crop at 225 tone. Mr.
Smead gets a bonus, but bow much we
could not learn.
Dick Payette, a Warm Springs Indian,
passed through town today on the way
to Portland, in custody of Chief of In
dian Police L. M. Hayden and Deputy
United States Marshal Roberts. Dick
is charged with cattle-stealing. It is
alleged that be drove cattle belonging
to other Indians off the reservation and
sold them to white people.
Constable Hill went out to Wapinitia
yesterday to arrest Mat Busic, a farmer
of that neighborhood, who is chargad
with having killed an elk in the
mountains west of Wapinitia nearly a
year ago. The complaint was filed by
Henry Snipes, deputy game warden,
and Chief Warden L. P. W. Quimby in
sisted on the prosecution, notwithstand
ing the long time that has elapsed since
the alleged commission of the crime.
P. T. Knowles, traveling salesman for
the Dufur weeding machine patented
by M. J. Anderson, ws in town today
after completing a three months' tour
through Eastern Washington and parts
of Idaho. He reports having sold a
large number of machines and that they
are giving good satisfaction to the pur
chasers. Mr. Knowles will start in a
few days on a three months' trip
through Southern Oregon and Northern
California in the interest of tbe S. B.
Medicine Company, of Dufur,
Felix Bajavan, French Canadian,
who was in the employ of the American
Company in 1843, when he was a lad
of 17 and was connected with pack trains
between The Dalles and Fort Simcoe,
Walla Walla, the Bitter Root coontry,
and other places north and east, from
1811 to 1858, is in the city calling on the
few acquaintances that are left of these
long by. gone years. Felix has been
prospecting Qf late yeais in the region of
the John. Day, with varying fortune.
Mr. Smead, of the Smead Fruit Dry
ing Company of Blalocks, has ofTsrod to
titer into a contract with the business
men of The Dalles to put up a fruit
dryer at this place, of eight t ) ten tons
ler day capacity, in lime to take care of
"'is year's crop, on condition that they
agree to pay him a bonus of $1500, or
"lake satisfactory arrangements for the
I'synient of this sum as soon as the
I'lant dull be in operation. Mr. Smead
was here a few days ago looking over the
Celd with a view to shipping the green
'ruit from hers to his dryer at Blalocks.
He says with a plant at The Dalles he
could afford to pay at least a fonrtb ot a
cent a pound more for prunes than he
conld pay if he shipped them green, at
it takes three tons of green prunes to
make one of dried. Mr. Smead esti
mates that The Dalles will have 300 tons
ot prunes to dispose of this year, and
possibly 400. Without a dryer the
greater portion of thtae will be allowed
to go to waste. An effort is being made
this afternoon lo Mise the bonus, and
Thb Chxoniclx devoutly hopes it may
succeed. There appears to be no doubt
that Mr. Smead has control of all the
money be may need for handling fruit.
The regular quirterty teachers' exam
ination commenced at the court bouse
this morning with twenty-one applicants
for county cert ideates and three for
state. The board of examiners consists
of Superintendent C. L. Gilbert, Pro
fessor J. T. Neff, principal of The Dalles
High school, and Professor C. D. Thoinp
son, principal of tbe Hood River schools,
All the applicants save one are of the
gentler sex. Tbe lone exception gradu
ated from Oberlln college, Ohio, in tbe
50s and is now principal of the Wamic
schools.
Thursday's Daily
It has been raining out at Shaniko till
the Leader 'man wishes the clouds
would lift and the sun again appear,
One of the most lonesome peisons in
the world is well-behaved man when his
family is out of town for the summer.
The Telegram says campers on the
Washington side of the middle river are
returning to Portland by the hundreds
on account cf the smallpox scare.
C P. Huiitington, the railroad oi ag
nate, thinks the government should put
one man, heavilv armed, on every train
to prevent hold-ups and train robberies
Rain commenced falling here yester
day morning at about 5 o'clock and con
tinned till the middle of the afternoon.
The amount of precipitation was slightly
over half an inch.
So far the army worms have not put
in an appearance in Eastern Oregon
counties. The farmers in some parts
say there is a small worm injuring the
fruit trees, but that it hears no resem
blance to the army worm.
