The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-07-25
where they will spend the remainder

Charles Marshal, prominent bust.
ness man--of --GUtuendale, passed
through the city this morning en-
route to Chehalis. -
The Misses Fitzgerald: who have
been visiting in the city the past week,
left on the 2:30 train for their home
in San Francisco.
Frank Sandrock and Henry York
returned Saturday evening from a
weeks hunting and fishing tour on
tho head OF Hood River.
Today F. II. Drews returned from his
mines near Mt. Hood. He brought d
number of specimen OF ore taken
from his different ledges.
Politics. hot weather or something
else. we know not what, has knocked
the bottom completely out of-the wool
market here. Buyers today refuse to
even take wool on consignement.
Hugh Glenn was up from Astoria
yesterday. He says everything is
moving on the Astoria a-Goble: road; he
having let number of sub contracts
for clearing right of-way and grading.
S. B. Adams came home last Satur:
day from weeks outing on the head
of Mill creek. He says the weather ..is
very warm in the mountains, the heat
being fully as oppressive as it is in
town
| Yesterday some 600 head of cattle,
sold by Judge Mays to w. ]. Nellie,
were CARED at Saltmarshe & Cos.
stock yards. They made train of 20
cars, which pulled out for Montana
lasteveuing.- =;
Mrs n. S. Turner, wife of the, editor
of the Dufur Dispatch accompanied by
her son, arrived last night from Oak
land. Cal. Mr.. Turner met his family
here, and with them will leave for his
home at Dufur this evening.
Neil Mcleod, the genial hotel man
of Goldendale is in the city. Mr.. Nc.
Leod says crops in .Klickitat county
| have. stood the hot weather we'll, and
an. abundant yield of wheat will be
harvested in that county this season.
The reorganization of the o. R. &
N. Co. has been perfected, and Edwin
Mcneil, who has so successfully man
aged the affairs of the company az
receiver the past two years, has been
elected president and general manager.
Grasshoppers are doing considerable
. damage in certain localities, but the
section in which they are operating Is
limited. 1t covers strip frem two to
three miles wide from Cello to Dutch
Fiat, but outside of this belt very little
damage is being done.
Messrs. Frank Menefee and Douglas
Dufur. accompanied by their families,
have flown to the mountains beyond
the town Of Dufur. where they will
leave the ladies and children during
the heated spell, and will visit the
ca.p themselves whenever business
will permit.
Deputy Sheriff Kelly took an outing
in the vicinity of Kingsley yesterday,
and amused himself shooting prairie
chickens. He says the young chickens
are too small to afford good sport, and
suggests that the game laws be SO
amended as to make the open season
for chickens begin on August Is.
Dalles Lodge, No 2, I. o. G. T., gave
an interesting entertainment and fes-
tival at their hall in the Vogt block
Saturday evening. A specially attrac-
tive feature of the program was a
duet rendered by the Misses Stone,
though every number was attractive.
After the program had been rendered
ice cream and cake were served and .
general good time was had.
The U. S. cruiser. Philadelphia, Rear
Admiral L. A. Beardslee's flag ship,
arrived at Portland last Saturday
morning, and will remain in that port
about ten days. The cruiser was well
coined in the city by committee ap-
pointed by Governor Lord and Mayor
Pennoyer. The Philadelphia was built
in 1889. and is in every respect model
type of the cruisers which constitute
the new navy.
Harry Lonsdale, Judge Blakeley and
Will Mooi'y amused themselves yester-
day fishing on Mill creek, and the re-
suit of the days sport was ls5 speckled
beauties. About 95 per cent of the
fish were brought into camp by Moody,
and the Judge and Lonsdale have
suspicion that he found cheap boy
somewhere during his rambles who
sold him about l50 fish for quarter.
The concert given by the band yes
terday afternoon was the most inter-
esting and entertaining of the season.
Notwithstanding the temperature was
most oppressive there must have been
1000 people on the grounds during the
concert, and there was not one among
the entire crowd who did not appreci-
ate the most excellent music rendered.
A number ot the selections were indeed
classic and received hearty applause.
Ben Wilson and family returned
yesterday from weeks outing on the
head waters of Fifteen-Mile. Mr.. Will
son reports having had an enjoyable
time, and says on his return to the city
he passed through the farming section
in the vicinity of Dufur. and it is his
opinion that the scare about failure
of crops is largely imaginative. The
fields he says do not look as we'll as he
has sean them, but he believes the
yield will be greater than many |
imagine.
Reports received last week from the
grain fields of Wasco county were |
anything but encouraging, the general
belief being that not more than half
crop would be harvested, but since the
west winds have brought a curtain of |
smoke over the country the outlook is
not SO bad. In some, localities the
grain has revived wonderfully during
the past few days and with anything
like favorable weather will make a
good yield. Especially is this the case
in the section east of The Dalles, be-
tween here and Deschutes. Chas.
Schultz was out in that. section
yesterday and reports having