The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-08-13

Mrs. Otis Patterson went to Port.
land this morning on the Dalles City
for short visit.
j. T. Hamilton and Thos. Marshal
are registered at the Umatilla. from
Pittsburg Pennsylvania.
L. S. Davis was en- route to Steven
son, WASH, on the Dalles City today
to select camping location.
Tom Lynch is in receipt of a short
bat interesting letter from his son E.
C. Lynch who is with Dewey at Manila.
Miss Shaw who has been visiting
Miss Henderson in this city, returned
this afternoon to her home in Port
land.
Oscar Oppenheimer, a San Francisco
commercial man was in The Dalles to
daysinterviewing our hardware deal
ers.
S. L. Brooks, local weather reporter.
telephoned this Office at o'clock that
the thermometer registers 100 in the
shade.
Miss Mabel Randall returned to
Portland on last evenings train after
brief visit with Miss Maud Kuhne in
this city.
Weather forecaster Pague says look
out for thunder and lightning as the
barometer is going down in Southern
Oregon.
Dufur challenges any town in Or
egon, of its size, to show public
reading room equal in any respect
to its own.
: Miss Ina P. Cooper. who has been
visiting Miss Laura Thompson for the
past few days, left on the afternoon
train for Portland.
A handsome picture of Miss Maud
Hoffman, Corvallis girl is given in
the August Munsey, She is now an
actress in New York.
J. Leland, the travelling freight
agent of the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad has been in The Dalles this
week in the interest of his road.
Mrs J. M. Filloon returned to her
summer camp at Trout Lake on this
mornings Dalles City. Mr.. Filloon
accompanied his wife, but will only re-
main day or two,
Grass is reported the shortest ever
known at this time of year in the
Cascade mountains, and as result
sheep are already heading toward the
edge of the timber
tits reported that DR.. Pilkington
will remove to Condor and practice his
profession at that place. We have been
unable to learn whether such is re-
liable or not.-Antelope Herald.
Baker City has no fire department.:
the water supply at La Grande is un
fit to drink; Pendleton is threatened
with water famine and so on and so
on all through the upper country.
We are not permitted to publish the
most interesting letter received in The
DaIles from Manila, as the young lady
to whom it was addressed asserts that
it was meant for her eyes alone.
G. M. Johnson, the Roseburg re.
turned Klondiker, with $4,000. who
was formerly an expressman, used to
count himself lucky when he could
made a $1.50 day for himself and
horse.
Fred W. Wilson. prominent young
attorney of The Dalles, was in Ante
lope Wednesday on his way to the
mountains, where he is going on
combined business and pleasure trip.
Herald.
They sent a man to the insane
asylum from La Grande for driving
down the nails in the sidewalks. Ii
that is test of insanity a few crazy
people would be decided benefit to
The Dali @
John D. Henderson, of Hood River,
swan the Columbia Saturday and
again Monday. The distance to where
he landed is about II miles. The feat |
was never before accomplished in the |
memory of the oldest inhabitant of
Hood River.
The La Grande Advocate says: 1t
is a notorious fact that our city waite"
is totally unfit for drinking purposes.
1t cannot be made fit to drink with ice.
If our city water can be purified in any
way it should be, as an epidemic OF
is liable to be caused on its
account.
J.V. Creighton, travelling freight
agent of the Northern Pacific railroad
company. and E. B. Duffy, who
occupies similar position for the
Denver & Rio Grande are in The
Dalles. Eastern Oregon's grain, wool
Ind fruit crops are very attractiye to
;he railroad companies.
The Evening Telegram claims to be 6
paper for the family and the home.
md now contains advertisements of c
he gambling and dancing resorts of /
oortland's Infamous north end. The
escorts have all been purified by !,
he Mason administration. however, n
nd o. course their advertisements are =
hoice matter. r
The most popular man in Astoria
18th the ladies Is the gentleman who Il
as II 900 ballots to cast for the queen a.
the regatta. His popularity is des- t.
ned to be short-lived as he must make C
is decision by Wednesday and can
nly please one of the ladies and must ,
I necessity incur the ill-will of the :,
theirs. ;,
J. r. Caples and wife, who came up q
.om Forest Grove couple of weeks
90 to locate at Antelope, says the n
[erald. with the intention of practic- q
,g law, received word Wednesday n
nat his brother was very sick and call :,
10 him back home to look after the =
nsiness. They left Thursday and will
OF return to Antelope. We are sorry
, loose them as they were fast making D.