The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1891-08-22

forenoon, and after dinner the moisture
began to fall in apparently measured
quantities.
Judge Bennett and family returned Sun
day night from q visit to Astoria and the
ocean beach.
Mr.. T. A. Hudson returned Sunday night
from trip east, spending some days in
Chicago and New York.
The first of the wheat crop this season
was received in the city last Saturday, and
was purchased by the Diamond Mills.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. French returned
from Oakland, Cal, last night, where they
have been spending the summer months.
The wheat market remains firm, with
prices showing an upward tendency. Good
wheat can now be quoted at 20 and 72 cents
per bushel.
| There are quite a number of farmers
in the city to-day, and on account of the
advance In the price of wheat they seem
very hopeful.
Mr.. 7. H. Ward, formerly editor of the
Sun, is in the city. Mr.. Ward has been
rusticatlng for few weeks and feels much
| improved in health.
Hon. Geo. Dysart, practicing attor-
ney of CentralIa. Wash, a graduate of
Michigan university of the class of 1887,
is visiting friends in the city.
During our visit to the Locks Sunday we
walked the entire length of the portage
road. This is nearly completed, and the
approaches at the east and west end are the
only important parts of the road unfinished.
The smokestack of the Regulator was
placed in position to-day, and the boat is
fast assuming her true proportions. In a
few days this boat will be able to plow the
bosom of the Columbia like thing of life.
Fourteen carloads of cattle were shipped
from the stockyards of R. E. Saltmarshe &
Co. yesterday. Eleven were sent to the
Puget Sound Dressed Meat Co. at Meeker.
one went to Whateom, one to East Portland
and one to Montesano.
cave has been discovered in Josephine
county, which, those who explored it say,
will even outrival the Mammoth cave in
Kentucky. Several flash pictures were
taken. No signs of animal life were seen
in the cave, except few feet from the en-
trance.
A suspension bridge has just been com.
pleted across the Klickitat river at Wete-
mis-. 1t is l40 feet in length, and four feet
in width. The floor hangs about twelve
feet above the water and is swung from two
cables, each one of which is made of six
telegraph wires twisted together.
The editors and their friends, who attend
the meeting of the Oregon Press Associa-
tien at Astoria, will find some of the most
pleasant features of the section to be the
visit and entertainment at Gearhart Park,
the elegant appointments of the hotel, the
incompatible sea bathing, and the refresh
ing coolness of the park.
George Waldron, of Prairie City, was
accidentally killed by an unruly cayuse on
Tuesday evening of last week, says the
John Day Sentinel. The boy was thrown |
off, but hanging his foot in the stirrup,
suffered death before he could free himself |
from the animal. He was 10 years old and
the son of VIM. Waldron, VINO resides near |
Prairie City.
The Hunt system of warehouses have |
been leased for the season as follows: j. Fl. |
Morrow & Co., of Waitsburg, has leased |
those at Huntsville. Waitsburg and Coppei;
Chas. Herman, of Walla Walla, has leased |
those at Aldrich, Dixie, Longs and Dayton.
Mr.. j. M. Samuels will haye charge of |
those at Longs and Dayton, which are now
open for business.
The two young men, who were arrested |
for assault and battery, had their trial be- |
fore Justice Doherty to-day, and one was
discharged from custody and the other fined
S. and costs. These young men, although |
strangers, have the appearance of being |
gentlemen, and as this is the first time they |
have appeared in any police proceedings we
withhold the names.
The newspaper business seems to be a
very soft snap in Washington. Hon. j. j.
B.owne, editor of the Spokane Chronicle, is
the largest. individual tax payer in Spokane
county, he being assessed on basis of |
$500, $50. A. M. Cannon. one of the main |
stockholders in the Revieso, is assessed at |
1908, 80 and pays taxes on as much more |
property which Is not assessed to him per- |
sonallY.