18449. Dalles National Bank (The Dalles, OR)

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Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: national
Bank ID: 3534
Charter Number: 3534
Start Date: May 7, 1897
Location: The Dalles, Oregon (45.595, -121.179)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: cac291df

Response Measures

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Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate: 100.0%
Date receivership started: 1897-05-07
Date receivership terminated: 1903-05-15
OCC cause of failure: Fraud
Share of assets assessed as good: 24.8%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful: 65.4%
Share of assets assessed as worthless: 9.8%

Description

The Dalles National Bank was closed by the federal bank examiner on May 7, 1897 and placed in the hands of a receiver. Reports consistently cite a disagreement among stockholders as the immediate cause. There is no contemporaneous newspaper description of a depositor run; later items discuss receiver dividends and litigation. One later article (1899) states the bank has since paid depositors in full, and has resumed business, creating some ambiguity about whether any commercial banking operations formally restarted. I classify this as suspension_closure because the bank was closed by the examiner and placed in receivership (permanent closure/receivership).

Events (5)

1. July 16, 1886 Chartered

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2. May 7, 1897 Other

Newspaper Excerpt: Mr. Clary is in charge as temporary receiver, and a permanent receiver will be appointed soon. Bank Examiner Clary stated that he had received telegraphic instructions from Comptroller Eckels authorizing him to close the bank Wednesday. Clary is in charge as temporary receiver, pending the appointment of a permanent receiver. (Also reported: Receiver Wilson is now in full control of the Dalles National bank, having entered upon his duties as receiver yesterday.)
Source: newspapers

3. May 7, 1897 Receivership

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4. May 7, 1897 Suspension

Cause Details: Disagreement among the stockholders reportedly prompted the examiner to close the bank; action taken under telegraphic instructions from the Comptroller of the Currency.
Newspaper Excerpt: Bank Examiner Charles Clary posted a notice at 10 a. m. today on the door of The Dalles National bank, closing it.
Source: newspapers

5. August 27, 1897 Other

Newspaper Excerpt: A dividend of twenty-five per cent has been declared by the authorities in favor of the depositors of the Dalles National bank, and today Receiver Wilson commenced paying over the money.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (19)

1. May 8, 1897 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA

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THE DALLES BANK CLOSED. Disagreement of Stockholders Responsible for the Failure. THE DALLES, Or., May 7.-Bank Examiner Charles Clary posted a notice at 10 n. m. today on the door of The Dalles National bank. closing it. This action was taken against the advice and protest of the bank officers. Malcom A. Moody, cashier, had nothing to say in regard to the failure except that depositors would be paid in full. The officers of the bank are: President, ex-Gov. Z. F. Moody: vice president, Charles Hilton: cashier. M. A. Moody. It is thought here that the failure will not affect any business houses in The Dalles, although the bank had a large mercantile clientage. It is reported that a disagreement among the stockholders led to a closing of the institution. No statement of assets and .1abilities has been made. Bank Examiner Clary stated that he had received telegraphic instructions from Comptroller Eckels authorizing him to close the bank Wednesday. The Dalles city and Wasco county had deposits aggregating $10,000. Mr. Clary is in charge as temporary receiver, and a permanent receiver will be appointed soon. It is impossible to obtain any Information about the condition of the bank. Examiner Clary refuses to give out any figures.

2. May 8, 1897 The Salt Lake Herald Salt Lake City, UT

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OREGON BANK CLOSED. It Was Against the Advice and in Spite of the Protest of the Officials. The Dalles, Ore., May 7.-The Dalles National bank was closed today by Bank Examiner Charles Blary, against the advice and in spite of the protest of the bank's officers. Malcolm A. Moody, cashier of the bank, had nothing to say regarding the failure. except that depositors would be paid in full. The bank had a large mercantile clientage, but it is not thought that the failure will affect any business houses in The Dalles. The immediate cause of the closing, it is said, was a disagreement among the stockholders. No statement of assets and liabilities has yet been made. Bank Examiner Clary stated that he had received telegraphic instructions from Comptroller Eckels authorizing the closing of the bank on Wednesday. Clary is in charge as temporary receiver, pending the appointment of a permanent receiver.

3. May 8, 1897 The Dalles Times-Mountaineer Dalles, OR

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THE DALLES NATIONAL CLOSED. Bank Examiner Clary Took Charge This Morning. Greatly to the surprise of overybody in The Dalles. the Dalles National bank was not opened this morning, the following notice being posted on the door: "This bank is in the bands of the comptroller of the currency. "CHAS. CLARY, Bank Examiner." Examiner Clary had been in the city so ne two weeks, and left for Portland last Wednesday. Returning on the 6 o'clock train last night he informed Cashier M. A. Moody that he would take charge of the bank. It was therefore closed this morning against the protest of the bank officers. and Mr. Clary is in charge. Mr. Moody, who has been casbier of the bank ever since it was established ten years ago, says the establishment is perfectly solvent, and will be able to pay all depositors in full. The bank is the depository for the treasurer of Dalles City and The Dalles water works, several thousand dollars belonging to the city and some of the water commission funds being deposited with the bank. A small amount of county funds was also deposited by County Treasurer Phillips with The Dalles National, though not enough to embarrass the treasurer. [The Dalles National bank was established in 1887 with a capital stock of $50,000, and for the past ten years, under the management of M. A. Moody as cashier, has pursued a liberal and broad-gauge policy. It has a large line of clients among the wool raisers and farmers of this, Crook, Gilliam and Sherman counties, besides a liberal patronage among the business men of The Dalles. The bank withstood the panic of 1893, having been able to meet all demands made upon it, and that too without discommoding any of its debtors, it never having been compelled to entirely close out® a single customer. The securities of the bank, though many of them overdue, are considered good and can be converted into cash so soon as the present clip of wool can be placed on the market. The bank LIB has successfully carried a large number of sheepmen during the depressing times of the past few years, when alc most every wool raiser in the country n has been going behind, but now that p the prospects for wool raisers are im. proving, it is quite certain that within G ninety days it could have met the dea mands of every depositor in full. The 4 directors of the bank are Z. F. Moody, Chas. Hilton and G. A. Hogue, all of 1 whom have large holdings in real estate and personal property, and it is l' expected they will soon be able to SO arrange matters as to be able to reopen a the bank for business. The suspension of the bank will not affect the business of the Moody warehouse, as d n its business is conducted separately from the bank.] t

