The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-08-20
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
tFrou Saturdays Daily.

Miss Gertrude Ewing left by boat
this morning for Fulton.
Prof. Ryan returned today to his
summer camp at Moffit Springs.
John Wherry was a passenger on
the Dixon this morning for Seaside.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Wallis and
daughter, of Rufus, are in the city.
G. Nj. Grimes returned today to
Stevenson, where his family is camped.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Huntington have
returned from their camp at Stevenson.
DR.. DIETRICH will leave next Monday
for Chicago to be absent for six weeks.
j. B. Crossield and j. N. Fordyce
arrived from the upper country this
morning.
8 Prof. Frazier, formerly principal of
the Dufur school, was in the city last
evening.
al. Bettingen has returned from
his summer camping in the Cascade
mountains.
A. Keller and Charles Frank have
returned from successful fishing ex-
pedition to Eight-Mile.
Miss Ruch came up last night from
Stevenson, and returned to that place
on the boat this mornii g.
Thirty thousand bushels of wheat
have been so far cold in the Pendleton
market at so cents per bushel.
Hon. II. G. Starkweather ex-rep-
resentative of Clackamas county. is
registered at the Umatilla House.
II. Honey we'll, formerly in the dry
goods business here, but for the past
two years located in Prineville is
here.
1t will be to the interest of every
fruit grower in this section to attend
the meeting at the council chambers
tonight.
A. D. McCully returned last evening
from visit to Salem, AID has again
entered upon his work in Pease &
Mays Office.
D. M French left ON the morning
train for Ilwaco to join his family who
are spending the summer at their cot
tage on the beach.
Some pretty heavy trains are being
run over the o. r. g.. N. line at pres
ent. This morning No. 81 went west
with two engines and As cars all
loaded.
Geo. Abbott. of Cambridge, one of
the best known wool BUYERS who visits
The Dalles, arrived here last night,
and will operate in the wool market
for few weeks.
The county board of equalization
will meet on the first Monday in
October to equalize assessments
and hear complaints of taxpayers
concerning over assessments,
All Knights are requested to be at
the hall promptly at o'clock next
Monday evening. The grand organ
izer of the endowment rank will be
present and address the Knights.
The new D. p. & A. N. boat, the In
land Flyer, was launched at Portland
today. Mr. Allaway went down on
the early morning train to see the
trim little craft go into the water.
This morning the Dixon was loaded
TO the guards with wool and other
freight, besides carrying fine list of
passengers. This evidences the popu.
larity of the Regulator line as com.
mon carrier.
The o. r. & N. track that has been
rebuilt between here and Umatilla is
being ballasted, and put in first class
repair for the heavy work that will be
done over the line as soon as the wheat
begins moving.
At the Oregon Industrial Expcsi-
tion, from Sept. % to Oct. %, in Port.
land, some very interesting features
will be presented, new and novel, and
none of the standard attraction at any
fair will be overlooked.
Hon. E. B. Dufur has returned from
his mines in Southern Oregon, where
he has been the past month. Mr..
Dufur is interested in company that
is mining in Rogue river, three miles
above Gold Hill, and says the mine is |
turning out we'll.
This has been dull day about the |
warehouses. The wool sellers and |
buyers are nearly all out of town |
hence their familiar faces are missed |
from the warehouse offices, and about |
all the stir there is there is the men |
working the bailers.
Hugh Chrisman is oyer from his |
farm in Sherman county and will spend |
few days in the city. Mr.. Chrisman
says the wheat that has been harvested |
so far in Sherman county has averaged
about Is bushels to the acre, and is of
good quality, the fall wheat all being
No. l, though considerable of the late
grain will be graded as No. 2.
There is quite little activity in the
local wool market at present, several
lots having been shipped out this week
by the warehousemen. Max 1 Kosh-
land, the we'll known buyer, made a
number of purchases on his recent trip
to Wallowa county. No figures are
given but the price is supposed to be
about II cents.-Elgin Recorder.
Hop growers of Yakima county,
Wash., are again calling upon the peo-
Pile of the surrounding country to aid
Them in picking hops, and are Offering
one dollar per box for picking, and an
sxpert car make on an average about
'bree dollars day at this price. For
PARTICULARS address o. A. Fechter.
North Yakima.
The o. r. & N. Co. will run a spec
al coach between The Dalles and
Sunday, August 14th for {
he accommodations of excursionists, I
DING on the 6:55 A. NJ. train and re-
urning from Bonneville at $3.50 P. NJ. ,
round trip rate from The Dalles to +,
Bonneville or Multnomah Falls for /,
his excursion is only 20 cents.
In Grant county stockmen have sold "
lore stock this year than for seven q
ears past, and from present indica. b
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