The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09

way financially. Owing TO disagree.
ments among the stockholders things
have come to standstill, and the
climax was reached last week by the
attachment by the 5. p. d. Il L. Co.,
of all the buildings and machinery
and the $1,000 deposited with the bank
as Il guarantee furd.
All the preliminary arrangements
for putting PinafOre on at the Vogt
Gex: Saturday eveCing have been
! made. Home talent only will be in
! terested in this entertain ment, and all
who have witnessed entertainments
that have been given by home talent
know that it can only be a success.
Piuafore will be a grand treat, and as
it is the first entertainment of the
season. will be highly appreciated by
Dalles people.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Biggs and Miss
Deming came home this morning froul
NVasco. They went up from Biggs on
| the first train over the Colum mbia
Southern which went very nearly to
Wasco Sunday. The track was COM
pleted yesterday the entire length of
| the road, and the company will be
! running regular trains after tomorrow.
Yesterday Il train load of lum Der was
taken up, though no freight was
brought out over the road.
Captain Bledsoe, of Union county,
recently found Il curiosity in the shape
of q stone in u placer claim, under IS
feet of gravel, on East Eagle creek, in
Union county. Tha stone is in the
form Of human head, life size, aud is
so perfect that men who have seen it
declare it is either petriticLtion or
the work of human hands. II includes
a neck terminating in knob. The
head and the knob are polished, and
are of greenish color. while the neck
has the appearance of sandstone.
D. A. Millholland. a pioneer citizen
of Corvallis, was in Albany last Sat
urday. MIR. Millholland settled be-
tween Albany and Corvallis in 1852
when there was only q house or two at
either place. Flour was then S25 per
hundred, and Mr.. Miliholland raised
and sold wheat a s. per bushel. He
has lived to see the state developed
through successive stages OF civillza-
ton, and still the same land goes on
producing as big crops of wheat as
eyer.-Silverton Appeal.
Sunday evening the sheriff of Baker
county and posse had lively fight
with two cattle thieves on Powder
river so miles from Baker. One of the
thieves, Fred Hull, was shot through
the arm, and got TO Baker for medical
treatment where he was arrested, while
the other thief escaped. They had 80
head OF cattle which they expected to
drive across into Idaho and exchange
for cattle that they intended to sell to
Baker City butchers.
An impression prevails among many
people in this country that American
railroads are the only roads imposed on
by politicians and others for free passes,
but a recent agitation in France con-
cerning passes brought out the fact
that about 100000 passes are issued
annually by French railway companies.
1t is proposed to put tax upon those
free passes in France and o. howl OF
rage has gone forth from those who
enjoy the privilege of riding for moth
ing. The proposed tax is very light,
and it might be supposed that those en-
joyiug the privilege of riding free
would ride without any protest, but
the political class seems to be the
same everywhere, and few cents i'm
posed upon free pass is considered a
real grievance.