4. May 8, 1897 The Record-Union Sacramento, CA

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A BANK'S DOORS CLOSED. Disagreement Among the Stockholders Said to be the Cause. THE DALLES (Or.), May 7.-Bank Examiner Charles Clary posted a notice at 10 a. m. to-day on the door of The Dalles National Bank, closing it. This action was taken against the advice and protest of the bank's officers. Malcom A. Moody, the cashier, had nothing to say in regard to the failure, except that the depositors would be paid in full. The officers of the bank are ex-Governor Z. F. Moody, President; Charles Hilton, Vice-President, and M. A. Moody cashier. It is not thought here that the failure will affect any of the business houses in The Dalles, although the bank had a large mercantile clientage. It is reorted that a disagreement among the stockholders led to the closing of the institution. No statement of the assets and liabilities has been made. Bank Examiner Clary stated that he had received telegraphic instructions from Comptroller Eckels authorizing him to close the bank Wednesday. Dalles City and Wasco County had deposits aggregating $10,000. Mr. Clary is in charge as temporary receiver and a permanent one wil be appointed soon.

5. May 12, 1897 The Ely Miner Ely, MN

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the inflow of water into the Kelloe colliery near Durham, England. LATER. The business of the third annual convention of the National Municipal league was finished at Louisville, Ky. The National Mauufacturing company, which was branded by the attorney general of Wisconsin as a trust and proceeded against on that ground, has filed formal papers at Oshkosh dissolving the corporation. An engagement began early the 7th near Velestimo and lasted several hours, the Turks finally beating the Greeks back. The latter retreated upon Volo, sharply pursued by the Turks. A brutal prize fight occurred near Allegan, Mich., the 7th. Eddy Shannon, of Detroit, and Lew Agnew were the pugilists. The men kept at it until the 45th round, when both fell from exhaustion, dripping with blood. The Exchange bank at Atkinson, Neb., suspended the 7th. The Dalles (Ore.) National bank was closed the 7th by the bank examiner. The immediate cause of the closing was a disagreement among the stockholders. The Iowa legislature has adopted the wild rose as the official state flower. Four people were murdered at the farm house of Alexander Harris, near Waukesha, Wis., the. 7th. the victims being Mr. Harris, his wife, hired girl and hired man. The crime was committed by a farm hand named William Pouch, who had been sheltered by the farmer over night. The dead and wounded are: Alexander Harris, aged about 45 years, killed outright. Mrs. Harris, aged 44 years, killed. Hired girl, fatally wounded. Hired man, probably fatally wounded. Col Manos wires from Arta that the Turks have begun a wholesale massacre of the inhabitants in the interior of Epirus. Almost all the inhabitants of of the village of Kanvariena have been murdered, a few only escaped to the mountain. W. J. Calhoun, of Illinois, special counsel for the United States government, has gone to Cuba to investigate the conditions under which Dr. Ruiz met his death in the jail at Guanabacoa. A duel with sabers between Herr Wolff and M. Herica, two Austrian deputies resulted in the wounding of both. The little steamer Pinta which has served as a gunboat for many years in Alaskan waters has been ordered home to Mare Island. She has outlived her usefullness. The Turks have completely occupied and burned Velestino. Violent shocks of earthquake were felt at Rome and other points in Italy. Ex-Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson, Gen. J. C. Payne and United States Senator E. O. Wolcott, who were recently appointed by President McKinley as a commission to confer with the heads of European goyernments relative to the holding of an international bimetallic conference, sailed for Europe on the French liner La Touraine. Rosse Hall at Kenyon college, Mt. Vernon, Ill., was totally destroyed by fire causing a loss of $10,000. The hall was built by money raised in England. The Mallory line steamer Leona, bound from New York to Galveston, Texas, caught fire when a short distance at sea and was obliged to put back to port. When she reached New York 13 of the steerage passengers and three of the crew were dead. Among the documents recently captured from the insurgent leader Aguirre, was found one appointing Maj. Gen. Pedro Diaz as the successor of Rius Rivera. The Greek government has informed the ministers of the powers verbally that, following the recall from Crete of Col. Vassos, 25 officers and two companies of Sappers, the gradual withdrawal of troops from the island of Crete will take place. After a brief delay the powers will offer to mediate between Greece and Turkey. The queen regent of Spain has issued a decree authorizing the raising of £8,000,000, to be secured by the customs duties of Spain, to meet the cost of military operations in Cuba and the Phillippine islands. The Bank of Spain will undertake the issue. Wm. H. Phillips, a prominent attor-

