The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-09-02
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,r single twlg, and by cutting these off no.
G and burning them, whole armies OF prospec
: tive caterpil ars will be destroyed.
= The Albany Democrat says: Upon Roc
: Greek the other day man shot a companio
y while he was drinking fir m a spring. think
> ing he was a bear. He missed him, an
. this is about the first case on record wher
a man mistaken tor a besr was missed
They are nearly always killed, even by me
who couldn't hit flock of bears in an ope
, prairie.
Welhave received the prospectus of
! publication by Mr.. Hubert Howe Bancroft
containing an excellent history of tn
worlds fair at Chicago, and entitled eth
Book of the Fair" 1t Is handsomel,
printed and is illustrated with fine photo
gravures. AS a history of the great exhibit
tIonit will be invaluable, and worth pre-
serving by every one.
\ Mr.. Frank Reynolds, of Lyle, Wash, i:
IN town to day He walked to the city
from Rowena on the railroad track, counted
every tie, and says there are 1920 of them.
To morrow morning he will leave on the
Regulator for Portland, taking his family
with him from KlickItat Landing to Salem,
and from there will go to San Francisco,
and then to his old home In Pennsylvania.
A crowd congregates every day near the
| corner of Washington and Third street,
| watching the operation of praticll joke n
| the shape of pin in the seat of CHAIR
When the unsuspectiDg individual sits
down the fun begins in the am sement en-
| loyed by reason of the persons temporary
| misery. 1t may furnish a means of des-
troying the enuui of existence; but it is not
conducive to the cultivation of abits Of in
! dustry
! Bear stories are as proverbial for elasticity
as fish yarns. and about common. Here
is the latest from the Scio Press: Master
John Goodman, of Jnrian. aged rot quite
l2 years. is the most successful bear hunter
OF any that We have hearl of lstclv. Lust
week he proceeded where bruin was io,ug
much damage. As result OF the morning
chase, he had bagpe two full grown black
bears AMI two coons The following mora
ing he succeeded in killing another bear.
There ia ''lost cabi mines somewaere
in the vicinity Of PrIDeville. and NJ V
Looms and Tom Jones of that town spent
six weeks in the Cascade mountains this
season trying to discover claim which Mr..
Jones worked years ago. They were not
successful, but will try it again next year,
almost inaccessible recesses of these mount.
AIMS there Is a mine of wealth that would
effectually solve the problem of the none
tary question.
Eugene Guard: A gentleman, who has
Just arrived from Lake county. gives us the
following particulars of fatal accIdent that
happened to Mark Parton, former resident
of Lane county: MIR. Parton was riding a
horse IN SUNNI, lake last Sunday, morning,
when the horse fell and the rider struck on
his heal, crushing it in a fearful manner.
He lived until the next morning, when he
passed away. He was the son of Thomss
Parton, and leaves wife and four children.
He was 2S years of age.
One of the campers at Belkuap springs,
John Vernon, from near Independence. Ore
went out for a hunt on Aug. % and slipped
and fell and as it threw his gun from him
it struck rock. dischargng itself, the ball
passing through his left fore arm, half way |
hetween the wrist and elb W, making a
flesh wound only. 1t missed the bones and |
arteries, passing ~ through the breast of |
his coat and hat brim. The man is SO years
oil and quite resolute, as he walked into
camp. bringing his gun with him, one and
one half miles.
Items about plucky girls are always ap
one of the girls being a niece OF Mrs W. B.
Barr, of Albany: Miss Berthe Price aud
Young sister were driving to Salem from
Turner to bring Miss Winnie McAfee home
Thursday evening. They had young
horse drawing the dog cart, and at the
Davidson place near town the animal be-
came frightened at broken traction engine
s andIng IN the middle of the road and he
SHE'D off into the ditch and upset the cart
and spilled the girls out. Then he started
to kick and run but Miss Price clung to the
reins and managed to stop the horse.
o egon has rival to the natural bridge
of Virginia, says the Lumbermdn, although
as vet few persons have had the privilege of
gazing upon this wonder. aud it is dou bttuI
If its existence was known at all until dis
covered ny the Pension. Gossett surveying
party. The bridge, which is about six |
miles northeast from Detroit, or sses can
yon fifty feet wide and is fully fifty fe t
high 1t is as perfect as it could well be,
being fat on top and arched underneath in
a manner that would almost lead one to be
lieve it was the work Of man. The bridge
is solid rock, and is truly one of Oregon's
greatest curiositles.
Robert Best, who resides near Susanyille,
came to Long Creek Monday, says the
Eagle, and employed the services OF DIR.
Nichols to dress an ugly wound on his fore
head, made as be afterward stated by
blow from a club in the hands o. VIM.
Baird, a rancher in that neighborhood. A
warrant was sworn out tor Baird's arrest,
which was served by Charles Robinson |
Tuesday, and he was brought to this city. |
Mr.. Baird told his side of the affair. ac-
knowledges, however, that he struck Mr.. |
Best, but that he did so In self defense. He |
was to have had hearing before Justice |
Hall Wednesday, but Best failing to put In |
an appearance he was discharged.
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