The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-08-27
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
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Geo. y. Rich. A. M. and M. 81. 1sen
berg, of. Hood River, are in the city
Mr.. and Mrs. Tolmie have gone tC
Cascade Locks for weeks outing.
Mrs.'I. L. Burget has returned from
Cascade Locks, where she has been
camping.
Granite for the new Portland custom
house is being shipped from Snake
river quarries in Idaho.
Wheat is selling in Eugene at 81
cents per bushel, which is the same
price as paid in Pendleton
Mrs. L. Gray will return home this
evening from Oregon City, where she
spent the summer with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. 81. Biggs are home
from their summer outing. They
visited Trout Lake, Glenwood and
Cloud Cap Inn.
A few days since Allen & Fortner, of
Prinyville. made sale of their wool.
amounting to something over 100, 900
pounds, at l3s cents.
W. A. Booth, leadin merchant of
Prineville and a member of the firm of
Fuller & Co., arrived on today's stage
en- route for Portland.
Nearly all the prunes raised this
year in Benton county have been con-
tracted for when dried at the rate OF
81 cents per pound on board cars.
Mrs. Fish, who has been visiting
her son j.. S. Fish of the Umatilla
House the past two weeks, returned
today to her home at Oregon City.
Mrs. Douthit and family and Mrs.
Phelps returned by yesterdays boat
from Mofflt Springs, where they have
been camping during the heated spell
r. P. Wilson, a prominent attorney
of San Francisco, passed, through the
city last night en- route to Baker City,
where he is interested in mining prop
erty.
The best place TO get fresh fish is of
]. A. Carnaby at the American market.
New invoices of fish are received
every day, and you are certain to get
them fresh from the water.
The west bound passenger overland
was II hours late taday, not arriving
here until 800 o'clock this afternoon.
The delay was caused on the Union
Pacific yesterday.
"A heavy rain fell along the Colum-
bia between Cascade Locks and Port
land Thursday night and Yesterday,
and caused many of the campers to
desert their summer resorts and come
home.
Pease & Mays will begin at once re-
building their wagon and implement
warehouse on the corner of Second and
Laughlin streets. 1t will be one
story building 5Ox1OO feet covered
with corrugated iron.
A heavy fire is still raging in the
mountains north of Mt. Hood, that
was not put out by the.rain Thursday
night. It is said it will require "a
hours steady rain to stop the fires that
are now burning.
The Oregonian's full page write-up
of the company of girl soldiers from
McMinnville was a delightful piece of
satire and refreshing humor which
the young ladies will appreciate more
fully when they become q little older.
A. Walthers has come in from Henry
Deitzel's mine in the vicinity of Mt.
Hood, and it is understood he brought
some fine specimens of ore with him,
and that force of men will be put to
work developing the claim in short
time.
People 60 from The Dalles to the
sea coast to get cool, while those living
on the coast come up here to get warm.
last night Messrs. A. Church and Will
Graham, of Ilwaco, arrived here ior
summer outing, and will spend few
weeks in the mountains of Eastern
Oregon.
A Dalles man at the Bay gives
graphic account of a battle royal in
which three women armed with clubs
are the attacking party. For fifteen
minutes they made things tropical for
the enemy, finally coming off victor
ious in a battle that would have done
credit to Dewey. The enemy was a
snake about the size of lead pencil.
Mr.. P. F. Fouts last evening re-
ceived telegram from his son, Seneca;
who is at Camp Merritt, San Francisco.
stating that the Oregon volunteers
would sail for Manila on Tuesday next
They look forward to the voyage with
keen interest and are in high hopes
that their services will be needed in
the far east at least for garrison duty.
There is steady progress in Eastern
Oregon mining circles. Sloan & Has
kell this week placed on exhibition at
a Baker City bank 700 ounces of gold
from partial cleanup of two Grant
county properties. They recently sold
the Bull of the Woods group of ten
quartz claims to San Francisco parties
for $50, 900 and have other large inter-
ests.
At the Wasco warehouse is large |
amount of building material for An
telope, windows, doors and corrugated |
iron, to be used in rebuilding the |
houses burned out by the recent fire. |
Before winter sets in the enterprising |
business men of Antelope will be
housed in better and more commodious
buildings than they were before the
fire.
E. N. White, a prominent farmer of
passed through The Dalles
this morning en- route to Portland.
where he goes to have his eyes treated,
be having been almost blind the past
three years. He was accompanied to
The Dalles by his daughter, Mrs. J. H.
who has returned to
)ufur to visit with her sister, Mrs.
Monroe Heisler.
D. Wilder lost nearly all his photo
,raphic instruments in the recent fire,
,ut saved enough to take pictures
with, and has opened up in tent near
Rowe & Co.'S. store. W. II. Van Biber
s arranging to erect new gallery on
second street for Mr.. Wilder and will