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Several horses have been stolen in Klam
ath county lately. As yet none of the
'thieves in ve been caught.
Yamhill county has organized a local
board of immigration, with J. C. Cooper as
agent. It will work in conjunction with
the state board.
James Hamilton will experiment in flax
r using on the Chayney place on Rogue river
during the coming season. He will try
seeding one acre the first year.
George Kowlton, the printer, who lived
-at Medford for a year past, died in the in
sane asylum last week. He suffered from
lead poisoning in the first place.
Over 2,500 immigrants arrived in Port
land during November. The total arrivals
of immigrants in that city since January 1,
1885, have been nearly 27,000.
A cougar measuring eight feet and five
inches and weighing 200 pounds, was killed
a few days ago by Joseph Dewey ami others
Jit H. Martin's place in the Cow crerk val
ley.
The Statesman gives the political status
of the men who were sentenced to work on
the streets of Salem during the past nine
.months. 184 were democrats, 25 republi
cans and 7 greenbadkers.
Alaska has 500,000 square miles of trees,
all fit for lumber. The forests of that terri
tory would keep the world in planks and
timber for the next 500. Alaska is the
greatest lumber region in the world.
A whale was washed ashore at Nestucca
bay last Wednesday during the severe storm
150 feet long and Li feet across the tail tin.
Parties are cutting it up and rendering out
the oil. This is a bonanza for the citizens
of Nestucca.
Our Scio correspondent wjrites us that a
fatal disease has made its appearance among
horses in that vicinity, Peter Bilyeu having
lost three valuable head and David Myers
one. It was thought at first to be leach on
the brain, but a post mortem examination
explodes that idea. All of the organs are
said so be in an entire state of health and
the disease puzzles every one. Daily Her
aid.
Mrs. M. H. McDonald, of Lebanon, who
with her huebaud were among the early
a ittk-r.s of Linn county, died suddenly at
Jier home recently of neuralgia of the bnart
She was 58 years old and had been in the
best of health, and died after an illness of
but a few hours. She was the mother of
Mrs. James Crawford, Mr . Mattie Moist
James McD maid, of Albany, besides sever
al other children, the most of whom reside
in Linn county.
Ed Dove informs us that he has seld his
this year's crop of hops amounting to 18,000
pounds to a Xew York house at an average
of seven and a half cents per pound. Al
though the li'ips cost him nine or ten cents,
he thiuks it payed him well for the trouble
of picking tbem. He still has about ninety
Stales of las; year's crop on hand for which
little or nothing is offered. Mr. Dove is
confident that prices will be better next
.year and will cultivate his yard. West
Side.
W. A. Bradshaw, who lives near Browns
ville, met with quite a serious accident one
day last week. He was felling a tree and in
some way he received a blow on the back of
his head which cut both his arteries, anil he
came very near bleeding to death.
Skagit News: Of the 22.000 recom
mended to be appropriated for the four
principal rivers of Washington, Skagit will
first 5500 about enough to buy wood for
the snag-beat for three months assumin
the original recommendation is not cut down
it is likely to be by the secretary of
war.
A smoke house and granary belonging to
Geo. Turrell, living near Harrisburg. filled
with bacon, wheat and oats, was burned to
the ground on Wednesday of last week, de
stroying 2000 pounds of bacon and 300 bush
els of grain. It probably originated from
the fire used in smoking meat.
The following libel is traveling over the
country without a responser and seems to
meet with ravenous satisfaction in some
parts: "An exchange says: At the little
town of Boston, in Yamhill county, near
Sheridan, in a warehouse, 40,000 bushels of
wheat have been destroyed by wevil. Par
ties who own the wheat have been unde
cided what to do with it, whether to burn
it or throw it into the river." There is no
such place as Boston, no such wheat, nor
no parties any where on the west side so un
decided. Beporter.
This is one of the busiest times in the
year in the land departments of the rail
roads. Inquiry at vhe Portland office of the
Oregon & California railroad reveals the fact
that every mail brings applications for rail
road lands somew here along their lines.
The sales this year will surpass even those
made last season. The favorite counties
seem to be Lane and Clackamas, and this is
attributed to the fact that those counties
were for a long time but sparsely settled.
It is, of course, a matter of groat pleasure
to the employes of the road to kuow that
the country adjacent to their line is being
settled, for every new man is another patron
rfor jheir employer).
Mr. and Mrs. Reed traveled afoot from
Aurora to Oregon City, on Sunday, because
they were unable to pay railroad fare.
