The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-08-02
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.

! iio" oaeuiuay baiis.
er Hon. F. P. Mays is in the city to-day.
N Col. NJ. c. Nye, of Prlneville, Is in tn
city.
There are five birds in Sheriff Gates Gag
at the court house.
Mrs. Chas. Stevens, is visiting relative
le and friends IN Albany.
Mr.. Benjamin Foley, of East Portland
e is visiting friends in the city.
Il The Jail was kaIsomlned yesterday, and
now has very neat appearance.
a Men are at work taking out the heavy
|. machinery in the machine shop.
Mrs. j. c.. Baldwin and children are
e spending the heated term at Hood River.
/, The blasting on Third street broke two
D panes of glass in the Sisters academy yes.
, terday.
c The creek banks IN the vicinity of this city
t are full of campers. These warm days drive
| people from the city.
Our sidewalks require attention. Broken
planks should be replaced by new ones, and
the nails driven down.
Mrs. G. L, Richmond and sister, Miss
Nora Thompson, are camping on Mill creek,
near MIR. Wick's residence.
Mr.. Arthur R. Roe, superintendent of
construction Of the lighting department,
st. Paul, Mimi, is in the city
If We can have access to the stock books
OF the transportation company we shall
publish the names with the amount sub.
scrlbed.
Third street, in front of the Catholic
church, Is being graded. The blasting
heard during the week has been in that
locality.
MIR. G. P. Low, civil engineer, is in the
city. He is employed by the water COM
mission to make survey for the pumping
system.
James Maloney. aged about Is years,
fell from wagon loaded with boxes yester-
day and broke his left arm. DR.. HollIster
was called and attended to his INJURIES
Mr.. w. S. Weeks for some months en-.
gagged in the office of the supply department
here, left last Thursday for Albina where
he will take charge of that department
| there.
There is sufficient stock pledged to the
transportation company to perfect an organ
| ization, and meeting CT stockholders for |
that purpose will be held Tuesday or We'd |
nesday. As a matter of course, only SUBJ
scrlbers will have vote at this meeting.
Budget: Last Saturday. about four miles |
northeast of Lexisgton, Elmer Beemans |
team, attached to a mower, ran away while |
he was oiling up. The horses ran tn ough
the grain toward the house, making every
thing fly, and were finally brought to
standstill by the fact that the mower could
not cut its way through woodpile. The
horses were uninjared, but the mower was
total wreck.
A Lady passenger on the west-bound
train, says the East Oregonian, gave birth
to child while en- route between Hunting
ton and Baker City. The little one. which
entered this world under such peculiar cir
cumstances, hardly lived long enough to
explore Its new surroundings ere it started
on a journey to the next. The remains
were taken from the train at Pendleton and
inferred In the cemetery here. The mother
is doing well.
Lexington Budget: The TIMES. MOUNT.
AINEER Is doing good work for The Dalles
1t uses plain language and scores tn moss
backs of that city for not using their op-
portunities to make the city what 1t should
be, and urges the citizens to wake up to
their own interests and pull together in
stead of hi jurng themselves to spite each
other. If the advice of the TIM were
followed The Dalles would soon be a city
Of which all Eastern Oregon would be
proud.
1t is stated upon good authority that in
Germany the small holdings IN land of d
acres and less exceed 1000, 600; of %
acres to twenty-five, 1000, 900: and while,
in the whole kingdom. ID, 600, 600 acres are
devoted to grass, Al 600, 600 to vegetables
fruit and the productions of market gardens !
worked by the spade. In England there
are to every five acres devoted to fruit over
1000 devoted to root crops and corn.
Baker Democrat: The papers in an i'm
portant civil action for $4,000 damages
will be filed, so we understand, with the :
county clerk in few days. The plaintiff
will appear in the person of Chas. Becker, q
the man who recently lost limb by step t
ping through the sidewalk in front of the G
residence of P. Basche The defendants
are P Basche, S. B. McCord, mayor of the \
city, F. Ernst, E. P. Perkins, c. Adler. A d
A. Houston, Frank Clarke, P. Campbell, v
and Frank Green, councilmen, and VIM. n
Moeller, superintendent OF streets. C
Dallas Observer: The educational interests C
of the state are being carefully looked after,
although 1t is now vacation. A teachers g
meeting IS at present in progress at Oregon o
City, one has but recently adjourned in t
Salem, and on the llth of August another p
will conyene in East Portland. There is
really no standing still in this work 80 far C
as teachers are concerned. If the move r.
ment is not forward it is backward and the
teacher who retrogrades soon drops from n
the ranks, The large attendance at these G
meetings and the interest manifested shows "
that there are few teachers comparatively, y
who are not alive to the possibilities oil i'm I
provement in their work which experience a
is constantly unfolding.
Historian: Superintendent Simpson Of the =,
Port Blakely mills says: "The Port Bakely =,
Milling company, when the site for the d
coming worlds exposition was selected, de- q
,ided to send there stick Of the pride of "
w ashingtop mill men, the states fir lum- G.
Der. cruised around among the company's tt
timber, for weeks and finally came across W
what wanted, in the shape of a magnifi- CT
cent fir tree standing upon clumP down al
below Elma. We have already felied the
,ree and from its trunk will prepare stick :,
hat will be the largest and longest stick +,
If sawn timber ever made from a tree. :.
This will be exhibited at the worlds fair in Z, d
Chicago as an infant of the state of WASH -,
ngton, premier domain of timber IN the T.
world This stick will be $50 feet In ~
ength, 80 inches square, containing 80, 800
eet of lumber and there is not knot, a
Freak or flaw in the stick. The Northern 81
Pacific Railroad company has agreed to In
AIRY the stick to Chicago for US. 1t will Ca
axe train of FIVE ordinary fiat cars to do DC
his. We have ample time in which to get oI
he infant ready. Don't you think it will SO
,e sort of surprise party to even our own pc
umbermen when they see IT"
From Mondays Daily. ia
Mr.. Herman Heppner was In the city an
W
Mrs. Lusher and daughter Nellie left for ae as
yancouver last Friday. .g .p
Mr.. A. Bunnell left this city this morn
ng for a tour of Crook and Grant county.
The barn of Mr.. Thomas, who lives on o. 81
'hree Mile, burned to the ground last FRI y; "a
ay. =.
A. J. Wall on Eight Mile claims to have on
aptured an ostrich; but this, We presume, q.
in his minds eye. We
DR.. Hollister was called to Hood RIVER ce
esterdsy to attend MIR. j. H. Cradlebaugh, SCI
rho Is i'll with fever.
Mrs. Wingate left last Saturday for H. mr.
'aco. She was accompanied by MIR. Her. r.
Ian La Dow and mother. VI
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