The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-07-05
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.
News items are very sarce-
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News items are very sarce-
To day has been quite warm.
Mr.. NJ. T. Nolan has been confirmed as
postmaster in this city.
We have heard that circus will visit
this city some time next week.
The wool clip this year has been very
good, and the price very encouraging.
Mr.. R. B. Hood will start daily line of
stages between this city and Goldendale
July lst.
Mr.. L. J. Norman will assume the
duties of manager of The Dalles Mill and
Water Co. on the 1st of July.
Nearly all the officers elect have filed
their bonds and taken the oath of office,
but will not assume their duties
until the first Monday In July.
MIR. Troy Shelly, the newly elected
superintendent of county schools, came
to the city to-day and qualified for his
official duties by taking the necessary
oath.
The steam laundry is an institution
worthy the patronage of our citizens. 1t
is home industry, giving employment
to local laborers, and will be factor OF
development.
The census enumerators are not vet
through with their work in this vicinity.
We hope it will be thoroughly done, as we
want every resident of The Dllles and
vicinity enrolled.
A very obstreperous young man was
arrested this afternoon by Policeman
Ferris. At first he resisted, but finding
resistance futile succumbed to very EN-
phatic and persuasive eloquence.
A new bridge is being constructed at
the crossing of Fifteen Mile creek, near
the residence of Mr.. Absalom Bolton.
| The citizens in that vicinity do the work
while the county furnishes the funds
Reports from Lower Fifteen Mile say
| crops are in good condition; but wheat is
in rather backward state; but this is pre-.
sumed to be caused by the cool weather
which we have had for the past two weeks.
Glacier: Mt. Hood is the name OF the new
postotice established in the Laugille neigh
borhood. The office is at Mr.. Oscar Fred
enberg's place. he being the postmaster, and
1t will prove a great convenience to that
neighborhood.
MIR. and Mrs. Sam'l L. Brooks and
niece, Miss Iva G. Brooks, returned this
week from quite an extended trip east
on visit to relatives and friends al Mr..
Brooks old home. Mrs. Brooks has
been visiting friends in Salem for the
past several days, since her return to
Oregon.
A very successful session of school at
Fairfield Flat closed yesterday with ap-
propriate exercises. Last evening very |
instructive literary entertainment was
held in the school house, in which the |
pupils who took part did excellently.
Hood River GLACIER: Sunday afternoon
the heaviest shower of the season visited |
this section, and from all appearances ex-
tended all over the county. Its coming |
was of immense benefit, and will tighten |
the bearts and burdens of the hard worked |
farmers, especially those engaged in wheat |
raising.
Long Creek Eagle: Dave Tenal, a |
miner from Colorado, has been prospect
ing in the mountains of Eastern Grant, |
neighboring Susanville, in search OF |
quartz and placer property. He is in the |
employ of Colorado mining company,
and having located several claims, they |
will begin the development of the same
in the near future. |
Mr.. Sam1 L. Brooks gave us call this
afternoon, and expressed himself better |
pleased than ever with Oregon. During his |
tour east he visited Washington City, |
Petersburgh, Illinois-the old home OF |
Abraham Lincoln, and his own homestead at |
Burton, Ohio, where the house in which Mr.. |
Brooks was born and appearances still re- |
main the same 1t ID very instructive and |
interesting to talk with him about the scenes |
in the east.
Fossil Journal: We have been blessed |
with copious showers every day and |
night since Sunday. Had the rain oc-
Cured four weeks earlier, 1t would have
made the largest yield of grain Gillian
county ever bad, but 1t came in time to |
materially benefit crops of every kind.
A big smile adorns the visage of every |
Eastern Oregon farmer. Even those who |
had rye and alfalfa hay out will generally
be more benefited than damaged, and |
they, too, are happy.
Fossil Journal: W. Kennedy was over
from Condor Sunday. lie says that new
townsite had been plated by Brown Bros.
and d. B. Trimble. adjoining the original
town site on the south; that the new COM
pany and Judge Condor (of the firm Of
Condor & Cornish, who own the original
townsite) were both offering building site
free to the county on which to erect county
buildings; and that both townsite companies
had offered the school district embracing
Condor a site on which to erect a new
school house, the district agreeing to build
new $1,000 school house before 1892.
Neither the county court nor the school
afr of has uaf |
w. w. Union: Mrs. Hastings, living near
the Hunts depot, on Wednesday evening,
came very near losing her lite through an
accident, and that, too, at the hands Of her
daughter Sarah. Mrs. Hastings and her
daughter were endeavoring to drive the
cow into the corral, and tine animal being
refractory, the daughter picked up stone.
which she flung at the COW. The missile,
missing It's object, struck Mrs. Hastings on
the forehead, and the woman dropped as
though struck dead. The daughter, fright.
ened beyond expression, ran to her mothers
prostrate form, and was supporting the
head, while passer-by ran to the well,
near by, and getting water, commenced to
bath her head By this time the blood was
gushing from fearful cash in the forehead,
but the gentleman, by punching the severed
artery, stopped portion of flow, while Miss
Hastings ran to where her father was work.
ing. DR.. Balock vas Immediately sum-
moned and dressed the wound, being COM
PEELED to make three stitches to draw the
lips of the cash cut together. Mrs. Hast
Ings rested poorly throughout Wednesday
night, but Thursday evening was reported
out of danger.
From Mondays Daily.
Hon. F. A. Mcdonald is in the city.
There is good sale for ice these days.
Rev. Mr.. Marks, of Wasco, Is in the city.
OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness.
This hot weather tries all persons en-