The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-10-26

in eight days, and each took home 1000
pounds OF freight. Each drove only one
span of horses. The distance OF the round
d trip is 240 miles.
A good many lottery tickets are sold in
this city every month, and small prize sums
. are regularly drawn; but there has been no
big strikes made.
. Mrs. j. B. Crossen returned from an ex-
: tended visit to San Francisco last night.
} She was accompanied by Miss Grace Cros-
sen and little Emily Crossen.
The first carload of wool for the wooden
, mill in Salem was received last Thursday.
Work is progressing very rapidly, and in a
short time the mill will be in operation.
E. G. Griffin and Henson Butler, of Nam
sine, were arrested last Saturday and fined
SIS and cost for not informing the stock in
spector of scabby sheep in their possession.
W. Z. Theodore and family and W. c.
Rupert returned from Portland ON Satur-
days midnight train. Mr.. Theodore and
family made flying trip to Seattle during
their absence.
A La Grande gambler claims to have
beat Baker City faro game for $4,000, and
that during the fair week at Baker City
$4,000 was transferred to La Grande by
cards and racing.
Grant County Ne,cs: Rev. Ira Wakefield, |
NJ. E. presiding elder of this district, hung
his pants a chair before retiring the |
other night at La Grande. and during the |
night sneak thief entered the room and |
took all the good mans money, amounting |
to 1920.
mad dog created quite stampede in
Tacoma on last Saturday, running into
stores, and into dining room full OF guests
and finally into longshoreman's cabin |
where it was killed. The Ledger says that
several persons were supposed to have beeL
bitten by it.
Canyon City Ne1s: And now the mining
excitement has moved up the vicinity of old
Marysville, where rough gold is found un.
derneath the cement which was taken for
bedrock by the early placer miners. The
gold lays In cement gravel, and if the lead
does not run out there is a ton of money
beneath the old abandoned placer claims Of
years gone by.
Sentinel: A l5-year.old son of Geo. S.
Lusby, who lives few miles east of Gold
endale, left home ON the 9th INST, and up
| to last Sunday his whereabouts were not
known by the family. MIR. Lusby left for
| North Yakima last Saturday with the hopes
| OF getting some trace of him. We also
understand that little l0-year-old boy Of
Mr. Newton Norris was also missing from
his home last FRIDAY.
James Lawrence an intoxicated teamster,
was killed on South Front street bridge, |
in Portland, yesterday, by falling un.
der the wheels of his loaded wag-
on, and it passing over him. In
very brutal manner he objected to /
moving his team to allow funeral process
sion pass, but was finally induced to
move his horses. Being 20 drunk that he
was unable to retain his seat, he fell with
the fatal result mentioned.
Prineville Ne,cs: Contractor BeIknap had
just finished making all the several parts of
the seats for the new church, and had them
ready to put together, when some unknown
thief stole the backs Of three of them. 1t
was probably the same individual who
helped himself to quantity of lumber left
in the basement of the building some time
ago. Petty thieving is becoming entirely
too common in Prineville, and a movement
will be inaugurated soon to put sudden
veto on it.
On Saturday evening last Gerald Robert
son, one of the best known young men in
Portland, while driving on the White
House road near that city, in a buggy with
Mrs. I. b. Merry, was thrown from the
vehicle and instantly killed by striking his
head against a rock. The horse became
frightened by being bitten by dog. Mrs.
Merry was thrown out of the buggy and
bruised considerably, but not seriously in
jured. At last accounts she was suffering
from nervous prostration.
The grand lodge of Idaho. l. o. o. F.,
met at Caldwell the past week. Thirty
one subordinate lodges were represented
by forty-eight delegates. The reports of
the Grand Master and the Grand Secre-
tary show the order to be in very -four
ishing condition, and show a mem bershlp
of 1850. During the past year "a Odd
Fellows have been relieved and $3,677,l7
has been spent for the relief of distressed. .
There are now 80 subordinate lodges and
II Rebekah lodges in the Jurisdiction.
Prineville Ne,cs: Mr.. J. P. Bowman, of {
Wallowa valley, met with painful misfor- /,
tune on the desert near Hampton buttes n
Tuesday night about midnight. One of his
horses which tied to the wagon got {
hind foot over the halter stall ami threw
himself. While attempting to free the ami
NAL he turned completely over, striking
MIR Bowman on the right ankle, disjointing {
it and breaking one of the bones. He had 4
to come all the way to Prineville $50 miles)
to obtain medical assistance. He is now {
laid up for repairs at the Cary house.
Union Republican,: 1t is learned on good G
authority that Henry Rinehart, register,
and j. T. Clubhouse, receiver, of the La Q
Grande land office, will next month be re. t
lieved of their official positions, and Lon t
Cleaver, of Baker City, and A. G. McClel- Q
places. Mr.. Clubhouse has rendered his
resignation to the secretary of the interior, t
to take effect next month, but MIR. Rine-
hart is not of the resgning kind, and will T
hold TO his government seat until officially 3
choked off by the appearance of Mr..
Cleaver with his commission. q
Mr.. I. H. Taffe requested one of our I
citizens to send him long-range gun for .
the purpose of killing geese in the neigh
borhood of Cello. Some man given to
facetiae sent him the old blunderbuss
which formely rested on the walls of Mr.. G
SchIaders saloon. The muzzle of this {
gun is about two inches in diameter, and
It requires the combined strength OF two
men to raise it to the level of the shoulder. | 9
1t is not considered dangerous weapon
only to the persons who fires it, and if Mr.. 2
Taffe expects to exercise the elective
franchise next June and vote against s.
Pennoyer for governor, he should leave .
that gun alone. i {
Salem Journal: This morning freight I
train passed through this city for Fort {
Lebanon, Kansas, with fifty soldiers on {
board from the Vancouver barracks. {
lutN RO " hduSdS, WucT6 tnty Will IT, |
main for some time. They have their I
horses with them, and under Captain 3. !
NJ. Swigert, with Lieut.. Bryan and DR.. I
Birmingham. The company is in good {
condition and presents brilliant aprear-
ance. They left East Portland last night
and arrived in this city about III O'Clock I
to-day. When they proceeded on South
this forenoon. A reporter interviewed
the captain and he said he did not have
anything of importance TO say only of the
long journey before them.
The colored murderer, Gibbs, passed
through Tygh valley and crossed Sherar's
bridge last Monday. He crossed the bridge
about 9 o'clock Monday morning, and
bought lunch and continued OH his way.
Between Sherar's bridge and Salt Springs
be purchased another lunch and engaged
supper at Salt Springs that night, continu-
ing on his journey without stopping. He
was dressed in light clothes and wore blue
shirt, and is light-complexioned mulatto.
He was continuing on the road to Canyon
City, and told all persons who made any
inquiries that he had been working in a
saw mill. There can be no reasonable doubt
that this is Gibbs, as from his appearance
and actions he gave unmistakable evidence
that he was attempting to hide his identity.
From Tuesdays Daily.