The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-05-03
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily

| 1t we desire any celebration of the 4th o
July it is time something was being done.
This is the list anniversary of the insti
tuition of Odd Fellowship in the Unitet
! States.
The Waucoma addition to Hood River il
likely to become the prettest part of tn,
growing city.
Messrs. J. H. Hamilton, c. S Dustin ani
2. S. Wilson, of Grant county, arrived il
the city last night en- route to their home a
Canyon City.
A cantata, entitled sThe Dairy Maids
Supper" will be given socn at the new
opera house by the young ladies OF the Con.
gregational church.
The Ys will hold an Observation Party
followed by an unique menu at their hall Oh
Washington street, between First anC
Second, early III May. Look out for the
date.
Another American heIress has about closed
a bargain for a title. Prince DeBenyou
Caraman, of France, has agreed to wed Miss
Ward, of Detroit, next June. She allows
him $3.50. 900 year.
The track at the fair grounds near this
city has been used this week for the exer.
cIse of horses. We expect a lively race
| y,
trotters are in training.
In the Hepbner Gazette of April oath, we
see that Col. c. Z. Morgan has carried the
| headquarters in his pockets to Portland.
The colonel is not all powerful in these mat
tiers, and perhaps Gov. Pennoyer may have
som ething to say.
The two prisoners in the jail at Arlington
have made two attempts to escape lately.
One time they got into the Jail yard; the
other time Jap tried to burn hole through
the wall. They now wear coarse jewelry
on their ankles.
We learn from the Glacier that a trestle
about two miles west of Mosier caught fire
Monday about noon and a bent was burned
out before the fire was gotten under control.
1t was repaired by nine o'clock so that
trains could pass.
Mr.. Chas. Dehm left to-day for Ontario,
Idaho, where the dispatch was dated in
forming him of the death of his brother
Henry. He will make thorough search
for the body, and when found, will bring it
the city for intermeat.
Heppner Gazette; One Beardon was ar
rested by VIM. McAttee and a deputy U.
s. marshal, in the Blue mountains last Sat
urday, charged with sending obscene and
abusive matter through the mails. He was
taken below on Monday. We are told that
Beardon's wife ran away with Ike Giles last
fall. He seems unlucky all round.
Geo. w. Clancy, an old farmer living ON
Dry creek near Walla Walla, has lately
shown evidence of insanity. A few days
since he deliberately cut down a splendid
orchard, from which he realized the sum of
$500 last season. Some time previous to
this he threatened to kill his wife. It is
stated that the members of his family are III
mortal terror of bodily harm.
b. o.: L. Z. Parkinson, pension examiner
for Oregon and Washington, is in the city
and will remain several days, examining
the claims of pension applicants in this city.
Mr.. Parkinson has Just arrived from Baker
county. and it is said he found that several
applicants there, who were loudest IN their
claims upon the government had never
smeled birthstone or faced storm of bullets
in any war.
East Oregonian: The force now engaged
in correcting the Umatilla reservation sur
vey are making rapid progress. They got
over considerable territory Thursday. cor
rectlng errors in township two, north OF
range thirty-three, east. From present ap-
pearances, the work will probably be com.
pleted in about two weeks, when kind
Providence grant that the survey be ac-
cepted and the suspense ended.
Fossil Journal: This is country of mag
ni6cent distances. G. A. Cogswell, living
at Lakeview, travelled 800 miles by stage in
order to attend the Democratic state con-
vention. He came through the Central En-
pire, by the way of The Dalles. He could
not well cross the Cascades to Ashland, on
account of the snow. When a man has to
travel 300 miles by stage to reach the me-
tropolis it brings to mind what big un-
developed country this Central Empire is.
In area Western Oregon is pigmy by the
side of it-eyen that part that is not trav-
ersed by single railroad.
Fossil Journal: While at Arlington we
learned that there Is lot vestige of the
type, presses or material of the Arlington
Times left there. The Tucker family man
aged to get it all away somehow or other,
upon their promises that they would sell it
and apply it on their debts. This, however,
they did not do. They left owing leading
merchant of Arlington 5000, and other
creditors were bilked out of considerable
The good citizens of Arlington generally
would give the people of Washington where
the fuckers may be located timely notice to
"loOk out for paint,
The whistle OF the locom otlve last night
about S o'clock gave warning that some-
thing was wrong with the train. On IN
quiring the cause it was ascertained that
the cross heam of a freight car had broken
in crossing the bridge, and this had thrown
it from the rails. For distance of a hun.
dred yards it was dragged on the ties, tear
ing away the railing and walk, and finally
it and another one parted from the train
and fell over the bridge. They were badly
broken, and did not present much the SEM
blance OF cars in the fallen condition. Ore
was loaded with ties and the other with
lumber, and this freight will be damaged
little if any. The accident was entirely un.
avoidable, and is one that may happen at
any time on any railroad.
Hood River Glacier: Monday morning
soon after the east-bouni passenger tram
left here the trestle just beyond the river
bridge was found to be on fire. Agent |
Grove with crowd of volunteers went |
over to extnguish 1T and after hard fight |
succeeded in doing SO. The wind was blow. |
ing quite hard at the time but the voluu-
teer fire corps formed bucket brigade and |
passed water from pond near by, to the |
trestie, when the buckets were hauled up |
and the contents put where they would do |
the most good. The company was saved a |
good many dollars in property, and no
doubt several days annoying delay to traffic. |
We suggest that the company acknowledge |
the services rendered, by fixing up that un- |
slightly patch of sand at the depot, and put. |
ting in fight of steps to the streets.
The editor of the Walla Walla Journal |
mas tried farming. and Is disgusted. Hear |
hin: ''The basest fraud on earth is agricul- |
ture. The deadlIest ignis fatus that ever
glttered to beguile and dazzle to betray is |
agriculture We speak with feeling on this |
subject, and we've been glittered and be.
yuiled and dazzled and deceived by the |
same arch deceiver. She has made US
thousand promises, and broken every one OF
them. She had promised US bees and they |
few away litter putting head on us.
Promised US early potatoes, and the drouth
mas witherad them. She has promised |
,ht rries; the curculio has stnng them; they
cor tain living things uncomey to the eye
and unsavory to the taste. She has prom
sed US Strawberries, and the young chickens.
have devoured them. We were in the
sheep business and a hard winter closed |
down on us, and the lambs died in the
she'll. No wonder that Cain killed his
brother. He was a tilier of the ground.
The wonder is, he did not kill bis father,
md then weep because he did not haYe
grandfather to kill"
From Mondays Diiy.
The Columbia is booming.
This is good weather for ice.
Streets are in excrllent condition.
Tba x,,aafbar is warm and snrinp-like