The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-05-09

P. daughter. He arrived here this morl
50 ing, and will remain until circuit tt
II next term of court.
why will it require 1000 years I
i complete the locks?" is conundrul
" chat was given US today. The answe
's was ia day is as thousand years t
she Lord, and there are two Days a
b the locks"
: Business around the stock yards TO
the past week has been very dull. /
shipment OF oats and chop barley wa
J received this morning from Everett
t WASH, and is now ready for the loca
: | market.
A number of Prineville's mer
chants are receiving their spring stocl
OF merchandise, etc., for the coming
season. This is good proof that bust
ness is increasing in that section o
the country.
| Why should any retailer serd to
Portland for supplies when he can
get his orders filed in The Dalles:
The Wholesale Liquor store of Stuhl-
ing & Williams can fill all orders and
their prices are right.
| Farmers and freighters find the
Skibbe hotel the most convenient
place in the city. Il is near to the
warehouses, feed yards, ETC., aud gives
| the best 15-cent meals and 25,ceut beds
of any house in Oregoux
The roof of the new Vogt block will
be finished in few days. The interior
of the building is also being rapidly
completed. The lower floor is about
ali laid, and the wires for the electric
lights have been strung.
Mr.. E. Schanuo spent several days
this week in and about Mosier examin-
ing the orchards in that section. He
says the trees are generally in healthy
condition, well loaded with young
fruit, and bid fair to yield an abundant
crop.
The Dalles City apd Moro stage line,
Douglas Allen proprietor, leaves More
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays;
leaves The Dalles Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays. Office in Umatilla |
house. Passenger rates one way S1.50;
round trip $3.50.
An exchange says shrewd father |
who wanted to break off the engage.
ment of his daughter to man Of whom
he did not approve, didn't try to per-
suade her that he was false but just |
contrived to have them join the same
church choir, and in less than week
they didn't speak.
Recently life size portrait OF Gov
ernor Lord was hung in the house of
representatives at Salem. Similar
representations of each of Oregou's
fourteen governors are contained In
the senate and house chambers, while
the former chamber has picture of
the great DR.. Mclaughlin, of the
Hudson Bay Co.
John Stewart will ship trainload OF
cattle from Eugene some time between
the first aud middle of June. There
are 1000 head of the cattle, and they
will be shipped to Joseph Roach, at
MINI. They are l, 2, and
S.year old steers, and the prices paid
for them by Mr.. Stewart were So, $l3
and SIT per head. The cattle will
probably be used in supplying the
Northwest Indian reservations. |.
Ben Brown, of Burns, Or. made the :
lowest bid in competition with Mis- {
souri, mulemen to furnish the govern. {
ment with army mules for the depart
nent of the Columbia, says the La {
Grande Chronicle. He has delivered
36 mules to the Vancouver barracks
'or inspection, which he feels sure will
De accepted. Harney county, he says, l
as large herds of as tine |
mules as can be found anywhere. ii
Considerable excitement was occa- 6
ioned at the blacksnithing estab- '
of Lane Bros, in the East |
end this morning. A large American '
lorse, standing 16 hands high, was /
AIKEN to that place for the purpose of /
eceiving a solid understanding, but /
he horse objected. After kicking all
he tools and other obstacles out of c
he shop he was finally placed IN the i
lorseshoer's ''straig jacket" and the /
rons, that were at one time straight q
'ieces of metal, were placed on his
eet.