The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-08-18
ITEMS IN BRIEF
From Mednssday,s Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Union Is making determined effor
for the establishment of u sugar factory
An exchange says there is rumor that
the Union Pacific wants the Oregon Pa
cific, and may purchase it.
Large quantities of wool received in
the CITY this year has been graded and
baled, and In this shape sent to market.
Fires in the mountains have become so
general that the atmosphere has become
darkened, and the clear skies Of Eastern
Oregon no longer exist.
Mr.. Thomas Denton, who has a fruit
farm on Mill creek, informs us that oak
trees are covered with acorns this year
for the first time for several seasons.
This is the vacation month of the year,
and those who are not slaves 70 their yo-
cations spend these hot and oppressive
days in the mountains or on the ocean
beach.
Matters in connection with the o. N. G.
IN this city are very quiet. The usual
drills are held, and the members of the
militia are attaining high state of pro-
ficiency.
Expert examination of Grant county's
records finds the sheriff short $469 in
his accounts. There is nothing scandal
lous about it, although the sheriff seems
to be unwilling to make it up owing to
some technicality.
j. Dudley, who lives near Athena,
boasted that his whea' crop would yield
him 40 bushels per acre Harvesting
commenced, and now the records show
tnat he is threshing 81 bushels from
each acre, at which, of course, he is
agreeably disappointed.
Mr.. w. G. Allaway, since the resigna-
ton of B. F. Laughlin, has acted as man
ager of the d. p u A. N. Co, and a more
popular man could not be at the hea. of
the company. He has had long years ex
perience in the transportation business,
an is courteous to shippers and the public
generally.
There were variety of culprits before /
the city recorder this morning. of course |
the drunk and disorderly individual was
present; but he was accompanied by
person who was arrested for selling bogus
jewelry IN the city. They were both fined
10y the police judge, and lett the room in
a very repentant attitude.
Considerable fruit is being shipped
from onase river this year. The steamer
Almota. which is running on that stream
since the transfer business stopped be-
tween Arlington and Cello, is loaded
down on some of her trips with melons,
peaches, pruues and apples. On some of
these she brings fifty tons of fruit
Hunting Denny pheasants in Marion
county is evidently a luxury, judging
from the following in the Ind dpe"dtnL:
Edwin Jory and Mr.. Willis went out
hunting on Sunday and happened to get
on someone's land who had some objec-
tions to it, and both young gentlemen
were arrested and fined SIS each before
Judge Edes for trespass."
The old university building at La
Grande Was placed in the hands of re-
ceiver at the last term of the circuit
court, and Henry Rinehart appointed 6
receiver, but his authority to sell the {
building is restricted until some action
is determined by the coming session of
the Idaho conference, which convened at I
Boise on the 10th instant. a
There was loud talking last night In
the Chinese quarter of this citv, and some t
present thought the war betN cen
China and Japan had been transferred 10 >
Eastern Oregon. Upon Inquiry it was |
learned that the dispute arose over debt 4
Of $22, which an aged on of the 1owery !
kingdom claimed was owed him by an
other subject of heemperor. The marshal 6
soon arrived on the scene and more ami :
cable relations were assumed. =
The man who was incarcerated in q
all for breaking out the windows in the f
UmatilIa House has not forgotten his
I'D tricks Last night, hBving imbiOed y
ome stimulants, he amused himself by /
aking off his boots and breaking out i,
he glass in the doors of the corridor. G
- l. |
'trusty," and has come and gone at his
wn volition. Last night he appeared
omewhat under the influence of liquor, q
md, being locked in, reyenged himselfH
n the manner stated. IN
There is one girl in Crook county that v
hould be given the elective franchise
ady of this county taught school last fall 4
nd winter, carried the mail from Prime 8,
lille to Warm Spring agency through r
pring and carly summer months. over b
lauled her mothers reaper and cut sixty +,
lcres of grain, and has contract to
each six months term of school, be- p
inning next month. Her name is Miss r
.ou Campbell. Certainly there is an =
pportunity. of lifetime for some :
oung man of steady habits" y
A special train from Portland arrived s,
o this CITY at 2 O'Clock today, having on
oard several officials of the w. y. T. 70,
Tho are making an inspection of the tele. =
raph line with view to complete u
of it from Portland TO this y
ity. The officials are Mr.. j. j. Dickey, - y
be superintendent at Omaha; Frank - -
aynes, superintendent. fourth district, :"
nth an office in San Francisco; j. H.
IuIld, division superintendent of the o. u
:. & N. Co.; James Peters, roadmaster;
!. j. Bories, assistant superintendent, IL
J. r. & N. Co., and w. Fl. Kennedy, o.
hief engineer o. r. & N. Co. They d.
artook of dinner at the Umatiila Honse, t,
nd then proceeded up the road. Il