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OREGON SCOUT. TELEGRAPHIC. COAST CULLINGS. CONGRESSIONAL. AGRICULTURAL. OREGON NEWS. JOHES & CHANCEY, Publishers. UNION. OKK(JOX. Tjik whole German empire is but little more than twico the size of Ore gon, but her population is over 45, 000,000. The production of pig-iron in the United StateB in 1887 was 6,417,148 gross tone, the largest in tho history of the country. During tho past year 2,200 miles of railroad havo been constructed in tho 8tato of Kansas, thus adding one fourth to her total mileage. Tub richest child in America is said to be May1 Sharplcsa, a little miss of 9 years, who is worth $9,000,000 in her own right. Ex-Gov. Leon Abbott, of New Jersey, is her guardian, her father being dead. Wm. McPjikuson, of Greeno County, Ohio, hns four young hogs that can't hear it thunder. They will .-tand per fectly still while a gun is fired right over their heads. Thoy havo no cars, and no signs of any, though in other respects thoy aro well-shoped pigs. It is said that Mommecn, tho histor rian of tho Romans, when walking along tho streets of Berlin, keops his . eyes fixed on tho ground and pays no attention to tho salutations of those acquaintances who meet him. Ho is in his 71st year. Miss Eu.A Bubh, of Ilehobath, Conn., invited an applicant for charity into hor houso tho other day. While alio was preparing food tho tramp Bang, "Nearer, My God, to Thco," and at tho samo timo stolo tho lady's Tockotrbook and $25 from tho bureau drawer. ' A I'LABTKit cast of a fossil egg, found in tho tertiary strata of tho Island of Madagascar, tho original of -which was in tho Paris Academy of Sciences, belongs to tho National Museum at Washington. It is thirty four and ono-half inches ono way and twenty inches tho other. Aiiout 2,600 words aro all that aro urcd in ordinary talking and oonvor nation, although thcro aro eomo 20,- 000 woids in tho English language Different authors vary in tho number of tho words they uso, but tho differ onco is but slight. Slmkspcro found 4,000 words sufficient for alibis works Thk cooling efl'eot of ico in actually dopoudont upon its molting, as in this Drocess tho heat which causes it to molt is absorbed from tho surround' ing bodies. A pound of ico in molt Ing will absorb sufficient beat to cool a pound of water from 174 degrees Fab renhoit to a freezing point, or to cool 142 pounds of water ono dogrco. 1 UK city of Liverpool is to bo sup plied with wator from a reservoir in Wales, which is to bo four and ono half miles long by a half mile to a inilo broad, and eighty feet deop. There will bo three lines of pipo, each sixty-eight miles long, with tillering beds and secondary reservoirs. The ncqucduot alone will cost $15,000,000. Mohtau made in tho following man ner will eland if used in almost all sorts of weather. Ono bushel of un slaked lime; three bushels of sharp sand ; mix one pound of alum with ono pint of linseed oil, and thoroughly mix this with tho mortar when mak ing it, and uso hot. The alum will counteract tho action of tho frost on tho mortar. Mibs Ai.mkda Taft, of Sadorus, 111., has a canary bird that snores. About two'o'clock ono morning its snores bo came so loud as to arouse tho house hold. Tho bird boing awakened, the noise instantly ceased. Tho owner of tho bird regards it now as a very musi cal canary, and tho neighbors all de clare thoy never heard tho liko of its snores which becomo more pronounced with each succeeding day. A jiuakkman who lives in Hornolls villo, N. Y., while standing on tho top of a freight car was struck full in the chest by some object that camo sailing thiough tho air directly toward him. Tho brakoman picked tho thing up And found that it was a small owl. Taking it to tho caboose, ho notio d a small glittering object almost con cealed by feathers on tho owl's broust. Jt was found to bo a plain gold ring suspended around its nook by a fine chain, which also appeared to bo gold. Tho trinkot was closely examined, and on tho inside tho following inscription was found ongruved ; "From 0, E. S. to Ql E. M., 1881, Fidclittu." Epitome of the Principal Events Attracting 1'aUie Interest