Lem Burgess, of Antelope, this fore
noon sold his clip of wool, consisting of
some 30,000 pouuds. The price was not
given out, but it is said to bave been
over 14 cents. It was bought by Mr,
Russell, of the scuuriug mill.
The Dalles is getting a touch of the
Belgian bare fever too. Thirty of the
Utile animals arrived here today by
express from San Jose. They belong to
a number of Dalles parties who clubbed
together for their purchase and ship
tueot.
Chicago packers yesterday were asked
by the government to furnish 2,000,000
pounds of meat, within thirty davs, for
the American soldiers in the Orient,
This is said to be the largest requisition
overissued by the government of th
United States.
Up to the hour of going to press noth
ing definite had ten d'lne in the mat
ter of raising the $1500 bun on asked by
Mr. Smead foi the erection of a frin
dryer at this place. The proposition,
however, has not been abandoned and
may yet be acted on.
The Oregon Prect Association will
meet this year at Ashland, Or., on Sep
tember 19th and 20ih. Before proceed
ing to the meeting place they will be
gueatt oi the Agricultural State Fair
Association at Salem on 'he 18lh, and
thence proceed to Ashland
When wit is kind as well as playful,
when information know how to he si
lent, as weil as how lo speak, when
good will is shown to those who are ab
sent as well as tot hope ho are present,
we may know thafwe are In good soci
ety. Ladies Home Journal.
The farmers that were in town today
from the conn try south of here all say
that the rains yestei da v were a benefit
rather than an injury. They did no
material damxge to grain, hut on the
contrary, laid the dust that had become
very annoying and did considerable ben
efit to the roads,
The boss of the weather bureau down
in Portland is making a irrand success
of his weather pred ctions. A tab kept
on them for the past, eight days finds
that they were correct ju one time.
Yesterday's forecast, for example, was
"fair and wanner," whereas it rained
dogs and cat nearly nil day and was
cool enough for the ide of November.
Pat Fagan is having hi elor building,
on the southwest corner of Third anrl
Federal, transformed into a ten-mom
dwelling, which will probably he necn
pid on completion bv Tom Ward, of
Ward & Robertson. The building has
been raised about five feet and a stone
basement is being built under it. At
soon as the building is finished the erec
tion of another dwelling on the lot im
mediately west will he commenced.
Two travding young men, who are
fancy trick bicycle riders, gave an exhi
bition of their fkill on the corner of
Third and Washington this forenoon
and another at the omer of Second an.l
Washington. They attracted large
crowds and performed several new
tricks that were very cleverly executed.
They announced that they would give
another exhibition at 7 o'clock at the
corner of Second and Washington. They
claim to be student of Stanford Univer
sity, California, and are taking th
m.ans of raiting funds to procure tbe
education.
Matt Busic, of Victor, arrived in tow
thit morning io charge of Const bl
Hill, charged with having killed an el
about a year ago. Matt, who it a quiet
law-abiding citiieu, indignantly deuiet
the charge and proposes to tight th
matter to the bitter end. He promptly
retained H. S. Wilton and, on bein
arraigned before Justice Brownhill
pieaaea not guilty ana the trial was
Gxed to take place tomorrow morning
He was discharged on giving bonds for
his appearance in th sum of $100.
Referring to an item that lately
peared in the Oregonian relating to a
alleged survey for an extension of th
Colombia Southern from Shaniko, the
Leader tart that A. E. Hammond, chief
engineer of that road, who hat hi head
quarter at Shaniko, know nothing of
any extension of hi company' line,
and that if the Columbia Southern had
been extended as many times as th
papers of the state had said it was go
ing to be extended, it would bave by
this time been across the continent
Kansas City has a judge with th
wisdom of Solomon. He recently ren
dered a decision that will interest young
men who take their girls out riding,
young man hired a team lor that pur
pose, telling tbe liveryman the fact, an
in the course of the drive the team ra
away and demolished tbe buggy. Th
owner sued the young mau for damages
and the judge gave the verdict to the
young man, saying it was the duty of
the liveryman, knowing that he was
going lo take a girl out riding, to give
him a team thit could be driven with
one band.
