The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-05-08
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From wednesdays Daily.


city.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Benson were
the city today.
r. B. Hood left today for st. Helen
CAL, where he expects to make b
home.
So far this week about 250 sacks
wool have been received at the Was'
Warehouse.
Mrs. M. j. Mann, who has been visi
ing in the city the past week, returne
on the boat today to Portland.
Today Albert. Hanhart, a native
Switzerland, was granted his fin
citizenship papers By the county cour
n. &C. Rooper, who has been confine
to his room with measles the past weel
has sufficiently recovered to come dow
town.
Mrs. Biggs. Mrs. Donnell and Mr.:
Reynolds went to Hood River today
attend to matters connected with th
w. C. T. U.
Commissioners court has been i
session today, the entire board, Judg
Mays and Commissioners Blowers an
Kimsey, being present.
N. W. Wallace, of Antelope, arrives
in the city last evening, and will spent
few days visiting his daughters, Mrs
Morgan and Mrs. Herbert.
Secretary of State Kincaid has re
tanned n. B. Knight as counsel in the
mandamus suits to enforce auditing
claims and issuing warrants.
The state supreme court is now in
session in Pendleton. The case of the
sheriff of Umatilla county for fees was
to have been argued before the court
this afternoon.
The Columbia hotel has contracted
with the local Foresters for entertain.
ing the officers and delegates to the
grand court during their stay in the
city next week.
held their regular monthly meeting at
Salem last Monday, and determined to
make an inspection of the o. r. & N.
lines next week.
Yesterday S. M. Meeks was exam
ined before Justice Prather at Hood
River on a~charge of horsestealing,
and was discharged, the evidence
being insufficient to sustain the charge.
A dividend of s25, 900 for the month
of April has been declared by the di-
rectors Of the LIE Roy mine. This
makes total of 1875, 900 the stock
holders have received in dividends
since October. 1895.
During the month of April 29S coy
ote scalps were presented to the county
clerk for bounties. At this rate of
slaughter it will only be a few years
until the coyote will be a thing o. the
past in Wasco county.
Ike Driver is in from Wamic. He
says farmers in that section have fin
ished their spring seeding, and are
to harvest the largest crop
ever raised in the country. All lclasses
Of grain, he says, prospect better than
ever before known.
The affairs of the Pendleton Tribune
are about to be settled satisfactorily to
all parties concerned. 1t is proposed
to pay the mortgage held by Furnish
and allow John P. McNIanus and his
board of directors to continue the pub
1ication of the paper. 60.
81. A. Hogue, of Portland, was in the
city this morning. MIR. Hogue is an
old reeident of The Dalles, and with
Col. Sinnott, forty years ago, used to go |
out before breakfast every morning
and shoot Indians to keep the red
skins from capturing the town.
"We would rather sell our stock of |
ladies cape's and jackets at cost than
carry them over" Pease & Mays |
make this statement and have suited |
the action to the word, having marked
their entire line at cost to close. They |
are displayed in the center window.
The river rose about four inches to-
day, and registered 27.9 feet at three
o'clock this afternoon. From all in
dications it will reach 30 feet by TO-
morrow night. The warm weather OF |
the past few days has caused rapid |
thaw in the mountains, and will cause
3 fast rise in the river here.
w. J.Johnson, who has been on a
sheep-buying trip to Beaver creek and
the south FORK of the John Day for o.
W. Porter, of Huntington, returned to
Burns, Harney county, last week. He
says the yearlings are all bought up,
and and 3-year-olds are held at So to |
s2.25. He found streams everywhere
very high.
Somebody invents, a new bicycle |
suit for women almost every day but |
no one has yet invented suit that |
will enable woman to look as grace
full reclining in the middle of the road
as when dressed for an evening enter
tainment. There is not only fame but |
fortune for the man who arises to this
At the last rifle practice of the mill
tia company q number of creditable
scores were made, the militiamen show
ing themselves to be quite expert
The practise will be con-
tinued at the range regularly hereafter,
the staff officers practicing on Thurs
days and the members of G Co. either
on Saturdays. or Sundays.
The quarterly examination of appli-
cants for teachers certificates will be
held in Crook county, May II. at
Prineville. The Prineville Review
says: '.It is to be hoped that the COM
ing examination will be so conducted
that applicants will not be allowed to
receive aud give assistance, as was the
case during the last examination"
Last night G. w. Darch received a
telegram from W. B. Presby, of Gold
endale, announcing that his son. Will
liam Garch, had been shot accidentally
at Goldendale yesterday. The dis
patch stated that the wound was not
fatal. Mr.. Darch left on the o'clock
train for Grants, where he was met by
q team to take him to Goldendale.