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WILLAMETTE FARMER: PORTLAND, OREGON, NOVEMBER 5, 18fi0.
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THE STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Not nearly enough Interest is taken in tills
society, which could 110 much to udvanco im
portant interests If it Mas conducted with en
ergy and Its meetings nnd discussions partici
pated in by tho fruit growers of this region.
It is conducted now ly a few who do all they
"an to build it up nnd tuako its efforts valua
ble, ,The President, Mr. Henry Miller, has
long and successful experience nnd takes great
interest. It was owing to his especial effort
that tho horticultural display at the Mechan
ics' fair was so excellent. As it is now, tho
society is mainly composed of professional
nurserymen and orchardists, anil a few fruit
growers who live near here, but tho great ma
jority of fruit growers through the country
em to bo IndlUcrcnt. This certainly should
u6t be the case.
We personally take great interest in attend
ing the meetings of this society and in making
public the opinions there expressed by veter
an, orchardists who have made fruit growing
life work and a lifo study. We have the
sasie interest in it that all fruit growers
should have, and consider it a delightful study,
even as fruit growing itself must be tho most
flsllghtful branch of our agriculture. Kvsry
home is incomplete without an orchard and it
is necessary that small fruits should bo culti
vated by evory intelligent family. While it
ia necessary that fruits should be provided for
household use, it is also desirable that fruit
culturo should be made a ataplo of production
among us, 'as Important M any other, Tho
indMersnc with which most fanners view
this matter strikes us as remarkable. It is
true that our cllinato and soil produce finer
fruiU in the line of apples, pears, plums,
prunes and cherries, than aro raised iu Cali
fornia and equal the best raised in tho world.
Last Hummer canuers lit California sent hero
and paid 2 cts. a pound for Oregon plums and
prunes to can there. We have the wholo
world for customers for dried fruit and as loon
as there is ullroad connection established with
the Ki oar loads of green fruit will be
ahipped to Chicago ami Now York. Fruit
growing offers a good permanent business for
all time, and the fanner who keeps an orchard
in good, order has a store laid up fur his old
go And a bank for his children to draw on.
Orchardists here have established that cer
tain fruits aro a success with us, aud that cer
tain soils and localities aro suitable for produc
tion ot certain fruits, which gives the intend
ing fruit grower tho advantage of other's expe
rience in founding his orchard. To a certain
extent he works as a certainty then, and can
yeuturo with more assurance than tho fruit
grower could ten years ago. The trouble is
that the great majority of farmers pay no at
tention to this Important matter. They want
something that will yield returns immediately
and cannot afford to put their time and mouey
into trees that will not bear fruit to remuner
ate them for half a dozen years to come. Of
course, there are many who caanot afford to
et out large orchards, but It seems stranga
that in view of the rewards offered iu the
future many people who have means to spare
do not make fruit growiug a specialty and
plant orchards extensively, Thero are some
large orchards of plums and prunes In differ,
ent sections that should soon begin to bear
largely and pay handsomely, and when they
commenco to yield such returns as may bo an
ticipated, we shall seo a gnat excitcmeut in
the way of planting out trees, but as thero Is
a reasonably certainty of profit from Judicious
fruit growing we cannot see why mora general
attention should not now be given to plantiug
extensive orchards with a view to makiug
fruit a staple product.
Hut, even though a man may not devote
especial attention to fruit growing with a view
to Iweoining an exporter of the oaine, either In
dried or green state, he may still take inter
est in sustaining the State Horticultural So
ciety and iu being Informed ont all points of
fruitgrowing, aud there ore hundreds of farm
ers iu tho Willamette valley that have exteu
alvs orchards gone to decay which could be
revived and mode valuable with pioper prun
ing and caro. There is much of interest to
the farmer as a class iu connection with hor
ticulture, and the Horticultural Society de
serve far more consideration from all formers
than it receive.
