The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-10-13
ITEMS IN BRIEF
From Wednesdays Daily.

Frem Wednesdays Daily.
Mr.. n F. Woodcock, of Wamic, is In
the city.
Sheriff Driver returned last evening
from visit to his ranch.
Many of the globes on the arc lights
are in sad need of cleaning.
Several side attractions are in town,
looking for business from visitors to the
fair.
The city marshal had three cases of
drunk and disorderly in his hotel last
night.
Mr.. Geo. w Filloon was in the city
yesterday. He is now located at Spo-
kane.
A game of baseball is being spoken of
as one of the attractions for the fair
week
Quite q shower of rain tell on the
Washington side of the Columbia yester-
day afternoon.
The sidewalk on Front street. near
Court, that had been washed away by
the flood, is being rebuilt,
The grand lodge, K. of P. convened in
Portland yesterday, and the session
promises to be one of unusual interest.
Mr. Len Woods, constable Of Crook
county, is in the city today, having just
returned from Portland with prisoner.
A precocious young man who was
kept waiting his turn in a barber shop
refused to pay for his shave on the
ground that time is money, and he had
paid in advance.
The public schools of the city will
close Friday for the purpose of allowing
the pupils the privilege OF attending the
exhibition of the Eastern Oregon Agri-
cultural Society.
Hon. ]. G. Luckey arrived in the city
on the afternoon train, and left on the
midnight train for American Falls,
where he goes to superintend bridge
work for the Union Pacific.
There are 1872 newspapers in Oregon,
of which 55 are Republican, Al Inde-
pendent, 33 Democrat, and A miscel-
laneous. During the past year fifteen
papers have suspended publication.
Willis Dunniway of Portland. it is
said, will probably be Governor Lords
private secretary; Chauncy M. Lock
wood is mentioned for the position of
chief clerk OF the secretary, of whom he
is relative. So says the Statesman.
Corvallis Timss: The annual appro-
priation for the pay of the railroad COM
missioners and the clerks is $4,000.
The effect of the expenditure has been
to raise freight rates so that the people |
are compelled to drive their stock to |
Portland and haul their freight by team.
The Rev. Samuel F. Smith, of Newton |
Center, Mass, author of "My Country, |
'Tis of Thee, rs now S5 years old and in
excellent health. He is a graduate of |
Harvard, class OF 1929, and reads fifteen I
different languages. Mr.. and Mrs. |
SIN ith celebrated the sixtieth ami
SersEry of their marriage. September 9.
A team of horses, hltched to light
spring waaon and belonging to William
Boettcher, took fright IN front of Fl. Ell.
Campbel;'s slore and ran up Third street
10 the Sisters Academy, and turning came
up Second to near the courthouse, where
ahey were stopped bv the owner. The
less of the seat and q few articles which
wese In the wagon was the only damage
done.
An old man, who has just arrived in
the city, goes from place to place asking
for goods, principally wet goods, and +
when asked for pay he tells pitifui tale |
about losing his fortune in the mines
aud how his wife died broken hearted,
etc., and asks for credit. In one or two
places he has been threatened with ar
rest if he did not ''dig up," and he
promptly produced the money, saying
he did not know he had it.
A number of trains of empty ears pass
through the city every day, to carry the
grain of Eastern Oregon to market. 4
great quantity of wheat is now being
loaded in Portland for the Orient. The
demand is greater than on any previous
year, and constantly increasing, which
Is due to the war between China and
Japan. 1t appears that the large ship
,els of the metropolis are somewhat (
.etleent about the actual demands for |
from these countries, pre-
,umatSy fearing that it might influence {
he prevailing low prices.