The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-12-10

Mr. VIM. Keys, OF Mayvllle, Glllia
county, is In the city. He says cattle al
in good condition. and farmers are prepare
for a severe season with bountiful stacks
hay.
We received pleasant call this afternoo
from Mr.. John W. Hay, of the San Fran
cisco E.raminsr. He is representing tha
journal in this city, and has met with con
siderable success.
The Knights of Pythias and Woodme
of the World were very fully represenie
in the funeral procession yesterday after
noon. These orders ale increasing i
numbers, and have strong lodges in tn
city.
Mr.. Henry Hudson, of Dlfur, is il
town to-day. He says in the vicinlt. l
which be lives the ground is not as mos
as it IS around The Dalles Some sno'
has fallen, but this has mel'ed and gon
into the ground, and the surface Is dry
The sher,ff's office is dreary place fo
items these d,ss. Hotel de Ward na
only two board ers, and these properl
belong to Sherman county, There ar
40 arrests being made, and The inqulr
of the reporter tor news is answered il
the negative.
Baker Democrat: Freight train No 90
struck COW about three miles east o'
Pocatello yesterday morning, throwing
the engine and cars into the dltch
Fireman William Durham was injured il
the wreck and died about half past IL
from the effects of being fatally scalded
He was a s1ngle man Cf 81 years HI
has two brothers and a sister living 10
Pocatelio.
Skamokawa Eagle: Nearly every disas.
ter has comical side to it. During the
food that just passed family in the
West Valley found themselves sur
rounded by water. Then the question
arose as to means of getting away from
the house to drier quarters. But the head
of the family was equal to the emergency,
for taking his wife and baby on his back
al child under each arm, he waded
through the water until he landed his
family on dry ground,
Oregon is not keeping her light under a
busnei, an her fame has spl cad beso the
confines OF the stormy Atlantic. If Oregon
has anything of which she has Just reason
70 feel proud it IL her vast and magnificent
lmber resources. In the Christian World
shich is pu lished in London. E gand,
hrder date Of O.toher 20sh. app-ars the fol-
lowing paragraph: "a new flagstaff has
Just arriv at Windsor castle for erection
on the round tower. II is y feet high and
was made from pine grown IN Oregon, and
said to be SO years old -
Last Saturday, as the Tillamook and
North Yamhill stage was going westward,
an attempt to rob it was foiled by the
driver. There was only one passenger,
H. E. Nelson, of Nehalem, who discov-
cred the would-b highwayman lodging
and crouching behind trees. Mr.. Nelson
was not armed, so he remained in the
vehicle. while the driver ventured eau
tiously ahead, pistol in hand. At sharp
turn in the road he discovered a man
crouching behind tree and armed with
a Winchester rifle. The driver having
the drop, the man fled into the woods
Robert Smith, son of James Smith,
engineer of the tug j. NJ. Coleman, in
Bay, says the Astor,an, met
with an accident at Seaside on Sunday.
He was out shooting, trailing his gun
behind him, and in this way
got some mud in the muzzle. When he
noticed this he started to pick it out with
a stick, and the trigger swapping against
a fence on which he was leaning, dis
charged the contents of cartridge into
MS hand, completely shattering his thumb
and first finger. He was brought to the
hospital yesterday and DR.. Belt, of War
-enton, amputated the finger.
P. G.. Richardson and wife, of Alpine,
Morrow county, are in Jail failing to give
bonds in the sum of 5000 each, at Hepp-
1er, on charge of destroying buggy,
he property of Mrs. Kate. Parsell, a
leighbor. Every spoke in the wheels
vas cut out, the tongue sawed and hacked
Up, the top demolished, and the whole
;uch wreck that there is no hope of re-
pairing it. A saw and ak which gave
evidence as having been used in the de-
of the vehicle was found in the
Richardson house. The AK was full of
licks, and the handle still had buggy
,aint on it, though there had apparently
'een some effort made to scrape it off.
A very short time ago, says the Lake
County Examiners "a fiery meteor was seen
lear Cloverdale, which is just over the
county line in Lake county, Calf The
meteor. fell on the ranch of F. K
,prowles. Sprowles was out hunting
luail, and the meteor fell within twenty
eetof him. He was knocked down by
he shock, and it was about five minutes
,efore he could gather his senses and
tand upon his feet. The meteor made
leep hole in the ground where it struck,
nd many pieces of meteoric metal were
ying around for space of 200 feet, some
if which he has sent to San Francisco to |
AVE assayed. Mr. Sprowles believes he
las fortune in that hole in the ground,
Seattle has reputation for tragedies
ard equalled by auy city on the coast. |
The las one occurred there Tuesday |
rght when Char es R ,gers Moulton, aged |
bout SO, shot and instantly killed Mrs
darle s. Story, ab0ut the same age, aud |
leader CT musical circles, and then put |
bullet through his own brain He bad |
Dng pleaded a hopeless suit tor her
and, and had frequently threatened to |
j her. She was afraid of him Mrs |
tory's Two children were asleep in an
djnining room at the time of the
ragedy. She had just come home from
he opera and gone to her room, when he
Dllowed her and being again rejected |
hot her and then killed himself