The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-05

. ladies OXfOrds, in OK blood, chOc0ia
or black, has just been received
Pease s. Mays. They are beauties a
the prices are right.
in The school board has let contra
for leveling the grounds for the ne
,e school house to be erected on Aca
emy Park, and work has been col
,e menced on the contract.
Last evening Frank Kelly was a
"a rested by Constable Hill on chars
of having stolen a pair of shoes out
u Dean Bottoms wagon. His trial can
;. up in Justice Filloons' court this afte
/ noon.
The town of Lyle, WASH, is soon
% haye a general merchandise stor
. Collins Elkins, formally of the L.
Blaine Clothing Co. of Albany, hs
=, determinee to open store IN thf
= place.
This evening the Rathbone Sister
will give festival and entertainment
at the K. of P. hall In the Vogt BLOCK
A literary and musical program wi
be rendered after which the baneue
3 will be served.
VIM. Wiley arrived last evening
from Antelope, having come through
Sherman county. He says the fal
sown grain looks fine in that county
but the late spring grain is suffering
for want of rain.
The trial of Benz Bouer still contin
ues in the circuit court. All the evi
dence for the state was in when court
adjourned at noon today, and the after
noon has been devoted to examining
witnesses for the defense.
The ladies of the Catholic church
made marked success of the festival
they gave in the Bunnell hall yester-
day and last night. The receipts of
the festival were 1851 which will be
applied upon the new church fund.
Today Mr.. and Mrs. Segui, who re-
side on Mill creek, bi ought their Dabe,
aged about three months, to town for
| medical treatment, and the child died
before they could remove it from the
buggy. It was suffering from spas
modic Group.
Something new and dainty for in
fants. Pease & Mays are showing a
line of infants shoes in OK blood and
tan with colored silk tops at seventy
five cents pair. Every mother in
town should see them. If they do
every infant in town will have a pair.
About o'clock Sunday morning the
store of John Sylvester, at Pilot Rock,
was broken into by thieves, and all
the cash in the store was stolen.
There was $1lO in gold, 500 in silver
and $21 in nickels and dimes, besides
four bank checks amounting to about
800
r. B. Driver is in from the Wamic
country today, and reports the crops
excellent in that section. Growing
crops about Wamic are not needing
rain as they are in some localities, and
Mr.. DRYER is of the opinion that there |
will be an average OF five bushels more |
more to the acre harvested than ever
before.
County School Superintendent Gill
bert is expected home about the 18th.
when he will perfect arrangements for
holding afour weeks institute, or sum-
mer school for teachers. The ipsti-
bute will commence on July II, and
will be conducted on the same plan as
The one held last summer.
This morning another trainload of
cattle belonging to Flower s. Flavey,
Of Cutbank, Montana, arrived here in
charge of c. 81. Mathews, and were fed
at the stock yards here. There were
950 head of young cattle in the ship
ment, and it is the third train shipped
by Flower & Flavey this season. They
were bought in Lane, Benton and Linn
counties, and were shipped from
Eugene.
Last evening Fern Lodge, D. of H.,
elected the following officers for the
ensuing term: Chief of honor, Mrs. G.
}. Gibbons; lady of honor, Mrs. c. J.
Crandall; chief of ceremonies. Mrs. J.
A. Douthit;' recorder. Miss Nettie
financier, Miss Cora Joles;
'eceiyer, Miss Lizzie Schooling; lady
lsher, Mrs. Eaton; inside watchman,
drs. Laurensen; outside watchman,
Mrs. Kreft.
An instance of the extreme length
% which the contract system is carried
,ut by the federal government is evil
lenced by notice posted in the post
,ffice at Spokane. Bids are asked for
he shoeing of two government and
me private horse. The bids will be
opened June 5..~The government re-
erves the right to reject any and all
bids. The notice is issued through |
he constructing quartermaster in
'harge of the army post, Captain W.
4. Miller.
The business done by postoffice is
Ilways gauge of the business trans
4cted by the place in which the Office
8 located, and the business done by
h postoffice in The Dalles during the
,ast year shows an increase oyer that
lone the year previous, indicating that I
The Dalles is improving in general
way. Postmaster Crossen has just re- I
,eived the accepted report on his Office I
or the year enc ing March 81, 1897, and
t shows an increase of S1O2 over that
lone the year before, there being an
excess of 1907 over that required to en-
title rating of a second-class Office.
From frioay's Daily
The river was down to 1873 this morn
ng. |,
Mrs. Rufeno went to Hood River
On the Regulator this morning.
Mrs. A. M. Williams returned today
% Portland, after a short visit to her
children in this city.
Mrs. J. D. Hill has returned from
Seattle, and will spend few weeks with
her son, F. D. Hill, in the city.
W. E. Kahler came down this MORN
.ng from Morrow county and reports
,rop prospects there very favorable.
Fisherman along the river report O
good many salmon in the river, and if
the water continues falling expect a