The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-09-23
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.

tered at the Umatilla House.
VIM. Fare is in town from Canyon
City, where he is now located.
F. N. Jones, of Sherar's Bridge, ar
rived in the city this afternoon.
J.H. Douthit, of Cross Keys, came
In today with bunch of cattle.
VIM. Rae, jr., stockman from St
Paul. is registered at the Umatilla.
Some men are so dense that the only
time they get next, is in barber
shop.
C. L. Ireland, of the Sherman
County Observer. is in the city from
Moro.
Mrs. Sc. Coon, Leslie Coon and
NIX. Brown, of Grass Valley, are in
the city today.
Fred Young, the prominent Ridge
way sheepman left this morning for
his home.
C.L. Shattuck, of Hillsboro, was in
the city yesterday and left this morn
ing for the interior.
q. Humphrey was arrested last
night for being drunk and today is
doing penance in the city jail.
Troy Shelley and daughter Anna
passed through the city yesterday on
their way to the Willamette valley.
Mrs. Chas. Stubling remembered
The Dalles Hook g. Ladder Co. last
night and sent rosebud to each
member in the hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cram arrived
from their wedding trip last night and
have taken up their abode at the resi-
dence of W. S. Myers.
Wheat is arriving fairly we'll for
this time of year and is OF better
quality than was expected month
ago. The market price today is So
cents.
The mortgage on the personal prop
erty OF Chas. Swain of Boyd, has been
foreclosed and the property will be
sold on the 9th inst. to satisfy the
claim.
A bunch of cattle was received at the
stockyards today from Crook county |
and was delivered to Chas. Butler who
Is buying for the Port Townsend mar
ket. iss
Miss Landon, the Western Union
operator at this place left today for a |
short stay in Portland. During her |
absence Peter Nickelsen will have |
charge of the Office.
The B. P. o. Elks of Cascade Lodge |
No. 3O3 will hold meeting tonight.
the first in six weeks. The evenings |
are quite agreeable now and good at.
tendance is requested.
Al. j. Dufur, is in the city today |
awaiting the arrival of his wife and
daughter who have been living in
Portland for some time. They will re-
turn TO Dufur where they will reside
during the fall.
s. The Regulator will bring up 500 head
of sheep tonight from Stevenson. Ar
rangements have been made for her to
return to Lyle tonight and bring up
another load and tomorrow she will
make two trips to Cooks landing for
the same purpose.
There is talk of increasing the train
service on the Southern Pacific-talk
that the present "Roseburg Mail" will
be run through to San Francisco,
making two trains leaving Portland
for the Bay City, one in the morning
and the other in the evening.
The goat business in the Willamette
Valley is on the boom. Our farmers
are increasing both the the size and
the breed of their herds, and new men
are going into the business. 1t is a
paying thing, and the line of diversi-
fed agriculture will stand good deal
of spreading. ".@ ia ah
Smallpox has broken out in the :
family of Postmaster Wechtel, at Z
Ridge, Umatilla county, and the post
office has been turned over to his
bondsmen, under instructions from the
department, and the mail matter is
prevented from coming in contract with
persons infected with the disease.
Rea Brothers, of St. Paul, Minn., d
will ship $1,000 lambs from Eastern c
Oregon this season. On September Is
and Is two train loads will leave Pen W
dleton. September II two train loads t,
will be shipped from The Dalles and d
October l, one train load will be 81
shipped from here and two from The Ii
Dalles. Tribune. in
A drive between Albany and Shedd, III
lays the Albany Herald, shows much d
yrain unthreshed and good many On
ields of oats uncut. Harvesting the re
middle of September is an unusual
hing in Oregon, but the late grain is ne
reen yet. The grain being threshed tn
3 of a very good quality, considering th
he weather. isl
Judge VIM. Cake, grand chancellor sti
the z. of P. lodge for the dominion ou
Oregon, will meet with Friendship On
odge No. 9, Monday evening. All we
embers and visiting brothers are re- CHI
lested to be present After the do
,gular lodge session the families and ]
lends of the members will be ad- Ce
tilted and a short time devoted to em
Lncing after which banquet will be fisl
rived. rur
The collector of internal revenue has net
,tified the merchants in the hop dis the
let that they must put revenue stamps ths
all hop tickets in their possession the
ceived from pickers for merchand disc. sor
eretofore tickets, although showing dul
their face they were not transfer. tina
lie, have passed from hand to hand 4
freely as coin of the realm. The No
amp requirement. will probably do thr
raw with the use of tickets. pro
The new building being erected on ass
,ird street by DR.. Siddall for The ooo
.lles Steam Laundry will be struc- nus
re that will add much to the appear ov
ce of that part of the city. 1t will ION
thirty-six feet wide and ninety feet 'oo
no and will be modern throughout. ese'
q McAllister the proprietor of the me'