'NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Several of these are eeriona
it to believed that two will
The accident occurred«
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Four men were drowned at the Cliff
hoiae ih San Francisco,
caused a sudden rise thia moniMsff
all the ssm II atroymria that vieiaMy.
A dispatch from Honduras saya the The aorideat occurred ata print whew
revolution there has ended and the • steep, narrow gulch waa spanned by
a wooden trestle.
The to—
country to peaceful.
Two blacksmiths of Brownsville, Or.,
have invented a new machine for pul- dermined by thè sudden rtoe od thè liuto
veriaing clods. It hM been tried, gad •tream which flows through thegwleh,
it ia arid, work« to perfection. Thqy and thè trestle west down under thè
heavy weight of thè traia. Se gran*
have applied for a patent.
imo thè speed of thè traia, howevur,
Of the 114 Chinese who came on the that thè angine and tender, tbeas^
steamer Victoria to Tacoma, only fifty prosa, maH and b-gg-gr «are end rv
will be admitted. The other sixty-four PMsenger eoach paased «ver thè narraw I
will be returned, orders from the seuro- «hasm, tlfough thè truche of ceserai «g
tary of the treasury to that effect hav
we“lto
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ing been received.
feet below.
The eoach next to thè I
Judge Day, of Ohio, qualified as as- test, thè one immediately ia front of
Histant secretary of state. Rockhill, thè Pullman, was loft standing diroctly
wnoni he succeeded, will remain until over thè ohasm, one end reeting sa
Awistant Secretary Day hennmae ea-
tuely familiar with pending negotia
tions, when it to expected ho will bo
appointed to some foreign mission.
Harry Flynn was drowned in Tab»
Michigan, near Chicago, and 1,500
People mw him die and were unable to
aid him.
During the excitement
which prevailed Albert Mattari, a speo-
Utor, dropped dead.
It is supposed
that heart disease was thé cause of the
second accident.
The O. R. hN. will send experts to
the Seven Devito mining district to
male estimates of the probable traffic
of that region. The’ company is figur
ing on dividing the freight busine«
with the Union Pacific. The construc-
Wall March, of Centerville, Washing-
,
badly bruised and wv-
। anal of his ribs broken, by a pugnacious
MIL
_
- The telephone line being built be
tween Forest Grove and Hillsboro by
Aatoo Planner will, it to expected, be
ia operation in about a week.
. A delegation of Umatilla Indians
*««io<«‘
from which they maim-
facture moecaeine and gloves.
^Cattle riding will soon commence at
™Ptor, in Grant county, as a number
m st«is aid contracted for May deliv
ery, borides some stock cattle.
ren ns.n county has a woman mail-
eamer. Iba. Vol Stiokel, of Eagle
Point, who will carry the mail between
that point and Big Butte this summer.
Old settlers on the lower Riuslaw, in
L um bounty, say that growing crojw
and fruit trees have not looked in as
™ * condition as they are now in for
- A cleqgyMan of Medford has turned
too* eight Chinese pheasants, one cock
sad seven hena, near Phoenix. Sporta-
maa aro rs«Msted not to molest them,
bat to allow the species to increase.
OvvmMi Su IMrtril.uST«T
•nd PeSM. Arome Paromro.
beet seed which the agricultural de
ment hM been distributing to pn
The recall of the forces from Crete
has been received with resignation by
the Athena public, The Deiyannia or
gans attack the government bitterly
for appealing to Europe, but moot of
the papers accept thia.as inevitable and
violently attack the Ethnike ■ Hetairia,
asking it to render an account of its
action.
»«»»t warm Weather has ¿reatly
reduced the quantity of enow in the
mountains in Grant county, and many
«touams that have heretofore been un-
fordabie can be crossed without danger.
about four-fifths of the states. The
seed has been distributed in packageo of
an ounce to half a pound, puis» for
experimental
purposes.
The bests
grown from the seed will be analysed
•nd the saccharine matter determined
to ascertain where bests aan be prsffit
ably grown for the production of sugar
Those experiments, It is arid, will be
of immense value, as the beet undoubt
edly can be produced with profit in
many of the states. Wherever it cun
be so produced, it will give the farmers
Sixteen hundred bead of sheep were
ri»earod ia Lava. Crook county, last
week, and 1.100 head more will be
ritaared there the tatter part of the
month. The flocks are in good oondi-
<* new <-rop.
