The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-10
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.

Jack Pagan was passenger on Tn
Regulator this morning bound TO
Portland.
Misses Clara, Julia and Christin
Nicholson returned yesterday from
Hood River
The county judge and commissioner
meet tomorrow for the transaction o
county business.
One car of cattle was shipped las
night from Saltmarshe & Co.'s stocl
yards to Troutdale.
T. P. Crum has gone to Moffet
Springs to spend month at that pop
ular summer resort.
Mr.. and Mrs. Al BeLtinger spent the
4th in Portland, returning home on
last evenings boat.
Mrs. F. S. Cunning went to Portland
today. and will spend a week visiting
her sister in that city.
Mrs. Truman Butler and Miss Nellie
Butler returned on last evenings boat
from visit to friends in Washington.
Messrs. Smith and D. M. French, ac-
companied by their families, left this
morning for the sea coast to spend the
summer
The Regulator last night brought
home large number of Dalles people
who had been to Portland to celebrate
tie 4th.
mi hoS
at Mosier and Hood River the pasL
week, and returned home on the boat
last evening.
s. P. M. Briggs with his son and
daughter left this morning for Che
halls, WASH. where he will spend his
summer vacation.
About half of the Morrow county
wool clip has been sold. 1t is estimated
that 100000 will be paid for the half
that is not yet sold.
The salmon catch still contin ues
light, and fishermen have about given
up hopes of getting any great amount
of fish until the fall run.
The Dalles Canning Co. received |
ton of salmon last night and the can
merry wrs run few hours this forenoon |
putting the fish in cans.
The monitors Monterey and Monad |
mock leave Portland next Monday, so
oil who desire to see them will have to
go to Portland on or before that date.
Misses Louise Ruch. Josie Sphinx,
Louise Rintoul, Beatrice and Edna
Glenn and Mrs. Capt. Waud came
home from Portland on the Regulator
yesterday.
The city council will hold meeting
this evening at which time it is ex-
pected the mayor will appoint a re-
eorder and marshal to be oufirmed by
the council.
Lieutenant Morse and Sargent
Walker, of Co. c, of Wasco, are in the
city, having stopped here to visit
friends on their return from the Hood
River encampment.
Indeed The Dalles has gone wild as
st were on bowling. There are now {
three first class alleys in the city, and
every one Of them is kept hot about 6
twelve hours each day. y
1t is reported that on Friday night,
in Sumpter. Boxer county, a man was
knocked down by thugs and robbed of
Sl5O, and that a residence there was f
entered by burglars, and several s
dollars stolen.
All La Graude is elated over the fact ]
that Co. d won the silver pitcher and
cup in the comparative drill at Camp
jackson, and we'll may the people of
that city take pride in their soldier
boys, for they are we'll up in military
tactics.
President Lytle of the Columbia
Southern, is out on the line today
looking over the construction work be- /,
tween Biggs and Wasco. Grading is
being pushed ut both ends of thu line,
and it will not be long until track lay
ing will begin.
The Dalles still maintains its posi-
United States. Buyers are offering
from 10 to 104 cents today, but owners
are holding off expecting higher prices,
though few clips have been sold at
che prices stated above =
In another column the directors of
school district No. i. advertise for r
bids for the construction of the pro-
posed new school building. to which
the attention of contractors and build f
ers is called. This is an opportunity I
for contractors. and it is to be hoped
some Dalles builder will be the success
full bidder, .
The towns of Woodsdale, Moscow,
Springfield and Fargo, in Kansas,
which had population of HOO in 1890, :
have now only population OF lS, ac-
cording to a correspondent OF the
United States Investor. Hugoton has
three families out of the 400 that used
to live there. Nine children go to the
$4,000 schoolhouse. and there is stand
ing, like monument of folly, water
works system that cost some Eastern
piutocrat s36, 600. The town never
paid cent of principal or interest on
all this, snd never will.
Science has made great progress in
the Victorian ere. but it has some un-
explained mysteries still to deal with,
as witness the following from the 4
Oregonian of some time ago. A young
lady of Union, Or, had a needle stuck
sr her side near the waist, and it pro-
ceeded to lose itself as needles gen.
orally dc. Some six months later the I
same needle was extracted from the
arm of young gallant of Elgin, a town
20 miles distant. just how the needle
bridged that 20 miles is the problem at
present troubling the scientific mind.
From Thursdays Daily.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Miller left on
the boat this morning for the sea coast
Miss Minnie Swank, of Portland, is
visiting J. A. Douthit and family in
the city.
A.D. Looney, postmaster at Mitchell,
was in the city yesterday en- route to