A man coming up from Portland a few
days ago, tays the Albany Herald, said
he was looking for a steady job. H
had been working in Eastern Oregon
where he said the work wasn't steadv
enough, so he threw up a job he had
there and started for the valley. He
began work at 4 o'clock in the morning
stopped a few minutes for breakfaBt
worked until noon, stopped a ehort time
for dinner, worked until 6 o'clock
stopped foi supper, and then worked
until 9:30, when they quit work entire'
ly until 4 o'clock next morning. What
he wanted was a place where there was
work all the time.
The Abilene, Kansas, Reflector of
August 2nd tells the following of one
George Ogden, formerly a coal dealer of
that town, but no a drummer for
Kansas City firm : "While in the lobby
of an Abilene hotel the other day, Ogden
cast reflections on the character of the
soldier boys who went to the Philippines
and expressed a hope that they would
meet with a bad f-ite. A number of
members of the 20th Kansas and others
corralled him in front of Hodge Bros,
store that afternoon, sent for F. B
Bearce who testified as to what Ogden
said and they gave him his choice to
apologize or take the consequences. He
got up on a plow, took off his hat and
abjectly apologized to the boys. He
would have had a mighty rough time if
he had not. This is a patriotic town."
Gideon M. Backus, a pioneer of 1848,
died at Hood River yesterday morning,
after an illness of about three months,
He was well known in this state, having
settled in Linn county when he first
came to Oregon, living on a farm there
for twenty-three years. He sold out
there and twenty-three years ago went
to Hood River, where be has since re
sided. He was born in Butler county,
Ohio, in 1817, but came to Oregon by
ox team in 1848 from Indiana. He left
eight children, among whom is a daugh
ter, Mr'. F. A. Mauzey, tf Hood River;
Judge Backus, of Spokane; Aaron and
Vees Backus, of Idaho; Joe Backus,
of Hood River; Mrs. E. S. Olinger,
of Hood River; Mrs. Vince Circle,
of Paulina, Or., and Mrs. Lucinda
Kyger, of Tucson, Ariz. The burial
will take place at Hood River tomorrow
S. Ban and N. G. Seaman, partners
doing business under the firm name of
Ban A Seaman, yesterday filed in the
clerk's office of this county a lien for
-J0.8G5.80 on that part of the Columbia
Southern railroad lying between Moro,
in Sherman county, and Shaniko, in
Wasco county, forty-six miles, or there
abouts, in extent. The hen is to secure
payment for tracklaving and surfacing
the part of the road mentioned, which
was donn nnder a contract made be
tween Ban & Seaman and A. E. Ham
mond and Archie Mason, whom Ban A
Seaman claim to have been the agent
of the Columbia Southern and, in the
matter of sub-letting the contract for
he work done, to have acted with the
knowledge and consent of the Columbia
Southern Company. The total amount
of Ban A Seaman's claim was $32,365 86,
on which they received on account $11,-
500. It should be said that the greater
portion of the balance claimed under
the lien is for extras and alleged "extra
c ist and expense of doing the work by
reason of Interference and unjust treat
ment of claimants" by the officers of
the company.
Friday's Pally.
Salmon fishing closes for the season
tonight at 12 o'clock.
Tomorrow's the day when $1.25 and
$1.50 knee pants go for only 87 cents at
A. M. Williams A Co.'s.
Dr. Eahelman this morning received
notice of the death at Litchfield, Illinois,
of his maternal grandmother, Mrt. Lu
cinda Cove, aged 92 years, 6 months and
22 day.
Lace curtain can be bought very
cheaply at A M. Williams A Co.' to
morrow. Aopteciative housekee jers
will te there in p'.euty, therefore be on
time.
a ratio j ot one draft horse were
hipped this morning from the Salt-
marshe stock yardt to the Sound mar
ket. there were purchased iu Wheeler
and Crook counties.
The trial of Matt Bnsic for the alleged
killing of an e k, which wa fixed for
2 o'clock this afternoon, has been pott
poned till tomorrow to enable Game
Warden Quimby to he present.
Wedueeday the sheriff and health
officers of Klickitat county made an In
vestigation ot the smallpox case in the
settlements east of White Salmon river,
and placed guards at each house where
the disease is known to exist.
Georg MiLod, of Kingsley, while in
town today said that rail wheat on the
Tvgb Ridge was lifrning out to meet the
highest expectation. He believes that
the average for the Ridge wilt be forty
bushels to the acre, the largest yield the
the Tygh Ridgera ever had.
