The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-21
From Tuesday,s Daily.


Last night The Dalles Commission
Co. shipped another car of prunes east.
A. Fl. Jewett, of White Salmon, was
in the city las: night, leaving for home
this morning.
Gus Bonn boarded the steamer Dalles
City this morning for Trout Lake. He
will be gone week.
Mrs. H. Glenn and daughter Hattie
and Miss May Jackson left on this
mornings boat for the coast.
Miss Anna Wright, who had been
visiting Mrs. Parkins in the city, re-
turned yesterday to her home at Trout
dale.
During the week there will be
shipped from Saltlnarshe & Co.'S. stock
yards some 300 cattle and 5000 head of
sheep.
Frank Irvine, prosperous merchant
of Antelope, was a passenger on the
Dalles City this morning going to
Portland.
MIR. and Mrs. L. E. Grove left on the
boat this morning for Portland. They
will probably visit the seacoast before
returning.
w. H. See, proprietor of the suffers
store at Warm Springs agency, was in
the city last night and left this morn
ing for Portland.
Last night Wallace Fargher shipped
10 double-deck cars of sheep from here
to Chicago. They 60 over the o. r. &
N. and Great Northern.
Thermometers registered two de-
grees lower temperature today than
yesterday, 100 being the highest
reached at any time today.
The tournamanJ fund is increasing
every day, the finance committee meet
ing with good success and hearty en-
couragement wherever they go.
Wheat still holds at IS cents, and a
few loads are being brought in daily,
though farmers are storing, not being
willing to accept the present price.
There will be meeting of the COM
mon council tonight for the purpose of
considering the proposition of improv-
ing the sewerage system of the city.
Oscar Angel, the boy who was so
seriously injured by the explosion of
shotgun last Sunday, was taken to
Portland today to be placed in a
hospital.
The Crook county Journal is misin-
formed about the price of wheat in The
Dalles being "a cents. The highest price
paid so far is IS cents, but farmers ex-
pect higher prices later in the season.
Wasco couRty fruit growers are reap
ing their harvest just now, and it is
golden one. A car load of prunes is
worth $3.50 here, and possibly more if
consigned and shipped at owners risk.
Mrs. j. A. McKeller died at Hood
River yesterday and was buried at
that place this afternoon. Deceased
leaYes four daughters residing in this
county and two sons living somewhere
in the east.
Today the contract for building Prof.
Gayin's new residence on Union and
Eleventh streets was awarded to Fl. B.
st. John for S1143. 1t will be q six
room cottag, furnished with all mod
ern appliances.
Dougal McAllister returned a few
days ago from visit TO his old home
in Scotland after an absence of 20
years. Mr.. McAllister says Scotland
did not haye the attractions for him
he thought it would, and he is happy
to get back to Oregon.
The Grapde Ronde lumber company
is shipping opt lumber at the rate of
$50 cars per month, says the Chronicle,
The total shipment Of railroad ties by
this company up to date is 10000. The
of ties and lumber by the
company for the month of July repre-
sents value of $4,000.
Sometime between the 1st and sth of
this month the Catholic church at
Cascade Locks was burglarized, and
all property therein was ransacked.
Nothing was taken however but white
metal urn of small value. The thief
evidently expected to find furniture of
great value in the church, but was badly
Considerable speculationi Is INDUCED
in as to who Is purchaser of the Post
Intelligencer. The Tacoma ledger re-
moves all doubt as to who is the new
purchaser by asserting that he is Levi
the Walla. Walla banker,
who it asserts has a senatorial bee
buzzing in his bonnet, and has purch-
ased the P.-I. to boom lis ambitions.
J. P. Jennings exhibited In Cottage
Grove last week pan of decomposed
quartz from the Gold Bluff mine, near
Riddle. Great strings and chunks of
gold could be seen all through the dirt,
although not mare than half pannsa
down. There was probably s22 or s2a
ir the pan. Mr.. Jennings says there
Is enough ore In sight, and on the sur
lace at that, to run q 20-stamp mill a
year.