The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-09-23
ITEMS IN BRIEF
From Saturdays Daily.

The zephyr blew this afternoon with C
siderable velocity, and sang through
tree tops.
The Terpsichorean club has again orga
Ized. and will hold their usual weekly p
J ties hereafter.
Mr.. John Ryan, who lives on Five Mi
threshed Is bushels to the acre from volt
teer grain this year.
Very Rev. Prior A. Odermatt, one of t
faculty of Mt. Angel college, is register
at the Umatilla House.
The East Oregonian reports the dana
to wheat in that county by reason of t
rain as merely nominal.
The cars which met their fate in t
wreck near Blalocks passed down the ro
to-day to the Albina shops.
Mr.. Henry Hudson, of Dufur, is in TOW
to-day. He reports damage to grain
stacks in that neighborhood from the recel
rain.
The hop crop in the Willamette vale
has not been damaged by rain, and tt
| yield will be an average and fair price wi
be paid.
| The following deed was filed for recor
on Sept. 18th: Jerome Everett and wife I
K. B. Dufur and A. J. Dufur, jr.; block
second addition to town of Dufur; $3.50.
There were two arrests last night for Sc
ing liquor to Indians. The. unfortunate
will be examined before the .. S. commits
sioner and will be taken to Portland fo
trial.
Mr.. W. F. D. Jones, late proprietor o
the Tillamook Headlight, and well. know
newspaper man, has acquired an Interest il
the Astorian, the pioneer paper OF that por
tlon of the country.
There were two carloads of cattle shipped
from the stockyards of r. E. Saltmarshe &
Co., of this city yesterday to New What
com, Wash. These were in fine condition
and will make excellent beef.
From Hon. w. R. Ellis. the member oil
congress from this district, we have received
some packages of seeds for distribution.
These are of the choicest varieties, and are
no doubt adapted to this soil.
Wheat has begun to move on Snake river,
and the AtmotG is kept quite busy in the
trade. Since the wreck of the Annie
Fdron the remaining boats on Snake river
will be forced to 90 extra business
Attorney Goode, of Condor, was found
guilty of embezzlement at the term of court
recently held at Heppner; but on account
of the verdict of the jury being uncertain it
was set aside and a new trial ordered.
Salmon are quite numerous in the Colum-
bia river at this point; but the water being
low very few are caught in the wheels.
These fish generally follow the current of
the stream, and wheels are kept in the ed
dies
The wheat market is more hopeful. A
more buoyant feeling is exhibited by buy
ers, and the price of sacks is lower. In a
few days it will be definitely learned the
extent of damages suffered by the late
rains.
Of Mr.. Chas. D. Kellogg who will give a
concert for the benefit of Epworth League
at the Methodist church Sept. 23d, the
London Daily Telegraph says: He both
greatly surprised and gratifed his audience,
by his strange faculty of bird warbling.
In the sulky race in the second heat, last
Thursday at the state fair, Childs was
thrown from his seat and dragged consider
able distance by the brown mare he was
driving, Darwinnia. He sustained COM
pound fracture of the leg, but was other
wise uninjured. His escape from dea.h
was almost miraculous.
The British Columbia salmon season is
over, and the pack on August 10Th is the
largest ever put up. There are thirty-four
aggregating 54S. 500 cases. The
fishing aud packing is not finished in Ore
gon and Washington yet, but unless the fall
run pulls up, the pack will be less THAI last
year.
Weacknowledge the receipts If the COM
pliments of the manager of the Portland
Industrial exposition, to be held IN that
city beginning Sept. 9th and continuing
one month. 1t will undoubtedly be good
exhibition in regard to the products Of the
northwest and the advancements made in
the mechanical arts.
Geo. Crane had preliminary examina
tion on Saturday before Justice Donaldson
at Fossil, says the Condor Globe, ON a
charge of larceny from dwelling (Jas.
Harvey's place on Rowe Creek. He was
bound over in the sum of $1,000, which was
and the case will be disposed of
in circuit court next week.
N. B. Larmour, a resident of Pendleton,
was killed at the Greenhorn mines one day
last week, by the accidental discharge of a
rifle. he was climbing hill in quest Of
grouse, using his 22-calibre rifle as cane,
when the gun was discharged, the bullet en-
tering his abdomen. He died from the eff
feet Of the wound before reaching camp.
The oldest inhabitant has begun prophe-
swing regarding the coming winter, and
heimagines fall has already begun and
winter will be over by Christmas These
representations may be judged, if truthful
or not. after the phenomena happens. In
other words, next spring will determine
whether the coming winter was an early
and severe one, or otherwise.
Bill Nye truthfully said: ssA man who
will use wart on the back of his neck for
a collar button, or pasture his mothers
grave to save corn, fail to cross his t's or
dot his is to save ink, is credit to the
man who will take a newspaper from the
postofice, and when asked to pay for it or
puts it back and tells the post
master to mark it refused >"
1t is understood that on October 18th the
Union Pacific will put on Nos and s
again, but that they will be simply local
trains, running from Portland to Spokane
via Pendleton, to compete with the Great
Northern, which has been playing havoc
with the q. P. lately. This is an accom-
nodation that will be greatly appreciated,
IS travel by night is generally inconvenient.
The following horses from this city are at
the state fair at Salem: Black Prince,
Boy, Siretta and Nehalem. They
are good animals and will undoubtedly
make a good record. After the fair at
Salem closes they will be taken to Inde-
pendence to take part in the races there on
5he 20th They will then be brought home,
and will take part in the trials of speed at
our fair beginning Oct. 10th.
Eugene Guard: Died on Friday, Septem-
ber Sth, at the residence of his son on Row
river, above Cottage Grove, W. L. Eng
land, an old pioneer of that section. De-
ceased was 81 years OF age, and although
for several years he has been without use of
syesight or hearing he lived happy Christ
ian life to the end. His demise was sudden,
the old gentleman falling from his chair
dead. The funeral occurred yesterday
News has been received that r. W. Huff
man, the young farmer poet of Union
county, who left that place several weeks
ago in charge of large amount of stock
being driven to the Oklahoma, while in the
vicinity of Green River, Wy, had myster-
iously disappeared. He has been missed
from the cattle for three days, and although.
q diligent search has been made by his COM
panions, no trace of him has been found.
The man brought from Hood River last
night WAS named William joss. and he came
there from Boise CITY few days ago H.,
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