The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-02-01
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From SATURDAYS Daily.

Mr.. A. J. Wall, of Eight Mile, is quit
sick.
Mrs. w. G. Simpson has been sick fe
several days past.
The passenger trains arrived from eas
and west last night.
Miss Ella Lark is visiting her sister, Mrs
j. D. Mack, of this city.
Judge Bird is reported better to-day
with strong hopes of recovery.
Pendletou Is a candidate for branch Q
the insane asylum Of the state.
The toboggan slide will be open tonight
and all members of the club are expected t
be present.
Union street was we'll sprinkled dow
last night, and this evening is expected t.
be excellent.
Mr.. Ad. Keller, of the Orc Fino saloon
has been confined to his be6 for several day
past by sickness.
The first snow fell on the 18th of Decem
ber, and since that date forty-one inches o
the CONCEALED element have fallen.
a chinook wind has been blowing in til,
are discernible in the snow melting and de
creasing in quantity.
A daily mail service was established be
tween this city and Goldendale on the 23d
This is something desired for a long time by
the people of this city.
The mails from San Francisco was re-
ceived by steamer and came up on No.
last night. The Southern Pacific is haying
the hardest fight with the elements, and it
is far from being conqueror yet.
Vancouver Register: An exchange says:
"Walla >Valla paid the Oregonian $500 for
the single insertion of full page advertise.
ment." Cities and towns make mistake
in not spending their advertising money
with the home papers. Give your home
papers the money. 1t will go long way
farther and it LOOKS better to the outside
world.
In commenting on the suggestion made
in these columns that our capitalists, by
offering bonus, attempt to direct the rail-
road from North Yakima to Vancouver via
KlickItat county to The palles, the Klicki-
tat Sentinel says: "rhe people of Golden.
dale will meet any such proposition fully
half wav, and may be depended upon to do
everything in her power to aid such an en-
terprise."
Lake Chelan is the largest body of fresh
water in the state of Washington. 1t COW.
ers about an era Of sixty-fYe square miles
and its average width is mile and half.
A beautiful townsite overlooking the lake
has just been located at point on the
is becoming famous rendezvous for tourists
to this part of the country. 1t is in Okla
hogan county.
There is deadlock in The Dalles city
council on the choice Of a councilman to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Mr..
Tillotson. The cause for this seems to
hinge on one point; that of opening Court
street through to the Independence road
Oregonidn. Our esteemed cctemporary evil
pently intended Dallas in Polk county, and
not The Dalles. There has been no "dead-
lock" in our council, bv reason of the death
of Mr.. TIllotson or other cause.
Sentinel: We have it on pretty good
authority that proposition Will soon be
made to the people of Klickitat county by
a responsible company to build q railroad
from Camas Prairie through the county to
an intersection with the Northern Pacific
on our east, for small bonus; the bonus to
be given in the shape of notes, payable when
the road is completed and In operation.
Goldendale will be the junction of several
roads if those nov in contemplation are
built.
The Historian of the 23d gives this as its
calendar of weather for the preceding day:
"At noon yesterday the sky grew heavy,
and gray and quiet; huge bank of livid
lowering cloud obscured the sun, and slant
ing to the southwest came a shower of large
Aokoc follfnn in and
obliterating familiar features of the land
scape. Following the fall of snow of two
hours duration came hail, and after the hail
came rain, and then clear sky and setting
sun, and then breeze from the frigid east,
and then more rain, and after that little
snow, for variety"
The Orting Oracle evidently does not pro-
pose to stand any foolishness from this time
forth, as indicated in the following pointed
item: If at any time anything appears in
the Oracle which you imagine is just about
your size, and fits you nicely, and you are
bent on revenge sure and swift. don't per-
nit the wind to watt gentle zephyr
through your whortleberry whiskers before
you call at the office. Our tombstone edI-
tor, although rather grave sort of an indi-
viduaI, will always be pleased to meet you
and exhibit plans OF the cholcest piats IN
the most fashionable cemetery. We have
few monuments left.
Last summer, says the Eugene Regieter.
party of men were engaged in canvassing
this county for the sale of tanning mills.
The party was under the charge of H. V.
Fuller, the general agent for this section:
Among the party was young man named
E. A. Gerald, who through his dishonesty
cheated the company he was working for
out of about S474 in Lane county, aud 1t is
found that he carried on the same work in
Marion county. He withdrew from the
employ of the company and went north and
all trace of him was lost before his crime
was discovered. Deputy U. s. Marshal ".
w. Cochran has been searching for him for
some time and last week he heard he was in
Seattle and went up there and caught him.
He was then driving delivery wagon. He
was brought back to this city last Friday
evening, and Monday was tried before JUST
ice Lakin, on a charge of embezzlement.
and bound over to await the action of the
grand jury with bail fixed at $3.50, which he
was unable to furnish. His method OF
cheating the company was by forging notes
and keeping money collected while selling
the mills.