The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-04-22
ITFMs IN BRIEF
From SATURDAYS Daily

Gentle Annie, the spring, etc.
Mr.. G. P. Balch, of Dufur, Is in the city
Mr. Grant Mays, of Antelope, is in tow
to-day.
Judge Bradshaw returned on the after
noon train from holding court at Condor,
Parties from Antelope report quite
snowfall there Yesterday, and that the cole
weather has caused quite loss of lambs.
Trouble is brewing between net and whee
fishermen at Cascade Locks. 1t will max,
business for lawyers and be settled in thu
courts.
Our streets were crowded with farmer!
| from the country. It was the most delight
full day of the seasons and all persons were
hopeful and happy.
Several members of Temple Lodge, A. D.
U. W., took the afternoon train to-day for
Hood River, where seven candidates will be
initiated into the Workmen lodge.
Master DAVE Patterson, of Eight Mile,
brought to the Office TINS morning hen 3
egg of large dimentions, M asuring six
inches in circumference. The boy did not
Inform US what species Of fowl laId the egg.
Weston, Umatilla county, has vot. d
to bond the city in the sum of $24. 4.00O
for public Improvements in the follow.
ing sums: Extension of water works,
$4,000; redemption of present bonds,
$4,000; electric light system, $4,000.
We learn from the Hood River Glacie1
that representatives of the Inland Tele-
phone Co, were there this week examining
the route from The DAlles along the old
state road 1t is expected the line will be
completed in a month or two, thus connect
ing Spokane, Portland and Seattle.
The bank of North Yamhill closed its
doors last Tuesday, owing TO the inability
to meet demands made upon it by the Mer-
proprietor, Mr.. MARITIME, was doing business
on only $4,000 of his own money. Quite
number of depositors wilb lose their money.
The national banking system is proving the
best every day.
Elk Postmaster General Wanamaker and
his party, which includes Mrs. Wanamaker,
two daughters, son and his wife, and two
others. are to arrive in Portland on Sunday,
the 23d, at 1885 A. M. They will leave on
the oath at P NJ. On the evening of the
23d Mr.. Wanamaker will deliver lecture
to young men at the First Presbyterian
church. Nothing but Colombo postage
stamps will be received in the contribution
box on that occasion.
The largest solld block of coal ever mined
and moved in the northwe.t, if not in the
United States, has been delivered safely at
the entrance to mine No OF Gle. Eium, and
will be placed aboard the cars this week for
shipment to the worlds fair. General Man
ager Kangley, on his visit, gave orders for
the specimen, and score OF the most ex-
miners in the camp have been
steadily at work for the past three weeks IN
cutting and moving 1t. The block is "a feet
lorg, 5 feet inches wide and feet
inches high, and weighs in the vicinity of
Al 600 poanda, or nearly % tons.
Mr.. A. Kuightly. of Cascade Locks, came
up last evening. He says the contractors
have made an arrangement by which the
Union Pacific will run a branch line to the
quarry at Herman creek, and this will be
very convenient and less expensive than
paying for the right OF way and building a
road to the rock. There are sixty-eight men
now at work, and the force will be largely
in few days. The Dav brothers
ieel contid mt that they can finish the canal
N the time specified, aud az soon as the Co
umbia resumes Its normal stage of water,
work will be continued night and day.
Goldendale Sentinel: A telephone was re.
,eIved from Wasco Thursday evening bring. |
ng information OF the death OF Miss Lenora
1t IS presumed the corpse will |
lrrIve here sometime this (Fnday) after |
noon. The funeral services will be held at |
10 O'Clock Saturday at the residence. Miss |
Richards arrived in our midst from the-east |
asst October, and sine her arrival here has |
made many friends vino mourn deeply with |
-elatives in their bereavement. She was on |
visit to friends in Wasco when she was
lttacked with meningitis, which over a week |
ater eliminated in her death.
Teller: The Nez Perces. who oppose the
reaty, are determined to fight 1t out till the |
asst. They will not abide by the decision of
he majority of the tribe, but will carry the
Ease to the department at Washington. II
8 reported that Geo. Moses, Kip Kapehcan.
Rev. Wheeler and Neha Mier, are now en-
QUITE to Washington to lodge complaints.
They will, however, find the department
The policy of the govern
nent is in favor of opening all reservation
ands to settlement, as speedily as possible.
The treaty has been signed by good ma
orIty of the tribe and the opposition will
ave fruitless journey; for the treaty will
'e confirmed.
The problem of saving the fue particles
f gold from the sand Of ocean beaches and
iver bars. which assay from So to SIS per
on on the Oregon coast and elsewhere, has
mployed the time and ingenuity OF hun
reds of men for years past, and still has
ot been solved so far as q practical and
rofitable working of the gold saDd is con
erned. The latest machine to be reported
device VIII ch the inventor expects to
I.
EASTERN Idaho. 1t consists of a screen hold
1g quicksilver. through which all the water
nd dirt must pass. 1t is thought the gu ck-
liver will retain the gold while allowing
he sand and water to pass off.
Aledo Record: Some newspaper men are
srrible prevarIcators. One of them writes
bout a cyclone, stating that it turned
,rong side up in the state of Mississippi,
urned cellar upside down In Wisconsin,
,oved township line in Nebraska, blew
II the slaves out of whisky barrel in Iowa
nd left nothing but the bhpg hole, changed
be day of the week in Ohio, killed an
onest Indian agent in the west, blew the
air off bald headed man in Texas, killed
truthful lawyer in Illinois, blew the
lortgage off a farm 10 Kansas, scared a red
eaded woman IN Michigan. blew all the
racks out of fence in Dakota, and took
Il the wind out politician in Missouri.
Tyler Woodward, of Portland, has I
suit against o. D. Taylor and
arab K. Taylor, says the Goldendale
entinel, owners of the townsite of North
,ailes. to compel them to convey by
,arrantee deed "All that portion of lots
wo (2) three (S) and four az in section
l9) township (2) north, of range QD
asi, OF the Will, Mer. Washington,
ing between the eastern line of the I
ght-of-way of the Columbia Railway
nd Navigation Company and the
river, that is to say the eastern
ne of the said right of way and the
Iater mark of the Columbia rver on It's
restern side in It's passage through what ,
known as the Big Rapids or Five Mile
.apids. said lands above described and
ffected by this suit being situated In