The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-12-04


necessary to bring a rotary plow from
Albina to clear the track. The rotary
escorted No. to The Dalles, arriving
here at IL o'clock last night.
For constipation take Karl's Clover
Root Tea, the great blood purifier.
Cures headache, nervousness. erup-
| tions on the face, and makes the head
clear as bell. Sold by Blakeley &
Houghton, The Dalles.
Last Saturday the U. S. grand jury
returned indictments against Joseph
Galbreath, engineer on the steamer
Dalles City. and E. A. Kern, engineer
on the Lurline. Both are charged with
having subjected the boilers of their
vessels to a greater pressure of steam
than the law allows.
Why suffer with coughs, colds, and
a grippe when Laxative Brono Quin
line will cure you in one day. Does
not produce the ringing in the head
like sulphate of quinine. Put I'D in
tablets convenient for taking. Guar
anteed to cure or money refunded.
Price 25 cents. For sale by Blakeley
& 81 oughton, druggists, The Dalles
Or.
No more favorable weather for max
ing crops could be asked for than at
present prevails in Eastern Oregon.
The grain fields are covered with from
two to six inches of snow, the ground
is thoroughly moist, and there has
been no frost to speak of, so grain will
grow right along under the snow.
A move is on foot to erect Touring
mill at Weston with a capacity of IS
barrels day. The projectors of the
scheme ask 81 800 bonus, which cer-
tainly ought to be raised by that en-
terprisig town. Weston has had two
Touring mills, both of which have
been destroyed by fire, and the people
of the town know the benefits to arise
from such enterprises.
Dog fanciers and people who don't
know anything about dogs have been
entertained today whenever they called
at the Sheriff's Office, by being shown
one of the finest pieces Of dog flesh on
the coast. The animal is through
bred Lluelling setter belonging to
Major Robe, of Vancouver, and was
sent up to Deputy Sheriff Kelly on the
Regulator last night.
This morning Sheriff Driver left for
Salem having in charge E. Simmons,
who was sentenced to four years in the
penitentiary, having been convicted of
high way robbery. Simmons protested
| to the last that he was innocent, and
before leaving The Dalles told the
| authorities that before his term ex-
pired he hoped to be able to prove that
he was not connected with Brown and
Wilson in the robbery for which he
was convicted.
Sister Peter Baptist, of the Sisters
of Charity of the house of Providence,
died at Spokane last Sunday, aged 63.
She came to Washington in 1868, and
eetered the hospital at Vancouver.
From there she went to Portland,
being one of those to open St. Vincent's
hospital. Her labors for charity in
Portland we're marked. She went to
Spokane in 1885, and had been identi.
fed with the Sacred Heart hospital
ever since.
The property of Ben e. Snipes in
Kittitas and Yakima counties, WASH,
is to be sold next Saturday by DR..
Powers, receiver of the Snipes bank.
The property in Yakima county con-
sists of 1700-acre ranch near Yakima,
which is entirely fenced in; a Touring
mill, with full water rights, located at
Old Yakim; a number of town lots at
Old Yakima, and herd of 1900 horses.
The Kittitas county proper ty includes
the Snipes stone bank building in
Ellensburg among other property.
The Olnstead ranch near Ellensburg,
consisting of $50 acres of fine bottom
land, is also included in the sale.