The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-21
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
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(F'rom Saturdays Daliy)
Frank Malone and family, of Ante
Z Iope, are visiting in the city.
Malcolm McInis and family have
Dse to Moffet Springs for weeks
Today C. NJ. Grimes shipped a car
load of cattle to the Union Meat Co.
at Troutdale.
Mrs. ]. w. Talbot, of Portland, was
visiting in the city last night and left
on the boat this morning for home.
Mrs. John Bonn and children left
on the boat this morning for Portland
to spend month visiting in that city.
Refreshments will be served on the
Regulator tonight by the ladies OF st.
Peters church during the excursion.
The wool shipments from here east
are from-f0nr to fivs cars daily. the |
bulk of the wool having already been
moved.
1t is rumored that Prof. Chapman.
president of the State University at !
Eugene, will tender his resignation to !
the board of regents.
Two cars of Wallowa County hogs |
arrived here last night and were
stopped to feed at the stock yards. |
They were en- route to Seattle.
Harris left this morning for an |
outing at Ocean Park where his family
are spending the summer. Mr.. Harris
will be absent from the city week.
An adjuster for the Hamburg
Bremen Insurance Co. was in the city
yesterday adjusting the losses occa-
stoned by the fire Wednesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones and Mr.. and
Mrs. Cooper, all of White Salmon,
were in the city last night going to
the Three Sisters for summer outing.
Lutheran services will be held in
the court house tomorrow for the last
time, as the basement OF the new
church will be ready for use next
Sabbath.
G. M. Grimes has returned from
Crook county, where he bought con-
siderable number Of beef for the Union
Meat Co. He will have several car
loads here next week.
W. n. Moore came in from Moro
this morning. He says harvest is pro-
crossing nicely in Sherman county.
and the yield is fully up to the expec'
the farmers.
>16out all of the fall wheat and early
spring grain in the vicinity of Dufur,
is now headed, and number OF |
threshers are running in that section,
says Henry Hudson, who is in the city
today,
Next Thursday evening Temple
Lodge, No. 8, will give social to
members. Refreshments will be
served, and the workings of new
graded assessment plan will be ex-
planned. All Workmen are invited.
The o. r. & N. Co. and D. P. & A.
N. Co. will be taxed to their full cap
acity to move the wheat that will be
offered them at The Dalles this fall,
and it is doubtful if they can secure
dock room and storage at Portland for
the grain as fast as it is offered.
George Dufur has a severe attack OF
Klondike fever, that nothing Will cure
except trip to that northern region.
George is shaping his affairs so as to
be ready to go on one OF the first ex-
petitions next spring, and expects to
start some time in February or March.
- This morning F. Drews, Jim Heater
and two other men started on pros
pecting tour in the Cascade mountains.
Their destination is point some 30
.miles beyond Mccoy creek, near Mt.
Rainier. They had good prospecting
outfit and sufficient provisions to last
them until winter.
Fears were expressed few days ago
that the tournament would be a failure
for want of funds to offer sufficient
prizes, but all such fears are now re-
moved. The people of The Dalles will
never allow q few hundred dollars to
stand in the way of making anything
they undertake success.
The Steamer Geo. W. Elder re-
turned to Portlond yesterday from her
first trip to Dyea. Passengers who re-
turned on the boat say there are from
100 to 1000 people at Skaguay and
Dyea who are preparing to go across
to Klondike. Many of them. it is
thought, will not be able to get over
the mountain and some will return on
the steamers that coem down this fall.
Rev. L. Gray and wife returned last
night from Oregon City where Mrs.
Gray spent a pleasant vacation during
the month of July and part OF this
month. Mr.. Gray joined his wife at
Oregon City week ago, and has spent
the time since then visiting friends in
that city. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Cray
have been improved by their vacation,
and will enter upon their labors here
with renewed energy.
A grain buyer of this city, says the
Walla Walla Statesman, has been
making estimates from reports sent
him by correspondents in Spokane,
Whitman and Lincoln counties. His
estimate is 100000 bushels of wheat
in Spokane county, 100000 in Whit {
man, 5000, 600 in Lincoln. or total |
for three counties of Is, ,OO0, 600 bushels. :
If to this be added estimate of 4,00O,- {
600 bushels for Walla Walla, 5000, 600 c
for Adams, 100000 for Yakima and I
Kittitas, and 1900, 900 for Northern Q
Idaho, the total would be 25,0O0.0OO a
bushels. 8
Father McFadder, parish priest of 8
ewendore, County Donegal, Ireland, o
arrived here last evening and has b
spent the day in the city, the guest OF v
Col. Sinnott at the Umatilla House.
Father McFadder was prominent Q
character in the celebrated Mary =
borough prison trials. and has ever +
been an opponent of the oppression to .
the people of Ireland practiced by the G
landlords. His mission to America is
TO raise funds for the construction OF :.
cathedral at Lellerkenpy, Ireland. =