The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-07-30
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Ed Patterson, who recently escaped
from the insane asylum at Salem, wa:
arrested at La Grande last Monday.
Prof W. Wilson, of Providence, R
l., has been elected principal Of the
| Washington Normal school at Ellens
| burg.
A train load of 800 head of one an6
two-year-old cattle is being bought in
Benton county for shipment to North
Dakota.
The five-year-old daughter of Joseph
D. Frazelle. who lives at Mount Hope,
Wash, was run over by traction en-
gine and killed last Saturday.
Threshing has commenced in por-
tlons of Gillian county, and the grain
is turning out we'll. On Shutter Flat
one machine is threshing 5000 bushels
day.
At the last meeting of the Snoho-
mish city council, the seat of Council
man C. L. Lawry was declared vacant,
and s. E. Russell was elected. Mr..
Lawry is in Alaska.
John Murphy, alias "VirginIa Slim"
was shot by James Leecy and instantly
killed at Spokane last Monday. Both
men were tough characters and were
drunk at the time OF the shooting.
DR.. Brooks, of the Port Townsend
quarantine station, was recently called
East by telegram, and it now develops
that he will be sent to Cuba with a
corps of surgeons for duty at the front.
VIM. Miles, ,one of the inmates of the
Umatilla county poor farm, is an old
soldier. He receives a pension of $12
a month, which he gives to the county
for the priv ilege of living at the poor
house.
William Raymond, farmer living
near Pendleton, has been arrested on
a charge of having put poison in a
watering trough. Four horses belong
ing to the Brown family died after
drinking the water.
The Oaksdale pound was broken
open few nights ago, and cow be-
longing to John Kusler released.
Kusler denied that he released the
animal, but saidF that he had friends
City Marshal Detherage is looking Tor
the friends.
The o. R. & N. Co. is building
mammoth dock below Albina. 1t will
occupy the space between the old dry
dock and the ruins of the elevator.
burned several years ago. The whalf
will be 1000 feet long and will be COW
cred with grain docks.
There was disastrous fire on the
farm of Charles Osten, of Wagner,
Gillian county, last week, the result
OF 4-year.old boys carslessness with
matches. A barn filed with hay,
granery, chicken-house, wagon and
two saddles were burned.
Horseshoe bridge, 20 miles west OF
Huntington on the o. r. & N, was de-
stroyed by fire Monday afternoon. 1t
is being rebuilt, and until the work is
completed passengers and mail will be
transferred from the trains that will
approach either end of the bridge.
An attempt was made to burgiarize
the Dayton hotel Monday night, but
the burglars were scared away before
accomplishing their purpose. A sack
filled with plunder was found next
morning in the hallway between the
kitchen and the dining room.
The North western sash and door
factory at Albina is running 16 hours
day now on outside orders. The
factory has orders for work FIVE weeks
in advance. In the construction of
the AZ dumpcarts for the Hale & Kern
Co. about 85, 900 feet of lumber will be
used. The carts will cost about 8, 600.
Smith & Howard, who have the con-
tract fer laying the submerged pipe
across the river above Portland, are
making preparations to begin the
work. The cradle, device for hand
ling the pipe, is now being constructed
at Wolff & &Zwicker's iron works. They
began dredging the rive- last week,
and expect to be ready to lay the pipe
in about ten days.
Sunday, George Osborne, bookeeper
for the Everett Land Company; tried
10 comrait suicide at bfsp home. ID
Everstt,' ,'Wasb. 'He took razor, stand
fag beforsa mirror, and Cut his throat
almost from ear to ear, but did not cut
deep enough to kill instantly. He