South, East and West, there is a general pre
velence of good time; laborers are employed
at good wages; nil Industries flourish nnd busi
ness men aro satisfied, so well satisfied that
they dread any change, and have thrown
their Influence largely into the field of politics
to prevent any change. Manufacturers, too,
strongly support tho Republican cnuso this
Fall, and tho cry of "protection" is heard
through the nation as not uttered bsforo for a
generation, Tho national credit is actually
above par, to that as n nation we pay a rata of
interest not believed possible even ten years
ago. Money is mora abundant nnd interest
lower than ever was known 011 this continent,
and last, not least, tho administration of Mr.
Hayes commands tho respect of the pcoplo
fully, and stands as 11 strong endorsement of
tho party that elected him. Perhaps it is not
too much to say that tho Republican party to
day owes much of its success to tho purity and
honesty of tho present administration. Ad
ded to all tills wo must nlsorecognia that the
appearance of the .Southern element iu politics
and the couttol it bos lately had in Congress
has roused tho Northern pcoplo to resist tho
party that claimed to bo backed by tho "solid
South," Let us hopo that from henceforth
our national politics can bo conducted without
sectional prejudice, and that the ilcnd past
shall bo buried beyond any hopo of resurrec
tion. Tho South must give up every hopo of
undoing tho issue that wero decided by tho
war, aud when it docs, tho Jvorth will lay pre
judice aside and then the nation can divide on
great questions of principle and not on tho
hateful prejudices of scctionsl dilTcrcnccs. If
the coming administration succeeds in preserv
ing the prosperity we enjoy to-dsy, and in dis
solving the bitterness of sectional and partisan
feeling we have suffered from iu the past, we
can be a happy and prosperous people. A
lover of his country, of whs tovcr politics, must
rciognize that political bitterness ha lately
reached a point too unhealthy for any nation
long to endure. The timo has come when tho
universal sentiment should bet "Lot lis have
peace."
WHEAT AND SHIPS AQAJH.
THE RESULT.
The election is over, aud, so for as known,
the returns point to tho success of tho Itepuh
lican party aud the election of Mr. Garfield as
the next President. Since the Stato election
held iu 0,-tolwr in Ohio amMndiaua there ho
been every reason to auticiiata this result.
The Republicans did not expect to carry In
diaua III October, and their success there was
strong Indication that the peopls of all the
Northern State would follow that example.
Had the country beeu troubled, a it laUly
was, by bard times, when farmers were suffer
ing from many evil and manufacturing was
at a low ebb, there would have beeu a great
tendency among the people to require change
ot administration a possible relist from ex
isting evils. Hut, by combination of fortunate
ctuaea our country 1 at the greatest height
4MttUf U Us Tf katwi. tfsrtk Mi
Tho remark was mado to us the other day,
that we were takinga very great responsibility
in setting forth our viuws on the frciuht
market a we have done, and intimating to
farmer that they can expect a decided im
provement in tho price of wheat within three
mouth, and at iarthcrcat within four month
time. This remark was addressed to us by
several gentlemen who aro interested in ex
porting wheat, and who, ot course, are biased
in their own favor and will not be apt to
make public- facts that work against their
own interests. They conccdo to us, how
over, that freight aro turo to decline after
awhile, when ship become abundant. Wo
recorded last week the charter ot ships to be
available March lit, at San Francisco for 05s,
while San Francisco quotations are now based
on freights at 7'-! Cd to U. K. This then,
anticipates a decline there iu freight of 17
Od within four months, which is equal to 12)
cents a bushel, and a wheat that is already
stored can bo held and insured time month
for three cent a bushel, it look very plain
that tho nun who holds will make handsomely
by so doing.
