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

e Mr.. Henry Bruen, who lives in Kick
itat count, is in the city. He was in tn
| Franco-Prussian war, and earned the irol
: cross in the battles before Paris.
4 E.E. Gov, a farmer of Garfield county
f Washington, raised 700 bushels of whea
l this season on ten acres of land, which Is al
average of seventy bushels per acre.
Mr.. N. o. Cedersons sonia year,
old-has been sick for the past six weeks
with typhoid fever. At present he is able
, to sit up, with strong hopes of recovery.
The contractors for the Oregon Pacific
Orman, Crook & Co., have 500 men al
work between Albany and the Cascade
summit and will work nearly all winter
Some capitalists have lately been examin.
ing the Snake river from the fourth crossing
or Huntington bridge down to the Seven
Devils with view to putting on two
steamers.
Nathan Fry was bound over to the
grand Jury in $500 bonds last Tuesday in
Albany for the crime of arson in setting
fire to the mill of Jennings q Co., on
Hamilton creek.
Harry Dean, a pretended deaf mute,
when the shackIcs were put on his feet in
Port Townsend, was asked if they were too
tight, and in an unguarded moment arti:u-
iatsd ''no, thatll do"
According to the assessment roll of Grant
county for the years 1883 and 1889 differ
ence OF only S44S, 900 exists, probably owing
to the fact that the property was more
closely assessed this year.
w. W. Journal: Dan Gainey was on the
train which was wrecked last Sunday, COM
ing from Tacoma to Portland, and he says,
for % hours they were kept ont in the rain,
and almost suffered shipwreck.
There is a class of men in Walla Walla
| who appear to delight in following and IN
sulting ladies when alone on the streets at
night A shotgun brigade should be organ
lied to attend to these scalawags.
Rev. w. G. Simpson is improving from
his severe attack of typhoid fever. He in
tends visiting San Francisco and southern
| California in two or three weeks, where he
will remain some months and recuperate.
At Ellensburgh, Sunday night about II
O'Clock, G. N. Duncan, harness maker,
was arrested for attempting incendiarism.
He is charged with having tried to set fire
to Ames & McCarthy's planning mill in the
heart of the city.
On last Monday evening, the younger son
of DR.. VIM. c. Mckay. in attempting to
| jump from the train near Bridal Veil fell
and suffered dislocation of his shoulder
| joint. He called ON DIR. Logan last Tuesday
and the dislocation was reduced.
Tmdi:ator: James Woodcock, Frank
| Woodcock and Thomas Driver, of War
mac, Wasco county, passed through here
| last week with a band of beef cattle for
the Portland market They intend to
take in the fair while they are down.
The play losts night by the Chicago Com
edy Go was fairly put on, taking into con-
sideration the limited stage room and the
lack Of scenery. Devlin was leading come
dian and sustained his usual reputation,
and the osher parts were also well taken.
E. D. Pease, of the firm of Thorp Bros,
of Juneau City, Alaska, was in town to-
day and purchased through Hampton
Bros a carload of beef cattle. They will
be shipped On the sailing vessel Geo. w.
Elder, which leaves the Portland dock on
the 5Uth inst.
Salem Journal: A brakeman, whose name
is Harris, met with bad accident at Tui-
ner this morning in which his left hand was
horribly mashed. He was coupling cars and
in the usual manner his hand was caught.
More than likely amputation of the hand
will be necessary.
San Francisco man who had some
Boston friends visiting him, posted a
placatd in his parlor with the following
on it: This is an United States house
ho'd, and any person using the words
Sweet" for "Suite, ""Deppo" for Depot"
''Root' for "Route," or "Ither'' and
'Nither,' will be choked into insensibil-
ity and thrown into the street.
The editors of Waitsburg Times offers a
carload of cats for sale, and the Wallula
Herald the same quantity of dogs; the
Walla Walla Statesman rejoins by desir-
ing to dispose of the same amount of those
garden ravagers, the city crow, and the
Albany Democrat offers for sale several
box carloads of mongrel tramps. To
make our generosity equal to our neigh |
bors', we will state that The Dalles can |
grafton" to about one hundred of the |
worst class of hoodlums who ever dis |
graced city.
Poor patronage of the home newspaper |
is the cause of the Oregonian making the |
following just remarks about Corvallis |
business men: The Corvallis papers are |
so poorly patronized by the home mer
chants that one of them has to run two
column "ad" of its own both inside and
outside. These papers are we'll edited,
and in fact several generations ahead of
the people. Foreign capital will not risk
investment in any town that dosen't SUD-
port its own local paper, and business
men are killing their own prospects by
starving the home newspaper.
Tho E.,ensburab Peo;ster s,vs that ..Keen
~, pusenn - o,';Ja,tI,, ~ nt 90 a.si,
n matter as the land companv's advertise.
mepts would lead stranger to suppose. A
gentleman who keeps hotel, his name is not
Reilly. had cellar dug last week eight feet
deep and twelve in width. But alas, of all
things terrestrial, Pasco real estate is the
most shifting. for when the h. k. started
out to nut the masons to work there was no
cellar, no hole in the ground no anything to
even indicate where the place was. The
wind mad raised the $50 per foot lots and
deposited them in the excavation.
S.,em L,u,noJ. T,rnar w.s tba scene of
,,err eyc;tin@, rnn,u,av vesterJav NJ XII
Rood nnite sn old Gentleman wbo resides
10; 7wo n'i,eS fran, Tnrnar was in the
60 -, brsiness and 1rbe,, n,ss;no .ronG
tTs tot h;s tean, baosn,e friaht,ned pbt az
Gab ,aGdlar's ont;t amd va, a,ran NJ
Pnod was tbroun fron tho n.aaon r. Tho
shoulders. he was badly bruised up, and, |