The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-02-05
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Mednesday,s Daily.

evenings train.
W. Ballows, general roadmaster fo
the o. r. & N, is in the city.
Messrs. Otto Birgfeld and Charli
Michelbach took run down to Port
land today.
Charles Frank has bought Dick Nc
lan's property ON Third street, next t
the Gates building.
Hon. E. b. Dufur went to Portlan,
this morning to attend to some mutter
he has in court there.
Last Sunday Charles Schultz dispos
ed of an organ at rattle, and No. 20
held by Col. Thompson, was the luck!
number.
Mrs. Katie Aubend, who has beer
visiting Judge and Mrs. Bradshaw
left this morning for her home il
Portland.
Joe Bonn came home on the o o'clock
train from Portland, where he had
been attending the republican league
convention.
Miss Gaunt, who has been visiting
at Dufur, returned from that place
yesterday, and left today for her home
in Goldendale.
Fred Clemmens who shot and killed
Paul Ducleos, near McMinville last
Saturday, has been held in bonds of
$1,000 on charge of manslaughter.
Extensive improvements are being
made in the D. P. & A N. Office. The
walls are being repapered. and the
back room of the Office is being en-
larged.
The o. R. & N. track leading to the
coal bunkers and shops is being set
oyer few feet south to make room for
roadway to be built to the proposed
: new dock.
At the meeting of the republican
club league in Portland yesterday. r.
B. Sinnott, of this city, was elected a
member of the executive committee
for the ensuing year.
So far AS heard from, Forest Grove
school district has voted the heaviest
special tax of any district in the state.
The tax levied for school purposes
there is 10 mills.
1t is announced in Mondays dis
patches that Judge Storey. of this city, |
has been granted a pension ct So |
month. His many friends here will |
be pleased to know that his claim has
been recognized by the government.
A few days since VIM. Marders and
Charles Michelbach. preprietors of
the Midway, dissolved partnership,
Mr.. Marders retaining the business,
and now Mr.. Michelbach has taken
charge as manager of the White
House.
Cedar Circle will give another of its
socials next Friday evening, February
4th. Everybody welcome. A good
program will be given, a feature of
which will be two bowling alleys, and
dancing. Tickets for admission, ladies
10 cents and gents 15 cents.
The little dve-year.old son of J. A.
Fargher was severely bitten by dog
this morning. DIR. Hollister was called
to dress the little fellows wounds,
which consisted of number of cuts on
the face and hands, and at noon he
was resting quite comfortably.
Twelve car loads of fat hogs from
Elgin and leland City were unloaded
at the stockyards here last night and
fed. and were reloaded for Troutdale
today. 1t was one of the finest ship
Eastern Oregon this winter.
Mrs. G. Wells, and daughter and
Mr.. and Mrs. 81. Dickson, of Portland,
arrived here last night to meet Mr..
and Mrs. W. II. Wells and attend the
funeral of their little daughter who
was drowned at Prosser. On account ,
of the failure OF trains to make conec- ,,
tion Mr.. and Mrs. Wells did not reach
here this morning, but are expected d.
tomorrow.
Alfred R. Ockerman: the abscond- {
ing secretary of the Portland lodge of &
Elks, and ex-druggist of that city,
who disappeared from Portland on
December 16 last, has been arrested at :
Vancouver, B. G. He was going un- G
der the name of Raymond, and had =
been in the neighborhood of Vancou /,
yer for some time. Ockerman says he !;
will return to Portland and will make .
good his shortage with the lodge
which he claims is not more than $500.
Yesterday the jury in the case of the Y
United States vs.. .Seufert Bros, tried '
before Judge Bellinger, rendered a S
verdict for $1,000 in favor OF the de- /
fendants. This is the third trial in a
the case, and the verdict rendered by d
the jury is less satisfactory to the de-
fends than either of the former two.
The first award was $4,000 damages
and the sec,nd S35.O0O, this verdict
having been set aside by Judge Beiltn-
ger. The defendants have moved for
q new trial, and in case it is denied
they will take an appeal to the United
States court of appeals.
Sometime since the Portland whole
salers made visit to the Inland En- {
pire for the purpose of establishing
closer business relations, but this
morning party of three drummers
from Portland headed by Mr.. Brad
berry, of the Oregon Cracker Co., start
ed from here on an excursion that will
probably result in more business for
Portland than did the visit of the
heads of the firms. They had four
horse team and intended taking in
every interior town between here and
Huntington. They expect to be out
about four weeks.
From Thursdays Daily.
J. M. Filloon now wears the club
championship pin, having made the
largest individual bowling score last
month.
Last week citizens of Prineville filed
articles incorporating the Prineville
hoadar2v tho of which IL to |