The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-03-25


there being IS men employed gradil
the ground and preparing the site I
the mill.
a Herbert Walker, Boston wo
i. buyer, is registered at the Umatil
House.
Deputy Internal Revenue Collect
George 81. Shinn, of Pendleton, is
the city. -
Dayid Mcdonald, one OF the prom
nent Sherman county sheepraisers,
8 in town.
A new wing, to cost $4,000, will
} added to the state normal school a
Monmouth.
Mrs. DIR. Logan and Mrs. E. N
Wilson retur aed on yesterdays boa
, from Portland.
J. E. Barnet, who has spent tn
winter in Portland, is in the city toda
visiting and looking after business.
Mrs. Laurensen left on the boat thi
morning for Portland where she wen
to have her eyes treated by specialist
Hon. John Michel, great sachen
of the Improved Order of Red Men
goes to Heppner this evening to visi
the tribe at that place.
A. D. Mcdonald returned from Spo
! kane this morning, and reports bis
wife, who is under medical treatment
in that city, is recovering rapidly.
Eugene Looney, one of the commits
sioners of the new county of Wheeler,
is in the city, having come down yes
terday from his farm on Bridge Creek.
Astoria has a school population of
2611, of which 1884 are males and 1927
females. There are 1895 children en-
rolled in the public schools of the
city.
G. E. Dawson returned last evening
from Portland, where he had been to
purchase fixtures for the new grocery
store which he will open in the Chap
man block next month.
C. L. Ireland, of the Moro Observer,
came up last evening from Portland,
where he had spent several days. He
attended Sousa's concert at the
Marquam Tuesday night.
The committee that prepared the en-
for the Degree of Hopor
last night merited the thanks of all
members who attended, for it is seldom |
that a pleasanter evening has been
spent by the ladies of the Degree.
Today DR.. v. C. Cook brought over
100 head of fine mutton from the
Washington side. Some of them were
old to Chrisman Bros. and the re-
nainder were shipped to Troutdale.
E. A. Harris, the preacher who re-
emily skipped out from Albany with
me of his flock. Miss Edna Lear. has
'een arrested at New Westminster
nd will be taken back to Albany to
nswer a charge of abduction.
AL. Bettingen, Bert Baldwin, h. W.
'rench and Prof. Lundell returned
ast evening from Portland where they ,
ad been to hear Sousa's band. They ,
eport the music to have been grand,
nd we'll worth a trip to Portland to !
ear. |
A few days ago Frank Sands, con- I
'ct from Portland serving five.years c
'ntence in the penitentiary, attempt e
to commit suicide by jumping Ct a
anister and falling on cement floor |
feet below. He was picked up in 7
nsible but recovered. q
County Clerk Kelsay did a rushing n
lsiness in issuing marriage license 8
is afternoon. having granted three t
IS of glory tickets. The interested a
rites were R. E. Clanton and Laura a
Cooley, T. c. Rutherford and Laura I
srmans, Orin S. Pratt, and Emma o
Shearer. b
Upper Hood River valley fruit 3
isers suffered less from the severe n
ather in February than those of O.
y other section of the county. a
eir trees, with the exception of a W
' pears, were not injured in the 81
st. This was probably owing to 81
) fact that there was no warm wealth
to start the sap prior to the freeze. l.
A Mr.. Scott, of Portland, is arrang- o.
. to open summer resort in Upper
'od river valley, near the farm of
r. Cooper. That is one of the ri
'st delightful places in Oregon dur
: the summer months, and resort -,
ened there will undoubtedly be we'll y
tronized. :
oendleton has been selected as the
zee for holding the great council of
, Improved Order of Red Men. On cl
ly 25, the council will assemble there
; tribesmen coming from the hunt r
! grounds OF Portland, Oregon City, p
q palles, Astoria, Salem, Goble,
ppner, Baker City, La Grande, on
lion and Burns. 81,
rhe law against nickel-in-the slot
chimes seems to be dead letter all n,
sr the state. In several places the ri;
lie devices went into hiding after
, law was signed by the governor, 30
from accounts it seems they are -
ing brought out zone by one and put
% use. 1t is said that in Eugene,
ich is one of the strictest town in d.
, state, they are being used openly er
ain.
Gugenia McConaha, the first white ga
1 born in the city of Seattle, died st'
'nday morning from a complication
diseases, after an illness of several ye
ys. Eugenia McConaha was born he
ptember lS, 1852, while Seattle was Gil
only frontier settlement, in a
'idence that stood about where the pe