The Glacier tays the White Salmon
farmers whoso crops of peaches and to
matoes are just ripening will be nnable
to ship their produce now that that
district is under quarantine. This it
certainly hard luck mid mean the lost
of several thousand dollar.
A forest fire, which broke out at tbe
Oregon Lumber Co.' sawmill at Cheno-
welh last Friday, destroyed J. Moody's
dwelling house and contents, and the
Macdabee lodge hall. About forty of
the mill hands were kept busy prevent
ing the burning of tbe boarding house.
A party of eight or ten men and youths
while Indulging last evening in a little
good natured scuffling in front of Julius
Fisher' barbei shop accidentally broke
one of the big lights in the window. The
racket made by the broken glas
frightened the Austrian count out of a
week's growth.
Henry Stegman, of Centerville, came
to to town today to meet his son, Henry
a lad of 12 years, who has been a pupil
of St. Joseph's Academy, Independance,
Iowa, for the past fiye year. Mr. Steg.
man intends to rent a house in The
Dalle and have hi children attend
school here during the coming fall and
winter.
D. L. Knebel left at this office today
a magnificent peach that was grown on
a little tree that he planted a year ago
on his lot on Jackson street, in a sand
bed that a stranger would not credit
with the capacity to produce anything
that grows out of the soil. The little
tree produced twenty eight of these
peaches.
Judge A. L. Miller, of Vancouver,
was a passengT on this morning's stage
for Goldendale, where he goes to look
after his political fences. The judge is
a candidate for the superior judgahip of
Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania and Klickitat
counties, to succeed himself. He has
strong competitor in the person of W.
B. Presbv, of Goldendale. The repnbli
can convention lor Klickitat countv
meets at Goldendale tomorrow.
At a meeting held in Portland yester
day Vice-President Bennet, of the Na
tional Wool-Growers' Association, an
nounced that he was in favor of holding
the next annual convention in Portland
and would present the matter to the as
sociation and be ready to announce their
decision by September 1st, Resolutions
favoring the holding of the convention
in Portland and extending a cordial in
vitation to the association were passed.
The expense of getting up such an ex
hibit for the Portland carnival as will
do justice to Wasco county is considera
ble, and the local Elks who are manag
ing the affair and who have no more
Interest in the exhibit than any other
class of citizens, apart from farmers and
fruit men, will ask the businees men ol
The Dalles to help them bear part of tbe
burden. This is only fair and reasona
ble. We understand that a committee
of tlks will, at an early date, call on tbe
citizens for help in this important work.
John Koberg should hang out his
ingle and advertise as an expert sur
geon, says the Hood Kiver Glacier.
About two months ago three of his fine
ertey calves tix months old were
caught on the railroad track and each
ad a leg broken by a passenger train.
The bones of their legs were broken
lean off and their legs were dangling.
Ie immediately went to work to set
the fractures, and with the assistance of
is wife, succeeded on all three. After
three or four weeks the bandages wero
removed, and now the calves seem to be
11 right.
It is a shame and disgrace that the
fruit men of this section do not bave
tome organization lor the purpose of
marketing their fruit. A Mill creek
ruit man got the returns yesterday from
ten boxes of pears that he shipped to
Portland about ten days ngo. They
netted him lees than five cents a box.
The commission man w ho handled them
a not necessarily to blame. They were
hipped to a glutted market and the
hipper had no means of knowing what
e was doing till it was too late. With
properly conducted shipping organir.a-
lon a case oi this kind need not occur.
It would be the business of the organi
zation to know the condition of the
market before a shipment was made.
But these things happen here every day
in the week. Car load of peach plum
and prune were thipped from here last
year that were never heard from. Five
or tix carload of peach plum are said
to have been thipped thit season, the
returns from which amounted, practic
ally, to nothing. No wonder fruit men
get ditcouraged. Any business con
ducted as the fruit business It often con
ducted here, would go to the dog in no
time.
Brome grass experiments have
aroused more interest among the agri
cultural classes in the Northwest than
anything tried in that line before. This
grass was introduced in Oregon and
Washington by R. C. Judson, industrial
agent of tbe O. R. A N. Under the di
rection of the traffic department of that
railroad, Mr. Judson has made a nuin
her ol tests upon the eiperimenta'
farms. These experiments proved tha
it would grow upon semi-arid lands
that it was a good feeder ; that it would
serve to bind sandy soils together, and
possessed other qualities which made it
specially fitted for the soils of the arid
section of the Northwest.
