The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-08-13
ITEMS m BRIEF
From weduesday's Daily.


July.
There are only two ,ndlgent poor at Il
county hospital.
DR.. g. G. Eshelman is spending fe
days In Portlandr
Mr.. "A. w. Branncr, proprietor OF Il
Prlneville stage line, was in the city yes
terday.
Mr.. Ferris is going to ornament b
sprinkling tank with advertisement
This is business.
Mr.. j. B. Crossen is improving his res
dence BY re-shipgling the house an d. hayin
. wood-shed built.
Freighting is light theae days, an
there will be no improyemenr until graf
is being shipped to market.
Miss Annie Smith, of Hood River, an
Miss Alice Clayton, of Portland, spent
few hours to day IN the city shopping.
Mr., Edward French and Mr. Robel
Mays, jr., left this morning for Berklel
to resume their studies in the university
Messrs. Al Ullrich & Son, cigar manu-
facturers, are turning outsa, fine brand {
cigars, which are eagerly sought IN tn
market
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Collins' Landing, WASH, is quite !
this city are stopping there during slh'
cheated term.s' 80 .11ss'
Mr.. Frank Irvine. o6e of the leading
merchants Of Antelope, left for Poltlan,
this evening to purchase sock of good
for bis store. ,ss.rG =, i-slsa..a-i.lr5E
There Is force of employees at Moody.
warehouse baling wool. This is about the
last lot of the season, and will b. shipped
direct to Boston.
The clouds gathered in the ''heavens
above" this afternoon, and sparingly wepi
tears OF consolation and mercy upon penI
tent and contrite earth. .s4.sq
The following deed was recorded with
the county clerk to day. State of Oregon
to R. r Hinton; section Sc, Township
south, range 16 east, $40 acres; $500.
A hunting party consisting of Messrs.
Ben Wilson, w. 4. Wiseman and others
left this morning for Wind river, where
they will spend few days hunting and
fishing.
Mrs. +. G. Baldwin and children left
last Saturday for Tekoa, Washington. Mr..
Baldwin has been In business there for
some months past, and his family re
moved there on the day mentioned.
A carload OF beef cattle was shipped
from r. E. Saltmarshe & Co.'S stockya
to day to the Portland market These
were in PRIME condition, aud will furnish
juicy steaks to the. residents of the me-
tropolis.
We saw very polite young man to-day
r., hat tn 1,.lt xuho of
playful zephyrs whisked it OUT of his hand,
and it blew several yards distant. An Iu-
dian passing poured the oil of consolation
upon his perturbed feelings by renarking
cultus s0iad hyas n,esachG tun. tans -
We are informed that party of three
Antelope men en- route to The Dalies toOk
a free oyster lunch one day last week.
They were not Shoalwater Bay bivalves,
but Baltimore Cove. The price was after.
wards paid; but the free oyster lunch
furnishes q joke to those acquainted with
the circumstances.
progress to-day. There are one applicant
for state and twenty-one for county certitl
Gates, and the latter are diyrded into II
ladies and four gentlemen. The conrt house
is completely captured and the oiicIals ir
reDediably captivated by the convocation
of these school.ma' ans and school masters.
MIR ]. B. Crossfeld. of the firm of No
Kenzie & Crossfield, of Grant, IN Sherman
county, ia in the city. From him we learn
that the Union Pacific has completed its v
track at that point, and force of carpen-
ters are employed erecting buildings Mr.
Walker, one of the managers of the Milling
snd Distilling Company, Is having erected
a very elegant dwelling-house.
A telegram was sent to the members Of
the Oregon delegation in Washington city
this afternoon, signed by several represen
tative citizens, asking them to cali upon
the secretary Of war and request him toa
resume work at the Locks at the earliest
poss. BILE date. We have confidence that
this will cnecxmate any unnecessary delays
caused by enemies to the Improvement.
We have seen some mechanical draw
ing executed by Mr. O. FitzGera d, sou
of Mr.. E. p. FitzGera d Of this city, who
is taking the course prescribed for civil
engineers at Notre Dame university. Iu
diana. He received the first premium for
this drawing, and a so in Eugl ish Gtera-
ture and other studies. The Dates boys
usually make their mark in eastern col
leges.
The ubiquitous ''small boy" does not
suffer from ennui these warm days. There
is plenty OF water IN the lordly Colum
bia.and afternoons and evenings they en-
jog themselves bathipg in shaded corners
This is evidently one Of the uses of water,
and our boys practice that principle
which the revered John Wesley said was
next TO Gndliness pretty extensively.
New wheat is coming In in small quan-
titles, bur no price has been fixed as yet.
The european demand is so small that
prices quoted are only nominal. The
crop cannot be accurately estimated yet,
but it is thought the surplus will hardly
be up to last year. Samples coming in
from the Inland Empire are not encour-
aging and compared with the crop of last
yenr, there will not be large percentage
of good wheat. Some samples appear to
be chiefly "bran," and not worth grinding !
for -four says The Oregonian.
Mr.. Chas. Townley, printer on the
Chronicle, met with an accident yesterday,
while under the cylinder press, which,
did not result seriously. In
some manner he moved the rod with his
foot, and threw ON the power. He dod ged.
but not quickly enough to escape injury.
He was struck 10 the head and side by the
bed of the press producing a scalp wound
and rendering his right arm poweriess
For two or three days he will not ne able
to attend to his usual work but be was
not hurt internally in any manner.
East Oregoniaa: Hamilton & sourke are
some 1900 sacks of wheat day
at Mission, and about the same number
at Cayuse. At Sax station 5000 sacks
have so far been received: Delivery COM
menced to-day at Adams, where the re-
ceipts will hereafter average about 500
sacks daily. From along the line comes
the report that wheat is better in quality,
and the yield is considerably larger than
Three carloads were shipped
to-day from Cayuse 10 Portland, as sam
pie of Umatilla county gram. k3s
All who attended the teachers ins' itute
last year remember there will be somsthin &
equally as good or better this year. The
institute will commence on august 22l, at
! 80 P. NJ, continuing two weeks. Profess
ora Ackerman and Rigler, of Portland-two
Of the best teachers in the state-are the
Instructors. A fee of 80 cents q week will
be charged teachers to help defray the ex
pensess President Bloss, of the State Ag-
College. will lecture. State Su-
perm endent McElroy u expected to at
tend, and many other good things will be
Board can be secured for
teachers at reduced rates. Il
Albany Herald: The Oregon Press As
will meet at The Dalles on the
10Th, of september. Preparations have
been completed for making 1t one of the
most interesting assemblages of the edi-
tors ever held in the state. Superintend
ant Mitchell of the exposition has set |