The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From wednes lays Daily.


From Wednes lays Daily.
Mrs. T. j. Seufert left this mornir
for Portland.
See A. NJ. Williams s. Co.'S ad {
front page.
During the month 2.l3 inches
rain have fallen in The Dalles.
Remember the social to be given b
the Degree of Honor this evening.
Frank Wookcock is in the city an
will leave for Portland tomorrow
buy goods for his store at Wamic.
Special Inducements are bein
offered on pattern shirts at A. NJ
Williams & Co. during this week.
B. F. Jones, of Prineville, has re
turned from Nebraska where he wen
some time since with shipment o
cattle.
Last night Mr.. Hervey shipped j
cars of sheep to Billings, Montana
They were bought in this and Crook
counties.
A man who had imbibcd too freely
was arrested this afternoon by Mar.
shal Lauer and put in the cooler to
cool off.
The machinery is being put into the
new Regulator, and within a short
time that boat will be ready to again
go into commission.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Fish left this
morning for Oregon City. Mr.. Fish
was notified by telegraph that his
mother was dangerously i'll.
Mr.. Hughes has taken charge of
the Times -Mountaineer city routes,
and will after December 1st snperin-
tend the delivery OF papers.
The United Artisans will hold
meeting at 7:30 this evening. All
members should be present as there is
business of Importance to transact.
Dick German came in last evening
from Wamic where he has been SUPER
intending the setting of poles on the
Seufert & Condor telephone line. y
This forenoon the demurrer to the
Indictment against Henry Snipes was
argued before the circuit court, and
was taken under advisement by the
court.
DR.. Sanders has sold 10 ton of dried
prunes in Portland and is shipping |
them today. This year the doctor
dried something over 20 ton of prunes
this season.
This mornig Miss Martha Wilson
left for her home in Springfield, Ohio.
She has been visiting her co usin, Hon.
W. H.. Wilson, in The Dalles since
last summer.
A brother of Hasson Donnelly, the
runaway boy arrested here yesterday,
arrived last evening and took the
young adventurer back to Portland
this morning. =. |
Miss Mabel Riddell closed her
school in The Floyd district yesterday
and left this morning for Monmouth,
where she will take course in the
state normal school.
A. M. Williams & Co. are Offering
, reduction, of twenty-five per cent. on
all fancy silk waist patterns bought of
,hem during this week. See ad. on
'front.' page.
Work on the Seufert & Condor
telephone extension from Dufur to s
rygh has been suspended for the t
present. The poles are set from 7
0ufur to Kingsley, and will be wired |
n few days. !
Today the New York Life Insurance
1o., through its resident agent, G. J.
Farley. paid to p. McInerny, ad- i
the sum of $1,000 In set
lement of the policy held by Phil i,
3rogan in that company.
The Pacific Bridge Co. is doing a G
rood job putting down water mains,
,ut it would seem that the dirt with ,
which the pipe is covered should be
title more firmly tramped. If not it
will leave bad place in, the streets
when the dirt settles.
The Oregon Telephone & Telegraph
20. has poles for its long distance line T
ct from The Dalles to Dufur. Prog {;
ess on the line is being delayed by =
he company not being able to get
,oles out on the line as rapidly as
hey can be set in the ground.
1. j. Norman and family departed
his morning for Roseburg where they
7ill remain this winter, and if Mr..
torman's health is improved will u
make that their permauant home II
hey were accompanied to the boat
y number of friends.
Farmers throughout the country are =
verjoyed on account of the rain that L
as fallen the past week. 1t is suf =
cient to put the ground lin condition
or plowing, and preparations are be- "
NO made to put IN an immense crop of il
7heat next spring on ground that will +
10 plowed during the winter.
4 petition is being circulated asking o
he county court to establish road '
rom Howena to the end of the county t.
Dad leading down the river. The "
bject of this proposed road is to con
,ect with the landing of the new i.
team ferry that is to cross the river T
rom Lyle to the Oregon side. The f
oad seems to be one that is needed. q
Checks were received today, byS P.
Ianawalt, special agent, for the e
,avment of the policies held by Phil
3rogan, deceased, in the Massachu- i
etts Mutual Life Insurance Co., \
to Obs, one policy for
3, 200 having run only six weeks, and i
he other policy of 5000 having run $
me year. +
From Thursdays Daily.
Hugh Gourlay was called to Port.
and on business this morning.
The fees collected by the county
,lerk during the month of November
,mou nted to s322.50
A dispatch was received here yester- =
lay announcing the ceath of Mrs.
julius Fisher, at Oakland. Cah