They have just left behind them the coolie
cursed soil of California. They say that in
the southern part of the state laboring work
as, with few exceptions, done by Chinamen,
lu the regions of Los Angeles, the grape and
hop pickers, the table waiters, the field
bauds, the cooks and the dairy hands are all
coolies. Thousands of poor whites that
have flocked icto southern California from
the eastern states are unable to earn a liv
ing because the coolies underbid them in
the labor market. Oregon City Courie.
The inexhaustible resources in Douglas
and Coos counties of coal, lumber, gold
mines, grass, and, with proper attention,
vegetables, fruits, dairy products and other
industries, make an argument to capitalists
to come and build a railroad, which is un
answerable, says the Roseburg Plaindealer.
It would be of incalculable benefit to all
concerned to build a line from Roseburg to
Coos Bay and Port Orford. A route has
been already surveyed as d found to be
practicable, and a road could be constructed
at a very reasonable cost, in comparison
with many roads built in the West. This
would open up in all this vast territory in
Southern Oregon a means of transportation
which would be remunerative and expedi
tious. Benton county is now enjoying the
value of a competitive road to the amount
of six cents per bushel more for wheat than
s given by any ether route. Alien let us
Juive a railroad from the coast to Roseburg.
Very flattering prospects are reported
from the Southern Oregon mines, by the
Jacksonville Times. There appears to be
An abundance of water, ami much work is
bein done in all the placers. A new quartz
mil. and reduction works are to be con
structed at Jacksonville or Medford soon.
W . M. Powers and sons, of Shedd, have
just finished digging a 45-acre field of pota
toes, a portion of which have found their
way into market in Albany, at 25 cents per
bushel. They still have about 1S00 bushels,
awaiting an advance in price, the prospect
of which at present is not very promising.
alifornia stands third in the list of petro
leum-producing states, leading West Vir
ginia, Ohio and Keutucky. Pennsylvania
is first and New York next. The oil pro-
luction is confined te the southern end of
Calilornia, and last year the product was
100,000 barrels thatcf Los Angeles county
amounting to more in value than the orange
crop.
Newt Yocum and a voung man by the
name of Brings, son of ex-county surveyor
of Douglas count j, were in a saloon in Cau
yonville, ou the 27th, playing cards, when
a dispute arose, ar.d both made for their
revolvers. Briggs got his first, and fired,
striking Yocum iu the neck, the ball lodging
there. Briggs was arraigned, and discharged
on the ground of self-defense. Yocum will
recover.
We hear no more of the extension of the
Oregon Pacific via Albany to eastern Ore
gon. If they want a real live part of the
country, not already supplied with rail
roads, let them come up the west side of
the river via Eugene and go by the McKen-
zie route across the Cascades. It is 25 per
cent the best p.ss on the whole chain, be
sides the good country almost all along the
line. Eugene Register.
Walter Barger, aged 15 years, son of W.
P. Barger, who lives in Willamette precinct,
last Wednesday morning left his home to go
to school about t half mile distant, taking a
hot gun with him, thinking that on the
way he might kill a goose. He did not put
in an appearance at school during the day,
and up to Thursday night had not been
heard from, although the neighbors iu that
section have been scouring the country in
search of him. It is feared he has accident
ally shot himself. Eugene Guard.
A Chinese sheepherder on the north folk
of the Johu Day river, had a singular en
counter with a bear the liher day. Bruin
was hungry and visited the corral for a fresh
supply oi mutton. John did not believe in
such pilferiug and attempted to slay his
visitor with an ax. The latter had too
much Sullivan like science for the Mongolian
and knocked him out with an upper cut.
Not being fond of Chinese meat he left John
for dead and carried off a sheep.
Yakima Signal: During the past six
months there, have been shipped out from
North Yakima over the Northern Pacific,
four carloads of wheat; two of barley; 200
cars, containing over 500 head of cattle, five
cars of hops, which is only a quarter of the
amount ready for shipment; six cars of
horses, and three cars of wool. Besides
these the shipments of this county include
5000 head of cattle from Topnish station
and 3 XX) from Kennewick. Considerable
rain has also been shipped from the latter
point and Prosser. The total value of the
shipment is over 460,000.
Ladd's artesian well is almost a gigantic
failure, says a Portland exchange. On
Monday last the drill struck a vast strata of
quicksand which raised its df up iu the well
over forty feet. The contractor thought he
had struck the long desired water and that
it was coming to the surface. He set bis
pump to work aud was sorely disappointed
in finding that only quicksand came to the
surface. As the sand is in such immense
quantities it will be hardly possible to con
tinue the work with any assurance of suc
cess, in tact the contractor is vesy mucn
cast down, as he has taken the job in tnch
a way that he loses money unless a flow of
water is had, and he says he will give it up
after this week unless the quicksand shows
some signs of diminishing. The depth at
tained is now a little over 1400 feet and
about 14,000 have been spent, including
the cost of the boring machinery.
