The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-12-24
From THURSDAYS Daily.

4 From Thursdays Daily.
Mr.. Hall, the claim agent of the Uni,
II Pacific, is in the CITY,. (
The thermOmeier has ranged high I,
j, day. and has registered near Tie fIe. Zil
poInt.
Christmas trees are being br ught in tow
IN Erge quantities, aud the ANXIOUS ey es
childr. are feasted On expectancy.
Master R,s Logan Is III the city from A
tor,a He will speud the Christmas h0
!. days With hi father, DR.. Logan.
A gang of men are at work on FroI
= treer, keeping the track clear uf SNOW
n ahich Is accumuiatIng copstantly.
. Locomotives left the rouna-house to-ds
with snow plows ttsched, prepared to plo
#, their way out III case Of emergency.
= Snow shoveIers are in r,qulsition, an
men rot in 'stea.iy .mple, ment can do
...od business by cleaning roofs and she'd
Mr.. Nil NJ, L oI C ,me down from Grau
ms m ,rn,ng to meet his daughter, VIII" wa
passenger on the afternoon ain fror
+ Portland.
The passenger train left this afternoo
with two locomotives. east hound, aud tn
west hound trAlh is rept rted two hours lat
this evening
7 Foot pads are piving ,htir vocation il
Portland, aud the ioca' PAGERS warn reopl
ut late atuish or passing 4 ark cnraers t,
he on the 10 kout. II
The river NAV he exp tied To b.
blocked iu tne u. xt twenty four hours
3 there has been cop-Iierabe ice float.
ing down during the day.
| No 2 the east bouni tam. arrived II
'h- city from p ,rtIand this morning a.
l0:30, with twn Iocomoti, es attached. l
~as Que at ll.50 last night.
To day has the least sunlight of any ont
ia the year. TINS is not on .ccount of the
prevailing storm, huf hy reason of the posi-
tIon OF the earth to tie sun.
Th, monthly BANQUET of the cons lidatei
| shs clu5 WAS a very agre-ap'e event. and
h uu hrop one OF the IN 1T recherche
| o an. ever gwen IN this city
The EiriD Recorder cumes tn cur exchange
! table this Week ts four col INA folio. on
account, we suppose, Of the disastrous fire
that Recently destroyed the office.
| Yesterday and to-dav the first sleighiDg
| experienced for two years WAS enjpyed by
| nur cit z ana. and cutters aud bobs We're CON-
slant passing the st eets at ali hours.
We are infor med that at the company
hips in this CITY there Is only about car
| Lad Of coal, and without supply Is re-
| c-ived engiues viii be forced to urn wood
The steps leading t" the bluff addition
are almost IIipa sin h, reason at sn"w.
and if these wrre cleaned il Win d I've
much more agreeable to hluff r, sideni s..
Judge W. L. Bradshaw was a p4ssener
from Portland on the delayed east. bound
rraiu this morning He has held court tor
Two weeks for Judge Seearus during his ill
ness
There are two carloads nf clay tor the
Columbia Gla.s Factory at Graud Dale, at
the drpnt Tney have teen there since Oct.
20 u. AMI perh .ps will remain nany mouths
iOrger.
The west bound train arri ed IN the city
this morniLg ahour 9 o'cock. and proceeded
down the road as far AS MosIer to await the
arrival of the east hound passenger. which
was expected at 9:45
There was the u>u Al suicide in P ,rtlaDi
Yesterday AMI the per.on Who shum d off
'his mortal cuii WAS nanai q fred u enier,
a German aged alb ut 81 years H. meshoi
The passenger train arrived in the city
this afternoon at half-past o'clock. with
three locomotives attached Il tieft Port
land two hours late, I'd stopped half hoar
ut BonuevIl e. In the schedule time ig was
delay d half honr by the snow.
Mr.. A. G. John-..n left On the tram this
morning for Wallace. Idaho. where he ex-
pects to spend Cnrlsrm4s wirh his son aud
laughter Il Is very doubtful If he will
re ,ch hi destination. as the storm winch
has prevailed here for the past thirty SIX
n6uis is reportea severer farther east.
The featbered songsters ich roam at
sili during p e.siu weather are now seek
ieg h.lter.. A very venerable book says
"a kind nan Is kind to hm beast" and
without attempting anv Sunday school dis
couts-. It is also tue that generous
heart. boy will not take amusement VI
adding to the misery of eyeu little, helpless
birds.
During the ear 1890 The Oregon Railwa,
Il Navigation compu", hal carried to Port-
n on Its line Oregon As 600 r,ns of
wheat. and ir 1891. $1,000 tous In 1890.
776 carloads OF sheep, cattle. hires AID
nogs were shipped To Portland, aud N the
following year rhe number Of carloads was
mcreaIed to 7y3
Since the storm began recollections of
1854 85 are revived, aud many think this
.aIuLe will be r-peritrn nf that one
Sn'w began To fall Dec Is 1884, ard until
j n 10. 1855, there W ut thiUugh tral,
etween this ct. AMI Portland IL SCENE
impossible to keep he track open. aud a
large force OF men con nuously employe.
,ho. ,liug SNOW.
Mr.. John Phipp<. of Nansene, va this
now storm 70 the saivatiun OF the country,
and he will not be sati lied until it covers
rhe ground to the depth Of nine or ten feet.
For the past two or three seasons wells AMI
-p ings have become d n account OF the
failure OF moisture IN the ground, aud he
believes a heavy tail of snow will cause the
-r1und 70 becoIne thor. ughIy soaked aud
insure good crup.. :.
Spokane experienced terrible blizzard
amt snow storm to day. The Thermometer
*eut down to z-ro, aud the wind b ew n
hurricane. Snow tell in great quantities,
mpedInY tr vel on all the reefs. A
U..lon PscIf. tram, above Trkoa, " AS snow
.uu Il. and both locomotives were literally
buried in rIts. Every eff ,rt was made to
keep ra' open; hut IL seemed lmpossibie,
with the heavy Wind and drifting snow.
wing Tcdu III Tile
ZINES. MoUNTAINEER of family IN tn. city |
IN drstit ule conuitiUl, came III frum K,' x
sl.y with generous SUPP of PROVISIONS
tnaC people III Oregon sh, MD suffer for
want OF food, when ne had suon bounilfui
supply was something tnat he did not wish
10 happen, and IN the snow storm he came
~enty six miles TO relieve their rcess,t,es
HIS beneyoience will long ,e remembered
by the recipients
Roadmaster Thomas Blnck had a narrow
escape while riding iu tns cab OF au engine |
near Wilbur on Monday last, says the |
n ALA Waiia Union Journal The rod con-
Meeting the big driving wheels broke while |
the tram was running at good speed, aud |
one end t the roll struck the bottnm OF the |
cab directly underneath where MIR. b ock |
WAS sitting, but did NO apparent damage be- |
yond shaking up the ro.dInaster. who i'm |
IN dIaiely stepped over to- the other 81, g |
where the engineer was sitting Tne next
blow Of the rod smashed that side OF the cab |
INTO spliuters anil It Is quite certain that the |
mortal remains T Mr. Block, had he re.
manned few seconds longer, would have
been the central haure IN a postm,rtem ex |
animation.
Snake river in early DAYS by two old miners |
" no were coming up to develop them, SAYS
the w " Stat saon hut were drowned on |
the Brother Johnathaa reads like an old ac.
QUALITIES, &c. luis makes about the furIirth
ease OF men being drowned on that craft |
WHO were cunning back tU some III, steriops |
lind of either rirh quar-, z "r p acer dig ings.
they had diseovtreu the previous tai. |