The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-11-02
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the city.
Hon. ]. G. Luckey, agent at the Warn
Springs reservation, is in the city.
To-day is the twenty first anniversary o.
the institution of the A. o. L. w.
There are auction sales every day at Crcs
sens auction rooms on Washington street.
Nine carloads of sheep were shipped from,
the stockyards yesterday for the Sound by
Butler & Anderson.
The west-bound passenger train is three
hours late, caused by slight accident on
the mountain division.
The Dallcs has spent more in improve
ments this summer than any city in the
inland empire except Spokane Falls.
We understand the rain has been more
bountIful in the country than in the city,
and the ground is III fair condition for plow-
ing.
Rev. G.. G. Ferguson, of Goldendale
will fill the pulpit of the M. E. church in
this city -Sunday-morning
and evening.
At the warehouse of Mr.. Moody in this
city is a ferret and Guinea pig. The former
Mr.. Moody will use to kill the rats in and
about the warehouse.
A family of three, out of six, of the
Johnstown sufferers, has located at Salem.
The Statesman says their tale of Suffering
during the great flood Is horifving to all who
listen.
The call for seed wheat at Moody's
warehouse every day is astonishing.
Mr.. Moody is supplying the demands as
rapidly as possible; but wheat cannot be
received fast enough to supply all.
The east-bound passenger train was
''stalled" night before last near Mosier, but
a freight train beng near, the locomotive
was used, and by means of the double-head-
er the train was hauled into the city,
Port Townsend, Seattle, Tacoma, and in
fact nearly everv town on Puget Sound
are infested with murderers and vaga-
bonds that are too lazy to work. A yigi-
lance committee would cure this evil in
very quick time
East Oregonian: Pendleton, perhaps,
contains the Oldest soldier in Oregon
His name is John Morrow, and he entered
the regular army service in 1912, shoul-
dering a musket for fifteen years and par
ticipating in the Mexican war
The fair to be given by the ladies of St.
Paul's guild will take place Tuesday and
Wednesday, Dec. I'd and 3D. Several
elegant articles will be disposed of ON
this occasion, aud it will undoubtedly re-
ceive good degree of popular patronage.
The train dispatcher's office on the cast
ern division will be removed from Colfax
to Tekoa, the latter being a junction and
a more central point. j. Ii. Guilds, the
railway telegraph superintendent, went
up the branch this morning to officiate at
the removal, accompanied by Lineman
Whittle.
The city was pretty thoroughly worked
yesterday by two tramps. One was boy
about Is or l6 years, and claimed charity
because one hand was missing. Last
night the elder and more muscular found
his way into the city Jail, and the one
armed subject of charity was playing pool
in one of the saloons.
This woman believed in keeping up
In Hamilton, Ohio, man
died few days ago, who had $4,000 in
money laid up, and payment OF $3.50
was due 10 saye his home. His widow
took the money TO buy n fine casket, an
lot IN the cemetery, and to hire
twenty-five hacks for the procession, and
thus used every dollar and let her home
go by default.
The Spokane Falls and Northern was
to Colville last Saturday at noon.
Regular trains will begin running from
Spokane to Colville next Thursday. The
road is not only completed to that place,
but the grade is finished almost to Marcus,
on the Columbia river, and surveyors are
in the field surveying line up
Kettle river to the Kettle river falls i'll
British Columbia.
Thursday afternoon, at Walla Walla, Or.
J. E. Bingham, assisted by DIR. N. G. Bla-
lock, anlputated the leg of James Jones, of
Riparia, below the knee. The doctors dis
covered after the amputation had been
made that owing to ossifcation of the arte-
rIes, the leg would have to be amputated
again, higher up, which was done. The
patient is suffering from dry gangrene, and
is In a serious condition.
While holding court in Coos county
last week Judge Bean presided over the
case of John Gilman, an old gray haired
man accused of numbering Mrs. Easton-
hover and her little boy. The jury was
out but twenty minutes and brought in
verdict of murder in the first degree and
he was sentenced to be hung on the 18th of
December. His crime, says the Eugene
Register. was one OF the most cold-bloOded
murders ever committed.
Oregon City Enterprise: S. D. Coleman
was in town on Tuesday. He says that
he has no doubt but what the negro mur-
derer Gibbs went through Sandy and over
the Barlow toll road few days after he
shot his victims. He got meal in Wan
mock settlement ON Tuesday or Wednes-
day, and the following day called Tor his
breakfast at 3 O'Clock in the afternoon at
the toll gate. A son of Mr.. Sieyers re-
ported a negro as passing the summit, and
said he was travelling day and night.
A remarkable state of affairs is reported
from the United States custom house at
Osboyoos lake on the British Columbia
border No collector is stationed there
and Indians haye taken possession Of the
log structure formerly occupied by repre-
of this government. Just across
the line, her majesty's government, has
a fine custom house conducted with all
the precision usually found in British out
posts Cinnamon and opium are con-
stantly crossing the line without the least
restraint.
transcript: 1t may be interesting to
ever on the Columbia, steamed down from
Vancouver in 1886. Her name was Beav-
er. She came from England as sailing
vessel with all her machinery aboard and
was fitted up at Vancouver. Her first
trip was to the Sandwich islands with
cargo of wheat and salt salmon. 1t seems
that the feelings of the natives when they
saw the vessel going against wind and
tide, could be better imagined than de-
scribed. The Beaver belonged to the
Hudson Bay company, who used her for
number of years and then sold her. She
is now pensioner, and lying at anchor
at Victoria. B. c., as relic of early days.
Astoria Transcript: This morning three
German girls arrived in this city direct
from the old country. They have sister
living at HoquIm and they are expecting
her to meet them here. This afternoon
they started out to make some small pUr-
chases, but being unable to talk English
they soon found themselves in tow of Il
man who took them to saloon in swill-
town and commenced to fill them up on
beer. Several vags soon gathered around
them and tried TO induce them TO go 10 a
house of prostitution Councilmen Berg
man and Cleveland and Constable Welch
were notified aud went to the saloon and
had them sent back 20 the AslOr house.
Ii such actions are repeated again in this
CITY, Judge Lynch will be called upon
and u neck-lie party given TO few low
scrubs who are allowed the liberties of
this city.
Astoria Transcript: Work on the Astoria
& South Coast railroad Is progressing.
About 100 white men and 60 Cinnamon are
employed. Tie company ale negotiating
for 500 Cinnamon, as they find it impossi-
BILE to procure white labor. Stockton
Welch had 20 applicants for work by men,