The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-09-30
Tiues- -Munutaineer.
ITEMS IN BRIEF.


ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Wednesdays Daily.
Earl Sanders lecture will begin a
S:l5 this evening. Do not miss any c
it by coming late.
]. A. Speer and wife and Miss E. e
Black are in tho city from the Warn
Spring Agency.
Will 81. See, the we'll known Warn
Springs merchant, 10 q guest at tn
Umatilla House.
The Columbia Packing company re
ceived fine band Of prime beef cattle
from Klickitat county parties yester
day.
Fourteen cars, each of O,OO0 pound:
carrying capacity, have been received
at La Grande, for hauling beets to the
sugar factory.
c. L. McKenna, Supreme Secretary
of the United Artisans, will be in the
city Friday evening and desires to
meet all members of that lodge a,
c. e. Bayard's Office at 8 o'clock.
Theodore Liebe, the talented young
optician and jeweler. accompanied by
Sam Thurman, left today on business
trip through the interior. They will
be gone about three weeks and before
returning will attend the Antelope
and Prineville fairs.
Sheriff. Kelly Left this morning for
Boyd where he will sell personal
property consisting of horses, cattle
and farm implements. A mortgage
was held on the property which has
beon foreclosed which accounts for it
being sold by the sheriff.
Rev. W. F. Hawk, and family, of
North Yakima, arrived in the city! es-
terday and are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Simeon Bolton, until such time
as Mr.. Hawks residence Is furnished.
He will take his place in the pulpit
of the M. E. church next Sunday.
Sheriff Holder came down from
Moro yesterday on the afternoon train
to get Charles Kramer, who was ar
rested the hight before by Sheriff
Kelley on charge of obtaining money
under false pretences. He returned
with his man on the Spokane flyer.
Hon. E. B. Dufur, of this city, is in
Portland as an attorney for the plain
tiff in the case OF II. r. Boyd vs the
General Electric Company. This is an
action of damage for injuries to Mr..
Boyd's 13 year old son, caused by the
careless and negligent strlnging o
live wires.
Articles of incorporation were filed
in the county clerks Office today for a
company which will be known as the
Shaniko Warehouse Company, with
headquarters at Shaniko, the proposed
terminus of the Columbia Southern
Railway. The capital stock will |
amount to $4,000 divided into 420
shares at 800 each. The heincorporators
are B. F. Laughlin and Wentworth
Lord, of The Dalles and w. q. Moore.
of Shaniko.
The government geological survey
is at work on the Sumpter geological
sheet The geological survey follows
the typographical survey, which is
still at work on the Sumpter sheet,
but has removed its camp up to near
Bourne. Both survey parties will
prosecute their work until checked by
cold weather, and mean to resume as
early as practicable ext summer. The
maps will not be finished for about IL
Tonight, the mission which will be
given by the Dominican fathers at st.
Peters church will begin. The Dom
inicans missioners are remarkable for
their learning and eloquence and those
their sermons, whether they
are members of the church or not, will
feel amply repayed for there attention.
Owing to the fact that the vast
majority of the farmers in both Wasco
and Klickitat counties are at present
in very easy circumstances and as they
expect a raise in the price of wheat
they ar holding for an advance in the
price which still stands at Sc cents for
fret class. Some wheat OF unusually
fine quality is said TO haye changed
hands for So cents, but no more is
being cold than is necessary to pay the
expense of hauling.
The steamer Regulator had every
available inch of space taken up on
the lower deck Yesterday with emf
grant wagons and teams, the owners
Of which there is quite lasge mum
ber. being en- rou,e from Eugene to
Washington, where they
will locate. They are a thrifty look
ing lot of farmers and apparently of
that class to which any good com.
munity should extend hand of well
come.
j. Barclay, aged twenty-four, and
Forest Ferrons, aged twenty-one. we're
arrested Monday on the overland
passenger train at Pendleton, and held
pending the arrival of Sheriff Hunt
ington, OF Baker City. They are
wanted for holding up the stage be.
tween Ontario and Burns, last week.
Barclay had a bulldog and $40 on his
person, and Ferrons about Sl5. Sher-
iff Huntington, when told the mems
names, telephoned in reply that they