The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-03-04
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.

J.C. Clay, of Glenns ferry, is at the
Umatilla House.
]. G. Poster, of Wasco, is in the
city on business today.
A. G.. Hodson and wife, of Hood
River, are spending q few days In the
city.
M E. Montgomery anG wife return.
ed from visit to Hood River friends
last evening.
County Commissioner W. G. Evans
arrived in the city from Hood River
yesterday afternoon.
Elks will please take notice that the
meeting will be called at 7:30 instead
of 8 o'clock this evening.
]. B. CrossHeld, the well.known
travelling man, is in the city from
Portland.
Alex S. Scott, the Grass Valley
merchant, is in the city accompanied
by his wife and son.
Miss Grace Smith left for Pendleton
yesterday where she will visit friends
for some time.
Fred n. Kittle. the we'll known Is
land city miller and stockman, is at
the Umatilla.Hous
Mr.. George, the enterprising Ar
lington business man, spent yesterday
visiting Dalles friends.
L. Morris, who was convicted of lar
ceny from the dwelling of M. T. Nolan,
was today sentenced to 80 days in the
county Jail.
The weather forecast sent out by
Pague predicts occasional snow storms
with colder weather for tonight and
tomorrow.
The funeral of John F. Mohr, of
Hood River, will take place from tbs
Catholic church at 8 p. m. tomorrow.
Friends of the deceased are cordially
invited to attend.
Misses Bertha and Lena Burkhardt,
who have been visiting for the past
ten DAYS with the family of George
Liebe, returned to their home in Port
land yesterday afternoon.
William Rolfe, against whom an in
dictment has been brought for an as
sault with dangerous weapon. hae
had his bonds fixed at $500 by Judge
Bradshaw today. he is still in jail
awaiting q bondsman.
Tom Brogan accompanied by his
daughter Miss Lizzie and his neice
Miss Katie Brogan, who have been
visiting relatives and friends in Port.
land for the past few days, returned
on last evenings train.
Next Wednesday the steamer Regu-
lator will again go into service after
having been laid up since jill 4th
last, when she went ashore at the low.
er entrance of the locks. Since than
the boat has been rebuilt and is now a
better vessel than ever.
Last night the man from Antelope,
who has been arrested twice in the
last few days, was again taken into
custody and is sobering up in the city
Jail. Fines and admonitions seem to
do no good to this individual and it
will probably be necessary to give him
an unreasonably short time to get out
of town.
A landslide occurred q short dis
tance west of Mosier on the o. r. &
N. line this morning and it may cause
some delay to the afternoons train as
doubts are expressed as to the ability
of the men employed in clearing the
wreck before the Spokane Flyer and
overland trains reach that point. The
worktrain left at ten o'clock this
morning for the scene Of the trouble.
Ed Kurtz, Joe Bonn and Victor
Schmidt last night demonstrated that
they were masters of welding the
wooden sphere on polished stripes by
winning the pins in the regular Fri
day night bowling tournament on the
D. c. & A. c. alleys. They made 500
pins In the four games on an average
of one forty one which is good tourna-
ment bowling If they keep on they
will prove formidable rivals to the
great New York trio---Thyne, Cordes
and Clinch who are coming to the
coast in the near future.
Last evening, Peter Resch, the pros
porous farmer OF the Boyd neighbor.
hood returned from four month q visit
to his old home in Germany. He is
looking hale and hearty although he
reports stormy ocean voyage on his
return trip. He is looking five years
younger than when he left and is
anxious to resume work after taking
this long needed rest. he reports
things in the tatherland much changed |
since he left there and finds the people |
up to date in every regard as they are
in the United States.
Prof. 8. W. Steele, the first bass of |
the A. L. P. S. male QUARTET, arrived
on last nights train from Albany. he
is accompanied by his brother. who is
on his way TO Spokane, but will stop
oyer to hear the QUARTET rehearse.
Mr.. Steel is brother of the famous
artist whose paintings received the
highest awards at tie Worlds Colum
Lian Exposition. He is musician of
a high standard, possessing rich
baritone voice and very delicate ear
30 essential to quartett singing. He
is also the funny man of the quarsett,
and mis- numerous selections never fail
to bring down the house.
Yesterday afternoon, five individuals
who were full of fun and probably
stronger, undertook to
take in the town by driving around in
3 buggy. They took a squirt down
Front street and when near the depot
they got sidetracked breaking wheel
and otherwise injuring the vehicle.
A report was current.that there was a
wreck on the railroad near the depot,
but when the reporter arrived the
,ame was cleared away and four of tie
i've we're delivering an elaborate en-
,omium on the driver of the said rig
- oncordi po IN their varsi0n Of the