The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-02-27
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.

city to-day.
The weather is most delightful, an
spring is fully ipaugurated in this region.
Mr.. B. C. irwin. of the Trayelers' Pr
tective Association of Portland, Is IN tt
city.
Mr.. w. =. Elliott, formerly baggag
master at the Union Pacific depot In thl
city, and now stationed at Umatilia, CAV
us pleasant call to-day.
The police court had quite a full docke
this morning. There were three inebrIate
and one hobo, who were interviewed b
the recorder, but only one paid the fn
imposed.
The abducted Chinese child. mention c
which was made in these columns yester
day, was settled to-day without any writ o
habeas corpus being issued. The matte
was compromised by the parties interested
From the Statesman we learn that Dr. D
h. Broncher died In the city jail in WALL
Walla Sunday morning at ii o'clock. HI
bad been drinking during the previous day
and it is presumed this was the cause of hi
death.
Charles Wesley Clark died at Muddy
Station, near John Day, ON the 5th inst
He crossed the plains with his parents il
1853, and located near Cottage Grove il
Lane county, where he lived until 1884
He then moved to Crook county and resld
ed there until the time of his death. HI
leaves wife and four children.
Antonio Lalla, who was one of The
murderers of Chief of Police Henne.sy
of New Orleans, has been arrested in Sar
Francisco. He claims 10 have left New
Orleans on account of killing man, and
his photo being identified by the New
Orleans authorities, without doubt he is
the vag long looked for.
EaIly this morning our attention was
called to three boys who were tramping
the streets in bare feet. The youngest did
not appear over two years old, and the
ages of the others ranged upward to per-
haps ten years. 1t is only in an Oregon
climate that children of such tender years
can walk barefooted in February.
Albany Herald: Mr. I. j. Henness, a
Linn county pioneer, who came to Oregon
in 1858 and settled IN Kings Prairie in
1864, and was brought to this city Mon
day from his home there, and was exam
ined as to his sanity. He was declared
insane and was taken to the asylum by
Deputy Sheriff c. Dickey. 1t is hoped
his trouble viii be only temporary.
The suit of F. c. Middleton against The
Dalles Publishing Company was this after
noon decided in favor of f the plaintiff, who
RECEIVERS the full amount claimed to be due
him for wages while filling the position of
editor of the Wdsco County Sun. The de-
fendant introduced no testimony on its part
and from the character of the evidence in
troduced by plaintiff it was evident that he
had just cause to institute legal proceedings
for the recovery of wages honestly earned
Prneville is peculiar town and has just
had a peculiar suit. The Neaos says: On
Monday of this week our town marshal had
Hiram Gibson arrested on complaint that
the aforesaid Hiram refused to assist the
aforesaid marshal to carry a drunk man to
Jail The cass was very properly dismissed
by Justice Bell on a demurrer. This is
only another case that make the taxpayer
feel for his pocketbook. Good deal like our
own, isn't it gentle reader? The marshal
has the fun and we pay the taxes.
A revival recently attempted IN Prime
vile was dismal failure. After the first
nights exhortation the evangelist asked
all who wanted to 60 tn heaven to stand
up. Nobody stood. Then he told all
who wished to be parboiled in the seeth-
ing cauldron prepared tor the devil and
attendant demons to stand up. Nobody
stood. Services were discontinued at
once. "1t's no use,' said the evangelist,
"to try ana convert people who are salts
fed with Crook county"
Exchange: A gentleman from Spokane,
speaking of the effect upon his city of the
coming of the Great Northern railroad said
that nearly 200 people got off the train the
day he left there. For the past week the
trains have been crowded to their utmost
capacity, and the officials say that If the
travel continues as it has heen for two
weeks past, an extra train day will be
necessary. At the postoffice the crowd is
SO great that a force of police Is kept there
constantly to prevent pack in the lobby.
w. W. Statesman: Another one of the
victims of Frederick Zorn's shooting esca.
pade, which occurred in Umatilla county
last October, the facts being well known to
readers of this paper, Is dead. This time it
was Mrs. Hetzer, his mother in law, whose
death occurred on Sunday morning, at the
family residence on Whitman street, at the
age of " years. She never fully recovered
from the wound received at the time of the
shooting. and it eventually resulted in her
demise The funeral took place Tuesday
afternoon from the family residence.
Democrat: In response to dispatch COL
Hogg came to Albany Monday night on
special train and took the overland for San
Francisco on important business. Manager
William M. Hoag was also In the city and
spoke very confidently in reference to the
road crossing the Cascades into Crook coun-
ty during the coming year. The payment
of the 81 600. 600 will be delayed for few
days. The money is ready for payment but
will probably not be placed III the hands OF
the sheriff for several days yet. One of the
improvements to the o. P. traffic will be
new steamer in short time.
The New York Herald editOrially makes
strong plea for pardon or mitigation
of sentence in the case of Colonel Comp
ton, 4th cavalry, of Walla Walla, who is
undergoing suspension from duty by SEN
tence of a court-martial, because of the
lynchIng of the gambler, Hunt, by his
men. The Herald says: .'Colonel Comp
toms offense was due to an over-confidence
in his power to control his men by the
ordinary methods of discipline There
was nothing in it derogatory to his char
acter as a brave and honorable soldier. A
mitigation OF his sentence would not tend
to weaken discipline, but would be recog-
nized by both officers and prlvates as q
proper exercise of the presidents preroga-
tive.''
Long Creek Eagle: A company having
a capital stock of $25,00O divided into
$4,000 shares of 81 each was incorporated.
recently, at Tacoma, Wash, by P. o.
Page, l.. s. Allies and G. NJ Rlddell, under
the name of the Pine Creek Mining Com
pany. The claims of the company are
placer gold claims and are situated in the
Granite Mining district in eastern Grant
county, and are said by the company to
be very rich. w. B. Fuller, W. q. Page
and Asher Tyler are the present owners
of the property and the organization of
the company Is for the purpose of devel-
oping the claims. The three gentlemen
last named are now on the property and
claim that it is OF the very greatest rich
ness.
Guard: Dr. J. Smiley returned Saturday
evening from Lake Creek, f5 miles west
of Eugene, where he had been summoned
to attend gentleman named Robert Egg
leshim, who was the subject of an acci-
dent on February 17th. 1t appears he
was helping to construct some road when
log rolled down the mountain side and
caught his right leg against tree mash
ing the ankle joint and foot into a mass
likened unto jelly. His sufferings were
terrible. DR. Smiley on the 18th ampu-
tated the foot just above the ankle. He
was compelled to administer chloro-
form and perform the operation also, as
no one present had ever assisted in pre-
vious surgical operation. The old gentle
man, who is over ~ years of age, stood
the operation well, but the doctor hardly
thinks he VIII recover. Ee has two grown
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