The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-08-20

last evening. Mr.. Walthers estimates
his loss at $500, with $500 insurance.
Mr.. .Bailey's loss was entirely covered
by insurance.
a number OF insurance adjus.ers ar
rived hero today to adjust tine losses
susta ned by Sunday nights fire.
Wilbur Bolton, one of ALte e's
Lending merchants, was in the city ast
evening and left this morning f, r
Portland.
Fl. d. Parkins started out for the
mountains this morning with Il fown g
piece, bent on weeks sport an
recreation.
A special meeting of the city council
will be held this evening at $3.50, for
the purpose of considering the extern
sion of the fire limits.
The Dalles will be lighted with coal
oil for a few days until the electric
with the wires that were burned down
Sunday night.
Messrs. Cartwright, Ellery and Green
returned last night from visit to
Clatsop beach, and haye entered the
wool market with renewed vigOr after
having breathed sea air for few days.
After having spent two months
camping at Cascades, Wash. 7. p.
Crum returned home last evening. Mr.
Crum is much improved in health, and
says there is no summer resort on the
river that surpasses Cascades.
By the fire Sunday night W. E..
Walthers, ]. F. Hampshire and Dennis
Bunnell, all Of whom had living rooms
in Mays and Crowe's new building,
lost a considerable amount OF their
household goods.
james Fisher, the popular clerk in
M. T. Nolan's grocery store. returned
Saturday evening from ten days visit
in the Willamette valley and Southern
California.
Kishwauk, the Indian sheep kire of
Oregon, is in the city today buying
supplies. Kishwauk had Ii rye
crop of wool this season, but like a
good many white men is holding it for
higher prices.
last night Il students lamp which
Cashier NJ. H. Beall was using in the
First National bank tried to explode,
but was carried into abe street and
smothered before it did any material
damage.
The Astorian regatta souvenir edi-
tion is at hand. II is an eight pag e
edition with handsome covers, and is
neatly illustrated. Besides an inter-
estipg account of past regattas and an
announcement concerning the one to
be given next week, it contains much
valuable information about Astoria
and its resources.
One of the amusing sights witnessed
at the fire Sunday night was Joe Rob
inson getting the ouggies out of Ward
& Robinson's shed on Third street and
out of their Fourth street barn. He
hitched l6 of them together, then at
tached a horse to the head one and
started on run for safety. He saved
the buggies all right.
A mistake was made yesterday in
stating that Cunning & Hickman s
loss by the fire was total. Their loss
is about $1,000, and they carried $3.50
insurance on their stock. I. A. Wards
household effects were not insured,
though nearly all the furniture was
aved, but is considerably damaged.
The Inland Flyer. the new boat built
for the D. P. & a. N. Co., at Portland,
was successfully launched last Satur-
day, and was taken to Wolfe q Zwick-
er's works where the boiler is being
put in. Those who have seen the new
boat say it is tie handsomest vessel of
its size in the state, and it's builders
claim it will be the swiftest.
This morning r. 81. Guthrie started
thirteen cars of stock sheep for North
Dokota. Mr.. Guthrie has been run
ming sheep in this and Sherman
counties, out says range is getting 90
short here for business to be profitable
and he will move all of his sheep to
Dokota.
Mays & Grove, whose store, the
largest hardware and agricultural i'm
plement house in Eastern Oregon, was
burned Sunday night, will resume
business as soon as they can stock up
and get building in which to open.
Judge Mays will put up building for
them on the site of their former store
as soon as possible.
G. H. Valentine, of Salt Lake, assist
ant general organizer endowment rank
knights of Pythias, arrived here by
boat last evening and held an informa..
meeting with number of memb bers of
lodge, but owing to all the
resident Knights having beer out to
the fire Sunday night it was impossible
for them to give him such reception
as they had contemplated.
The need of better protection against
fire was evidenced by Sunday nights
conhagation. A better force of fire is
required, and this could be supplied
by connecting a main with the o. r &
n. Cos. pumps at the shops and laying
it the entire length of First street
The companies pumps furnish splen-
did force, and main laid along First
street to the depot would make il
possible to connect them with nearly
all the property east of Union street
and north of the bluff.
Warehouse room for storing partial |
stocks that were saved out of Sunday !
Nights fire is at premium. Johnston |
L Co. have found storage room in the |
}. P. s. A. N. wharf. Mays & Grove |
lave their goods stored iu d number of |
Iiffereat places. and Pease & Mays are
lsing their warehouses on First street.
All will get strai ghtened aeornd in a
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