The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-12-23
From Fridays Daily.

There are three feet of snow in the
vicinity of Lakeview.
:. M. E. Montgomery, Of Portland, was
in the city last night.
Mrs. J. F. Haworth is very Ill, being
threatened with an attack Of fever.
b. C. Rooper, one of the prominent
sheepraisers of Antelope, is in the city.
Clark & Falk's fiavoring extracts are
fresh and pure. Ask your grocer for
them.
Frank Leibeline, OF Kingsley, was
In the city today buying Christmas
supplies. -
Mrs. Ella johnson, OF Centerville,
was passenger on the boat for Port-
land this morning.
Captain Wainwright is collecting
300 head OF cavalry horses throughout
Eastern Oregon to be shipped to Ma.
nila.
There will be one week vacation
given by the public schools beginning
today and lasting until the I'd of
January. -
Rev. Frank Spalding, of Hood River,
was in the city today, and goes TO Boyd
tomorrow to dedicate the new church
at that place.
Dalles merchants generally report
the holiday trade to have been, fair,
though not as great as 1t has been In
former years.
At Baker City AL Losson has been
convicted of murder 10 the second de-
gree for the killing of Hugh Younger
on November "a.
A Pendleton paper says that all
town prisoners nowadays are given
only bread and water When committed
to Jail, and this tends to discOtinue
lawlessness there.
Nora Cole, the II year-oid girl who
was recently sent from Douglas county
to the penitentiary or horsestea lang,
has been declared insane and com.
mitted to the insane asylum.
Sheriff Frazier, of Multnomah )
county, while out buying cavalry
horses for the government at Fossil |
the other day was thrown from buggy |
and pretty badly bruised.
Ernest Beeks, of Pleasant Valley,
Wash, left this morning for Portland,
where hs goes to have his eyes treated
Last season he was in Alaska, where.
ais ayes we're badly injured.
This afternoon Miss Taylor's K inder
yarten gave.a Christmas tree, to which
;he patrons OF the school were invited.
each of the little pupils had prepared
ome present for his or her parents.
A most desirable present would be q
'air of gold frame glasses for your,
Pife, mother or sweetheart. Select
hem now and after Christmas send
hem to Garretson, the refractionist,
Or adjustment. Examination free.
The children iu the first grade OF the |
;ourt street school had Christmas !
rec this afternoon. The tree was !
rettiIy arranged and decorated by the
,acher, Miss Douthit, and each pupil
as the recipient OF some present :
onated by fellow pupil.
Henry Deitzel returned this morn a
Ig from a visit to Okanogan country, v
here he has been inspecting some +
lining property owned by himself and 7
r. Wingate. Mr.. Deitzel thinks the
ines are all right and expects them
give good returns when they are >
.veloped. y,
So far the snow that has fallen in j,
asco county has been beneficial, it bi
wing protected grain from the frost, 10
d also aided stockmen In feeding, as as
ok do not waste so much hay when %
D ground Is covered with snow as 81
ey do when they are fed ON the bare a. =.
ound. n,
A few days since DR.. Geisendorffar sc
very delicate operation sh
the right eye Of W. T. Hunt which WI
cessitated the opening Of the outer ne
In of the eyeball and removing q :.
'eign growth that was threatening mr.
obscure.the vision. The operation er
8 perfectly successful and Mr.. Hunt we
" sees out Of the defective eye as ha
Il as he ever did. us
The locomotive that went of the
ok near Roster Rock several weeks I
and carried Engineer Hunter and res
or,au Milan En- daath has NOT haou ene