The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-03

Inc ElkS didn't DO anything pu
, have a grand jollifcation at the Port
land Exposition last Saturday.
, r. Is. Hood has sold his furniture
Business in t. is city to Arbuckle & Co.
, who. took charge of the store today.
J;J. Miller, of White Simon, wh'
has been visiting his brother, Elder j
Il. Miller, in this city, returned hom
today.
Rev. W. w. Sharp, who has been il
the city in the interest of the Advent
list church. left this morning for hi
bone at Eugene.
The nG,test present that could b.
given boy or girl is the Chautauqu;
drawing board and writing desk. 1t i
sold by A. c. Giddings for 1895.
John Parrott has succeeded il
gathering together 300 hogs in thi
and Klickitat counties and will shil
them to the Frye, Buhen Co. at Seattle
Posters advertising political meet
ines are put up to be read, not to bt
torn down, and hereafter person:
tearing them down will be prosecuted
P. l.. Kretzer has secured contract
for sinking an artesian well for the
Wasco Hotel company, also for sinking
wells for different farmers in Sherman
county.
EARLY in the season Crook. county
marketed 5000 head of cattle, and the
Prineville Review states that 5000
more have been contracte for fall
delivery.
The W. J. Bryan club of TIE Dalles
wi its enrollm ent Of 326 names, has
be n enrolled in the National Associ-
alto If Eryan Clubs and is designated
as No. 1850.
| Mrs. Charles Gray, of Salem, wife of
one of the government contractors at
| Warm Springs, who has been visiting
relatives in this city, left on the after
noon train for her home.
Prineville proposes to have four days
racing, commencing on Nov. IL. and
offers S770 in purses, which are about
the most liberal purses offered by any
place in the Northwest circuit.
Walla Walla has the banner Bryan
club of the state of Washington. Its
roster now exhibits the names OF 1000
true and tried men who will support
and labor for the election of the great
young commoner, the "boy orator of
Platt."
Elder J. II. Miller, pastor of the
Calvary Baptist church of this city,
returned Saturday from Fossil, where
on Sept 20 he dedicated the new Zap
tist church. The new church is a
wooden structure 24x40 feet, and is a
neat and commodious building,
George Gibson and family, of Crook
county, are in the city. Mr.. Gibson
says the report that Mckinley will get
800 majority in Crook county is all
bosh. He thinks Bryan will carry
every precinct in the county outside OF
Prineville and Hay Creek.
Today Justice Filloon's court was oc-
cupied trying a civil case in which
John w. Blakeney is plaintiff and
Andrew eager and wife are defend
ants. 1t is case in which the plain
tiff seeks to eject the defendants from
certain real estate owned by him.
I,
He says the report that work has been
suspended on the Astoria-Goble rail-
road, which he is constructing. is in
correct. About one-half the force on
the road is laid off. but there are still
$50 men engaged in construction work.
County School Superintendent Gill
bert contemplates paying an official
visit to all public schools in the county,
and started this morning on his tour
of the county. He went to Hood River
today, and will devote portion of the |
week to visiting schools in that section.
John Gray, who has the contract for
building the dormatory and assembly |
DulluluS dt w df LII OpiiuRS, Chh0 III |
from that place today, and left on the |
afternoon train for Portland. Mr.. |
Gray says the frame work of both the |
buildings is up, and the work of COM
pleting them is progressing rapidly.
Yesterday the band gave tLeir eigh-
teenth and last open-air concert on
the school grounds. These concerts
have been greatly enjoyed by the peo-
pie of Tie Dalles during the past sum-
mer, since they have furnished agreea-
BILE Sunday afternoon entertainment,
and it is to be hoped they will be re-
sumed next season.
The last issue of the Mitchell Mon
itor contains the valedictory of A. G.
Palmer as editor and publisher. Mr..
Avery, who has for a number of years
been in the employ of the B. S. & L
Co., has purchased the plant and will
hereafter be sole editor and proprietor.
we wish the new management pros
porous voyage in his journalistic en-
terprise.
From Tuesdays Daily.