The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-11-12
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily

Sam Shutz, prominent farmer
Gross Keys, is in the city.
Frank Irvine, leading merchor
of Antelope, is visiting In this city.
Clyde T; Bonney, the Hood Rive
butcher, was in town last evening.
Prof. Stahl, the phrenologist, vii
deliver short lecture each evenin,
at lib Washington street.
Today ''Rebel Tom was taken Il
the county farm to be cared for. b,
having become unable to provide TO
himself. :,
Most of the Antelope people who
were here to attend the funeral of the
late Phil Brogan yesterday, left thi,
morning for their homes.
8. B. Johnston, of Dufur, one O.
the prosperous farmers of Wascc
county, was in the city today, and
paid this Office pleasant call.
A telephone message from Golden.
dale states that Klickitat county has
gone republican by about 300. Golden.
dale gave a republican majority of 20.
Notwithstanding the injuries he re-
csived yesterday, Judge Mays was able
10 appear at the county court room to-
dav and hold session of county court.
Mays Il Grove have moved their
stock of goods into the old Fitzgerald
building which they have recently re,
paired, and once more have very at
tractive store.
The gross receipt 0t the Lafayette
day entertainment given last Saturday
evening were S5e.o9 and the expenses
about $40, leavin. -ome s36 to donate
to the monument fGnd.
The egg crop of the United States
for the last year reached a total of
$4,000, 900 dozens. No wonder the
hens cackle and the rOosters crow.
They are both entitled to the credit.
q. J. Hillard, proprietor of the
Hood River nursey, vas in the city
last evening. Mr.. Hillard state that
the demand for fruit trees mad been
brisk this fall, the trade being better
than common.
The city election in Baker city
Monday resulted in the selection of
Chas. NJ. Sage for Mayor, his vote
being 3S7, against 241 for Nat Cooper,
ITO for c. Johns, 101 for C. L. Pal
mer and Is for Geo. Henderson.
Miss Katie Shaw, of Denver, Col,
who has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
James Driscoll, in Portland, for the
past three weeks, came up on the $50
train last evening, and is visiting her
sister, Mrs. John Fitzgerald.
Last night the bulletin board at the
Umatilla house was the center of at
traction in town. Election bulletins
arrived until II o'clock, but at that
time they ceased, and the interested
crowd went home to dream over the
results which were so confused that
nobody could tell who nad 5eeA el ,cted.
w. w. Brown, one of the principa |
cattle raisers ia t,' vicinity of lee, |
uOdE VIC cCCuO Vi uDS ItICub lUV!f'i |
troubles, was in the city l4.t evening
en- route to his farm. Mr.. Brown was
in Willamette valley at the time of
the trouble. but said be was In receipt |
of late advices from Izee to the effect
that only one Indian was killed in the
fight.
1t would be surprise to strangers
in this country to stand by ithe side of
the railroad for day and note the
number of freight trains that go west
loaded with wheat from the Inland
Empire. They would by estimating
the number of bushels, realize what
great wheat producing country the In
land Empire is.
Window dressing is becoming an
art, and some Dalles merchants are
displaying much taste in this line.
One of the most attractive dressings
noticed Is that in one of Blakeley &
Houghton's windows where big doll
is shown representing child just
having finished hearty meal by the
use of nursing bottle.
Letters written from Antelope yes
terday state thai Frank Forester, the
escaped murderer, had not been cap.
tured at that time. The parties in
pursuit thought they had him sur
rounded near Trout Creek, but were
not certain. There are men securing
the country in every direction and his
capture is quite certain. Forester has
secured revolver and probably will
resist arrest whenever he is located.
The total receipts of. the United
States revenue Office at Port
land for October, from all sources,
were S76, 194.14, as against S20, ,365.S5
for the same month last year. The
bulk of vhis increase, of course, is due
to the new revenue law, but deducting
the possible increase caused by this,
would show gain of nearly $4,000 for
the month this year.
James Blakeley, of Brownsville, is
in the city visiting his son G. c.
Blakeley and family, being on his way
home from attending reunion of his
sons at Pendleton. Mr.. Blakeley is
"a years of age, yet retains his vigor
we'll. and while not quite
as vivacious as he was when he came
to Oregon in 1s47, Is still hail man
and appears to have lease on life for
q good many years to come.
In short time the streets of The
Dalles will be lighted with electricity
at an expense of about $1,000 year.
Where the money is to come from is
not easy to tell. Councilmen state
that the ordinary expenses of the city
cannot be reduced, the present income
being sufficient only to meet current {
and none of these can be re-
duced. 1t will therefore become nec-
essary to levy an additional tax, but
this cannot bs made available inside
of eight or nine months, therefore the
city will have to go in debt.
According to the Dufur Dispatch
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