The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-02-15
From Fridays Daiiy.
Pleasant showers.

Pleasapt showers.
Bandnann will be at the vogt Grand
Feb. Path and 25th.
A light fall of snow whitened the Klicki.
tat hills this morning.
To-day is St, Valentines anniversary,
when all true lovers remember their sweet
hearts.
It ls expected the new passenger de pot
will be ready for occupancy by the lat Of
March.
Mr.. Geo. Gardner, OF Spokane FALLS, is
in the city. He wss formerly resi-
dent of Cascade Locks.
We are pleased to state that Judge Bird
is improving daily, and the prospects are
very fair that he will be out in few days.
Astoria will soon have cable cars. The
city by the sounding sea is odvertlsing in a
very substantial way by the exercise Of en-.
terprise.
The y. s. Baker is not yet ready for the
river trade. Mechanics are hard at work,
and will have the boat in running order in a
few days.
MIR. Harry L. Herzinger, formerly fore.
man IN this Office, gave us q call to-day.
He is now representing the Weekly World
of Portland.
There are several new buildings planned
for the coming seaso n; but until the frost
leaves the ground it is impossible to prepare
the foundations.
Salem will soea rebuild her bridge,
washed out by the recent food: The peo-
pie Of the capital city are not to be handi-
capped by flood.
Nine carloads of cattle were shipped from
SaltmaFshe's stock yards this morning for
Portland and the Sound: These were from
idaho aud La Grapde.
The rains during the past few days have
been very beneficial to the growth of grass;
but bad for young stock Cattle are not
in very good condition, and the cold rain
chllls them.
Of the distractions between The Dalles and
Portland; Ksrkmen are busy improving
the road, snd "a snog as possible it will oc-
cupy its old position.
Fourteen hundred sacks Of delayed east.
srn mail and large number Of passengers
arrived in Portland by the boat from this
city last Friday evening. having been trans
ferred from the Union Pacific trains.
Salem and other Willamette cities have
not enjoyed daily mail service for some
time past. When 1t arrives it is news of
sufficient Importance for a display head
local.
The food loss in Benton county is esti-
mated at $4,000. A landslide buried
Robt. Barclays house near Alsea bay, kill.
ing man PANIED Robt. Brown. The
bridge oyer Nary's river near Corvallis Is a
wreck.
A party Of Western Union line men,
under charge of MIR. II. B. Sheldon, SUPER
intendent of the line, arrived in the city
last night from Pocatello, and proceeded
west this morning to repair the telegraph
line between this city and Portland.
Seattle Post InteKigencer: Mr.. Harry B.
Hunt, late of The Dalles, Or, who has
been employed as clerk in the freight de-
partment of the Seattle, Lake Shore &
Eastern rnilway for few weeks past, has
resigned his goeition to accept another as
book.keeper for Moran Bros. i Durie.
w. w. Journal: 1t is reported as a posi-.
tiye fact, that the ID cavalry. now stationed
throughout this state at sundry posts, will
exchange places with the 4th cavalry, now
stationed IN Arizona. When the change
will be made, we are not apprised, but will
be sometime during the coming spring.
A peculiar wager has been made between
two members Of the MIensburgh 400" as
to which can get away with the greatest
number of buckwheat cakes in q given time.
A young lady is said to be the cause of the
peculiar combat, and as it promises to be
duel to the death, the affair will be
watched with interest. Posters will be
issued in season.
Pocatello Republicans: A serious wreck
occurred Monday at Novena, on the Short
Line. caused by two freight trains collidipg.
We are unable to learn the particulars, but
at last accounts one man was killed and a
brakeman seriously injured. The engine
get FIRE to the caboose after colliding, burn
ing it up and crenating the Gne passenger,
Who was HnfoFtunately asleep.
The Valentine Social at the Congrega.
tional church last evening was quite largely
attended. a very interesting programme
bad been arranged for the occasion, and was
we'll rendered. The following is the pro.
granme: Opening chorus. "Fawn.footed
Mamie" by young ladies; instrumental
duet; recitatiop, Mabel Sterling; song, Miss
May Wiliamsi song, by the boysi address
BY Bon. =, A. Mcdonald. Supper being
the uext attraction all repaired to the YES.
try where sumptqops lunch was served
bY tho young ladies of the church.
", w. Union; Two narrow escapes from
drowning occarred at Waitsburg, on Tues.
day morning. The Topchet river, which
bad been high, was still 90 muddy that the
condition of the fords could not be seen, but
| it was supposed that the stream was forda-