The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-01-20
From Thursdays Daily.

An extra ferce of policemen were on duty
last night.
A. D. Mcdonald, Of Monkland, is regr =
tered at the UmatilIa House.
Mr.. J. E. Muller. lawyer of Pendletr n,
gave us pleasant call to day.
James LIE Due and J. D. Parrish, of
Dufur, were in the city yesterday.
Mr.. Chas. Butler, the cattle buyer of
Port Townsend, WASH, is in the city
Mr.. George Nolin, of Dufur, gave US q
call this afternoon. He was enroute from
Hood River to his home.
A. B. Judson, of Weiser, and VIM.
Stuart and John C. Bone, of Payette,
Idaho, were in the city yesterday.
The following deed was filed with the
county clerk to-day: Robert Rand and
wife te M A Winans; Sc or. sec l3, tp .,
re e; 500.
Justice and police courts are not burdens cd
with business these days. Criminal mat.
tiers are quiet at present, and civil actions
are not frequent.
This morning there were no robberies re-
ported as having occurred last night, and it
is to be hoped that this particular kind of
business has stopped.
The Southern Pacific is experiencing
great difficulty in ARRIVING at points in the
Willamette valley BY reason of snow in the
Calapoeia mountains.
Mr.. j. C Baldwin and son Edward, ar
rived this morning from Tekoa, Wash MIR.
Baldwin will spend the remainder of the
winter with his family in this city.
The west-beund passenger, due in this
a IL
few miles east of the city by an accident to
the locomotive. 1t was only . few minutes
late.
MIR. b. M. Beall. formerly cashier in the
First National bank, of The Dalles, but
later appointed receiver Of the Linn county
national bank at Albany, came up on the
friends in the city o-day.
Hon. W. 81. Briggs, Of Wasce, is in town
to-day. He says the weather in Sherman
county is the finest in America. Farmers
are busy plowisg. and are determined to
plant larger acreage OF grain than ever be.
fore in that portion of the state.
The dispatch SAYS regarding the location
of the branch asylum that IL was by unan
lmous vote of the board. 1t is matser OF
congratGlation that after months of censul-
tation over the matter there was no jarring
discord in arriving at a conclusion.
The early freight train from the west
came to the depot this morning with mud
half way up to the headlight. 1t ran into
a landslide near Wyeth; but, fortunately
was net dersiied. and managed to extricate
rtselt with little trouble: The track was
coon cleared, and the train arrived in the
city only little late. These slides may be
expected frequently while this weather
prevails.
According to the Oswego paper, the Ore
gen Iron & Steel Company has let the con-
tract for making the Bull Run pipe-about
$500 tens of SO inch pipe-to Superintend-
ent Charles Loveridge. The foundry closed
down few days ago to repair the broken
main wheel of the crank and to await the
arrival of new bell formers from Portland.
Work again commenced Wednesday after
noon. The force, it Is expected, will soon
be increased.
The state board of tax levy, consisting oil
the governor. secretary of state and state
treasurer met Yesterday in Salem and made
tbe levy of the state taxes for the current
year upon the equalized assessment of 1898
Following is ths total taxable property II
this county, after deducting exemptions
with the state spportlonment: Property
50. 1858. .so7; apportlonment for the state
Sl4, ,443. 80.
Ashland Tidings: A carload of buffaloe
-four full bloods and three half bloeds-
was in Ashland last Saturday nigh
attached to the south freight, bound TO
San Francisco. They were the property o
Argall & Putnam, Castleten, North Dakota
and these two gentlemen were taking then
to the midwInter far for exhibition. The