Now Seven persons wore killed by a col lision on tho Wabiish, Hannibal it St. Joe railway, near Kansas City, Mo. J. T. Stroope, of Junction City, Texas, was brutally murdered by two unknown persons. Richard Mitchell, employed in slid ing logs in Provo canyon, Utah, was killed, being struck by a log. Mrs. Eliza Lewif, an aged woman and her three grandchildren were smothered to death in a house at Cloveland, Ohio. At Ashland, Wis., Wm. Andrews shot and killed his wife. Ho thon shot himself, but not fatally, but fin ished tho tragedy by drawing a razor acroes his throat. James Dobio, a middle aged English man, shot and fatally wounded his wife at a hotol in Pullman, 111. She had left him sovcral months ago on account of his general worthlessness. A collision occurred between a pas senger and freight train, twenty miles from Barcelona, Spain. Three persons wore killed and fortysix injured, sev eral of whom havo died. Wm. J. McFarland, of Cloveland, Ohio, quarreled with his wifo, while under tho inlluenco of liquor. In his fury ho drow a rovolver, shot his wife and thrco-year-old daughter, and then shot himself. All aro dead. A barn belonging to A. M. Forbes, and located on West Monroo street, Chicago, burned. Sovonty were suffocated, and several barely escaped with their lives, horses peoplo . Tho loss is about $ TJ,,WV. Sergeant James While, of Company C, stationed at Fort Gibson, I. T., met with a fulfil accidout. Ho was hold ing a stako in his hand, when a horse kicked at him and drovo tho stako through his body. Ho died instantly. A cyclono swept over Brown ton, Texas, destroying tho Methodist, Bap tist and Congregational churches and eight dwollings. Ono person wa killed, and eight, including tho sheriff and county recorder, were fatally wounded. A man named Likens at Spring field, Mo., crushed tho heads of his two children, a boy and girl, aged re spectively nino and oloven years, with an axo, and thon cut bts own throat with a pocket-knife. Ho oxpirod in ton minutes. Mrs. Anua Bryant was murdored bi ll )r father. William Greenwood, at Curtis, Neb. Sho had just given birth to a child, after sho had been married only three months. Her bus band has lolt tho country. blio was only 10 years of ago. Dom Pedro, tho Emperor of Brazil, appears to bo stricken with paralysis. Ho has lest tho power of speech, and his breathing is labored. Oxygen was forced into hiB lungH, and coffwino was inioctcd under his skin, with tho ro sultthat ho becamo less inert and par tially conscious, but there is littlo nope for bis recovery. William Bullock, an employ of tho West Shore railroad at Newark, Wayne county, Now York, Bhot liia wifo four times with a revolver, killing her inst.uitly. Ho then placed tho weapon to his own head and fncd, in Hiding a fatal wound. Jealousy was tho cause. Threo children, aged from nine to eighteon yearn, survive. Tho Mteainship City of Para, which loft Colon for Now York, went ashoro on Old Providence Island near Pana ma. At last accounts sho was lying in sovonteen feet of water. Tho ves sel is in no danger, unlesH heavy weather sets, in, which is very unlikely at this timo of year. Tho passengers mails and specie aio still on board. At tho Chickasaw Indian nation, a bloody bowio-knife buuhery occurred. Two farmers named Wash Edward and James Schneider got into a light with knives, and tho former was liter ally torn to pieces, his right arm be ing severed at the shoulder, and ins back split entirely open, bolides re ceiving numerous other mortal gashes. Charles Carey, who deliberately ' kiiled Moy Ni Ding, a Chiuiiman, at tho stock yards packing house in Chi cago, has been sentenced to fifty years by tho judge. 