The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-10-01
ITEMS IN BRIEF
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Miss Annie Dehm is visiting friends il
Portland.
Mr. Kenneth McLennan, of Antelope, is
IN the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Bolton, of Antelope,
are in the city.
Mr.. +. Schultz returned from short visit
to Portland yesterday.
Mr.. W. II. Wasson, of Toronto, Kas.,
arrived In the city on the afternoon train
Mrs. G. W. Phelps came up from Collins
Landing yesterday, and will spend few
days in the city.
A., Mrs. w. II. Wilson returned yesterday
from Collins Landing, where she has been
spending the summer months.
The fair will begin III this city two weeks
from next Tuesday, and 1t promises to be
one OF the most successful exhibitions ever
held in The Dalles.
The citizens of Hood River are taking
steps towards putting in a large ditch for
irrigation purposes, and the Glacier is doing
all 1t can to stimulate the movement.
MIR. Amos Root. of Mosler,, gave us a
H-NNe'S
large quantity of fruit this season; but the
yield has not been as bountiful as formerly.
There is a commenGable effort being made
IN this city to clean up alleys, back yards
and lay sewer pipes. There is no better
safeguard against disease than cleanliness.
Guide Bailey, while ascending Mount
Rainier with Judge Van Trump and others,
tell into cTevasse and three ribs were
broken. He had to be carried nearly eight
miles on litter, to the Kernaham ranch,
before be could receive surgical aid.
Vancouver Register: 1t is rumored that
Geo. b. Markle's eastern visit was success
full, and that he will complete the purchase
of the Vancouver, Khckitat & Yakima
railroad, which will now be pushed across
the mountains, connecting Vancouver and
Spokane.
A statement that jim Hill, of the Great
Northern, always keeps his word is being
extensively published. 1t is explained that
he has stenographer to take down every.
thing he says when he is talking business,
and that the notes are carefully filed away
and preserved.
A lad about l6 years of age near Lewis
ton, Idaho, was bitten by rattlesnake
few days ago, and he is in a very precarious
condition. He did not seek medical aid i'm
mediately; but suffered with it until the
arm was very much swollen and he was
deathly sick.
Myers Bros. late extensive wood-dealers
of kamela, are now in some unknown local.
ity. The last heard from them was at
Walla Walla, having written back to their
home that they could not settle their in
debtedness and bad skipped" There are
numerous obligations left behind.
Mr.. Sam Edmunson, while cutting timber
for Mr.. Davis, near his farm, about eight
miles west of the city, met with a severe
accident yesterday. In striking at a tree
the axe slipped and hit his foot, the sharp
edge entering the flesh and causing cash
about three inches long. He walked to the
house about half mile distant, bound up
the wound as well as he could and rode to
town. A physician was procured, the IN
Jury properly dressed, and the young man
is az well as could be expected.
Canyon City Ne,rs: A tourist remarked
the other day that Grant county girls had
big feet. The Ne,cs is ready to take mp the
light in behalf of Grant county, and defend
her daughters from this base slanderer.
Grant county young ladies have attained
every degree of refinement possessed by
girls IN any part of the United States, and
they wear small shoes. As a class, they
are the best girls that ever picked pine gum
IN western forest.
The sidewalks in Baker City must be IN
almost as bad condition as those at The
Dalles, as the following from the Democrat
would infer: ''lf you stub your toe on one
,f the innumerable nails which rear their
stubborn heads above our sidewalks, look
The next moment to be landed where one
will be prodding you in the forehead.
These convenient arrangements are causing
many of US to follow the blind horse fash
on. Ladies who appear to have a desire to
lsslst the street cleaning department, how
,ver are the greatest sufferers"
Mr.. Theodore Cartwright and party of
men started this morning for the placer |
mines on Alder creek, in KlIckitat county. |
This stream heads in the Simcoe mountains, |
md has been prospected for many years. |
During the present season several men have |
,een working these mines with fair returns |
or their labor; but they are not experienced |
miners. and it is confidently believed that |
hey will prove to be a new eldorado |
vhen properly developed. We have been |
informed that Hon. Van B.. DeLashmut, |
he millionaire of Portland, Is interested in |
Alder creek, and his representative accom-
'anied the party.
Telegram: William Henderson, the man
Who killed 81 Suter at Canhv, was taken to
oregon City. At the inquest over Suffers |
'ody the evidence shows that the murder /
vas premeditated; that after the quarrel
henderson went to a corner of the room,
Vhere he secreted knife in his coat sleeve.
When Suter approached and said to him,
we want no trouble" Henderson suddenly |
rev his knife and plunged it into the
ormer. Suter formerly lived at Eagle
,reek. Henderson, 1t appears, does not en-.
oy the reputation of very quiet citizen.
t is stated that he served out q three
lonths' sentence in the Clackamas county |
all last year for nearly gouging out mans
ye.
An exchange has this about DR.. Mahana's
lngle-rail railroad: 'The company will not
tempt to test the engine on track mere
= for experimental purposes, and are satls-
ed without going to that additional ex-
ense. They expect to wait until the op-
ortunity offers for building a permanent
Dad. They have now two prospects in
lew. One is a road from Portland to Mt.
Iood, and the other is line from Salem to
DALLAS, distance of fourteen miles. In the
alter case the people are very anxIous for
Dad and it is stated that they will meet the
rojectors with liberal subsidy. The en-
inc now built will use steam as motor
over, although there is another motor IN
curse Of construction that is to be pro-
elled by electric storage batteries"
The editor of the Fossil Journal is
oubled with some of the ills to which
esh is heir, and of these is a COW which
e desires to sell. Hear him: Sowing to
] health will sell at my residence in
own, range 81, according to government
urvey, one plush, rsspberry.colored cow,
ged eight years. She is of undaunted cour-
ge, and gives milk frequently. To man
rho does not fear death in any form, she
Iould be great boon. She is very much
ttached to her house at present by means
stay chain, but she will be sold to any
ne who will agree to use her right. She is
ne.fourth shorthorn and three.fourths
yena. I will also throw in a double
arrelled shotgun which goes with her. In
lay she generally goes away somewhere
,r a week or two and returns with red
liled calf, with wabbly legs. Her name is
.ose. and would prefer to sell her to a
From Mondays Daily,
Mrs + IT Cradlebauph of Hood River |