The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-13

2 F'rom Fridays Daily)
A young lady desiring to learn tn
art of printing can find employment a
f this Office.
Geo. P. Morgan, clerk of The Dale
school district, is confined to his HON
with sickness.
; Six car loads of no, scs headed fo
the Linnton cannery passed down th'
road last night.
In the matter of the assignment o
Wa Tai Young. the assignee toda!
filed his first report.
Fred A. Jacobs and D. S. Callahan
of the Germania Life Insurance Co.,
of New York. are in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred McAllister. oil
Haystacks, Crook county, were In the
city last night en- route to Salem.
An Indian with too much firewater
aboard was run in by the nightwatch'
man last night. and this morning was
fined SIS.
So far this year SO wheat ships have
cleared from Portland. The cargoes
have ranged from 1000 to 5000. tons OF
wheat to the vessel.
Splendid lot for sale near the new
school building. Now is the time for
one to purchase, as prices are tending
upwards. Apply at this Offices
A beautiful pair of gold bracelets
will be given to the most popular
young lady at the Catholic fair. The
fair coz testarts will wiz the bracelets
by vote.
At 1:30 this afternoon E. Simmons,
Hugh Brown and Robert Wilson, in
dfcted Jointly on three charges, were
arraiered and each entered plea of
not guilty.
One of the comedies reported to be
PLAYING to crowded houses everywhere
this season is "Side Tracked" with
julie Walters, the gentleman tramp,
as the star.
DR.. Henry E. Goodrich, of Warm
Springs, and Miss M. r. Blanck, re.
Gently from Baltimore, were united in
marriage at the Umatilla house parlors
last evening.
ssert Phelps is down from Heppner
to attend court. Mr.. Phelps says Hep
pner is booming. Every house in the
city is occupied and a number of new
ones is being constructed.
W. Fl, Kennedy, @. O. Berkeley and
P. E. Nelson. engineers in the employ
of the o. r. & N. Co., arrived here lasr
night to take charge of construction of
the new bridge across Mill creek.
Indications are favorable that the
long-neeGed rainy season has at last
begun. Several fine showers have
fallen the past "a hours, and the clouds |
appear to have full store of moisture.
Oregon has over 1900 teachers. 20 !
whom is paid annually the sum of
81 100000 as wages. She spends 1920
per eapisa for school purposes, and
per cent of our population cannot
read and write.
Painters and decorators are putting
the finishing touches on the club
rooms, and the guests of the club will
be dazzeled with the beauty of the new
home when they assemble there to-
morrow evening. .-..
The final report of the receiver OF
the defunct State Insurance Co. of
Salem has been filed, and the business
of the concern has been settled up.
The total amount the corporation paid
creditors was 80 cents on the dollar.
The Walla Walla Daily Statesman
comes out in enlarged form, having in
creased Its size to seven-column
sheet. The Statesman is wide-awake
paper, and its increased business has
made an increase in its size necessary.
The British steamship Flintshire Is
in Portland and will load cargo of
5000 tons of wheat for Liverpool. This
is one of the largest vessels that has
ever entered the Portland barbor, and
is one of the feetest merchantmen
afoas.
The AlaskanFhawing and Heating
company. was incorporated yesterday
at Salem with three Portland men as
incorporates and s25, ZOO as the NOM
iual capital stock. This is natue to be
overcome and the frigid winters of the
north made hearabte;
Durrant was to have been hung in
San Quentin penitentiary today. but
the U. S.'circuit court for Oaliflrnia
granted stay of proceedings, and the
murderer has another lease on life.
When the hanging will take place, if
ever, is not at this time known.
John A. Williad, Minnesota mil
honaire, has just failed, owing $780,
900, with lot of real estate on hand
which the returning prosperity has
failed to make of value. This boasted
millionaire will probably not pay %
cents Oh the dollar, and SO the world
goes.
In Portland yesterday Mr.. K. r.
MacRea and Miss Lillian Egan were
Joined in wedlock. Mr.. MacRea is a
prominent sheep raiser of Dayville,
Graat county, and is one of the solid
men of that section. Mr.. MacRea and
bride arrived here last night en- route
to their home at Dayville.
Eop. W; Fl. Dufur, who was in the
city today, when asked regarding the
condition of fall grain in the vicinity
of Dufur. stated that he had never be-
fore seen fall grain looking as well as
it does now. Phe wheat was sewn On
summer fallow, and there has been
just enough rain to give tta good start.
The case of E. C. Bayard ct al VS..
The Standard Oil Co. is being tried
out in the circuit court today. A jury
was secured about 5 o'clock last night
composed of the following: John Hen i
richs, NJ. V. Rand, M. Dichnmiller, L.
L, Mccartney, John M. Davis, J. P.
Hillstrom, g. E. Stranahan, Hans
Lagn, Geo. Cooper, D: W: Jones and |
Fra.k Vogt.
Sheridan Smith, OF PEORIA, Linn