The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-06-24

lne HiSnesb price pdiu was IL ceulS
for choice lots.
Brent and Frank Driver today de-
livered two car loads of cattle to G.
M. Grimes. The three year-old steers
were sold at $42 head.
In Sherman county the past few
days of warm weather had no bad
effect upon grain. says L. D. Pike, OF
Moro, who is in the city today.
Judge Mays went to Portland yester-
day, to consult specialist concern
ing one of his ears that has of late been
giving him considerable trouble.
Yesterday the sheriff of Union
county passed here en- route to Salem,
having in charge five prisoners whom
he was taking to the penitentiary.
This morning Messrs. d. NJ, J W..
and Smith French and G. J. Crandall
went to Lyle for the purpose of ex-
amining the water fall at that place.
Today's city election was quiet one
indeed. There being but one ticket
in the field, little interest is shown,
and at o'clock only 81 votes had been
cast.
Mrs. Laco,k, of Portland, accom-
panied :, .er neice Miss Bonnemact,
of Salt Lake, left on the boat today for
Portland. after having spent week
visiting in the city.
An evidence of the severeity of last
winter arrived here today in the shape
of 6wo wagon loads of sheep pelts from
the Mt. Vernon and Dayville sections
on John Day river. In all there must
have been 1900 pelts in the shipment,
and they came from a section where
sheep raising is not the principal in
dustry of the country.
John Ryan has just returned from a
trip to Buck creek, in Crook county,
so miles south of Prineville, and re
ports the crop prospects good along
the entire road from here to Buck
creek. Stock is also in first rate con-
dition and people appear to be pros
porous.
Ed. Pagan is spending few days in
town before leaving for a visit to his
old home in County Armogh, Ireland,
from which he has been abse ut long
time. For II years past he has been
on the stock ranch on Currant creek,
brt is now off for vacation of two or
three months.
Hon. A. S. Roberts was in from his
farm today, and said the last few hot
days had caused grain to begin to
wither. and had it continued consider
able damage would have resulted. But
the weather having turned cooler, the
grain has revived, and no material
injury to crops will result.
The Endeavor Society of the Chris
tian church will give an ice cream
social in the basement of their church
tomorrow night, the object OF which
will be to defray the expenses of dele
gates, to the convention of Christian
churches, meeting in Turner next
week. A fine program will also be
rendered. Admission Is cents.
One of the most convenient con-
trivances for delivering milk is glass
milk bottle used by Mr.. Collins, pro-
prietor of the Jersey dairy. The
bottles mold a quart each, and before
leaving the dairy the bottles are filled
and sealed, so that they are dust proof
and the milk is thus delivered in
splendid condition to customers Mr..
Collins is certainly doing everything
possible to satisfy the demands of his
customers.
Alex Mcintosh. one of the most pro-
gressive young sheep raisers of Crook
county, arrived here Saturday evening
and left yesterday for Salem. Mr..
Mcintosh, speaking of affairs in Crook
county, says times are pretty good
througout the county, there having
been some large cattle and sheep sales
that brought considerable money into
the country, and has put most of the
residents of Crook county on "easy
street " AS to the condition of crops,
he said they were somewhat backward
but the yield would be large, and the
grass on the range is better than it
has been TOR years.