The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-10-12
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
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From Wednesdays Dai v.
Mrs Bardon, of Lafayette, Is in the
city visiting relatives.
Amos Underwood, one of our old
pioneers, came up on the local.
Very few passengers went down on
the Regulator this morning.
Mr.. Grimes will ship car load OF
cattle to Troutdale tonight.
One car load of hogs was shipped to
Troutdale from the stock yards last
night.
The Murchie stable is running an
elegant wagon to and from the fair
grounds. :,
The floral decorations around the
stage at the exhibition is the work OF
Mrs. Stubling.
The workmen on the d. P. & A. N.
Cos. dock began raising the frame
for the wharf today.
NJ. r. s. Perkins, proprietor OF the
Perkins Hotel of Portland, is in the
city attending the fair.
Prof Garrison will teach another
term in writing at the High School,
commencing this evening.
The city treasury was replenished to
the amount of $50 today, fines paid by
the soiled doves of the city.
Very little wheat was received at the
warehouses today. The farmers have
evidently taken q lay off during the
fair.
G. L. Nukado, a Chinese interpreter
of Portland, is in the city looking up
evidence in regard to the late Chinese
murder.
Hon. c. M. Cartwright. president of
the Baldwin Sheep and Land Co., is
exhibiting fine lot of Merino sheep
at the fair grounds.
The Diamond mills are grinding on
an average about 800 bushels of wheat
per day, most of which comes from
across the Columbia.
Today a patent from the United
States was filed in the clerks Office
conveying title to the n sec t 8
+ II 9 to Albert Ullery.
The remains of L. Sands, the unfor-
tunate man who was killed by falling
pile Monday, were buried in the city |
cemetery this forenoon.
Il. G. Bateham, secretary of the !
Hood River Fair Association, is in the |
city in charge of the Hood River eX-
hibit at the fair grounds.
The East End would have been per-
fectly dead this forenoon had it not |
been for one lone runaway. However |
no material damage was done, and lit
tls excitement occasioned thereby.
Either The price of horses is on the
rise In Gillian county or real estate on
the decline. A man recently ex-
changed seven head of horses for q
homestead located on Butte creek.
Parties attending the fair today have
been considerably inconvenienced by
the wind. However, old residents
needed not the gale, and the attend
ance at the GROUNDS was fairly good.
Mr.. John Y. Todd and family ar
rived here from Yamhill county last
evening, and will locate in The Dalles,
Mr.. Todd is an old resident of Eastern
Oregon, but has been living in Will
lamette valley the past few years.
All those going to the exhibition
hall should not fail to see the baby
orchid or baby flower. This flower is a
great curiosity, in the center of which
Is perfectly formed baby. The flower
Is the property of Mrs. o. D. Doane.
The music this evening at the exhi- :
bition hall will be by The Dalles Brass
Band. All the pieces selected for the
program are new ones. The band is
no doubt the finest one The Dalles has
aver had, and every one should turn ..
put to hear it.
Monday company OF the Oregon
National Guards was mustered into !;
service at La Grande by Colonel Coll !
ins, OF Arlington. The officers of the l
lew company are A. w. Prescott, cap !
ain; F. A.. Meade, first lieutenant; L
aerschel McKinnis, second lieutenant.
Mr. Barzee is meeting with hearty I
in his efforts to secure I
unds with which to make free road P
nto Sherman county, That the $500
.sked will be raised is now almost q !
since $3.50 have already been 2
by business men of the II
ity.
Mr., Thomas Walsh, of Portland, q
ame up last night to take charge of z
he pile driver. Mr.. Walsh is we'll q
:noWn here, having been for q long j.
ime in the employ of the o. r. & N. Y
20, and superintended the cOnstruc- ti
ion ofthe D. P. & A., N, Co.'S, old
Iock. tt
Final homestead receipts were issued
" the land Office today to Leander II
aver for the nj set sw9 set and set o
VT sec 3, tip 2 s, r IL 9, and Albert Col 81
ins for lots !, 2, 5 and sec 81, tip $, L
20 Q. T. W. Davenport, agent for the ~
tate, made selection of 434 acres state
chool bonds. ii
The first term of Prof. Garrison's nj
7riting school closed this morning, al
nd the awards were made as follows; tr
Jest lady penman. Miss Lizzie Bonn, q
handsome box of ladies' writing /
aper, presented by the Jacobson u
look & Music Co., best gentleman q
enman Archie Barnett, copy OF Bry- Q!
nt's poems, presented by 1. G. Nickel b
en-. The prize of $500 offered by
'rof. Garrison for the greatest i'm
royement, was awarded to Paul
aeir s'A advancement aiu as being equally equally G
raqt ne