The second shipment of through freight
to this city from San Francisco via the Ore
gon Pacific was received by S. E. Young
yesterday on O. R. &N. steamer, "Bonan
za, and trom tne ireignt cnargea uy tne
lifferent lines there appear a few facts that
need ventilation. ine ioi or ireignt re
ferred to consists of 148 boxes of soap, upon
which the freight by ocean steamer, and
rail over the O. P. was 8.03. upon the
same 148 boxes the freight from Corvallis to
Albany, a distance of twelve miles, by the
O, R. & N. boat, was the modest sum of
5.25. This is an outrage which might be
prevented if the agents of the O. P. at Cor
vallis were thoughtful for the interest of
their patrons in selecting the boats for ship
ment on the river, and which must be pre
vented if the legitimate traffic of the road,
which is now beginning to be built up, is
sustained. Albany Herald.
Temperance Department.
EDITED BY THE W. '. T. V.
Flower Jttisslon.
Among the many interesting reports of
work done by the unions of other states,
a Wisconsin union sends us a very pleasant
account of one of their prison flower mission
days. They have the assistance of both the
chaplain and warden of the prison, also of
clergymen of the differeut churches of the
city, so they do not lack tor interesting ma
terial for their mission service. She writes
that the prisoners were, as least at the close
oi the exereisesj eager for the flowers all
see. The chaplain who is obliged to ex
amine the letters of the convicts, says no
one could fail to see that the work had been
well received and had done much good.
One boy writes to his mother very thank
fully of this remembrance by the W. C. T.
U., and says liquor has been the cause of
most of his trouble. A number of personal
friends doubted the wisdom of having a
dower mission for such a low and vicious
class, and we came near giving it up, but
we are glad now that we did not. Tears
were a tribute from many, and one whom
nothing has moved since her incarceration
and who "is iu for life," broke down com
pletely with the flowers in her hand.
Blessed mission! We had many good wishes
and we hope they were realized in giving
men hopes and better resolves to at least
some, Ihe following paper was written uy
a prisoner aud published in our local paper:
"Last Sunday was indeed a pleasant day
for the lour hundred and odd prisoners at
the prison, and one which will probably
serve as a day to reckon irom in tne iuture
The ladies of the W. C. T. U. through their
representative, Mrs. E. Hiilyer, ffeld what
they term a flower service. The exercise;
consisted of a brief address by Warden Car
ter; singing by Mrs. D. P. Doty and the
prison choir and a choir of little girls; an
address by Mrs. Hiilyer, setting forth the
object of this service in a manner that en
listed the most earnest attention from her
audience, and a comparison of prison wo
ship now and a century ago by Chaplain
Kutchin. The sinking of Rock of A'ea as
a solo by Mrs Doty was rendered in Tier ex
ceedingly pleasant .n. inner, and her beauti
ful voice seeming to carry the "boys" as in
trance, and when she sang "Scatter Seeds
of Kindness" every coavict was willing aud
anxious to pronounce her the loveliest little
lady in the land."
At the close of the service each prisoner
was presented with a boquet of flowers at
tached to which was a card I earing a scrip
tural motto, and altogether it was a flowery
day at the prison. Chaplain Hutchin's
happy manner in comparing the first prison
religious service when the prisoners were
drawn up facing a cannon aud the present,
when the cannon had been banished for
flowers, met the loudest approval of any
feature of the entertainment.
There were many remarks among the
"boys" upon the service, and one aud all
were thankful to the ladies for their trouble
aud very grateful to the ladies of the W. C.
T. U."
Such is the testimony of oneconvict from
Wisconsin. This is one, and we are con
tinually having such pleasing messages sent
us. Not only are the prison cells made
brighter, and the convicts led to purer,
cleaner thoughts, but we have many cases
where these little messeugers have turned
some sin sick soul to Christ.
Our flower mission department aims to
carry to the tick and suffering everywhere,
in hospital and poor house, and to the bed
side of the sick in private homes. Often
they are accompanied with a choice delica
cy, something tempting to the sick a cup
of broth, a glass of jelly, etc. Many a sick
room is cheered and brightened by a short
visit from some lady from the flower mission
department of the Y. W. C. T. C
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