The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-08-19
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.

ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.
Geo. Ruch. jr. went to Stevenson tt
day.
Governor Moody left on the after
noon train for Portland.
Hon. G. M. CarJright went t.
Portland on last nights train.
Mrs. C. L. Schmidt was a passenge
on the boat for Portland today.
F. Lemke and John Casebergel
went down to Sprague today and viii
spend ten days camping there.
T. A. Wood has gone to Sprague tt
spend few days with his family who
are camped at the hot springs.
P. F. Fouts left this morning for his
farm near Mt. Hood. He will spend a
week there hunting and fishing.
W. b. Hobson went to Cascade
Locks this afternoon, and will spend a
time camping there unless the weather
becomes too unfavorable.
F. E. Cockerline has sold his in
terest in the grocery business to his
partner, c. S. Smith. Mr.. Cocker
line contemplates going to Idaho to
locate.
Farmers in this vicinity are taking
no chances of their grain getting
spoiled by rain, and are hauling it to
the warehouses as soon as it is
threshed.
Two car loads of soldiers PASSED
down the road on No. last evening en-
route to Manila. They will sail from
Seattle on the transports that leave
next week.
Next Moncay the Oregon Press AS
ISOLATION holds its regular annual
meeting in Astoria. The state regetta
also begins there on Monday and will
continue three days.
The heavy rains for the past two days,
accompanied by more or less wind, has
wrough much damage to the vast fields
of oats around La Connor by lodging
livery badly in most instances.
At Montesano a curfew ordinance !
went into effect Friday, that makes it
a misdemeanor for children to be on
the street without guardians between
the hours cf 9 P. M. and 6 A. M
Register J. P. Lucas and wife are
visiting in Baker City, having gone
there yesterday. Mr.. Lucas got lay
off of two weeks from the land Office,
and will spend his entire vacation out.
side the city.
This morning six car loads of cattle
we're shipped from the stockyards. Mr..
Grimes shipped two loads to Trout
dale, and Mr.. Butler one to Portland
and three to Port Townsend. The
cattle were bought of Newt Burgess.
For a year past Geo. Dufur has been
hunting "niggers'' in the Philippines, |,
but has now turned bis attention to a
pleasanter line of sport, and this morn
ing Joined his father, Hon. E. B. Dufur,
in atrip to Wind river, where they
win spend few days hunting deer and
bear.
The biggest cherry tree in the
Northwest is on the old homestead OF
David Chambers, east of Olympia. 1t
was planted in 1s49 by Mr.. Chambers. {
who brought the twig over from Ore.
gon It spreads 80 feet across the top.
and the trunk measures eight feet and
ten inches in circumference. ,
Farmers feel considerable uneasiness c
lest this season shall be repetition of
1898, when nearly all the grain was s
ruined by continuous :wet weather. /
The rains that year began about 10
days later than they have commenced 4;
this season which encourages all to 8
believe the present storm will SOON
subside.
The change in the makeup of the 2
overland trains Is source of incon-
venience to day passengers. AS the
day coaches are now on the rear of the !,
train, passengers have to walk the
length of the train before they can
reach their cars. If the engines I
would pull up few hundred feet fur. Z
thsr before stopping, this incon-
venience would be avoided. I
Captain S. B. Ormsby, superintend.
ent of forest reserves in Oregon. says
this has been an exceptional year in t
the forests of the state. The damage C
to timber by forest fires has been very r
light, only a few big fires being re-
ported. There are three supervisors d
and A rangers in the state who have b
been active during the season and o
have put out number of fires in their t
incipiency, thus preventing the burn
ing of great amount of timber. Dur. O
ing the season Captain Ormsby has is !,
sued As permits to Craze sheep on '
forest reserves, representing 100000 :
head of sheep, $1,000 less than ranged
on the reserves last year.
The Times-Moun tai neer has found i
employment for one of the returned {
volunteers. Now will the other busi-
ness houses of the city do the same? q
If so all of the boys who came back
from Manila will get situations. Give
the boys who returned from the war 1
an opportunity to get into civil pur l.
suits, and they will prove to be valu-
able citizens, besides. should we need {