The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-09-11
From Thursday's Daily.

'e From Thursdays Daily.
- Harvey Wicks left for Portland tn
morning to spend few days visitin
his sister.
m w. T. Wiseman cane in yesterda
" from Mt. Adams. where he has bee
,e the past month.
II d. >. Dufur went to Hood River tc
day to look after some real estate trans
n actions at that place.
There has been no change in th'
8 local wheat market today, the price re
il naming firm al 78 cents.
v George Hitchcock and family lef
v this morning for San Francisco, where
0 they go to reside permanently.
g The many friends of ]. B. Haelvy
] will be pleased to learn that he is now
in fair way to recover from his recent
, injuries.
) Mrs. J. c. Wood returned last night
from Portland, accompanied by her
} two sisters, the Misses Humphrey, of
Santa Cruz.
Last night Rhea Bros. shipped 10
car loads of mutton to Chicago. The
sheep were bought in this state and
Washington.
Miss Adna Helm. who recently
closed six months term of school or
Mill creek, will open another school
| near DI,fnr neYt Monday
Yesterday [. D. and S. B. Driver
brought in car of beef cattle and
sold them to C. M. Grimes for the
Union Meat Co. at Troutdale.
A medical journal says that paper
can be used effectively for keeping
person warm. True: three-line item
has been known to make q politician
hot for month.
Will Crossen left this morning for
San Francisco, where he expects to
enter the employ OF wool firm. His
many friends here regret his de-
partUre from the city, though they
wish him success in his new veature.
John McCaneby and sister, Miss
Mary, and Miss Florence Smyth, of
San Loranzo, Cal, haye been visiting
J. B. Crossen in this city, and left this
morning for Portlshd, Seattle -and |
Victoria. They sail for home on the
10Th.
The last lot of wool stored in
Moody's warehouse has been sold, and
will be shipped east in a short time.
The worehouse is filling rapidly with
wheat, and from present appearances
will. soon be filled to the rafters with
grain.
J. H. Cradlebaugh, editor of The
Dalles Chronicle, lefron this mornings
train for Baker City to look after his
mining interests in the Blue noun
tains. During his absence Fred w.
Wilson will bave.charge of the editor
ial department. of the Chronicle.
- J. E. Lancaster, of Chicago, is on
his way to the Klondike, represebtingj
the Chicago-Ala>kan Gold Mining
Company. He will leave Seattle Sep
tember 16, and intends going in this
winter about October /, by means of
dog sledges, over the Chilkoot pass.
E. Jacobsen is home from Gillian
county where he has been selling
musical instruments the past month.
Mr.. Jacobsen reports very heavy rains
having fallen in the vicinity of May
vile, and says it is the general impress
sion that considerable grain has been
damaged.
If you want to give your boy or girl
q thorough business education. there
is no institution in the United States
that affords better facilities than the
Homes Business College. of Portland.
Anyone desiring to secure q scholar
ship In this well know school is In
yited to call at this office.
One of the windows in the grocery
department of Pease & Mays store
presents a very attractive appearance
today, being artistically decorated with
cured fish handled by the firm. There
are whole cod, dried herring and in fact
every class of cured fish displayed in
way to tempt the appetite of the most
particular epicure.
The wheat king of the world be-
longs to Argentina. He is an Italian
emigrant. named Guazone. and his
broad acres are situated in the south
of the province of Buenos Ayres. His
crop occupies an area of 66,270 acres.
He numbers his workmen by the thous-
and, and each one receives a certain
share of the profits. When his seasons
crop is harvested he fills over 1900
railway trucks with his grain.
By the time the wheat crop of Lyle
is ready to snip the D. P. g. A. N. Co.
will have the scow Harney repaired
and in readiness to use for wharf
boat at that place. The scow has
been thoroughly overhauled ed and is be-
ing supplied with new deck. When
anchored at Lyle it will be great
convenience to the shippers at that
point.
1t is expected that Capt. Johnston
will ere long have an assistant in
managing the steamer lalles City, in
the person OF q young man who in
truded upon the hospitality of Capt.
and Mrs. Johnston at their home In
East Portland last Monday. The new
arrival is a fine, bouncing, boy. the
third addition to the captains family.
and appears to possess every natural
qualification of born steamboat cap
tain.
W. NJ. Rudio, one of the. largest
cattle-owners of Grant county, is con-
templating sending shipload or beef
cattle to the KlOndike in the spring.
In speaking of the matter, be said that
beef cattle can be landed ut Skaguay
or Dyea and driven over the pass, and
down the river to Dawson City at
figure that will permit large profits to
be made from the shipment. II the
shipment be made, it will be simply
as an experiment.
This morning Charlie Cooper re-
ceived dozen Indian robes from the
Pondleton woolen mills. They are
purely Oregon products, made of
Oregon wool, manufactured in Oregon,
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