The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1891-09-26
From Mondays Daily.


From Mondays Daily.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Sherar are in the
city.
Mr.. 2. A. Moody, of Portland, spent yes
terday in the city.
Mr. j. R. Rankin, of Hood River, Is on
our streets to day.
Mr.. c. J. Van Duyu. the merchant o.
Tygh, is in the city to-day.
Mr.. Guy Willis and Mr.. Russell Sewell
of Portland, were in the city yesterday on
1 flying visit.
! Two carloads of cattle were fed and
shipped from R. E. Saltmarshe's stockyards
to Portland yesterday.
License to wed was granted Saturday
by the county clerk, to Ed. G. Miller and
Miss Clara Frazier.
Wheat is coming In lively to Moody 8
warehouse to-day. The price is given at 72
to 75 cents per bushel.
The annual fair of the District Agri
cultural society will open tomorrow at
the grounds near this city.
Mr.. VIM. Holder, state lecturer of
the Oregon Grange, arrived in this city
last night from Grass Valley.
Piles of lumber are scattered all over the
burned district, and in short time build.
ing will commence in good earnest.
Mr.. 7. L. Roberts, wife and family. will
leave in the morning for Snohomish, WASH,
which they will make their future resi-
dence.
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soon as the casting, which has been ordered
from the east arrives. 1t is expected any
moment.
Capt. j. Donovan is still in the wood
business, and has q large quantity of oak,
fir and maple, which will be sold at the
lowest market value.
Mr.. g. Butler crossed the river with a
band of fine sheep this afternoon. They
will be fed at Mr.. Saltmarshe's stock kyards,
and from there shipped to the Puget Sound
market.
from the receiving basin to the new reser-
voir on the bluff, and water is now running.
Our informant says the pipes have burst
and along the line water lies in pools.
Five I'd. and lis" were arrested last
night, and one this morning. Two
''pungled" this morning, three are work
ing out their fines on the streets, and
one left town for the benefit of the COM
munity.
Canyon City has a Salvation Army, as
well as baseball team, and thus the city is
putting on metropolitan airs. The Salya-
tion Army is composed of home talent, but
Al f,,II
an imported regiment would.
Cattlemen of Crook county feel little
uneasIness regarding the demand for beef
this fall. The supply of beef being greater
than was expected, there is no certainty
that there will be market for all the beef
in Crook county this season, and cattle rails
ers may have to carry their steers over an
other year.
Mr. Walter Johns, son of Mr.. Thos.
Johns, of The Dalles laundering Co., met
with a severe accident last Saturday.
While driving a lumber wagon, in some
way he got his leg in the running gear, and
the limb was badly fractured. DIR. RIne-
hart was called and attended to the injury,
and the boy is doing as well as could be ex-
pected.
We are sorry to hear that Mr.. Fred Will
son, who left this city few days ago to
matriculste in John Hopkins university in
Baltimore, Md, was taken very sick en-
route, and stopped at Chicago at the resi-
dence of his aunt for medical treatment.
At last accounts he was improving, and 1t is
hoped he will soon be able to resume his
journey.
Ochoco Reyieso: Last Saturday Andy Ly-
tie threshed 1902 bushels of barley off of 80
acres of ground on the farm on Willow
creek which he bought Of j. II. Crooks.
The ground was not plowed last spring, the
grain having been put in with disk har.
row. 1t was pretty good yield, consider
ing the cultivation the ground had received.
The advertisement of Messrs Chrisman
s. Corson, appears in another column.
They have purchased the very complete
stock of groceries and provisions of Mr..
Geo. Ruch, and will be happy to see any
and all of their old customers at their
new stand, corner Washington and
second.
Fossil Journal: A letter from Dufur to
the MoUNTAINEER credits our old cor
"Keno" with having made considerable of
a hold in a melon patch at Dufur recently.
Bully for ''KenoI He Is one of those happy
they go. Our old friend is equally at home
in the columns of newspaper, the black
smith shop, or melon patch. Long 1--we
"KeDoi'
Baker City Democrat: Last evening as
party of young men were returning to their
homes in the valley. the tongue of the vehi-
Gle in which they were riding dropped to
the ground and the horses stated on a mad
run, throwing the occupants to the ground
and injuring one of them, Phil Collins by
name, so seriously that his comrades feared
that he was killed. One Of the boys, VIM.
Elliott, came to town for a physician, and
DIR. Dodson hastened to the aid of the in
jured young man.
Dayton Chronicle: Monday morning
about half past 2 o'clock r. A. Stanford
was aroused from his slumbers by some one
trying to force an entrance into his grocery
store, through the rear door. Mr.. Stanford
occupies a room upstairs and with pistol in
hand walked out on the back porch, where
he could command full view Of the mid
night prowler. The man was trying to
force an entrance with railroad spike and
had succeeded in bending some of the fast
enings when interrupted. When asked
what he was trying to do he made no an
swer, but lodged under the stairway. Mr..
Stanford then called to Nightwatch Perkins