The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-11-02
Table of the o. s. & n. Co
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
Eyoyu Tuasflav,a DAILY

ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Tuesdays Daily.
Mr.. P. C. Craft, of Portland, arrived
the city en- the noon train.
Mr., j. 81. Larsen returned from a shol
visit to Portland last night.
Tom Fitch, the silver tongued orator {
Nevada, is on visit to Oregon.
Mr.. A. G. johnson arrived in this cit
from Portland last Saturday night.
A "crazy" social was held in Davenpor
one night last week. The programme cor
sisted of singing and dancing.
The heavens wept copiously this morning
The drops are precious, and every one
duly appreciated by our farmers.
Anderson and Butler are grthering shee
in this vicinity for the Chicago market
They will ship from Ellensburgh.
Last Sunday there were 400 cattle in tn
stockyards awaiting shipment. They wer
from Crook county and the Malheur.
The exhibition of photographs oy Capt
Houghton on Second street are good adver
tisements Of his skill as an artist. Thes
cannot be excelled anywhere.
This. morning two carloads of cattl,
from Eastern Washington were shipped t.
Portland and the Sound, and tomorrow two
more carloads will be sent to the same des
tinatiou.
The taxable property of Union county i:
only 81, $50, 76O, and the tax levy is 81 and
49, 80 mills, while 6 mills, the state levy,
must be added. Who does not want to own
property in Union county.
q train of eight cars was overturned by a
wind storm between Ogden and Salt Lake
recently and several passengers were in
iured. There are other places where it
blows outside of The Dalles.
General Hazard Stevens, the son of the
first governor of the territory of Washing
ton, owns Allan's island, one of the three
islands that gaurd Burrows bay, at the
western extremity of Fidalgo island.
w. w. Journal: Walter Cook, an o R.
& N. fireman, was brought down from
Riparia on Wednesday evening with four
fingers ON his right hand cut off. He was
taken to st. Mary's hospital where the
wounds were dressed.
There were nineteen carloads of cattle
shipped from the stockyards yesterday for
Portland, the Sound and Alaska. The car
load for the latter place averaged l405 each
head. They were all in excellent condition,
and better beef could not be desired.
Mr.. A. j.. Wall the owner of the ''spot-
ted crow" is in Portland, and yesterday
very alarming kilograms were received here
regarding one of our citizens. But our peo-
pie knew that Wall was up to one of his
jokes, and the alarm quieted down.
Astoria Pioneer: Mrs. Robert Morrison,
Skt IL
lying at the point Of death IN Clatsop. The
lady ''came the plains over" in 1916 and is
now nearly 80 years Of age. She is being
kindly cared for by friends and relatives.
Yaquina Republican: The big tides are
cutting channel through the sand spit ON
South beach in front of the old government
wharf. If the cutting process keeps on
there will be good channel from the upper
to the lower bay in short time on the
south side.
Fireman, the Portland restaurant man,
charged the Pasco Land Company 81, ,4O6 so
for the banquet given to newspaper sciibes
short time ago. This was considered ar
exhorbitant figure and now the man of
steaks and stews has brought suit and is
keeping an eye On Pasco in the courts.
East Oregonian: A man named Brassfeld,
living near Echo, passed through Pendleton
Friday On the east. bound freight train in
chase for his wife, who fled from home on
Thursday mornings passenger, taking her
four youngest children. She got tired of
him aud returned to her parents home on
Weiser, Idaho.
Historian: Contractor Parker has 200 men
grading on the line of the Astoria and Sosth
coast railroad, southeast from Sackett's
mill. He will have SIS more come down
from Portland tonight and go to work
Monday. Everything is booming right
along on the line, and the good weather
favors the progress of the work.
At St. Michaels, Alaska, -four is SIS per
100 pounds, beans 25 cents pound, sugar
35 cents, tobacco 81 40 per pound, molasses
81 gallon, dried apples and pears 80 cents
pound, condensed milk 75 cents can,
coffee GO cents a pound. cheese 81. 25
pound, shirts 81 each and boots SIS pair.
Gold is reckoned at SIG an ounce.
Lewiston Teller: P. Gose, of Uniontown,
was in the city on Tuesday having been
over to Asotin in attendance on court. He
informed us that upwards of l5O, 600 bushels
Of grain would Re shipped from Uniontown
this fall, and taking into consideration the
failure of crops in all parts, We consider
w. w. Salesman Mr.. and Mrs. Royce
have been dismissed. The trial was heard
Thursday evening before Justice Taylor.
d. ]. Crowley was the attorney for the o.
& w. T., G. L. Thompson, B. L. and J. L.
Sharpsteln for MIR. and Mrs. Royce. The
bond gwen by the railroad was held by
Justice Taylor not to be of force, hence the
defendants were discharged.
Astorian: While digging trench by his
house, which is ON the site OF the old origi-
nal or aboriginal Astor fort, yesterday, Rob
Carruthers came across the lines of the old
magazine built in eighteen hundred and
ever so few, and unearthed some ancient
spikes which once held the walls of the
magiziue together, and which were quickly
seized upon as relics by those present.
While a respected minister was leaving
the house of one of his Pensioners he was
startled by the cry: "Oh, my Jesus has
gone" Turning to ascertain the meaning
of the irreyerent expression, he saw little
boy pass him on run and grab a pet
kitten in his arms and take it into the
house. He explained the situation by in
forming the gentleman that in opening the
gate he had unconsciously let his pet cat,
which he called Jesus, escape.
Yakima Herald: Nelson Rich has secured
the contract to build a ten mile ditch in
Eastern Yakima, to extend from ''the
Horn" to the Columbia. Joseph Baxter,
F. C. Sharkey, Nelson Rich and Fl. ].
Snively are the projectors of the enterprise.
The line OF ditch has been surveyed and
cross-sectioned and active work was COM
menced by the contractor Monday ON the
fuming and rock cuts. The ditch will
have a width of twelve feet on the bottom
and the estimated cost is $4,000.
Teller: H. Squire presented us this week
with copy of Golden Age extra, published
in this city on January IL, 1868, giving a
full account Of the shooting of Henry j.
Talbotte alias "Cherokee Bob" and VIM.
Willoby by ). D. Williams and o. Robbins,
at Florence, Idaho. The paper has been
well preserved and the printing is yet clear
and distinct. The parties were tried before
Jasper Rand, now of this city. who was at
that time Justice of the peace in that then
hourishing mining camp. The paper can
be seen at this office by those who wish.
Old Wallula is nearly extinct. IN former
years, during steamboat days, three old
adobe buildings stood on the b. nks OF the
river, and hotel, and this col st;tuted the
town. The adobes constituted Ft. Walla
Walla, and the Walla Walla of to-day was
the Wailatpu mission, where Rev. Marcus
Whitman was massacred by Indians. Old
landmarks are constantly being removed
and being obiiterated by time. New Wal
lula is lively little town or considerable
pretentions to business and railroad impor-
tance, with strong expectations for the fu-
ture.
John c. Fremont the first Republican
candidate for president, is now aoout 65