The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-02-23
ITEMS IN BRIEF
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
The county jail has one single occu-
pant.
Mrs. Solomon, of Portland, is yisitins
friends in the city.
Judge Bradshaw left on the train thi
morning for Salem.
Mrs. J. R. Warner, of White Salmon
WASH, was in the city yesterday.
The alleys should be cleaned. Thii
is necessary for the health of the city.
Commissioner Butts, with his gang o.
unfortanates is doing good work on the
streets.
The Guild of St. Paul's church will
meet tomorrow Thursday afternoon al
z: 30 in the vestry.
A marriage license was granted today
to william Rankin and Miss Annie
Purser by the county clerk.
The snow has nearly disappeared from
the surrounding hills, and farmers are
anxiously looking forward to the ii ne
when the ground will be in condition to
plow.
There were two ballots In Joint con-
vention today, and the boilers switched
back to Williams. The vote stood !:
Dolph, Al; Williams, 29; Hare, 10;
Raley, z; Huston, ]. Paired, two.
Salem Statesman: The pay of members
for this session OF the legislature stops
short with The fortieth dsy-Friday of
this week. And, by the way, Friday be-
ing legal holiday, will there he FRI
day session.
Spraying of fruit trees has been in op-
Grafton during the week, and this should
receive general attention. There is no
possible way in which fruit pests can be
destroyed except by constant spraying,
and this is thu proper season to do the
work.
Mr.. Max Vogt has put in a new store
room in the front OF the old opera house
that was burned down during the fire of
1891. When finished we are informed
this will be occupied by Mrs. G. L. Phil
lips with complete stock of millinery
goods, which she is now purchasing In
San Francisco.
While thawing the frost out of some
giant powder at the Sloan & HASKELL
mine at Susanvll.e, last week, the tool
house was roOfess as the result of an un-
expected explosion of that powerful sub
stance Every operative at The mine feels
thankful that they W ere not near by when
the eruption took place.
A most peculiar theft has been per
petrated in the Waldo hills, Marion
county. On Thursday night OF last week |
two unknown persons went into Frank |
Eagon's hopyard, built fire, and dug
hop roots most OF the night, taking sew
eral thousand roots and hauling them |
away before daylight.
An appeal for aid has been issued by
settlers in the Cherokee strip. Hun |
dreds of families are absolutely starving, |
eating prairie dogs and horses. The
suffering is unparalleled. Cattle have
been dying in droves as result of the |
unprecedented s'northers" which visited |
both territories and Texas within the
past few weeks.
Mr.. A. Bettingen, jr., received letter
from his father this morning dated at
Naples, Italy, Feb. I'd. He describes his
able trip, and one that he enjoyed very
much. As soon as he visits the points
of interest in Naples he will journey ON
to Rome, where he will remain some
time. Mr.. Bettingen is accompanied by
his brother from South Dakota.
The Yanderberg bill providing for
constitutional convention provides that
such q convention shall be held at Salem
on the first Monday of November, 1896,
and that it shall be composed of sixty
delegates to be elected at the general
election to be held in June, 1896. 1t ,
provides for an appropriation OF $40 900
for the expenses OF the convention The
bill was laid on the table in the senate.
Six wagons left Eugene on Saturday
loaded with about ten tons of potatoes,
by George T. Hall & Son, for Corvallis.
The spuds will be shipped from that point
TO San Francisco via the Oregon Pacific
railroad. The teams will return with ten
tons of sugar consigned to the same firm
The teamsters receive 12L cents per 100
pounds for transporting the potatoes, and {
20 cents per 100 for the sugar. The rail-
road rate on sugar from Albany is %
cents.
A corpse for a bedfellow was the ex-
perience J. UnderW ood had the other =
night in Tacoma When he awoke in
the morning in his room at the Bruns- ,,
wick hotel, he found his roommate, /.
George Deardorff, cold and stiff in death
beside him. Dea' dorff was laborer,
aged 81. He had been on d protracted
spree. and death was doubtless caused !
by alcoholism. He had no relatives in
the west.
Richard S. Banker, the man who sue !
cessfully swindled the A. o. u. w. out :
of about $4,000 by feigning death, pleaded :
guilty to the charge in the criminal court :
in Portland on Monday, and was sem
tenbed to five years. imprisonment in
the penitentiary The commitment of !
Banker was deferred by order of the !
court until later, wher the cases against
Mrs. Banker and Harry Hunter, accom- =
plices to the swindle, are settled. =
Prineville Reuie,o: Professor Thomas o
Condor, of the State University, is in a
Salem trying to impress upon the legis- Il
lature that the state should have board
of mineralogy. Well, since, Oregon has Q
q board lor nearly everything else, it q
might have one for mineralogy, espec- C
ially if Professor Condor and other well f
learned men of the state will consent to il
serve on it without salary, but If the t
thing is to have salary attachments and C
clerkfee occompaniments, there will be a
objections.
A very low stage OF water prevails all l
along the Upper Willamette, which is a Il
great source OF annoyance and detention
to navigation. BoatOwners who attempt 8
to navigate the rlver between Harris p
burg and Eugene seem to have 8 hard C
job at present. According to the Eu- Q
gene Guard, e. N. Frazer's boat. the !
Baby, is six miles below that city. bat
ne is uudDlt W StI up Will IL VI aCCouHt |
of low water The water on the bars is q
too shallow for even that little boat to D
come over them. He has tiei up the ,
boat and will go up with a rowboat.
At Aberdeen, w ash. last week was goo d T
one for accidents. Here is the list count 6
Ing from Thursday to Sunday inclusive: :
a little son OF Rice HillIgoss s
was kicked in the head by a horse, the =
frontal bone being broken and pressed |,
into the brain. A portion of The skull : :
had to be cut away, and the depressed
bone raised Recovery is doubtful. Sat-
urday two little boys at the same place
were playing with a hatchet, with the re-
suit that Floyd Stuart lost the index fin +
ger of his right hand. Sunday Alex Pay
ette chopped off three fingers while split
ting kindling."
Union Republican: The Oregon Gold
Mining Companys pro perty at COrnuco-
pia was sold under fore closure by Sheriff
PLY at the court house yesterday after b
noon. The property inc luded IN the sale
consisted of number of valuable mines, a
including the Red Jacket. Also the U.
@. NJ. Cos 2O-stamp mill. The entire i;
property was bid in by p, Pasche, of