Hut the fact is, that whatever w may say,
there i 110 dancer but that enough will be
old to provide- cargoes for all vessels to arrive
iu the noxt two months. There is already
wheat stored iu Portland to lead all the ves
sel uow Ii tho river. Some farmers are cer
tain to sell, aud if there was a panlo among
them to do so the touscqueuco would be that
the market would be glutted and freights go
up to five pounds. That would bring wheat
down to the lowest point ever known, in
Oregon, and of course would suit the specula
tor, who would then buy up all offerings and
hold for the rite that is sure to come. What
the speculator is so anxious to do the farmer
can as well do himself, aud make what there
is to be made by It. That ia wliat we advo
cate. It is not prudent to rush too much
wheat upon the market at this Juncture, and
there is no fear that all the Oregon crop will
be marketed iu t hurry, because those who
are able to hold will do so.
It is estimated that all ovr the United
State a great portion ot the surplus of the
present year will be held lck for a raise,
wheat is now lower iu Knglaud than often
know 11 in Ortgon history, or nearly to. Tho
demand for breadstulTa will be greatly quick
ened by the low price. This fact will be felt
in the year's biitiu, The American sur
plus ha probably been overestimated, which
may become another point iu our favor a time
passes. We have shown that with shipping
known to l 011 the way to San Francisco, and
with reasonable calculations based ou the de
mand for tonnage there aud here, it is prob
able that shipping w ill arrive there aud hero
within four mouths with tonnage capacity
equal to all demands for wheat shipment from
this coast up to harvest, aud many vessels are
sure to arrive between tho first ot March and
aud the tint of July. It is evident, then,
that tonnage will be here and that we con
allord to wait for it, and to hold our crops
until it comes in preference to paying the ex
treme prices now asked. It is alittle rough 011
our farmer that wheu they are ottered ex
ceptionally low price for wheat they are
charged exceptionally high freight. It re
mains to bo seen if they have the grit to hold
their wheat, aud moat of them uo doubt
have.
Now, while thero is certain to be tonuage
enough to answer all demands betweeu this
and spriug, it is not at all certain that the
entire surplus will demand tonnage, cither
here or iu California. It is more thau prob
able that without a decided rite In price in
Knglaud not over two-third of the Oregon
aud California surplus will be shipped, Mr.
Kinney ot Salem Mills doe uot expect over
two-third will be disposed of, andthisgTeatly
strengthens the probabilities Iu favor of tho
wheat grower, for if he doesn't sU freight
wiMwiiUcUtawhttttiMaaif) owav
is willing to take a good living pricu for
freight the farmer can afford to sell, and not
before.
Another important fact to be kept in mind
is, that when wheat is so low in prico as at
present, it will not bo necessary to rush it to
market so as to reach Knglaud beforo harvest.
It is likely to bear a better prico after harvest
than at the present, which will bo tho argu
ment that will influenco one-third of the pro
ducers to hold over their surplus. Wo con
sider it then, safo and prudent nnd proper to
show all these fact to tho wheat grower,
and give him all tho opportunity tho posses
sion of facts and arguments can furnish to
judgo for himself whether ho will sell or hold.
In this connection wo cannot refrain rem
referring to tho flattering estimation in which
our paper and its views on tho wheat market
aro held by prominent farmers in dillercit
parts of tho country. A gentleman from
Vamhill was in the ollice last week that says
he wa offered $1.00 a bushel lost year, but
refused to sell until our market reiwrt came.
and on tho strength of what Im read thero he
held his wheat until he got $1.10, Another
gentleman iu lien ton county had his wheat
pooled with a ncighW, and two years ago,
judging from our reports in the Spring,
wanted to sellat$l.02J but his neighbor in
slated on holding longer, and they sold a Inrgo
lot finally at 03 cents. We do not pretend
to bo infallible, but these facts provo that Wo
study the market with great care, and give
opinions with caution that aro generally fol
lowed witli success. At any rate we have
only tho best good of tho farmer at heart and
havo courago and Independence to work for.
tlicm. J Ids world js greatly made tipi-of.
cowanis who nave not tlio Independence- to
form opinions or the courage to express them
when formed, if they antsgoiiizoinauy degrio
men who aro the possessors ot mousy or
power.
