The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-21
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From Saturdays Daily

From Saturdays Daily.
Hon. w. H. H. Dufur is in the city
today.
Mrs. E. M. .Quarrels, of Grants, is
visiting in the city.
Mr.. Hugh Glenn went to Portland
on the afternoon train.
Mrs. A. M. Williams returned to-
day to her home in Portland.
Mr.. Peter Anderson was passenger
on the Regulator today going to Port
land.
Mr.. Henry Boyne went to White
Salmon this morning for few days
visit.
Mr.. Thomas Harlin returned by the
Regulator this morning to his home a
Mosier.
Rev. J. n. Wood went to the Cas-
cades this morning to meet his wife
who is returning from visit to Port
land.
Rev. M. Z. Zwlezig, pastor of ST
Peters Lutheran church in Portland
will occupy the Lutheran pulpit II
this city week from Saturday.
This morning Recorder Phelps i'm
posed a fine of $40 each upon two
violators of the laws, one drunk and
disorderly and the other hobo.
Harney county sheepmen will drive
a great many bands of their sheep te
the railroad before shearing, and thus
save freight mohey on the wool.
Mrs. M. II. Nickelsen, who has been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. 1. c. Nickelsen
in this city, returned on the afternoon
train to her home at Hood River.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Humphrey
left today for Portland, having finished
serving summons here in the case OF
the United states VS.. The Dalles Mill.
tary Wagon Road Co.
Lieut.. Taylor, the engineer in charge
of the government works at the Cas-
cades, has gone to San Francisco to
perfect his examination for promotion
in the engineering corps.
Mr.. F. 81. Rove, proprietor of the
lumber mills at Lyle, who was in the
city yesterday looking after the build
ing of his new residence here, returned
home on the Regulator this morning.
The unfortunate Buhrum, who was
today declared insane, has been work.
ing at the locks the past year. and a
wag suggests that he lost his reason
in, an attempt to figure out when they
would be completed.
The members of the Union Whist
Club were pleasantly entertained last
night by Mr.. and Mrs. Judd Fish. The
first prize for the ladies was won by Mrs.
J. A. Crossen, and Mr.. Theodore Seu-
fert having scored the most points of
any of the gentlemen carried away the
prize offered for the men.
The new vogt block, besides being
q very convenient building inside,
when completed, will also present a
handsome exterior. The metal cor
nice and other ornaments for the out
side of the building were received from
Portland yesterday, and when put in
position will give the front of the
block an attractive appearance.
A runaway team attached to lum-,
Der wagon had the right-of-way in
Second street last evening. They
started from Blakely & Houghten's
drug store and ran to Clough's
machine shop, where they tired of
hauling the wagon and the driver who
all the way held on to the bride of
one of the horses, running along by
its side.
Parties who were down to the locks
yesterday state that the machinery for
operating the gates is all in place, and
the pipes to convey water to the
machinery are being laid. About 100
men are finishing the rip-rap work at
the end of the canal and removing the
debris from the different basins. It is
expected that the dredger will be taken
through the locks to commence remoy-
ing the lower bulkhead sometime dur
ing the coming week.
Mrs. A. ]. Brookhouse, whose limb
was fractured last November from fall
ing into a cellar, and who has been
under medical treatment in this city
the past four months, has sufficiently
recovered to be- taken to her home
few days ago. Mrs. Brookhouse is
past sixty years of age, and at the
time of the accident it was feared she
would not recover, but she has to some
extent regained the use of the injured
limb, and is able to walk with the
aid of crutches.