The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-11
ITEMS IN BR,E. /.
From Wednesdays Daily.

Miss Nellie Southwick. of Salem, i.
visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. John Fill
loon.
Charley Fouts is putting in new
front in C. w. Phelps building or
Second street.
Miss Belle Reitz and Miss Emma
Crosfeld were passengers on the Regu.
lator this morning.
Mr.. Merritt, of Mitchell, Is bringing
in large herd of beef cattle consigned
to r. E. Saltmarshe.
Marshal James Blakeney offers a job
in his brick yard for all defeated can
didates, wages graded.
A train load of beef cattle from
Weisor I6aho to the Union Meat Co.,
at Troutdale. passed through town this
morning.
Maier & Benton have finished NOV
ing their large stock of hardware &
/. groceries to their new location in the
French block.
Frank Woodcock, candidate for sher-
iff, with n. n. Johnson, James Wood
cock and Jas. Zumwalt, left town in
spring wagon this morning, looking
happy.
Mrs. G. P. Morgan, of Cascade Locks.
who came up, G. P. says, to scold him
about one OF the results of the demo-
cratic convention, returned home this
morning.
Several down the river delegates re-
turned home this morning by boat,
among them we noticed Horace Pat
terson. of Mosier and j. r. Bone of
Hood River.
Messrs. F. Skibbe ard Hugo Scholz
made flying trip to Tygh Ridge yes
terday. They report everything in
that section looking fine, and the pros
pect for a large crop good.
A dispatch from Portland at o'clock
this morning says the rain is pouring
down in torrents, on just and unjust
alike, and delegate, to both conven-
ions are getting - wet.
Rev. L. ID. Driver has been nominated |
by the republicans of Lane county for |
state senator. AS Rev. Driver is |
pronounced A. P. A. there promises to |
be hot fight on this Office.
Miss Laura Woodbury., of San Jose,
California, who has bsen visiting with
her relatives, the family of Hon. E. o.
MnGar
via the Regulator line.
Candidate Guthrie wishes it UNDER
stood that he is still opposing Blake
ney, and now wants crew for his salt
river line; will pay in J. q. and 1. N.
Day time checks, seven per cent off.
Mrs. Sarah A. Gault and Mrs. Kate
j. Young Grand Chief and Past Grand
Chief of tine Degree of Honor A. o. U.
w. are stopping with Mrs. C. F.
Stevens, Chief of Honor of Fern Lodge
A large consignment of wool is on
the road and expected in today, from
the Baldwin Sheep & Land Co. to the
Wasco Warehouse Co. Buyers have
already began TO congregate in antici.
patton of an early season.
Mr. James Mckay. of Portland,
owner of the Claradon Restaurant
property is in the city, and will help
on the improvement boom by
thoroughly renovating and refitting
that popular establishment.
A number of delegates, both repub.
licans and democrats left this morning
for Portland to attend the state and
district conventions. There were also
q number who were not delegates who
could not resist the temptation to see
the fight. =
At the annual parrish meeting of St.
Pauls Episcopal church held last even
ing the following persons were elected =
as Wardens and Vestrymen for the
ensuing year, Wardens, l.. s. Davis
and Charles N. Clark, Vestrymen,
Jos. T. Peters, w. E. Walthers, F.
Bronson, D. W. Vause and T. A. Hud-
son. II
At meeting of jackson Engine
Company held last night, Roger Sim
mott, James Fisher and Gus Bartell
were appointed committee to look
after racing team for the PendletUn
event. The boys mean business and
will either win, or make the winners
know thai they have had little ex-
ercise.
Mr.. Hugo Scholz, from Monroville,
Ohio, has purchased the Stubling place :
four miles from the city, and will take
possession this week. We had the
pleasure of making his acquaintance
this morning and have reason to think
that he will prove valuable addi ion
to our community. We have room
for many more such, on our fertile
hillsides and valleys, and a neighbor-
ing welcome.
The convention yesterday was
democratic love feast, and ought to be
an object lesson to some of our re-
publican brethren. There seemed to
be, even in the rather exciting contest
for the sheriff nomination, no display
of bad feeling, and after the race had
narrowed down from free for all, with
five entries, to neck and neck strug-
gle between Morse of Hood River and
Woodcock of Wamic, it was hard
matter for the delegates to decide be
tween two such good men, and
locality had to settle the question
/
Word has just reached the city of 6
death by suicide of Philip Heppner,
well known and highly respected citi-
zen of Arlington, no cause is known
as yet. Mr.. Reppner was brother OF
Hon. Henry Heppner, for whom the
town of Heppner was named. He was
also a brother-in-iaw of Hon. Henry
Blackman, collector of internal
reyene for this district. 1t seems from
the account received that he locked
himself in the office of his warehouse
and blew his brains out with pistol.
The attorneys for Kelsay Porter.
convicted of murder in the first degree,
for the killing of Ben Mache, in Pine
Valley, last January, and sentenced to
be hanged on April 10, today perfected
their appeal to the supreme court, and
Judge Eakin, in consequence there