The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-03-25

lg present New England hotel rears il
Or massive walls. She attended the. un
y.rsity of Washington the first tw
oil years it was opened, afterward teaci
Ia ing school at Port Townsend.
Frank D. Weeks, of Portland, VIII
,r was member of Co. E, Second Ore
N gon, and went to Manila with the boy
at the fret call to arms but was dis
charged last January on account G
i sickness, has bought half interes
in The Dal1es Marble works b
will be pleased at all times to tel
70 Dalles people of their friends in Manil
if they will call at the works.
The Salvation Army's annual weel
: of prayer and self denial is now in full
u swing, every one is invited to take
part. The idea is to deny ones self o
9 something and give the proceeds te
? thu Salvation Army for home and
foreign missions the social work,
3 rescue homes, children homes. men IS
t shelters, women's shelters, mission
gate home, labor bureaus, etc. There
will be special meetings this week on
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Holiness meeting on Friday evening.
Everyb body welcome.
The river at Astoria is crowded with
chinook salmon at the present time,
and it gives every promise of being a
good season. There are few fisher
men making drifts along the Washing
ton shore, and they are catching all
that they can safely dispose of. AS
the tug Sampson was passing the Bar
barry coast, near Pillar Rock, few
days ago, they saw fisherman pulling
in his net, and he got fish at nearly
every lift. This would Indicate that
fishermen on the upper river will get
gooI catches this season.
The mem bers of the Tacoma News
boys Union propose to boycott the
News unless it refuses to sell
papers to the lady member of the
union" 1t seems that at regular
meeting of the union over year ago,
this girl was elected to membership |
and has sold papers on the street ever |
since. She has been uniformly sue.
cessful, and the newsboys are jealous
of her prosperity. just how these
young merchants figure out that one
lone girl is running their business is
hard to say. She sells no more papers
than some of the boys who have
signed the petition, and the News
proposes to stand by the girl in this
matter.
Messrs. F. G. Erb and B. A. Will
liams, connected with the Gem Aceyt-
lene Gas Co., of Portland, are in the
city and are taking up the proposition
with the council of lighting the streets
)f The Dalles with gas. These gen.
5lemen state that streets lights can be :
at no greater cost than $4
per light, which if correct is very
cheap light. This class of light is by
10 means an experiment, as it is
lsed extensively in Germany, where a '
majority of the cities are lighted with c
lcetylene gas, and some large cities in c
bis country are also useing it. Wa
'ash. Ind, islighted with it, and it is {
argely used in other places The
they will submit to the
ouncil is certainly worthy of consid-
ration. e.
Two young men while hunting be-
DIV town today made discovery that VI
nav disclose mystery. About half u
mile beyond the Mill creek bridge, :
ear some lakes, they discovered on :.
1elf of rock a telescope valise con. -
inning hand mirror and some ladies' II
pparel, also number of letters, one :.
to Frank Button, of Hood l"
liver, and another to the clerk se
Skamania county. About six feet "
Glow the valise were pair of rub u
ers, pair of shoes and a dress waist 81
ID under some rocks, and on a shelf ~
rocks above was dress skirt that re
opeared to haye been torn from the ps
aist. Whether the articles had been III
olen and deposited there or whether
me crime had been committed is not
nown. The attention of Marshal 6e
suer has been called to the matter al
ID he will make an investigation. ga