The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-10-01
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From SATURDAYS Daily

" heat jumped up dnobucr nobOh
ay and now stands at So cents.
MIR. and Mrs. John Fulton, of Biggs.
registered at the Umatilla House.
Charles Butler, the well-known
title buyer OF Port Townsend, is in
the-Sity.
S. r. and G. w. Slayton, of Prime
vile were in town last night the guests
of the Umatilla House,
License to wed was issued yesterday
by county Clerk Kelsay to Orlando S.
Waters and Julia E. Paterson.
The o. R. & N. Co. reports that it
is making pe,ial efforts to supply
cars to move the Inland Empires great
grain crop,
Rev. William h. Burr, of Condon
svill preach at the congregational
church at IL a. m, tomorrow. Sun
day school At I2:15.
VRailroad work is progressing right
4 along and the emanagement are putting
IS ali the men on they can get and are
now paying s2.0 per day, says Wasco
correspondent to the Grass Valley
Journal.
More than 1000 bushels of wheat
was sold in Pendleton Wednesday at
so cents per bushel, Henry F, Pierce
|ne1isposing of $4,000 bushels, alone.
Workmen are making preparations
for the erection of a handsome resi-
dence for E. G. Pease on tie lot west
: of Judge Blakeley's residence on
Fourth street.
County Surveyor Colt is employed
now days making 81 byse inch map OF
the city, for the water commissioners.
The map is intended to describe the
: AnEsire water system of the city, new
and old.
Charles W. Moore, prominent
dairymen of the Trout Lake valley,
Klickitat county, is in town. Mr..
Moore has contracted with ]. l.. Kelly
of this city to feed 80 head of beef
= cattle for him during the coming
winter.
Mr.. Richard German has resigned
his position as city editor Of the Chro-
nicle to take effect tonight. Miss Rose
Michel will mount the vacant tripod
Monday morning, and rumor has it
that Mr.. Otis. Patterson of the Land
office will assume the editorial man
apement of the paper.
Ed. BoYnton, late of Tygh Ridge,
but now of WOODBURY., Oregon,
accompanied by Mrs. Roynton and his
son Charles and wife passed through
town today bound for North Yakima
to visit his son Alva and incidentally
take in the Washington state fair.
They came overland by the Barlow
route.
E.W. Bartlett, of the land Office at
La Grande, has received the news OF
the death of his brother, Sumner z.
Bartlett, of typhoid fever. at Ponce,
Porto Rico. He was an officer in the |
Wisconsin regiment and had been at !
the front since the beginning of the |
war. Sumner Bartlett was former |
resident of La Grande.
Horace Rice had letter from his |
son, Wes, today, from one OF the soda
springs on the Santiam, where he has !
been since he left here eight or ten
days ego. Wes has gained in health
as we'll as avoirdupois and is hopeful
of recovery. He will leaye in few
days for Shasta Springs. and later will I
90 on to Southern California and
spend the winter.
Arrangements have been perfected at
Portland for the publication of the
Pacific Monthly. All efforts heretofore
directed toward issuing a Northwest
magazine have been concentrated.
The Drift, whose aim was to keep
alive the my tbs and traditions of Ore
goD, will be part of the monthly. 1t
will appear the first week in October,
and will contain many interesting
articles.
A. A. Bonney writes to the Oregoni-
an from Tygh valley urging the legis-
1ature about to convene to adopt
measures for the suppression of the
coyote nuisance. Mr.. Bouney esti-
mates that the annual destruction by
coyotes of sheep alone, in this state
will not fall far short of $780, 900. He
suggest state bounty of SO per scalp,
the bounty to be raised by a tax On
sheep. Mr.. Bouney thinks coyotes
are far more numerous and infinitely
more destructive of sheep, pigs and
poultry than they were ten years ago.
Judge Bradshaw, and Messrs W. II.
and 81, S. Wilson, A. A. JayLes and
D. S. Dufer, got home this morning
from attending court at Condor. They
left Arlington at o'clock yesterday
afternoon on freight train, expect
ing to get home in time to have good
sleep. Five o'clock this morning
found their train fuundering slowly
through the sands at the mouth of the
Deschutes, when :he regular passen-
ger came along and picked them up.
They were just nine hours making
thirty-eight miles No more freight
trains for them, if you please.
A spirited contest took place last y
night at the club alleys between two :
teams of married and single ladies'
The married contestants were, Mes
danes T. J. Seufert, ]. Fish, F. Hough q
ton. G. c. Blakeley, and j. M. Hunt :,
ington. The single, Misses Alma a
Anna Lang, Myrtle Michel, 6
Rosemary Baldwin and Edna Glenn.
Four games were played resulting in
the victory of the matrons by major II
ity of 49 pins. At the close of the coI- o
test handsome bouquet was presented II
TO Miss Alma Schanno for making the q
highest score, while a like. favor was IL
bestowed on Mrs. T. j. Seufert in
honor of her captaincy OF the vic te
torious matrons.
(From Mondays Daily sc
G. j. Farley left this afternoon for M
Portland. III
Ben. Jones, prosperous cattleman -
,f Crook county, is in town. .,
". c. Alloway, Hugh Glenn, and J.