The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-05-20
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.

James Kelly, of Kingsley, is in the
city.
j. B. Real, of Forest Grove, is in the
city.
Hon. 81. Geer, school land agent, is
in the city.
Grant Hawley, of Grass Valley, was
in town last night.
W. Lord came home last night from
a short visit to Portland.
S. Ferrell, of Portland, is here look
ing after ais fish interests.
The river rose IL feet in "a hours,
and today stood at 21.8 feet.
Mrs. Armsworthy, of Arlington,
arrived on the afternoon train.
q. b. Bresbone and wife, of Lead
vile, Col, are visitors in the city.
J. M. Filloon came down from Moro
yesterday and spent today in the city.
Messrs. M. Wurzweiller, Alf Allen
and Emmett Holman, of Prineville,
are in the city.
The examination of teachers closed
yesterday, and at present the board is
engaged looking over and grading pa
pers.
Mrs. W. E. Walthers is very ill.
Her mother arrived today from Gen.
terville. and will remain uutil there is
q change for the better.
In Justice Bayard's court yesterday
Christian Wyss was held in bonds of
5000 to appear before the grand jury
on charge of threatening to kill.
The South End Hose Co. will soon
have house in which to keep their
apparatus. The house is being built
just east of John Gates residence.
Mrs. M. A. Dawson, accompanied by
her son and daughter Leon and Miss
Melvia, are expected to arrive here to-
morrow from Kansas, and will become
permanent residents of The Dallcs.
WANTED Reserve land
certificates or known as Cascade scrip.
Correspondence solicited. Address j..
r Oatman, Room 81, Sherlock Build
ing, Portland, Oregon. m13-3w
Parties who have just come down
from the upper country say Clear
Water and Snake rivers are booming,
and that we may expect rise of sew
eral feet in the Columbia here within
q few days.
Potatoes are beginning to be a
scarce and high priced article here.
They are selling at S1.75 sack, and
will no doubt go higher before the
new crop is on the market, which will
be about June 1st.
J. L. Kelly has shorn his band of
sheep and reports an unusual heavy
lot of feeces, his yearlings having
yielded up Is pounds of wool a piece,
and the staple was eight inches long.
However his band was not large, there
being only eight head of thoroughbred
Lincolns in the entire flock.
"Mothers' day" exercises were con-
Quoted in the first grade at the Court
street school yesterday afternoon, and
were we'll appreciated by the parents
who attended. The little folks who
took part acquitted themselves excep-
tionally well.
A boy 19 years of age, John Hughes,
died of pneumonia in Roseburg
Thursday night, leaving no informa-
nation of the Whereabouts OF his fami-
ly or friends. He claims to have been
a fisherman on the Columbia.
If wool will reach 14cents and wheat
IS cents in The Dalles this season,
there will be revival of business in
this city that will remind one of old
times, when the settlers used to say
money grew on the sagebrush.
Wool continues to come in at the
rate of about dozen wagon loads q
day, and some of the last years crop
is being shipped out on consignment, so
the warehouses are able to find plenty
of storage room for the new crop.
Portland can be credited with hav-
ing one of the meanest thieves living.
He broke into st. Pauls German
Lutheran church q few evenings ago
and stole silver communion service.
Such thief wouldn't stop at any
thing.
The steamer Ocklahama, belonging
to the o. r. & N, was brought up
yesterday from Portland, and will be
kept here in charge of Capt. Joe AL
lyn until the danger of high water is
oyer. In case the water gets over the
track. the boat will be used to handle
the company's traffic between here and
Cascade Locks.
Active preparations are being made
for the baseball contest between the
Mays & Grove "push" and Williams
& Co. ''pull" on the Both. '"Dutch"
Mccoy has been secured as umpire,
which is sufficient evidence that the
game will be up to date, for Dutch used
to play ball long time ago, when he
was boy, way back in the COS.
Cut worms have done considerable
damage to growing crops in different
parJs of the county, and some farmers
have found it necessary to resow their
fields. M. Hendrickson has just
finished sowing rs acres of wheat on
his farm on 15-Mile that had been
killed by cut worms, and a number of |
his neighbors have also found It neces.
sary to resow their fields.
The Commercial Club concert band
s practicing regularly, and the men,
oers are becoming quite proficient.
Isn't it about time the band was Civ
ng an open air concert? There is no
necessity for their "hiding their light
lnder bushel' Tor rather their music
n the old school house, They play
veil enough to appear in public and
would like to hear them.
At the recent examination of teach
rs, the following was one of the
Iuestions prepared by the state board
n the study of physical geography.
is it better to plant potatoes in the
ark or light of the moon? Why?
are said to curl up and rail
ences are said to sink when laid a
ertain time of the moon. Which is it?