The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-09-14
ITEr1s IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Commissioners court adjourned to
day until the 14th.
The weather report for today and to
morrow is "fair and warmer"
Roger Sinnott has been elected
captain of The Dalles hose team.
Mr.. Jack Genres leaves for Californi,
tomorrow to look after his fruit ranch
Watermelons are too cheap to steal
selling at your choice among the big
fellows for cents, or so cents dozen
Sherman Frank, Henry Bills, James
Maloney and Gus Bartell, members o1
The Dalles Hose team, arrived home
yesterday.
Miss Lizzie Farmer, who has been
visiting friends in Portland for the
past week, returned on the Regulator
last evening.
Five carloads of fruit went east over
the o. r. & N. this morning, three OF
them coming from Portland, one from
Mosier and one being shipped from
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Haworth went to
Portland this morning. Mr.. Haworth
will be employed, temporarily at least,
in the new paper to be started by Mr..
Barzee in the metropolis sometime
this month.
Mrs. Baldwin and son BERTHE, will
leave on the morning passenger for
Portland. BERTHE will go on to Mt.
Angel college near Salem, and Mrs.
Baldwin will visit relatives in San
Francisco, and will be away month
or more.
Conductor Fowler, with that large.
ness of heart which is his peculiar
characteristic took his celebrated dog
"Trlby" to Umatilla yesterday. The
dorg has been in poor health lately,
and Harry hopes the change of eli
mate may prove beneficial.
Judge Blakely today sent Lee Nc.
Illaney, a boy of about IL years of age.
to the Boys and Girls Aid SOciet at
Portland, and Frank Palm boy sent
by that society to Gillian county, but
whose time is out was found place
with Mr.. McReynolds.
Oregon City's hose team was evil
IDENTIFY dissatisfied with the Vancouver
tournament, as it today issued chal-
lenge to the Vancouver team to run
any of the races under the same regu-
lations as provided at the tournament,
for 5000. The race to be run any
where except the homes of the teams.
The members of The Dalles hose
team speak very highly of Chief Nc
Carty, of the Vancouver fire depart
ment, and mention as bright and par
ticular exceptions to the general treat
ment they received the kindly acts of
Mr.. Denny Hays, one of the soldiers,
and blacksmith, whose name they do
not rememt =.
A wreck occurred at the 0. r. & N.
depot at Union yesterday morning.
The train ran into an open switch and
collided with fiat car. Engineer
Jack Thatcher had one leg broken and
was otherwise seriously injured and
Brakeman Joe Richardson was fear
fully cut about the face and head and
his ankle was fractured.
Eleven carloads of horses passed
down last night, to be slaughtered at
Lynnton. The old "salt-horse" of the
sailor has become an accepted fact,
and the hardy cayuse that erstwhile
switched his tail and tossed his name
on the bunchgrass hills of Eastern
Oregon will now be dished upon the
raging main, and be tossed before the
mast.
Mr.. j. D. Halliday, of Galveston,
Texas, and one of the proprietors of
"Cooper's Sheep Dip" is in the city
for the purpose of introducing that
material. In order to give it practi-
cal test, Mr.. Halliday will have Mr..
Fagan's flock treated with it, as soon
as arrangements for doing so can be
He is also Interested in
sheep-shearing machinery which he
will undertake to introduce here next
spring.