A good illustration of what a small
irgmuiaie expeuuiture ol money may
sometimes eueci in me saving of prop
erty from destruction by fire is furnished
by a little incident that happened at an
early hour yesterday morning. When
gentleman, who is employed down town
most of the night, reached his home on
the bluff he noticed a fire that had
broken out In a lot of rubbish back of
the postofUce. He immediately rang up
the Seufert A Condon central office and
la two or three seconds the little red
light at Nielsen's corner told Night
watch man Alisky that th re was some
thing wrong. In about as short a time
as it takes to tell it Alisky was at the
fire and bad it stamped cut. In this
particular case the tire in question in
volved no great risk, but then it might
bave been far otherwise. A little
judicious expenditure ot money on a
new tower, and a new bell on the bluff
might, too, effect a great saving some
day.
George P. Higlnbotham, a prominent
citizen of Moro, Sherman county, today
shot a man named Jenkins, the ball
entering Jenkin's breast a little below
the heart. Tbe shooting took place four
miles from Moro. A Moro physician was
called to attend the wounded man whose
injury is supposed to he fatal. Higin
bothara was arrested. The trouble arose
over a division of grain. Such is the
meager informatitn received at 2 o'clock
this alternoon over the long distance
phone. Higinbothan is presumed to be
a warehouse and livery stable man of
Moro. He owns a farm about four miles
from Moro that he had rented to a man
named Jenkins. It is known here that
Higinbothan has been quarrelling with
Jenkins all summer and wanted to get
him off his place. Higlnbotham is said
to he a quarrelsome stubborn man.
The local lodge of Elks are making
praiseworthy efforts to have Wasco
county well represented at the carnival
to be held in Portland from the 4th to
the 15th of September. They will spare
neither money nor effort to make the
horticultural and agricultuial exhibit
from Wasco county a credit to the coun
ty and, if possible, tbe beet tbe county
has ever made. At a meeting held at
the club rooms last night the following
committees were chosen to procure ex
hibits and in a general way help to pro
mote the object in view : Emile Scbtn
no, chairman and general manager; II.
T. Johnston, of Dnfur; E. L. Smith, N.
C. Evans and J. E. Davidson, of Hood
River; C. R. Smead, of Blalock ; F. C.
Seufert, O. D. Taylor, A. 8. Bennett,
N. Whealdon, Pete Stadleman, The
Dalles; Charles VanDuyn, Tygh; A.
Sandoz, Mill Creek; George Cooper,
Dry Hollow, and A. Stewart, of Mosier.
George A. Young and J. M. Russell
were appointed a special committee on
wool, and John A. Douthit and Hugh
Gourlay to represent the press. The
Portland carnival committee bave
offered to give Wasco county any amount
ol apace In tbe "agricultural palace"
that may be considered necessary, from
50 to 150 feet. The O. R. A N. Com
pany offers to carry the exhibits to Port-
and without charge. It is earnestly
hoped that the f'uit men and farmers
will co-operate with the committees In
their effort to make an exhibit that will
be a credit to Wasco county as well as
to the state. We have the stuff to do it
with. Let us show the outside world
what we have got.
A good blacksmith is much needed at
Victor, thia county, A competent man
can have all the work he can do, and
have the UBe of a suitable building prac
tically free. Of course he must furnish
his own tools and stock. Inquiries
made of A. F. Evick, Victor, will be
promptly answered. al-3tw
IHflnolatlon notice.
The copartnership business heretofore
conducted at 175 Second street, under
tbe firm name and style of lilakeley A
Houghton, is this day dissolved by
mutual consent, F. L. Houghton retir
ing from said firm. The business will
tie conducted in the future by Geo. C".
Hlakeluy, at the old stand. ' F. I..
Houghton will collect all accounts and
pav all liabilities of said firm.
The Dalles, Oregon. July 2, 1000.
(iKo. C. ISi.akki.ky,
F. L. Houghton.
Clark A Falk's drug
fresh and complete.
stock Is new,
PERTINENT PRESS COMMENT.
Revenue in the Cuban treasury la
piling up at the regular republican rate.
Topeks, Kan., Capital.
