The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-01-25

Chicken Springs, were in the city Ia
night.
It Is reported that Hon, B. F. ALLIE
will soon take charge of q paper i
Baker City.
The jurors for the February term
circuit court were drawn by the sheri
and clerk today.
Today the county court appointed T
Simonson administrator OF the estat
of Justus A. Dickenseu, deceased.
Six inches of snow fell at Fossil tn
first of last week, but had all disaI
peared by Friday, SO says the Journal
Mrs. Kelly, who has been visiting
friends in this city, left on the after
noon train for her home in Portland
Three of the prisoners who escapes
from the Multnomah county jail few
days ago, were recaptured at Scappoos'
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Faulkner, of Oakland
CAL, arrived on the local today. aui
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Grove
In this city.
Notwithstanding the weather bureau
at Portland predicts fair weather to.
morrow, the indications for storm
are favorable.
Judge Williams left on the afternoon
train for his home in Portland. While
in the city he was the guest OF Elder
and Mrs. Taylor.
Club wheat was worth so cents a
bushel at Walla Walla and Pendleton
yesterday. 1t was quoted at 56 to 81
cents in Portland.
After February !, the Oregon Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co. will furnish q
night exchange both for the city and
long distance service.
Beginning February 1st, Blakeley
& Houghten's drug store will be open
day and night. and will be prepared to
fll orders at all hours
Navigation on the Snake river Is
again closed, and passengers from the
East for Lewiston, Idaho, go by way of
Pomeroy, and stage /. from there to
Lewiston.
Mr.. D. P. Ketchum came In today
from Klickitat county, where he had
been buying sheep for the Portland
market. He expects to ship four car
loads below tonight.
Willamette is experiencing a young
food. The river is II feet above low
water mark at Eugene. and so high at
Oregon City as to interfere with the
working of the locks.
Hon. W. r. Dunbar writes that
Goldendale was visited by a welcome
chinook yesterday, and that Klickitat
valley is all slush. The wind took
most Of the snow off the hills surround.
ing the valley.
Col. and Mrs. N. B. Sinnott left to.
day for Los Angeles, CAL, where they
60 to visit Mrs. Sinnott's sister, Mrs.
Daley. They expect to spend several
weeks enjoying the mild climate OF
Southern California.
The Clarno ferry boat was taken
down the John Day river Friday by
the heavy food caused by the chinook.
At last accounts it had not been seen. !
and no doubt'was carried so far that it
cannot be brought back.-Fossil Jour-;
nal.
The grand court OF Oregon Forrest
ers of America fled incorporation
articles in the secretary Of states of.
Gee yesterday; objects, mutual relief
and aid OF members, and promotion OF
interests; location. Portland;
E. c. King, grand chief
E. A. Chambers, grand sub.
chief ranger; E. A. Gessell, grand
treasurer.
The rise In the Columbia caused the
men working on the Regulator consid-
erable Inconvenience yesterday. They
had to work in water from one to two
feet deep, but they succeeded in COM
pleting all the repairs to the hull, and
further rise of the river cannot inter-
fere with the work. The boat will be
ready to again 20 into the river as
soon as all danger Of freezeup shall
have passed,
A large ndmber Of personal friends
of Col. and Mrs. sinnott gathered at
the Umatilla House this afternoon to
bid the Col. aud Mrs. Sinnott good-by
and wish them pleasant sojourn in
California. It is the first time Col. Sim
mott has left his place of business in
twenty years, and his many friends in
this city hope that his vacation will ]
prove pleasant both to himself and his
esteemed wife.
Mr.. w. c. Allaway was in Portland
a few days since, and reports the re-
pairs on the steamer Dalles City pro-
crossing nicely. The boat has been
overhauled, the entire hull
having been made almost new. Mr..
Allaway was accompanied home by
mechanics from Portland who are
overhauling the machinery in the
and repairing the boiler
which had sustained some slight dam
ages during the past year.
Apropos of the attempt to appeal in |
the Brown murder case, the Albany |
Herald says: "There is murder case
on record in Linn county, in which |
Judge Boise refused to sign the bill of
exceptions, and before stay of execu-
tion. could be obtained the date OF exe-
cution was at hand. The governor re-
fused to grant a stay Of execution, and
the murderer, Kay Neil, who had killed
q man named Hays, was hapged by the
sheriff while the appeal was pending"
From Thursdays Daily.
Mr.. E. ]. Collins went to Portland
this morning.
Mr.. A. C. Sanford, of Wanic, was in
the city yesterday.
Mr.. n. B. Southern, postmaster at
Boyd, is in the city today.
The snow has all disappeared from
the country south of Deschutes as far
rs Prineville.
Five car loads Of mutton were ship.
psl last night from tho stock yards to