The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-05-22
From Tuesdays Daily.

The river today is 3S.7 and still
| rising.
E. P. Ash, of Cascade Locks, was in
the city last night.
Gus Prose is in the city today, load
ing freight for Prineville merchants.
Cole Mcpherson, the Trout creek
cattle king, was in the city today buy
ing supplies.
Hon. w. 81 Holmes, of Salem, spent
yesterday in the city and left this
morning for home.
DIR. Doane. Henry Boyen and Emile
Kindt went to Portland today to at
tend the 1. o. o. F. grand lodge.
The sale of city lots will be resumed
at 10 A. NJ. next Saturday. The sale will
take place on the grounds offered for
sale.
Paul and Albert Skibbe, of Port
land, brothers of F. W. L. Skibbe,
were in the city visiting last Sunday.
Paul is a prominent blacksmith aud
Albert a leading hardware dealer in
East Portland.
Circuit court convenes next Mon
day. and rather more cases have been
filed for trial than at the May term
last year.
Uncle" John Brookhouse is still
visiting in the city and is making him
self useful as chief cargadore at the
Skibbe hotel.
The locks are again closed on ac-
count of high water, and transfer of
and freight is made on the
side.
]. H. Thatcher, general manager of |
the Oregon Telegraph & Telephone |
Co., is in the city looking after;the in
terests of the company.
Nearly all the fishermen have their
wheels out of the water, and only |
enough salmon are being caught to
supply the local market.
The bid of Dietz, Denison g. Prior,
Of Cleveland, Ohio, for bonds of this
school district for 2O,51O, has been
accepted by the board of directors.
Since the rain of last Sunday moth
ing but super abundance of grass
hoppers can prevent a heavy crop of
wheat being harvested in Wasco county
his season.
Miss Mamie Wenner, who has been
7isiting Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Seufert in
his city the past % months, left on
his mornings overland for her home
lt Holstead, Long Island.
John Yaisli, prominent sheep
'aiser of Crook county, arrived here on
his mornings train, accompanied by
lis bride. In Chicago. on May 1, Mr..
Yaisli was married to Miss ELISA
Miller, and is now en- route to his home
m Trout creek.
P. Thomas, one of the commission
RS of Grant county, died at Canyon
Jity on the 10th. Mr.. Thomas was
ttending the May term of county
ourt when he was stricken with pneu-
nonia. He was 10 years of age and a
ioneer of Eastern Oregon.
Sundays rain was pretty general all
yer Eastern Oregon. 1t was very I
eavy along the west slope of the Blue
and came just in time to
g of benefit to the growing crops in
Tmatilla county. At Pendleton the +
ain was the heaviest known for two
ears. !
This morning train of 16 cars i
'aded with cattle, left this place for @
Iontana. The train carried about t
10 head of cattle that have been u
ought in the surrounding country, d
i'd the sale has put about S13, 900 into d
among the farmers. Il
The editor of the Ashland, Me-, d
eadlight makes the following liberal f,
"Trout, tongue, sal tt
on, white fish or chubbs taken il
lyment for subscriptions at this office.
e haven't yet decided to take any
ckers or 'hornpouts,' but may be ',
iven to it later on"
Today Marshal Lauer gathered in a :,
low wearing cook apron who was q;
.ercising around the residences on :,
g bluff in search of he didn't know Z
nat, and was causing no small COM U
otion and fright among the ladies
I'd children. The fellow was lodged NJ
the city Jail and is evidently T.
azy.
Billy Wilson, the efficient steward
the Umatilla House. took an unwel
me bath in the Columbia today. He
Is attending to his duties about the
use, when by mistep he went off III
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