The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-07-04
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Deputy Sheriff Kelly went to Kings
ley today.
Hugh Glenn went to Cascades on the
Regulator this morning.
Three candidates were received into
full fellowship in Court The Dalles, f.
Of A. last night.
Mic Sinnott departed this morning
for the trout ishing streams IN the
Cascade mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. John W. Hollingshead
arrived on today's local from Portland,
returning to their home at Antelope.
Mrs. b. c. Leavitt, who has been
vi iting in the city the past week, re-
turned this morning to her home at
Lyle.
The bulk of the strawberry crop has
already been marketed, and from this
on shipments from here will be COM
paratively light.
A New York girl recently had her
self photographed in coffin las
joke" and sent it home to her parents.
Her mother is now in the insane
asylum.
]. A. Gulliford is in the city today.
: Mr.. Gulliford thinks the hot weather
Is doing but little damage to crops in
the vicinity of Dufur except on dry,
ashy land.
Last night was the hottest on re-
cord for many years. AT 10 o'clock the
mercury registered 80, and the coolest
period during the night the thermome-
ter stood at SO.
Sufficient fish were received at Her.
rick's cannery this morning to justify
heating up the appar atus. though it
required but few hours to dispose OF
the entire lot.
One four.horse and two six-horse
teams loaded with wool arrived here
today from Burns, a distance of 24O
miles. The special freight rates The
Dalles offers attracted the owner to
this market.
D. G. Picket, of Crook county. left
last night for Colorado Springs to re-
ceive medical treatment. Mr.. Pickett
Is suffering from cancerous troubles.
almost his entire lower lip having
been eaten away.
The Chataqua Literary and Scien-
tific Circle held the last meeting OF the
season at the residence of Mrs. D. M.
French last evening. An interesting
program was rendered and delicate re-
freshments were served.
: George and Perry Watkins and Mrs.
Franklin have been notified by tele-
graph of the death of their father, and
are expected to arrive here tomorrow.
The funeral will take place from the
Christian church next Monday.
The last session of the present city
council will be held next Monday
night, June 20, at which time The
council intend to settle up the business
Of the past year, and request all parties
holding claims. against the city to
present the same on Monday.
Crops abont Mosier are first class.
says L. ]. Davenport, who is in the
city today. Strawberries yielded we'll
and the apple and peach crop will be
good, but the prunes were injured oy
the rains in May, and will not yield
more than half crop.
Court The Dalles, Foresters of Amer
lea, last night elected the following
officers for the ensuing term: G. r
w. E. Garretson; S. c. R., Ben Will
son: Rec. Sec., Otto Birgfeld;rS W.,
John w. Atkins; ]. W., August Brown;
8. B., Verne b. Koontz; ]. B., L. o.
Hawn.
F. W. Silvertooth is home from a
trip through Grant county. He r.
ports times quite lively in the Granite
district. A number of mining claims
in that section have recently been sold I
to Boston syndicate, which has put
amount of money in cir
culation.
Sherman county sheep, says the
are again being herded on the
hills in the upper part of our valley.
Fifteen thousand head are reported al
the forks of Neal creek, completely
wiping out the last bit of range for the
stock belonging to the farmers on the
East Side. The settlers in the Mt
Hood neighborhood are literally being
eaten up by the sheep.
Messrs. Drews, Hardisty and Atkins
have evidently made rich strike al
their mines near Mt. Hood. They re-
Gently had assays made by Paul Bumel
In Portland, Of samples from three
lodges, taken out three to four feet be-
low the surface, getting returns of
s31. .03, s42.27 and s52.4s in free gold
with trace of silver. They have mol
been able to determine the width of
either of the lodges, having only been
able to locate the hanging wall on
each.
An exchange says man who chewed
20 cents worth of tobacco in week
to try the tobacco cure. In
TWO weeks he ate up S1.50 worth of the
,ure and for the next two weeks he
lsed 10 cents worth of candy, 5 cents
worth of chewing gum, 5 cents worth
If peanuts and 5 cents worth of cough
lrops per day. During these two
weeks he also consumed two large rub
Der erasers, ate the rubber tips from
ourteen lead pencils, chewed up
lozen pen holds and browsed off his
as high as he could reach.
1e is now chewing tobacco again in
he interest of eco aomy. i
From Mondays Daily.
Dufur invites all The Dalles to join
hem in celebrating the Fourth.
Mr.. VIM. Hughes left on yesterday
train for short visit to
Portland.
Immense quantities of wool are
.rriving from Summer Lake, 22O miles
outh of The Dalles.
A fine rain fell at Kingsley yester-
lay, and enough fell at Dufur to purify
he atmosphere and be of some bene-
it to growing crops.