The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-10-21
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From sarurday's Daily.

city last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Murchie are in
the city from Wasco.
Hon. J. w. Morton, Of Hood River,
Is at the Umatilla House.
Ben Mannering Appointment Golden
dale merchant is in the city.
D. F. Fulton and wife, of Wasco,
are at the Umatilla House.
George Whites, proprietor Of "The
Fair" of Heppner is in the city.
D. B. Gjlbreth and wife of Fifteen.
mile returned from Portland last even
ing.
William Rymers, of Sumpter, Ba-
ker county, is visiting friends in The
Dalles.
Mrs. j. s. Fish and brother, N. j.
Sinnott, returned from Portland last
evening.
Ladies of the Lutheran church will
have bazaar during Thanksgiving
week to raise church debt.
St. Paul's Guild are preparing to
give in the near future lecture con-
cert by local and outside talent.
John Mccall is in the city from the
Bonanza mine, in Baker county, visit
ing his sister Mrs. Theo Seufert.
RogerB. Sinnott and wife passed
through on the Spokane Flyer last
evening en- route east on their weddi, g
tour.
Miss Beulah Patterson returned
from the valley last evening where
she has been attending the wedding OF
Roger B. Sindott to Miss Augusta
Lownsdale.
Lost-This afternoon, a black ostrich
boa between Pease & Mays store and
the west end of Fourth street. Finder
please leave at Pease & Mays store or
at the residence of Mrs. Robt Kellyx
A drill of the South Side Hose Co.
will be held this evening All MEM
ber are requested te be present.
Chas. Wagner, of this city, left this
morning for Antelope where he goes
to accept position as manager OF
Robert Greers new saloon which opens
up tonight.
A lnote received from Reverend G
Rushing of the Christian church of
this city today, states that his brother,
Sacratus Rushing, had died at Garfield,
Washington, on the 18th inst and will
be buried at Cheney today. He was
3S years, months and days old.
Mr.. Rushing left Thursday evening on
receipt of the news of his brothers
sickness and had scarcely time to ar
rive at the bedside before the end
came.
The coyote which Bill Gilmore has
trapped and led into captivity will be
sent to the city park in Portland. by
Tom Driver. Its nature has greatly
changed since it has been led into cap.
tivity as it is no longer the timid look.
ing animal that we SO often see on the
prairie, but savage creature awaiting
an opportunity to fight anyone who
comes near. In all probability it will
soon become reconciled to its fate and
grow tame, as they usually do and it
will be quite an addition to the park
as many city people have rarely, if
ever seen real Eastern Oregon coyote.
Yesterday Mrs. F. r. Whittier of
Eugene, who ls in the city on trip
Of business and pleasure, purchased
tombstone from Louie Comini at the
leading Granite & Marble Works of
this city, to be placed over the grave
Of her brother, Albert Ullery. Being
desirous of purchasing such stone
and seeing some of Mr.. Commits work
she wished Co Investigate more fully
what could be done in this line in The
Dalles and being shown what monu-
ments Mr.. Comini had erected in the |
cemeteries she at once gave him an
order for stone of granite taken |
from his quarry on the hill south of |
The Dalles. The fact that people |
coming from the Willamette Valley |
give their orders to Dalles man for !
such articles is indeed flattering to the |
dealer and should induce our people to
give Mr.. Commini our undivided pa
tronage.
Vast flocks of geese have come down
from the far north and have. been fly.
ing low over Eastern Oregon. In
many places it is claimed, they have
Kept so low they could almost be killed
with clubs by people standing on the
ground. That this was done was
positively asserted by quite number
If people. Down on the Columbia
'ive- in the sloughs the geese haye
'lready congregated in immense num-
,ers, and hunters are going there to
lay them. It is stated by old hunters
hat they have never known the wild
,eese to come down 80 early in any
reYious year, and the Indians regard
his early migration of the geese as q
ure sign of an unusually early winter.
Hon. J. N. Williamson, of Prime I
lille, left for his home yesterday morn
1g. He has been attending the wool
rowers meeting in this place and
'ortland and while at the latter meet
,g read an able discussion on the I
uestion of forest reserves, grazing
q them and a talk in defense of
,eep men in regard to the precaution
ley take in preventing forest fires
hich was certainly logical since fires G
e ruinous to their interests and they,
no are in general an honest and up b
ght class the same as those interested t
other lines of business would be the
st to be criminally careless in these +
alters. r
Last evening one of the men who is T
nployed by Seufert Brothers at their b
nch near this city telephoned to Mr.. a
,ufert that passenger had fallen off a
le train and sustaining serious in "
ries and enquired as to what should b
done in the matter. Mr.. Ireland, a
the o. r. & N. was notified and a
Mt out al engine and caboose and u
30 a physician to investigate. The Il
ctim was found enjoying a hearty "
pper and upon investigating the b
ctor could not find ascratch to in Il
cate that the man was injured. The A
ctor informed him that he was un- RI