THE ANF.UIC.tM lMOM Tr.LEUR IIMI
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OREQ0K AMD CALIFORNIA WHEAT.
Tho shipping houses of Ihla city ,ao sain
plo bags, sent them from the S. F. Produca
Kxchang, of the way wheat is graded Iu that
market the present year. These samples aro
numbered 1, 2 and 3, and wo aro stnick with
the fact that the lett shipping wheat, maiked
No. , is not nearly so good an article at tliu
average clean white wheat of tho Willamette
valley. In tho California No. 1 there is 'a
proportion of shriveled grain ami somo
cheat and oats.whlls our average valley wheal
I plump aud clean if it ho passed through a
well known warehouse. It really seems then
that with the quality of Oregon valley wheat
alxive the average, there, should le a prico
offered for it abovo what Is paid for California
No. 1 , because our wheat is really worth much
more, or thero is no trust to be put in appear
ance. Our beat i certainly equal to Califor
nia gilt edged milling wheat, which I quoted
a high a $1,021 lr cental, and yet the' quo
tations for our valley wheat are IMSJtgf 1.43
per cental only. , ,
AILKOAB .XfTKM.
The narrow gauge ho reached Scio.
Travel on the now branch to Lebanon is very
fair, and the O. & C, inou aro in good p riU
over it.
Chief Kngiucer Scar i now giving his
specisl attention to the mountain surveys of
tho Oregoniau Company, limited.
The new stations alone tho narrow saiiL'e.
wo understand, will be named after nronii-
neut citizens. One w ill undoubtedly be called
Better and another Thompson,
The new excitemont in railroad circlet Is
about the Oregon Pacillo llailroad. Through;
out the valley towns above Albany peoplti
discuss nothing but Yamiina bay prospects,
and are much encouraged over the news that
the Oregon I'acltio is having little trouble in
floating its bonds on the New York markets.
A party of N. P. It. U. engineers left New
Tacoma Oils week to run a line from Wilkcaon
to Mud Mountain, and from that Point
transit line will be run to Grecu river and
through the pas lately ditcovorcd nnd ex
plortd by Tilt Sheet. The work w ill bo con
tinued a long a (now iu the mountain will
permit. 1 ,
About the Cth of next month will see an.
other change ot front iu the running of trains
lietween the Dalle aint tue upper coumry.
The wharf Boat will bant lllalock' landing, 37
miles above Oliro, and the. other one will I
dropped down to the former site of Coyote!
Station. TltU decrease the steamboating b)
nlxl.it seven hours' run up stream and six
hours' down stream. This is the last change
that will be made until the track is laid for
the entire distance, when tho gauge will lie
widened out abovo Coyote to tho standaid
and trains will then be run with sleeping cam
attached.
Seattlo M ; A surveying party under the
lead of Mr, W, II. Maxwell camo down from
Tacoma last Wednesday night, and yesterday
afternoon went out to Jvewcaailu, Theio
were nineteen men in the party. They w ill
proceed at once to the summit of tho moun
tains, and taking the Suotiualmio piu, make
their survey eastward, Mr. Maxwell stated
that ho would complete this work and bo baik I
011 tlio souuii witlilu six weeks. Uo. vynn,
quiie rciicem, aim uiu. not caro iu uicio
the plan of operations. From tho present
time 011 there will be contiuued activity in
railroad circles. The day of awateniug .is
near at namt is uow bresKiii)) ana laugh
ing prosperity will soon sit within the home
ot all.
