The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-08-31
ITEMS IN BRIEF.


From WEDNESDAYS Dali Y.
The river is nearly at the loves
stage.
), e. Riggs made trip to the Cascade
Locks this morning on the boat.
III. Cradfebaugh and wife left or
the boat this morning for Hood River
Something new in bicycle caps JUS
received at A. M. Williams & Co.'s.
]. B. Crossen returned on the mid
night train from hurried visit tc
Portland.
Only three more days until the close
I, blanket sale.
The pile driver at the D. P. g. A. N.
Co.'S warehouse has completed the first
two rows of piles for the structure.
The annual exhibition of the Second
Eastern Oregon District Fair Associa-
will be held in this city beginning
Oct. 9Th, and continuing three days.
Mrs. F. P. Mays and children, who
have been visiting relatives and
- friends in this city for the past few
days, returned to Portland this morn
ing on the boat.
The Boston Herald estimates that "a
corn crop of 2,400, 600, 600 at only 25
cents bushel would mean $500, ,0O0, 600
in the pockets of those who raise it
and bring it to market" That is
good arithmetic, but when it takes all
OF the 25 cents to "bring it to market"
the people who raise it refuse to be
comforted by good arithmetic.
In the first formal race between the
Eailant and the Defender, August 20,
an accident to the latter brought the
trial TO premature conclusion. The
breeze, which was strong, stirred the
DEFENDERS rigging to such an extent
that she was obliged to turn back for
repairs. The next two trial races are
expected to come off next week.
At 10 o'c .ock this morning at the
court house door was sold the former
saloon property of A. K. Bonzey, de-
ceased, commonly known as the ''Snow
Flake" The property was levied
upon for debt by John Sroufe and Fl.
McCrum of Portland, and was sold by
the sheriff for $475 to G. j. Stubling.
Aside from the building the property
consisted of q feet of ground on Front
or Main street.
The school buildings in this city will
be open from to IL N. and from l to
4P. NJ. tomorrow for public inspection. |
All II lends of the school are cordially |
invited to call and inspect the build |
fngs during the hours mentioned. |
Prof. Strattan will be at the academy |
and the janitor at the brick school
house. The directors have had them
thoroughly repaired, and they are now |
in excellent condition for school pur-
poses.
August Duller, an Austrian by birth,
aged 81 years, an inmate OF the insane
asylum at Salem took his own life by
strangulation yesterday, the means
employed being q small rope tied to the
back Of q chair and in slip moose
around his neck, and by his own weight
he n ade sufficient pressure in lying
down and pushing to choke himself to
death. He had been committed by the
Judge of Multnomah county and had
been in the asylum since April 9th.
The cargo shipments from western
Washington for the month OF July as
officially received by the Puget Sound
Laimbe77naa, from ten OF the leading
mills, were $780,, $50 feet of lumber
and over 9. .000, 600 laths. Of the lum-
ber, I6, 600, 900 feet went foreign and
17,608, ,85f feet coastwise. Unofficial
reports of the shipments of other
mills would bring the total cargo out
put for this state to 38, 100000 feet.
This is less than the shipments re-
ported for June, but good showing
notwithstanding.
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