The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-10-19
ITEMS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturday Daily.
Mr.. 1. H. Tafe, of the Cello fishery, il
IN town.
Mr.. Orville Tucker, of Arlington, is il
the city.
Lovely, sunny weather is the order o.
the day.
DR.. Whitcomb and wife, of Dufur, are
in the city today.
A marriage license was issued to-day &c
Mr.. Francis Obrist and Miss Nancy Nc
Kamey.
Mrs. DIR. Gilmer, who is Frustrated by al
attack of typhoid fever, was not so well last
evening.
We are indebted to Miss Iva Brooks for
information kindly furnished for these col.
umns to-day. Thanks.
DIR. Tucker and family went below on the
afternoon train yesterday to regale them.
selves with the sights at the fair.
The records of Sherman county, tran.
scribed from our county books, were ac.
cepted by the Sherman county court with.
out any demur.
Mr.. w. S. Myers, wife aud their daugh-
ter, Mrs. DR.. Waters, are in Portland in
attendance upon the fair. They will re.
turn tonight.
A host of friends will be glad to hear
that Miss Sadie Whitmer, sister of Mrs.
George Filloon, is recoveridg from what
threatened to be serious illness.
Adam Croasman, formerly city marshal
of The Dalles, was elected grand master
alarms at the recent session of the grand
lodge of Knights of Pythias at Astoria.
Ex-Gov z. T. Moody was In attendance
upon the waterway convention at Port
land, and was elected one of the vice pres
idents. The next convention meets at
Oregon City.
The handsome residence of Mr.. E. B. Du.
fur, is being upholstered to-day by Crandall
Il Burget. The carpets, which were laid at
noon to-day, are very handsome, velvet,
roxbury and tapestry.
Mr.. Billy Theodore and family went be-
low on the afternoon train to-day, to the
exposition. They will be absent about
week, visiting the points of interest on the
Sound before their return.
MIR. H. Anlauf left on last nights train to
visit the fair. He goes out on Monday
nights train to Southern Oregon to attend
to some business connected with his prop
erty i'll that part of the state.
Mrs. w. G. Simpson informed us this
morning that her husband, Rev MIR. Simp-
son, is better and gaining strength. This
will be good news to large and deeply
interested circle of friends.
The soldiers, who have been in camp near
Cayuse Station, will pass through the city
tomorrow On their way home. They will
cross the Deschutes at the lower bridge and
90 from here to Vancouver by steamer.
Messrs. J P. Webster and w. C Rupert
have gone to Portland TO take in the fair
If other communities furnish their quota
of sightseers in proportion TO The Dulles,
the attendance during the thirty days will
be very large.
Mr.. Boyd, from Antelope, reports that it
began raining Tuesday noon at that place
and kept it up in fine style until Wednes-
day morning. A few good showers and
such fine sunny days as we have now will
start winter feed in fine shape.
Mr.. J. B. Crossen held an auction sale
on the corner of Washington and Second
this afternoon. The subject was alleged
to be a horse. The bidding was very de-
liberate and had reached $3.50 when the
reporter left. We shall not stop the press
to announce the result.
Last evening about five o'clock as bug.
gy containing Miss Lucina Patten and two
little girls-Annie Wentz and Lena Liebe,
was passing the steam saving machine in
front of j. Fl. McDonough's, large team
directly behind them grew frightened at the
noisy little coffee mill and tried to run
away. To avoid being run over Miss Pat
ten attempted to turn out of the way and in
SO doing cramped the buggy too short and
upset it, spilling the girls and herself out.
strong hands caught and held
the fractions team behind the overturned
buggy and we are happy to report no serious
ious casualty.
A prominent railroad man explains the
regular delay of the Short Line train by
saying that in the making OF the present
schedule the company separated with ITS
teeth. from the great mass, larger frag-
ment than it can conveniently masticate.
In short that the hours are too few or the
miles too many considering the work to be
done along the line. Business is increasing
also. 1t may not be generally known that
the N. p. train leaving here now runs over
the branch direct to Spokane Falls as one of
the termini. A train leaving the latter
place day or two since was made up in
part or five coaches In all of which there
was standing room Only.
From Mr. G. L. Phillips we learn that
the grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias
was very Hospitality entertained by the
good citizens of Astoria. On Tuesday
evening the visitors were entertained by a
grand bail in the opera house. Wednes-
day evening found the outside delegations
filed with pieasurable emotions and
result of clambakc. Thurs
lay, the Knights wandered about the
lecks of the Aibatross, the government
1eep sea fishing vessel, poked their canes
and umbrellas into forbidden spots and
and made life burden generally |
20 the officers and men of that luckless |
ship. On the same day free ride over |
he bit of railroad from Fort Stevens to |
he ocean and out into it, was rendered |
he foreigners. Messrs. Phillips and |
Michel among others availed themselves |
IF the chance, and as the little narrow |
yuage cars crawled out on the spider-like |
reste, way up about 40 feet above the |
'eething, boiling rush Of the outgoing |
ide, Mr.. Phillips says they held on tight,
ind we believe HIM. The whole affair |
rom first to last was very enjoyable. and |
Astoria and Astorians deserve credit for |
heir generous hospitality. The next an.
lual meeting of the grand lodge, x. OF L |
will be held in this city.
The lovers of the artistic can have their |
,sthetic tastes gratified and their hearts |
made glad by an inspection OF the fine |
work lately done on the lower panels OF |
)ne of the doors in the Office of Mays IL |
1t is probably the only spec
men OF the kind in the United States, |
original and unique in conception, as well |
IS startling and bold in execution. The |
artist is the dog Prince, whose solemn and |
stately walk has always been peculiarly |
,difYing to us, except on one occasion |
when us we were going 10 lunch we met |
him ON the sidewalk near the residence of |
Mrs. Lulu Sampson. lie was running |
hen, running as if his whole heart was in |
he business, as if he had just remem- |
oered an imperative engagement some |
where. A blast just fired near MIR. Dufur's |
new residence may have had something to |
10 with his haste. But we wander. 1t |
seems that night or two since the dog |
was forgotten when the occupants of the |
,ffice closed up for the day. Prince dis |
lains idleness, and so by way of some |
hing TO occupy himself, he turned his at
ention TO the door, especially the lower |
part Starting in with few bold dashes |
le produced an ensemble, which more
nearly resembles map of the Franco
prussian war struck BylightnIng, than
lnything else. The perspective may he a
rifle faulty, but the foreshortening is good
md the chiaroscuro particularly fine.
We notice that large part of the bottom