The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-08-08

E owing to the farmers being busy WI
}. their harvest anu having no time
z come to town.
Grant county is doing her share t
wards filing up the insane asylur
II And they haven't all gone yet says Il
= News.
! T. A. Hudson left on the afternoe
= rain for Seaview, to spend few da.
u with his family who are summerir
there.
0 Miss Mabel Riddell went down
q Stevenson this morning to join
e party OF campers who are rusticatin
d at that place.
: Last night some party or partit
stole a fine row boat belonging
Cline g. Page that was moored In th
? mouth of Mill creek.
G. T. Prather, of Hood River. cam
up on the noon train. Mr.. Prather re
ports everything fonrishing in Hoo
River and business fair.
Threshing machines must b.. scare
down at Portland, since all Old, wor1
out one was shipped from here TO In
metropolis this morning.
Chas. Bntler came up from below
last night, and this morning left fo
the range country in the south, look
ing after the supply OF beef.
| The water In the Columbia is agaiI
down TO point when the ferry boat
between The Dalles and Rockland car
| be operated on the cable.
Mr.. Redick, the stair builder who
put up the stairway in a. NJ. Williams
& Cos. new store, left On the Regula
tor for Portland this morning.
The TN. Office was presented with
fine basket of peach plums from Rev.
o. D. Taylor's orchard yesterday.
They were exceptionally fine fruit, ex-
cellent samples of Wasco county's
choicest production.
1t is not always the quantity OF
groceries you get but the quality that
gives satisfaction to the housewife.
Remember that quality and prices are
the two things considered at
Johnston's 9 cash store.
Mrs. Dan Malarkey came up from
Portland last night and returned on
the 2:30 train. She was accompanied
home by her little daughter, who has
been visiting her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. T. Burgess, at Rakeoe n.
That portion of the portage road at
Cascades which was torn up has about
all been replaced, and when con nee
tions are made will be ready for opera
tion so soon as the consent OF the gov
ernment engineers to allow The state
to run trains across the reserve can
be had.
This little piece of doggerel is going
the rounds of the press: How dear to
our hearts is cash on subscription,
when the generous subscriber presents
1t to view; but the man who don't pay
haps. gentle reader, that man might
be you.
Freight is being hauled from Corr
Wallis to Salem in wagons, it being
cheaper to ship goods by that method
than by rail. This does not speak well
for our modern transportation facil-
tiles. 1t looks like we will have yet to
go back to the days of ox-yokes and
prairie schooners.
Judge Burt died at Toledo, Lincoln
county, last Monday, and already there
is scramble for the position thus made
vacaut. Six months ago petition
was presented Governor Lord for the
of successor, long be-
fore Judge Burt's death. and he was
appointed before it was known Judge
Burt was alive.
The normal institute for Wasco !
closed this afternoon after
session of four weeks, protitably spent
By the teachers in reviewing studies |
under able and efficient Instructors. |
Some 80 teachers have been in attend- |
ance at different times during the
session, complete list Of whose names
will be given tomorrow.
The silverites had grand rally at |!
Walla Walla last Tuesday night. !
There was an imme use procession lead |
by two brass bands and 500 torch |
bearers. The principal speakers were !
Neal Cheathan, J. II. Lewis and Miles I
z Moore. One of the conspicuous
features of the procession was the |
of the l6-to-l doctrine
oy sixteen white horses followed by |
one yellow one.
Yesterday number of lady members
of Cedar Grove had pleasant picnic
1t the forks of Mill creek With Tom
Ward as driver and with lunch baskets
we'll filed eighteen of them left here
In a wagonette about 9 o'clock, drove
out to the grounds where they spent
the entire day In beautiful grove,
having both dinner and supper in
camp. With one accord all who were
IN the party declare they never spent
L pleasanter day. Even the driver,
who was the only man In the crowd,
admits that he enjoyed himself.
1t may be that majority of the
voters in Wasco county do not favor
The free and unlimited coinage OF sill
yer, but Indications point that way.
A gentleman who recently had occa-
lion to visit the Wamic, Wapinitia
Ind the Oak Grove countries and COM
ngle with the farmers in those local
ties, says that in conversation with
'ome 300 of them he only found about
Is who were favorable to the gold
tandard. This is at the ratio of IL TO
!, almost fulfilling the statement OF an
exchange that the farmers OF Oregon
we're 16 to In favor of free coinage.
Yesterday the Oregonian announced
hat D. P. and William Ketchum had
,een arrested for herding sheep in the
'icinity of Cloud Cap Inn. In this
tatement the Oregonian got badly
mixed. In the first place, the Messrs.
zetchum are neither sheep raisers nor
heep herders. They buy and ship
mutton for the Union Meat Co and
'nly have one lot OF sheep, which are
,eing ranged near Mill creek. And
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