The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1891-10-24
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
The streets in the East End are liter
: ally crowded with wheat wagons.
Mr.. 7. H. Johnston, of the firm OF John
ston Bros, the leading business house o
Dufur, is in the city.
Moody's warehouse is receiving large
quantities of wheat daily, and the price.
offered are 70 to IS cents bushel.
} Our streets to-day are well crowded with
farmers, and by reason OF the high price
for wheat they look happy and contented
Mr.. Chas. Nell. of Centervllle, is In
the city. His crops this year were very
excellent and were disposed of at the
Diamond mills.
The exhibit of Wasco county at the
Portland exposition is the finest there.
Fruits, vegetables and grain are not
equalled by any county in the state.
A colored gentleman was taken up on the
streets last mig gbt for not having any known
vocation with which to earn a livelihood.
In consequence he is now working on our
streets to replenish the city treasury.
Mr.. r. T. Lacy, the man who commit
ted suicide yesterday, died at O'Clock
In the afternoon. An inquest was held
by the coroner, and the facts were the
same as those published yesterday.
Straw burning stoves are being intro
duced IN Sherman county. The Iuel is
supplied by means of drum, IN which
it Is closely pressed and will furnish
warm, comfortable fire for several hours
before it needs renewing.
The examination OF young Morton for
stabbing Knebel was had before Justice
Schultz yesterday afternoon, and the defend
ant was bound over to await the action of
the grand jury. Awaiting the result of the
injury the bail was not named
In another column will De found an
| advertisement for proposals for the con-
struction OF brick and stone basemen! of
M. E. church in this city. The Metho-
dists desire to have place of worship
erected at the earliest possible date.
Union services at the court house Sun
day at II A. II. aud at P. NJ. Preschlng
in the morning by Rev. W. G. Curtis,
pastor of the Congregational church; IN
the evening by Rev W. Skipwor,h ON.
E.) of Portland. Sunday school and
Christian Endeavor as usual.
Young Husband-sIs dinner ready, dear?
I'm as hungry as BEAR" Young Wife
"All ready, love; and what is more,
cooked it all myself" Young Husband
''Now, how very unfortunatel 1t just comes
to me that | promised to meet a man down
town on business just at this hour"
The climate of The Dalles and vicinity
&c cip
preciates this fact. With all the natural
facilities for trade this city possesses, and
the hea!thful climate, there Is no reason
we should not have as much population
as any point except Portland,
The press is calling attention to gener-
ally violated Oregon law which provides:
'.It shall be unlawful to sell, barter, trade,
give, or in any manner furnish to any
minor, under the age Of eighteen years, any
tobacco. cigars, or cigarettes In any form,
or any compound in which tobacco forms a
component part"
The town of Dufur gives evidence of
great prosperity, and the present year will
be one of the most eventful in its history.
During the past summer dozen substantial
buildings have been erected, and consldera-
BILE work has been done in improving streets |
and putting down sidewalks. There can be |
no doubt that Dufur will be the great busI- |
ness point of the interior of Wasco county. |
As the rendezvous for news the Umatilla |
House Is the center, and in his daily rounds |
our reporter never neglects this repository. |
To-day he found Col. Sinnott as affabe as |
ever, and as ardently in favor of an open |
river, but on looking over the register he |
saw the name of man from. Syria, another |
from Constantinople, and still another from |
Bucharest. These names were written in
such an outlandish way, with Slavonian |
characters, that he could not put them in
English and Latin letters. Satisfied, but |
not at all gratifed, he departed, and will |
try some future time to pencil an item of |
news from this great hostlery of Eastern
Oregon.
Eugene Guard: Thursday morning Ned |
Thompson, of Monroe. eloped with Miss |
Edna Smith, who lives about three miles |
west of Junction, leaving Harrisburg on the |
overland train. By some means the young |
lady got eff the train at Woodburn by mis-
take, her lover being in another car when
the tram stopped at that place. the parties
intending to go to Portland. but he returned |
to Woodburn on the Albany express, arrlv-
ing at that place at 5 P. M. On ahghtlng
from the train he was arrested by the |
Woodburn marshal, on a warrant from
Justice Starr's court at Junction, charging
him with taking away female under l6
years of age for the purpose of prostitution.
Mr.. Thompson claims that he. had no in
tention of running away with the girl.
With great expectations our reporter WIS.,
tied the court house to-day, and calmly and
with serene countenance the deputy clerk
sat copying mortgages. To questions pro-
pounded the answer came that there was
nothing of which to make an item. Bend
ing his footsteps across the hallway he called
on the sheriff and his deputy, and could re.
ceive nothing of Importance. Mr.. Gates
had just returned from the grand lodge K.
of P. in Portland, and was somewhat wear
led by the devotions he had given at the
shrine of Pythias, and Deputy Phirman had
just returned from levying an attachment
on band of sheep. Both were as uncom-
uunicative as the grave when asked for
news. The same number were in the Jail,
and nothing had happened to mar the mel
lihuous flow of current events. Disgusted
beyond expression, with an unused pencil,
our reporter left, and time moved on in its
rapid course the same as it has for centuries
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