All the surplus vegetante seed fas th»
-v Th« «siw travelled.
Fhitodelhpia, May 18.—In the rite
which placed on his brow the tears!
crown of achievement, the sis pi
G®01!* W'sehingtonwas bonesad tn^aj
to monumental bronae.
The coed
which rotoaeed the aaddling fl^s from
. 1 last year.
The interests of United States oiti-
■pna at Puerto Cortex, the seat of the
revolution in Hondurap^will be looked
alter by the cruiser Marblehead. The
vessel to now on her way there.
A petition ia now being circulated in
New York and signed by bankers and
business men, urging President McKin
ley to do all in hia power to effect a
speedy settlement of the Cuban insur-
rgetion.
Lewis L. McArthur, member of the
Ic/al firm of Brtaiaugh, McArthur, Fen
ton A Bronaugh, of Portland, Or., and
«ne. of the -prominent towyere of the
atate, died in- Walla Walla, Wash., of
heart disease.
-
officers and privates of the army and
navy, and the direct descendante of the
molders and makeraof the nation.
Bwllgghte PerbMAro.
City of Mexico, May 18.—The eity
TW reridente of Ctaltam county will
iMMtow the postal department for a
*long the Btrait
. ^^"ake shock
wm
felt
The vibrations tooted 18 or 20 seconds,
drummer, with five Mm-
•** “ m»ny stories as any
<*h*drwmmer, wm working hi. line
" Horth Yakima last week.
aoa mu iniuivn ui lieaneid. 8. D., wer*
asphyxiated in a well on their farm.
Frank Bars was overcome by gas while
at work in th. w^L TheoXrs «£
i^*,8***."*Cn*k Cr«*m«ry Company
rimted up its creamery in Ellensburg
toe «rot of this month
The creamery
b“”11’ •-000 P°un<is of
aoended one at a time in an attemat to
rescue him, and all mot the mmp fata.
The British ship County of Had-
JThioh
J““1 »»rived out at
Cardiff Walej, reports a terrible acci-
•isot Which hap[>ened tost December,
?tlheITeLw“gBWing
»«« Act!
the Columbia river, after -letting go
the tug’s hawMr. Four seamen were
sent aloft to unfurl the main topgallant
Mil, and one of them named Ed ward
bring instantaneous.
The body /was
buried at sea the same day, and the
•hip proceeded on her way, making a
good run home.
-
■ m in nsnditten for bicycling. /
,T-
Cempsny A sad bsttery B, N. G
•^hMe decided to keep up their orl
£±±7.^**
.
I“t lortototure.
A successful operation of skin graft-
St. Joseph's
Ifoam Puyallup furnished
.
Tr”
replace a part burned
.
rnB 0Ter “nd killed
In the Southern Pacific yards at Salem,
.
Niceragtia, which baa
Jost arrived in New York, brings the
news of a disastrous earthquake in the
tatonde of Guadeloupe ami Montserrat,
of the Leeward group, in the West In-
hundred people lost their
Uvea, and the property damage is enor-
•sous. „ Twelve brick houses in Guada-
kn,K*L£?d
H00**»™» weqpde- I
molisbed, aad scores of others er^ked
and seamed by the shook.
wheelmen, and
««MmnhtomosMy has been subscribed
Mexico, May 18.—Spaniards here
having adopted the device of p toeing
special stamps on their letters ia addL
tion to the regulai postage stamps, the
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P**’’»1* money in
aid of the Spanish cause ia Cuba, it has
been ordered by the postoffice depart
ment that .uch extra stamn, be ntacwl
inside the letters and not on the en
velope*
<
Hermetically SMled wine flhaks have *
>een found in Pompeii.
iz??
xp last week,
hank" loga
four years.
4a— *** • foenmotive
, **7^ Superintendent Browne hM
deesded that women as well as men
—* Mgmter for school elections. The
T™*.1 *
««irtMtion must be
hsswa fay the school district, and th»
MprivriiM done by the regular officers,
as tn the cum of men.
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ro,F“* b”1**
the mouth of the
87.opd*y
wiZ^a!?^^
and other
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TT* -M*myed, many of the