6. May 13, 1897 Warren Sheaf Warren, MN

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south. Eleven men were drowned through the inflow of water into the Kelloe colliery near Durham, England. LATER. The business of the third annual convention of the National Municipal league was finished at Louisville, Ky. The National Mauufacturing company, which was branded by the attorey general of Wisconsin as a trust and proceeded against on that ground, has filed formal papers at Oshkosh dissolving the corporation. An engagement began early the 7th near Velestimo and lasted several hours, the Turks finally beating the Greeks back. The latter retreated upon Volo, sharply pursued by the Turks. A brutal prize fight occurred near Allegan, Mich., the 7th. Eddy Shannon, of Detroit, and Lew Agnew were the pugilists. The men kept at it until the 45th round, when both fell from exhaustion, dripping with blood. The Exchange bank at Atkinson, Neb., suspended the 7th. The Dalles (Ore.) National bank was closed the 7th by the bank examiner. The immediate cause of the closing was a disagreement among the stockholders. The Iowa legislature has adopted the wild rose as the official state flower. Four people were murdered at the farm house of Alexander Harris, near Waukesha, Wis., the 7th. the victims being Mr. Harris, his wife, hired girl and hired man. The crime was committed by a farm hand named William Pouch, who had been sheltered by the farmer over. night. The dead and wounded are: Alexander Harris, aged about 45 years, killed outright. Mrs. Harris, aged 44 years, killed. Hired girl. fatally wounded. Hired man, probably fatally wounded. Col Manos wires from Arta that the Turks have begun a wholesale massacre of the inhabitants in the interior of Epirus. Almost all the inhabitants of of the village of Kanvariena have been murdered, a few only escaped to the mountain. W. J. Calhoun, of Illinois, special counsel for the United States government, has gone to Cuba to investigate the conditions under which Dr. Ruiz met his death in the jail at Guanabacoa. A duel with sabers between Herr Wolff and M. Herica, two Austrian deputies resulted in the wounding of both. The little steamer Pinta which has served as a gunboat for many years in Alaskan waters has been ordered home to Mare Island. She has outlived her usefullness. The Turks have completely occupied and burned Velestino. Violent shocks of earthquake were felt at Rome and other points in Italy. Ex-Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson, Gen. J. C. Payne and United States Senator E. O. Wolcott, who were recently appointed by President McKinley as a commission to confer with the heads of European governments relative to the holding of an international bimetallic conference, sailed for Europe on the French liner La Touraine. Rosse Hall at Kenyon college, Mt. Vernon, Ill., was totally destroyed by fire causing a loss of $10,000. The hall was built by money raised in England. The Mallory line steamer Leona, bound from New York to Galveston, Texas, caught fire when a short distance at sea and was obliged to put back to port. When she reached New York 13 of the steerage passengers and three of the crew were dead. Among the documents recently captured from the insurgent leader Aguirre, was found one appointing Maj. Gen. Pedro Diaz as the successor of Rius Rivera. The Greek government has informed the ministers of the powers verbally that, following the recall from Crete of Col. Vassos, 25 officers and two companies of Sappers, the gradual withdrawal of troops from the island of Crete will take place. After a brief delay the powers will offer to mediate between Greece and Turkey. The queen regent of Spain has issued a decree authorizing the raising of £8,000,000, to be secured by the customs duties of Spain, to meet the cost of military operations in Cuba and the Phillippine islands. The Bank of Spain will undertake the issue. Wm. H. Phillips, a prominent attorney of Washington. D. C., was drowned while sailing on the Potomac river. Jim Parkes, the notorious train robher and two other desperadoss

7. May 13, 1897 Courier Democrat Langdon, ND

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Overflow From the Wires in a Condensed Form. Lord Roseberry's bay filly, Shelaudry, won the 1,000 guineas stake at Newmarket. Count Nichalos Esterhazy. the celebrated sportsman and breeder of race horses, is dead. The United States revenue cutters Rush and Corwin have started for Alaska to join the Bear. Rev. John Burgess, a pioneer Methodist preacher and author, is dead at Keokuk. Iowa, aged seventy-six. The Ohio Republican state central cominittee has decided to hold the state convention in Toledo June 22 and 23. Private advices from Washington indicate that C. S. Johnson of Alaska will be the next governor of the aistrict. Both houses of the Iowa legislature have passed a resolution making the wild rose the official flower of the state. By the unanimous opinion of the judges Princeton won the annual debate held with Yale at New Haven, Conn. The Due d'Aumale died at Zuccs, Sicily. of the shock he experienced upon hearing of the death of the Duchess d'Alencon. Robert H. Martin, formerly treasurer of the Columbia university at Washington, has been arrested on charges of embezzlement. Gen. Shafter, who it was once thought might be sent to St. Paul, is assigned to the command of the department of the Columbia. Henry Jones (colored), a convict in the Indiana state prison, was hanged in the prison for the murder of a fellow convict named Thomas, who testified against him in the trial. The twenty-seventh annual Woodford prize in oratory was held in Cornell and was won by Daniel H. Wells of Salt Lake City, whose oration was entitled "The Practical Age." J. A. McKenzie, minister to Peru, has just arrived at Bowling. Green. Ky., much improved in health. He has sent in his resignation to Washington and expects to remain in Bowling Green. Eddie Bald has deposited $500 with J. W. Brigman, bicycle editor of the Louisville Evening Post, to bind a match race with Tom Cooper, to take place at any time between July 1 and Aug. 1. The committee of the National party of Argentina, Dr. Pelligrini, chairman, appointed to investigate the extent of the decreased exportation of cereals, reports that the exportation decreased $25,000,000. The naval militia of Michigan has put in an earnest request to the navy department for the loan of the United States ship Yantic for their use as soon as she returns from the South Atlantic. Dr. J. H. Hollander has been appointed secretary of the international bimetallic conference committee. He is professor of economics at the Johns Hopkins university, and a French and German scholar. There is a movement on foot to organize all the salt companies in Pomeroy Bend, Ohio, into an association and raise the price of salt to 55c per barrel. All but one company has joined the association. Police Capt. Charles E. Aldrich of Chicago has been declared insane and sent to the Elgin asylum. Several years ago during the street car riots the captain was struck a heavy blow in the head with a brick. Commissioner Hermann, of the general land office, has recommended to the attorney general suspension for the present of legal proceedings growing out of sheep pasturing within the Cascade range forest reserve. As a tribute to the memory of Gen. Grant, Yang Yu, former minister from China, planted a tree in the ground under which the casket of Gen. Grant lay for twelve years. The tree is called ginkgoblio-ba by Chinese botanists. John Dwyer. commercial agent of the Burlington railroad, having supervision of all routes in Western Nebraska and the Northern Kansas lines of the road, with headquarters at Beatrice, Neb., is dead at his home. The Dalles (Or.) National bank has been closed by Bank Examiner Clary against the advice and in spite of the protest of the bank's officers. The immediate cause of the closing, it is said, was a disagreement among the stockholders. London capitalists purchased for $5,000,000 from W. C. Yawkey of Detroit and Capt. N. D. Moore, A. E. Humphrey and J. D. Farrell of Spokane, a group of silver mines near Three Forks, Slocan district, composed of the Idaho, Alamo, Cumberland, Concentrate and Tramway. The Alamo and Idaho have already paid $225,000 divide nds. A woman known as Miss Belle Walker, was shot and instantly killed at Leadville, Colo., by her lover. who called himself George Ratliffe. after a quarrel. The assassin then took his own life. A letter found on the person of the dead man addressed to the coroner states that his real name was Gardiner Marchbank. The woman's name was Laura Belle Lantz. Indicted for Forgery. Madelia, Minn., May 9. - Charles Deputy of this place has been indicted on the charge of forgery by the grand

