The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-04-26
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.


The river is rising.
Thanks, "gentle Annie" the spring tune
has come.
The street sprinkler has commenced its
daily rounds.
Mr.. A. Finlaysen, who lives east of
Prineville, is in the city.
Mr.. s. j. Newsome, of Prineville, is in
the city en- route to Portland.
This is one of the brightest and clearest
days experienced this season.
Dr. Rinehart was on the streets to-day
for the first time for some weeks.
Flowers are in full bloom in gardens,
trees in leaf and all nature wears the sum
mer garb.
Street Commissioner Stanials is doing
good work in cleaning the streets and
alleys of rubbish.
We received call today from Mr..
Claude King, managing editor OF the
Sports AJfeid. published in Denver, Col.
"When the birds we're singing in the
morning. IS line OF well-knswn song,
and referred to April weather at The
Dalles.
Mr.. H. FL. Draper, who has been con-
fined to his room for some weeks by an
attack of pneumonia, is again able to be
around.
1t is time for the high-water prophet to
take his stand on the street corner and
give vent to gloomy representations
about June flood.
The scaffoldIng is erected around the
Schanno block, and the work of putting
on cornlces and cementing the outside
will begin Immediately.
Mechanics are very busy at the shops.
and we have been informed that there is
enough repairing now in sight to keep ma
chinists busy for the next four months.
The Weiser Leader says there are twelve
men at work on the new steamer to run on
Snake river between Huntington and the
Seven Devils, and that it will be ready to
launch about June lst.
Five suits against the Union Pacific Co.
for damages were commenced in the circuit
court for this county to-day, the cause Of
action arising out of the wreck near the
Locks last winter. These suits involve
several thousand dollars.
The suicide of Chas. E. SIttons, who was
found dead last Saturday near Portland
has created quite q sensation. The gentle
man was well and favorably known, and no
reason existed except impaired health for
taking his life.
Fossil Journal: On Monday evening of
this week, John Maddon's beautiful resi-
dence near Lone Rock was burned with
all its contents except little clothing and
bedding. The origin of the fire is not
known. No insurance.
Last Saturday at the shops in this city
young man named r. Barrett had his
hand caught In a saw, causing a severe
cut IN the left thumb, fore and middle
finger. His injurses were attended to by
the company's surgeon.
Rev. Caleb Hill, a young man we'll
known to many of our citizens, preached
a most excellent sermon last Sunday in
the First Baptist church in this city. Mr..
Hill is Dalles boy, and formerly was a
playmate with many who are men now.
Mr.. Chas. Richmsnd, who returned yes
terday from six miles east of Dufur, in
forms US that grain is looking well with
good indications of bountitul crops. In q
few instances farmers have plowed up the
fall grain and re-sown their fields.
Fred Baltzpuss, an employe in the
boiler shops of the company, met with q
painful accident few days ago by a
piece of iron falling on his right hand.
causing an incision about two inches in
length. The company's surgeon attended
to his injuries, and ut last accounts he
was doing as well as could be expected.
The standing of Mr.. Nicholas Sinnott
in his studies at Notre Dame university,
Indiana, is very complimentary to the
young man. He is graduate of the In
dependent academy in this city, entered
the junior class at the university, and in
classical and other studies receives
the highest marks from his tutors.
This reflects great honor on the institu-
tion of The Dalles.
Pendleton Tribune: The contracts for
building the new Indian training schools
on the reservation were leG yesterday.
and ROumagOux & DeIIOngvert, the brick.
er, brick $l3,793, wooden $685.. Fred
Karston, wooden $500. E. X. Parkes,
brick $l2,l14. wooden $5635. Kouma-
goux d DeLongvert, brick .$II, 800,
wooden $500.
Blade: The Baker City -four mill has
ceased operating temporarily on occount of
having run out of wheat. It is not because
there ia not plenty of grain in the county.
for there are come fifty or sixty thousand
bushels at Haines, but it il held too high
FOR our mill to handle profitably. In the
Grand Ronde valley there is plenty that
can be shipped in here for less money than
is demanded by our hone farmers. Bat Il
Is pity for this cash paid out for wheat
to 20 past the doorr Of the Baker county
producers to the Grande Ronde valley.
The following appears in the Portland