The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-11-02
From Fridays Daily.
Mr.. B. Blumauer is in the city.

Baker City is talking big hotel.
| Mr.. Chas. Nell, of Centerville, is in the
city.
J. 81. McDonough returned from Port
land las; night.
Hon. f. 2. Mays arrived in the oity last
| evening rom attending court at Prineville.
Milton and Dollie Mobiles in Love and
Law at Armory hall next Monday night.
Pasco, as a result of advertising, is en-
| ioying cutie a boom in the sale of real
estate.
We received pleasant call to-day from
Gov. PeLnoyer, who arrived in the city OH
the noon train.
If you want to hear the big roosters
crow or the big turkeys gobble pay a visit
TO $40 Third street at the Granger Feed
Yard.
Mr.. A. 7. Wall, who has been in Port
land for the past few days returned last
evening The spotted crow" sent him
message 10 come home.
From Mr.. Nell we learn that the rains
have been plentiful in Klickitat county.
The ground is in good condition, and farm
ers are busy putting in fall grain.
The sightless child recently born at
Weston, has been secured by +. Il. Merrill,
of Portland, and will be exhibited as
curiosity In Europe and America.
Mr.. Max Blank is burning kiln of 500,.
600 brick, and has already holf-a-inillion ON
hand. Mr.. Blank is determined to have
sufficient brick for the building era next
season.
Last night being 'All Halloween the
boys enjoyed little fun by removing gates.
Several OF our citizens on awakening this
morning found matters topsy turvY,In street
parlance.
The ladies of the Aid Society of the Con-
gregational church propose to give an enter
tainment consisting of ''wax work show"
and other amusements in the last week of
November.
The Astoria Transcript Is after the scalp
of j. L. AppersoD, register at the land
office at Oregon City. 1t complains very
justly because 1t receives no land notices for
publication.
Several passenger conductors on the o.
r. 81 n. Co. have been ordered to report
at headquarters, and their places have
been filled by new men. Those remain
ing are anXiously awaiting their turn.
Tuesday night Pullman conductor at
Bonneville Sulliyanized a porter in bal
shape, and forced him off the car. He
walked to Portland, ard does not desire
anv more exercise of the same kind-pugil-
istic or otherwise.
1t is quite amusing to notice the careful
watch that is made of every freight or pas
senger train which comes to or departs from
the city. The break-beains are scanned to
see that no Gibbs is secreted thereon.
The coming season will witness a greater
boom in building in this city than the pres
ent year. Already 100000 bricks have
been engaged by one party, and seven new
brick buildings have been contracted for.
Pasco Pilot: Harry Mccoy, with a gang
of twenty-siX men and six teams, s'put-
ting in four new sidetracks and two cut
offs, besides great amount of other i'm
provements that will take some two
months to complete.
Mr.. Len. Stump, an old mountaineer,
who has made his home in the vicinity of
Mt. Adams for number of years past,
reports having killed twenty seven bear
during the present fall season. Deer, he
says, are so plentiful that 1t would bc
cruelty and cowardice to kill them.
Partisan: Gov. NJ G. Moore has selected
jos. ". Robinson, Esq, of Olympia, as the
messenger to carry to Washington the Off
cial notification to the president of the
adoption of the constitution of the state of
Washington and the official statement OF
the vote upon the separate amendments
submitted at the same time.
Last Tuesday. VIM. Riley, yard master
OF the 0. 4. & n. Co. while coupling cars,
had his hand caught in the bumper, badly
bruising the member. DR.. Logan dressed
the wound. and he is getting along nicely
although he will be debarred from following
his vocation for several days. There are
some indications of septicemia.
Reueale: About ten days ago DR.. Dod-
son, of Baker City, was called to the bed
side of 12-year-old boy at North Powder.
the son of James Gilkerson, The boy
had sustained fracture of the bones of
his leg and the wound had been so i'm
perfectly treated that the doctor found it
necessary to amputate the limb in order
TO save the patients life. The little fel-
low, we are pleased to learn, is getting on
all right and will soon be able to
get about with artificial help.
Information solIcted-Apy person know
ing the whereabouts of Mr.. Robert Slater
and who will send word to Chaplain R.
Stubbs, Tacoma, Wn., will thereby put Mr..
him by his deceased father, MIR. Robert Sla-
ter, of Glasgow, Scotland. Robert Slater
was in Portland, Or, four years ago; has
been seafaring man; stands about 5 feet 4
inches; is of dark complexion; very dark
and long eyelashes, weighs about l35
pounds, and is abont 40 years of age.
Baker Rereills: DIR. T. N. Snow, surgeon
of the o. r.. q N. Co., received a telegram
yesterday calling him to Huntington to
attend man who had been injured by
the cars Sunday night. Upon his return
to Baker City this morning he informed
our reporter that his patient was switch
man, Geo. p. Talbot, and his injury con-
sisted of badly cut thigh, ceused by be-
ing caught between the miller and draw
head of the engine. The doctor says the
man had close call for his life, and got
off lucky even though his wound is very
painful one.
The brick buildings constructed this
year comprise Max Vogt's three-story edi-
iices, $50 feet front and 100 feet back, fin
ished in the latest style of architecture;
opera house, I50 feet on Third street by
100 feet ON Washington street, and this
theatre will rank next to Portland in ca
pacity and accommodations. A four
story roller mill of l00-barrel capacity,
OF Corrugated IRON, mas Deen put In sue
cessful operation by Mr.. A. III. Curtis,
and this has filled a long-felt want in this
community. Messrs. Vogt and Curtis are
very wealthy; but they have made every
cent in The Dalles in legitimate business,
aud are determined to patriotically spend
their money where they have accumulated
it. We wish we had few more such
men as these, and The Dalles would have
ten times the number of its population,
and our resources would not lack devel-
opment Aside from these mammoth
structures of Messrs. Vogt and Curtis, Mr..
l. C. Nicselsen has erected a very hand
some two-story brick, on Washington and
Third streets Besides these business
blocks there have been fully one hundred
dwellings erected in different portions of
the city, and the sum total of money ex-