8. May 15, 1897 The Neihart Herald Neihart, MT

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years for sand bag. Sharkey and Maher are matched to fight about June 10. The Dalles Nat. bank, Ore., has suspended publication. Tramp farmhand murders a family or two near Waukesha. In a New York fire 4,500,000 dozen eggs are scrambled. Two girls in Washington state electrocuted by lightning. Germany is kicking on the high rates of the Dingley tariff. The powers are about to intervene between Turkey and Greece. Gen. Wheaton, U. S. A., has been retired after 47 years of service. John Farnum at Baker city, Ida., dies because he is not amphibious. All the boats built for the Kootenai ore trade have been wrecked upon rocks. Bank president Nelson of Richmond blows out the gas, and his heirs rejoice. Two pugs pound each other 45 rounds at Allegan, Mich. Both fall exhausted. Twenty men in Weston, W. Va., tar and feather two women, supposed to be bad. Passenger train on the Fe road leaves the track at Lamar, Colo, and kills a few. The whole country east of Guffey, Colo., is free milling ore, $3 to $9 a ton in value. Colored miners near Birmingham have a scrap de pick handles with results funereal. K Extreasurer Martin of the Columbia University is in hock for scooping the funds. h Cashier Espe of the Radcliffe Savings bank, Ia., lelt with $30,000 not his own. He never came back. W. H. King, Boston, and Col. Busk of Virginia, sah, fight a bloodd less duel in Lincoln park, Chicago. t S A vote just taken in the Knights of labor shows 99 percent of that body favorable to free and independent coinage, 16 to 1. g k Lee Reilly, linotypist, takes the Sworld's championship at Leadville O Colo., setting 105,300 nonpareil ems ts in 7 hours 10 minutes. 's The dam workers upon the Mis souri river at Canyon Ferry have quit the dam enterprise until the spring freshet subsides. n SNew alien laws in British Colum nbia shuts out American citizens fion ut right to locate upon governmen nland. Many of the Americans wil come home. 1of Private Wilson of Co. G, COO to troop, U.S. A., stationed at Missou le la, is jugged for attempting to mur es der a lady of color residing in "Rot vn ten Row," that city. aTom Carroll of Oakland smashe pthe world's professional record fo a hammer throwing. He hurled a 1 pound hammer 158 feet, and th eight pounder 2231 feet. to

9. June 4, 1897 Condon Globe Condon, OR

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Chas. L. Richmond, who was formerly in the stock business in this section, and for a number of years in the grocery and livery business at The Dalles, sold out there recently and has purchased a large tract of land in Ferry Canyon, adjoining the Cottin place, where he will engage in the cattle raising business on an extensive scale. He is a good citizen, has a wife and three children and the family will be a valuable acquisition to that neighborhood. W. G. Day, an industrious young man with a wife and two children, who came up this spring from Creswell, Lane county, and has been residing on Cooke Bros. ranch east of town, met with a bad accident Tuesday. He was riding rapidly after cattle when his horse stepped in a badger hole and fell, throwing Day violently to the ground, breaking his left collar bone. He was brought to town and is here yet, under Dr. Hogan's treatment, and is getting along as well as could be expected. P. H. Stephenson has improved his store yard by having it enclosed by a neat picket fence. The GLOBE is pleased to note such improvements and hopes others will follow his example. Let us all have a little pride about us and fix up and clean up around our business houses so the town will look to strangers as if it is not inhabited by Chinese. Take the boards out of the broken doors and windows and put in glass, or strangers will think it is a Chinese opium joint or wash house. County Clerk Frazer was justly out of humor Monday. Last December, in remitting railroad land money to the land office he sent several checks on The Dalles National bank, now defunct. On Monday last, one of the checks for $16 was returned to him by Receiver Biggs, accompanfed by a note stating that the check was no good. Just why he allowed the check to lie so long in the land office, when the bank was just across the street from the office, is unexplained. But an officer who is 80 careless is hardly fit for such a position. Doc Brown sent to the land office, also in December, a check for $150, on the same bank, and it has also just been returned to him. In both cases the receiver acknowledged receipt of the checks at the time they were sent in. If this scheme can be made to work in every case where checks have been sent in since last fall, the defunct bank may not be in such a hard hole, after all.

