The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-10-19
NUMBER 10

of rail thrown by horses which he was
Misunderstanding out of corral. He
was unconscious for several days, and is be-
ing attended by DR.. Orr.
Cbas. Clark, convict in the penitentiary
at Walla Walla, was shot in the leg last
Thursday by the gaurds while he was at
tempting to escape. He had climbed on
the break beam OF freight train, but two
shots made him loosen his hold, and fortu.
nately he rolled out of the way of the train.
His wounds are serious.
East Wdshingtonian: Last Thursday,
morning MIR. VIM. King, of this county,
was thrown from a wagon, sustaining
fatal injuries from the fall. He was driv-
ing near home at Peola, when the horses
became frightened and ran away, upset
ting the wagon and throwing Mr.. King to
the ground so violently as TO break his
thigh in two places and inhict internal
injuries.
w. W. Union: Ada Bailey, the two
year old daughter of T.. j. Bailey, who
lives on Second street, in the old soap fac
tory building, fell from the upper story Of
the building yesterday afternoon to the
floor below distance of about fourteen
feet The little one struck on her head
and shoulders, the skull sustaining a very
oS'SiS ioStuiC, anu tllC UCluE DdulY
cut, besides other injuries. The child is
in precarious condition.
Historian: On Wednesday, October ID,
the steamer Ldkme arrived from Port Simp-
son, B. c., loaded with salmon, and after
unloading it here proceeded to Portland tho
next day. Her purser, a man named Wells,
was not on board when she left for Port
land, and from information just to hand it
is learned that he has mysteuousy disap-
peared with the loose money of the ship,
the amount of which we could not learn.
He was seen aboard the Telephone going to
Portland on the night of the arrival of the
Ldkne, and it is supposed that he has got
on British soil before this.
MIR. j. 3. Crossen, the auctioneer, has a
large assortment of standard works of Eng
lish and American authors, comprising
Macauley's History of England and Essays,
The Wayerley Novels by Sir Walter Scott,
Thackeray's, Dickens, Geo. Eliot's, John
Ruskins, Irving's and Bret Harte's Works,
Green's History of the English People,
Guizot's France, Carlyle's Works, Plutarch's
Lives, Rollins Ancient History, family
Bibles in elegant binding, and poems and
essays by celebrated authors. These books
will be sold next Saturday, commencing in
the morning at 10 o'clock and continuing
again at in the evening"
Historian: About o'clock Thursday after.
noon Evan 4. McPhee, working at Boyle's
logging camp on the Little Walluski river
was drowned by falling off raft of logs.
He was not seen by any of his fellow work.
men to fall but was missed, a little while
after his logging pole was found on the
river bank and then It was known that the
poor man had been drowned. Search was
made but the body was not recovered until
S o'clock yesterday mo ming About half an
hour before ne was missed he saved from
drowning a fellow workman named Jack
Williams, who had fallen from the same
raft of logs. The deceased was a native of
Nova Scotia, aged 80 years and leaves
wife and child in that place.
Grant Co. Neacs: A destructive fire oc-
Cured at Belshaw's place and ragged along
the John Day river a few days,during the
week which burned considerable fencing
and large amount of pasture land was
worthless. Mr.. Relshaw had
patch of mustard that he intended to burn,
and during his absence his son thought
he would do the burning. He applied the
torch, andin moment the entire country
was nblaze. The wind was blowing from
the haystacks, or they would have burnei.
AS it was, the fire reached the brush I'd
timber along the river, and everything in
it3 course was swept away. 1t spread for
a considerable distance up and down the
stream before its course was checked.
We have not heard the actual loss estima-
ted