The grade of the 0. It. & N. line it finished
to llaytou. and the force 11 now at work on
tho urade between the Touvhet aud the mouth
of the the Tukanou. Track ha beeu laid for
ten mile below Umatilla. It is expectcd.the
track will lo laid aud trains run to Cattle
Hock, tweiitv-four mile lielow Umatilla, by
the Hth of November. Cattle Itock will be
the point where boat will land and take ou
Ireignt and passenger until the track is laid
from Celilo to that pomt, sometime during the
Winter, A very laroi number of rails for the
O. H. Jt N. Co. and N. P. H. It. Co. have
beeu landed at Umatilla. At Wallula junc
tion a Urno force ot men am busy cradiuu the
depot grounds, and for Y aud other tracks,
The work of laving the track between the
junction aud Aint worth will probably be
commenced next week.
Finc Qoli. Mr. J. A-Shoudy, a merchant
of KUensburg, W. T wa In the city last
week, with tome Wautiful specimen of gold,
taken from the Swauk and Paabastin mine,
ou a tributary ot the Weiiatchie. The gold
consisted ot " chuuk " of the native ore.
worth from tweuty to thirty dollar etch
Mr. She-udy bod fullv on thousand dollars'
worth of Uieae "chuuk "with him. He re-.
porta Um Hwauk aaisw m way up.
Tho energy, cnlcrpriso nnd renmrka-
1)1 0 wigncity exhibited by the latest ri
val of the Western Union Telegraph
lOtiitiany, tlio American Union ih
worthy of tlio highest praise and illiiH-
tiates more forcibly than any other mod
ern achievement wo now recall, what can
bo cllected by capital backed by pluck
and brains.
It seems scarcely crcdiblo that this
giant corporation, which only sprang
into existence on Muy 15, 1870, saysthu
St. Louis Glole-titmocrat, should now
own nnd control GO.OOO miles of tele
graph lines, and that by tho new year it
will havo 10,000 miles more under its
immcditito juiisdiction, thus effectually
and forever breaking up tho monopoly
of tlio telegraph business, mid creating
an active competition which must inevi
tably redound to tlio permanent advan
tage of tho people of tho wholo country
by giving increased facilities and caus
ing a great reduction in rates. Ilia
mere statement of tho fact that nil this
lias been accomplished conveys no ado-
quatoidea to tlio mind of the vast sums
of money employed, tho enormous mid
seemingly insurmountable obstacles over
come, or the stubborn nnd persistent
MtrOgglus entered into, both in tho courts I
and in tlio open field.
At overy step tlio now organization
J 'as compelled to ineot and fifdit its pow
rful antagonist, tho 'Western Union,
which (securely intrenched, as it confi
dently bcliovcd, bohiud its contracts for
tho exclusivo rights of way upon all tho
railroads and highways of tho country)
brought everywhere tho intchinry of
tho courts into piny against it anil en
deavored in overy way to thwart its ef
forts mid to render abortivn its attempts
tcjcoiuttiuct its lines. In many cases
the contracts of tho Western Union had
been held by tho courts to bo sacred nnd
in one instanco tho Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company had been restrained
from interfering with or using tlio lines
of( tho Wcstoni Union. Tlio cxtranrdi
nary claim set up was the excliutve tw-
anion of almost every foot of availablo
ground for tlio building of telegraph
lines in tlio wholo country. This claim
hill to bo met nnd overthrown, of
course, beforo anything could lo done,
and tho suit instituted by tlio Western
Union lwforo Judge Harlan, in the
United States Circuit Coint for tho Dis
trict of Indiana, to restrain tho Ameri
can Union from putting up its lines on
tl0 Wnlnish railway brought tho mattor
of exclusive right to an issue, and, to
nil intents nnd purposes, settled that dis
puted point by a decision in favor of tho
American Union. Tho judgo hold that
the, contract, so far as it purported to
grunt, rjgtit of any nature to tho exclu
sion of other telegraph companies, "was
void, being against publio policy, and in
direct contravention of tho laws of tho
Rovcral States mid of tlio act of Congress
granting to all telegraph companies, ac
cepting its provisions, tlio right to con
struct, maintain and operate its lines
qlong all pott-roaJt." Numerous de
cisions to the samo effect have since been
obtained, und it may now bo regarded as
'established beyond controversy that
there can be no such thing as an exclu
sive privilege so faros building telegraph
lino along post-roads is concerned.
