The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-09-09

Will Frank in Spokane, he is working
in a clothing house there and is get
ting along nicely.
Saturday evening Tumwater Charley
an Indian was arrested for being
drunk and disorderly, by Marshal
Hughes, and given time to sober up in
the city Jail. When he had fully re-
covered from his overdose of fire.
water he was brought before the re-
corder aud fined So, which he paid.
Yesterday two white men were arrest
ed on like charges and spent the night
in the cooler One of them was
fined So this morning and released,
while the other has not yet appeared
before Recorder Gates.
The sum of $3.50, 600 will be distribut-
ed among the hoppickers of Western
Oregon within the next three weeks,
according to H. J. Miller, a we'll
informed hopraiser of Aurora. He
estimates the number OF pickers at
Is, 900 men, women and children, which
would be quite an army if sent togeth-
err. but they will be scattered from
Columbia county on the north to Jack
son on the south, in farms OF 200 acres
down to 10, the average size of an
Oregon hop-field being, he thinks, %
acres.
Congressman Charles Pearce, of
Missouri. and James /. McCleary, of
Minnesota, came up on the Spokane
Flyer yesterday and this morning left
for Seuferts to look oyer the proposed
improvements on the Columbia. 1t
was impossible to get an interview
witn them as the boat was waiting for
them and they left Immediately after
their return from the rapids. They
are in Oregon to look over the river
and harbor business and may do some
thing toward the improvement of the
Columbia in the next session of con.
gress.
Clinton Alden, formerly of this city
who To- the past year has made his
home in Pendleton, arrived In The
Dalles Saturday en- route to Vancouver
where be will join the Thirteenth
infantry which is now in the Philip
pines, and will soon go to join his regi-
meut. Clint left on the Flyer yester-
day for Vancouver, and took with him
the best wishes of his many friends in
the city who sincerely hope he will
have safe journey and, after be has
performed his duties for his country,
that he will return as hale and hearty
as when he left US.
Our friend E. Jacobsen, of the Jacob
sen Book & Music store has evidently
launched into a new line of business ac-
cording TO the following from the An
telope Herald: 1.-The Big A. headed by
Col. E. Jacobsen, passed through Town
last Sunday, en- route to Prineville.
They had an organ with them, and it
is reported that they made dates to
give show in the school house, over
on Tygh RIDGE. The last time Jake"
left The Dalles with an organ it was
iDsinuated that he would play the part
of the monkey and We wonder it he
still holds that enviable position.
Next Saturday evening Cook &
Forbis will give an entertainment in
the Baldwin opera house, to which the
will be 25 and Is cents.
The Jacksonville Times speaking of
the entertainment which these people |
give says: Cook & Forbis are ex-
Edison's latest machine show !
ing moving pictures of the battles
between the forces of the United /
States and Spain in Cuba, and at
tracted large audiences on Thursday |
and Friday evenings. The scenes are
clear and lifelike and the graphophone |
lend interest 10 the enter
talnment.