The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-11-09
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.

Mr.. and Mrs. Steers, Of Tygh Valley, al
in the city.
Mr.. C. L. Richmond is quite sick wit
typhoid fever.
Several strangers were seen upon th
streets to-day.
The beach is supplied with some goo
wood for fuel.
Mr.. J. G. Gilmore, of Warnic, was in tn
city to-day.
Minnie, the 7-year-old daughter of MI
w. II. Butts, is quite sick.
The electric motor IN Albina is in ful
operation, the first in the northwest.
About ten carloads of sheep were shIppe,
from the stock yards this morning.
The Halloween social last Thursday eyen
ing was very pleasing entertainment.
Daniel Larkin and w. Wilcox, of Ante
lope, are registered at the Umatilla House
We are under many obligations to Sena
tor Mitchell for valuable public documents
These moonlight nights would be splendid
for boating on the river. Why not organ
ize club?
Mr.. Joel G.. Koontz came in from bis
farm on Eight Mile yesterday. He says
farmers are happy.
Major Handbury went through with the
congressional party to-day. He returned
on the evening train.
A two horse tread mill saving machine
was in operation at the academy cutting
wood last night.
The Walla Walla papers have one item
devoted to frost, and another to new pota-
toes and ripe Strawberries.
Al. l. Il
at Heppner has been subscribed, and it will
begin to loom up next summer.
Grass is growing nicely on the hills; but
it would have been much better If the frosty
weather had not come SO early.
Mr.. G. Mcpherson and family, of Hay
Creek, moved into the city during the week,
and will remain during the winter.
Work on the grounds for the new depot
is progressing rapidly. The building will
be an artistic affair and an ornament to the
city.
There has been $1,000 subscribed for the
new brick Catholic church. As soon as
spring opens ground will be broken for this
edifice.
Another case of mistaken identity in
the arrest of man supposed to be Gibbs at
Pendleton. He was another man, and was
released.
Some unconscionsble scoundrel mas stolen
a sack of shorts from the poor house at
Pendleton. He is the meanest man in the
northwest.
The highest vote cast in Washington was
for representative in congress, SO, 531, which
would make the population OF the new
state about 2S4, l24.
Since the election news Republican roost-
ers have been confined to their roosts by
pulmonary affection. Democratic roosters
are doing the Growing now.
We mentioned in yesterdays daily that
Mr.. j. E. Enright had accepted a. position
in the Western Union telegraph office, it
should have read o. r. & n.
William H. Watklnds, former chief of
police Of the city of Portland, was found
dead n his room at the Gilman House last
Monday afternoon.
The overland 'fyer" is expected to be
introduced on the 18th, when two trains
will run over the o. R. & N. Co.'S track
each way, through Pendleton and points
east.
Mr.. Frank Cloutman says that he will
not be responsible for the welfare of those
parties that took the liberty to carry away
his wood. They should be handled without
gloves.
The wife of Red Shirt, chief of the Sioux.
gave birth to boy in Paris a few days
since. The boy will be native Partisan,
and may be candidate for president in
time.
Mr.. G. E. Bayard returned this morning
from California, where he has been dispos-
ing of drove of horsss. He reports good
- rs md
pleasant trip.
Napoleon Dayis, formerly principal of
The Dalles public school, but now commits
sioner of state lands, and resident of
Salem, arrived in this city on the noon
passenger train to-day.
In bis annual report the governor of
Washington says the great staple of Eastern
Washington is wheat. the soil being pecu- |
liarly adapted to the growth of this cereal. |
The same can be said of the whole Inland |
Empire.
Some of our streets and alleys are in
very bad condition. The erection of numer-
GUS buildings has necessitated much disor-
der some of our thoroughfares, but there
is much disorder that is unexcusabie. Our
authorities should look to it, that our streets
are put In repair. e
SATURDAY nlS1G at LII OTdHNe tle tuTOitU |
of woman named George was cut by an |
unknown man during drunken quarrel. |
The man escaped and reward of 5000 has |
been ofesed for his capture. The woman
will probably die.
At the election of officers Monday night |
for the Wasco District Fair Association the |
following ere elected: Geo. H. Thompson,
F. P. Mays and II. C. Rooper, directors for |
n L Il
and Hugh Gourlay for three years.
The East Oregonian learns from parties
down from Spokane Monday morning of an
accident Saturday night in which subject
of the Fiowery Kingdom was decapitated.
He was employed in the construction work,
and fell off car in front of the wheels.
His head was severed from the body as
cleanly as if guillotine instead of car
wheel were the instrument of death.
We learn from the Dayton Inlander that
Wednesday evening when Fate Brown was
washing Tor supper at the Short Oider
House'a large pistol which he carried in his
coat pocket fell from the pocket and hit on
the wash stand in snch a way as to dis
charge the same. The ball entered Browns
ward, lodging probably against the shoulder
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inconvenience from the wound.
We learn from an exchange that Chelan
is having little boom of its own this fall.
Some forty houses have been built and
others are underway. The steamer Belle of
Cheldn is used to bring down rafts of logs
from the head of the lake, and the Omaha,
another fine little stea n:er, is just ready for
business. The inaccessibility of the town
Is the only thing against its rapid growth.
A wagon road from the mouth of the Wen
atchee to Chelan City would be a great ben
eft to all that side of the river, both abo,
and below.
The following are the jurors who are sum-
moned to appear at the next term of the
circuit court, TO be held at the court house.
in this city, commencing Monday, Novem-
Der llth: G Crandall, merchant, The |
Dalles; A B Fairchild, farmer. Grass Val
ley; NJ B Odell, farmer, Hood River; Will
lard Taylor, farmer, Dufur; w H Pool,
farmer, Bakeoven; V Rowland. farmer,
The Dalles; E Barnett, farmer, Boyd; w
A Obair. farmer, The Dalles; Hugh Moor
head, farmer, Kingsley; c R Bone, farmer,
Hood River; Geo W Johnston, merchant,
Dufur; H McDonougb, saloonkeeper, The
DalIes; Dan Baker, saloonkeeper. The
Dalles; Thos Callahan, farmer, Kingsley;
Amos Horner, farmer, Warnic; Isaac Driver,
farmer, Warnic; Jas Donaldson, farmer,
Kingsley: Chas Levin, farmer, Antelope;
E P FitzGerald, merchant, The Dalles; c C
Hobart, mechanic, The Dalles; T M Den
ton, farmer, The Dalles; 81 Corson. farmer,