The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-02
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Dally.)

The laQleS OF Lue SuFlseion SoeiNN
will serve meals during the fair. Bill
of fare and place will be given later.
Judge Bradshaw and D. S. Dufur re-
turned this morning from Condor.
Circuit court at that place adjourned
yesterday.
In the circuit court at Condor Tues.
day, D. c. Williamson plead guilty to
larceny and was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
Miss Alma Schanno went to WaHa
last night to visit her cousin, Mrs.
Cathron, wife of the superintendent OF
the Washington penitentiary.
Seufert Bros. cannery is getting
aqout all the fish it can handle at
present, and is putting up from 800 to
1000 cases of choice salmon daily.
The Columbia Southern will be COM
pleted to Gibson tomorrow, and the
company expects to bring two train
loads of wheat out from there Monday.
Wheat shipments from The Dalles
are comparatively light as yet, but the
D. P. & A. N. boats are loaded with
wheat each day, and from four to six
cars are shipped daily by rail.
Nearly every farmer in Wasco county
has something worthy of exhibiting
at the fair, and if they will only bring
in samples of their products, the COM
ing fair-wifi be the best ever held In
Eastern Oregon.
The funeral of Willie Waud was
conducted from Printz & Nitschke's
undertaking parlors at 10 o'clock this
forenoon. The services were con-
Quoted by Rev. L. Gray, assisted by
the Lutheran Sunday school choir.
The taxable property of Clatsop
county shows q falling off Of nearly
1,O0O, 900 in the past year. The as
sessment roll for 1897 has just been
completed and shows q total valuation
of s., ,O0s, TAO, as against s4.0l2, sos last
year.
Two steamers in port again last
evening made things lively on the
water front. The Dalles is all right as
a shipping point yet, and should an
other big wheat crop be raised next
year, we may expect to see the river
full of boats.
Last evening Josh Hardy was tack.
ing up large sign in front OF the d.
P. & A. N. office, when the ladder
gave way letting him fall to the ground
with great force. Fortunately no
bones were broken, but Mr.. Hardy
was quite severity bruised.
A new discovery of gold and copper
recently made about six miles below
Ballard's landing on Snake river, is
attracting considerable attention.
One ledge eight feet wide gave an
average assay of slO7.4S gold; lowest
assay gave s49.60 gold, and 81 per cent
copper.
About a month ago B. F. Childers
was arrested at Dillon. Mont, and
was brought 10 Grant county. 1t was
thought Childers was jack Hamblit.
the murderer of Ben Gammy, who es-
capped from Grant county in 1894, but
he proved to not be the man wanted
and was released.
G. C. Stacy, the barber. has badly
disabled right hand. This morning
he brought it in contact with the head
of an old fellow who made some in
sulting remarks to Mrs. Stacy. MIR.
Stacy would have been justified in
using little more energy. or even in
having used club on the old fellow.
About 10 o'clock this morning Phil
Brogan and Geo. Nolan started on
horseback ride to Dufur for wager of
$40. The one who reaches Dufur first
to get the purse. They were tapped off
from the Columbia brewery in the
presence of large crowd, and went up
the hill with their horses at the top of
their speed.
Before adjourning court at Condor
yesterday Judge Bradshaw sentenced
D. C. Thompson to two years in the |
penitentiary. Thompson was indicted
for larcenery, and refused to employ !
counsel, conducting his own defense,
and the jury was only about five min
utes in returning verdict of guilty.
A would-be Klondike miner BY the |
name of Hardenburg, who got as far |
as Seattle, fell in with a gang Of con-
fdence men and was buncoed out of
lis money, has struck Klondike
down in Texas by the death OF an old
uncle who left him 100000. Harden
burg has consequently concluded to go
south instead Of going north.
There were over 100 wheat teams
lnloaded at the warehouses in The
Dalles today. Each had on an average
about 60 bushels. making over 5000
bushels delivered during the day
Very little of it was sold, as farmers
ire generally storing, expecting an
Ldvancs over the present price, which
las been 7s cents during the entire
veek.
The smokers of The Dalles feel some
that piqued at the treatment accorded
hem by Capt. Johnson, of the steamer
)alles City. Vancouver papers say
he captain has greeted them with an
pen box of cigars every time he has
anded there since the arrival of his
ew boy. Captain, there are no less
han 500 gentlemen in The Dalles who
njoy good cigar.
Parties who have visited Seufert y
'ros' orchard above town say there {
re tons of peaches there going to
aste, the price east being too low to 9
ay for picking and shipping. If there
ere cannery in The Dalles all that
uit could be handled at profit, and .
ould keep in the country the money !,
lat will be sent abroad for canned
caches during the next year.
Local dealers are anticipating a p
savy trade in all lines this fall, and "
q preparing to meet all requirements. il
ocking up with everything in larger :
lantities than usual. In farm i'm a
ements they are importing by the
Ir load. Our reporter noticed car
wagons and car of plows being un-
AIDED at Pease & Mays today, and a
her dealers are expecting like ship