The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-22
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.

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From Saturdays Daily.
A. M. Patison, of Wamic, is in the
city.
j. B. Mayo, of Troutdale, is here on
business.
VIM. Walker and Riley Sexton, OF
Biggs, are in the city.
C. 81. Shu-te, . sheep buyer from
Chicago, Is here looking after mutton
for shipment.
Mrs. E. W. Pike and Mrs. Neil Nc.
I.eod, of Goldendale, are in the city
S buying supplies.
The sight OF those new skirts at
Pease & Mays will refresh your mem
ory regarding the combination on your
pocket book.
The Congregational church in Wal
Ia Walla will build $4,000 church
edifice during the coming summer.
E. E. Lytle, president, and A. E..
Hammond, chief engineer of the Co
lumbia Southern, were in the city last
night.
Gardeners throughout the country
report very little damage to their
vegetables by the frost Thursday
night.
The river continues to rise gradually,
and today registers 15i feet above low
water mark, rise Of one foot since
yesterday.
r. b. Webber returned last evening
from Portland where he attended the
Jeffersonian banquet. He says 1t was
success in every respect.
Hon. G. W. Moore, of Lost Lake.
representative from Klickitat county
in the recent Washington legislature,
spent the day in the city.
George Hurbert, formerly of this
place, writes that he has left Union.
where he has been nearly year past,
and has located at Cornucopia.
This was pay day on the o. R. & N.
and employees of the company at this
place were made happy by receiving
checks for their last months salary.
Hon. N. L. Butler, OF Polk county,
has been appointed regent OF the
state university to succeed Hon. d. +.
Thompson, whose term expires today.
Work has already begun on the new
Episcopal church which is to be erect
ed at Heppner this summer. The
building is to be 24x50 feet and will
cost $500.
Thursday John O'Brien, a man 60
years of age, was assaulted by six
tramps on the railroad track near AL.
bany, hut escaped from them. Their
object was robbery.
A conviction in pension fraud case
al Washington revealed the fact that
during thirty years three women had
drawn a pension as the widows OF
man who had meyer been married.
All damages done the Union Pacific
track by high water in Wyoming have
been repaired, and trains are again
running regularly. Train No. 1 from
the east arrived here today on time,
w. ". Kelly and A. N. Ford, two
travelling freight solicitors, are here
looking after wool shipments. Mr..
Kelly represents the Northern Pacific
and Mr. Ford the Oregon Short Line.
The contestants in the twenty-round
glove contest to be pulled off here on
the 22d are in the city undergoing the
usual preliminary work. Ed Ross, OF
Los Angeles, is under training OF Ed
Turner, and "Chick" Houghton is
being managed by Harry Bowen, OF
Portland.
Henry E. Darch has resigned as
member of the state board of horticul-
ture for the first district, to accept the
position Of secretary of the board, and
Wilbur z. Newell has been appointed
to succeed him. Mr.. Darch had been
q member of the board ever since IL
was created ten years ago.
L. A. Sandoz says the fruit trees on
Mill creek were 30 much injured by
the cold weather in February that
there will not be more than one-third
OF a crop OF fruit harvested in that sec
tion. Mr.. Sandoz says his apples will
yield q fairly good crop, but his peach
es and pears are comparative failure.
This morning there was quite del
egation Of teachers from The Dalles
left on the boat for Hood River to at
tend the educational meeting to be
heli at that place. They were Prof.
Gavin, Prof. Ladders, Misses Wrenn,
Ball, Douthit, Michel, Phirman, Rob
erts, Ella Cooper and Nan Cooper,
Mrs. Baldwin and Mrs. Roche. Ac-
companying them were Mr.. and Mrs.
Gilbert, Mrs. Gavin, Mrs. E. M. Will
son, Mrs. L.. s. Davis and Mr.. and
Mrs. Truman Butler.