The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-05-27
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.

IlEMS In 6klEF.
From Saturdays Daily.
Judge Bennett was a passenger on
the Regulator this morning going to
Portland.
DIR. o. G. Hoilister is expected home
this evening from California and will
remain here two or three weeks.
Yesterday afternoon County Clerk
Kelsay issued marriage license to M.
J. HENDERSON and Mable Cannon.
Mr.. Ring has leased the hotel at
Nansene,, and it is understood he will
make extensive Improvements in the
premises.
This morning Mrs. Bronson and Mrs.
Huntington took a number of children
to White Salmon for days picnic.
The interior of the Columbia brew
cry bar room has been greatly i'm
proved by a new covering OF paper on
the walls and new paint on the wood
work.
Yesterday Columbia and Snake
rivers showed fall of from one to
threa-tenths at all points except
Northport, WASH, where there was
raise OF three-tenths.
Father Gaurd, of Centerville, who
has been undergoing treatment at st.
Vincent's hospital in Portland, re-
turned home this morning bis health
having been restored.
Lieutenant r. A. Spiyy has been
notified that his brother James, who
was member of the Nebraska regi-
ment, was killed recently in one of the
battles in the Philippines.
AS far as can be learned the fruit
crop of Waco county will not be so
large as it was last year, but there
will not be failure by any means.
\ The peach, prune and apricot crop
will be light but other varieties will be
about an average crop.
n. P. Levin, who assisted in putting
on "A Summers Fancy" here, left this
morning for Portland. During his
short stay in The Dalles Mr.. Leyin
always give him a hearty welcome
whenever he may visit the city.
Governor Geer says that nearly
every man appointed to attend the
meeting of the Mississippi COM
mercial congress at Wichita, Kan,
has sent letter to the executive office,
declining to attend, for the reason
that business engagements prevented.
Yesterday while Mrs. Garrison was
away from home some miscreant stole
IL fine young chickens from her door
yard. The thief should return them
for they were highly priced by the
owner who would rather give him
few chickens than have him steal
them.
The three hnkers made almost
night of it at their meeting last even
ing. They initiated one candidate-in
the first degree, conferred the second
on two and three were taken through
the third. The order of Odd Fellows
is having a rapid growth here at
present.
A party of st. Paul merchants. who
have been on the coast looking out for
trade and an extension of their busi-
ness, passed through last night return
ing to the east. They were enthusias-
the Pacific coast and the prospects of
the extreme west.
Last night Prof. Lyman gave an in.
teresting lecture in the Congregational
church, his subject being Benjamin |
Franklin. Prof. Lyman Is connected |
with the Whitman college, Walla |
Walla. which institution sends out |
lecturers each year to work in the in
terest of the school.
The county road from the east boun-
dairy of The Dalles to Three-Mile has
been put in first class repair by the |
efficient road supervisor, Henry Will
liams. All the worst rocks have been |
taken out, and the road leveled down
so that loaded teams coming into town
from the east can make excellent time |
on it.
Today J. 81. Shearer loaded teams
with bailed hay that he had shipped
from down the river, and is hauling it |
to his place at Deschutes bridge. Hay
has become very scarce throughout |
tho country south of here, hence MIR. |
Shearer found it necessary to get hay |
down the Columbia to supply his |
stand.
Dilligent inquiry discloses that there
will be material shortage in the fruit
crop of Clackamas county. The heavy
freeze in February practi ically rui ined |
prunes in the vicinity of Clackamas,
but prospects were fairly good in the |
Candy district until the hailstorm a
few days ago. which literally stripped
the trees of their buds.
The lecture of DR.. Fulno in the
court house last night was quite we'll
attended, and the doctor interested |
his audience for nearly two hours dis
cussing the systems of Christian
science. He is fluent speaker, and
his lecture was Instructive, especially |
to those who have not made study of
the doctrines he advocates.
A structure has been erected on
Third street, back of the Skibbe hotel,
that Is at least violation of the city
ordinance establishing fire limit, if
it is not violation of the laws of de-
cency. 1t consists of lot of old
boards, parts of dry goods boxes and
rubbish nailed together to form hut
for hobo who seems to have pre-
empted the premises. If he is per-
mitted to remain there it will become
a rendezvous for hobos. The authori-
ties should move him out.
Miscreants attacked the northbound
freight train carrying passengers, with
stones, and fired shot through the
caboose half a mile out of Cresswell,
Lane county, about 1890 Thursday
night. Three travelling men, Phil
Joseph and W. A. Williams, of Port
land, and M. L. Campbell, of Eugene,
were in close range of the shot, but no
one was injured.
Evidently the management of the o.
r. & N. line anticipates there will be
extreme high water this season, as
they have put gang of men to work
getting out rock at Halver's pit, six
miles west of The Dalies, to be used in
case of emergency to fill in washouts,
and they also haye so miles of steel
rails on the way to weight down
bridges between here and Bonneville.
From Mondays Daily.
Frank Gabel is in from his farm at
Wapinitia.
! L. E. Grove went to Portland on the
morning train.
DR.. Pilkington, E. T. Glisan, ]. M.
Hamilton and W. E. Kemp, of Ante
lope, are here attending court.
George Browns mother and brother
came up from Portland yesterday, and
spent the day visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown.
Messrs, J. L. Henderson and T. B.
Kent, of Hood River, are the only at.
torneys from abroad attending court
here today.
Miso Edith Hamilton of A nte1one J