The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-17
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From wednesdays Daily.

MIR. aQO MfS. w u NOi'dis Va y Q
Valley, were in the city today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. Herbring went t
Portland on the afternoon train.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Myers went t
Portland today for weeks visit.
w. A. Campbell has gone to Saler
to spend week in the capital city.
Mrs. ]. B. Condor went to Portlau
this afternoon for few days visit.
Judge Bennett left this morning TO
Dayton. WASH, where he goes to at
tend court.
All members of the Bryan club ar
requested to attend the meeting at th'
Baldwin tonight.
Byrom Mirch and family hav'
moved from John Day to The Dalle
and will make this their future home
The grand lodge, K. of P. convened
in Portland yesterday. Supreme
Chancellor Colgrove was in attend
ance.
Speaker Read is coming to this
coast to campaign for Mckinley. His
first speach will be at Los Angeles Oh
Oct. q.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. W. Smith went to
Portland today to attend the reception
of the Knights at the exposition this
evening.
At the the rattle for the handsome
oil painting, the horseshow, last night.
Judge Blakeley held the winning
number.
Hon. N. L Butler arrived on the
train from the east this morning, and
will speak in the Baldwin opera house
tonight.
Misses BERTHE Glenn and Ada Folton
went to, Portland this morning. Miss
Folton will visit in the metropolis
several weeks.
About 200 saloon keepers of Port
land. have paid their quarterly license.
City Treasurer Hacheney took in S10,-
600 in license money.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baker, who have been
visiting their daughter, Mrs. 7. T.
Nicholos, in this city, left this morn
ing for their home at Nanimo, B. G.
About 80 sheep, with a brand thought
to be that of ]. Ayres, of Butter Creek,
were shot and killed near the head of
Meadow creek, in Grant county, last
+ week.
Mrs. Theodore Liebe returned today
to her home in Portland. Mrs. Liebe
has been here the past week helping
care for the sick in Judge Liebe's
family.
Probably the best favored late peach
is the Salevay, some handsome sam
pies of which, from DIR. Sanders or
chard, were displayed at the Americ IN
market today.
Charles Merwin, of Cascade Locks,
was in the city today. Mr.. Merwin
said he expected to see the north wall
of the canal completed by the middle
of next week.
School on Mill creek will be closed
for few days, Miss Foss, the teacher,
having been called to Portland this |
morning to attend her sister, who is |
dangerously ill.
The city of Eugene has contracted
with the electric light company OF that
city for streetlights at the rate of So a |
light. Why should not The I)alles get |
lights at like rate?
Late additions to the ranks of Bry- |
anism in Oregon are Judge Seneca
Smith, John NJ. Gearin, w. b. Elm
ger, ex-senator J. n. Slater and ex-
Governor L. F. Grover.
Mrs. T. w. Aver and Mrs. Lacy, of |
Heppner, are in the city as delegates |
from Heppner to the Baptist conven-
tion. Mrs. Aver is the guest OF her
daughters Mrs. Van Luyn and Mrs. |,
Forwood.
Heppner was full of politics yester-
day. Senator Mitchell and Hon. Chas.
Fulton spoke for McKinley in the after
noon, and Hon. N L. Butler presented |
the Bryan side of the question in the
evening. Both meetings were well |
attended.
The wheat market here remaiDs firm
and blue stem is in demand at 60 cents
at the Diamond mills. In Portland
yesterday 62 cents was offered for
Walla Walla club and Ga and IS cents
for valley. In Chicago wheat was
quoted at 741.
Yesterday II. B. Martin, editor of
the Knights of Labor Journal, gave
out the statement that the reports he
had received from Michigan. Mime
sofa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio justi-
fed the belief that all those states are
certain for Bryan. |
Tomorrow, the month during which
pheasants, grouse. quail, ETC., may be
sold on the markets, begins, and those
who have been longing for bird on
toast" can have their longings |
gratified, their appetites sated, and |
their purses depleted.
That the people take a deep interest |
in politics at present was evidenced |
last evening when discussion was |
begun at the corner of Second and
Court street, and in less than five |
minutes 80 or 60 voters had congre-
gated to listen to the debate.
The heavy weights among Wasco |
county's officials prove disastrous to
the chairs in the Vogt opera house.
Not long since one went down under |
the pondrous form of Representative
Jones, and at the Wizard Oil concert
last night one of them proved too frail
for Sheriff Driver.
Koontz, store in Halsey, Linn
county, was robbed some time after
closiug last Saturday night and Sum
day morning it was discovered that
two suits of clothes, an Overcoat and
some jewelry were gone. No money
was taken. The burglars left their
old clothes in q sidetracked car.
A few evenings since there was a
joint political discussion at Rock
Creek, Gillian county,a ,at which Messrs.
Johns, Foster, Davis, and DR.. Geisen-
dorfer nresanted the gold side of the