The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-07-09
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturday Daily.

From Saturday Daily.
Mr.. Allen Grant. wife and family, are II
the city from Antelope.
Mr. D. E. Thomas, one OF the old resi-
dents OF Dufur, is in town to-day.
A visit to the the cannery at Three Mile
IS very interesting to auy one who is olfac.
tory.
MIR. c. F. Briggs left to. day for Chehalis,
WASH, where he will spend the 4.h of July
with his family.
DIR. Snedaker, graduate of the college
of dentistry of New York city, is in town.
He has located at The Dalles, and can be
found at Room l2 Chapman's building.
The high winds of the last few days have
caused great annoyance to the west bound
trains. The sand piles up so thickly that
trains are unable to make time, and delayed
several hours.
Messrs. N. j. and Roger Sinnott, sons
OF Col. Slnnot5. of the Umatilla House, re.
turned to-day from Notre Dame, Indiana,
with the degree of b. A. attached to their
names. They have been hard students and
graduated with honors.
The recount IN Multnomah county has re.
suited in Mr.. Hughes receiving % majority
over DR.. Holman, who was declared elected
This is something very strange that such
mistake should have been made in such a
county as the one named.
BY reason Of sand blockade the train
due in this city at o'clock Yesterday was
IL hours late aud did not arrive until this
morning. The train was thrown off the
track near Grant, and it took several
hours to place the carriages on the rails.
Mr.. Hayward Riddell, graduate of the
Academy and more recently law student
In Portland, has finished his studies aud has
opened law office in The Dalles. Mr..
Riddell Is a young man of much promise,
aud he will soon take leading rang in his
field OF work.
Gazette: The register and receiver of the
United States land office at La Grande are
busily engaged in making up their report
for the year. The total area of public lands
IN the district now subject to entry is
6,295, 397 acres Of which 81, S02, ,057 Is sur
yeyed and l,493, 244 Is unsurveyod. In
Union county there are l,390 S92 acres OF
vacant land of which O33, ,S26 acres are
surveyed add 357. .056 acres are unsnrveyed.
Albany Democrat: This afternoon while
circuit court was in session, Judge Powell, /
a speech OF rare be1uty aud good taste pre-
sented. on behalf of the bar, to his Honor,
Judge Boise. gold watch as slight token |
OF the esteem in which he is held by the bar |
OF the district. The ju lge, though very |
much surprised. responded in fitting terms |
to the donors. The occasion being one on |
which the Judge appears, may be, for the !
last time, before the Albany bar as Judge of |
the circuit court,it will long be remembered |
by all present.
Pendleton will soou have a genaine hang |
ing, and if any me ought to be hanged 1t is |
the wife murderer. A desperate effort was |
made to save Zorn. The Eat Oreqonidn |
says: Circuit court for Umatilla county |
will convene again next Saturday for the !
purpose OF passing re. sentence upon Fred !
erck Zorn, the wife murderer, who has |
been notified of the decision of the supreme |
court against his appeal and who will now |
have to suffer the extreme penalty of the |
law for his crime. Zoru took the bad news |
coolly enough, and for time did not appear
greatly depressed. He is confined in the |
women's department of the county Jail,
where watch Is kept over HIM day and |
night"
Wool is coming in in large quantities and
bringing from Is to l6 cents a pound The |
Dallcs this season will keep up its reputa-
tion earned by being the largest wool ship. |
ping point IN the United States. It seems |
a travesty on the eternal fitness of things |
that we have no wooden mill to receive the |
offerings Of our sheep Dalles wool is |
shipped TO Salem, made into cloth and then |
shipped back to The Dalles for sale |
Double freight charges wouli be saved aud |
the money kept at home if we onld had
woolen mill to add to the towns prosperity. |
Every advantage is here lying ready and |
someday we shall have the mill; but before |
then how many hairs now black will have
turned gray and men and women now liv- |
ing will have gone IN search of other
worlds?
La Grande Gazette. Mr.. Palfrey, the
smallpox patient, is doing finely so far. al
though more critical stage of the disease
IS expected about tomorrow or Sunday. He
= in care of two experienced nurses, d. Q.
Kelley aud a gentleman named Morris.
Every possible comfort for the patient and
nurses is provided, and the sick man is in
,harge of DIR. Molitor. who mas been special
y retained by the city to attend him. Mr..
Morris, one of the attendants, has had
smallpox, but Mr.. Kelly has not. He has
been vaccinated and expects to get through
without contracting the disease. The citl-
,ens of La Grande and in fact the entire
are to be congratulated upon
he prompt and vigilant action of the au-
horities 10 this case. The prompt meas
Tres that have been adopted have inspired a
ceiling of security and confidence among the
'itizens. and the medical authorities feel as
ured that there will be no further spread
Il the disease.