The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-05-06
From FRIDAYS Daily.

| From fridays Dally.
| w. J. Hartman, of Endersby, was in
town today.
F. Eager, the Salt Lake cattle buyer,
is again in the city.
| Today the river registered II 8 and
is continuing to fall.
4 E. r. Mendenhall, sheep raiser of
Bakeoven, is in the city.
Two wagon loads of 1899 wool were
received at the Wasco warehouse this
morning.
S Ferrill, of the firm of Everding &
Ferrell, is here looking after the fish
business.
S. ]. La France, c. A. Bell, Geo.
Prather and J. E. Rand, of Hood River,
are In the city.
w. Il. Lang, of Lang & Co.. whole.
sale grocers of Portland, spent the day
| in The Dalles.
Last night Perry Cram shipped two
car loads of beef to the Union Meat
Co. at Troutdale.
Commencement exercises at the
Hood River public schools will be
held this evening.
Messrs. M. A. Martin, o. c. Sly, G.
E. Davis and Alex MartiD, of White
Salmon, are in town.
The Wasco County Forest Protective
Association holds its semi.annual
meeting at Dufur tomorrow.
Mrs. Tbbetts is expected here next
Monday from California to visit her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. August Buchler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Taylor are
happy today because of the arrival Of
little baby girl at their home this
morning.
Superintendent j. h. Lee, of the
Oregon penitentiary, has begun the
work Of road building. authorized by
the last legislature. Ten TRUSTEES are
employed in the work.
This is the day on which the Second
Oregon and First California were to
embark from Manila for the United
States, but no account OF them starting
has been received. Likely they will
wait several days before they are al.
lowed to start for home.
The state treasurer has received q
draft for S1,475.S4 as payment of the
Nor cont of tho fupdo q rris; - =, fror, ,ba
sale of public lands in Oregon, due
from the national government.
A letter in the Eugene Guard, signed
"Roseburger, says that 81 murders
have been committed in Douglas county
since 1859. There has been but one
execution, and that was case of lynch
law.
A special election will be held in |
Baker City May 15th.to decide whether
the city shall be bonded for $50, 900 for
putting in gravity water system and
also for $4,000 to improve the present
system.
The grand court, Foresters of
America, meets in Oregon City next
Tuesday. James Fisher will 60 as a
delegate from The Dalles court, and
w. E. Garretson, grand chief ranger,
will also attend the meeting.
Parties who have been out through
the farming sections say spring grain
is looking excellent, as is also fall
sown wheat that WAS not injured. From
all Indications there will be full
crop harvested this seasons.
The exhuberance of The Dalles
climate has attracted o. c. Simpson,
of Elk City, Lincoln county, who is
here in search Of health, and will
probably locate in this vicinity if the
climate proves beneficial to him.
A Boston 'slawyer" has been trying
to do the town today. He tries to
work everybody for ten cents to get a
meal. This morning he tried to work
the countycourt on the stl ength of
being lawyer, but all he could get
was two nickels.
/ Recent frosts have done consider
able damage to strawberry patches,
having caught the young fruit just as
it was forming, but the crop has not
been entirely killed, and there will be
pretty fair crop OF berries, especially
OF late varieties.
1t is stated that cut worms are doing
considerable damage to grain in Sher-
man county. They have become, very
numerous during the past few weeks
of cool, damp weather, and unless it
turns warm enough to kill them pretty
soon some fields will be almost ruined.
There is no establishment in town
that keeps nearer abreast with the
times than the Americpn market. The
proprietors make specially of sup
plying their customers with every
article that Is to be had in the way of
edibles. Today they have strawberries,
fresh peas, new potatoes and In fact
evervthing that NAV be needed to