The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-12

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one fell in front of Williams stor
No damage was done except to IL
awning and the hay rack, which was
complete wreck.
# From Thursdays Daily.
Miss Anderson went to Portland tn
morning.
!. Fred Hill went to Portland on th
2:3O train.
W. C. Allaway went to Portlan
n this morning.
A. L. Roberts went to Cascade Lock
this morning.
Billy Mansfield went to Hood River
on the 2:30 train.
o Deputy .. S. Marshall Humphr
was in the city this forenoon.
Frank Summers is seeking healtl
and recreation at Cascade springs.
Miss Emma Jacobsen returned hom
yesterday from trip to Stevenson.
, Tonight Herrick's cannery will shiI
car load of canned salmon to New
York.
Alex Thompson was passenger or
the Regulator this morning, going to
Troutdale.
A. r. Jones and L. Henry were ir
the city today, and returned on che
2:30 train to Hood River.
C. L. Schmidt, a prominent busines:
man Of Cascade Locks, spent yesterday
in the city attending to business be-
fore the county court.
Otto Pieper, a former Dalles boy,
now resident of Starbuck, Wash, is
spending few days visiting friends
and relatives in this city.
Seufert Bros. are making prepara-
tions to ship fresh salmon east by the
car load as soon as the fishermen can
begin taking them from the river.
Tuesday morning there were three
| inches of snow at Helena, Mont, and
all the Rocky mountain section was
covered with snow yesterday morning.
| OuuSS OOl OElllu, WHO anu WV
daughters, of Goldendale, were in the
city today en- route to Portland, where
Miss Alma goes to re-enter the univer-
sity.
Since the first of the month the
| Oregon Fruit Union have shipped four
cars of fruit from The Dalles, and will
get two more cars out by the end of
| the week.
Murphy 81 Knox, of Salem, have
been awarded the contract for doing
the plastering in the new dormatory
being erected at the Warm Spring
Indian agency.
Prof. J. M. c. Miller, who has been
Hood River public school, was in the
city last night and left on the Regula-
tor this morning.
The combine convention in Klicki
tat county could have made no better
selection for county surveyor than A.
W. Mohr, of Rockland, who was the
unanimous choice for that Office.
Last night the Commission Co.
shipped car of prunes and plums from
Mosier and one from The Dalles.
Another car will be shipped from
Mosier either tonight or tomorrow.
This morning one citizen asked an
other "why it was the state board had
ordered the portage at Cascades torn
up?" The answer was: "To keep the
Days from appropriating what is left !
of it,
A sample of q Hungarian prunes
raised in W. 81. Taylor's orchard, was
left at this Office yesterday. They were
simply beauties, all of uniform size
and color, and the flavor could not be
surpassed.
This morning Misses Daisy Allaway,
Julia Hill and May Sechler left for
Eugene to enter the state university. |
All three of the young ladies are grad
yates from The Dalles high school, and |
are prepared to take UP the collegiate
course of the university.
Everything has been active on the
river today, the fishermen getting |
their apparatus in readiness to begin
fishing tonight aud the canneries max
ing preparations to handle the catch.
The river is said to be full of salmon,
and phenomenal fall catch is ex-
pected.
Gus Brown, Joe Crate and George !
Monger are off for another winters
trapping expedition near Mt. Adams,
where they will hide themselves away
from the world until next spring.
They spent last winter in the same
place in the mountains and we're quite |
successful trapping for fur animals.
At the stock yards are 250 thorough.
bred Merino rams from Chas. Durbin's
place at Antelope. They will be
shipped to Idaho for distribution |
among the sheep raisers of that state.
Only few years ago Oregon sheep |
raisers were importing thorougbreds
from the east, now they are able to
supply growers in other states.
Today tn g county court went out to
the forks of Mill creek to examine a
piece of road for which the citizens of
that section ask aid to build. After
examining the ground over which the
road is to be built and calculating the
expense, the court determined the ex-
penditure would be too great for the
benefit to be derived.
N. Wheaidon arrived home this
morning from Spokane. Mr.. Wheal-
don says business appears to be fair in
Spokane; he noticed very few vacant
business houses, and heard general
demand for residence property. From
general appearances, he judges Spo-
kane to be one of the mos thriving
cities in the Northwest.
J E. Cass, secretary of the Wash
ington state board of horticulture,
calls attention to the great danger to
fruit interests from the landing of new
fruit pests from the Orient. He says
shippers and fruit-raisers cannot he
too careful in this regard. for the scale
and other pests of the Orient are far
more destr uctive to trees and fruit