The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-10-05
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From Saturday Daily.
Mr.. Wood Gilman, of Fossil, is in tn
city.
Mrs. F. N. Hill is visiting friends il
Portland.
The Mechanics Fair in Portland com
menced Thursday.
The atmosphere is somewhat cloudy, ant
there is every indication of rain.
Mr.. John Lewis left on the Afternoon
train to-day on visit to Portland.
} There are prospects of several new bricl
buildings for business purposes being erect
ed the coming season.
This is the last day of the fair, and street
fakirs and catch-pennies will be packing
their traps and leaving. So mote it be.
Tom Lewis, a manipulator of pasteboards,
was arrested by Marshal Gibbons yesterday
He is wanted in Astoria for forgery, and
will leave for that city tomorrow morning
Another individual, for selling liquor to
Indians, was deprived of his liberty yester.
| day. He was turned over to the deputy
| U. S. marshal, and will be taken to Port.
| land tomorrow.
The criminal calendar at Tacoma includes
three murder trials, that of F. Z. Clark,
charged with the murder of Annie Dickin-
son; David E. Latin, murder of G. G..
Grant, and Burgess, who killed his squaw
wife.
w. w. Journal: Two houses belonging to
W. 81. Schmidt, SIX miles west of Pilot
Rock, were destroyed by fire about 10
o'clock Sunday night. The families es-
capped with the clothes they had ON, but
that was all.
Baker ReUelle: A heavy snowfall in Mon
tana has put out the forest fires that have
been raging in the mountains for six weeks,
and saved several mining towns from de-
struction. The timber in the burned Sec
tion was the finest in Montana, and none of
it now remains.
Oregon City Enterprise: Last week the
neighborhood of Gresham was engaged in
fighting forest fires. an aged man by the
name of Rugg being one of the party. The
smoke was very dense and prevented him
from seeing falling tree which struck and
crushed him.
The First Eastern Oregon District Agri-
cultural society will convene in Baker City
Oct. Sth. There is every indication of it
being very successful exhibition as a great
deal of interest is manifested by the citizens
directly interested. The Baker City papers |
have two-coIumn advertisement of the |
coming fair.
MIR. l. H. Taffe called upon us this |
and informed us that instead of |
stopping the channel of the river he has
blasted it out and improved it so that fish |
can pass up. He has done everything
possible to increase the run of salmon
instead of decreasing it, and has spent
thousands of dollars for this purpose.
Those boys who lay around the bluff
above the east end of Third street, and an
coy some of the decent citizens with their
police, if their parents don't take them in
charge. 1t is no excuse that their parents
do not know about their conduct. Parents
should make it their business to know where
heir boys are and what they are doing.
I'VE saw Mr.. Joel koontz. of Five Mile,
this morning driving into the city. One
pants leg was in his boot and the other out.
He had lost his hat and presented strange
appearance. He could neither laugh, sing
lor whistle. Ws were amazed at his be-
then a voice seemed to say
Hush, you will awake the baby. 1t is a
lrl and weighs nine pounds. Mother doing
veil, father not expected to live.
q. o.: Bids were opened by Commission.
RS Sargent and Keeney Monday for the
construction of the remaining division of the
long creek wagon road, Umatilla county.
)ne. that of r. w. Case at $500 for the
Meadow creek division, extending from the
ifty-eighth mile post to the Grant county
inc, was rejected, it eng in the opinion of
he commissioners-who are compelled to be
now that the appropriation is
aIn fharf fnn
Union: At lI:3O Tuesday night, Mrs.
stella A. Blalock, wife of DR.. Y. G. Blalock,
lied after an illness of about ten days. Mrs.
'lalock was born in Owensbury, Kentucky,
n 1865, and was, consequently, in her 25th
'ear at the time of her death. She came
o the northwest section in 1874 with her
'arents, and for a. greater portion of the
ime has resided in Walla Walla. She had
een married three years on January l,
$50, but leaves no children to mourn her
oss. Mrs. Blalock was an estimable lady,
nil OF kindness and ,yiyacity, and her early
cath will be regarded as calamity by a
,rge circle of friends.
At the contest ye sterday after noon be- {
ween The Dalles and Goldeniale brass
ands the judges failed to agree, and the
ecision was left to the referee, Mr.. E. N.
handler, who, at the promenade concert ,
asst evening gave the following decision:
oldendale band, first, attack, 10; second,
lne, 10; third, style, s; fourth. time, 10;
fth, harmony, 10. Total, 49, Third Reg
nent o. N. G. band: First, attack, 10;
,cond, tune, 10; third, style, 10; fourth,
me, 8; fifth, harmony, 10. Total, 40.
his secured the first prize to the Third i
.egiment o. N. G. band, $3.50; second, :
oldendaIe band, $l90.
Vancouver Register: On Wednesday last a
lie president appointed Mr.. Scott Swetland, :
this city, receiver of the United States
nd Office at Vancouver, vice John O'Keane, t
hose term of Office expired few weeks
nee. Mr.. SHETLAND Is chairman of the I
larke county Republican committee and a a
ember of the state committee, and was 8
ltensively endorsed for the position by
aiding Republicans of both Washington a..
I'd Oregon. Mr.. Swetland was for several :,
ears in the employ of the Vancouver l.
Co., where he developed ex-
.llent clerical ability. The appointment
eets with satisfaction here. Mr.. Swetland
thoroughly competent and will make
,od official.
The contracts for the telegraph line from
illamook rock to Fort Stevens have been y
t. says the Oregonian. The shore line has II
zen awarded to the Sunset Telephone and I
company, of San Francisco, for
Is per mile. The cable will be supplied
= j ohm M. Cline, OF San Francisco, for
y cents per foot, delivered at Astoria.
he cable will be laid by the Nanzanita
I'd the government is going to get a cheap fl
ne. One person bid very low for the
ore line and hign for the cable. and an .
her low for the cable and high for the
ore line, and Major Handbury took the
eap bids on each. to the disgust of both
ntractors. The line will be completed In =
'out sixty days.
From Mondays Daily. l.
Mr.. B. E. Snipes is in the city. /,
Tomorrow tells the tale in Washington.