The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Rev. Frank Spaulding, of Vase
was in the city today.
Attorney Webster Holmes, of Saler
is here attending court.
Rev. J. II. Wood went to Portlar
on the $50 train this morning.
This is elegant weather for dusk
Plenty of rain and mud, mixed in wit
little snow.
Capt. Sherman, formerly master I
the steamer Reg ulator, was in the cit
last night.
81. NJ. Cake, attorney for th
Standard Oil Co., came up from Por
land on last nights train.
E. Turnbew, of Portland. who ha
been visiting his uncle, Jos. Shannon
will return home tomorrow.
On Thursday evening. December 2
the Rathbone Sisters will give a asocia
hop at the vogt opera house.
The rain, slush and mud is little
sdisaereeable, but it is just the thing
for the country, and nobody should
complain.
A year ago there was foot of snow
on the ground 1n,The Dalles, and on
Thanksgiving night the mercury was
down to zero.
The forms for the special edition of
the Times. Mountaineer will be closed
BY the 10th of next month, and all
parties desiring space in same should
make application early.
Mrs. D. L. Gates, of Cascade Locks,
is in the city, having come up on the
boat last evening. Mrs. Gates has
been quite ill for some time and is
here under medical treatment.
Frank Heater aud man named
Doffrey had slight alteration last
night, and Doffrey came out with
badly split head, pecessitating several
stitches being taken in his scalp to
make it whole.
Hon. W. E. Grace, q prominent
druggist and leading democrat of
Baker City, accompanied by his
brother, Sheriff Geo. Grace, of Clack-
amas county, passed up the road last
night en- route to Baker.
The financial condition of Grant
county shows some improvement.
Treasurer Hazeltine has funds on hand
for the redemption of outstanding
warrants bearing date of registration
prior to January "a, 1891.
P. C. Snyder returned last evening
from Antelope where he had been
working in the interest of the special
edition of the s-Mountaineer. He
received a liberal patronage from the
southern part of the county.
Men who have been selling whisky
to Indians at Pendleton are experien-
cling slight unpleasantness with the
o. S. court at Portland. Several of
them have been indicted, and will
have day of recovering ere long.
Yesterday the controller of the cur
rency declared dividend of 25 per
cent in favor of. the creditors of The
Dalles National bank that was closed
last June. This would seem to indi-
cate that all claims against" the bank
will be paid in full.
Word was received from Cbehalis
this morning that surgical operation
was performed on little Teddie Briggs
at that place Sunday, which was sue
cessful, but blood poisoning has set in.
and it is only question of few days
when death will eusue.
Farmers throughout the country are
now busy blowing. The ground is
thoroughly wet, and is in fine con-
dition for blowing. Indications are
that there will be an immense crop of
wheat sown during the winter and next
spring if the weather continues favor
able.
The Kootenai river at Bonner's
Ferry, Idaho, on the line of the Great
Northern, rose p feet in "a hours last
Friday. The Kootenai Indians, who
have lived there for generations, say
the rise is unprecedented Kootenai
is the largest river in that section, and
carries an immense body of water. 1t
Is navigable at many points.
Hugh Brown and Robert Wilson,
indicted jointly with E. Simmons for
robbing lot of Indians near the o.
r. & N. ice house last July, plead
guilty, and this morning were SEN
fenced to two years each in the peni
tentiary. Simmons, Brown and Will
son being exported to the penitentiary
will be good ridance to The Dalles.
That wave of prosperity that has
struck nearly every interior town in
Oregon has no6 yet been realized in
the metropolis of the state, except
among the jobbers. Retailers in Port
land complain seriously of dull trade,
and there are thousands of unemployed
men on the streets looking for work.
anu SOuo UeSSluS iOT Dreiu.
The highest stage of water above
Willamette falls this season was
1895 feet, reached Sunday morning at
Oregon City. During the day the
water reoeded lilo of foot there.
During the preceding "a hours the
river below the falls fell 40 of foot,
by last night it stood at 1873. The
snow that fell Friday is practically all
gone, and rain is falling capiously.
There ia a large consignment of
goods at the o. r. & N. freight house
TOR the Indian agency at the Warm
Springs. One case of the goods is
labled "15 dozen tooth brushes, q