The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-08-29
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.

ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.
F. A. Seufert went to Cascade Loci
today.
Miss Bertha Buchler returned toda
from visit to California.
Mrs. Mike Rice and children rt
turned yesterday from below.
Mrs. Hilton returned home fror
below last night on the Regulator.
DIR. II. C. Levans came up from tn
Locks last evening to be present a
the funeral of Mr.. Closter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Prinz ant
children returned last evening from
their summer resort at Stevenson.
E. Lock, OF Hood River, was in th'
city today having come up on the loca
and returned on the afternoon train.
Mrs. Rorden and two daughters ani
Misses Georgia Sampson and Lizzie
Bonn returned last evening from Bon
neville. -.-assE
. Miss Florence Lewis left this after.
noon for Antelope to take charge of the
primary department. of the school oi
that city.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Michel and
daughter left on the Regulator this
morning for Portland where they will
visit for several days
Ex-Speaker Ready is quoted in Baker
City as saying that Oregon will give
Bryan 10000 majority. Mr.. Ready
has always been a staunch republican,
but now is out for Bryan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Will
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Phillips and Mr..
and Mrs. Skibbee returned home on
the Regulator last evening. All had
been visiting Astoria and the sea-
coast.
DIR. VIM. Pfunder. proprietor of the
Oregon Blood Purifier, paid The
Dalles friendly, though short visit
today. coming up on the local and re-
turning to Portland on the afternoon
train.
This morning Forest Fisher left for
Portland where he will remain until
Saturday, when he will be joined by
Ray Logan, and together they will go
Stanford university to resume their
studies.
Today in Justice Filloon's court Je-
rome Lauer pied guilty to simple
assault and was fined S25. The offense
for which Lauer was arraigned was
taking a shot at Fred Matthews in
Skibbee's hotel week ago Saturday.
The populist state central committee
met in Portland yesterday and accepted
the propositions of the democratic
committee for fusion on the electoral
ticket. The electoral nominees will |
be divided between the two parties.
T. J. Mcclure, Of Mosier, was in the
city yesterday. Mr.. Mcclure says the
fruit crop in the vicinity of Mosier,
which is principally apples, is fully
up to the standard as to quality and
that the yield is but little short of the
average.
Goldendale is now blessed with an
excellent supply of water, pure and
cool, since the pipe line has been COM
pleted. The water supply of Golden
dale now comes through II miles of
pipe from the headwaters Of the Little
K1ickitat.
Harry Liebe returned last night
from the seacoast. Mr.. Liebe was
present at the tournament in Astoria, :.
and says he looks forward to the one
to be held in The Dalles next year
with the hope that it will be as pleas
ant to all concerned as the Astoria
meeting was.
Two tramps are reported to have
entered the railroad station house on
the Fort Worth and Denver road near
Fort Worth, murdered the station
agents wife, robbed the house of $50
and 81 500 in pay checks and fired the
building, partially cremating the body
of the woman.
There are some fine samples of wheat
from Brent Drivers place at Wamic
on exhibition at the sheriff's office.
The wheat is of the little club variety.
the berry is plump and sound, and
yielded 40 bushels to the acre. Evil
IDENTIFY Wamic is the best wheat sec.
tion in Wasco county.
c. S. Jackson and John Bailey, of
Canyonville, on four days. hunting
trip, last week, secured IL deer and
two bears. Mark Riggs, Robert Coug-
lar and S. Buchanan, OF the same place
killed four deer on similar tour.
Canyonville would be good field for
game warden to operate in just now.
The Oregonian is devoting much
space nowadays in telling the dear
people how Canada has refused to
accept our silver and currency because
of the free-silYer agitation. 1t says
not word, however, about the same
practice being in vogue in this country
relative to Canadian silver and cur
rency.
w. G. Steel, one of the Portland
mazamas, writes the Oregonian that
the 'sgoats'' are having most enjoy
able time at Crater Lake, fishing, hunt
ing, etc. This is the crowd that wants
to mouopolize the Cascade mountains
for sport, and are using their beSs en-
deayors to drive the Eastern Oregon
sheep raisers of the reserve.
The son of Hood River fruitgrower
placed note in the bottom of box
of strawberries asking the purchaser
to inform him of the condition of the |
berries when received. Three weeks
later he received letter from Winni-
peg informing him that the berries
were received in excellent condition.
and that they were the finest that had
ever been seen in that city.
Some 120 men are now employed on
the government works at Cascades
Twenty-Five are stonecutters and the
remainder laborers. The appearances
now are that work has been resumed
in real earnest, and there is possible
ity that it will be steadily prosecuted
until the inner walls are completed.
However we shall not attempt to set a
date when the canal will be opened for