The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-09-04
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wedncsday's Daily.

Miss Pauline Drews left this mornin
for Hood River for two-weeks' visi
Polk Mays and family, of Wallow
county, are visiting rela tives in tn
city.
Last night the American Frui
Growers Union shipped two car load
of mixel fruit to Chicago.
One car of cattle was shipped fror
Saltmarshe & Cos. stock yards T.
Troutdale this morning.
Rev. Joseph De Forests family have
arrived from Portland and will maxi
The Dalles their future home.
Considerable wheat was received a
the warehouses today, and few sale
were made at Is ents bushel.
Capt. o. S. Waud and family re
turned last evening from their summer
vacation, and today the captain agair
took charge of the Regulator.
D. C. O'Rielly, formerly with the o.
r. & N, arrived here this morning to
take the position of general freight
agent with the Columbia Southern.
T. w. Jackson andwife arrive here
last evening and will locate in The
Dalles, Mr.. jackson having again
accepted position on the .. Rs s. N.
road.
Miss Emma Hill, daughter of DR.. j.
/, Hill of lbany, who has been visit
ing Mr.. aud Mrs. ". n. Wiley the
past month. left this morning for
home.
Nightwatchman Wiley and family
returned last night from visit to
Newberg and Mr.. Wiley goes on his
regular beat this evening as guardian
of the city.
Yesterday Collector of Customs Black
appointed L. Alva Pike chief deputy
in his Office, to succeed Deputy Forbes,
removed. Mr.. Pike was chief deputy
under Collector Abraham.
Miss Irene Collision. who for a num-
Hood River schools, arrived here last
night and left this morning for Echo.
where she will be engaged in school
work.
The bargain counter at the Perkins
in Portland is still open, to the disgust
not only of Office seekers, but of all
decent. people who disapprove of this
bargain and sale method of dispensing |
public patronage.
The bottom seems to have fallen out |
of the fruit market east, and shipping |
will be suspended for time. Prices |
that that can be realized on green
fruit in Chicago and Milwaukee at
present will not more than pay freight
The recent fall in the price of green
fruit emphasizes the necessity OF es-
tablishing fruit canning establish
ment in The Dalles or vicinity.
Whenever the market will not
justify shipments being made, the
fruit could be turned into the cannery
where something could be realized for
it.
Ex-County Commissioner T. P. Gilii-
and, Of Ukiah, in Umatilla county.
sold out all his sheep, 1000
head, to E. Boettcher, at 81 so each
LII around, and will go into the cattle
business. Either Mr.. Gilliland is a
81 ,<,e,e -, a ., nm oor,a ~ tho
ardent protection papers are off on the
Price of sheep, for they have been tell
ng us that since the Dingley bill went
nto effect sheep were worth So a head.
When tho steamer Regulator ar D.,
ived at Portland Monday, all the !.
eck hands demanded an increase in
RACES from s35 to $40 month. On
he company refusing to grant this
oncession the men went on a strike.
md their places were filled with hands !,
hat could be picked up about the city.
rho do not belong to the union. The
'reen men appear to handle the work
and the company will ex- l
erience but little Inconvenience by =
he change.
The entertainment given by the
Majestic" pickaninny band at Mays
Groves last night attracted large l
rowd. and nobody who was there re-
,retted having gone. The little neg
oes are indeed artists, born musicians {
md actors, and succeed we'll in anus
ng their audience. If they are faith
al representations of the Majestic"
angee, they must be first class arti-
les, we'll worthy the reputation ac-
orded to them.
The first act of a new comedy was
layed in the governors office, where 9
q official from the treasury depart
1ent and the editor of an evening
aper CHANGED to meet. Chairs and
ooks were used indiscriminately, and
, recklessly that the governors steno- :
rapher stopped the .play,-says
alem dispatch to the Oregonian. This
not unexpected news, as something
wful was expected to occur since the u
alem papers began opening up their
ateries on the state officials. A
A new record for August wheat re- r
eipts was made yesterday, when 246 a
ars of the cereal rolled into the yards u
a this city. OF this amount all but 40
mrs came in on the east side of the '
lver. the greater part OF It coming Q
,om east of the mountains. These t
eavy receipts are the result of the .
pfrited buying which was in progress
j the upper country when the high {
rices were prevailing short time '
20, and it will not require many such
avs receipts to load all of the tonnage q
, port and block up the warehouses o
esides.-Oregonian. I,
From Thursdays Daily. %
DR.. frazier went to White Salmon il
q the boat this morning. a
Mrs, Tom Ward and son returned last r.
light from trip TO the coast.