The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-01-02

most dep!orable condition.
Miss Jeanette Williams arrived hon
last Thursday. and will spend the holiday
with her mo her i'll this city.
Miss Carrie Davenport, who has bee
spending the Christmas hold y with he
parents at Mosler, returned to the city yes
terday.
Our weather for Christmas has been a
that could be desired. A clear atmosphere
with sufficient frost to purify it of malaria
influences.
Saturday night the elements were at wa
In this portion of the American continent
and the wind blew hurricane and the rail-
fell in torrents.
The west-bound passenger train did MOI
pass through The DAlles yesterday until 4
P. NJ. We presume the delay was caused
by wash.outs on the mountain division.
Mr. II. Herbring went to Sprague
Wash, yesterday. On Christmas day one
OF his store buildings was burned, and he
made the trip to investigate the matter.
The following officers were elected las,
Friday evening by Columbia Lodge, No 5,
l. o o. F.; A. Larsen, N. G.; G. A. Phir-
man, V. G.; H. Ciough, secr'y; II. c..
Nielsen, treas.
In our report of the drawing for prizes at
E. Jacobsen & Co.'S store, an error was made
by US. The number which drew the shaw
ing set should have been No. SIG, instead
of No. BIG.
New pipes are being laid from the reser.
voir to bluff residents, and very soon the
Academy spring, which, according to the
deed GU record, is the property of the peo-
pie, will no longer furnish a supply &c water
consumers.
Three boats have been plying on Snake
river carrying out the grain from the Asotin
country. The channel of the upper Snake
was improved last summer, and now the
people are reapIng the benefit by getting
their grain out in season.
Wasco Lodge, No. Is, A F. and A. NJ. for
the ensuing year: Geo. Z. Blakeney, W.
M; D. L. Gates, S. W; H. Clougb, j. W;
o. D. Doane, sec'y; Geo. A. .Liebe, treas;
R. d. Closter, tyler.
The new pipes necessary to be laid
through the streets OF the city is complete
o. ,baf +ha
FER said over year ago, that $4,000 for
the old plant of the water company was
most exhorbitant price.
There are 403 prisoners Mined in the
Walla Walla penitentiary. OF this lot 100
were sent from Tacoma. All of them since
the close of brick making are IDLE. When
the machinery is ready 200 will be EN-.
ployed In the jute mill. The rest will be
put to work on the brick yard, Albertson
with them.
La Grande Gazette: Satisfactory evidence
has now come to light TO show conclusively
that VIM. Ashmead skipped the country
for the purpose of defrauding creditors. He
sold property which he had previously
mortgaged and entered into other transac.
tions that were not on the square, and his
sudden disappearance Is now fully accounted
for.
Union Republican: On Tuesday night
about o'clock Mr.. Ellis. agent at the de-
pot, started out of the offi.e and met a
man who asked if he was the operator.
When told that he was the man said he
wanted to send message. Just then Mr.
Ellis saw another man behind him masked
and he quickly backed into the door and
it shut with spring lock. No
more was seen of the foot pads.
A heroic example of woman's bravery was
exhibited to-day, when runaway team tear
ing down the street at fearfnl speed, was
stopped by young lady wading out into
the muck and mire of the street and COM
pelling halt to the frightened steeds. In
Oregon we have heroines equal to those of
any country. and the Maid of Saragossa, or
Jean dare, can be equalled by girls of
The Dalles.
Fossil Journal: Last Friday Hugh Will
sons residence at Waldron was burned to
the ground. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Trent
were living in it. Mrs. Trent was alone at
the time and after getting out bed and
three trunks, one of which belonged to Mr..
Wilson, she started to Mr.. Browns but
met her husband and Mr.. Helms, who had
seen the fire from distance and were
Fastening to it. When. they arriYed Mr..
Wilson's trunk and contents were destroyed
and the others injured
On Tuesday evening the Mic-mac Whist
club held its fourth meeting with MIR. and
Mrs. Judd Fish. A very enjoyable time
was had. The first prize was won hy Mrs.
Fred Houghton and the boobY by Mrs.
Waters. Those present were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Judd Fish, Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Will
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Wm Lochhead, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Macleod, Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ.
Beall, MIR and Mrs. Chas. Hilton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Houghton, Mrs. W. s. Myers,
MRS. w ater5, Dr. ESnelman.
Localize,: Tho land along the Colum bia
river is most all taken and settlements are
being made from Rock Island down wher-
ever ten or twenty acres of bottom land
can be had. Many of these claims will be
set out in orchards and vineyards. The
climate Is similar to that of Wenatchee,
but something less in altitude. There are
several small streams putting into the
Colum bla that will afford irrigation for
these fruit farms. There Is little doubt
that grapes and peaches will grow to great
perfection along the Columbia.
Ashland Record: James Poole. of Can
yonv1lles, has been sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for one year for collecting $40 from
the county for a coyote scalp that was
dogs scalp. Twelve years ago he killed
JAS O'Neill and fled to Idaho, where he
served term IN the pen for cattle stealing.
Last year he was brought back to Douglas
county and convicted of manslaughter, but
the supreme court knocked it out on tech
nlcality. The CRIME being so old it was
never brought up again. Poole's two
brothers are now in the Oregon pen for
stock stealing. They are hard family.
The custom of mailing horse shoe over a
door of house or other building as a pro-
lection against evil spirits and as an assur-