News Summary.
There are now 404 patients in the
state insane asylum.
- The quarterly report shows 283 con
victs in the jienitentiary there is one
woman in this number and eight men
who are unable from old age or disease
to work.
A colony of 170 families will reach
Portland from Nebraska and Indiana
early next month, and will be located
at some suitable point in the Willam
ette valley.
Jackson county offers the following
bounties for scalps: panther or couger,
$5; grizzly bear, $5; brown bear $5;
wild cat or catamount, $1; mountain
wolf, $5; coyote, 4.
The tide of immigration still con
tinues setting towards the west. Al
though the stream is small, it is steady,
and every day brings more or less per
manent settlers to our doors.
Mr. VV. M. Townsend, lately ap
pointed receiver of public moneys at
the United States land office at Lake
view, have sold the Lafayette "Regis
ter" to Messrs. C. R. Fenton, A. B.
Westfield and W. I. Westerfield.
It now appears a settled fact that
tnere is snortiy to be a lively opposi
The Snoqualime hop association
have 200 acres planted in hops, and
150 in oats and barley.
The territorial penitentiary commit
tee have selected Walla Walla as the
place for the new prison building.
Contract has been let for the new
chamber of commerce building in
Tacoma. It is to cost about $20,000.
It is currently reported by farmers
of several localities in Marion county
that some of the late crops are some
what damaged bv the rust.
Tne Cost of Wlieat.
Here is the Boston idea of the
thing, from the "Herald."
The western farmers ought to know
what it costs them per bushel to grow
wheat and' get it to market. But many
of them don't know, and therefore
turn with interest to the report made
by the agent of the farmers' alliance of
England, who was sent to this country
to study the question. He did it in
the thorough English fashion and re
ports that in Minnesota and Dakota
the total cost of wheat raising varies
from fortv to fifty cents per bushel,
The census of Asotin countv. W. T. I
j, ... ,., r -lvi r
shows a total population of 1,513, of according to tne sou ana buuu
the tarmer. the average normal
which number 858 are males and 655
females, and 364 are of voting age.
In Willamina, Polk county, where
croppings of float of cinnabar have
been discovered, it is said that the
float shows a richer appearance than
any yet discovered on this coast.
charge for transportation is fiteen cents
per bushel to Chicago, and a sum
from Chicago to New York, to which
is added ten cents for commissions all
the way through. His conclusion is
that wheat at $1 in New York repre
sents a nrofit to the northwestern farm-
The heavy steel rails on the road j . as accnrdinsr to his own fie-
, 0 -
ures, the profit is only about fifteen
cents a bushel on an average, the
farmers will not get rich rapidly at cur
rent prices. Dollar wheat in Chicago
is about the lowest figures in which
the farmers can be asked to be contented.
XONECOiX
Three Year Old Record 2:41,
Son of -
Altamont (2:27), and Belle Price
Will be kept the season of 1885 on the
farm of J. W. McKmijht, at Lowson Station
on the uarrow gauge railroad, Linn Co., Or.
Will be allowed to serve a limited number
of mares at $50, payable when the mare is
removed from the farm, with the privilege
ot returning Darren mares in 1886 free of
charge.
ONECO
Was started in all the principal three vearold races
in Orepon iirlSSl, winning three out of lour, and
making a record of -;il, which stands at the head of
ail three year old records on the North Pacific Coast,
aud trotting a fifth heat in the remarkable time of
2:14, the last half in 1:17, a 2:34 gait.
His breeding will suit the most fastidious. For
particulars and extanded pedigree address
Mcknight bro's,
Albany, Oregon.
between Centerville and Pendleton has
been replaced by the light steel rails
formerly on the narrow guage to Wal
lula from Walla Walla.
Mr. D. Woods, living near Albany,
shot at a squirrel last Saturday and suc
ceeded in hitting his wife, the ball en
tering the fleshy part of one of her lips
dan-
AU3KBT KNIGHT,
CABINET MAKER,
tion between San Francisco and Port-j lne wounQ 15 a pauiiui, nut not
land. After the ist of next month the ;&erous one-
steamer Wilmington will make regular
trips, carrying passengers and freight at
reduced rates.
