The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-01-01
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From WedneSdaY's Daily.

ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.
Thomas Callaghan. of Rutledge, va
in the city today.
w. D. Carter. the pioneer pri inter
Portland, died this morning.
School will be reopened next Mon
day after weeks vacation during the
holidays.
One car of cattle was shipped from
Saltmarshe & Co.'S. stockyards to
Troutdale last night.
T. 81. Johnston, J. A. Gulliford and
W. T. Vanderpnol. three solid men OF
Dufur, were in the city today.
Ray Logan and Arthur Stubling have
returned to Eugene to re-enter school,
after spending Christmas in the city.
The steamer Elder sailed Monday
night from Portland for Alaska, laden
with full cargo of freight and 81 pas
sengers.
Farmers about Dufur are busily en-
gagged in blowing high land, butall the
low lands are too wet to be farmed at
present.
The endowment rank of the X. of P.
in The Dalles has elected S. Fish.
president, John Gavin, yice-president.
and F. S. Cunning, secretary.
The fur decorations in A. M. Will
iiams 81 Co.'S. windows. arranged by
Ernest Jenson, are very attractive as
are the holiday decorations inside the
store.
Owing to the recent rains the roads
leading to The Dalles have been made
almost impossible, consequently only
those who are forced to come to town
do 80.
Tim Brown died at his home in Du-
fur yesterday afternoon. aged about 81
years, after lingering illness with
consumption. He leaves wife and
one daughter.
Persons who have lately arrived in
Portland from Alaska report a very
rich strike having been made on Hem
pier creek, where the dirt yields from
81 to S6 to the pan.
Work on the new railroad bridge
across Mill creek is progressing rap
idly. The trestles are all framed. and
a gang of men with a donkey engine
are engaged In putting them in place.
The rock work on the west side of
Mill creek is about completed. though |
IL few men are still working there and
an occasional blast is fred that serves
to break the nonotony of the dull
times.
At an early hour this morning the |
steamer Bailey Gotzert was caught in |
the draw of the steel bridge at Port |
land, and a number of persens were
thrown into the river and quite SER
iousiy injured.
The state teachers association was
opened in the assembly hall of the
high school building in Portland last
evening with a large attendance.
teachers from nearly every part OF the
state being present.
The editor was dying, says an ex-
change, when the doctor bent over,
placed his ear on his breast and said:
"Poor man, circulation almost gone"
The dying man sat up and shouted:
"You'Ye liar: we have the largest |
circulation in the county"
Today the petition for the confine-
ment OF Ella and Lulu Hawthorne in
the boys and girls aid oclety home |
was argued before Judge Mays and an
order WAS made permanently commit
ting them to that institution.
The Workmen in this city are max |
ing elaborate preparations for enter
tanning Past Grand Master Tate when |
he shall visit The Dalles on january
%. The Vogt opera house has been
engaged, aud public meeting will be
held.
W. T. Gardner, sHoerintendent of
the boys and girls aid society, is here,
and will remain in the city tomorrow
to attend the hearing of the argument
of the petition asking the commitment
of the Wickham children to the |
society.
Arrangements have been perfected |
for football. game Saturd W after
noon on The fair grounds between The |
Dalles team and Nerrills team of Port
land. Harry Myer has been elected
captain and Vic Marden manager of
The Dalles team.
Testimony in the divorce case of
English vs. English is being taken be-
fore Referee D. S. Dufur. and is being
hotly contested by the opposing coun-
sci. Judge Bennett and Fl. H. Riddell
are attorneys for the plaintiff and Du-
fur & Menefee for the defendant.
A telephone dispatch from Burns to
Baker City says that Peter French was
murdered at that place by a man
named Oliver. French was one of the
best known cattle men in Eastern
Oregon. having been engaged in stock
raising near Burns for the past %
years.
Dailes Elks who attended the recep-
tion of Exalted Ruler Detweiler in Port
land Monday night. say it was grand
affair. though some ct them paid the
penalty of having played too many
practical Jokes on F. T. Keelar, of
Oakland, who acted In the capacity of
chairman at the stag social.
H.. Mcneil started from Eliens.
burg to Seattle with 20 dogs, last Sun
dag. The dogs are shepherds and
Newfoundland and shepherd mixed.
They average about 70 pounds, and