The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-08-25
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From Medne.day,s Daily.

Mr.. Thomas Burgess, of Bakeoven, wa
In the cIiy Yesterday.
The city Jail received no new occu
pants last nj ght, and those who were ar
rested the previous night have left h'
city.
This has been very warm day, anC
the thermometer was cavortlng aroun(
100 degrees above zero soon after thu
noon hour.
Seufert Bros. sent force of men TO-
day to Cello to put their wheels In or
der for the September run of salmon
which is expected will be quite large.
The office hours of the Pacific Express
company in this city on ard after Sept
lst will be from s to II noon and from
to6P. NJ. The Office will not be open or
Sundays.
The annual conference of the NJ. f
church convened in this city this morn
ing. There are large number of min
islers 10 attendance, and some very able
pulpit dlvines.
Mrs. w. c. Phelps and daughters
GracIe and Katie, accompanied by hel
son, Mr. G. W. Phelps, left yesterday
morning for an outing ON the headwaIers
OF Fifteen Mile creek. They will be alb
sent several days.
Elder G.. H. Barnett returned from the
Yakima cOuntr sunday, after n snJourn
of six weeks in that region. He brought
with HIN some fine specimens of ONYX
stone which were found ABOUT thirty five
miles from North Yakima
The forest adjoining the wigwam OF
Wasco tribe was secuted for pale faces
last night, and one was foun on the
trail and adopted as Red man. Other
pale faces have entered the forest, and
scouts will hunt their trail at a future
sleep.
Elder Barnett says the hop harvest in
ihe Yakima valley will begin about the
I0lh of September, and the yield will be
very abundant; but the price at present
ranges only from tO9 cents The bop
fields, he says, are very beautiful, and the
lines of poles stretch for distance of II
quarter of mile in perfect straight lines.
A large fieshy lady was bathing at
North Beach the other day, when thin
spinster exclaimed: 'sLook out now for
Professor FaIb's tidal waves" The fat
lady said nothing. The next day the
thin old maid donned her suit and
plunged inlo the sea The feshy lady
was present, and was heard to remark,
telegraph poles don't make much OF a
ripple, do they?"
At Waitsburg, last Monday evening,
the little two-year-old boy uf Mr.. An
drew Storie was drowned in the mill
race Mr.. Slower, the head miller,
found the corpse at the gate, and medi-
cad aid was promptly summoned; but it
was too late. Life had departed several
minutes before the physician arrived. A
large number of friends sympathize with
the grief-stricken parents.
L, formation has been received that
Sunday morning, just insi e the door OF
Hebron church, eight miles from GOrval
lis, Lane Shortridge, young man %
years of age was found, with bullet
hole through his head. He was in love
with Miss Powell, and upon her refusal
to marry him he determined TO Kill him
self. Sunday he purchased some lauda-
mum, but evidently decided later to do
the work with pistol. The ball entered
the right temple and lodged in the upper
part of the LETT jaw.
.Walla Walla Statesman: 1t is learned |
that on Sunday evening George w. !
Hunt passed through the city en- route |
from Portland to Spokane and the Pa |
Iouse country, where he will make ar
rangements for the shipment of large |
number of horses to be used in the con-
struction of the railroad in Mendocino |
county, Calf, the contract for which
was awarded to Mr. Hunt There are
quite number in Walia Walla who an
ticipate procuring situations on the new
railroad and Mr.. Hunts arrival in this
city is anxiously awaited.
Rev. FL. K. Hines. d. D.. of Portland.
is in the city, in attendance on the M.
E. conference He is one of the ablest
methodist mini tiers of Oregon, and has
preached in nearly every Methodist pull
pit in the state. About thirteen years
ago he was stationed at The Dalles, and
he has many warm personal friends in
this city.
Threshing is in operation in certain
portions of the county. In the vicinity
of Dufur the yield is not as good as was
expected, and the average yield is from
ten to fifteen bushels to the acre. The
kernels are plump and well-filled, and
will command high price in the mar
ket Tygh ridge is considered the best
land III Wasco county, but threshing
viii not begin here for some days. The
Weld per acre will be much larger than
in the vicinity of Fifteen Mile creek,
and some place it as high as thirty to
thirty-fve bushels to the acre.
A young woman of Crab Greek, Ore
gon, indulges in frequent freaks OF SOM
One of her recent exploits
was as follows: She arose from her bed
about O'Clock in the morning and was
seen to approach Crab creek in her night
robe. Upon reaching the stream. the
young woman waded in for short dis
lance as if feeling her way. and swan
safely across. Upon reaching the oppo-
site bank she awoke, half frightened to
death, dripping wet and shiyering from
the cold, and made her way to the house
of neighbor, where she was cared for
aud taken to her home.
From Thursday Daily.
The warm weather continues and a