The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-05-13
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to bear the pain any longer. The palm Of
his hand was swollen and Infiamed, and 10
one place the skin had broken open. Only
a small portion of the litre of water had
gone to make up the 420 drops.
Mr.. A. Buchler returned from the Cas-
cade Locks yesterday, and from him we
learn matters are in very satisfactory
shape. There are about seventy.five men
at work in the quarry, and as soon as water
will permit a large force of men will be put
to work IN the canal. All operations will
be carried on with improved machinery, and
steam dredger tor excavating purposes
will be used. The people are hopeful that
the coutrsct will be fully carried ont, and tn
work completed within the time provided.
Hood River Glacier: 1t was thought for
while there would be no peach crop here
this year, but at present there is promise of
at least fair yield. The trees are in bloom,
and some of them are masses of pink, while
all have bloom enough and to spare, should
one-half of the blossoms materlalize. All
other fruits promise to yield abundantly,
though with present weather outlook the
strawberries will not be ripe before the 25th.
Washington harvests her crops at al
most any season of the year. The Gar
field Enterprise says that G. E. Whls.-
Ter has just finished digging thirty-fve
bushels of potatoes, the last of his last
years crop. The potatoes have lain in the
ground where they grew, and MIR. Whis.
Ter says they are in a better condition
than though they bad been lifted last fail |
and buried in pile. He proposes plant
ing larger patch this Sc son, wh'ch he
will winter il the same way. Mr.. Whis- |
Ter says it Is the safest way of keeping |
them, provided they are not planted on
south slope, where the snow will blow of |
An order has been issued by the post
master general providing { r the establish
ment of a branch postoffics at the worlds |
!air ground TO continue during the entire |
period OF the exposition. Regular cUlee-
tious and deliveries from and to ell parts f |
the grounds will be made by force OF car.
riers who shall sttend entirely to the bust |
ness Of the / ,ir postoffice. This will enable |
those who 70 to Ihs fair from different pqrts |
of the country TO have their mIil sensin care !
Of some rne in charge of the EXHIBIT OF their
state, and prevent contuSion incidental to /
the TRANSMISSION of many tons of mail mat
ter to the general po1toffice at Chicago, adj
dressed to hundreds of thousands of people |
who will flock there from all parts of the |
globe.
Corvallis Times: just as we go to press
We learn of new deve 'opmeuts in o. P. hti.
CATION matters. This tInle it Is the Oregon
Development company that is IN it. Tues.
day a suit to foreclose mortgage of 81, 800
600 against the o. D. Co. properties was
fled in the Benton county circuit court.
Brown and Blair are plaintiffs and the y. d.
Co. and the Manhattan Trust Co and B. |
w. Wilson, as trustees, are defendants. |
The plaintiffs also want receiver appointed |
for the o. D. Co. Shortly after this suit |
was fled it ca i.e to light that recsi er,
Mr.. r. A. Bensell, of Newport, had been
appointed by the United States at Portland |
1t also developed that 3. W. Wilson is not |
a tustee in the compIny; but that the |
trustee. an eastern man, begun suit in the
federal court at Portland, which in effect
would amount TO the same as the suit flied
here. This will not effect the present ar
of the D, P.