The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-03-12
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From wednesdays Daily.

L. D. Woo1side, Of Wamic, is in &
city.
Attorney X. N. Steves, of Portlan
is in the city.
Thomas Harlan has returned from
visit to Spokane.
q. F. Steed has moved from Hot
River to Bakeoven.
M. Groenew, of the Gambrinl
brewery, is in the city.
Keep your eyes open for fine ente
tainment when the home minstre
put their show on the boards.
Mrs. Stay Shown, who has bee
visiting her mother in the city, LEI
this morning for her home at Seattle
The last game of the bowling toul
nament between the Umatilla Hous
team and the Commercial Club tear
will be played on the Umatilla Hous
alleys tonight.
The Regulator came up well lade
with freight for Dalles merchants las
night, and the wharf this mornin!
looked like an ocean steamer had un
loaded its cargo there.
Commissioners court has been IL
session today, and has been consider
ing road petitions. The full board
Judge Mays and Commissioners Blow
ers and Kimsey, are in attendance.
Farmers generally throughout the
country are we'll along with theil
spring plowing and manyfof them have
begun seeding. They are preparing
to seed larger acreage to grain this
spring than ever before.
A few days ago everybody was com
planning about the mud, and now peo-
pie are grumbling about the dust. The
street sbrinkler man will have to get
his wagon out soon if he would keep
Dallesitss IN good humor.
Weston is to have new city hall.
The contract to build it has been let
to George Williams, and work will be
begun at once. The council chamber
will be on the upper floor, and the Jail
and fire department beneath.
The position OF Spain and the
United States at present is very much
like two big prize-fghters in the ring.
Each is sparring for points and an
opportunity to give the other knock
out blow without sustaining injury
itself.
Last night the Sons of Veterans
were given pleasant surprise by the
ladies of the Relief Corps. Their fort
ress was besieged about the time the
company was ready to adjourn, and
the sons surrendered delivering them
selves as willing captives to their fair
captors.
It is said that If work ever begins in
earnest on the Nicaragua canal,
France will invite union of European
countries in demand for the neutrali-
cation and joint international control
of the great waterway, which would
be the most direct route to her colonies
in the far east.
The Inland Long Distance Telephone
& Telegraph Company, which company
fs building line from Walla Walla to
Baker City, las practically completed
the section OF line between Union and
La Grande. A crew of 16 men is now
working west of La Grande.
a man from Hood River today pre-.
seuted to the county clerk not only
the scalps but the hides of eight bears,
one cougar and one wildcat and claim
ed bounties thereon. He didn't want
to damage the pelts by removing the
sealps, SO he brought the whole hides
to the court house.
Patriotic Americans want no blood
money from Spain; they want nothing
short of an opportunity to give Spain
such threshing as will for a hundred
years to come cause the nations of the
world to beware of an act of treachery
toward the American flag or toward
an American citizen.
The nickel-in-she slot machine is
most obstinate device. and appears to
refuse to be banished. Recently the
CITY council passed an order abolish
ing them as gambling devices, those
that give cash prizes. and now they |
have been converted into an apparatus
that gives out checks for merchandise.
So it seems they are here to stay.
Lakeview, in Lake county, is about
as completely isolated from the rest of
the world as any place in the United
States. The Examiner of that town
says: "We are living in world of
our own and know not what is going
on about US. Surely, by the coming
springtfme, SON move should be made
by our people toward procuring tele-
graphic or telephone communication
with the outside world"
A few days since child about one
year old was brought to DIR. Hollister
for treatment that developed rather
peculiar case. The child had heen
putting cloves in its nose and one stuck
fast, though its parents thought all
had been removed. The one that re
mafned had expanded until it was al
most as large as lead pencil, and had
entirely closed the nostril. When re-
moved the child resumed its normal |
condition, though before it had bad q |
difficult time breathing.
Last night the two-year old child OF
Mr.. and Mrs. 81. B. Brown of Five
Mile got hold of a bottle of eye water
containing atropa and drank some of
the contents. AS soon as the parents
discovered what it bad done they start
ed with the child for town to get med
fcal assistance. They reused DIR, Hol-
lister about midnight and he relieved
the little sufferer. though it had
thrown most of the poison off its
stomach before reaching here. or the
case would have proven fatal.
For The Mining and Irrigation Con-
veution to be held at Baker City, Ore,
March 2s, s,3O,3l, 1898, the o. R. & N.
Co. " i'll make rate of one and one
fifth fare for the round trip. Delegates
ckx~-J;-~ ha 40, r,avt;on