The instances referred to are only
some of tho many that barred jho road
way to success, and thero wero not want
ing those who predicted that tho Amer
ican Union was moiely a speculative
concern that would, 111 tlio end, bo
absorbed by tlio Western Union, after
the manner of the Ameiican Telegraph
Company of New Jersey, iu 18CG, nnd
tho Atlantic and Pacific, in 1877. In
spite, however, of all obstacles aud of all
predictions of failure the American
Union is to-day an assured success, a
moot substantial and gratifying fact.
Its systems of linos embraces
eery city and town of any importance
in tho Union and in tho Uritish pos
sessions; it has two separato lines bo
tween Nuw York and Chicago, commu
nicates with San Francisco oyer the lines
of the Union Pacific Railway and its
branches; has tho exclusive uso of the
cables of tho new French Cable Com
pany for tho term of twenty yeais, be.
sides having, by rwuon of its control of
.Canada lines, connection with the Di
rect Cable Company, which practically
gives it tho use of two submarine cable
lines.
con- 1 hi: .north luanc kaukoau.
Tho annual repoit of tho Northern
Pacific Railroad shows that tho total
number of miles operntul duiing the
past year was 722, against C 17 during
tho previous year. Tho uross earnings
wero 2,230,181 81, S1,10G,210 05 last
year; expenditures, 81,021,093 25, leav
ing a Imhinco of $709,188 GO. Theru
was spent during tlio year for improve
ments, developments, mid equipments,
8514,002 99; interest, $ir9,r37'2G, mak
ing a total, in addition to tho operating
expenses, rentals, auu taxes, cuii,
500 25. Tho report states that the com
p.iny intend to build a bridge across tho
Missouri River ut llisinarck. Ihey
havo also concluded 11 favorable contract
with tho Western Union mid North
western Telegraph Companies to put 11
lino of wire along tho road, thn Rail
road Company to pay one-third of tho
cost nnd letnin one-third of thu gross re
ceipts; also, to havo their own telegraph
business transmitted free up to a cer
tain union nt, tho remainder to lie opera
ted at half rates. The contract is to re
main in force for a period of fifteen ) 0 irs.
Tho report also states that tin Luko Su
perior Khivator Company havo istab
lished cloven now grain elevators along
1 lie lino of the road, including ono nt
Duluth, with a capacity of 1,000,000
bushels. Immigration agencies havo been
established at Liverpool, Now York,
Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago.
According to tho Treasury report tho
preform! stock of the company had been
reduced on June 13th by proceeds fiom
sales of Inula $in,U2,GI5 12, of which
there, was in the Treasuiy ns nil uset
$1,111,830 10, leaving in circulation
$30,100,818 02. Tho bonds outstand
ing ninountcd ut tho above date to $3,
881,831 41, of which there havo been
since wold shout $520,000. Thu Treas
urer reports that tho entire flouting debt
will bo retired this year. Thoro nre
still to bo completed sovcral divisions of
thu road, including ono of 120 miles
from Thompson's Inlut in Wisconsin, to
tho Montreal River. When thesonm
finished it is stated tha', tho
STATE NEWS.
A caso of scarlet fever is roportcd at
Hillsboro.
Capt. Geo. Goodman has bought the
brig Sea Waif for $G,250.
Diphtheria is found nt McMinnvillo,.
but so far has not spread much.
Sixty women boro torches in n Demo
cratic procession at Lebanon lately.
Families that desiro to scttlo in As
toria cannot find houses to occupy,
Theio is talk, the Inlaml Empire savs
of starting a nowspaper at Piinoville,
A little Mn of Ben Pierce, of Cor.
vans, was killed by a kick from a horse,
Ben McCauloy, formerly of Salem, is
mail route ugent on tho West Sido Rail
road. II. O. Paigo lias had two' indictments
found against him nt Umatilla for robbery.
jIis. Hchatnpf, aged eighty-two, ij
again, out in Jncksi
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HOW TO CcUKQB THE ADDMM OP Hf OU.
