The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-03-08
rime Table. UaIon Pacific.
ITEMS IN BRIEF.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Spring with its flowers.
County court is in session.
Mr.. A. O'Toole, of Cascade Locks, Is i
the city.
DIR. A. H. Leavens, of the Locks, is in tn
city. He is in attendance on the count
court.
A Willamette mist hung over the rive
and hills this morning; but soon drifte
away in clouds when the sun began to shine
The blockade between Green River ant
Granger on the Union was raised yestel
day. and trains may be expected to be o.
time hereafter.
MIR. Ad. Keller, of the Orc Fino saloon
: received one of ,Webbs new patent safes to
day. He is fitting up his place OF business
for the new safe.
The church at Adams was burned TO th
ground one night this week. The fir,
was discovered while revival meetin!
was in progress.
The river is free of ice opposite the city
but it is still lodged near Crates point. A
day or two of the present weather will riG
the Columbia of ice and open the blockade
in the river.
The man arrested for Silcott at Toledo
Wash, proves TO be case OF mistaken
identity. Silcott enjoys his liberty, and
will for many days to come.
The Eastern Oregon Republican issues a
half-sheet on msnillla paper March lst, and
heads it railroad edition. We should judge
this to be the converse of railroad"
The mild weather during the past few
days has decreased the quantity of snow,
and in many places cattle can feed on the
hillsides. The winter Is over, tor which all
may feel thankful.
The night watchman stepped the citi-
zen from Dufur, and not the city marshal.
Mr. Gibbons says he is too well acquainted
with the gentleman to take him for de.
faulter or murderer.
The Jacksonville Times, of Feb. 9th,
comes to US reduced to columns and
printed on red poster paper. There has
been a blockade IN Southern Oregon, and
printing material has been hard to pro-
cure.
Dayton Inlander: Mrs. Frank Arment
writes from Wilbur in the Big Bend, to
her sister, Mrs. F. D. Owen, that the
greater part of the stock in that vicinity
is dead, and that in some instances the
settlers have to burn buildings for fuel.
She gives an instance where three fami-
lies moved into one house and used the
other two houses for fire wood.
In the outskirts of this city is the sign
over barn-"Oat-Straw for Sale" and a
gentleman in passing saw the poorest
specimen of horseflesh he ever witnessed
feeding under the sign. He says the horse
should be driven away or the sign taken
down.
Localizer: Indian Dan came down from
the Okanogan country last week. He re-
ports great loss Of stock about the mouth
Of the Okanogan. There was some feed
prepared in places by the owners of some of
the stock. but the drifted snow was such
that the owners could not get their stock
to the feed; as consequence the stock had
to depend on what they could catch where
they happened to he.
The present. system of discharge certii-
Gates now used by the Union Pacifi., the is
source of dissatisfaction among the en-
ployes under this arrangement. When a
man is discharged, instead of getting his
pay Immediately, he is compelled TO wait
until the check has been sent to Portland
for countersigning and returned to the
agent, which consumes gen y from
four to six days.
One Of the foremost literary women of
America is Ella Higginson, whose poetry
and fiction has been published widely IN the
leading periodicals. She is an original |
thinker and an Incislve writer IN prose, as
we'll as poet, and her pen always COM |
mands the attention of thoughtful people. |
Mrs. Higginson has assumed editorial charge |
of woman's department in the West Shore |
aad viii make that excellent illustrated
weekly doubly interesting to the women Of
the west.
Coltax Gazette: Report comes from Mat
locks bridge, west OF this city that John
ID. Sutton had about one hundred head of |
fine cattle for which he had feed and
which were in good condition. The other
day, af1sr the usual feeding, the cattle left
the feed yard and attempted TO cross o
deep pond upon the ice. When large
number of them had gathered upon the
pond the ice broke with them and forty
head were drowned.
Localizer: Mr.. James Pearson, of Foster
creek, arrived here last week from Water
Yille, where he had been storm stayed
some two weeks, unable to get back
home; he came to Ellensburgh as soon as
he could make it, but was over week in
getting here. He says that there are no
stock on Foster creek-they have all been
driven to Grand Coulee, where they are
still; many, however, have not been able
to stand the deep snow. He thinks the
per cent. Of loss will be quite heavy.
Monday night at Huntington, the Pearl
Of Pekin troupe and the MorFls-SqlliYan
Eampany had . regular hair-pulling mateh
with the walters in the hotel. The Pekin
company were held over at that place,
and to make the time pass pleasantly a
dance was given. The head water at
tempted to order the Pekin girls out of
the dining room, at which fight ensued,
III which there was bair-pulling with
vengeance. The walters were discom-
fitted and defeated, and Withdrew their
fprcss IN very bad 0rdar. "
Gasette; Reports from the larger cattle
ranches west OF Colfax are anything but
pleasant. The mortality among cattle,
sheep and horses Is said to be very great,
some placing 1t as high as 80 per cent. in
many bands. Very little trouble was ex-
perienced in keeping the stock during the
first spell of bad weather, but this latter
one, coming on so unexpected and CATCH
ing many totally unprepared, has been
s @ sss i gsRSEss sas spa e HSgsps9 has 9st
nearly as many, In one OF Two large
bands OF horses from forty to ninety are
reported dead. Sheep are dying by hun.
dreds. Scarcity of feed, and not killing
weather, is responsible for it. In the east.
ern part of the county, where each farmer
has but little more than the necessary
stock and where feed is more plentiful,
the loss has been nominal.
From THURSDAYS Daily.
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