1 ho victim went to buy scraps, when Carey walked up to him, laughed, pulled a revolver and shot h'm dead. To tho horriliod spec tators ho said; "I've only killed a Chinaman." Plireo horriblo and unjustifiable crimes woro avenged by tho hanging of one white man uunrjd Graham, and two negroes named David Moore and Millard Hall, at Gionvillo, Miss. David Mooro killed a companion dur ing a game of dice. Willard Hall killed a 15-year-old boy. Graham, the white man, was hanged for killinir two white men on the Sun (lower river. Tho steamer City of Peking which arrived from Hong Kong and Yoko hoina brought a definite account of tho wreck of the fcteamer San .Pablo, near Turnabout island, in tho straits of Formosa. A heavy fog provailed at tho time, and the steamer ran up on a hidden reef. The locality is in fested with pirates, and as soon as they raw that tho San Pablo was aground they made an attempt to board hor, nui woro driven on auer a snarp limit, in which a number of shots were fired by the otlicorsand crew of tho steamer. It was found impossible to get tho San Pablo off, and sho was abandoned, af ter which tho pirates went aboard and ransacked hor, and then set tho steamer on firo, burning hor to tho water's edge. Ad Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. Henry drowned Cal. Schussler, aged 14, wbb while bathing at Napa, Firo broke out in Palouso City, W. T., that consumed the entiro eastern portion of tho town. Half of tho bus iness houses are destroyed. Joo Charcst was drowned in tho Sacramento river opposite Red Bluff, Cal. Ho was in swimming, took cramps, sank and did not riso again. Ignatius Kehrcr, brother-in-law of ox-State Treasurer Wiol, fell dead from a wagon, of hoart disease, at Sacra monto, Cal. Turner Purdum, while fishing on some rocks a milo south oj Santa Cruz, Cal., was washed off by tho surf and drowned. In a baseball gamo at Monterey, Cal., John Tyman, while running basis, slipped and fell, breaking his leg. Frank Lagrovo, driver of a browory wagon, who was thrown into the streot by a runaway team, died from tho effect of his injuries at San Fran cisco. A brakoman named J. F. Brown was killed while walking on top of freight train ut Summit, Cal. Brown was caught under a enowshed, and the top of his head was taken off. Henrv Peterson, of San Francisco and Wm. Payne, of Victoria, B. C. havo signed articles lor a rowing match at Victoria, on Juno 23. The course, threo miles and tutu, for stako of $2,150. Peterson is allowed $150 for expenses. Wm. Burns, a young plumber of San Francisco, went out from Oak land on tho bay for a boat ride, and has not been seen Binco. His boat drifted asboro with some of his clothes therein. It is supposed that ho fell out of tho boat and was drowned. Jack Hcmmpns, a pioneer, was found at Victoria, B. C, with his throat cut. It is supposed that ho committed suicido in a fit of despond oncy. Deceased was well connected in England. Of lato yearp, through drink, ho had descended low, and lat terly lived among tho Indians. C. W. Ingolfritz, a telegraph opera tor was found dead under tho ap proach to tho Humboldt bridgo at Winnomucca, New, with a bullet holo in his head. Ho was a young man of exemplary character. J ho supposi tion is that unrcturned ailection was tho caiiHO of tho act. Ho had fallen heir to a fortuno in Germany. Two tinners, Uharles Uilbort, and W. M. Bush, wero thrown from tho roof of a houso at Los Angeles, Cal. by tho explosion of a small gasoline stove on which their soldering irons wore boating. The men fell a distanco of thirty foot. Gilbert had a shoulder blado broken, and was othenviso in j tired. Bush was severely bruised. The dead body of a woman, who proved to bo Mrs. Nollio Widoinan formerly ot ilealdsburg, cjal, was found in a houso of low resort on Second street, San Fiancisco. The suspicion is, judging from marks on her person and tho circumstances un der which sho was found, that she is a victim of murder, Oscar Beaver, a resident of Visalia, shot and killed J. Cripo, a stockman Beaver was living on his homestead, about threo miles northeast of Lillis Station, Cal., and Cripo went there to lay claim to tho land, and in a dU nute, drow his pistol, when O.'car tired. Thoro wero four or live shot exchanged, tho last shot taking effect in tho breast of Cripe, killing him An aged woman, probably tu years of ago, was picked up dead near tho Union Pacific railroad track, eloso to Squaw creek. Idaho. Her neck and both arms wero broken. Just before tho train reached Pocatello, tho con due tor was informed that an old lady, who had been in tho emigrant car, was missing, and it wasfeaied