The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-06-06
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Mr.. T. n. Johnson, OF Dufur is /
the city today.
Mrs. C. L. Anderson, OF Portland, /
visiting Mrs. w. w. Smith in tni
city.
Eugene Debs is u demagogue, bu
not a fool, he has refused to become
'labor" candidate for president.
Many teams loaded heavily witt
wool came in to lay, the warehouse
are filing rapidly.
Miss Lorene Lea, after spending th'
winter in this city, returned to he
home in Portland on today's local.
Seventeen cars of sheep were shipped
east from Arlington today ant
another train of II cars will be shipped
out tomorrow.
Well, we're licked, but we are demo
Gratis, and used to il. We will be
ready to step up to the scratch again
on the call of time.
The me mb bers of the Milton Mobiles
Dramatic company, who appear at the
opera house this evening are registered
at the Umatilla house.
To Judge by the looks OF the streets
this morning all the loose change In
pocket last Saturday, is gone, and the
town has gone-drJ-.
Ninteen carloads of Webfoot year.
lings were stopped off to feed at Salt
marshe & Co.'S. feed yard last night
and were reshipped today for Montana
Frank Seufert says that the Mccoy
ditch men are going past the cannery
this NOR aing in patches of from six to
twelve travelling toward the rising
sun.
Travel is very light both by river
and rail, the election is the probable
cause. A boat making landings on
Salt river would catch good many Of
the boys this morning.
Today being collection day news is
very scarce, the collector has driven
the average debtors into retirement
for the nonce possibly the boys spent
all their money Monday.
A wool wagon collided this morning
with M. 2. Donnell's Illuminated drug
sign, and brought it to the ground,
happily it struck sideways and the
multi-colored glass brilliants were
broken but little.
a reporter CHANGED to call at the
Oregon Bakery this morning and dis
covered that the genial proprietor,
A ndrew Keller, has added to his furnl-
ture very handsome ice cream chest
of solid marble He is also dispensing
an excellent quality of ice cream and
soda.
, Attention is called to the notice from
E. E. Lyttle, agent of the o. r. & n.
Co. that his road will sell round trip
tickets TO the nationol conventions,
the Christian Endeavor convention
and the Natio ual Educational conven-
tions for one fire both ways.
Tle w oodmen Ct this city will give
q "ljg rolling" next Tueslay nigh.
A splendid program, consisting of
music and recitations, will be rend-
cred, also an address by Hon. John
Michel.
i. There is large quantity of wood on
scows in port, Messrs. Maier and
Benton say that now is the time to
order your winters wood as they are
afraid to pile it on the beach, and yet
would be more than glad to unload
those scows, it would pay you to take
advantage of the situation.
The river at this point was up to 33
teet this morning with the news from
up the river points that the Snake at
Lewiston had risen one foot in the
past twenty-four hours, iG is now
thought that all danger of any extra
ordinary rise for this season is over,
although more than average high
water may be expected.
The Woodrnen of the World pre-
ented Judge John Filloon with a silk
hat yesterday evening. DR.. Eshelman
in neat little speech, making the
for the lodge. The judge
tried it on, but has concluded that it
would be more becoming With full
-egalia of judicial ermine, than with
his everyday clothes and in conse-
1uence has laid the tile away, buttered
side down, for the present.
Invitations have been sent to neigh
boring camps by the Woodmen of this
.ity to be present next Sunday at the
lnveiling of the monument of
,eighbor Thomas N. Joles, deceased,
n Sunset Cemetery. it is hoped that Il
arge number of choppers will be in
attendance. The ceremonies attend
ng the unyeiling of Woodman's
monument are very impressive and
and a large crowd will doubt
ess be present.
Steel wagon roads bid + ir 10 have ;
thorough trial in sever states his :,
rear. The claim is made thIt such IL ,
Dad would last much longer than
tone, and that one horse will draw on
steel track twenty lir es as much as
N dirt track ard five ii mes as much
IS on macadan. These roads consist
# two rail. made of steel the thickness
# boiler lat, ach formed il the
hape of grtter five inches wide,
With square perpendicular shoulder
,alf an inch high, the an angle of
inc inch outward. slightly raised.
The gutter forms conduit for the
vater and makes it easy for the wheels
20 enter or leave the track. Such a
steel railroad, 16 feet
vide, filled in between with broken
stone, macadam size, would cost about
5000. as against $1,000 per mile for
macadam> >roadbed of the same width,
,ut the cost of a rural one-track steel
Dad would be only about s., 900 mile.
From Thursdays Daily.
Rev. B. s. Adams was elected justice
# the peace at Moro.
The republicans gave ratification
,all at Moro Tuesday evening.
Michael Stacker. an extensive farmer
# Lower Deschutes, is in the city.
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