The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-09-18
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
(From Saturdays DaIly3

Mrs. q. h HaiSht leaves tonign' ior
Ia visit to New York.
Charles Butler and wife left today
Tor their home at Port Townsend.
Miss Lena Liebe returned yesterday
from a three weeks visit to the
seacoast.
Deputy Sheriff Kelly left this morn
or a weeks vacation at his farm
ner Kingsley.
&c. Mcpherson, of Cross Keys. has
moved his family to the city, that the
children may enter the schools here.
! Mre. Anna Urquhart arrived home
last evening from visit OF three
months to her parents in Dundas, On
tario.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. Hobart were in
the city last night and returned on
the boat today to their home at Cas-
cade Locks.
Mrs. d. D. Clark, who has been vis-
itipe her brother, B. S. Huntington
and family, returned today to her home
in Portland.
Last evening Cedar Grove, w. o.
W., gave pleasant entertainment in
honor of the Misses Crooks, OF Prime
vile, who are visiting the city.
The Regulator this morning was
loaded nearly to it's full carrying ca.
pacity. 1t had 20 head of beef and
large quantity of wool and wheat,
besides large passenger list.
Otto Kleemann, architect and super
) intendent of construction on the new
catholic church, is in the city today
looking over the work and inspecting
such parts of the building that have
been completed.
Harvesting has been resumed in the
= Willamette valley, and it is found little
: damage was done grain by the recent
storm, but hops have been seriously
: injured, and not more than half crop
will be harvested.
The scow Harney has been converted
into quite a formidable appearing
wharf boat. 1t is supplied with new
deck and house, and will soon be taken
to Lyle, where the D. P. & A. N. Co.
will use it for handling wheat.
Wheat quotations at Walla Walla
Thursday were club, 80 cents; blue
stem, S2 to SO cents. Farmers who had
been. holding for 30 cents thought the
top notch had not been reached, and
refused to accept the price offered.
J. H. Cradlebaugh, editor of the
Chronicle of The Dalles, arrived in the
city yesterday. Mr.. Cradlebaugh is
: interested in mining in this county is
here to inspect development since his
former visit few weeks since Baker
City Democrat.
The wasco News is informed by
General Manager O'Riley. OF the Co.
lumbis Southern, that trains will be
running into Wasco by next Friday.
The grading will all be completed by
Monday or Tuesday, and track laying
+ can easily be finished by the last of
the week.
A letter received from J. o. Mack,
secretary of the Second Distric. Agri'
cultural Association, states that the
? programs for the fair will be out in a
few days. Mr.. Mack is interes ed in
making the fair success, and will be
here during the coming week to assist
in the preliminary arrangements.
Andy Allen has a stable of four fl 9
racers in training on the fair grounes
putting them in condition for the forth.
coming fair. They are Jim Crow,
Mamie D.,sLiretta and Golden Guina.
They are as feetfooted animals as are
to be foundanywhere in the country,
and will make it interesting for all
who may choose to measure distances
with them on the race track this fall.
A Mexican named Hernandez shot
r. G. Gould in the shoulder at Walla
Walla Thursday. They were in the
laundry business together, and having
a "surplus" imbibed too freely, when
they became quarrelsome and the
shooting was the result. Gould is
not dangerously wounded. Gould who
was very drunk at the time of the
shooting was entirely sohered hy the
bullet. A bullet appears 70 be a
mighty good thing. with which to
teach temperance and sobriety.
Twenty years ago was built on a
block of land in La Grande $40, 900
brick edifice which was known as Blue |
Mountain University in which was for |
q long time conducted aourishing |
school, but for years the building has
been vacant. Now Mrs. Hanna Chap |
lin of La Grande has brought suit in the |
Union county circuit court to recover |
this block of land alleging that her |
husband, now deceased, donated the
land for the sole purpose of having con.
Quoted thereon university and the
contract was broken.
Charles E. Brownhill, proprietor of
Mountain Daisy Hotel, Dudley Road.
Brusley Hill, England, has been visit.
ing his daughter, Mrs. VIM. Latham
in Ramsey precinct, and left this
morning for Portland. Mr.. Brownhill
expects to return October 9th to cele-
brate his Goth anniversary with his
daughter, and has invited mum Der of
his old friends, including Grandpa
Brookhouse, to be present at the feast.
Mr.. Brownhill is SO pleased with Ore
gon that he will return to,his home in
and endeavor to prevail upon
his wife TO come here to live.
Last evening was spent very pleas
autly at the home of Mr. and Mrs. j.
E. Barnett, the occasion being sur
prise given Miss Maie Barnett. a num-
Der of her friends having met to well
come her home after an absence of
about two months at Cross Keys. The /
evening was devoted to playing games
.fter which dainty repast was par
AIKEN of. Those present were: Misses
vesta and Effie Bolton, Pearl Grimes.
Mollie Norman, Susie Chase, Ethel
md Mabel Riddell, Josie Jenkins, Maie