The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-05-01


J. W. Howard took the train this
morning for Portland.
Miss Mollie Bernardo returned to lay
to her home in Salem.
P. l.. retzer, ropristor of the Was
co hotel, is in the city.
L. A. Cosgrill, sheep buyer f-om
Ft. Steel, Wyoming. is ,.ere looking
for mutton for shipment.
The rifle ra ge back of the fair
grounds is abo It completed, land will be
ready for rifle practice Saturday.
Miss Mamie Goetz and Miss Ellen
Rankin, who have been visiting Miss
Drews, left the train this morning
for Portland.
! Three tons of bacon from Klickitat
county were taken in by R. E. Salt
marsh this morning and will be shipped
to up-country points.
Mrs. Halloc.z, wife of Homer Hallock,
editor of the Pendleton Tribune, who
has been visit pg in the city, left on
last evenings train for Heppner.
Yesterday A. Hamilton, of Prime
ville,> was in The Dalles loading a
wagon with groceries and other neces-
saries of life.
F. W. Peaslee, prominent sheep
raiser of John Day, passed through the
city yesterday en- route to Portland,
where he goes for medical treatment
Oscar Beedman has returned from
California, and will go to Baker City
to work in the mines. For some
time he was employed in the Skibbe
hotel.
Cut-worms are doing some damage
to spring grain in portions of Sherman
county, says G. D. Woodwork who
was in the city this morning en- route
to Hood River.
Hood River strawberry patches look
like snow banks, sIys 7. +. lark who
came up from there last night. The
vi IS are all in full bloom, and will no
doubt yield large crop.
Al'eady the wool clip of 1897 is be-
ginning to arrive. Yesterday three
wagon loads of wool from Dayville, in
Grant county, were received at the
Moody warehouse.
The reasonable prices at which
goods are sold in The Dalles attract
custom from far in the interior and
every day farmers from the country to
the south are seen loading their
wagons at Dalles stores.
Sixty sacks of wool from the B. s. &
L. Co., of Hay Creek, were received at
the Wasco warehouse yesterday. This
is only a starter for what is to come
later on when the company begins
shearing in earnest.
A four-year-old boy by the name of
Benson was brought here yesterday
from Cello with broken collar bone,
and had the fracture reduced by DR..
Hollister. The little fellow sustained
his injuries from falling off a fence.
Some OF the East End merchants re-
ported a lively trade this morning.
They were hustled out of bed and
called to their stores before breakfast
to fill orders for parties who wanted to
get an early start for the country.
The ladies of the Good Intent Society
of the M. E. church, will entertain the
ladies of the Congregational church at
the residence of Mrs. Smith French
tomorrow afternoon. All ladies of
both churches are expected to attend.
The admirer of nature cannot but be
struck with the beauty of some of the
large orchards in this vicinity that are
in full bloom at this time of the year.
The trees are laden with blossoms of
all colors, that present sight that is
most beautiful to behold.
The machinery for Rowe & Co g
planning mill and box factory at Lyle.
will arrive at that place on the Regu-
lator to-day, and will be put up at once.
The mill will be in charge of 81. White,
recently from Boise, and will be run
ming inside OF month.
VIM. q. Cowan, assistant examiner
of customs in this district, died at his
home in Portland last Sunday, from
Bright's disease. Mr.. Cowan had uc-
cupied position in the customs office
for nearly four years. He was a son of
Hon. ]. L. Cowan, Indian agent at
Warm Springs.
Editor Byers, of the Goldendale Sem
tinel, was in the city yesterday. Mr..
Byers said the crop prospects In Kick
itat county are very fattering. A
large acreage has been seeded to grain,
and from present appearances an abun-
dant crop will be harvested next fall. |
The many friends of Rev, Frank |
Spaulding in this city are not sur
prised that he left the rubber produc-
ing countries of Brazil and returned to |
the United States. His personal ap-
pearauce explains why rubber diet |
was not congenial, for he looks like he |
had been living on anti-fat for a year.
1t is pretty early for grasshoppers,
but these little pests have made their
appearance in large numbers on Five
and Eight-mile creeks. The farmers
of those sections hope that as the hop
pers have made their appearance thus
early, they will get large enough to fly
away before doing any damage to veg
citation.
W. 81. Moore came down on the train
this morning from Sherman county.
He says the wind yesterday moved con-
siderable real estate in Sherman, and
virtually blowed away a portion of
some Of the farms, together with .the
growing grain thereon, but still there
is plenty of grain left in the county and
that that was blown away will scarcely
be missed.
Notwithstanding the competition of
the wool securing plant at Pendleton,
The Dalles still maintains the reputa-
tion Of being the wool center of the
Northwest. Wool comes here from far
and near. and sometimes from within
a few miles of Pendleton. Yesterday
five cars were spotted at Castle Rock,
20 miles from Umatilla, to be loaded
with wool for The Dallas l.