The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-06-04
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturday Daily.

| Train No. l, due here at 3:O5 o'clock thil
morning, was an hour and half late.
| The stage of high water in the Colum
| bia IS about the same to-day as yester.
day.
Mr.. c. E. Jones, one of the proprietors
| of the Moro Observer, paid us a call this
morning.
Mr.. H. S. Mcdaniel. of Moro, candidate
for joint senator sIom Sherman and Wasco
counties, is in the city. He reports all
prospects good in Sherman.
The East End presented lively appear
ance this morning. There was a string of
wool teams extending from the brewery to
Moody's warehouse, and up to o'clock
fifteen wagons were 'uploaded, and still they
continued to come.
East Oregonian: F. H. Snow, formerly of
the late lamented Lexington Budget, a
bright little paper which lived as long as it
could without sustenance and then resign
edly took Its departure from this vale of
tears, is in the city from Lexington, Nor
row county. Mr.. Snow thinks OF locating
IN Pendleton.
Catherine creek, in Union county, has
been the highest the past week known
for many years. Many of the streets of
Union are flooded, and thousands of acres
of grain in the lowlands are inundated.
Ii 1t does not SubSide soon considerable
damage will be done to the grain; other
wise the damage will be. slight.
Yoncalla valley is being overrun with
briar. Il is taking whole fields, and they
seem impossible to kill out; but the leg
islature must pass a law for their exter-
mination. All around Gardiner and up
Smith river the fox glove or digitalis is
worse than thistles; also mint is curse.
All these plants were set out for orna-
ment by early settlers. and are now a
nuisance.
We are indebted to Mr.. L. L. Lomax,
general passenger and ticket agent of the
U. z. Railway, for Tie receipt OF copy of
Moran's Dictionary of Chicago. 1t is a
most valuable, comprehensive and instruct
i've book. 1t is intended for the use of per-
sons who propose visiting the Worlds |
Columbian Exposi tion in Chicago in 1898, |
and will be found conveniently arranged, |
and accurate III every particular.
a human skeleton was unearthed while n |
Itch was being dug for sewer from the
new house on the corner OF Court street
md Columbia avenue. II was found at the
lepth Of about four feet, covered with fat
'ocks, and Is supposed to have been buried
lbout fifty years. Nothing remained but /
The bones, aud these would Indicate that
hey were once the frame work of large
nan.
Berllns richest citizen has an annual In.
,ome of $750,000 But two persons in
Prussia paying an income tax are richer. A
nan (said to be Rothchild) IN Wiesbaden
5 taxed on an income of $1,000 600 and an.
'ther (said to be Krupp) In Dusseldorf is
axed on 81, 100000. Krupp stands at the
op of the l2Sth class of income taxpayers.
The income tax rolls for 1892 shows that in
Berlin in the last year the number of
'thaler Us cents) millionaires" has in
reased from 1873 to 223, and that of ''mark
25 cents) millionaires" from LOSS to !, ,l67.
russia has but 564 subjects whose annual
Incomes are more than $4,000 each.
The engineers running into Umatilla
ave just completed a house of rather
ueer architecture, says the Walla Walla
tatesman. 1t was designed by R. w.
Kelley, and built with view of exclud-
1g the tropical heat which makes life al
lost unbearable on the sand desert dur
lg the summer months. The house has
,alls ten inches thick, with numerous
mall windows set in deep caseings.
bout two feet above the roof covering
ne house there is roof of four-inch tim
ers which is made to extend out over
lie four sides far enough to protect the
ouse almost completely from the suns
ays, and making the structure look like
huge umbrella sheltering the house.
lside there are four comfortable bed
ooms and library. 6