10. June 19, 1897 The Dalles Times-Mountaineer Dalles, OR

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Mrs. C. S. Van Duyn and daughter Edna left this morning for Heppner. Extras for Standard mowers and rakes in full stock at J. M. Filloon's IIM Misses Lecie Gates and Dora Alex ander went to Hood River this morn ing. Hon. Chas. Hilton has returned from his stock farm in the southern part of Gilliam county. Ray Logan went to Portland today to attend thecommencement exercises school. S,4100S Bish to Walter Van Duyn and Bert Lynch both of The Dalles, returned to Hood River this morning. J. M. Filloon carries the Old Reliable McCormac reapers and mowers. the best harvesting machines made WIM Receiver Wilson is now in full control of lhe Dalles National bank, having entered upon his duties as receiver yesterday. Yesterday the board of school directors awarded the contract for excavat 'a "I 07 esnoy school A.eu the Joj But Oaks for 9 cents per cubic yard. Seventeen cars of yearling cattle from Oakland and Eugene were unloaded and fed here today. They are being taken to Cutbank, Montana. Walla Walla was visited by a heavy rain fall yesterday and the night before, and crops in that country are now beyond all danger from drouth. H. S. Gile, president of the Oregon Christian Endeavorers.has arranged to run a series of excursions to the national meeting in San Francisco July 5 starting from Portland. The fourth quarterly conference of the M. E. church for this district was held in this city last evening. The meeting was conducted by Rev. R Warner, presiding elder for the disCall on C. W. Phelps for the lightruning Jones reapers, binders, mowers and headers, also the Buffalo Pitt thresher. Extras for all these machines kept in stock. Prices rightand terms reasonable* Plans and specifications for the new school house are about complete, and mer B up Inspection .101 uedo eq ITIM days. About July 1 the school board will advertise for bids for the construction of the building. Charles Montgomery, one of the Ladd grave robbers. has plead guilty, and has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. The other conspirators are on trial in Judge StephPorticular 18 court sue Send your orders for barbed wire to Mays & Crowe,The Dalles. They armaking red hot prices when cash accompanies the order. Two pointed Glidden wire, at $2.35 per 100 pounds, and Genuine Baker $2.45* A few small lots of wool have been sold the past few days, but no large clips have been disposed of. There may be said to be no market for wool at present, though a few offers of 8 cents have been made for choice lots. ascertained that the total loss by the fire at Umatilla Sunday evening was no less than $8000, about one-third covered by insurance. The policy on the Jack's residence had not, as was statedin press dispatches yesterday, expired. Crops in Willamette valley are reported to, have suffered severely the past few weeks, and most spring grain is said to be entirely ruined. Fall wheat stood the dry weather pretty B gield IIIM pus sections most up 11em fair crop. Another train load of cattle from Webfoot passed through here this morning going to Montana. From the way cattle have been shipped out of Willamette valley this season, it would seem that beef will be a very scarce article down there in the future. The O. R. & N. steamer D. S. Baker, which has been tied up here during the past two months, was taken to Portland today. The boat was brought here for use in case of extreme high water, but since all danger of high water is past, its presence here is no longer required. Arrangements were completed a few days ago by which Seattle will have the largest smelting plant on the North Pacific coast. The plant will eq 111M puu suot 400 JO eq built by Milwaukee and Salt Lake capitalists. It will be completed within nine months. W. H. Peck, a prosperous farmer of Haystacks, Crook county, was in the city yesterday, and reports everything flourishing in that section. Mr. Peck says Crook county will produce enough wheat this year to supply the local demand, and will not be compelled to import any flour. Lem Burgess is in the city today and says no rain fell in the vicinity of Bakeoven last Sunday night, when showers occurred in other portions of the country. Crops in that portion of the county, Mr. Burgess says, are showing the effects of the continued dry spell, and will be short unless there are rains soon. The product of gold and silver in the states and territories of the United States for the year of 1896 is estimated by the director of the mint to have been $53,088,000 gold and silver. The increase in the production of gold over 1895 is shown to have been $3,578,000, while the production of silver shows '000'810'43 JO Increase UB There is no reason why all the honey consumed here should not be produced in this vicinity, since every food required by bees is to be found here. Today I. J. Norman left at this office samples of honey taken from his hives that would compare favorably with any imported article, being of

11. June 25, 1897 Condon Globe Condon, OR

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jury has just sentenced him to be hanged. Our readers will make a mistake if they fail to read the news on the outside pages of the this paper each week. They are replete with valuable information, market reports, hints from the doetor, state news, etc. A Michigan paper gives an account of the sturgeon fisheries back there and the danger the fishermen run from getting the huge 30-pound fish landed. Our Columbia river fishermen would use a fish of that size for bait. The three big Examiner prizes having been won in the three large towns of California causes a great many people to suspect that it was a "job" this time. That paper will not get as many subscribers in this county as formerly. Last Sunday's San Francisco Call has a picture of a special train of card that are being constructed by the railroads as a present for President McKinley. The cars will be the richest and grandest vehicles ever placed on wheels. The Vale Advocate says that the sheep shearers of Malheur county are madder than a wet hen. They were promised a raise of a cent a head for shearing if McKinley was elected, but instead they have been compelled to take a cent less than last year. Sam Jones says: "If all the wealth of the United States was divided out today each man would get $1600, and in less than six months some fellows would be riding in palace care and others would be walking cross-ties, howling for another divy." The city election at The Dalles Monday was an exciting one. The principal contest was for mayor, between Ex-Postmaster M. T. Nolan and Atty. W. H. Wilson, the former winning by 100 majority. Hon. E. B. Dufur was elected water commissioner. Heppner Gazette: Weare reliably int formed that the busted Dalles National bank can not resume business and that it can never pay over 25 per cent. The former proprietor, Malcolm Moody, is at present the proprietor and manager of a bowling alley in The Dalles. Weiler's savages have decided to kill General Rivera, the great Cuban leader whom they captured recently. It is not yet announced whether they intend to eat him or not, but of course they will, as g all of the Spaniards are cannibals of the lowest and most vicious type. n More time than is necessary is wasted upon school examinations. This seems to be the case with almost all schools, n public and private. An examination teaches nothing and should therefore be sufficiently short not to interfere greatly with the ordinary course of studies.r Portland Telegram. The Oregonian approves Senator Tillman's amendent to the tariff bill which d providee a per capita tax of $100 on all immigrants to this country. It declares 0 that "Tillman has the right idea of the n way to limit and sift immigration, and nothing would do it 80 effectively as a t round capitation tax." y About two weeks ago there came to the ranch of S. M. Vancleave on Traild fork 2 good, gentle work horses, about 5 years old, one bay, the other sorrel, each having white strip in face and branded n H on right shoulder. The owner will be expected to pay charges for keeping them, advertising, etc. Gov. Budd says he will bring manda8 mus proceedings against Warden Hale to hang Durrant at San Quinten on the e date fixed, July 9. The inhuman mon d ster should have been hanged long ago and his disreputable lawyers could then 8R appeal to the higher courts to settle points of law just as well as now. m E. Jacobsen of The Dalles, proprietor tof the Jacobsen Music and Book Store was in town Monday in the interest of ty his extensiue business. He expects to al bring out through this county about Ju re ly 10th a number of fine pianos and or iigans for sale, and says he will treat our people to some music they never heard before. a le J. F. Devendorf, a real estate agent o y San Jose, Cal., was here the first of the so week looking at the Downing land north of Condon, that he traded some land in Santa Clara county to Mr. Downing fo erecently. Mr. Downing has traded of is all of his land here, except the 160 acre where his house stands and several lot in town.

