The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-09-09

and bruising her limb, from the effects Of
which blood-poisonlng set in. She was
brought to Arlington. and DR.. Geisendorfer,
not wishing to endanger the child's life by
administering chloroform, froze the lint
| and lanced it. The case is critical one.
The assessor, In company with MIR. ). b.
| Adams and Recorder Dutur, have spent sew
eral days in placing valuation on property
IN this city. They haye not finished The
| Dalles, and 1t may take them some time yet
to complete the assessment. Property will
not be valued as highly as formerly. and
while the present depreciation may be con-
sidered temporary it will not appreciate be
fore taxes for this year become due. An
other year values should be as usual, but
during this season of financial depression
every expense will be quite hardship on
property owners.
The Bradstreet Mercantile agency report
80 failures in the Pacific coast states and
territories for the week as compared with
80 for the previous week and II for the cor
responding week In 1892 The failures for
the past week are diYlded among the trades
as follows: Five general stores, four
grocers, three drug, three saloons, two
livery, two boots and shoes, two hotels,
one hardware, one fancy goods, one harness,
one printer, one logger, one optician, one
wholesale provision, one furniture, one
millinery, ore builder and one manufac-
turer of weather strips.
The steam thresher, at work at w. l.
Wards farm near Eight Mile, was disabled
by the boiler blowing up last Wednesday.
Fortunately no one was injured; but the
accident caused veXatious delay by stop
ping the work. Messrs. Haines' Bros.
owned the machine, and the boiler was so
badly injured that it required immediate
repairs. The work was progressing finely.
and the wheat being sacked was averaging
well when all hands were forced to stop
work by reason of the explosion. Another
steamer was hired the next day and the
crop was threshed and sacked.
East Oregonian, Sept. 7th: A bridge fire
that will occasion the Union Pacific lot OF
loss and trouble, occurred early this morn
ing half mile east of Unity station, this
side of Huntington. No one knows how |
the fire started and when it was discovered |
nothing had been left of bridge No. 322,
which is 304 feet long and Sc feet high, ex-
cepting the rails. All the available men |
from Portland to Huntington and on the |
branch have been ordered to the scene, |
among them bridge gang now at Weston |
and another at Cascade Locks. IhlS outht |
leaves Pendleton tonight at 9 o'clock to as
sist in recopstructing it. 1t may take four
or five days to replace the structure and
meantime trains will have to transfer,
which will be all the more troublesome as
the locality is not at all faYorable for this
operation.
What is the matter in Baker county that
the following item should appear IN the col
nmns of the Democrat: IAN attorney
should never forget the dignity of his call
ing and ought to remember that the ex-
posure of the private life Of a brother at
torney carries with 1t the disgust ana sever
est condemnation of the people. 1t is also
we'll to bear in mind that people in glass
houses shorld not throw stones. We al
ways considered editors the only persons
who forgot the dignity Of their profession
oY calling contemporaries ineiegant names,
ind that lawyers were always Jolly good
elbows" outside the court room, where they
Ihuse each other in plain Saxon-"for rev.
,nue only" There is something the matter
With the legal fraternity in that city, when
uch short and pointed sermon should ap
bear In the public paper.