The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-25

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raneau wheat next week. 1t is esti
mated that the field will average 4
bushels per acre.
Tacoma people who have money tt
invest are taking hold of bond buying
n real earnest. In one week subscrip
tions to the new war bond issue
amounted to S5S, $50 at that place.
At Baker City ]. M. Barr, former
school teacher of Haines, and lately
employed on the Baker City Republi
can, is under arrest for having assault.
ed two little girls aged FIVE and six
years.
John Powell. formerly school clerk
of Mount Vernon, has been held for
trial in $500 bail for raising school
warrant from Si.30 to S94.30. in default
of bonds he went TO jail. Powell was
! arrested in Michigan.
The big lumber raft which was put
| together at Portland has started to
San Francisco, and it it proves sue
| cess, rafting will be the principal
means of transporting lumber from the
Northwest in the future.
Elroy Jackson was accidentally shot
Monday afternoon by his hunting COM
panion near Dallas The charge of
small shot entered the back of his leg
below the knee, tearing away most of
the calf. The leg may be saved.
A remarkably rich gold ledge was
discovered on Willow creek. Malheur
county, 80 miles south of Baker City.
The ledge is two feet wide, and the ore
from it is so rich that three men have
been taking out from $50 to $50 day
with hand mOrtars.
At a meeting of the ministerial
union of Eugene, arrangements were
made to uuite in an outdoor service
each Sunday Afternoon during the
summer. the first service to be held
July 3. The services will be held in
one of the city parks.
Wcrlsmen at the Seaborg cannery,
in Fair Haven, are putting in the ma
chine-s. several carloads having ar
rive. A boiler IL feet in diameter
snA containing 1S1 tubes, came with
the first shipment. 1t is said to be the
largest boiler in the state.
A Hood River fruit company has
begun canning strawberries. The
present establishment bas capacity
of 1000 quart cans day. The COM
pany is paying q cents a pound for !
berries, which are delivered in prune |
baskets, and the baskets returned.
The ballot. boxes for Catlow precinct,
Harney county, were delivered to one
Of the judges. but he did not bring
,hem to the polls on election day. The
voters of the precinct made their own
ballots. voting only the county ticket,
'ealed them up in an oil can and sent
hem to the comfy seat.
DIR. James Withycombe, state veter-
marian, has returned to Hillsboro from
! trip to Southern Oregon, where he
vent to establish quarantine against
diseased cattle from California. He
states that every precaution has been
aiken, and that danger of contagion
will be very slight.
Tue report that the Hessian fly is
loing some damage tn the wheat in
J matilda county cannot be substantial
ID. A large number of prominent
armers from various parts of the
county have been interviewed upon
he subject and remember of having
cen neither the fly nor its effects upon
he wheat.
A free-for.all row was started in
aloon at Ritzville by about so hobos
friday evening. Several were badly
,ruised and will be laid up for some
ime. One of the onlookers was hit in
he face by pair of brass knuckles.
Knives and razors were drawn, but no
rrests were made, as the marshal
ould not be found until the trouble
vas quieted down.
The sudden outbreak OF diphtheria
It the children's home, in the western
art of Tacoma, is the cause of much
peculation both among the manage
nent of the institution and among
he attaches OF the health. offices. Of
bout 36 children in the home, ii have
,een taken with the disease since it
vas discovered Friday.
Never in it's history did the Coquille
reamery receive such supply of milk
s this season, says the Coquille City
Bulletin. For the past fortnight, the
ally average supply has reached the
% 900 notch, and may even yet climb
ligher Something over $50 pou1ds
# butter is manufactured daily, while
he patrons received st cents more per
'ound butterfat for their product the /
anne month this year as last.