12. August 7, 1897 The Dalles Times-Mountaineer Dalles, OR

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for the next year. English and Belgian cements, very best imported brands, for sale by the Wasco Warehouse Co.. Either a half-witted fellow or one who is a rascal too lazy to work yet smart enough to play crazy, is annoying the residents of Dry Hollow by making frequent calls on them for food at all hours of the day or night. The resignation of S. B. Ormsby as a member of the soldiers' Home board was received and accepted by the governor yesterday and H. H. Northup, county ijudge of Multnomah county, was appointed his successor. Within the past few days there has been a fair catch of salmon along the river, showing that fish are beginning to run, but as the season will close in a few days the run can be of no material benefit to local canners. Editor Ireland, of the Moro Observer, was in the city last evening returning from a month's visit to Webfoot, where he lay in the shade and lived off the fat of the land for four solid weeks. He said he enjoyed the recreation hugely. Kansas boasts that it had a hail storm the other day in which the hail stones were as large as an ostrich's egg and it is said that one enterprising farmer filled his cellar with stones, covered them with sawdust and will sell them to families that need ice. A Massachusetts postmistress, who has just become a bride, opened the letters of the patrons of the office in order that she might know just what they thought of her alliance. Woman's curiosity can always devise means for getting her into trouble. Dan Roberts and Frank Menefee were out on the Deschutes yesterday in the neighborhood of the free bridge, and say crops in that section are fine with the exception of some fall grain and volunteer. The spring grain is ripening rapidly and will give an immense yield. Few women can go to the Clondyke; but the Clondyke widows, in the absence of their husbands, will have increased cares and responsibilities and will be thereby made more competent to attend to business affairs so that in reality they will make progress in development. A boy named Robert McKenzie arrived this morning from Montana, and will go to the home of his aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Baxter. Young McKenzie has put in several years on a Montana cattle ranch, and says he is desirous of leading a more quiet life on an Eastern Oregon farm. The following gentlemen have been appointed by Chief Gibons of The Dalles Fire department as a committee to solicit subscriptions to a fund for paying the expenses of the forthcoming touruament: J. S. Fish, A. Sandrock, H. L. Kuck. Capt. John W. Lewis, T. A. Ward and H. J. Maier. Wasco county will have a damage case soon if the large rocks are not removed from the Deschutes grade. The rocks are large and easily lift a wagon off its balance. Dalles papers please copy. Moro Observer. How about the rocks over on the Sherman county side? Bro. Observer. Greer, Mills & Co., of Chicago, have begun action in the federal court at Portland against the receiver of The Dalles National bank to recover $13,500, which the plaintiffs claim they had paid into the bank on a sheep deal with J. H. Blake, $8,500 of the amount having been paid by them after the bank closed. Japan has an income tax. If a taxpayer protests that he is rated too high by the officials he is thrust into a dark room and told to "think it over carefully." Sometimes a man stays there 24 hours, buried in darkness and thought, and finally he is apt to agree with the officials that he is richer than he had at first supposed. The state treasury was relieved of $135,154.24 Monday, that being the amount of the annual distribution arising from the interest on the irreducible school fund, which was apportioned and paid off. The apportionment was on a basis of 126,956 children at $1.04 per capita. Wasco county's portion of the apportionment is $4,142. The supreme court has affirmed the decree of the lower court in the case of the state of Oregon vs. Kelsay Porter. The defendant was convicted of having committed the crime of murder in the first degree by killing one Joseph Benjamin Mache, whose wife and son, named respectively Mary E. and Benjamin Mache, jr., he also killed at the same time, residents of Union county. Hon. W. H. Biggs came down from Biggs station on the train this morning, and reports everything pushing on the Columbia Southern road. Connection with the O. R. & N. track has been made at Biggs, and track laying is under way. Track will be laid as fast as the grade is ready, and it is now a certainty that the road will be completed to Wasco by September 1st. A little ripple of excitement was caused on the streets last night when it was reported that there was a smallpox patient in the city. Investigation however proved the report to be untrue. The supposed small pox patient was Elzie Hollingsworth, of Newberg, who had been at work on the Columbia Southern railroad and contracted the measels, and had come here for treatment. Being out of funds he was declared a county charge, and was placed under Dr. Shackelford's care for treatment. The deputy county clerk of Clackamas county, E. E. Martin, is in a bad box, having been arrested for embezzlement of funds belonging to a Denver loan association, and has acknowledged to having sold "raised" county warrants. Martin is a nice young fellow, being prominent in the Y. M

