The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-10
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fFrom Saturday S Dally.)
Miss Adua Helm went to Portland
on the Dalles City this morning.
The Misses Michelbach were passen-
gers on the Dalles City this morning,
going to Portland.
The river is said to be full of salmon,
and local fishermen expect a good
catch as soon as the season opens.
Today J. M. Murchie and E. E. Lytle
visited Sherman county on business
connected with the Columbia River
Southern r. r. Co.
The offices of DIR. Frazier, in the
Chapman block, is being retitted and
enlarged. and when completed will be
most inviting dental parlors.
Coyotes are playing havoc on Willow
creek, in Malheur county, killing
calves. John Weaver has lost go head,
and James Kennedy considerable
number.
Today 800 acres of land, one mile
from Kingsley, belonging to Mrs.
Lizzie Baxter. was sold at sheriff's
sale, and was bid in by Geo. A. Liebe
for $4,000.
Business at the land Office contin-
ues good Notwithstanding the dull
times. The collections for the quarter
ending March 81 have bsen aboye the
mavimum
Last night Marshal Lauer and Sher-
fl Driver made. raid on hobos and
shipped out quite consignment OF
tourists. In consequence thereof, the
city has been clear of tramps today.
T. H. Johnston, of Dufur, is in the
city. Mr.. Johnston says his firm, the
Johnston Bros, will not rebuild their
store building that was burned last
fall until after harvest, when they ex-
pect to put up fireproof building.
Thursday night VIM. Johnson's
house near Mosier was entered by
hobos and robbed of a quantity OF
jewelry and few dollars in money.
The robbers have not yet been identi-
fed and probably made good their es-
cape.
One crooked $40 gold piece has come
into the possession of the Lane county
tax collector four times this season.
In other words, it has already paid the
taxes of four men, and promises to pay
many more before the rolls close, say
the Eugene Guard.
The Vale Advocate says that in NAL
heur county there has been consider
able loss of cattle, that were being fed,
and while their death is ascribed to
unknown causes. it was probably caused
by too much economy, and not enough
hay in the early part of the winter.
Treasurer Kern, of Umatilla county,
has issued call for county warrants
aggregating, principal and interest,
$4,000. This is one of the largest, if
not the largest, scrip call ever made
in Umatilla county. 1t will redeem all
scrip registered between July 1, 1893,
auu september 1, 1850.
Hon. John Fulton. Judge OF Sherman
county, spent yesterday in the city.
He brought in 80 head of beef he had
been feeding during the winter and
shipped them to Troutdale. They
were about the best bunch of cattle
that has been shipped from here this
season, averaging 1888 pounds. and of
course brought the top price.
It is encouraging to note that there
is one business in town that has been
struck by the wave of prosperity.
Otto Birgfeld reports that he did more
business yesterday than any day for
six months, and declares business is
reviving, and all that is necessary to
make times good is for people to ex-
ercise their imagination slightly.
Miss Catherine Martin begins school
at Mosier Monday and Miss Kate
Cooper, who yesterday completed
terms teaching at Grants, will take
Miss Martins place as substitute in
the second grade of the Union street
school until the return of the regular
teacher. Miss Ella Cooper is recover
ing from typhoid fever, but will not be
able to return to school work for some |
weeks.
Fred Wilson arrived home last night |
from visit to Hawaii. Mr.. Wilson,
like Mr.. Wingate, was favorably i'm
pressed with the Hawaiian Islands,
and would not object to becoming a
permanent resident of that country
were it annexed to the United States,
though so long as it is overrun by
Japanese, and governmental affairs so
unsettled as they are at present, he
has no desire to locate there.
The Epworth League last night
elected the following officers for the
ensuing six months: J. E. Collins,
president; Rev. J. H. Wood, 1st vice.
president; Edythe Randall, I'd vice.
Mabel Riddell, I'D vice-presi-
lent; Louise Ruch, 4th vice-president;
W. A. Kirby, secretary; Nettie Fred
IN, treasurer; w. S. Chipp, superin-
endent Junior League; Edythe Ran
lall, organist: Mrs. E. J. Collins, as
istant organist; j. S. Landers,
horistsr.
The republicans of the senate COM
,ittee on finance are continuing their
'ork day and night on the tariff bill
18th the intention of reporting it to
1e senate at the earliest possible day. c
hey are not prepared to give out any t
,sults of their Investigations and 8
ate that they have not reached any i
,nclusions as to the proposed changes.
here is, however, a well-deined i'm t
.ession about the senate that the bill t.
i'll be generally remodeled and the t
ties considerably reduced in many t,
hedules. o
Minnie Edwards was shot in Seattle b
thursday through the left arm by her
other, as the result of an April-fool q
Ike. Minnie who is aged years, had n
zen fooling her brother, lad of IA v "
,ars, when he picked up shotgun, h
hich stood behind a storeroom door, n
I'd which had been unused some time, n
I'd pointed it at his sister, at the p
me time pulling the trigger. There
IS flash and report and the little :,