The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-04-09

tory owners will select two and the weaver
two, and these four will settle the difficulty
1t is thought that an understanding can be
arrived at readily, and that the smploye:
will resume work at once.
A country paper in Kansas has hit upon a
novel plan to keep subscriptions paid up
Every time delinquent subscriber is men
toned in the paper his name is inverted
For example: "foqu rouss and wife are
| spending few days at Chicago" Every
| other reader understands what it means,
and there is a grand rush among the negli.
gent to get right side up again.
The Heppner Gazette gets off the follow
| ing: ..Ione the town." An amusing incl
| dent occurred on Mondays up train. When
| the train arrived at lone, some birds of the
Balaam family were grazing on the green,
| and occasionally singing that beautiful song
peculiar to the species. One young lady
enquired what they were, when drummer
volunteered to say. ''MockIng birds, Miss
Don't you hear them say lone the town.
Portland Telegram, Monday: The body of
Baron Whitfield, boy 9 years OF age, who
was drowned on March 9th last while SWIM
ming of raft of logs below Jefferson
street, was found yesterday near the foot of
Alder street by two boys named Roger
Stewart and Frank Smithson, who were in
a row boat Coroner Rivers was notified
and had the body taken to the morgue. 1t
is thought that an inquest will be unneces-
sary. The boys mother came down from
Eugene this morning and took charge OF the
remains.
For several years the condition of the
Lane county jail has been a disgrace to the
people of the county, and despite the con-
tinued condemnation of grand jurles. the
eyIl has never been remedIed. Now the |
county is likely to have damage SUIT on |
its hands. Thomas Russell has been con-
fined in the Jail for two or three months on |
a six months sentence. When his term OF |
imprisonment expires he will begin dam
age suit against the county. He will claim
that the grand juries have often condemned
the jail as an unfit place in which to detain
prisoners and will ask damages for injury to
his health.
East Oregonian: The Nebraska sheriff
who. has been around here seversl days
hunting for telegraph operator who ran
away from that state with another mans |.
wife and entered into plot, which was not
carried out, to kill the husband, returned
last Saturday night, having gwen up the
chase. The operator whose name Is Ed
Hubbart, was stationed at Durkee. but left
that place on the 10Th, hearing that he was
badly wanted. HIS present whereabouts is
extremely unknown. There is also charge
against him for tampering with United
States mail.
Heppner Gazette:: A telegram was received
last Monday morning by Conductor French,
relieving G A. Simmons as brakeman on
the branch, with the further instructions
that Mr. French would have to get along
with only one brakeman till business
picked up some" The Heppner branch
is one of the best paying pieces of road of
all the Union Pacific's possessions, and from
a business standpoint, as well as for the
safety of the travelling public, requires the
of full corps of trainmen. Mr.
Simmons returned to his ranch, opposite
Hood River, on the Washington side Mon
lay last.
An immense wooden box, bound IN iron,
vas recently found at Helsinfors, in Fin
and, by workmen engaged in excavating in
he cellar of an old house. Upon opening
The box the men found thar it contained a
arge parchment and quantity of pieces of
ron of odd shapes. Being unable to make {
'ut the contents of the parchment. they
arried 1t to Mr.. Rizeff, the nearest magls-
rate, who found that it was written by
father Suger, one time minister to Louis
he Seventh OF France. 1t was an elaborate /
y written treatise upon the use of steam as !
motive power, and further examination
eyealed that the bits of iron were mum
team engine. 1t is proposed to fit the j
arts together and to exhibit this pioneer
ngine at the exposition.