The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-08
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From SATURDAYS Daily.

ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Daily.
Bills Hiesler and Harry Temple, of
Dufur, were visiting in the city today.
DIR. Hollister came up from Portland
last evening and spent the day in the
city.
The social given in the Christian
church last evening was we'll attended,
and all present spent pleasant even.
ing.
]. w. Dougherty. a farmer living at
De Moss springs, Sherman county, bas
fax 20 inches high. He will get 1900
bushels from 75-acre tract.
Mr.. Oglesby, one of the sheep kings
of Fossil, is here selling his wool.
Mr.. Oglesby hauled his wool to Ar
lington and from there skipped it to
The Dalles by rail.
Wool buyers have rested on their
arms today, though they bought few
lots. There probably will be but
little activity in the market until the
middle of next week.
The lawn social at the Congrega-
tional church last evening was one OF
the pleasant events of the season. A
large crowd assembled, and the young
folks had very enjoyable time.
The streets are being improved by
cleaning up the litter and filling up the
holes with gravel and rock. Now if
we can get the sidewalks repaired the
town will present pretty nice ap-
pearance.
Secretary of State Dun bar has begun
drawing warrants to pay off the in
debtedness of Salem's chief graft-the
state horse trot, misnomer fair. 1t
takes the entire appropriation ofS7,OOO
to pay up the debt of the so-ca.led fair.
Fred Westbrook writes to an Albany
friend that D. G. McClung one evening
killed seven Filipinos. He is one OF
the sharpshooters, and did it with
Krag.Jorgensen. becoming so efficient
as to be able sometimes to call Fill
pino down at a miles distance.
B. F. Childs, proprietor of the Star
Cheese Factory of Brownsville. was la
the city today and arranged with
Pease & Mays to handle the output of
his factory in this section. The cheese
is unquestionably a superior article,
and commands from one to two cents
higher price wholesale than any other
on the market. Customers of Pease
& Mays may congratulate themselves
that the firm has determined to handle
it.
Governor Geer informs Adjutant-
General Corbin that Oregon will read
lily raise another regiment to go to the
Philippines. Possibly Timothy is
talking through HE title, for when the
Oregon boys get home it is pretty
certain another thousand cannot be
raised, unless the governor and his
cousin, whom he got discharged, will
lead the list. If our governor would
get little further in the background
it would be better.
A smallpox scare exists in a dozen
towns in Eastern Washington. Almi-
ra, Lincoln county, is quarantined
Colfax has a we'll developed case. A
new patient has been reported in !
Spokane and Walla Walla has sick
man in her pesthouse. AT Almira
there are several well-developed cases,
the whole town having been exposed.
because the school teacher who was
first stricken did not know the nature
of his malady and continued to teach
for several days. Another case was
discovered at Marshall. Five men
who occupied box-car with small
pox patient have gone to Waverly,
where hundreds OF laborers are work.
ing In the sugar-beet factory. 1t is
feared the epidemic will spread there.
Public meetings in farming communi-
ties haye been prohibited, while vac
cination is the prevailing fad.