13. August 27, 1897 Daily Capital Journal Salem, OR

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STATE NEWS Mrs. Elvina LeBoise, aged 51, of Eugene, died last Monday of cancer. Twin Corliss engines have been ordered for the Pendleton scouring mill: Abel Reed, of Forest Grove, died Tuesday at his home at the age of 74 years. I The barn belonging to J. C. Goodale, the lumberman at Coburg, burned Monday. The Poill residence at Springfield burned Monday evening. Loss $1400. Insurance $800. Gov. Whiteaker. of Eugene, dug a hill of potatoes wherein the entire hill had grown together. I A former Eugene woman is suing for a divorce and about $250,060. Her husband is worth $500,000. I A fire destroyed the threshing machine and considerable grain on the Grisby farm near Independence Thursday. At Hood river it is reported that some very rich gold-bearing quaatz has been found on Lewis river near its source. Rall Vaughn, of Eugene, killed a large eagle in Western Lane county, which measured six feet eight inches from tip to tip. Henry L. Brown, of Eugene, an old soldier, fell from a cliff on the wagon road at Tilton rock on the Siuslaw road. He died from the effects. Mr. Travis, a young man about 18 years of age, broke the record of cratemaking at the cannery in Eugene Monday. He made 200 crates. T. F. Kerns exhibited twelve Sharples prunes at Eugene that weighed 341 ounces. They have the flavor of the French prune, but are much larger. Attorney Briggs, of Ashland, a student of fruit culture in Jackson county, says that yellow jackets are death on all kinds of moths that prey on fruit. There is to be a meeting in the interest of a beet sugar factory at Independence. in view of starting one there. Mr. R: Kuhne, of Portland, is the promoter. Dan Maloney, the man recently shot in The Dalles, by Jake Prowley, of Glenwood, Wash., died Tuesday from his wounds. He was formerly marshal of The Dalles. H. S. Wilson, receiver of The Dalles National bank, stated that the controller will shortly authorize a dividend of 25 per cent, making 50 per cent realized to depositors in 30 days' time. Hon. Thomas H. Tongue bas succeeded in locating the lost muster rolls of the companies of volunteers that fought the Rogue riyer Indians in 1853. O. F. Hixon, one of the inmates of the Roseburg soldiers' home, was a member of one of the companies, and says that they had long endeavored to obtain recognition from the government, but were informed that there was no record of their services in the war department. But through the efforts of General Lane, when a delegate in congress, they had received pay for their services by a special act, and Mr. Tongue traced this up and found the muster rolls in

14. August 27, 1897 The Dalles Daily Chronicle Dalles, OR

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The Dalles National. A dividend of twenty-five per cent has been declared by the authorities in favor of the depositors of the Dalles National bank, and today Receiver Wilson commenced paying over the money. He tells us there are many claims against the bank that have not yet been proved, and that consequently cannot be paid. Those who have claims against the bank should get in and establish them, for after September 6th they will perhaps have trouble in doing SO. The money is ready, and inside of a month another dividend will be paid. This shows that the bank's loans were to the very best class of people, for a collection of more than $80,000 in six weeks could not have been made in any other county than Wasco, or from any but the most prosperous of people.

15. August 28, 1897 The Dalles Daily Chronicle Dalles, OR

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moved by malice or jealousy, and are glad other people enjoyed the seaside, even though we had to stay home and assist in keeping the thermometer on the earth. Fruit shipments just now are large, plums and prunes being the staples, with melons running a good second. The sidewalk in front of the commission house and express office is jammed every night with great piles of boxed fruit. We note that shippers are packing their fruit in good shape and this is the most sensible thing they can do. It is the eye that selects, the appearance that sells. The Dalles City will leave Portland tomorrow morning at 4 o'clock, and will bring up the visiting congressmen and party, fifteen in all. They will examine the locks and then come on up to The Dalles to examine the obstructions at the dalles, and there take the train for the East. Credit is due Sheriff Driver for his efforts in securing the Dalles Bity for the party. Lena Collingsworth, a Tennessee woman, quareled with her husband a couple of months ago and vowed she would not eat until he acknowledged his error. He proved stubborn, so she stuck to her word and fasted for fiftyeight days. When she died the husband had not yet concluded to acknowledge he was wrong, but he certainly must have appreciated his wife's firmness of character. The Dalles National bank is paying out its first dividend of twenty-five per cent. There are many claims not yet proved, and those who hold them should make their proof at once. All that is necessary is to fill out blanks furnished by the receiver and swear to the accounts. This can be done in the bank and costs nothing. Claims unproved cannot be paid. Another load of huckleberries amounting to forty gallons arrived in town from the "patch" this morning. The berries were brought in on a couple of cavuses and a Siwash. This luscious fruit is exD ceedingly plentiful this year, and the 8 bushes are loaded as they were never known to be loaded before. As a consequence the price is way down, in spite of the return of prosperity, and all can afford to eat them as well as to put up B a supply for winter.-Skamania Pioneer. t Word was received here yesterday that John Parker of Hood River died at his r home yesterday afternoon. Mr. Parker e had suffered for a long time from cancer e of the stomach, which was the cause of his death. He was an exceptionally y good man, one the community can illy h afford to lose. He leaves & wife and two children, and a long list of friends to f mourn his loss. He was a member of e Riyerside Lodge, A. O. U. W., and seva eral members of the order went down this morning to attend the funeral, r which took place today. Congressman Hooker chairman of 0 the committee on rivers and harbors, and Sherman, of the committee of Indian affairs, will be here tomorrow, com11 ing up on the Dalles City and arrıving ot about 2:30 o'clock. Senators McBride

16. August 28, 1897 The Dalles Times-Mountaineer Dalles, OR

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Money Ready for Creditors The receiver of The Dalles National bank is now ready to pay the first dividend of 25 per cent. Only 124 persons had proved their claims prior to the time when the checks were made out, consequently only those whose certificated are numbered from 1 to 124 inclusive can get their money now. The dividend was declared for all persons having claims, but as no money can be paid except on receiver's certificates, only those who had proved their claims prior to the forwarding of the checks to Washington can now get their money. As the receiver has on hand a large amount of money that is idle, yet cannot be applied on obligations until claims have been proved, those bolding such claims should at once present and have the same approved.

