The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-02-04

} Ior ner trial trip.
: DR.. Hugo Guske, of Kansas Cit
80 Missouri, passed through here yeste
- day and stopped over short time
see his old friend Professor P. c
Daut.
y Mr. o. P. McFall has made labo
saving nailholder for mailing up straw
ID berry crates. The jar caused by mai
ing the boxes on the table operates th
is machine. From scoop-shaped fur
mel at the top, the nails drop down in
Y, to two zinc cutters, the points of tn
nails projecting through slit in tn
bottom, and slide out on wires at th
q point, making it easy to pick them of
any number required at time. 1t
a great improvement on the old way @
holding the nails in the mouth.
A matched bowling contest betwee,
the ladies of the Dalles Commercial
: and Atheletic club and those of tn,
Astoria club is being spoken of. 1t i
expected that the tournament will b,
bowled in Portland in the near future
Our town has "a large number of fin,
" bowlers among the ladies and a team
: would be selected that would make
, very creditable showing in such g
| tournament. 1t would also have 8
tendancy to arouse more interest in
this sport.
Up to this time, the winter has been
unusually mild and favorable to stock
J men, says the Prineville Journal. The
deepest snow has not exceeded six in
ches, and there is none at all now, ex-
cept ON the high mountains. There
have been no losses of stock except
among horses which went into the win
ter poor. In the Beaver Creek county
south of here there has been much
deeper snow, and in fact it has been
deeper all oyer Eastern Oregon than
in Crook county.
A meeting of the members of the
fire patrol of the different companies
will be held in the council chambers
on Saturday evening. February the
4th. The object being to perfect the
organization of special police to serve
during fires. Three men from each
company will serve as such and see that
property that is carried into the street
| or other places in order to protect it
from the flames, is not stolen. This is
an admirable idea as lis nearly always
the case that sneak thieves take adyan-
tage of such opportunities as are
afforded by fire to steal and carry
away valuable articles, aud a fire
patrol will do much towards protecting
property.
Last nights snow storm was one of
the most sudden changes of the sea-
son. Up to 8 o'clock yesterday even
ing we enjoyed mild weather with an
occasional shower, when suddenly a
small sized blizzard came up and in an
Incredibly short space of time our
climate was transformed from that of
spring into one decidedly wintry.
About one inch and one half of snow
fell and the thermometer dropped to- |
wards zero. This morning winter |
garments which bad been stored away !
with the expectation that they would |
be needed no longer, were taken out |
and proved to be the proper thing. |
Spring weather in, January, although |
not unusual in Oregon, cannot always |
be relied upon.
The largest funeral ever held in |
Union county was that of the late |
James 81. Slater, ex-United States
senator, last Monday. People gathered
from all parts of that and neighboring
and crowds followed the re-
mains to the grave. Funeral services
we're held IN St. Peters Episcopal
church, in La Grande, and were con- !;
1ucted by the rector, Rev. Charles W.
Turner, assisted by Rev. E. Potwine,
Of Pendleton. and Rev. II. Harris, of
Cove. Mr.. Potwine delivered short,
tribute to the memory of the
deceased, who had been his life long .
friend. The Masons conducted the
services at the grave. This makes the
sixth pioneer in that county buried
within go days. The others were Mrs.
NJ. B. Rees, W. w. Welman, John
Mcdowell, Thomas Owsley, Benjamin
Hawley.