The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04
ing to her home in Portland.

1ng TO her nome In fnrLlan0.
Mr.. s. R. Slayton, wife and daugh->
ter returned today from an extended
trip to Boston. They will leave to-
morrow for their home at Prineville.
Hon. W. II. Biggs returned this
morning from Wasco, where he has
been looking after his interests. He
states crops are flourishing and never
looked better.
Silver men are not afraid to hear
the money question discussed, and
will attend MIR. Schoomaker's meet
ing. Will gold standard people come
out and here Mr.. Lentz?
The 1898 class of The Dalles high
school gave an excursion on the Reg
ulator to White Salmon today. About
80 guests accompanied them on the
excursion, and splendid time was
had.
Miss Patience Cooper, who has been
spending the winter in The Dalles, to-
gether with her neice Miss Ann Mann,
recently graduated from the high
school, left this morning for Indepen-
dence.
DR.. Rhinehart has returned from the
Cascade Locks where she was called to
attend George P. Morgan. The doctor
reports Mr. Morgan's condition to be
somewhat critical though no immediate
serious result is expected.
Farmers nearly all over the county
say their crops are still looking we'll.
and will mature without rain provided
there are no hot east winds during the
next month, though good, soaking
rain wouly be beneficial.
The union campaign committee
have arranged for grand rally next
Saturday evening, when Hon. j. ].
Lentz. of Ohio, will address the people.
Good music will be furnished for the
meeting, and really patriotic, rousing
time is expected.
The funeral of Thomas, the little
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Fargher,
took place from the family residence
at two o'clock today. He was the
youngest son of Mr.. and Mrs. Farger.
aged three years, and died of MEM
braneous Group.
Messrs. Flowery & Lowery fed 800
head of yearlings and two-year-olds,
At the stockyards today and shipped
them to Cut Bank, Montana, where
they will be put on the range. They
were from Oakland, Oregon, and were
q nice looking lot of cattle.
This is the proper time to spray for
the Goblin moth, says Emile Schanno,
who is on the state board of horticul
ture. The moth is just Matching, and
in snort time will make its home in
the fruit and will injure the growth
and sale. Orchardists will take notice
of this and act accordingly, for if
spraying is delayed and the moth gets
q start, Oregon fruit is doomed.
Certainly there is no other nation
on earth so patriotic as the United
States. Nsver before in the history of
the world were volunteers so plentiful
to enlist for the defense of q coun-
try's honor, nor never was an army so
enthusiastically received as have been
the volunteers as they have passed
through the country en- route to the
different points of mobilization.
When the North Dakota volunteers,
who passed here Sunday, reached
Hood River, two crates of strawberries
were put on board each car, as dona-
tion to the brave boys from the far
north, and at Portland they were
given perfect ovation. The Emer-
gency Corps supplied them with lunch,
and fairly covered them up with roses.
At Junction and Eugene they were sup
piled with lunch, and made to feel
that Oregon appreciated their patriot.
ism.
Frank Forest, a prominent farmer
and stock raiser of Crock county, was
in the city yesterday, and brought
rather gloomy report from the coun-
try to the South. He said there had
been NO rain Of any consequence in
Crook county for two months, and in
consequence crops are very short and
there is hardly any grass on the
ranges. In all sections where irriga-
tion is impossible, Mr.. Forest says
crops will he a comparative failure.
A very handsome picture was pre-
sented to the Umatilla House today
by George A. Young and son, the
prominent sheepmen of Ridgeway,
Oregon. 1t is photograph of half
and three-quarter blood Schropshire
lambs, and was taken at Knollin &
Co. 3 stockyards at St. Marys, Kansas.
1t shows bunch of sheep out of a |
band of 1000, and they are an excep
tionally fine looking lot of lambs.
The picture is attracting a great deal
of attention, among stockmen espe-
cially, and Is one that the donors can |
we'll be proud of.