The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-02-20

: house tomorrow evening. His remTks
3 will be confined to the financial qles
tion and the history of money. Every
I body INVITED.
i Joseph Southwell says petit thieves
, are becoming too familiar il bis
neigh borhood. They have stden a
saddle and number of sheep pelts
| iroc, him, and numerous small articles
from hue aeighbora
} La Grande is III earnest abou; estab-
. fishing a beet sugar factory. a
freight traffic on beets has,-been ar
ranged with the o. r. s. n. CO. and
an engineer who is building faccry
in New Mexico has been secured t'
erect the plant.
The people about the courthouse arr
entertained nowadays by Scotch
man who is little off in the uppel
story, and who is confined in the jai
i for medical treatment. He keeps W
a continuous bowling and singing day
and night.
Next Monday Rev. A. D. Skaggs
pastor of the Christian church, accom-.
| panied by his wife, will leave for Cor.
Wallis, Mr.. Skaggs having been granted
| O leave of absence for time. They
/ 60 to Corvallis for the benefit of Mrs.
Skaggs' health.
Wasco county farming lands are at
| tracing attention abroad: besides num-
erous inquiries from parties seeking
locations here, there are ten families
| in one company in the Willamette val
| ley who have stated they intend to
| come into this county soon and pur-
chase farms.
Jehu Switzler tells an exchange
that the cold weather has not injured
the fruit trees along the Columbia
river. He econtemplates going into the
horse butchering business for foreign
markets. He has more horses than
any other man in the Inland Empire,
and will make an effort to dispose of
them in this manner.
M. A. Moody leaves tomorrow morn
ing for his annual snow shoeing trip to
Cloudcap Inn. At Hood River he will
be joined by W. A. Langill, of Hood
River, F. W. Leadbetter. of tho Ore
gonian staff, and Thomas Balfour, of
Lyle. The party expects to reach the
inn some time Sunday and will return
Monday.
Hon. W. H. B;ggs returned last
night from visit to Wasco. Mr..
Biggs says the farmers of Sherman
county were never more hopeful than
at present. Flattering crop prospects,
the outlook for good prices and the
probability of railroad being built
into the great wheat belt this season
cause them all to feel that prosperity
will prevail throughout the country
the coming season.
Checks have arrived from Washing
ton with which the receiver of the
National bank at PendletOn can now !
pay another dividend. The dividend
this time is 20 per cent, and it is the
fourth divident declared. When this
20 per cut is distributed, there will |
have been paid So per cent of the
claims which were held against the |
bank when it went into the receivers |
hands.
Yesterday in mentioning the pro-
posed railroad leading from Biggs to |
Wasco in Sherman county, it was |
stated that if the road was built it |
would probably be branch of the o.
r. & N. This appears to be mistake.
since parties who are connected with
the project positively state that the o.
r. & N. will not be interested directly
or indirectly in the road. 1t will be |
built by local corporation, and therel
is an almost absolute certainty that it
will be constructed the coming sum-
mer.
A recent tr2Ffer in London states
that in - hos of Fagin, of Dickens
anne, the kitchen yet remains precisely
IS used by the celebrated Jew. The =,
oor; in which he taught Oliver Twist
mt, his friends to play the "little
anne" in which the ''merry old gen.
leman" was so delighted, has been
altered by recent occupants.
)ne great charm of Dickens works
les in the fact that most of the houses
n which the scenes he SO vividly por-
rays were enacted are still standing, /
many of them just as they originally
Fere built, and can be readily found
" the tourist along Fleet street.