sho had fallen from tho train. Abti.t six months ago tho city council of Santa Ann, Cal , mauled a franehiso to tho Tustin Motor railroad, to take etlect when tho company wis incorporated. Up to two week ago it had not incorporated, and a new fran chiso was voted to tho S.tnfa Ana, Orange it Tustin horso lino over the eiuno routo. Tho road was build at once, and cars aro now running. Tho former company has incorporated, and intend to bring suit for usurpation of tho franchise Two men, ono of whom is dead, wero burned in a firo at the St. Louis hotol at San Francisco. A cigar stump carelessly thrown away set lire I to tho building, which burned liko a tinder. Androw Aiken, a longshore man, and Ed Ilaronburg, a waiter, wero bleoping in a room together, and wore enveloped by (lames beforo fiey awakened. Ilaronburg rushed through the Humes into tho street, and escaped with several burns about tho faeo and body ; but Aiken lost his preseneo of mind, and remained in the burning room. Ho was rescued after being so badly burned that his skin fell oil in dry, crisp pieces. Augustus Wiloy was shot dead about fix miles above Jackson, Cal., by l.oronzo Cunco. Wiley, under tho inlluoucQ of a crazy fit, to which he was subject, went to CuneoV ranch, .'adjoining his own, and attacked young Ouneo, aged 17, in tho garden. Ho then attacKeu uunoo's mother with a shovel, indicting several severe scalp wounds. Tho boy got a shotgun, and told Wiley if ho did not quit beating his mothor ho would shoot him. Tho assailant loft tho woman to attack tho bey, who fired at him, tho charge tak ing offuot in tho upper lip and killing him imtuntly. Legislation Pertaining to the Interest of the Pacific Coast HOUNK. . Hatch, from the committee culture, moved that the rules pended and (ho bill passed to of ngri bo s us- cnlarge the powers and duties of the depart ment of agriculture, and to create an executive department, to be known as tho department of agriculture ; passed. The diplomatic and consular appro priation bill was reported by tho com mittee, and the bill was passed. Tho district of Columbia appropria tion bill was also considered in com mittee of tho whole, and passed by tho house. Senate bill granting a right of way through tho Crow Indian reservation to tho Billings, Clark's Fork fe Cook City Railroad Company ; passed. A committeo was appointed direct ing the committe on merchant marine and fisheries to investigate tho fur seal fisheries of Alaska. Symes introduced a bill for a public building at Boulder, Colo. Hermann appeared beforo the com mittee on claims, and addnssed it up on threo important Oregon cases. Ono was of Col. Wm. J. Martin, for cattle furnished soldiers of tho government years ago ; another was for repayment of P. B. Sinnott for money advanced nB salary to the superintendent of farms, and for a mill on tho Grand Rondo Indian reservation, and the third for the payment of the claims of tho heirs of Chauncey M. Lockwood, for services .in carrying United States mails in Eastern Oregon. Theso mat ters aro now under consideration. MK.VATK. Tho sonato amendments to tho pen sion appropriation bill wero non-concurred in, and a conference ordered. T.ie sonato committeo on judiciary considered tho nomination Melv Ho W. Fuller to be chief justico of tho United States. A member of tho com mitteo is authority for tho statement thbt tho present status of tho caso warrants tho belief that Fuller will be confirmed at an early day. Manderson, from tho committeo on military affairs, reported adversely up on the potition of D. D. Dana, form orly provost marshal of tho Third bri gade, Second army corps, praying an allowanco for services performed in capturing tho assassins of President Lincoln. In its report tho committeo says that, as provost marshal, it was tho duty of pt titioner to render assist ance without reward, or hope thereof. Tho committeo on commerco has re ported tho river and harbor bill to the senate. A number of changes have beon made in Pacific coast items since tho house passed tho bill. Besides others, tho committee recommended tho following increases : Tho approp riation for improvement of tho Wil 1 