The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-03
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Mrs. A. A. Jayne went to Portlan
today.
Mrs. Geo. Ross is visiting friends g
Cheney, Wash.
Capt. McNulty cane up on the loca
today from Mosier.
The Office rooms at the depot are be
ing repaired and reftted.
The Episcopal Guild met with Mrs
J. S. Schneck this afternoon.
E. E. Lytle, o. R. & N. agent at Th'
Dalles, went to Portland this after
noon.
One drunk, fined $40, and two hobos
fined s5 each. were the entries on the
recorders docket today.
Henry Phirman left on the boat this
morning for Camas prairie to buy cattle
for the Columbia Packing Co.
Yesterday was cold one for some OF
Portland's police force. Eleven OF
them were relieved of their stars.
Hicks predicts April will be cold,
blustry month, and advises gardeners
to not plant tender vegetable until the
end of the month.
Frank Fulton is in town today max
ing arrangements for shipping four car
loads of beef which he has been feed
ing the past winter.
Some loss Of stock is reported about
Oak Grove and Wamic, though in
other parts of the county there has
been no loss to speak of.
The heavy winds last week blew down
half mile of the foom belonging to
Rowe & Co. at Collins Landing, and
used for conveying lumber to the river.
DR.. Stowell was in the city last
= night. the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. c. F.
Stephens. The doctor was returning
from Vancouver to his home at Golden
dale.
At Jacksonville, yesterday David
Penninger was thrown from his buggy
and had his neck broken. He was we'll
along in years and was pioneer of
Jackson county.
The Oregon Lumber Co. is having a
little steamer built at Portland to be
used in handling lumber and scows on
the river. The new craft is IA feet
beam and 45 feet long.
School district No. II (The Dalles
district) offers $4,000 of per cent
bonds for sale. Here is an opportunity
for some one who wants a safe invest
ment.
Stephen Ware. blacksmith of Nit
chell, shot and killed himself in the
Exchange saloon at Mitchell last |
Friday. Domestic trouble was the
cause of the rash deed.
1t is stated that w. Lord. manager
of the Wasco warehouse, will erect
warehouse at Arlington this season.
Some of the material for the building
has already been shipped.
Harmony Juvenile Temple, No. 4,
will give literary and musical en-
tertainment in the hall in Vogt block
next Saturday at 2:3O. P. M. Every
body invited. Admission 10.
This morning the Hattie Belle towed
the scow Wasco down to White Salmon.
1t had on board the DIP. & A. N. Cos.
pile driver that will be used in con-
structine a dock at5 White Salmon.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. R. Hinton and FAM
ily are in from their farm at Bakeoven.
Mr.. Hinton says Notwithstanding the
disagreeable weather his focks are
doing well, there being plenty of feed
on the range for his sheep.
The subsidy for the beet-sugar re-
fnery at La Grande is. receiving some
liberal donations. Yesterday Spauld-
ing & Calhoun, of New Haven. Conn.,,
who own real estate near La Grande.
subscribed $500 to the fund.
School district No. AZ, known as the
Wamic district, has been divided by
the school superintendent on petition
of the school patrons thereof. and dis
trict No. So has been established from
the portion setoff from the old district.
Earnest Shearer came in the other
day from Crook county where he had
been buying sheep to drive east. He
succeeded in gathering up 24,000 head,
and having bought them before the
price raised will no doubt realize a
good profit.
Although this was the last day for
taxpayers to make settlement before
taxes shall be declared delinquent the
receipts at the sheriff's Office were not
large. Some of the heaviest taxpayers
have not paid their taxes and will not
until later in the season.
Yesterday afternoon Clabe Cooper,
charged with stealing gold nugget
from the Columbia Hotel, was given an
examination before Recorder Phelps
and was discharged. Cooper had
pawned the nugget to J. E. Hardwick,
but on the examination proved that
his wife found it in the hotel parlor.
County treasurers generally through
out the strte haye concluded to not
withhold the state taxes, but will pay
them over to the state treasurer as
they come due. This will withdraw
about 5000 900 from circulation in the
state unless the legislature is con-
vened in special session to make ap-
preparations. |
The Dalles certainly is a irst-class
field for good steam laundry, one
that would do perfect work at reason
enable prfces.- Those who are posted
say that the Portland laundries that
have branch Offices here collect on an
average $3.50 a month in the city. That
money, outside of. commissions, all
goes away, meyer to return, but could
be retained in the city if there were
first class laundry here.
Nothing has yet developed to estab-
lish the identity of the man who was
found dead by the roadside in Dry
Hollow on March 18th, though an in
cident has occurred that might lead to
his identity. Joe Knebel says he was
slightly acquainted with the man, and
once in conversation with him was
told by the deceased that he formerly