The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-07-16

The popular travelling salesmen, J.
N. Fordyce and A. P. Bradbury, are
in the city.
Mrs. w. E. Walthers and family
went down the river this morning for
days outing.
j. McInerny is in Sherman county
looking after his farm, and is expected
home this evening.
Will 81. See, prominent business
man from the Warm Spring reserva-
ton, is in the city.
Mrs. Haines Smith, we'll known at
this place,d this morning at Hood
River, of cancer of the stomach.
F. c. Drews spent Sunday in the
city with his parents and returned to
Portland on the early morning train.
Miss Della Michelbach left this
morning on the boat for Portland,
where she will visit for week or so.
Mrs. L. s. Doble and daughter and
Miss Doble, of Portland, spent Sunday
in the city and returned on the Reg
ulator this morning.
Mrs. O'Leary and two daughters left
on the Regulator this morning for
Portland, where they will reside until
Mr.. O'Leary is able to be removed
home.
Mrs. c. L. Gilbert. daughter Maud
and son Clarence. left last night for
Peru, Ind. where Mrs. Gilbert was cal
led by the serious illness of her
mother.
Henry Stegman, prominent farmer
of Klickitat county, WASH, is in the
city, and says the crops are looking
fine, and that there will be an abund-
AM yield.
A doctor in neighboring town is
reported to have refused to allow his
wife to keep ducks because they are
too personal in their remarks. Ducks
will say "quack' you know.
The Great Northern Furniture Store
has bought w. 81. Arbuckle's stock of
| goods and has opened a branch estab-
lishment in his old quarters, opposite
Cunning & Hockman's shop.
Miss Beulah Sterling, who has had
charge of the book department of Lip
man, Wolff & Co.'s store at Portland,
returned home last evening and will
| remain some days visiting in the city.
Mrs. VIM. Hoering and cousin, Miss
Suksdorf, of Spokane, left this morn
ing on the boat for White Salmon
where they will visit relatives for some
days. Before returning they will visit
Trout Lake and the ice caves.
The Stadleman Commission Co. are
pleasantly located ON the corner of
Third and Washington streets. They
have fitted up neat store and Office
and in future will carry on an ex-
elusive wholesale commission business.
There was large crowd of Dalles
people attended the excursion to
Bonneville yesterday and from all re-
ports everyone had a good time. 1t
was quite cool there while the sur
roundings were romantic and most
beautiful.
C. P. Balch, the popular druggist of
Dufur, stands as an example to be fol-
lowed by the rising generation. The
other day he inadvertently fired gun
within the city limits, then went to the
recorder and entered a complaint
against himself, and was fined S..
The Regulator was about half hour
late getting away this morning, owing
to the amount of live stock and freight
that had to be loaded. She had a
large passenger list, also $50 head of
mutton sheep, fifteen horses, two wag-
ons, ten tons of flour and several tons
of miscellaneous freight
The county court has started on a
cemmendable reform by cutting down
salaries, the salaries of the deputy
sheriff and clerk having been redcued
from 800 to S75 a month. Let the
good work go on. This reduction will
save the taxpayers 5000 year, which
is neat little sum in itself.
Fish are now running fine and their
quality and size continues as good as
it did when but few were running in
the earlier part of the season. The
deficit in the June pack was partly
made up with blue backs and if the
present run Is true one the total
pack for the season should not fall
much lower than last year.-Astoria
Budget.
c. E. Dawson hes another clever car
toon in the show window of Pease &
Mays. Spain is represented by a wo-
man with shackled wrists, standing on
promoDtory, with Uncle Sam before
her with leaf in his hand, on which
is inscribed Peace" From his waist
hangs sword, while underneath are
the words, Between the devil and the |
deep. blue sea- from Spanish stand
point.
A slight error was made in these |
columns last Saturday in giving an
account of the accident that befell |
Carl Gotfried and George Weigle at |
the Lutheran church Friday evening.
It appears that the gas was not escap-
ing from the generator, but the boys
went to examining the machine and
removed the receptacle for the gas,
when there was an explosion. Had
they left the apparatus alone there
would have been no accident.
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