The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-12
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.)

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Marriage license was issued yester
day to Hugo Scholz and Hedwied
Hilscher.
j. L. Mum, of Cross Keys, is in tue
city with his wool clip, and is ready to
interview buyers.
DR.. Lannerberg has returned fro m
Goldendale, and may be found at his
Office for the next week.
Mrs. Newman, who has been visit
ing in the city the past week. returned
this morning to Portland.
James Benson, of Five-Mile, has
finished harvesting his alfalfa hay and
reports an extra good yield.
W. N. Wilev has sold all his sheep
and will retire from sheep raising until
the business Is little more settled.
Hon. j. w. Armsworthy, editor oi
the Wasco News, is in the city today
attending the convention of the Ep.
worth League.
Miss Lizzie Farmer, of this Office,
left this morning for Seattle, where
she will spend a week visiting rela-
tives and friends.
The closing exercises of St. Joseph's
school will be held on Friday evening
of next week at st. Mary's Academy,
where an entertaining program will
be rendered.
Eleven car loads of COWS and calves
were unloaded at the stock yard and
fed today. The cattle were from Will
lamette valley, and were being shipped
to Montana.
Near Sheridan, in Yamhill county
last Thursday, E. B. Crum, shot and
fatally wounded Lloyd Russell. The
trouble grew out of Russell tresspass-
ing on Crum's property.
Architect G. J. Crandall is busily en-
gagged preparing plans and specifi"a-
tious for the new school house, and ex-
poets to have them ready to submit to
the board for approval by July 1st.
A boy twelve years old in Shelby
vile. Indiana, has just past an exam
ination successfully and won license
to teach. Another at Crown Point in
the same state, who is only 13, has
smoked $4,000 cigarettes.
Farmers on Five and Ten-Mile re-
port their grain suffering from the hot
weather and for want of rain. A rain
of few hours would put their grain
crops in excellent condition, but with
out rain their wheat will oe short.
Pat Pagan is down from his ranch on
Cherry creek, and says farmers in that
section have already began cutting
alfalfa hay. The season there is fully
two weeks earlier than common, hay
ing usually commences about June 10.
Nearly all the strawberry pickers
have left Hood River the berry crop
having been about harvested. The
hot weather the past week has had the
effect of drying up the berries and will
make the crop several thousand crates
short.
The authorities of Cascade Locks
have sent an old colored woman, Mrs.
L. G. Aines, to the county Jail. charged
with carrying concealed weapons. The
old lady is half-witted, and appears to
be more an object of pity than Grim
inal.
All Knights are requested to be
present at the regular convention OF
Friendship Lodge next Monday even
ing, as on that occasion Supreme Rep
resentatiye Ronald will meet with the
lodge and lecture upon the aims OF the
order, also exemplify the unwritten
work.
The next attraction of The Dalles
will be a moonlight excursion to be
given by the hose team some evening
next week. The object of the excur-
sion is, besides having good time,
70 raise funds to pay the expenses OF
training the hose team for the coming
If the wool that is now in the ware
houses in The Dalles were being man
lfactured into cloths right here, it
would furnish employment for several
hundred hands, and the wool raisers
would find market for their fleece.
As 1t is the wool raiser cannot sell land
here is no work for the unemployed.
r. B. Sinnott contemplates attend
ng the firemen's tournament at Baker
City. and while there will endeavor to
induce the different departments par
in that tournament to be-
,ome members of the state Volunteer
Eiremen's Association and take part
Il The Dalles tournament in Septer-
,e.
o. II. Kerns, who attended the sill.
'er convention at Albany, returned
lome last night, and expresses the
elief that the action taken there will
esult in the organization OF new
olitical party that will be the coming
arty of the state. The meeting he
sys was harmonious and the prevail
,g sentiment was for union.
Farmers aud freighters complain of
le condition of the road from Three
lie to The Dalles and of the street
aiding from the bluff past the Meth
list church. The authorities should
70 to it that the roads leading into L
10 city are put into good condition. a
hat much is due the travelling public
I'd also the merchants of the city. t
Mrs. J. E. Barnett and Miss Edythe &
andall, delegates to the grand lodge L
Good Templars from Dalles Lodge
D 2, and Miss Lydia Johnson, dele G.
te from Fairfield Lodge, returned T
the boat last night from Portland. Il
iss Randall, Sup't. Harmon Juvenile n
ample in this city, had the pleasure
bringing back with her the banner d
esented by the grand lodge to the D
lge showing the greatest increase OF IL
for the past year. which a
IS awarded to Harmon Temple.
rhos. Dillon, the well-known Con- g
n sheepman and capitalist, was IL
'icken down with paralysis on We'd tt
sday morning about five O'Clock, on a
. sidewalk in front of the Grande
,tel in Arlington, where he had N
ant the night. He was carried to @.