Wo are in receipt daily of request to "please
change my paper to uch-aml-tuch a rest
oltice." Be sure to tell ua when you write,
whcn you are, now getting the paper; our litt
it uow so largo that we eauuot easily find a
Kama where it come, a above stated. This
MMflf-U
company
will havo in operation 1,20,'U miles of
iuiui, mm nuvu imu 10 ji,.iui,uuu acres
of land.
TERRITORIAL.
Tho Gypsy women about Walla Walla
aro a hot far more biazeu than honest.
Total coal shipments from Seattlo in
October was 45,910 tons.
Gov. Newell has arrived at Olympia
and been warmly received, to tho papers
siy.
Tho Watchman says tho fall races
wero a failure 011 account of rainy
weather.
Tho Yakima llttonl counted over
twenty teams of emigrants in 0110 week
that wero hunting locations,
Privato Bonnet of Company K, at
Walla Walla, decamped aud let loose
two prisuer, who went with him.
Tho Union learns that a, new depot
will bo built at Walla Walla, 011 the
north sido of Mill creek, to cost $4,000.
It is reported that Fort Oolvillo is to
bo put in complete rejtair for tho accom
modation of three companies of troops.
Tho Territorial Fair nt Olympia was
a financial success, because when ex
penses weio paid they had $300 left.
The ll'ii(cimm says malaria and
typhoid fever prevail at Walla Walla,
and gives quite u list of people who aro
ill.
Aneldeily shoemaker from Victoria
committed Miicidii at Tacoma by shoot
ing himself. lie had refused to givo his
name.
Tho Port Townsend Frea tells how a
party of Englishmen from tho Victoria
Navy Yard took nshup for a two weeks
trip to hunt mining the islands and
home spiteful man, who was not nllowed
to go with them, hid all bands and the
vessel arrested for violating our law.
Thu Idaho Htutemnan gives u full ac
count of tho recapture of the convicts
who recently et-enped from Idaho Pen
itentiary.
The I'hwh says tho Walla Walla
Agricultural Society propoto to buy
jouud ne&r tho center of the city for an
eJennt Pavilion.
Henry Metsic, the Russian murderer
in jail awaiting trial ut Port Townsend,
has teeaped, iuppesed to hap had out
side usb.btir.kx1.
Morton Cox, from Victoria, who was
probably insane, as he had been iu the
Asylum two years ago, laid down on tlin
blull'at NewTacnnm and shot himself
twice, uud vn found dead.
Tho Walla Walla Ulatuman says the
twenty-milo race created much sport,
as homo of the cayusts balked and smiie
bucked. Each rider had four horses
aud tho lookers on had lots of fun.
A Beautiful Hat.
Who will not stop and admire a beautiful list
when they see it passing by. There is noth
ing seta oft" a woman a a new hat or bonnet,
aud the question is how to get a stylish, neat
and nobby hat. All wo can say in reply it to
call ou Win. Millican, Coinmircial ttreet
Salem, and see hi well selected aud assorted
took ot suUUasrjr, hat and fancy goo-la.
cutting teetl;
cDimty.
Thi' Attorian hays Charles Mcintosh
lost his lifo by drowning in Blind Slouch
auuve jviiniipii.
A littlo girl goVhcrnrm liadly brokon
on tho Wallula road, Wasco county,
while at play.
All the bridges aro finished on tho
narrow gauge road and track laying will
soon reach Scio.
W. Simmons has tnndo a gift to Mir.
M. Mooro of ton acres of rich bottom
laud near Hillsboro.
Good crops niako good times in Tveh
valley, and substantial improvements
a 'O the consequence,
Tho Antorlnn say thn channel across
Columbia bar now used is not the one
dragged by engineers.