"Gold, ginger and grit" is tuggetted
by the Boston Herald at a war cry. For
the other tide how would "Silver, short
age aod oup" doT Rochester Demo,
crat and Chronicle.
In order to show that the public con
fidence lo his bravery baa not been
misplaced, Governor Roosevelt has con
sented to make a number of speeches in
Kentucky. Globe-Democrat.
John R. McLean has sent bis check
to W. J. Bryan for $25,000. Who tays
the gas trust isn't willing to "chip in"
for democracy? Ice trust next! Then
tngartrustl Keep coming. Lawrence-
ville, 111., Republican.
Having criticised Mr. McKinley yes
terday for sending troops to China, a
certain Bryan oigan says today he
would better hurry up and eave Ameri
can lives. This is a real anti-expansion
idea. Uphold American honor, but
maintain no army ; don't seud soldiers
to China, but if Americans perish be
cause no toldiert are sent, denounce tha
government. Kansas City, Mo., Star.
When the treaty with Spain was
pending Mr. Bryan made a trip to Wash
ington to advise hit party friends in the
tenate to vote for its ratification. He Is
now running for president on a platform
opposing the policies necessarily result
ing from the approval of the treaty.
Senator Hoar makes an exceedingly
serious charge against Mr. Bryan In thia
connection. Tbe senator says: "I
knew from the opponents of the treaty,
with whom Bryan labored and who la.
bored with him just what he said and
did at that time. lie just put bis sup
port of the treaty squarely on the ground
that it was better to keep the issue for
tbe presidential campaign." It was
wholly on I arty grounds. Senator
Hoar asserts that Bryan appeared at
the capital to influence votes for the
treaty, hoping that it would involve tha
country in such difficulties that the ad
ministration would be ruined and tha
path made easy for the democratic nom
inee of 1900, who, as Mr. Bryan knew,
would be himself. Corvallis Gazette.
A Comedy of Error.
Wednesday's Dally.
A young man named Barnett Stien-
bolt, some nineteen years of age, waa
brought up from Mosier Tuesday after-
noonjby Deputy Sheriff Woods, under a
warrant of arrest charging him with
larceny by bailee. A short time ago
Stienholt bought a buggy for $80 from.
W. A. Johnston, on a Bixty days' note,
giving as security a mortgage on tbe
buggy and a span of work horses ha
claimed he owned and was working in a
logging camp near Mosier. It was since
discovered that the boy had never
worked in any logging camp nenr Mosier
and owned no horses, bnt, on the con
trary, that tbe horses he exhibited to
Mr. Johnston as his own belonged to a
party at Mosier and had been hired by
Stienholt to be brought here and shown
to Mr. Johnston as bis own in order to
secure tbe buggy. And to complicate
matters still more the lad bad given his
name as Uharles t. tirown and bad
signed this name, instead of his own, to
the note given to Mr. Johnston. When
it was learned that Stienholt had sold
the buggy to Mr. Husky and was pre
paring to leave tbe country, he waa
promptly placed under arrest. Even as
late as yesterday be came here and
secured the bounty on a lot of coyote
scalps which it is believed be stole; and
again be nsed the name of Cbas. F.
Brown when taking the necessary oatb.
Stienholl's parent! live at Forest post
office, Wash. They bave been written
to come and look after him, and in tbe
meantime his lawyers, Messrs. Bennett
A Sinnott, have obtained the consent of
Justice Broanbill to have the boy's ex
amination deferred till next Friday
morning.
8pclal Council Meeting-.
At the call of Mayor Dufur a special
meeting of tbe city council was held
Wednesday in the recorder's office, at
which an ordinance was passed making
it unlawful for any transportation line
running into the city to carry any per
son or goods Into the city from any
place where infectious or contagious
diseases exist, unless such person or
goods has been thoroughly lumiiratcd.
The ordinance makes it the duty of the
city marshal, whn he is informed or
has reason to suspect that any infectloue
or contagious disease exists at or near
any station or locality from which any
transportation line carries any person
or goods to this city, to notify in writing
such transportation line of the existence
of said disease and command said line
not to carry any person or goods from
such locality to within the limits of The
Dulles until tho same are thoroughly
fumigated as above provided.
The council passed a resolution to
provide for the numbering of the houses
of the city as soon us the free delivery
systum Is assured.
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