motto river is rai ed from $14,000 to $29,000, $14,000 of which may bo used for rovetment work abovo Corvallis; month of tho Crquillo, raisen from $22,000 to $25,000. Morrill, from tho committee on pub lic buildings and grounds, reported a bill appropriating $17,500 for making tho west end of tho Smithsonian build ing firo proof ; passed. Among other bills reported from committees and placed on tho calen uar was the sonato bill, betting aside a portion of tho public lands for the uso of tho Alvarado cemetery, George town, Colorado. Tho houso bill appropriating $10,- 000 for tho construction and ropai of roads to the National cemetery on tho Presidio reservation at San Francisco, was passed. I-OUTliAM) 1'ItOIMTCK 31 A It K KT, BUTTKIt Fancy roll, t rt.. 10 Oregon inferior trrado 20 274 Ja 25 30 Pickled California roll 324 do pickled Cukksk 35 20 10 Eastern, full cream 10 & Oregon, do California It Eons Fresh DltlKl) Fkuits (53 IS Applet, qrs, sks and bxs.. . i i i ( 0 t) 23 14 10 40 iVnrieotH. now cron 18 OA uu waiiiurjiifi Peaches, unueeleu. now . . . ISJiCi LlUia, IlKll .1 1.1 W 141 HJ.t . . . . . . Pitted cherries r..nro .1-1, ,1 Pitted plums. Oregon 124 t 1, .J, It. "ft llJkO , , Cal. PruneH, French 8 Oregon prune 10 Flouk - i.m..., n i i i...., i. 0 10 124 Portland Pat. Roller, tfbbl 8 4 00 Salem do do 4 00 White Lily V bbl 4 25 Country brand 3 BO & 3 75 Suueruno 2 to a 75 GllAIN Wheat, Valley, k 100 Ibi... 1 25 1 271 do Walla Walla 1 174 a 1 20 Barley, whole, k ctl 1 10 A 1 12; do crout'd. bJ ton 20 00 625 00' Oats, olioico inillinK t' bush 4(3) 41) do tt'eu.gooii tocnoice.oltl 44 (z) 15 Bye. V 100 lbs X 1U 1 25 Fkko Bran, V ton 015 00 Shorta, V ton 17 00 Hay, t ton, baled 14 00 (4I5 00 Chop, ton 23 00 23 U0 Oil cako meal V ton 33 00 35 00 Fuioii Fiinm Apples, Oregon, V box 1 25 1 50 Cherrie. Oregon, pdrru... Lemons, California, fe'bx.. 3 23 3 50 Limes, V 100 1 0q Riverside oranges, fc'box,, . Los Angeles, do do ... Peaches, f box Hides Dry, over 10 lbs, f lb Wet salted, over 65 lta Murrain hides Pelta Vkoktabis Cabbage, tUb Carrots, sack , Caullllowor, doi Onions Potatoes, now, f 1C0 lbs . , 8 3 4 3 7 10 10 6 0 23 75 23 73 76 wooi, East Oregon. Spring clip., 2 14 Valler Oregon, do ,, 14 15 the and Interests of Stockmen. Farmeri Homc-Miulo Cheese. This is tho timo of the year, or soon will be, when butter-mnking becomes tiresome and cheese-making comes in for a t ba ige or variety. Cheese is a common article of diet and very wholefomo and nutritious. Every farmer's wife Bhould know how to make good cheese, and it is said to be as easy to make cheese as to make butter. What is needed is a I oiler for heating the milk, and a tub frr setting the curd ; a press can be easily made that will answer tho purpose, and thermometer. Fivo quarts of milk will usually make a pound of cheese. Milk just from the cow has tho right temperature. If it don't work than heat it to 90 degrees. Rennet, in li quid form, can be procured with full directions for its use. Mix thoroughly as directed. Tho curd should form in half an hour. When bard enough, cut with a knifo into inch-tquarc pieces, to let the whey separate, thon draw it off. Let the curd stand on one Bide for an hour to drain. It will then be slightly acid ; break up with tho hands, adding an ounce of S'ilt to threo pounds of curd. A hoop made of wood or sheet-iron, juit the size for tho cheese jay eight inches in diame ter and ten inches deep can be uted, and will make ten pounds of cheese. Place a cloth bandage in the hoop. and press the curd in with tho hands Press the curd firmly, then keep it in the press twenty-four hours; after this place it in tho curing room, and turn it every day from two to four weeks. In two mouths it will bo ready for the table. Factory made cheese is apt to be harried in making, and is not as good as a really grod home-mado ar ticle Really, it is easier to make cheese than butter; it is as readily sold, and brings more money, or fully as much. So there is no reason why farmers' wives should not makecheet-e to sell and to eat at home, and of the best. Curliiff Bulky Horse. Many ways aro recommended to euro a horso from