The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-11-25
From Tueday's Daily

From TuedayS Daily
Mrs. J. q. Mosier, of Mosier, was in
the city today.
@. E. Savage, of Hood River, was in
town last night.
Neil Mcleod and wife. of Golden
dale, are in the city.
]. Jackson, prominent sheep raiser
of Deschutes, is in the city.
Last night G. M. Grimes shipped a
car load of fine porkers to 1routdale.
The D. C. & A. G. band will give q
concert at the club rooms at $50 this
evening.
Julius Fisher has returned to The
Dalles, and has taken a position in
the Elite barber shop.
Miss Eva Hall left this morning for
her home at Tacoma, after spending
short time visiting her sister, Mrs. D.
P. Ketchum.
B. F. Allen and ]. N. Williamson
arrived here yesterday from Prineville.
Mr.. Allen went on to Portland, while
Mr.. Williamson remained in the city.
Eastern Oregon looks like itself
again today, the clouds that have hung
over the country for nearly amonth
having disappeared and permitted the
sun to shine out bright and warm.
AT the last session of the county
court of Wallowa county, s1O15 was
paid for 50S coyote scalps. 1t is evi.
dent that somebody is in the business
of catching coyotes ir Wallowa county.
The purchasing committee have
heard from the firm from whom they
ordered the chemical engine and hook
and ladder truck, and state that they
expect the apparatus here sometime
during next month.
Parties who recently visited Moro
say that is very lively place at pres
ent The town is filed every day with
farmers bringing wheat to market, and
with laborers whe are engaged on the
extention of the Columbia Southern.
Geo. W. Johnston was in from Du-
fur today. He says fall crops through
the wheat section are looking splendid
with the exception that in the fields
of late sown grain weeds are growing
too rapidly and in places may necessi-
tate the plOwing up of fields.
Last night Jim and John Waston
tried to round up the barkeeper &c the
Skibbe hotel and came out second
best. They next fell into the hands
of the police and had a round with
Recorder Gates this morning, and the
judge he'd the top hand, taxing them
% each for their fun.
First class No. wheat is 45 cents a
bushel here, and buyers give little
encouragement that it will be higher.
They say the docks, elevators and
warehouses at Portland are full, and
no ships chartered to haul wheat
away, therefore the outlook for higher
prices is not good.
Walla Walla appears to be blessed
with more than its share of thieves
and burg lars. Mondays Statesman
reports two burglaries one on Saturday
and one on Sunday night. A butcher
shop was burglarized and 81 40 taken
and saloon was entered by burglars
W hO oot auau NTH ais
The new switch board for the Ore
gon Telephone & Telegraph Company
has arrived and will be put in place as
soon as room can be made for it in
Blakeley & Houghton's store. Car
penrers are engaged arranging office
room for the company and will have it
in few days.
About 2l years ago the wife of an
immigrant from the East died and was
buried in Sherman county. Eight |
years ago the husband returned and
made diligent search for the remains,
but could not find them. Recently |
they were uncovered by the wind. but
the name and whereabouts of the man
are unknown, so there will be difficulty
in getting the information to him.
There is good deal of enterprise
and snap about the town of Pendl eton.
It is reaching Out in all directions for
;rade and in this effort has recently
7entured several thousand dollars in
,he improvement of roads and the
of bridges. A fine bridge is
)eing erected over the north fork of
he John Day, this to divert the trade
If the Susanville country to Pendle-
on.
Near Olene, klamath county, Mon
lay afternoon, 81. j. O'Brien shot
Tohn Hoffman, the bullett passing
through his jaw and the top part of
lis shoulder. Hoffman had been liy-
ng on oBrien's place, and the trouble
vas over settlement of their accounts.
)'Brien was arrested and held to the ,
ircnit court. Mr.. Hoffmaa was known
D good many people in The Dalles,
aving spent the winter of 1898
ere with his nephew. George Keller,
nd went with Mr.. Keller to klamath ,
ounty.
When Malheur county was set off ,
ON Baker, it assumed part of the g
aker county debt and about $1,000 re-
aims unpaid by Malheur. Since the
vision a part of the warrants pre-
ously issued by Baker haye been de.
ared to be void, and Malheur wants il
le benefit of that decision by a cor.
spending reduction of its debt to g
aker. The Baker county court does
1t see it in that light, and the matter d
likely to be taken to the courts. 1t
said the allowance of Malheur n
unty's claim would extinguish the
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