The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-06-03
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Elder A. G. Hoering went to White
Salmon this morning to stop over Sum
day.
Mrs. c. nj. Aldin came up from
Portland yesterday, and will spend a
few days visiting in the city.
Mrs. Sewell and Miss Florence
Williams, of Portland, are visiting
their sister Mrs. H. W. French.
At o'clock this afternoon the river
registered 26 feet, and has risen about
aninch an hour during the day.
The supreme court of Salem has set
Monday, June S, as the date for exam
ing applicants for admission to the
bar OF Oregon.
DIR. E. o. Hyde. of Scio, spent the
day in The Dalles. The doctor had
started to Prineville. but may de-
termine to locate here.
The cases of the state against
Christian Wyss and Otis Patterson be.
fore the grand jury were both dis
missed by District Attorney Jayne.
Atthe last meeting of Temple Lodge,
A. U. W., c. ]. Crandall and F.
Lemke were elected delegates to the
grand lodge, and G. F. Stephens and
J. A. Douthit alternates.
An unfortunate Indian got too much
of the white mans beverage last night,
and this morning Recorder Gates fined
him 50, not having that amount, he
was remanded to Jail for day.
Engineer Strack, who is making the
railroad survey on the north side OF
the river. is now camped opposite
Tumwater, and will soon have the line
com pleted as far west as The Dalles.
The colured company that appeared
in the school exhibition last evening
was trained by Johnny Hampshire,
and too much credit cannot be given
him for the manner In which he
brought them out.
George Wentworth, for several years
lineman for the Seufert & Condor
Telephone Co., handed in his resigna-
tion last evening, and today Will
Condor has been looking after the
different lines.
The ripening of strawberries in
Hood River valley is attracting large
number of Indians to that place. This
morning an invoice of them went down
on the boat to engage in strawberry
picking, which will begin in real earn
est next Monday.
1t is not often that tightening strikes
an editor, but G. h. GODDARD, pencil
pusher of the Dayton Courier, had an
awful narrow escape last Tuesday.
During thunder storm his residence
was struck and set on fire, and ran
narro1 escape of being destroyed.
Despite the efforts of other places to
compete with The Dalles as wool
market, the fact remains that higher
prices are paid here than at any other
one clip of 1899 wool was sold at 12i
cents, and it was not the most choice
wool either.
Polls for the telephone line from
here to Prineville have been hauled as
far south as Hay Creek, and in few
days will be distributed the entire
length of the line. AS there is an
average of 20 poles to the nile, it re-
quires 24OO polls to reach from here to
Prineville.
The body of William Fields, The
Dalles boy who fell victim to the ty-
phoid fever at Manila last September,
has been shipped back to San Francis
CO, and will be brought to Portland.
Young Fields was connected with the
hospital corps, and contracted the
fever while caring for the disabled
men in the hospital last summer.
A commission consisting of Judge |
Laycock, of Grant county; Judge |
Mariner, of Gillian, and Clarke Butler
of Wheeler. appointed to ascertain the
indebtedness of Grant county, are
in session at Canyon City. County
Treasures Martin states the indebted
ness will reach $3.50, 1000. and probably
more, s35 900 of which is accrued in
terest.
J. 81. Blakeney came home last
night from Portland, where he has
been undergoing treatment of broken
leg for several months past, and is SO
far recovered that he discarded one OF
his crutches, being able to bear con-
weight on the injured mem.
Der. Mr.. Blakeney's horse fell with
him on the last day of May, year
ago, sustaining compound fracture
between the knee and ankle, and has
been laid up ever since.