During the three months ending
July ist, there were 41 failures, liabili
ties, 143,000, in Oregon, and for six
Croppings or float of cinnabar have
been discovered near Willamina, over
the line in Yamhill county. It is said
that the float shows a richer appear-
1 ance than any yet discovered on the
coast. Experts aro now at work try-
months ending, July 1, there were 85,
102 failures, liabilities,
in? to locate the ledge.
failures, liabilities, $450,000. For the Of the Iowa excursionists, 60 of the : olales- "'"
corresponding six months of 1884 'journals represented were Republican, j tlons for resuscitation adopted by the
l TTnittifl Ctnfac 1 it Cninnrr tonn'P with
17 Democratic, i4 independent, 4 1 ""
" 1 1 . , , the approval of the American Medical
greenback, 4 agricultural, 2 local, 1 ; w
1 11 Association, is the suggestion: "Do
anti-monopoly, 1 society, 1 college, 1 : &
j i-i 1 not be impatient of results. Any time
temperance and one educational. p '
. , I within two hours you mav be on the
Isaac Pincus the Tacoma hop buyer . , .
. . , very threshold of success without there
nasjust maae a trip aoout tne sound,
says the Seattle "Chronicle," where he
To Resuscitate The Drowning.
The drowning season is now at its
flight and in connection therewith is
the necessity of a general understand
ing of the means of resuscitating, says !
an exchanee. In Paris the records
show that about four of every five per
sons drowned are resuscitated; but it
1
is doubtful if the average is anywhere J T-T XT JR, N I T XT H E
near as great in any city in the United
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Coffins ar.d Caskets.
theie were
$627,5000.
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
Parties are in town negotiating for the
construction of an auxiliary steam ves
sel to carry lumber from the Columbia
river, the capacity to be about 500,000
feit of lumber. It is stated that the purchased a quantity of hops and ex
machiuery and boilers formerly in the ' aniined the crops for the coming sea
auxili.iry steamer George S. Homer are I son. He reports that the yield will
to be iised in the new craft.
Wellington Territory bids fair to
being any sign of it. There are in
stances on record where breathing has
been restored after having ceased for
an hour or mote."
Every person should know what to
do in a case of drowning. It is im
portant to avoid delay, and the very
Work done to ordjr on short notice and at
reasonable rates.
Corvallis July 1, 1S81. 19:27yl.
exceed that of last year. He also re
ports that there are at least 2000 bales
an important stock raising oi" 'ast year's croP unsold, 1 moment the body is taken from the
Stockmen are moving in I A Yamhill countv exchange savs: ' water lt should be stripped to the waist
very fast, and in September a gentle-.'"Harvesting is in full blast in all parts ' and tbe c,othing having been made
man f, jm Great Britain will invest Lf the valley and the demand for farm int0 a ro11 t0 raise the Pk of the stora
$60,0 jo in that Territory in the cattle 'hands exceeds the snnnhr Thprp ;s ach above the level of the mouth, all
become
country.
business. He writes that he intends ' no reason
to locne in the Kootenai country, and I bein idle.
for any able-bodied
Farmers in different
commence business with 5,000 head j
of Cattle.
In estimating the salmon pack of the
season the "Astorian" says: "The
July salmon run, which started in
pretty heavy the first week of the
month, has fallen off, and it looks now
as though the prophecies of a short
pack would come true; there are not
lacking those who assert that the ag
gregate will be 200,000 cases below
that of last year. The outside esti
mate is 475,000 cases, and it is said
that this is putting it 30,000 cases too
high."
Last week wheat cutting commenced
on the Blalock ranch in Eastern Ore
gon. The ranch contains 2,200 acres
in wheat which according to the first
days work, will yield 40 bushels to
the acre or 88.000 bushels. It is be
lieved however, that one piece of 400
acres will average 60 bushels to the
acre. The grain is plump, large, of
Eight
are at
por-
bright color and without smut.
headers and two big threshers
work.
Much prospecting is being done in
the region of Blue river, in this county
Three men have discovered a well de
fined quartz ledge that promises to be
fairly rich. It is thought that it. will
assay in the neighborhood of $30 per
t m. A quantity of the ore has been
sent to Portland to be assayed.
About thirty Chinamen are at work in
placer diggings in the same region, and
it is thought they are making consid
erable money. Eugene Guard.
