The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-02-27

. about 8 O'clock At the time the famil
! were absent from the dwelling, and til
cause of the fire could not be ascertainef
: The loss will be about $1,000, with sma
2 insurance.
: We acknowledge the receipt of a packag
of seeds from d. M Perry Co., Detroit
Mich. This is substantial seed firm, an
all orders will receive the most careful al
tentlon.
Statesman: Governor Pennoyer Tuesda
granted a pardon to w. d. Stephens, win
was sentenced to the penitentiary frou
Umatilia county to serve a term of tw
years. Stephens crime was forgery, anc
the amount of his forgery was So 80. IL
was in prison about year and condition
of the pardon is that he leave the state anc
forever remain away.
Last Friday night, says the Union Jour
nal, some bold hobos entered the premises
of John Pettijohn, near Prescott, took 8
young shoat from the pen, killed and dressed
1T in the barnyard. They then went to the
house, entered the cellar and took what
they wanted of the stock of canned fruits,
potatoes, apples, etc. They then repaired
to school house near by which they en-.
tered through window, built a fire in the
stove, cooked their plumber and feasted to
| their hearts content. Mr.. Pettljohn re-
CARDS this as about the boldest ravage per-
| petrated since war times.
Albany Herald: Two employees of the
Oregon Pacific railroad were returning to
| the city on a railroad yelocipede Tuesday
evening, and had just fairly gotten Otto the
| trestle on the other side of the river when
a wild engine met them. They jumped of,
one of them took to the end of cross beam,
the other attempted to push the cycle back
| off the trestle. Finding it impossible, he
dropped between the beams, hanging sus
pended by his hands to the side foot-rail
until the engine passed. The velocipede
| got out of tine way when the engine struck
| it, and was perceptibly damaged.
| Astorian: The American iron ship, Title
| e. Starbuck, which was out so long that her
| consignees were beginning to feel anxious
about her, arrived in Tuesday evening, five
| weeks overdue. She sailed from New York
| on the 10Th of last September, and would
haye had good charter had she arrived any
day up to the 3lst of January. Captain
Curtis says that for the first twelve days he
made only 500 miles, He was forty-one
days from New York to the equator. and
after rounding the cape lie was twelve days
but succession OF battling winds.
Baker Democrat: A fourhorse team at
tached to a heavy wagon, and driven by
Oscar Merrill, was sent out to the White
Swan mine Tuesday by the E. D. I. & 7.
Co., loaded with 4500 pounds of freight,
consisting OF shoes, dies, and other parts of
machinery. As the outfit was descending
very steep hill near the mine, the brake
broke, the driver was thrown from his seat
and in very short space OF time the
horses and wagon were piled up In heap.
One of the horses received an ugly cut on
the hind leg and the others more or less in-
jured The driver, also, received slight in
juries.
The United States official postal guide
shows that Oregon has total OF 7l0 post.
offices, all but 709 of which are first class.
Three are of the second class, eighteen
third, and 6SS fourth twenty-five are
presidential offices, LOG are money order
offices, and fifteen are postal note offices.
There are no money order stations in this
state nor in Washington. In the United
States there are "a. 965 postoffice, 81 ,S6l of
which are of the fourth class. Pennsyl
vania has more posJotfices than any other
state, the number being 472S Alaska has
seventeen, and Washington 70l. Idaho has
2S2 and California l403.
Baker Democrat: The Washington Gulch
Placer Mining Company, OF which Mr. Fred
Pau, of this city, is manager, Is preparing
TO start operations at an early day. MIR.
William Deemer one of the heaviest stock
holders of the company, arrived from Port
land Morday to look over the situation.
the property owned by this company is the
old Chas. st. Louis gravel mines on WASH
lngton guleh, west of the city about five
miles. Last fall bitches were dug and reser-
voirs constructed and there will be nothing
to prevent the starting up of operations just
as soon as the spring flow of water COM
mences.
Walla Walla Statesman: On January 7,
1891, two convlets named Thompson and
Pattrey, alias Sawyer, confined in the state
penitentiary near this city, escaped. The
men were both TRUSTEES and were assigned
to work In the engine room at night On
the night of January lst, the men scaled
the wall and made good their escape. and
nothing more was heard of either until
Monday afternoon when Warden McClees
received dispatch from Ukiah, Mendocino,
county, California, stating that man an
swering Pattrey's description had been ar
rested there that day. A requisition will
be secured from the governor and the man
Di OuBub UdCA " tile
Exchange: Living on Weston mountain, |
Umatllla county, there is young man, re-
Gently from Ohio, who has two sisters not
IN the least related by blood. This strange
state of things came about in this way.
HIS father had one daughter by his first
wife; first wife died. He married again,
aud dying, he left one son, the gentleman
IN question. HIS mother married again,
and one daughter was the result of the
union. Each of the daughters is, of course,
half sister to the son, although there is no
blood relation between the two.
The taxpayers of Baker county are max
ing general overhaul of the county and |
precinct offices OF their county, as the fol-
lowing from the Blade will show: AT a
meeting held by the taxpayers Saturday |
afternoon it was determined to continue the |
investigation of the net costs OF running |
each county office, and also inquire into the |
working of the Office of the justice OF the |
peace, in fact sall the county and precinct
offices will be overhauled. This is as it |
should be. A thing that is worth doing is
worth doing well. No particular haste is
required; only the work should be COM
peted few days before the time set for
holding the county conventions.