The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-08-06
ITEMS IN BRIEF.

r. NJ. Russell, Spokane CONNER
cial traveller, is interviewing the bust
ness men of The Dalles.
r. p. VIM and wife and Miss Evi
Wentworth from the Warm Springs
Agency, are in The Dalles.
w. w. Wilson, manager OF the Bald
win restaurant, returned last evering
from business trip to Salem.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. N. Sargent will
spend the summer at Cascade LOCKS
They left on the boat for that place
this morning.
This morning carload of work
horses was shipped from here to Wythe
to be used in railroad construction
work at that place.
Mr. a nd Mrs ]. N. Fordyce went to
Portland on the excursion train this
morning.
Prof. Gavin went to Cascades this
morning and will return on the even
ing boat.
Alex Cohn and j. 3. Foster. OF San
Francisco, are registered at the UNA
tilla House.
Andrew Newman. of Prineville, and
Geo. Kohler, of The Dalles, went to
Portland today.
The RosebuIg Review justly asserts
that acute stinginess is blocking the
growth of that city.
R.. B. May, of Portland, is in the
city.
Lem Burgess of Bakeoven, is in the
city.
RI. Sabin, of Portland, is in The
Dalles.
&c. Carter and wife, of Cross Keys,
are in the city.
T. j. Driver is registered at the Bel
vedere, Portland.
F. Malone and wife, of Antelope are
in The Dalles today.
Rev. Boltz left this morning for an
outing at Trout Lake.
W. B. Macklin, of Portland, is reg
istered at the Umatilla.
W.T.. johnson and A. Fletcher, of |
Waldron, are in the city.
w. P. Smith, San Francisco COM
mercial man, is at the Umatilla House.
w. C. Clark, newspaper cores
pondent of .Wardner Idaho, is in the
city.
Collins Elkins the prosperous mer-
chant of Lyle, was in the city last
night.
Or. Hollister went to Portland to-
day to assist in an operation to be per-
formed on Thomas Twohig at ST. Vim
cents hospital.
A. P. Bradbury of story telling fame,
and general hustler for the Portland
Cracker Co., is interviewing the gro
GERS of this city.
John q. Burgard, the genial special
agent of the Home Insurance Co., OF
New York, is in the city from Port
land headquarters.
Some one hasstolen the record book
from the summit of Mt. Hood. In which
was to be registered the names of all
making the ascent.
Occasionally load of last years I
wheat is received at the warehouses in
The Dalles. 1t is wheat that was held {
over for better prices that never came.
Tuesday evening Mrs. F. G. Daut re-
ceived dispatch stating that her
father was very i'll at Monroe, Iowa,
and she departed on the overland train
for that place.
In Marion county expectations re-
garding the wheat crop are not being
realized in either quantity or quality.
There is large amount of straw but
the yield is short.
A. B. Cutler, Telegram representa-
tive, has been working Systematically ,
and earnestly in this section for sew
eral days in the interest of the excur-
sion given by his paper.
Within q week now wheat will begin
arriving, and although the warehouses !
are pretty we'll filled with wool they
will find room somewhere to store the
wheat as 1t comes IN. ,
W. 81. 81. Dnfur, of Dufur, is regis
tered at the Perkins. in Portland. He ,
has been to Salem on official business
connected with his new position con-
cerning the forest reserve.
The Great Northern Express Com ,
pany has secured rights to transact ,
~ n 9y |
which will give it entrance into Port
land, so the news is reported from
Spokane.
T.. j. Lynch brought back with him
from the Red Mems meeting in Port
land an invitation to ''Hiyu Muck-a-
muck'' printed on buckskin mOccasin
and also the menu on buckskin. They
are certainly odd curiosities.
Last evening Mr.. and Mrs. Al. Bet
tingen's little girl aged four years, fell
from her tricycle. apd broke bone in
one of her arms at the elbow. DR..
Geisendorffer reduced the fracture,
and the little girl is resting as COM
fortably as possibly.
To look at the warehouses in The
Dalles one would think all the wool in
the country had been stirred long ago,
but such is not the case. Almost
every day several loads of wool come
in from the outlying districts that are
tributary to The Dalles.
Rube Buttonberry is in town. Mr..
Buttonberry is the noted character
who makes comfortable living oy
dressing and acting like guy and ad-
vertising some firm at the time He
accompanied the Telegram excursion
to Portland, much to the delight of his
fellow travellers.
The postoffice department asks the
press to give this notice an insertion:
"Friends and relatives of soldiers in
the field. should mark plainly the COM
pany and regiment to which they be-
long, as py doing so the distribution
of the mail will be facilitated. This |
applies to both the regular troops and |
the militia volunteers"
The output of beets near La Grande |
lx, 70 Sn mn