The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-11-02
From Mondays Daily.
The serc, the yellow leaf.
A light frost this morning.
Mr.. Hollis Johnson is in the city.

| Mr.. Hollis johnson is IN the city.
Sidewalks covered with fallen leayes.
Canyon City desires roller flour mill.
Crook county wants six or seven schoo
teachers.
The wagon road over the Cascades is re-
ported Ill a fearful condition.
Rain has been very plentiful in Crool
county during the past week.
Baker City is to have a street railway
the first of any town in Eastern Oregon.
Hons. A. S. Bennett and F. P. Mays, Of
The Dalles, are attending court at Prime.
vile.
Grass isgrowing nicely, and it is expect.
ed stock will be in good condition fol
winter.
Every one is preparing for severe win
ter; but this can be determined better next
March.
A new ferry boat is soon to be placed in
operation between Hood River and White
Salmon.
There are five prisoners in the Grant
county jail-one under sentence of being
hanged.
The ground in Crook county is in good
condition, and farmers are busy putting in
fall crops.
Miss Nettle Michel returned on the
noon train yesterday from a short visit to
the exposition at Portland.
The total liabilities of Grant county are
| S72, ,274.73; total resources, Sl0,34G IS,
showing an Indebtedness OF SCI, 1928 Is.
The Ellensburgh Daily State Register has
increased its issue to seven columns. This
Is indisputable evidence OF the prosperity Of
the city.
The Grant County Ne,cs says Chas. Bey.
er, of Canyon City, is employing hands to
dig frog cellars" on Frank McBean's ranch.
A new industry in the northwest.
The Spokane Falls and Northern was
completed to Colvllle last Saturday at noon
Regular trains will begin running from
Spokane Falls to Colville next Thursday.
| A colored man was arrested in Fossil on
Friday of last week on suspicion of beng
Gibbs, the murderer. After being ex-
amlned he was released as not beif g the
right man.
The funeral services of the late Mrs. Z. j.
Holiister will be held at the family. resi-
dence in this city tomorrow tuesday,
morning at 10 o'clock. The remains will
be taken east for burial.
MIR. j. d. Gibson, of Wasco, is in the
| city. He reports plentiful rains in Sher.
man county, and that the ground is in ex-
cellent condition for plowing and large
acreage Is being sown In grain.
Miss Price, young lady at Castle Rock,
about twenty miles east Of Arlington, was
seriously injured yesterday by the discharge
of pistol in the hands of a ten.year-old
boy. The young lady will likely recover.
T,fo
district that the lucky prospector, Mitchell,
who made the recent rich strike Fear Rob-
insonville, worked ten hours with a mortar
not long ago. and pounded out $1,000 worth
of gold.
Baker City Democrat: Last Tuesday
over on Lower Burnt river, near Express,
Hugh Glenn, the sixteen year old son of
Francis Glenn was killed instantly by being
kicked In the side by horse. The scene
Of the accident was on Sutton creek.
Miss Annie McHaley, daughter of George
V. McHaley, Of Prairie City, was badly
scalded one day last week by the explosion
of pan of hot Lard and there are some
doubts as to her recovery. Her arm, face
and one side of her body was horribly
cooked.
Mr.. David Pardun. the engineer who iell
from the Pacigc Navigation Co.'S steamer
State Of Washington off Alki Point and was
drowned, was well known in this city. For
many years he was engineer on the boat
running between this city and the Cas-
cades.
Miss Mollie and Kate. daughters OF Capt.
Ell. G. Coe, of Hood River, who have been
attending school in this city during the past
few months, paid visit to their home on
Monday of last week. In company with
their parents last Tuesday they visited the
exposition in Portland.
j. w. Jennings, John Bingham and e.
May three young fellows wanted in Pendle-
ton On warrants issued by the Pilot Rock
justice and sworn out by L. S. Kearney,
charging them with horse-stealing, were
captured at a logging camp on the McKen-
zie river, saort distance above Eugene
City.
Mr.. Walter A. Whiting, who left this
city yesterday to join Liberatti's band on
the Sound, was arrested last night in
Portland at the N. P. depot, charged with
the larceny of silver cornet valued at S25
1t is claimed that the cornet was loaned to
Whiting four or five months ago, since
which time he has not paid for it or re-
turned it to the owner. He now languish-
eth in the city jail at the metropolis.
DIR. Barrett, of Hood River, received a
telegram Sunday announcing the death of
his brother Rev. A, Barrett D. d. of
Rochester, New York. 1t seems but few
weeks ago since Mr.. Barrett was at Hood
River. strong and vigorous, and favored the
people with sermon at the Methodist
church. Though his visit was brief, he I'M
pressed all who met him as q man of
marked ability and they will learn with
regret of his sudden death.
Fossil Journal: Last Wednesday while
Isaac Leabo was returning from the mount
aims with the sheep of Leighton Bros. he
camped in the mountains on Kahler creek,
and turned his pack horses and saddle horse
out hobbled and belled, and the next morn
ing he could find nothing of the horses,
and could not after hunting three days. He
came on to Fossil where he was acquainted,
got two new horses and started back, taking
Jap Leabo along with him to assist in NOV.
ing the sheep to tine winter range while he
made diligent search for the lost horses.
The editor of the Fossil Journal goes into
ecstacIes over the recent rains, as follows:
''The warm rains of this week are bless
ing to everyone. The farmer is smiling as
he sees his fall sown wheat and rye spring
from the earth and tinge the plowed field
with greenish hue. The sheep man glories
that the new green grass is already long
enough to satisfy his hungry herds, and the
cattle and horse men know that In a few
days 1t will he good feed for their stock
also. The newcomers and other farmers
are taking advantage of the time for sod
| breaking and other plowing, and all is
"merry as a marriage bel"
Baker Democrat: The mysterious disap-