The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-08-26

Or home by Mrs. Nelson, who has be
at the beach for several weeks.
ID If you want to purchase 25O head
ir sheep Just apply to Mr.. Dad Butts
he will give you bargain.
$ The university of Oregon and
e public schools of Eugene will resul
e sessions three weeks from Monday.
Clarke & Falk have full line
e house, carriage, wagon, and ba
4 paints, manufactured by James E. Pa
, ton, Milwaukee, Wis.,
DR.. Walter Thomas Brown, a grad
ate of the university of Tennessee rh
been elected to the chair of science
the Central Oregon State norm
school at Drain.
State Fish Commissioner Reed est
mates that there will be 100000
young salmon liberated from To
Clackamas hatchery this season an
100000 from the Salmon river hatch
cry.
1t is said that wood cutters down tn
river are asking from 25 to so cent
more for their wood this season thai
ever before. This being the case tn
price of fuel will De higher here mex
winter.
During the past eight months Is:
prisoners have been received at Walls
Walla county Jail. This is three time;
as many as has been received in the
same period of any year since 1894.
The little steamer Inland Flyer is
proving a pretty gooG boat after all.
lt makes regular trips now every other
day, and on Wednesday it's running
time from here to Portland was five
and one. half hours.
at the Astoria meeting of the Ore
gon Press Association which adjourned
yesterday, J. S. Stewart, editor of the
Fossil journal, was elected president;
B. F. Irvine, editor of the Corvallis
Times, vice.president, and Albert
Tozier, secrstary.
Canyon City, John Day. Prairie City
and Qusrtzburg are enjoying an era of
prosperity almost approaching boom.
Placer mines and quartz mines and
copper mines are running at full blast
ia every direction, and true state
ment of the aggregate output would
astonish the most credulous.
Farmers generally are surprised as
threshing progresses. The yield is
better than any expected, and the
quality is pretty fair. Some time since
it was thought the wheat would all be
No. 2, but great deal that has been
,hreshed weighs 120 pounds to the sack,
which will entitle it to be classed as
No. l.
Some very geo reports are coming
rom various parts of the country con-
,erning the yield of wheat and barley,
ays the Waitsburg Gazette. The
Minick Bros. have threshed barley |
hat went 80 bushel to the acre, and |
he Loundagin boys wheat, south of |
own, averaged 35 bushels, while re-
'orts from other places are equally |
avorable.
A saloon within block of Seattle
olice headq darters was held up by |
wO masked men at o'clock Tuesday |
1orning. Gus Gaulke. the night bar
ender, who was in charge of the place
ras robbed of a silver watch and the
Ill tapped for S14. When the two
len thought they had secured every
hing they left the place as quietly
III Us cooily as they entered.
Three officers of the Second Oregon
ave been rewarded by appointments
. the volunteer army to be organized.
[ajor Willis will be made a captain as
i'll also Captain E o. Warrick,
,rmeriy of Co. K, and Captain j. F.
ase has been offered a lieutenancy,
Il in the Forty fifth infantry. Each
as accepted the position rendered
i'm. and will joiG the regiment when
rdered.
Yesterday afternoon Otto Smith, a
ridge carpenter in the employ of the
!. r. & N. Co. at Bonneville, got
aught under push car loaded with
linber, and his right ankle was badly
,rained and leg severely bruised. He
as brought here on train No. 4, and
tier his wounds were dressed by DR..
ogan at the Columbia hotel, he was
ken to his home. Mr.. Smiths in
lries will lay him up for several
eeks.
Hervy Parkins is the possessor of
hilippine trophy that he takes con-
derahle pride in. 1t is Filipino
low-gun sent to him by Frank Howell
no was member of the Secon1 Ore
On. 1t is made of bamb and is
bout seven feet in length. Mr.. Par
ins is praeticing daily with the weap
D. and if the war in the Philippines
,ntinues, thinks some of enlisting,
ming himself with his blow-gup, and I
ping down there to clean Aguinaldo
1T.