The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-10-09
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
lFrnm Saturdays DaIlYO

(Frou Saturdays DaIiyl
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fulton, of Biggs :
are in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. R Hinton left thi
morning for Portland.
A shipment of 800 head of beef cattl
was made from Baker City to Omah;
Thursday.
E. B. Knox, of Pauline, Croot
county, and his two sisters are visiting
in the city.
Miss Emma Jacobsen was a passen
ger on the Regulator this morniog fol
Stevenson.
Walla Walla's great fruit fair closed
Thursday night and was success in
every respect.
DR.. Byron E. Miller, of Portland
will be in The Dalles tomorrow and
Monday, the guest of DR.. Eshelman.
Miss Eliot, who has been in the city
the past few days arranging for vocal
class, returned to Portland this morn
ing.
Last night the steamer lone brought
up 100 head of stock cattle from the
vicinity of Cascade Locks, to be driven
to the open ranges of this county.
The fruit fair to be held at Hood
River begins on Thursday of next
week. 1t is expected the exhibits will
be the finest ever seen in the state.
Although wheat is quoted at only &c
cents it continues to roll into the ware
houses at the rate of about 100 loads a
day, and is being stored awaiting a
rise in the market.
Yesterday Miss Hills geology clas:
visited Rockland in search OF pre-
historic relics and to examine the
form alton of the country on the north
side of the Columbi
There was a marked increase in the
enrolment in The Dalles public schools
this week, and now the rooms are well
filled with pupils, the teachers having
about all they can care for.
1t is stated that there is enough pro-
vision at Dawson.City to last 1000 men
during the winter, but as there are al
ready 5000 people there, somebody will
get hungry before spring.
The 49th annual meeting of the gen.
eral Association of Congregational
churches was held at Hood River on
Tuesday and Wednesday last. The
meeting was largely attended by rep
resentatives from all parts OF the state.
When jackson and Williams, the
train robbers, were arraigned in court
at Portland yesterday they both en-
tered pleas of not guilty. The date of
their trial has net yet been fixed.
At Prineville on Saturday of last
week VIM. Stroud stabbed Ed. Harris
with a dirk knife inficting two serious
wounds. Stroud was held in $500
bonds to answer before the next
grand jury.
Customs house officials at Seattle
raided the steamer Al-Ki bound for
the other day and seized large
lot of liquors that were shipped as oat-
meal, sugar, syrup and coffee. The
liquor was cOnfiscated.
The jury in the case of Marks &
Olsen VS.. the Northern Pacific Rail-
way Company, yesterday brought in
verdict at Spokane for the plaintiffs
for S1S, ,624 Is. The suit was for COM
pensation for extra work done on a
brauch in Idaho.
The Clatsop grand jury yesterday re-
turned a true bill in the case OF B. l..
Ward and W. G. Howell, treasurer
and deputy treasurer, respectively, OF
that county. The Indictment charges
them with the larceny of public money
to the amount of 81. 1853.
The -Mountaineer news rustler
was on the lookout for items today and
asked young lady if she knew any
thing of interest. "Certainly." she
replied, "there was an awful fight in
the postoffice little while ago."
What about?" asked the reporter. "A
man licked postage stamp" was the
answer.
A woman in New York state cured
her husband of staying out late at
night by going to the door when he
.ame home and whispering through
,he keyhole, SIS that you, Willie?"
Her husbands name is John, and he
stays at home every night now. and
sleeps with one eve open and revol-
1er- under his pillow.
The Columbia outhern railroad is
,ow virtually completed, and trains
will be run from Biggs to Wasco to-
morrow evening, Connection will be
made at Biggs with the passenger
,rain that leaves here at 6 P. M. Par
lies desiring to 60 to Wasco can now
make the trip all the way by rail by
taking the Spokane flyer. The first
train through will also carry freight.
w. III. Mansfield, foreman in this
office, took the early morning train for
and from there goes over
the N. P. to Cosmopolis, Wash, where
next Monday morning at O'Clock he
will be united in marriage to Miss
Henrietta Owen, youngest daughter
If Hon. II. C. Owen, of Eugene.
3illy's many friends in The Dalles and
throughout the state wish him ''much
oy" in advance.
There is young man living near
DALLAS, Polk county, where he was
orn, who promises to become the big
est man in the world. His name is
,harles w. Brickey, and although
My Is years of age his heightls & feet
! inches, and he weighs 22O pounds.
[e has grown two feet in two years,
nd he hopes to keep this lick up for
yo years to come.
The 31th annual state fair opened at
alem Thursday. The conditions were
OF the most auspicious. The uhfavor-
Die weather initiated against the at
as we'll as against the ex-
ibitors. 1t was found that some ex-
ibits had been unavoidably delayed,
'pecially the major portion of the
nion county exhibit, and those whose
zhibits were delayed were given until
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