The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-04-19
THE DALIES OREGON, SATURDAY. APRIL 19, 1890
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From SATURDAYS Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Mr.. Vim. Grant, of Sherman county is i
the city.
Mr.. r. Gilhousen, of Deschutes, is il
the city.
Mr.. Grant Mays leaves to day for hi
home near Bake Oven.
The weather is cool, yet there mas nc
been sufficient frost to Injure fruit.
Rev. Geo. A. Hutchinson returned tod
from holding series of meetings in Pendle
ton, where he has been engaged for weel
past.
Mr.. Neil Mcleod, of Grants, is in tn
city. He reports that quiet reigns supreme
since the county convention in Sherman
county.
The foreman of Mccoy & McCoy's barber
shop came near being swallowed up las
night by a dog that was chained to the
back door,
Mr. R. S. Bradley, of Boyd, is in tn,
city. He reports that much OF the fal
wheat has been frozen out, but that crop:
generally look well.
Mr.. Ananias kepebeI, deputy Indian
agent at Warm Springs, came in this morn.
ing with several Indians to purchase seed
grain for the agency.
Mr.. Hugh Lacy, whose sad death is
mentioned in another column, was can
dldate two years ago tor county commits
sioner on the Democratic ticket in this
county.
DR.. Tucker and family returned to-day
| from an extended trip to the Willamette
valley and the Sound country. They were
accompanied home by Mrs. f. S. Warren,
of Oregon City, who will spend few days
in the city.
Vok No. of the Daily Evening Polk
County Obserror is on our table. IL Is ed
tied by two of our most enterprisng journa.
lists, Messrs Doughty Il Snyder. 1t is a
neat, newsy, ably edited, five column, four
page daily, and merits the patronage of the
public. We gladly welcome it to our table
of exchanges.
Ellensburgh Register: VIM. W. Lee, the
man " ho was stabbed by Felix Shaser, has
taken out license to wed Mrs. Cora Work
man-the lady over whom Shaser and Lee
had trouble. Shaser lost the prize over
which he was so jealous and got behind the
bars. Alas! for poor Yorkie.
Idaho Democrat: A. J. Hoar, printer
formerly of the Statesman office, leaving
here bought lot of worthless land near
Denver. For this venture his friends called
him foolish, and he would have been a fool
had he not sold some of it to railway ccm.
pany for ST., 600. which sale made valuable
the eighty acres he retained.
Idaho Democrat: Another slide OH the
Idaho City road blockaded travel for short
time. 1t happened about midway of the
grade at the first crossing of More creek,
going up. John Mahap, the driver, had to
leave his stage and get a wagon to get
through freight and passengers. L; has
since been cleared by Dunnigan.
Baker Democrat: Official notification
has been seut out by the department at
Washington that after June lat daily
stages from Baker City to Cornucopia the
year around will be run daily and also
that the mail route between Union and
Cornucopia via Sanger would be dis
DR.. j. w. Strange, census supervisor for
the second district of Oregon, is in the city.
He informs us that this county comprises
eleven census precincts. The taking of the
census will commence simultaneously all
oyer the Union, the second of June and end
on the thirtieth. At nightfall Of the latter
date the enumerators of the twelfth census
will have finished their task. One interest |
ing feature of the work will be the statis-
tical information relative to the veterans of |
the civil war.
w. W. Union: At Weston, Tuesday |
night, young son OF Philip Beathe, while
playing near the banks of the now raging
Pine creek, fell in and was carried down
stream by the rapid current. The alarm
was given by his companions, but the
little fellow had sunk twice and had been
carried down stream about 200 yards be-
lore he was finally rescued by his agonized
mother. Prompt measures restored the
ite of the little one after his rescue.
East Oregonian, llth: G.. A. Smith had
ether an unenviable experience to-day,
which might have resulted very disastrous
y. He attempted to ford the Umatilla,
which is not on its best behavior at present,
It a point near Bonds slaughter house be-
ow town. When in the middle of the
trean, the fierce current caught and over
urDed the wagon, which was carried down.
yard. The doubletrees were loosened and
he team was released, else both of the ami.
nails would have been drowned. Mr..
mith made leap which would do credit to
n acrobat and swan bravely for terra
rma, which he reached In safety, albeit a
title chilly and uncomfortable over his i'm
romptu bath. The wagon foated to shore
y piece-meal, and the greater portion was