The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-10-08
ITEMS IN BRIEF
From Saturdays Daily.

MIR. John G. Maddox, the banker c
Goldendale, Wash. Is in the city to-day.
There Is case of diphtherIa at Dufur
and the public schools have been closed
Mr.. Geo. Ruch arrived home last nigh
from attending the funeral of his nephew a
Aurora.
The Congregational church, of this city
will be dedicated on the 10th of the presen
month.
Mrs. j. K. Warner came up from Whit
Salmon Thursday, and returned the mex
morning.
Next week the Editorial Association, anG
the week after the district fair. The Dale
is fairly sin it,
Mr.. ID. L. Gates, who is now in business
at the Locks, has been in the city for thG
past two days.
The deputy-sheriff is at the Locks to-day,
looking after the property interests of a
debtor for the benefit OF a creditor.
The snow-clad tops of Mounts Hood and
Adams are very easily dIscerned from al.
most any part OF the city these clear days.
The proposition of the erection of an en-
| gine house, either of wood or brick, will be
considered Monday evening at the council.
| Mr.. c. j. Crandall returned Yesterday
! from attending the UDdertakers' Assocla-
tion. He was elected secretary for the en-.
suing year.
Elmer Day, son Judge Day, OF Jackson
vile, committed suicide by shooting him
self with needle gun. The boy was only
IA years old
Saturdays farmers usually spend at home.
and tor that reason there are not as many
wheat wagons in towns as during other
days this week.
The following deed was filed with the
clerk yesterday: Jasper Wickham and wife
to Louisa f. Reed; nw4 of set sec 20, tp
N, 10 east; $500.
The Amity Popgun is the name of one
OF our latest exchanges. 1t Is realty print
ed; but with such name should not be
considered dangerous.
Mr.. j. B. Haveley, from Boyd, is in town
to-day. He says that. large portion OF his
grain was killed by FROST and the harvest
did not result as ne expected.
Daniel Ward, who shot and killed John
Looney near Condor some time ago, was
tried before the circuit court recently IN
session there, and acquitted.
A carload OF cattle left the stockyards of
r. E. Saltmarshe & Co. yesterday for Port
land. These were in the usual excellent
condition of Eastern Oregon cattle.
The following deed was filed with the
county clerk to-day: Zebulon G. Jones to
il. M. Bsardsley and H. c. Gilbert; Ell of
SET and se4 of ne4 sec l6, tip n, I5 east;
$500.
A. U1lrich & Son will soon place on the
market two new brands of cigars-the Ore
M.,k hos 1,a,
ufactured out of the best tobacco, and will
no doubt sell very readily.
Patrick McIlhaney was brought up from
the Locks by Deputy U. s. Marshal jane
son, charged with the crime of selling liquor
to Indians, and was examined to-day before
Commissioner Huntington.
An alarmist is preaching in the William
ette valley that the world will come to an
end in seven years. and then there will be
smoke, fire and birthstone. 1t will un-
douotedly come to an end with very many
of its inhabitants before that time.
We are informed by Deputy Marshal
Jameson that three drunk Indians, in at
tempting to cross the river at the Locks,
were swept over the rapids and one was
drowned. The other two were rescued by
parties who witnessed the accident. 1t was
almost miraculous that either escaped
drowning, as the river at this stage OF water
is a raging cataract.
Up in Alaska the natives do not bother
themselves with greenbacks. silver or gold,
and know nothing as rule, about dollars.
The circulating medium, says an Alaskan
missionary in letter to a western paper,
is deers' tallow. the currency can only be
expanded by a freer propagation of that
ANIMAL, and there is consequently no petit
tion to congress on the subject.
East Oregonian: Robert Estes, a Pendle-
ton sport, was accidentally shot Yesterday
at Walla Walla. The report is that he and
some companions were engaged in playful
scuffie over a revolver which Estes carried,
when the weapon exploded. The bullet
entered Estes leg below the knee aud shat
tered the bone, inficting an ugly wound.
Mrs. Estes was notified by telephone and
left this morning for Walla Walla to attend
her husband.
Corvallis Gazette: The sixth annual meet
ing of the Oregon Press Association takes
place at The Dalles, beginning Tuesday,
Oct. 4th, and lasting three days. The quill
pushers will be met at the Cascades by a
delegation from The Dalles, and from that
time will be the guests of the latter city.
The residents of The Dalles have done all in
their power to make the visit of the men,
bers pleasant, and if the latter do not enjoy
it they will have only themselves to blame.
East Oregonian: Capt. Hanna's young
son, Aleck Hanna, wished he was
somewhere else the other day while driving
a zone mule" rig along the road this side of
the pump-house. He was between TIE mill
race and an o. &'W. T. construction train
that came along, and saw that board pro-
jecting from one of the cars would catch
him. He tried to cross, and the engineer
attempted to stop the train, but the engine
struck and knocked it into ''pi." Both boy
and mule were lucky enough to escape.
La Grande Chronicle: A serious accident
befell the train load of horses shipped by
Samuel Evans out of La Grande last week
When leaving Cheyenne for Denver Sunday
night the tram was wrecked, and eight car
loads of horses were killed. Two of the
men who left here with the train, George
Bean and E. S. Gibson, were also seriously
injured.
Major Magone, the Grant county pedes-
trian, has reached Omaha after a tramp of
slxty-five days. He has yet twenty days In
which to reach Chicago. Any of the |
majors acquaIntances would recognize the |
description given IN the Omaha Bee, which |
says: 'The old man ls sound as a nut. He |
has ruddy complexion, grip like the |
cholera, hamstring like a horse and a |
tongue that is hung on a swivel.
Judge Porter refuses to admit Hugh |
O'Donnell, the Homestead leader, to bail, |
and he will remain IN prison to answer an
other charge of murder, being under bail
also on other charges. The summing up of |
the Judge is that the evidence shows O'Don-
nell was party to the combination that IN
cited and carried on the riots that resulted
IN the killing of Klein, PInkerton detect
i've. This may be explained or mitIgated, |
but the court held that it presents prima
facia case to hold O'Donnell without bail.
Burns Herald: The grain crop In some
localities of the county is threshing out
more bushels to the acre than expected.
Peter Clemens crop of oats and wheat made
about 5000 bushels. The crop of Peter
Stenger HOO bushels, not quite as much as
he expected. Sixteen acres of wheat on the
ranch OF s. hampshire made over 40 bushels
to the acre. The crops on Sllvies river
north of town are not threshing out quite
the amount expected Judging from what |
information we have been able to get, there |
will be more grain this year than last. al. |
though the grasshoppers and crickets In
iured the crops in some places.