The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-23
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
(From Saturdays Daily.)


CFrom Saturdays DailyD
DR.. Hugh Logan went to Portland
this morning.
Hon. W. 81. b. Dufur came up from
Portland last night.
H.H. Riddell left for Portland or
this mornings train.
Hon. B. S. Huntington returned
from the state capital last night.
The high school literary society
meets tonight in the high school build
ing.
Phillip Michel, of Columbus. who
has been in Portland, returned on last
nights train.
Senator Michel came home from
Salem yesterday, and will return to
the capital tomorrow.
Ben Snipes. ju., who has been at
tending Stanford University. arrived
from California today en- route to his
home at Yakima.
A petition was circulated here today,
and pretty generally signed, request
ing Represen tative F. N. Jones, OF
this county, to aid in organizing the
house.
The attention of all Elks is called to
the fact that their presence is required
at the meeting this evening. One or
more fawns will be admitted and prop
erly decorated with horns.
That there is plenty OF iron and coal
underlying The Dalles and vicinity Is
almost certainty, and the fact will be
demonstrated during the coming
season, since the fund for buying q
diamond drill has been guaranteed.
Messrs. Del Porter, W. 81. and G..
M. Andrews were in from Wasco last
evening. They say crop prospects
were never better in Sherman county
than at present. A slight freeze oc-
CURED there the first of the week. but
did no damage to grain.
TIL. Clark, of Hood River, is In the
city today visiting friends and display
ing a nice prospect from quartz mine
in the Nigger Head district, Washing
ton, in which he and County Clerk
Kelsay are interested. Assays from
the ore show s45 to the ton in gold and
a trace of copper and silver.
The monkey and parrot time con-
tinues at Sa,em. The house has not
organized nor does there seem to be
any likelihood of its getting down to
business soon. The salaries OF the
representatives has stopped by limlta-
ton, however, and the show that is
going on at Salem Is inexpensive,
though rather exasperating.
The city council of Condor last week
offered to the county court to donate
$1,000 toward building $1,000 court
house at Condor, to be built within
year. But the court did not consider
it favorably, and Gillian will have to
along with the distinction OF
being the only county in the state
without courthouse.
Yesterday the temporary sargeant-
alarms of the house cast about Salem
in search of absent members OF the
body and reported having found two
1t the penitentiary and two at the In
sane asylum, They were not confined
within the walls of those institutions,
only being visitors, self-constituted
of investigation probably.
Last night a crowd of young Ameri-
.ans assembled on vacant lotw
If the European house and refused to
lisperse when ordered by Nightwatch
Wiley to go home, whereupon the Off
.er fired few shots from his revolver,
md in less than a minute the young
owdies were scudding away to their
beds at a breakneck speed.
Memorial services will be conducted
" the Workman Lodge at fraternity
lall next Monday evening at 7:5O. TO
7hich all Workmen, members of the
Degree of Honor and their friends are
invited. 1t ia custom of the Work
nen to hold memorial services annual
y in memory of the departed members,
t hich an eulogy and other appro-
,riate exercises are rendered.
The common council held a special
Meeting last night to consider the
,mended charter. which was approved.
md q clause added providing that the
ouncil may pass an ordinance licens-
ng dealers who sell spirituous liquors
~ the bottle and also providing that
he marshal shall be empowered to at
.nytime after giving "a hours notice
epair sidewalks within the corpor-
tie limits of the city.