The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-07-23
From Wednesdays Daily.

SATURDAY......... JULY %, 1s9'
From Wednesdays Daily.
J. T. Cooper, of Mt. Hood. is in the
city.
Miss Jennie Young went to Portland
today to spend her summer vocation.
Charles Durbin, of Antelope, is in
the city looking after the sale of his
wool.
Today C. M. Grimes shipped one
car of beef to the Union Meat Co., at
Troutdale.
Miss Ketchum left on the boat this
morning for Portland to visit with
friends in that city.
Very little salmon is being caught
In the river here at present. and can
ners are running in short time.
D. B. Kelly, prominent land owner
of Crook county. is in the city, having
recently returned from visit to
Chicago.
Mrs. Blakeley, of Laurence. Kan,
arrived here this morning, and is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. J.
Clough, in this city.
Yesterday county Clerk Kelsay is-
sued marriage license TO James W.
Taylor and Bertha G. Copple and G.
W. Fisher and Lillian B Copple.
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blackboards for the new school
hosue has arrived and is stored
at the depot awaiting the completion
of the building.
Fred Floed and G. W. Slayton left
this morning for Hood River, the
former to write mp that section for
the Times. Mountaineer and the latter
to look at fruit lands with view of
purchasing.
The new stock of jewelry, watches.
etc., carried by Arthur Clarke, is COM
plete in every respect. and is we'll
suited to the trade. Mr., Clarke now
carries everything to be found in a
first.class jewelry store.
Spring grain in the southern part of
Sherman county is said to be short, |
and will not yield an abundant har-
vest, but in the CENTRAL and northern |
part of the county, crops are better |
than they were a year ago.
At St. Mary's academy in Portland |
last Saturday, Miss Margaret Brogan,
daughter of Thomas Brogan of Ante
lope, took the white veil as sister of |
the sacred heart, and was given the |
name of Sister Mary Bothildis.
People may show their patriotism
in a good many ways, but the best way |
is to patronize home industries and
home people. If one would be truly |
patriotic, he would never send abroad
or anything he could get at home.
Miss Cassie Cheese was passenger
on the steamer Sarah Dixon foi Port
land this morning. From there she
goes to Stanford University to take
post graduate cormal course. She ex-
poets to remain at Stanford all summer.
Fruit growers are gen orally feeling
that this years crop will realize them
good returns. The market at present
is good, and as the quality of fruit is
better than common, they hope to in
crease their bank accounts when the
crop is harvested and sold.
Farmers from nearly every section
of this county say their grain pros
poets better than it did a year ago, and
they expect the yield to be consider
able moresthan it was in LEI. A con-
servative estimate of the wheat crop
of Wasco county is that 100000
bushels will be harvested.
This morning J. E. Reynolds, OF
Omaha, Neb., received 300 head of
mixed cattle from j. L. Kelly and VIM.
Floyd. The cattle we're loaded at the
stockyards this forenoon and started
east. Mr.. Reynolds also received sew
eral carloads at Arlington, which with
those received here make up a train
load.
The weather the past week has been
most favorable for ripening crops.
The cool day and nights have allowed
grain to ripen evenly. and in conse-
quence the greater part of the wheat
threshed in Wasco county will be No.
1. A few fields were damaged by the
hot weather week ago, but the dam
age was only slight.
The Dalles warehouses are full of
wool, and numerous wool buyers and
raisers are in the city, but there are
very few sales recorded. There seems
to be deadlock in the wool market,
similar to that witnessed at Salem
year ago last January, It is to be
hoped 1t will be broken advantageou.-
ly to the wool growers in few days.
Those deYilish little contrivances
known as the nickel-in the-slot
machines, not the one, that are played
for cigars, but the gambling devices,
have again made their appearance
in The Dalles and are causing the
authorities no end of trouble. A man
with four of them arrived here last
night and wants to set up In business.
If the city authorities would put a
license on the things that propri-tors
could not afford to pay, they could be
kept out of town.
From Thursdays Daily.
Somers Family at the Baldwin to-
night.
Two hours solid fun at the Baldwin
tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. N. Sargent returned
last night from visit to the east.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Van Norden have
returned from visit to Newburg.
Headers are running on about half
the farms in the vicinity of Dufur at
present.
Last night the Staddlema Commis-
sion Co. shipped a car load of plums