balking, but a very sensible plan is given by a correspond out of the Country Gentleman. His idea is to make tho horse forget that he tried to balk. For this purposo ho tried him at the harrow if ho balked in tho wagon. If there was some par ticular place where ho usually balked the owner would stop him there, get out and givo him something to eat and ho would forget that bo wanted to balk and go on sll right. A horso is susceptible to kindmss, and cruel usago only hardens his nature and makes mm obdurate Let him got tho idea that you intend to be cruel to him and ho will bo ugly to you. .Treat him with kindness when you uet him and ho will forget unkind treatinen received previously, and become gentle and trrctable. Tho famous horfco- breakers always conquer by kindness If a horse refutes to start, givo him bito to eat anil then after a moment lead him away a rod or so, and the chances aro that ho will go along and lorget about the naming, it you use a horso in this wav a tew times, un less ho is incorrigible and extremely ugly by nature, tho chances aro that he will learn to respect you and for get to balk. There aro few horses that are reany ugiy, nut some animals are of a hateful turn and aro much harder to work than others. White clover is the best pasture grass that can be grown for theep as White ciover is a snort grass u it more desirablo than red clover for grazing, as sheep detest long grass preferring to crop close to tho ground On a mixture of grasses in a pasture cattlo and sheep may bo grazed to getlmr, as the grasses that may bo ob jectionable to the cattlo will bo ap propriated by tho sheep. Tho farmers of tho United States planted last year 78,000,000 acres of corn, or an area as large as Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu setts, uh'Hlo Island, Connecticut, tho whole of Now York and New Jersey the number ot biifluls ot corn raised was 1,450.161,000 and the total value of the product was $G4G,10G,770. Iowa raised lbll.OOO.OOO bushels; llli nois and Missouri each about 140.000,- UUU bushels; Nebratka IW.OOOOOO ; Ivanf-as and lexas each b,000 L00. The Peerless is no doubt a good po tato, but it is not to good as tho Bur bank-, aoi mo two neioro a good ap- petito ami tuo iniroanK, that is so clear, mealy and white, with such a relish, too, is far ahead of tho other. It does not seem possible for any po tato to eat better than tho Burbank does in April, and the natural advice to givo would bo to plant tho Burbank unless something fully as good or bet ter is to bo had. Something is duo to the soil on which tho potato is grown. hothor the Burbank is as good grown in ordinary soil as on river tottom and sandy loam is a question. This spring tho Burbank has sold higher than most other kinds. No grafting can bo successfully and cortainly dono unless tho wood for scions has been cut beforo tho buds havo swelled and kept cool and moist through the winter. To do this cut tho wood in lato fall and keep the fcious all winter in moist but not wet sand or soil. It is even advisable to et them lose a littlo of their original sap or moisturo. An Oregon nimory man onco throw away a lot ot scions as they woro considerably shrunk. He was surprised to fiud that the pt rtion he used took and grow better than any of tho rost. This was bocau$p there was vitality left in tho wood, anil bo ing a littlo dry tho sap from tho juicy stock quickly tilled it, and sot it to growing thriftily. Devoted to Everything of General Infcerert fa Condensed Form. Albany is infested by burglars. f' A new county jail will bo built at Arlington. Jackson county's court house is to be repainted and repaired. Hon.. J. R. South, on old pioneer who resided near Halsey, is dead. R. D. Hume is building a largo warehouse at Gold Beach, Curry county. Colo Brothers, of Oregon City, are erecting a sawmill on Pudding river, near Aurora. A small shark was captured at Ya quina bay recently, and shipped to Prof. Congdon, nt tho stato university. W. T. Griswold and Eugon9 Jlick secker, of the U. S. geological survey, have taken tho field for tho season in Southern Oregon. Joshua Nichols, arrested at Sweet Home for disturbing the