The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-03-27

90 Appropriate floral design furnishe
3. on short notice, at Stubling's greer
1r house. w
Fruit growers about Walla Wall
g and Pendleton report many of thei
e trees having been killed by the freez
e last November
of Four new fre-proof business build
~ ings are expected TO be among the i'm
provements to Baker City during tn,
1t coming summer.
n J. L. Story returned last night from
g McMinnville, where he went to attend
the funerral of his father-in-law. Mrs
Story is expected home Saturday even
ing.
The fund to erect monument to the
: victims of the Silver Lake fire, in Lake
: county, now amounts to $500, and
negotiations for the marble have been
entered into.
Train No. q broke an axle at Viento
as it went down last night. and No.
r | which passed here at o'clock this
l morning was held at Hood River for
No. 2l to be repaired.
Soon we will have glorious spring,
roads will be good, trade will be brisk
and the people happy and smiling.
Cheer up and get ready for the good
times that are coming.
What has become of the talked-of
telephone line between The Dalles and
Prineville? If it is to be built before
the wool season begins, some lively
rustling will have to be done.
William Jenkins, one Of the early
settlers of Powder river valley, died at
his home in Baker City, aged Il years.
He IOcated-in Baker county in 1864,
and has resided there ever since.
The case of the state vs. Taylor
Blevins has been on trial in Recorder
Phelps court today. Blevins is charged
by A. J. Osborne with having stolen
| Winchester rifle from his residence.
A man in Portland named Pague,
Who is pulling the governments lague,
Is so deucedly cleyer
In planning bad weather,
| That we wish he was kept in kague. |
E. o.
The Walla Walla chief of police, |
who was arrested and tried for assault |
and battery, committed while attempt
ing to disperse crowd in the streets,
was acquitted before Justice Arberry,
Wednesday.
The Multnomah grand jury has re-
turned two indictments for forgery
against Ezra Durand, the old piano
man who was recently brought back
from Minnesota to answer to a number
of charges of swindling.
E. Cooper, who has been engaged as
chief engineer of the Columbia River
Southern r. r. Co., will arrive from
Portland tonight, and with E. E. Lytle
and J. M. Murchie will take trip over
the right-of-way for the proposed road
tomorrow.
1t was fortunate indeed tnat the fire
last night was checked so readily.
Had it gained a little more headway
before being discovered probably the
entire block from Washington to
Federal street would have been
destroyed.
Secretary of State Kincaid holds out ,
faithfully against the entreaties of the
state beneiciaries, and fatty refuses +
to issue warrants for claims against >
the state, except fer the militia and +
few other institutions that are spe- :
cially provided for. r
The meetings in the Christian church v
Ire still being conducted, and much b
interest is shown. The ordinance of o
Baptism will be administered Satur- b
lay evening. Sunday night Evangel-
st Piel ce will give some of his early r
history as wild boy of the world" n
The track was badly torn up by the s.
lccident which happened to No. q ii
asst night. No. ] was unable to get h
,ast the wreck, so two coaches and the 81
express car were brought back here a
With the mail and passengers, while tt
70. returned to Portland with the 81
'verland passengers. b
Two cattle-buyers from Kansas were u
n Corvallis last Monday, looking for N
rhine beef stock. They wanted moth y
ng over3 years. nor younger than VI
ast years. calves. They expect to W
hip the cattle to Kansas, and from LII
here to England. The prices offered pl
re said to be very fair. In one in
tance S12 head was offered for last
ears calves. :,
: A heavy wind passed over Walla q;
Valla about o'clock yesterday after ce
oon' oio"ing uo"n 'rees ano iehces. W
| large double window in the second tr
tory of the Paine school building was n,
rushed in, scattering glass over one w
f the Intermediate rooms. One piece q,
truck Laura Nelson, a pupil ii years so
age, on the head, inflicting dam f.
erous wound. The pupils were so or
larmed that panic ensued, and they w
ushed out of the building, and fed to o.,
laces of safety. a,
1t trapspires that Fitzsimmons w,
anne near being a minister when III
oy, and probably would have been la
ut another S. S. scholar pulled his cr
ar and the teacher refusing to stand DIR
a with him he left in disgust and bl
7enS out into the great world. He ru
ertainly possesses the talking pro- Ii
Invites for preaching, and perhaps &C
as more ability than he is credited h,
nth. 1t is fact that he would not DE
rain on Sunday while Corbett paid no re
ttention to the day. DE
Wasco county farmers will probably 81
ro6t this year by the misfortunes of az
theirs. The shortage in the wheat
rop in India and Australia will cause
rices to range high here. next fall;
he heavy loss of stock in the Dakotas,
1ontana and Wyoming, will cause ad- In
anced prices for beef and mutton to az
revail, and the damage that was done tn
ruit trees by the November freeze in IN
he sections to the east, will make Ut
ruit in demand. All these things d
while they are misfortunes In
0 others, will be beneficial to the "