The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-09-03

of the passengers little damage was
DONE
In the near future, theatre gosrs OF
The Dalles, will be treated to 8
straight black face minstrel perfor
nance to be rendered by The Dallei
Minstrel Club. These people are
known to give the very best of enter
tainments, and their next play will
excel all others, as they will have
the necessary time and training tC
prepare themselves.
Fred Rowe saw deer the other day
and shot at it. says the Florence West
1t dropped, but soon appeared to jump
up again, and Fred pumped two OF
three more shots at it and it dropped
again. Yet again it jumped up, and
Fred fired again and it dropped. He
waited minute to see if the hard
lived critter would get up again, and
then went over to where it had been
and found three dead deer together.
The total number of blind in the
/ United States is nearly $4,000, or 976
in each million of the population. The
number of blind reported as receiving
| instruction is 1851. The number OF
| blind who are also deaf mutes is:
whites, 81 males and 107 females:
colored, % males and 20 females.
Blind and idiotic: whites, 595 males
and 1853 females; colored, 66 males and
81 females.
| Pedestrians are much troubled by
the nails that have worked up about
half their length in the sidewalks.
Men use words not found in Webster's
| dictionary when a sore foot or corn
comes in contact with them, and the
ladies, well they just look sad and say
nothing, when a piece is taken out of
a nice new shoe, but no attempt has
been made to drive the nails back to
place.
An exchange speaks of q man who,
it. is said, always pays for his local
paper in advance. AS result he has
never been sick day in his life, never
had any corns on his toes, or the tooth
ache, his potatoes uever rot, his oats
never rust, the frost never kills his
beans. his babies never Cry at night,
and his wife never scolds, and he sue
ceeded in serving three years on the
school board without being cussed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Long and son,
Percy, Grace Lauer and Ella Rice. re-
| turned last evening from two weeks
sojourn at Camp Shafter, near Wind
river. They report game quite plenti-
| full in that vicinity and trout fishing
very good. They regret having to leave
their camp so soon, to return to city
life, but the forest fires we're coming
their way and the smoke was so dense,
they thought it unsafe to remain there
another day.
1t is going to be within the reach OF
all to attend the Oregon Industrial Elk
position at Portland from Sept. % to
Oct. %, for the transportation COM
panies will make very liberal reduc-
tions on regular rates and the fares
will be put away down. The COM
panies fully recognize the fact that the
exposition is for the benefit of the en-
tire northwest, and that it is bound to
benefit everybody, and the greater
mum Der of people who attend it, the
greater the benefit to everybody.
George Perrault and brother of
Grass Valley, are in the city today.
These gentlemen are Goth in the
wheat and wool business, and are
looking after market to dispose of
their produce. They also report that
the largest crop of grain ever raised
in the vicinity. of Grass Valley was
raised there this year. Everything
looks prosperous for the farmers, and
in other words the people of that Sec
tion will advance to the front this fall.
We are pleased to note that young
lady from The Dalles, Miss Rosemary
Baldwin, made the highest score of
any lady bowler this season on the
alley at Clatsop Beach. Last Satur-
day Miss Baldwin made a score of
seventy which is phenomenal for one
so young. She is general favorite
at the D. C. &. A. club bowling alley
in this city and the frequenters of that
popular resort are pleased to hear of
her success as a bowler.
The California Fruit Grower is in
formed that from $50 to $40 per ton
is being paid for fresh prunes by dryers
in that state. We suppose, from re-
ports we have seen in previous years,
that III dry year like this it will re.
quire about two pounds-possibly
little less-of fresh Drunes to make one
of dried prunes in California, but
even on that basis the men who are
buying fresh prunes for drying, at the
figures stated, must be anticipating
good prices.