The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-30
ITEMS LIN BRIEF.


ITEMS In BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.
Regular meeting of the Maccabee
at 7:30 tonight.
DR.. Hollister went to Moro this fore
noon and will return tonight.
Two of MIR. and Mrs. Geo. Herbert
little children are seriously ill will
typhoid pneumonia.
Mrs. S. L. Brooks returned last even
ing from Portland where she has beer
visiting the past week.
The snow storm in Dakota ha
blockaded the Northern Pacific, ant
no though trains have reached Tacom'
from the east since Saturday.
Private information from Salem i:
that the Benson house bids fair to e
to pieces soon, after which it is posi-
BILE 40 members of the house will gel
together and permanently organize.
Three convicts in the Washington
penitentiary at WaHs Walla were
caught yesterday attempting to escape.
They had sawed hole through the
hospital floor and were excavating
a tunnel when discovered.
There were a number Of commend
able features about the entertainment
at the Vog5 last night, chief among
which that the curtain raised promptly
on time, and that there was no time
wasted in changing scenery.
j. Fl. Jackson is the owner CT the
only herd of Peking China hogs in the
state, and proposes to exterminate the
breed. He bought them of James Full
ton yesterday, and intends killing
them as soon as they are fattened.
Revival services continue with un-
abaJed interest at the M. E. church.
Services will be conducted by Rev. j.
81. Wood assisted by Rev. r. Warner,
the presiding elder of this district. A
cordial invitation is extended to all.
The engineers in charge of the locks
at Cascades succeeded in clearing the
ice away so that the gates could be
operated yesterday afternoon, SO as to
allow the Regulator to pass through,
and the boat arrived here at $50 last
night. She left for Portland about
noon today.
A number of senatorial elections oc-
CURED throughout the country yester-
day. John c. Spooner was elected in
Wisconsin, John p. Jones in Nevada,
w. A. Harris in Kansas and Joseph
H. Earle in South Carolina. The dead
locks in South Dakota, Idaho, Utah
and Washington have not been brok-
en-. In Washington yesterday Cline |
received 42 and Turner 30 votes.
J. E. Graham. who was injured in a |
fail from the high trestle on the o. r.
& N. line below The Dalles last Thurs
day, died at the Union Street lodge
ing house in this city at 3:15 this after
noon. Mr.. Graham had no family ex-
cept brother who resides at Ashland,
who has been notified by telegraph. +
His home was in Portland and he was
a member of Phal anx Lodge, K. OF P.
of that city.
The clouds of mystery surrounding
the management of city finances in
Pendleton are not clearing away rap
idly. T. B. Clopton, who was engaged
to expert the books and accounts of
the city, has not yet made a statement
Of his findings, but it is said that the
sum missing may creep up to $4,000.
Mr.. Clopton had not been at work long
before he discovered that two sets of
license books had been kept.
Property owners in Baker county
viii get off this year with a tax of only
1873 mills on the dollar. Besides the
,ounty and state tax, amounting to
.8.S mills, the city and school district
axes are 17.5. Such rate of taxation
5 not confiscation, but it is at least
econd cousin. Baker cannot expect
% progress very rapidly from the in
7estment of outside capital within it's
limits SO long as such taxation prevails.
When the east-bound overland ar
lived here at 10 o'clock last night it
vas boarded by % Elks of this city,
Who thrust themselves into the Pull
nan car especially provided for the
of them and the ten Port 8
and Elks, all of whom we're en- route a
o Heppner to assist in the institution
# lodge in that city today. 1t was !
bout as Jolly crowd as ever left The
)alles, and no doubt high carnival /,
eigned supreme until Heppner was ,
cached.
The Georgia University Graduates I
ave come and gone, and everybody
7ho attended their entertainment was =,
leased. The entire troup is composed +
# real artists in their line, and they
i've an exceptionally good minstrel ,
how, affording abundant amusement,
nd at the same time displaying first
ate musical talent. The slack-rope :.
erformer and juggler were experts, +.
10Th giving performances that are new =.
nd very entertaining.
Character comes pretty high over in
Washington. A Waitsburg preacher
as sued the editor of the Times for
Is. 900 damages done the reverend
entleman by the publication OF an
rticle criticising a sermon delivered /.
y him last July. The plaintiff is Rev. 6
'icknor, a gentleman who is go {
English that he sees little
r nothing good on this side of the
Tater except perhaps it would be the a
ocket change of q country editor
to $4,000.
(From Thursdays Daily.)
Lincoln county had an earthquake
donday that shook Newport and Alse
ute severely, though no damage was
one.
Two car loads of beef cattle were