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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.