Et 111 st Biidiam, son of Win. Biglmm,
of Spoknu was thrown from h horse
and it is feared his injuries aro fatal.
Winier, Simmons ct Co., of Walda,
took out $10,000 in cold ou n partial
cleanup and had Boverul clean-ups bo-
lore Unit,
Tho Aittorlan says forty-flvo patients
havo been treated nt St. Mary's Hos
pital there, since it opened ou August-
11 tn.
Tho Jacksonville Times says that
Skaters it Briscoo have manufactured a
considerable- quantity of sorghum syrup
this season. . '
Hall, of tho forks of tho Santiam,
who shot his son riouio time ago, for sun
posed incest, was sentenced, nfter trial,
to six months iu thu Penitentiary.
Hong Leo stolo goods from II. L,
Darrot at tho timo his store was burned
at Foiot Grove, and thrco other China
men aro supposed to havo done tbe-
bame.
Weston pcoplo havo donated' ten
acres of land for tho uso of tho academy
the Presbytery of Idaho propose estab
lishing, und thoy expect it will grow in
to n liistclass institution.
Tho Jllvernlile says a farm threo miles,
below Independence containing 3G0
acres, without any buildings of valuo
lately hold for $13,500 to Mr. Lawlor,.
lately from Novada.
Two sheep herders, on Robert Grant'
ranch, between John Day and Des
ChutiH rivois, named Anderson and
IIcKinney, got into an affray and it is
thought McKinnoy will die.
Friday night Jailor Johne, nt Tho
Dalles, cuino back from supper and
couldn't find any prisoners; they hud
got through tho outer door 'and scaled
tho wall by a rono made of towels.
There were six of them and they got
over into Washington Territory.
A number of immigrants aro moving
into St, Helens and new houses are to
be built, a now school houso is in pro
gress ana Uiifincss is reviving there.
Hie Muckle Bra's, null turns out 35,000
fee.t of lumber daily, A schooner of
240 tons bunion, 100 feet long, is on
tue stocks thero, near completion.
A. Movvery, of Fifteen-mile Creek,
Wasco county, while attending the
machinery of his mill, had his arm
badly broken by nn accident.
While Mr. Welch was on tho way to
IleppiK-r with a loaded wagon, his four-year-old
child fell off tho wagon and the
wheel broke its arm near tho elbow.
Tho Dalles Timta says J, II. Wilson,
of Kuumis, is in that city and intend fo
buy stock cattlo to drive East next
Summer. He will canvass Wasco
county for that purpose.
Tho L ifayelte jail has two occupants ; "
a Chinaman who broko a pitcher ovor
the head of tho Dayton hotel keeper,
and u chnp from Wupato who stole a
lit of lied clothes.
At Union on Sunday evening at tho .
M. E. Church, just an the congregatioa
were dismissed, some wretch threw a
stone through tlio window, and $50 re
ward is offered to discover who did it.
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A Ciiink.sk Brctk. On Thursday last Mr. t
John E. Woods, foreman on the narrow 1
gauge, and having in charge a gang, dis- .1
charged one of the number, Ah Joe, a pugi
list. Hf soou packed up hi bundle, includ
ing a tent belonging to Hop Sine, a diminu
tive fellow- labon-r, to which Siug objected by
hying hold of the pack. Thi so incensed
the burly Ah Joe that he picked op a club
aud knocked the other down, lwatins him inv
to iustmibility. and hail not Mr. Woods in-
terfered would have murdered hi victjm out- ,
right. After the commission of the dastardly
deed Ah Joe began to measure tic in the di
rection of the peaceful Santiam. TbebarT
barian crowd stood mute spectator of the
tight, evidently fearinir thn uvaire Ah Joe.
The wonnded man lay insensible in hi gor
iw mrer neurs, lilt comrade reluslng to reu -der
the eliithtett asti.tai re. Itevrml earivinZ
him to camp by order of Mr. SVood. Siirer-
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