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


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The postoffice at Crown Rock, in tn
I. cocnty. has been discontinued, and partit
heretofore receiving their mail there mus
hereafter go to Fossil or Antelope.
o The small boy" is now happy, for he ca
D throw snow balls at Chinamen and coas
down sidewalks. "Thls world" to them,
no longer "a feeting show for mans de
. Y lusiou given"
Mr.. j. h. Boomer, general superin
> tendent OF the California, Oregon and Idah
Stage Co., of San Francisco, is in the city
| He Is making tour of the northwest look
after the properties of his company.
There is a colony of seven or eight beaver
IN the river near Langille's farm, we lear
from the Hood River Glacier, and anothe
larger one up the stream. Mr. Leisure ha
caught three this winter, and intends Il
capture both families before spring
Mr. Frank Middleton, formerly editor o
the Sun III this city, lost his little daughter
aged four years. IN Portland Saturday, b,
scarlet fever. THIS Is sad bereavement t,
u-otner and father, aud one in which they
will receive the sy oaty of this community
Robert Carr was appointed clerk and audi
tor or Skamania county, WASH, Wed es.
day, by the county commis siouers, in place
of the late Judge Waterman, who died las,
Sunday. Mr.. Carr was Judge watermsn's
deputy, and is well qualified for the posi-.
ton.
The Vale, Malheur, Gdzette says 1t Is re.
ported that a dead body has been uuearthed
at Skull springs by dogs. Mr. Pratt, who
has taken up a ranch there, made the dis.
covery. Il Is supposed to lie rne remains of
one TODD, q partner of the Biiey boy
when thy lived at the Springs. He disap-
peared very suddenly two years ago. An
investigation is being made.
Conjon Globe: The immense bill for the
school house arrived this week, and was
placed in the belfry Wednesday 6v Msssrs
Walker & Tatom. It is q magnificent bell
and weighs 300 pounds. The balance of the
new seats also arrived this week, aud our
large new school house is now amoug the
best equipped in the state. With our eff
Gent corps of teachers, all the pupils are
making rapid progress, and the school has
never before oeen in such hourishing con.
ditIon.
About 4 o'clock Wednesday morning.
| says the Hood River Glacier, J. N. Reyn-
nolds' dwelling house~at the head of the
grade on the east side of Hood River,
caught fire, and was almost totally de-
| stroyed. Mrs. Reynolds has been sick for
some time, and Mr.. Reynolds got up shortly
before O'Clock aud built fire gong blck
to bed. In couple OF hours the house was
discovered to be on fire, 1t starting from q
defective fue. The family are stopping for
the present with George L. Prather, Mr..
Reynolds son.in law.
A lady correspondent OF ths Evening Tel
egram gives the following prescription as a
certain cure for the appetite tor liquor:
electrified gold. l5 grams; muriate of am
Eaonia, II grains; compound fluid extract of
cIuchoDa, 4 grains; fluid extract of coca,
It czi glycerlne, 1t OF; nitrate of strychnia,
l gram; distilled water, 1t OF. Take tea
spoonful every two or three hours when
awake, tor two or three weeks. After the
second or third day there will be no desire
to drink Medicine to effect a. cure will
cost not over So so. n
List week the large, four-nast vessel
Motuhdn arrived at Portland. She is the
largest sailing vessel that ever entered the
Columbia river. She comes from England,
uuchartered, with 700 tons of cement in
her mold for ballast. She was built last
June by William Pickersgill & Sons, of
Southwick, Sunderland. SO that this Is her
maiden voyage. She is 3l7 feet long be.
tween perpendlculars, and $40 feet over all,
while she has full A feet beam. Her
hold is 26 feet deep. The Motchdn is a
solid steel ship, with four steel masts, bark
rigged.
Globe: At the shooting contest In Condor
on Thanksgiving, Del Rice, Shed Grider
and Jim Kiser tied for the second prize,
with a score of Is. Saturday last these
gentlemen met at Condor and had a little
shooting match of their own, in order to
settle the tie. Del was the "fucky Null
DOOM" Winning with score of 10 Grider
aud Kiser tied again with a score of IL.
They then made up another purse between
themselves and shot for It, Del winning this
one ALSO Del is .'in it" squarely when it
comes TO plugging the target with bullets
close around the mark.
OTegoniaa: Mr.. George Belshaw. Of Eu-
gene, has forwarded TO 4 w. Allen six
large boxes of gram, thre, he'd and in the
stalk, which will probably form the finest
exhibit of cereals at the Columbian exposi-
tion. There are 200 varieties of wheat all
pub up in neat sheaves, bound with red
white and blue satin ribbons. Some Of the
gram 10 eight feet in height It is doubtful
If any one anywhere can b giL to equal the
display prepared by Mr. Beishaw. who has
spent two months In preparingi it. He has
u
and other grains, 1t Mr.. Aliens anticipa-
tons in regard to MS fruit aud grain exhlb-
it's ara reaiizsd. Oregon will not be entirely
out of sight at the exp sition.
The reported death Of Pete French. the |
big rancher whose possessions occupy good |
portion of Eastern Oregon, was a canard. |
Mr.. NJ Il Drake, who returned last week |
from Harvey valley, sold his land and cattle
to French, and has met HIM since the date |
of his reported de.th. French is in his |
usual health, but came near being killed |
something more than a month ago by the
kick of horse, and this may have started
the rumor of his death. The horses heels
left some ugly marks upon his face, but ne
was so close to the animal that the kick |
was more in the nature of a push than
blow, and sent the owner Of 100000 acres |
of land and 25, 600 cattle upon back SOM |
ersault over into muddy corral.
Teller: Miss Nellie Smith. of Kingston.
Idaho, assistant worlds fair commissioner
for Snoshone county, has collected over
twenty different varieties of wood for the
shield which is to mark the completion OF
the woman's building at Chicago. These
b ards are four inches WIDE by three feet IN
length. The shield will he made at CHur
d'Alene City by local mechanics, and will
be a work Of art. Miss Smith expects to
baye at least twenty-eight pieces OF timber
IN the shield, aud she has taken great pains
to collect every variety Of wood native to
this state. Tne shield will be placed In po-
sition at the dedicatory services OF the wo-
mans building next May Montana, furnish-
ing the gold, silver aud copper spikes and
Nebraska the hammer with which 70 fasten
it.
Santiam Lumbermdn: The enormous tim.
hers sent to the worlds fair by the state Of
Wa shington have attracted great deal OF
attention and comment, but if Oregon had
the enterprise she could procure from her
magnificent forests logs that would dwarf
the Washington monsters into iDsigni6.
canoe. Matt Collivan. a timber land locator
and experienced lumberman, who lives near
the Breitonbush above this place, says that
he can ge. out timber within five miles OF
Green Basin that will square feet and
lao feet long He also says that there is a
tree on his claim that measures 81 feet in
circumference feet above the ground,
and l70 feet to the frat limb. 1t Is esti-
mated that there is 10000 feet of lumber IN
the tree.
FOSSIL Journal. Bill e idon. who shot his
neighbor Pet Myers on the first day of last
July, on Lower Crab creek, near Spraguee