The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-17
From TUESDAYS Daily.


Mrs. Hal French went to Portland
today.
Rev. A. Horn, pastor of the Lutheran
! church of Goldendale. is in the city.
Rev. J. J. Kern, of Portland, is visit
ing in the city the guest of Rev. l..
Gray.
The Commission Co. shipped car
load of plums to Milwaukee last night
and will ship another car load tonight.
A number of large lots of wool were
sold today. TIE prices obtained were
| 81 to III cents, some very choice lots
I bringing the latter figure.
John P. Wood aud number of
other Dalles people took the train
last night for Pendleton to hear
Bryan's speech at that place this after
noon.
Today Peter Lemerath brought in
ten fine beeves for the Columbia Pack.
ing Co. and parties from Wapintia
also delivered choice lot of beef to
Wood Bros.
Next Sunday c. P. U'Ren will make
another shipment of ten cars of sheep
to White Earth, Mont. The sheep
will be summered there and taken to
Chicago for mutton next fall.
Five wagons loaded with Crook
county silver men arrived at Lebanon
last Friday, the men having gone all
the way from Prineville to Lebanon, q
distance of about 100 miles, to hear
Bryan s-speech.
Judge Bennett, who returned from |
Portland last night, heard Mr.. Bryan's |
speech at Gladstone Park yesterday |
and states that it was the |
clearest and most convincing discus
sion of the silver question he ever
listened to.
Editor d. G. ireland, of the Moro
Observer, was in the city this morn
ing en- route to Portland. Mr.. Ireland |
stated that Sherman county farmers
were feeling very jubilant on account
of crop prospects, which are the best
ever known in that county.
Earnest Shearer is again in the city
having arrived here from Huntington
yesterday. For the past four or five
months Mr.. Sherer has been buying
sheep in the range country south of
here, and has most of them now NOV
ing over the trail toward Kansas and
Nebraska.
Editor Ireland, of the Moro Observer,
estimates the wheat crop of Sherman
county, taking the banner year, 1894,
IS basis. His figures give one-fourth
.reater area and one-fourth greater
'ield. AS the crop of 1894 was 1885,
90, this would makeit this year 3, ,40O,-
'ushels.
Estimates put on the wheat crop of
,astern Oregon are that there will be
n the neighborhood of II, 500, 900 BUSH
arvested this season. Umatilla county
put down for s. 1000 600 bushels, Union
,r 5000, 900, Sherman for $500, 900,
Vasco for LOCO, 900. Morrow and Gill
am for 100000, while Baker, Wal ::
wa and Crook will probably yield :,
800, 900. VI
Last night Coroner Butts received a
lephone message from Cloud Cap Inn
ating that the body of man had E
zen found dead near the Inn. MIR. b,
utts left on the 4:30 taain for Hood m
iver, and from there will take the W
age for the Inn where an inquest will 1t
held. The man had been about al
oud Cap several days acting strange. vi VI
i, and it is supposed he suicided. gi
The Christian Endeavor meeting at :.
N Francisco closed yesterday, and M
9 $4,000 who attended, most of them ia
,m states east of the rocky noun
ms, will spend week visiting points
interest in different portions of
.lifornia, Oregon and Washington. of
large delegation of them are ex- wi
cted in Portland next Saturday, and re
ssibly some of them will visit The on
lies. tn
at
Hon. Geo. w. Barnes, the Palmer FL
d Bucknar leader, of Crook county,
8 so impressed with the appearance u
W. ]. Bryan when he appeared in net
. city last night, that he concluded Ba
accompany him to Salt Lake. He SUI SUI
-riedly packed his grip and boarded Ste