The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-05-01
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
N-om wednesdav,s Daily.

ITEMS LIN D1slGi.
From Wednesdays Daily.
Geo. Champlin, q former merchant
Hood River is in the city.
F. Pierce Mays, of Portland is visi
ing relatives in the city.
r. n. Guthrie returned from hi
sheep ranch yesterday.
Henry Blackman, collector OF lntei
nal revenue for this district is In tow
today.
DR.. Leunerberg is home from sue
cessful business trip through Gillian
county.
Mr.. H. A. Hogue of Portland, d1
rector of The Ealles Natior al taak, Il
in the city.
Only Is of the 81 passengers wht
were on the unfortunate street car In
Portland yesterday were injured.
Capt. Edwards, inspector of steam
boats, came up on the Regulator yes
terday evening, returning this morn
: ing.
Taxpayers appear / no hurry to set
tie with the couuty. At least the 81 er'
iff is not kept overly busy writing Tax
receits.
The Dalles enjoyed one of its custo
mary breezes today. From 10 to II
o'clock the wind acquired velocity OF
% miles an hour.
1t was reported on the streets today
that man named Hatch was drowned
in the Columbia at Arlington yester-
day.
The lady killed by the electric car
accident in Portland was Miss Gather
inc Baillie, aged %, of Illinois, who
was visiting friends at Mt. Tabor.
Annie. the 13 year old daughter of
W. II. w. Cook, of Smile while playing
ball this morning fell and broke her
right fore arm about half way between
the elbow and hand.
c. H. Southern, of Boyd, brought in
eggs enough this morning to stock the
market for a week. The Boyd hen is
evidently trying to keep the promises
made by the advance agent of pros
perity last fall.
Mr.. Brooks has set his aneometer on
the D. P. & A N. Co.'S. wharf and says
that the wind today attained a velocity
of 224 miles an hour. The wind and
sand storm few days ago was about
4S velocity.
A party of tourists consisting of MIR.
Barbor and wife, Mr.. Coleman and
ladies of Boston, Mass, Mrs. Comstock
and Miss Efluger, of Portland, came up
through the Columbia gorge on the
yesterday, returning this
City Marshal Lauer, as street COM
is now engaged in grading
and improving Fourth street from the |
Methodist corner up. The city road
tax judicfously expended. as Marshal
Lauer seems to be doing, will give US
good thoroughfares all over the city.
DIR. V. Gesner and family, of Prime
vile, arrived here from below yester-
day, and left today for home. The
loctor has been in Chicago taking
postgraduate course the past three
months, while Mrs. Gesner and the
children spent the winter at Salen.
The river is again rising, being nearly
! foot higher at noon today than it was
at the same hour. The river
s acting suspiciously like it did in '94,
md it would be we'll to be prepared for
emergencies. o.man can tell, thus
ar ahead, anything about the Colum-
,ia river, not even Mr.. Pague, but all
he same we'll "look leedle oud."
Mr.. Frank Davenport of Hood River
5 stopping at the Umatilla House. Mr..
Davenport is director in the irrlga-
ion Hume company at Hood River ano
xpects to have that important piece
# work completed early IL May. An
xtra force of men are now digging be-
ween 900 and 700 feet day. This
itch will be an immense factor in the
uture development of Hood River
alley.
The county Commissioners are hav-
ng small frame house built in the
orner of the Jail yard for the accom-
oodot;o Of tho d;ooaco6 VUalla Wal1a |
nan, who wss so kindly shipped to this
ity by that hospitable berg short
ime since, it is suggested that a bill
,e sent to the authorities of Walla
Walla with the suggestion that when
n the superabundance of their over
lowing charity they furnish health
rips to their invalids, they should in
he future give return tickets. Charity
long, and is kind, but the
Valla Walla variety is getting "mo-
lotonous," as Bert Hart would say.
A little, brown colored bird. about |
be size of the Oregon snowbird, is
reating havoc among the cherry bios
oms, in Polk county. The bird cuts
he stem off very close to the bud, and
imply drops the bud to the ground. 1t
8 supposed that the birds haye lik-
ng for the sap of the stem. Some
rees are reported to have been strip
ed of greater part Of the buds. This
} probably the little cross-bill that
lays havoc among tho cherry trees in
he vicinity of Cascade Locks every
pring, it seems to come down out OF
he mountain there. and evidently
'uilds and breeds high up amidst the
ocks as it is seldom seen on the lower
evels except in cherry blossom time
From Thursdays Daily.
Judge A. S. Bennett went to Port
and on this mornings train.
VIM. Westicott, proprietor of
trang's restaurant at Salem, is in the
ity.
Mrs. DIR. Eshelman entertained the
aides of St. Paul's Guild yesterday
fternoon.
Miss Katie Craig has returned from
avvistop where she Suent the winter |