public school and threatening the directors and others, was fined $10 and costs. Wm. Bogart accidentally In d tho backs of both his bando pleased against a pulley in the Coburg sawmill, in Lane county the other day, laceraV ting them terribly. Louis Nolan, of Crook county, has been sent to the penitentiary for two years for forgery committed in signing another man's name to au order for a suit of clothes. W. N. Thomas, of Reck creek, near Mehama, has received a notice from a vigilance committeo to leave the coun try within ten days. He says he will stay where he is. A man named James Morgan, who was in tho employ of Hoffman & Pfeiffer at Albany, decamped, taking about $50 from the safe. Ho was ar rested in Portland. A. Hammond and Richard Mitchell were out hunting, and Hammond killed Mitchell, mistaking him for a deer. Tho accident occurred in tho mouutains near Jacksonville. Frank Tripp, of the Coquillo river,, accidentally shot himself while out hunting. The gun was resting with! the stock on tho ground when it was discharged, tho ball entering the right breast. Frank Mack was accidentally shot near Albany, while hunting. Placing a lighted pipe in a side pocket with his cartridges, one of them was exploded, injuring one of his fingers as well as his body. Mrs. J. E. Sorbin, of Gatesville, Linn county, took an overdose of morphine, and died from tho effects of it. Sho was a confirmed user of mor phiue, and obtained the drug by un derhand means. Charley, tho 15-year-old Eon of R. Trescott, living on Powder liver near Auburn, Baker county, was seriously injured by having his saddle animal f .11 upon him while riding on the range. A little girl of W. B. Wright, post master at Shedd, Linn county, was slightly burned by the explosion of a co.d oil can, from which sho was pour ing oil into a lighted stove. Tho mother seeing the girl's clothing in a. blaze, smothered the fire out with her apron and skirts, burning her hand in doing to. The residence of B. II, Irvine at Jordan Valley, Linn county, burned t ) the ground with all tho " contents. The origin of tho fire is not known, hut i is supposed to have originated from a tine. About $150 worth of wool and $100 in greenbacks were al so consumed. A quantity of silver also went through the tire. but was re covered in a half melted condition. Georgo F. Cooper, a resident of Baker county, has been adjudged in sane and committal to tho asylum. The young man, it is said, was highly respected by those who knew him, and his unfortunate condition is much regretted No cause can be assigned Fave that several years aeo, while in iv Southern Slate, he had a severe attack of yellow fever from tho effects of which ho never fully recovered. Georgo W. Clttmo of tho lower Suis- U w, met with a serious accident on his ranch on Indian creek. With his brother ho was engaged in sawing down a tree. It commenced to fall un expectedly against him, throwing him to tho ground, and with his wrist on a rail, another rail falling on top of tho first, tho tree coining down on tba rail, crushing it completely off abovo tho fingers, leaving nothing but a stump. An altercation took place a few- miles north of Pendleton, betweon J. 1$. uoyle and William Temple. Tho quarrel arose over tho building of somo fence. Coylo was at work die-'. ging post-holes, when Temple camo up, and after some words they camo to blows, in which Coylo not tho worst of tho encounter, his head being bruised and cut by a spado which ho had been Using, but which Temnlo got away from him. Coylo retaliated by shooting at Temple, which did not take effect. Wm. Marston, accompanied by jv woman who passed herself as Mrs. Marston, and two children, bov and gill, nearly grown, arrived in Salem and bought twenty acres of land near Jjuko Jiabish, and built a houso there on. A day or two since H. D. Kelly, a citizen of Pueblo, Col., arrived in Salem in search of his wifo and chil dren who h d eloped with Marston, and had takon eomo money and other valuables belonging to him. Ho was attacked by Marstou and terribly boftton about the head and body. Threo of his riba we-o hrokon, and it is feared that thoy pierced the lungs.