17. December 4, 1897 The Dalles Times-Mountaineer Dalles, OR

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From Thursday's Daily. E. E. Lytle, president of the Columbia Southern, is in the city. Domestic wanted to do general house work. Inquire of J. P. Mcinerny, The Dalles. N. O. Cederson, who has been here the past month attending court, left this morning for his home at Oregon City. The fees collected by the county clerk during the month of November and turned into the county treasurer amounted to $291.08. While coming up from Portland yesterday the Regulator ran on to a sand bar near Hood River, and was pulled off by the steamer Ione. Two hobos fell into the hands of Marshal Lauer last night and today were given a job of sawing $10 worth of wood each for the city. Wm. Hastings, of Boyd, was in the city this morning and says the greater portion of the wheat harvested by farmers in the vicinity of Boyd has been marketed. R. D. Stone, of Wasco, was in the city today. Like all other Wascoites that come to The Dalles, Mr. Stone declares that town is the liveliest place in the Inland Empire this year. A. Gibbon. a Walluska farmer, was held up by a highwayman in Clatsop county last Saturday evening. The fellow didn't make a very big haul, but he took all Mr. Gibbon had, which was $6.50. The city authorities have been kept busy the past few days regulating a big gang of hobos that have infested the town, there having been an unusual number of professional tourists sojourning here. Roads leading to the country from The Dalles are reported to be in bad condition at present, and getting to town is by no means a pleasure trip, say all the farmers who have come in the past few days. Uncollected accounts amounting to $12,000, belonging to the defunct L. E. Blain Clothing Co., at Albany, were recently sold for $250. Collections must be pretty poor at Albany when accounts will sell for only two cents on the dollar. Last evening Judge Bradshaw discharged ail the jurors for the November term of court, and permitted them to go to their respective homes. There is still considerable equity business to dispose of, and the term will continue for several days. The United States grand jury at Portland adjourned yesterday after returning 12 true bills. Julian A. Epping, Frank H. Gautier and George P. Watson were indicted for conspiring to rob the registry department of the Portland postoffice. Several hop sales were reported in the vicinity of Silverton last week. Louis Ames and Charles McKinley sold 57 bales for 10 1/4 cents a pound. Mr, Blakeley sold his hops for 10 cents. Palmer Bros. sold a lot. The prices ranged from 10 to 12 cents a pound. Fourteenth street has been opened for travel, which affords an excellent road for the residents of Mill creek to reach the business part of the city. Marshal Lauer has had a force of men working on that street for some time, and now has it in first rate condition. At Baker City Monday Earl Wisdom and J. L. Ash, ex-policeman, were found guilty and fined $500 and $50, respectively, or one day's incarceration for each $2. They were canvicted recently of having extorted license money from Chinese while in office and appropriated to their own use. One of the first instruments issued by the county clerk this morning was a marriage license to Chas. A. Bell, proprietor of the Mt. Hood hotel at Hood River, and Miss Lucy Ellison. With the license in his pocket, Mr. Bell boarded the 9:20 train, and it is expected a wedding will be solemnized at Hood River this evening. Last evening Dalles Assembly, No. 25, United Artisans, elected the following officers for the ensuing term: Master Artisan, Simeon Bolton; superintendent, A. N. Varney; inspector, Rev. J. H. Wood; secretary, D. H, Roberts; treasurer. J. M. Huntington; senior conductor. Mrs. Rosa Bolton; master of ceremonies, Charles Clarke. After the jury was sworn in the case of Sprouls vs. the receiver of The Dalles National bank yesterday it was discovered there was a discrepancy between the original complaint and the copy served upon defendant's attorneys, caused by a clerical error, hence the jury was dismissed last evening and the case was continued until next term. Homer C. Davenport, the world's greatest cartoonist, is about to issus a book of cartoons on the great politicians of the day. It will go like hot cakes. One book firm alone has already ordered two thousand coples. Davenport is generally known as an Oregon boy, a fact that has done much to advertise the state, as Davenport has a big reputation on both sides of the Atlantic. Fern Lodge, D. of H., elected officers last night as follows; Mrs, C, J. Crandall, chief of honor; Mrs. J. A. Douthit, lady of honor; Mrs. J. A. McArthur, chief of ceremonies; Mrs. C. F. Stevens, recorder; Miss Ida Burchtorff, financier; Miss Lizzie Schooling, receiver; Mrs. Anna Erquhart, lady usher; Mrs. Christina Laurensen, inside watchman; Mrs. Effie Simonson, outside watchman. At Salem Monday Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Albert celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. They were married at Wheeling, Va., in 1837. Mr. Albert is 82 years old, and Mrs. Albert 81. A reception was held at their home in the afternoon and evening. A large number of friends paid their respects to the venerable couple.

18. February 8, 1898 Daily Capital Journal Salem, OR

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Oregon Recieverships. The controller of the currency has declared a third dividend of 20 per cent in favor of the creditors of The Dalles National bank, This makes a total of 70 per cent on claims for $104,348. Phil. Goodwin, representing a company of local capitalists, bid $17,500 sor the Albany Woolen Mills. The bid was opened in Judge Hewitt's court by Receiver Flinn, and the sale will probably be confirmed. The mill and machinery cost over $40,000 a few years ago, but through various causes the company collapsed over a year ago. Under the receiver's management, the mill has prospered. It employs about 80 hands. Receiver James, of the bank of Oregon, sold the remaining assets of that institution, realizing about 3 per cent. The list included property in Portland, Astoria and other places, judgments, notes, and accounts. One $15,000 note brought $100, and others in proportion.

19. September 2, 1899 The Dalles Times-Mountaineer Dalles, OR

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SUIT FOR $8,500 TRIED. A Chicago Firm Complainant VS. The Dalles National Bank. The case of Greer, Mills & Co., against The Dalles National bank was tried yesterday forenoon in the United. State court before Judge Bellinger It is a suit to recover $8500 paid by the complainant just before the failure of The Dalles National bank in 1897. Greer, Mills & Company are a Chicago stockyard firm, who contracted in 1897 to purchase sheep of one Blake, to be delivered at The Dalles, and authorized The Dalles National bank to draw on them for $13,500, to be paid out to Blake as the sheep were recieved at The Dalles. On May, 1 the bank at The Dalles drew on Greer, Mills & Company for $8500. This draft was received by the First National bank of Chicago on May 5, and the amount credited to The Dalles National bank; the draft was sent to the Chicago bank's correspondent at the stockyards, and the money of Geer. Mills & Company actually came into possession of the Chicago bank on May 7. On this same day, May 7. The Dalles National bank did not open its doors, but passed into the hands of the controller of the currency. In other words, it had failed, although it has since paid depositors in full, and has resumed business and is responsible for any legal debts. Hence Greer, Mills & Company are trying to get their money which went into the hands of the receiver of the bank, and went to pay depositors. Judge Bellinger will take the case under advisement.