The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1891-12-12
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily,

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q our streets yesterday.
Prof. Paul Schwertz, the great zith
player, is paying short visit to the city.
MIR. J. Fl. Cradlebaugh, editor of Il
q Hood River Glacier, came up on the not
r train to-day.
O The case of Claus Mayer VS.. o. S. L.
U. N. Co., was removed to U. S. distri
:, court on application.
r In the case of A. Knathala VS.. o. S.
: & q. n. Co. five days have been given [
, file application in U. S. district court
The sunshine that has blessed this coul
, try in the last two days has caused tt
snow to disappear on the lower foothills.
, About o'clock tomorrow morning tt
pressure from the new reservoir will b
turned on the mains throughout the city.
, The approaches to the wharf of the Re-
utator are now complete, and passenger
and vehicles have now safe passage. wa
to the landing.
We are not inconvenienced with webfoo
or continuous pour of rain, but the mud i
our streets has been churned into yer
unpeetic paste.
The case of the Jordan boys, who wer
sentenced to the reform school, by reason
OF the ages of defendants, were sentenced t.
the penitentiary for two years.
We have received from the Pope Manu-
featuring Co., of Boston, Mass, daily
calendar for 1892. This is complete il
every particular, and is both convenien
and ornamental.
DIR. Rinehart returned on the noon trair
from trip to Anacortes, Wash. He lef
Anacortes yesterday afternoon at half-pas
3 o'clock, and arrived in this city to-day al
IL o'clock, noon.
An extra bridge gang has been organized
in charge of FL. W. Brice, and is now 10.
Gated at Viento. This addition was found
necessary on account of the extensive i'm.
provements and repairs going on all along
the road.
There was only one solitary inebriated
individual who found his way INTO the city
| Jail last night. He was interviewed this
morning by the city recorder, and being
mulcted in the usual fine paid the same and
went on his way rejoicing.
| The Bradford Era advises like this: 'In.
stead of whining because you haye to die
like other people, you ought to be thankful
that you are permitted to live at ALL Just
think of the vast number of people who
never had the luck to be bornl"
We learn from Mr.. James NJ. Benson,
| who lives on Five Mile, that the recent
snow in that vicinity has all disappeared,
and the moisture has all gone into the
ground. He says the ground is IN better
condition for plowing than at any time dur
ing the fall.
Hood River Glacier: The first snow of
the season fell here Thursday The big,
lazy flakes came floating slowly down In
hopeless opposition to the more nimble rain
drops, and after an hour or so gave up the
contest. leaving the field to the gentle web.
foot rain that rained and reigned.
Governor Pennoyer Tuesday made two
appointments to fill two vacancies in state
board Of agriculture, the terms of L. G.
Richmond and Van de Lashmutt having ex-
pired. I. G. Richmond, of Polk, and
Gaines Fisher, OF Multnomah, were ap.
pointed, their terms of Office beginning with
December lst, 1891, and ending two years
hence.
The Junction City Times sighs the follow
ing sentiment at the cost price: "Even an
editor will show symptoms of mcapness.
We loaned certain editor, not thousand
miles from here, two dollars last September
to enable him TO get home, aud after wait
ing two months drew on him through his
bank and got-an opportunity to pay the
expenses"
Miss Dollie DoIlison's doll exhibition
which is to go before the public next Fri
day, Dec. llth, instead of Dec 18th, is
something entirely new to The Dalles Be.
sides this wonderful exhibition there will
be an excellent programme, which will be
printed later on. The entertainment will
be held in The Dalles New Opera House,
next door to Dunham's drug store.
Goldendale Sentinel: Last Saturday after
noon Mr.. Milton Shearer met with quite a
serious accident while hauling load of
wood. The wagon was turned over and
Mr.. Shearer was thrown violently to the
ground, dislocating his shoulder. Drs.
Bonebrake and Stowell were called and the
shoulder was set. The wounded man is
getting along nicely, and will soon be
around as usual.
There is considerable moisture in the
Willamette valley, as the following from
the Corvallis Gazette will verify: The Ore
gon mist is a sumner, but a Simon pure
webfeot rain, such as has greeted US this
week, is entirely too much. Our streets
are lovely sight, while the roads in the
country are altogether too exhilarating to
man who has to travel about ten miles
day. Oregon is Oregon at all seasons.
A locomotive yesterday afternoon, in go.
ing down the incline to the coal bunkers,
ran off the end of the track. The engineer
did not put on his brakes in time, and the
locomotive came to the obstruction, knocked
and wrecked the engine and tender. Fortu-
natelY all hands jumped In time to save
personal injury, but the headlight was bad
ly damaged, and the truck at the end as
safeguard was driven into the foundation of
the old building. A force of men haYe
been at work putting the engine together,
and have not succeeded up to the time of
going to press.
Sentinel: Monday morning the people of
this part of the country on awakening from
their ssnmbers found that the clerk OF the
weather had turned the faucet notch dur
ing the night and a copious downfall of rain
resulted. Hence it is that sort of "blue-
Monday look" pervaded the atmosphere,
and caused the thrifty housewife some
anxiety as to the chances of having enough
sunshine to dry the usual Mondays wash
ing. On Tuesday we were treated to an
ld.fashioned ''all-around" day-rain, snow,
wind. sunshine. etc.
The Roseburg Pldindedler, OF Dec. I'd,
says: The blind baggage passenger, who
tunnel 9, was not 'hobo," as at first re-
ported, but a man worth SIX or seven thous-
and dollars. He is a brother.in-law of
johnson of Eugene, proprietor OF the Min
nesota house there, and was going up for a
visit partly of social and partly of busi-
ness nature. Instead of paying his fare he
noticed the cellar of the caboose open and
crowded among the tools, with the result of
being rather badly smashed up.
On Dec. I'd, Mr.. D. ]. Cooper returned
from an examination of swamp lands IN
Minnesota. near VermillIon lake, on the
headwaters of the Mississippi. He ex-
amined 10000 acres in that vicinity, and
was forced to hire men to carry his camping
outfit, birch bark canoe and provisions from
Two Harbors, on Lake Superior. The
nature of the ground was so swampy that it
was impossible to take horses or wagons.
When he left Duluth on Nov. oath the
mercury marked 10 degrees below zero, and
a heavy snow storm was prevailing.
The first game of the season of Progress
sive Tiddlywinks was given last evening by
Master Willie Crossen at the residence of
his father In this city, being the sixteenth
anniversary of his birthday. A very en-
iovable time was had, and the young people |
present will anxiously await a resume of
game. The following were present: Eve
iyn Newman, Laura Thompson, Edith
Schmidt, Pearl Williams, Bertha Glenn,
Clara DAVIS, May Beall, Daisy BealI. Myr-
tie Michel, Emily Crossen, Win Curtis,
Victor Marden, Victor Schmidt, Sherman
Frank, Joe Bonn, Charles Clark and Willie |
Crossen. First royal prize was won by
Pearl Williams. second by Evelyn Newman.
The first progressive prize was won by Vic
tor Marden, second by Edith Schmidt.
First BOBBY prize was awarded to Bessie