The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-15
From Tuesdays Daily

Mr.. and Mrs. M. Heisler, of Dufur, are
visiting in the city today.
P.L. Fouts returned home last night
from his fruit farm at Mt. Hood.
A. j. Dufur came up from POrtla nd
yesterday and left today for Dufur.
A special meeting of the ci y council
will be held ut o'clock this evening.
Geo. T. Prather, of Hood River,
came up on the boat last night and re-
turned home this morning.
Ju6ge and Mrs. John Fulton and
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Fulton, of Biggs,
were visiting in the. city today.
There will be a meeting OF the
Maccabees at $50 this evening. All
members are requested to he present.
Today marriage license were issued
to John II. A. Stegman and Melanie
Mesplie, also John McAtee and Anna
Heisler.
Mrs. C. A. Campbell leaves tonight
for Battle Creek, Nebraska. where she
expects to spend two months visiting
friends and relations.
Albany bakers have formed trust.
They have raised prices, giving 30
loaves of bread for 81, and haye agreed
not to sell to mlddlemen.
Since taking. office the first OF July y
last Sheriff Kelly has collected about
S75, 200 taxes. Today he paid into the
treasury S7l2.52 collected on the 1897
roll.
That part of Wheeler county that
was formerly in Grant county owes
unpaid taxes amounting to $13.35o.72.
This will be quite a windfall for the
new county.
Mrs. c. F. Stephens left on yesterday
afternoons train for Lebanon, having
been notified by telegraph OF the death
of her brother. Ephram Jackson, at
Lebanon yesterday morning.
The sheriff of Multnomah county is
Offering a quantity of Portland prop
erty Tor sale on execution for delin-
auent taxes. The advertisement coy
ers 1879 columns of the Oregonian.
Max -Luddeman, editor of the Ante
lope Herald, came in from Antelope
this morning. He says spring has
l. ~ H@1~ ,fsvry
grass on the range is getting good,
and the loss of stock has ceased.
Rev. G. Rushing has accepted call
from the Christian church OF The
Dalles and will take charge about the
middle of May. Mr.. Rushing left last
night for LaGrande. and will return
with his family within a month.
Complaint was filed. this morning
against Lincoln harrington, of Nan
sene, charging him with insanity.
Deputy Sheriff Lexton left this fore
noon for Nansene to bring the un-
fortunate man In for examination.
This afternoon the wind broke an
awning loose on the east side of Pease
& Mays store and broke large plate
glass window. The glass was one
fourth of an inch thick, but could not
withstand the force of awning fixtures
beating against it.
Dayton Taylor, who Is in the employ
of the Lyle & Goldendale railroad, is in
town today, having came up from Lyle
yesterday. He says the grade stakes
on the route have been set out four
miles from Lyle, and the work is pro-
crossing right along toward Golden
dale.
Goldendale expects to have rail-
road by fall. The proposed road is to
be built from Lyle to GoldeIdale, and
is said to be located on an easy grade.
The preliminary survey has been run.
and the permanent survey is completed
out four miles from Lyle. When con-
work will begin is not
known.
Men are busy this week putting in
local telephones throughout the town
for the Portland Telephone & Tele-
graph Co. Neil Mcleod, the genial
of the Central hotel, has
been appointed agent here. and the
main Office will be at the hotel, pre-
sided over by Mrs. McLeod.-Golden-
dale Agriculturalist.
The Dufur Touring mill is one of the
best known mills in Oregon, its pro-
duct having always bee n rated as first
class. Lately Heisler & Son, who
bought the property something over a
year ago, have made extensive i'm
in the mill, and now it is
second to no m i'll of its size on the |
coast. 1t has capacity of 5U barrels
/ day, and is kept running the year
'ound.
Indications are pretty favorable for
high water here this season.
There is an immo nse amount of snow |
n the mountains, and it is thawing
7ery slowly, owing to the unusually
cool weather. If the cool weather
continues few weeks longer, nothing
IAN prevent a food, as all the water
tored in the mountains must come
lown with rush when the warm days
# May and June appear
There will be a meeting of the
Native Sons held in K. of P. hall,
evening. All members and
hose who have not yet been initiated
hould awake to the question of max
ng this society permanency in The
)alles. Let all native sons of the
Late resioing in this vicinity fill their
pplication for mem bershiO at once,
o that they may be admitted at the
leeting to be held Thursday evening.
Treasurer Dudley, of Yakima county.
J in receipt of the following note from
delinquent taxpayer residing at
Iabton: "Please find enclosed SI.2O
'r personal property tax for 1894, as
ou claim, and which l have paid once
efore, but | suppose you kneed the
tie whisky and cigar money. II,
fought | would not bother. so if you
nd anything NOR just send it along. .
'e have plenty of money down this
ay. Please don't forget to send me ,
receipt for this"