The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-02-08

Freight No. q, departs. 'A@'oo
ITEMS IN BRiEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.
A light frost last night.
Mr.. W. J. Snodgrass, of La Grande,
among the delayed passengers in this eli.
Through connection with the far east
hal daily, and to-day we received Chicag
daily paper of Feb. lst.
A work train with a crew of laboreI
started down the road this morning I
work on track west of The Dalles.
In day or two the portage will be il
good condition, and then The Dalles viii
he in daily communication with Westerl
Oregon.
The portage at the Cascades is not il
the best condition, and passengers wht
take the boat may be forced to walk
distance Of several miles.
Mr.. E. B. Dufur has been blockaded
west of Bonneville for three or four days
His partner told US quietly to-day that MIR
Dufur was taking picnic In the woods
A force of men are at work improving
and making safe the loi g railrosd bridge
near Crates point. Work will be con-
tinued along the road until 1t Is in good
running condition.
The name of the section foreman, who
worked SO nobly recuipg the men from
the wrecked caboose Sunday was not Rey-
nolds as reported, but MIR. j. T. Rawlinson,
resident of this city.
The engine and coach, which left here
Sunday morning, is somewhere between
this city and Cascade Locks. Slides have
occurred on both sides, east and west, and
it is impossible for it to get either way.
A report Is current that disastrous
wreck occurred on the Riparia branch
yesterday, in which several were killed
and wounded. No reliable intelligence
has been received to the hour OF going to
press.
The portage from the Upper to the
Lower Cascades is not passable as far as
morning about 10 O'Clock, taking passen-
gers and mail. 1t is very doubtful
whether they make through connection.
The blockaded and washed out railroad
is not the only Inconvenience from which
the people suffer these days. There is no
line In working order between this
city and Portland, and we have tried for
three days to get telegram through to
Portland without being successful.
Through telegram received at the train
dispatcher's Office to-day we learn that the
Willamette is very high in Portland, and
covers the streets from A to Alder and west
as far as Third street. The two railroad
road bridges are considered unsafe for
trayel. This, we believe. is the highest
water ever recollected. in that city.
Rev. A. Horn will preach funeral dis
courses at Q o'clock r. NJ. in the M. +.
church over the three unfortunate men
who were killed in the wreck Sunday, ,and
who were buried in this city yesterday.
Mr. Horn was at La Grande at the time
the accident happened, and could not ar.
rive in this city in time to be present at
the funeral.
Two more of the unfortunate men who
were killed in the wreck last Sunday near
the Locks were brought to the city yester-
day-the bodies OF Messrs. Casey and
Merithew. Mr.. Casey was buried in the
morning from the Catholic church and
Mr.. Merilhew at 5 O'Clock in the afternoon,
with Masonic honOrs, OF which order he |
was an honored member.
Coroner Michel informed us that the |
officers of the company have Gone every !
thing possible for the care of the injured |
and the proper burial of the dead. In his |
official capacity he took charge of the re-
mains of the nine dead at the Locks, and |
the company's officers told him that no
money would be spared to give them re-
spectacle funerals. The coroner speaks |
very highly of every official in the COM
pany's employ. They afforded him every
facility for holding the inquest, and ac-
commodated the jury in every way posi-
BILE.
No intelligence has been received from
Portland for four days, and all kinds of |
reports about floods are in circulation.
One says the Willamette ls higher than
has ever been recollected, and the lower
part of the city of Portland is flooded.
Another says the people in the towns up !
the willamette pass from house to house
in boats, and that raging torrent is
Threatening destruction to dwellings and |
business houses. We do not credit any I
of these.
Sheriff Houser, of Umatilla county, ar
rived in this city last night from Pendle-
ton, en- route to the penltentiary at Salem,
with W. Fl. Nolter, sentenced to Is months
for larceny; Nicholas Mailer, one year;
Henry Cameron, years. for attempt to
kill his wife, and John Ferguson, two
years for forgery. They were Immediately |;
placed in the county jail under the force
of circumstances, and took the boat this
morning for Portland. Mr.. Houser states
that ''tlie suburb to Portland" is rather. a
comfortable place after all.
According to information furnished the
Baker City RsceiAs by j. A. Dimick, the
report that '.Forty-nine Jimmie" of
RobiDsonville, was dead, is a mistake.
It says that lie bas been kept busy an
swering questions concerning his demise,
the obsequies, etc. "Forty. nine Jimmie"
has good mine in that district and ID
figuring a great deal more on the ore he
is going to take out this summer than he
is on the tit of the golden slippers or the
length of the robe that all good old pros
pectors wear when they quit the sinuous
trail and the elusive float of Oregon's
hllls for the pearly gates and the gold
paved streets of New Jerusalem.
w. w. Journal. Sheriff Mcfarland went
out to Chris. Msiers' place last Thursday,
looking for school teacher known as 70.
Houser, who is charged with having COM
mitted forgery over in Umatilla county,
Or, and for which little misstep he was
wanted. The sheriff bad no trouble in
Mac. slips up on his gamelwith a smile
upon his lips while he keeps his right !,
hand in his hip pocket as though skir-
mishing for little tobacco. Then he
tells his business, still smiling, secures /
his prisoner and comes back with him in
great shape Thus he did with Houser,
and then he turned him over to the Oregon
sheriff, and both went over the line Fri |
day night to attend court at Pendleton.
Register: During 1889 the people of El-
lensburgh paid out to foreign newspapers,
magazines, ETC., thousands of dollars for
descriptive articles and advertising fakes
of different kinds from which very little
if any benefit has been derived. These
several newspapers, magazines, ETC., that
reaped such harvest last year, still be- |
lieving in the susceptibility of the guilt |
BILE public, are already making preDara-
tions to repeat the dose. The people of
Ellensburgh have learned lesson, ex-
pensive enough it has been, and it is not |
expected that these freebooters will meet |
with that success they are anticipating. |
Had one-half of the money paid out to |
these outside publications been kept at
home and used in judiciOusand systematic !
advertising. the result wOI Id have been |
different Patonize hOmau Institutions.
From THURSDAYS Daily.
After our baptism of rain for the past |
few days everything is now spring-Eke and
serene.
Mr.. David Hitler. who has been at work |
at v allula on the Hunt railroad, returned |
last eveninO He will he a resident of the |