The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-03-17
From tri0ay's Daily.
jim. Gulllford. of Dufur. is in town.

j. N. GullIford, of Dufur, is in town.
Mr.. F. c. Sexton. of Kibgsley, is in the
city.
Mr. Fen Batty will leave In the morning
on visit to Wapinitia.
Mr.. Frank Cram, of Portland. is visiting
his mother and sisters In the city.
B. D. Crocker. promIr ent citizen o.
Waila " ALA, arrived in the city last night.
Mr.. U. w. Phelps returned from an ex-
tended trip through Sherman county on the
delayed train to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Marden, VINO have
beeplvisiting the mld~inter fair in San Fran.
cisco, returned on the boat last night.
There are two car. loads of hogs at the
r. E. Ssltmsrshe 4 Co.'S Stock-yards in
this city, awaiting shipment to Portland.
Licenses to marry were granted today to
Timothy E. Edmondson and Carrie NJ. Mel
SOD, and to William E. End and Rosa M.
Bradley.
Mrs. Geo. Herbert and sister Mrs. G. I.
Winnek returned last night from visit to
their sister, Mrs. Geo. P. Morgan, at Cae.
cade Locks.
The Popullst state convention is in ses-
sion at Oregon City, and will be the first
to enter the political contest with a full
ticket this year.
The passengers from Portland to this city
Yesterday afternoon, were transf rred from
the train tn the, boat below Bonneville, and
arrived here about ! o'clock.
William Wurzweiler and J. A. Master
son, Of Wallowa county, were in the city
yesterday. They have in charge a band Of
cattle, which they inteLd to ship to Puget
Sound.
W. A. Mills and wife arrived on the boat
last night from Clackamas. He will go to
Goldepdale to visit his brother in that city.
Mr. Mills is engaged in raising thorough
bred lIyestock,,
About o'clock ihis afternoon Ne. ard
The mix' d freight train arrived j" III CITY
from Portland, having been biocka AIDED by
laI dslid.s and wa-houts for the past thirty.
six hours. As there was no train g ing east
the passengers remained IN the city.
! The author of ..Fscts Uuadulterated."
who Signs himself Zone of the Tribe Of
David" must send his full name to the
editor of the TINES -MoUNTAINEER efoie
his article will be published. This Is
weil-known rule with all newspaper, and
is rarely deviated from.
The suggestion is made bv our cotemp6
rsry that tae city purchase the electric
plant. 1t might be- advisable If the muni-
cipality were out of debt; but it will not b.
CO ns,dered economic administration of city
affairs TO saddle any more Indebtedness Oh
the sax-payers of The Dalles at present.
A tram from the east arrived in the city
about halt. past ii o'clock this morning. II
came from Caldwell. Idaho. and had DO
through mail or passengers. The rains and
the broken reservoir have flooded the coun- =
try IN the vicinity Of Boise CITY, and about
twenty bridges have been washed away,
which it will take some time to repair.
: There are all sorts of rumors today about
bridges being rendered unsafe, washouts ana
land slIdes on the line Of the railroad. From
a passenger who arrived jntown from Baker
City this noon we learn that there are two
very, extensive wasbouts between Hunting
ton and the flooded district in Idaho. With
out the mail is transferred to the Southern
Pacific no letters or papers from the east
can be expected for some days.
The Foot's creek placer fields, the largest
placers in Southern Oregon. are in full
b'ast, with the advantage of an unprece-
dented water supply. The mines of Lance
& Son, R A. Cock & Sons. Geldworthy 4
McKn ght, Carr Bros, Hosmer. Anderson
& Sanders, Raphael, Morat, Bailey l. Son
and Swacker & Son are running day and
night, and will have a season from six to
seven months. Besides these mines, quite
q number of gulches, heretofore not having
much water ere being ground.sluieed by
ranchers. The, seasons gold output on
Foot's creek this year will probably be
doubled and reach over 500, 600.
The obs,iuctions on the railroad track
first happened west Of Bonneville, and con-
sisted of culvert washing out. Afterwards
slide occurred near Mosier. which wa.
much more difficult to overcome than the
first one mentioned. The culvert spoken
of was repaired this morning, and the Mo-
sier land sllde was removed 90 that the
train came through at 8 P. NJ. This per-
hsps is the last difficulty that will result by
reason of RAIN until fall; but the nature OF
the soil is such in this passage through the
mountains between The Dalles and Portland
that accidents are liable to happen at any
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