The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-12-17
From FRIDAYS Da ".

Mr.. J. A. Anderson, the cattle buyer {
Victoria, B. G is in the cItv.
Mr.. c. NJ. Donaldson, prominent citize
of Baker City, came down on the mornln
train.
Hon. Henry Blackmann, Of Heppner. wa
passenger ON the afternoon train fror
Portland.
| Notwithstanding the lateness of the sea
| son ehere is considerable travel on passeu
| ger trains.
A chalk mIne has been discovered on tn
| banks of the little KiickItat. The vein
said to be five feet thick.
After the pleasant weather Yesterday
crisp frost covered the ground this morning
and the air felt cry wintry,
Mr. and Mrs Frank Mcfarland. of Hepp
ner, left that city :or Los Angeles, Calf.
where they will make a permanent home.
Capt. Ad. Keller, of this city. left last
evening for Portland to attend the meeting
of the officers association of the O.egor
National Guard, which Is now in session il
that city.
There was one solitary hobo found wan
deriug around the city last night begging
for something to eat, aud he was taken to
the eitv j ii where board aud lodgings are
furnished tree.
1t is reported that a syndicate on the
Sound has bought out the Wallula and
Portland branch of the old Hunt system
and viii. build through the KlIckitat valley
connecting with Tacoma in the spring.
The members of the state board of equal.
izitIon were passengers on the train from
from Port and this afternoon. Their desti,
nation was Pendleton, and from there they
will go to Heppner, aud, returning, stop at
The Dalles about Monday.
The effurts to raise the Bonita, which
was wrecked near Bridal Veil few days
ago, has proved futile, and the boat is COM
sidered a total loss. This is a well-known
craft ON the lower Columbia, aid has been
in the trade number of years.
Karl Stephan, proprietor of the Partisan
suit house. who has eeen engaged III busi-
ness In Portland for a number OF years,
make an assignment Wednesday for the
benefit of his creditors to Jacob Strauss.
Stephan's liabilities are S24. 3l6 Al. HIS
assets are not known, but are estimated at
$40. 900
Mr.. Patrick Bolton, of Kingsley, who IS
in town to-day, sa,s that rain is needed
very much; but he would prefer snow. as
this lnsures rore certainty of crops. There
Is time yet before spring for abundant snow,
and it is to be hoped the ground will be
covered with three or four feet of the con-
sealed ement.
Sentinel: News came to Goldendale Mon
day that Sam Miller. former typo of the
Sentinel and old time resident of this county,
ruhila
of foot bali in Seattle last week He is now
in the Seattle hospital in critical condi-
ton. HIS many friends here sincerely hope
for his recovery
A Frenchman from this city, according to
to-day's Oregonian named s Bareille, pre-
medltated suicide 10 Portland by taking a
dose OF morphine. He was prevented from
the contents of bottle # this
drug by bystander, and thus was saved
from making udden exit to the unkuown
region from whence no trayeler returns.
Portland is initiating Seattle in enlarging
her borders, and the Dispatch says: with
the completion of the Car service to Oregon
City, many now predict solid city in the
near future from Oregon City to the Colum-
bia rIyer. The bridge across the Clacka-
mas will be completed in a day or two,
ready for crossing and the track into Ore
gon city will be completed about the same
Time. 1r will take a week or more to finish
stringIng the wires, and it is expected the
road will be ready for operation by Christ
mas day."
A brother Of Len Mccarthy, the young
nan VINO lost his life In an encounter with
John Alexander on Birch creek, says the
e. O, LETT Pendleton Yesterday tor Pilot
Rock, IN company with James Lewis, to
,xnume the remains OF the deceased. He
,mployed Ors Smith and Guyon to hold a
lost mortem examination. The object. it
$ presumed, was to obtain additional facts
.oncer. ling the tragedy, and determine If
possible by an examination OF the body
whether or not Mccarthy committed sui
ide by shooting himself in his cabin after
.eceiving the wound from Alexander.
Astorian: Rouse, the man who was res
ued from death by drowning off Cape Horn
IN the Ldndseer, and who was thought to
lave suffered no injury at the time, was
AIKEN to the hospital yesterday in very
erious condition. A medical examination
howed that his adventure had gwen MIN
u acute attack of pneumonia, and that the
hundred days that had ensued since had
ursed it into consumptijn. He is now in
very precarious STATE. Scurvy has also
made its appearance on tue unfortunate
nan within the last few days.
Portland Telegram: About 10 o'clock
his morning partly developed body of an
nfant was found In a cIgar.box floating in
he river about one-half mile below the
Portland Touring mills. The box had
loated up near the east bank OF the river.
md M. C. Thompson, a young fisherman,
n walking aloug the beach discovered it
nd pulled it ashore. Upon discovering
he contents of the box, he Immediately
anne across tine river and notified Coroner
Iolman. Coroner Holman sent oyer for
he remains which are now lyIng at the |
norgue. No clue to its identity has de.
'eloped.
W. W. Statesman: The Hon. s. s. Fem,
# Idaho, died at Blackfoot on Friday last |
t tue advanced age of ~. For number |
+ years IN the early days of Idaho, Mr.. |
senn was a Democratic leader and a men,
Ter of the first Legislature of the territory |
md twice elected to congress. He was an |
I'D 49-r and followed mining In California |
ms Idaho up to the ear 1875, when he re. |
;ired and went to farming. He was gen.
rous, whoie-souled man and always a |
rieud to a poor man whom he always as |
lsted. OF lale years his mind became en-. |
eebled and he was placed IN the state asy.
um at Backfoot where he died.
Intelligence reached the sheriffs Office |
asst night that woman was fonnd dead on |
he reservation, aays the East Oreyoaian. |
No PARTICULARS were obtainable. Deputy |
Sheriff johnson and Deputy District |
Attorney Hsiley procured buggy and |
tarted at o'clock this morning for the |
cene to hold an inquest. Reports are that
he woman was the wife Of Will LaRocque |
md resided about two miles from Cayuse
tation. She was discovered in barn, not |
ar from the house, and there was a rope |
round her neck Foul play is suspected. |
The woman was daughter of Cssh-C Cash, a |
vel known old Iudian, formerly Judge |
'mong his people.
4 Little Girrs Experience in LIrnt- |
hOnse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Trescott are keep
rs of the government lighthouse at sand |
Beach, Michigan, ard are blessed with
laughter, four years old. Last April she |
vas taken down with measles, followed |
With a dreadful cough and turning into a |
ever. Doctors at home and at Detroit |
reated her, but In vain; she grew worse
'apidlv, until she was a mere handful of |
zones" Then she tried DR.. Kings New
Discovery and after she use of two and a
half bottles, was completely cured. They
ay DIR. Kings New Discovery is worth |
is weight in gold, yet you may get trial |
,ottle free at Snipes & Kinersly's drug
tore. 6