Game is plentiful on Coos bay, says
the Marshfield "News." Numbers of
deer hav been killed within the past
week, and parties from the mountains
report elk as being more numerous
than for years. Bear can be found
close to town, and a number have been
seen by berrying parties lately. A
party who lives on the sawdust says
that while picking berries at an old log
ging camp last week he suddenly came
face to face with a bear and two cubs,
he turned to avoid them, and almost
ran into three more bears. He con.
eluded he didn't want any more ber
ries that day, and started for home,
his pace being much accelerated by
the presence of a large panther which
chased him half way to his house.
tions of the state are writing to the bu
reau of immigration office for hands,
and these orders are being filled as fast
as they arrive.
The Moses reservation has been
thrown open to settlement. It
is situated in Stevens county, W. T.,
with British Columbia as the northern
boundry. The reservation contains
4,675 square miles, or 2,992,240
acres, or one-tenth the size of Penn
sylvania. The land is very fertile and
is said to be rich in minerals. As yet
it is unsurveyed.
The people of Tacoma are called
upon to vote a special school tax of
eight mills on the dollar, to pay off the
indebtedness of the district, estimated
at $ 1 8,000. In the city are reported
1048 children of school age. Last
year 820 attended school, and next
year the directors suppose 300 more
children will demand seats. The ex
penditure of the past year aggregated
$11,959 82.
While Matthias Sutherland was
sleeping in his tent, eleven miles from
Eagle Pass Landing, last Sunday about
midnight, a tree that had been burned
at the roots fell across him, causing
instant death. Deceased was a young
man 28 years of age, and had been
employed along the railway work for
years. His home was in Dorchester,
near London, Ontario.
A gentleman, who travels as much
if not more than any other man who
lives in Portland, returned recently
from an extended trip through Oregon
and Washington territory, and reports
the grain fields looking the finest he
ever saw them here or anywhere.
Between Lewiston and Dayton, in the
Walla AValla and Palouse countries the
crop is immense both in yield and
acreage.
Speaking of the wheat prospects the
Chicago Inter-ocean says: "There
seems to be great difficulty in getting
reliable facts regarding the wheat crop.
The facts are that State officials and
others interested are slow to ackowl
edge that there is any serious failure
out of fear that it will prevent immigra
tion and interfere with the growth and
values of the State. It would be a
good deal better for all parties if the
exact truth is stated."
fluids should be forced out by press
ure with the hands, one on back just
below the shoulder blades and the
other opposite. Artificial breathing is
produced by placing the roll of cloth
ing under the body turned upon its
back and then grasping the chest on
either side of the pit of the stomach
and gradually pressing forward and
upward until the whole strength is
used; and then suddenly letting go,
the operation to be repeated with the
regularity of natural breathing. The
whole process, outlined rather than
adequately described, is so simple that
a child may perform it if sufficiently
strong, and no person should permit
himself to be ignorant of it.
The country editor is a man who
reads newspapers, writes on almost
any subject, sets type, mades up mail,
runs errands,, saws wood, works in the
garden, is blamed for thousands of
things he never thought of, works hard
all day, helps people into office who
forget all about it afterwards, and very
frequently gets cheated out of half his
earnings. He puffs and does more to
build up the town than any one else,
and the miser and forgey are benefit
ted; yet they will not take his paper,
will borrow it, and read it and cuss the
editor. Ex.
Railway work in B. C. is being
pushed rapidly from the east. It is
estimated that there are fully ten thou
sand men in the Rockies and Selkirks.
In places the work goes on continu
ously, the men working eight hour
shifts, as they do in- the mines, the
electric light being used atnight. The
whole of the line from Griffin lake east
is now under contract and in the
hands of eastern men. Last week
500 men were brought from the other
side of the Columbia. The contract
ors will bring in 250 men a week un
til the line is covered.
At the Portland savings bank can
be seen the $20 piece found in the
stomach of a cow slaughsered at Mc
Minnville, which has been the subject
of considerable newspaper comment.
It was sent down by the McMinnville
bank to be sold, and it is found to be
worth $16.75. I' bears date of 1870,
but of course it is impossible to say
how long it has taken the animal which
swallowed it to digest $3 25 off it. The
milling is all worn off and the edge is
smooth and rounded. The head of
Liberty is worn away but little more
than the at space around it, and the
desiga on the obverse is also quite distinct.
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