The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-02-01
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Tuesdays Daily.
TIE baron ,ter indicates rain.


Judge Bird is slowly recovering from h
late severe attack of sickness.
If the present soft weather continues to
day will be the last day of sleighing.
A regular Webfoot rain commenced thi
afternoon in good earnest. May it continue
The thermometer marked yesterday Al
degrees above zero. Last night it was just
down to freezing point.
Two west-bound trains arrived to-day
They had been blockaded for several day.
in the Blue mountains.
Mr. E. P. Fitz Gerald has been confined
TO his room by a severe attack of pneu
monia. He is in a very fair way of speedy
recovery.
The Eureka restaurant, under the charge
OF s. j. Edison, opened last Saturday. The
meals are first-class, and the best attention
is paid to guests.
The first fast mail tram that arrived on
Sunday. The people were highly eiated
at this feat of making schedule time.
The melting snow is going off gradually.
and all the moisture Is going INTO the
ground. This Is what the farmers desire,
and will insure good crops next season.
The road east of this city Is in good con-
dition; but west OF The Dalles the road is
In poor shape. Rocks have commenced to
tall, and any hour 1t may be blocked by
land slides.
No. arrived from the east this morning
at 8 O'Clock. This was through train. and
was blocked for several days in the Blue
mountains by heavy snow storms. Tnere
were ten coaches attached to the engine.
Application has been made for storm
Signals in this city. If granted these will
be placed on the court house. This is very
desirable, and no person Ia better adapted
to take charge of the matter than Mr.. Sam1
L. Brooks.
Kote and Hattie Mottoon s;sto-s l;r;n,
at Drain. Or bnt who have been work,n9
as domestics at Albany have, it has been
discovered, stolen several trunks full of
dresses, jewelry, etc., from places where
they have worked. They were in collusion
with Walter and Alonzo Smith, of Ashland.
Ioco,;zer. The s,ow 10 renorted 70 h.
frnr, fonr IN Sly feet deem in the Okano,an
eountxv There are many larye herds in
the 0kanoaan country. and If there ia the
depth of saow reported it will bc iinpossi-
BILE to save the bulk of the cattle from
starvation. There is very little provender
put up in any portion of the country.
Localfzer. News came over from Wenat-
ehee on Wednesday last, that Felix Shaser.
veil known IN this city. had become IN.
soIsed in a quarrel with a man named ".
H. Lee at dance. During the alteration
Snaser drew knife and stabbed Lee NUN.
ber of times. with possibly fatal results.
Shaser is in ia,l here. under $500 bonds.
The last coasting. perhaps, for the sea-
son, was enjoyed yesterday by Messrs. N.
Nhcalden, &. Z. HaIght and Ernest Jabob-
sea. After coming down Union street, they
attacked the bob to a sled and had ride
through the city, the target for small boys |
" it'll snow balls. Jacobsen says Haight was
th rown of into the sinsh snow; bat Haight
has not been interviewed yet.
Localzer: One band of sheen in Yakima
county has lost over aOG0 head since the
now fell. This county is also a heavy
oser. but don't know TO what extent. The
average for the state will be fully so Der
cent. If this weather holds on much longer.
The snow is now about 26 inches deep in
his valley, aud we hear that it is much
leeper both east and wsss of us.