The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-08-13
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.

E o. Mccoy and E. E. Lytle left OF
the $50 train yesterday for Wasco.
Mrs. j. NJ. Marden returned las
evening from visit to Cascade Locks
C. L. Morse. the prosperous mer
chant of White salmon, is in the city
Ladies tailor made blouse suits al
half the regular price, A. M. Williams
& Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. P. Ketchum went
down the river on the Dalles City this
morning.
Fred Floed, of the Times-Mountain-
eer, went to Arlington on last even
ing's train.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Schmidt left to-
day for their summer resort at Geer
Lake. near Stevenson.
Fl. Herbring aud his two SIMS left on
the BOAT this morning for two weeks
outing at Stevenson.
The school board of this district have
ordered 105 Triumph single desks for
the new high school building.
Lem Burgess has sold his entire clip
of wool for IA cents pound and left
today for his home at Bakeo, en-.
The misses Ball and Miss Mabel
Cross left this morning for Cascade
Locks to spend few weeks camping.
Yesterday the mercury registered
only 98 degrees here, while at Riperia
and other points up the river it was
ITO.
Train men who came down from
Umatilla this morning say the mer-
curry reached 118 degrees in that place
yesterday.
The warehouse belonging to the
Farmers Warehouse Co. at Browns
vile, was burned to the ground Tues
day night.
Madame Amelia de F. Smith, pub
Usher of the Oregon Official Roster,
is in the city, the guest of Mrs.
T. S. Lang.
R. B. Sinnott has gone to Ilwaco
beach to get breath of fresh air and
bathe in the surf. Mr.. Sinnott will be
gone about week.
Harry Lonsdale has returned from
his summer vacation at Clatsop Beach,
looking refreshed from weeks So
journ az the seaside.
J. F. Hampshire was a passenger on
the Dalles City this morning. His
destination is Clatsop beach, where he
goes for his summer vacation. ,
This morning G. B. Floire, who has
been quite i'll for several days past,
was taken to Portland to be cared for +
in one of the hospitals of that city. /
MIR. Walters and Mr.. Bailey accom- j
panied by their families started this
morning for upper Five-Mile, where Il
they will spend ten days camping. G
Again the mercury climbed up in fl
the thermometers to 103 at 3 o'clock
today, but cool breeze sprang up at n
that time and the mercury fell to 100.
Geo. Nolan. one of the prosperous al
farmers of Dufur, was in the city this
morning, and reported harvest pro W
crossing finely in the vicinity of Dufnr. Fl
A few wool sales are reported today al
at IA and 14t cents. If these prices
prevail it will be but short time U;
until the 1898 clip stored here will be O.,
of. G.
D. K. Parsons, of Chicago, has offer
ed to give $4,000 to Whitman college or
at Walla Walla, for building. 1t is D,
conditioned on other people giving W
$50, 900. of
Prof. H. L. Howe. teacher of the
school in district No. 4. near Hood n,
River, is in the city. and will appear O,
before the board of examiners Friday Ie
as an applicant for a state diploma. a
Edward Martin, of Pendleton, re-
Gently bought 5000 head of sheep in h,
Grant county for shipment, distribut. P
ing some $4,000 among the sheepmen ca
of Grant. p
All the brick work on the main NJ
building of the La Grande beet sugar
factory is now finished. and work has he
been commenced on the four ndations of nr
the warehouses. bf
The Salem police do not spare sex or al
age in the enforcement of the bicycle ar
ordinance. Monday night a young st
woman was arrested for not having a
light on her bicycle. G,
At Pendleton on Sunday, Monday ia
and Tuesday the mercury registered to
ITO, los and ITO respectively, which is th
said to have been the three hottest W
days ever known in that city. he
Dallesites who are camping at points r
down the river report the weather
pleasant, the temperature being only fir
30 during the middle of the day, and of re
and evenings falling to 60 th
and 65. fo
Unquestionably this has been the ev
longest extremely hot spell ever known sp
in the Inland Empire. Nearly three W
weeks with. the mercury going above Ell
90 degrees every day is indeed ul-
common. gI
Today Prof. IT. J. Neff, of Hood OF
River, was displaying here some of the D.
apples that have earned such wide vi
reputation for Hood River. They Is
were of the Dutchess variety, and CO
were perfect beauties.
The hot weather Is having a bad
effect upon fruit, especially apples and
pears. Those on the south side of ye
trees are being sunburned, and in &C
some instances cooked so as to :etard
their growth and greatly injure their r
quality. II
Steps are being taken to reorganize y,
the fire department of Baker City, re- 70
Gently disbanded' The fire apparatus
is now in charge of ex-Chief Fox, who
Is authorized to organize the depart GU
ment. "
1t is pretty generally believed that m
the fire which destroyed six large it
at Dayton, Wash, week la
ago was of incendiary origin, but as M
vet there is no clew to whom the W
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