The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-08
s-ggullutaitleer.
SATURDAY .....FEBRUARY Z, 1896
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
FromMednesday,s Daily.

Fromwednesday's Daily.
Miss Doda Fredden arrived on tn
local today from Portland.
Gov. Moody and Hon. W. b. Wilson
arrived on the train from Portland to
d.y.
Today the homestead application o
C.NGow was received at the land Office
covering the WI set sec q and MT ne;
sec 80, / s, r 16 e.
The streets of The Dalles are drying
up rapidly, the wind which has pre-
vailed the last "a hours having got il
its work on the mud.
The sheriff's Office is being refur
nished and whitewashed. New desks
have been put in and furniture rear
ranged so that it is much more con
venient for the officials.
The prizes to be awarded at the com
ing st. Valentines mask ball may be
seen at the stores of Prinz & Nitschke,
!. L. Rorden, Snipes & Kinersly and the
Jacobsen Book and Music Co.
Grandpa Brookhouse left on last
nights train for Spokane, where he
will join his daughter, Miss M. J..
Brookhouse, to attend the funeral of his
eldest daughter, Mrs. Sarah Hagan.
Mr.. and Mrs. jerome Bridgers, of
Pine Creek, and Mr.. A. E. Stewart
are in the city, having arrived here
.sr night with the remains of the late
v. c. Lane, who died at Antelope
Monday.
The funeral of the late VIM. DeWof
took place from the residence OF his
mother in this city at2 o'clock this
afternoon. The services were con-
Quoted by the Odd Fellows lodge of
which he was member.
Yesterday Mr.. Ed. Howell, baggage
master for the o. r. & N. Co. at this
place, received dispatch conveying
the sad intelligence of the death of his
brother at Yreka, Cal, yesterday
morning, the rusult OF recent PAIL
road accident.
Dancing of course will be the chief
attraction at the ball to be given un-
der the auspices of the Woodmen and
Workman lodges on the evening OF
the l4th. but an additional attraction
will be neat valentine presented to
each masker in attendance.
The blowing down of a portion of
the wall of the Fitzgerald ruins this
morning should serve as warning to
owners OF other similar property in
the city. All the old ruins should be 80
braced and secured that similar, and
possibly more disastrous accident, may
not be repeated.
Monday evening Mr.. Rinehart Ror-
den and bride. who recently return ed |
from California, were treated to a
genuine and very happy surprise at
their residence in this city. Shortly |
after dark some thirty of their lady
and gentlemen friends surrounded
their residence, and for time dis
coursed some heavenly music which |
caused Mr.. and Mrs. Rorden to invite
the serenaders inside where they spent
q most enjoyable evening. /
Mrs. Sarah Hagan, died at Spokane,
Wash, Feb. 4th, of paralysis. Mrs
Hagan was the eldest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Brookhouse, and a sis
ter OF Mrs. F. W. L. Skibbe, of this
city. She was born in Hampton, Eng
land, in 1855, and with her parents i'm
to Pennsylvania in 1857. In
1863 she came to The Dalles, where
che resided until five years ago, when
she removed to Spokane. She leaves
3 husband, three sons and daughter,
also a father and three sisters to mourn
her death.
Last night Coroner Butts received a
telephone message from Dufur inform
Ing him that an old gentleman by the
name of Sandon had been found dead
in his field near Kingsley. and re-
1uesting him to come to that place and
hold an inquest over the remains. Mr..
Butts left this morning and will prob
ably return tomorrow. The deceased
had been missed from his home for two
days, and Mr.. w. Fl. Nebecker and
other neighbors had searched for him
all day yesterday, finding his body in
the afternoon.
Uncle Josh SprucebY's company has
come and gone, and all those who
their entertainment at the
last night feel better for
having been there. Abundance of
amusement was afforded, both
'Uncle Josh" and his Germanfarm
hand perpetrating Jokes that were real
And the saw mill scene
was quite realistic. being one of the
neatest effects ever produced on q
stage in the city. The company is a
good one and will recommend itself to
theatre goers wherever it may be.