The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-01-21
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.

Fred N. Wallace, of Antelope, is i
the city.
A. S. MacAllister came home las
night from Portland.
A. E. Negus returned last nigh
from visit to Corvallis.
Miss Jennie Marden returned las
evening from visit to Portland.
E. M. McComas, of Pendleton, i
registered ut the Uinatilla House.
Polk Mays has 100 head of cattle a
the stock yards which he will ship to
morrow 20 his farm in Wallow
county.
A meeting of the taxpayers OF schoo
district No. IL is calleo' on Monday
January 30th, to consider the voting
of tax for school purposes during the
coming year.
At 5 o'clock this morning Leo. the
8-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hark
ness died of spinal neningltis. The
funeral will be conducted from the
family residence on Friday.
A young man by the name of Elmer
Miller, of Pendleson, is in the tolls OF
the law at Portland for having fraudu.
emily obtained registered letter from
the Pendleton postoffice containing
S87.
A. j. Knightly, of Cascade Locks,
has been sentenced by Judge Bellinger
months in the county Jail for having
made false return as bankrupt
debtor.
If the ice goes out between here and
Crates point. wnere it is now blocked,
the steamer Dalles City will make
trip up from Portland Friday. The
ice is all out from Crates point to the
mouth of the river
Tee funeral of the late John Brook
house was held at the Catholic Church
at 9 o'clock this morning, where Rev.
A. Bronsgeest said mass, after which
the rem aims were conducted to the
cemetery, followed by large number
of friends.
Yesterday J. M. and Geo. Nolan, of
Dufur, were 10 the city to receive the
remains of Elm Frost, who died at
Candy, Clackamas county, last Sun
day, and convey them to Dufur for bur-
ial. Mr.. Frost was former resident
of Dufur, and was Mrs. ]. M. Nolan's
father.
The Columbia presented a beautiful
sight this morning when the ice began I
moving. AT first one codld see great |
mountains of ice rise up in midstream,
then they would subside and open
places would be noticed. These would
soon close up with ice from above, and
would appear solid mass until 'an-
other opening would be formed by the
sction of the water. Finally about
noon the ice quit moving, a jam being
formed at Crates point.
A sturdy old farmer explains why
the legislature adjourned ON Thursday
of last week. He says he saw the leg
slators off to the capitol. and they
knew just what was to be
lone, but in the hustle and whirr of
The city by the willamette they for. :;
got their text, and had to return home
10 learn it from their constituents.
His explanation is satisfactory.
This morning 7. Morris was taken
before Recorder Gates on charge of
arceny from dwelling, and was held I
n bonds of 5000 to answer before the
lext grand jury. Not being able to r
urnish bonds he was removed to the
.ustody of the sheriff. Morris claims Fl
o have arrived here last night, and
he first thing he did was to enter M.
7. Nolan's residence and steal some 7
coats. a
Chas. E, Blaney's big extravaganza
uccess, ga Boy Wanted" will be I
Managers Kinersly's next attraction il
It the Vogt Jan. 21st 1t is bright g
,urrah, musical, farcical opera bout
ical extravaganza, SO arranged as to G
permit of the varied list of specialtses n
which that campaDy presents. There q
8 presumed to be a plot but this
is merely one of the !,
heatrical fiction invented as an ex-
use for the presentation of other
eatures. "a Boy Wanted" is one of
hose peculiar plays in which the
eason for the title is a mental enigma. Z
The "Boy" in this case is hardly the
central figure of the show as all the !
haracters are prominent.