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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1888)
OREGON SCOUT. JONES & CHANCEY, Publish era. UNION. ORROBH. A low estimate puts the number of jpersons supported by all the forma of employment furnished by electricity ut 5,000,000. Tjckue are forty-threo log school houBoa in Iown. This .b the number given in the report of tho State Sup i erintondont for 1887. Venus the morning star, is brighter tlian it ever appeared to any man now living, and nearer the earth than it will be again for 3 10 years. One hundred and twenty bull fights were given in the City of Mexico dur ing tho past year. Seventeen bull fighters were wounded, and ono pro fessional and two amateur lighters killod. Ik Mexico it is tho cut torn to ad dress ladies by t'uir given names, -even when thoy are almost strangers. Neglect to comply with thin custom -will givo offenco to many women. It has been, calculated according to Trofeseor Proctor, that a man of 70 has consumed twenty wagon loads, or eighty tons, of food, solid and liquid. An elephant has been sent by Lord Dufferin to tho Shah of Persia as a gift. It is a very fine one, gorgeously caparisoned and attended by thirty Hindoos. A I'ATcmvoiiK quilt made by chil dren in the United States, and an In dian shawl, tho gift of Queen Victoria, were buried with Jenny Lind at her Tcquest. A ckutain Philadelphia family scorns to bo of very fragile material. There aro 10 persons in it, and they liavo experienced 32 fractures of bones during tho past few years. Two Protestant citizens of Madrid were lately condemned to six months' imprisonment for refusing to kneel be fore tho Viaticum. Tho liberal news papers aro indignant at this display of intolerance. Mhh. Eliza Wilcox is tho only per son born in tho White House. Sho was Iho only daughter of President Jackson's adopted son, and was born in tho presidential mansion during tho administration of "Old Hickory." Tiik infant daughter of Princo .Beatrice and Princo Henry of Batton borg was christened with water fiom the Jordan river, a bottle having bcon scoured for that purpose by Rev. CM. Owen, of Birmingham. Tiik Captain of tho British ship City of Madrid, which arrived lately at San Francisco, reported that whon off tho Patagonian coast, during strong wosterly winds, butterflies were blown aboard tho vobbcI at a distance of 150 miles from land. Tiikkk is a man in tho Kansas peni tentiary who, beginning with n torm at Sing Sing yearn ago, has served his time in regular succession in tho peni tentiaries of Now York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Kansas. "Mkh. Hetty Giikknk, tho richest -woman in America, was born in Nan tucket, Mass., and her father was a sea captain. Sho is a quoor character and has been more written about than almost any othor woman in America. 8ho is worth $10,000,000. Tiikiii: is a curious law in voguo in Switzerland compels every nowly nuirriod couple to plant trees shortly after tho ceremony. Tho treos or dered to bo planted on redding days are tho pino and weeping willow. On nntal days tho BiiggCBtivo birch treo is selected. A YKAit ago Miss Clara Mooro, of Gincinuali, wont to visit friends in Los Angeles, Oal. Sho hud a few hun dred dollars with her, which sho in vested in Southern California lands, and in the boom that followed she sold out her property at a not gain .of 1125,000. Mhs. Ci.kvkla.M) has been studying French, under tho tutelago of a "French woman who lives near tho Exccutivo Mansion, and has mado such good progress that sho can now, it is stated, read and write quite fluently in tho "court" language, and thus prove charming in an additional tongue. Court etiquette Is said to bo n branch of Instruction in tho fashionable lailies' schools in this city. Since tho immigration of so many society puoplu to Loudon during "tho season has not iu, tho knowledge of "How to lu pre sented at court is Indispensable to very ambitious bollo. Ar. 1', Urapftc. TELEGRAPHIC. Ad Epitoi ime oi ine rrincipai otcdu ii it i n . Now Attracting Pablie Interest Three men laying gas-pipes in Thirty-second streot, Now York, were killed by tho caving in of a bink. Three cases of sunttroko and num erous probtrttions have occurred in New York city and Brooklyn, owing to inteusi heat. A man named Glass, residing at Glaaego, Pa., killed his son-in-law and mortally wounded himself. Domestic trouble was tho cause. Details of gales on tho coast of Ice land last month show that -100 French fishermen were drowned and thiity vessels wrecked. At San Difgo, in tho State of Ncuvo Leon, a railroad train nlunged through a bridge and two Amoiicans was killed. Tho accident was duo to washing out the foundation of the biidge. A Ihunder storm accompanied by hail passed over Princeton, N.J. The house of Harrison Voorbees was struck by lightning, and both ho and his wife were instantly killed. John McCulloch, a broom maker, of dissipated habits, shot and fatally wounded his wife, and killed himself at St. Louis. The woman had left him becausoof bin conduct. An alarming rebellion has broken out among the people made destitute by Hoods in llunoii and Han-Tung, China. It is reported that the troops have joined tho rebels and murdered government otlicials. During a severe storm at Manitou, Ont., a brick school house in Osgood township was blown down, and twenty children were buried in tl o ruins. Sonio of them were fatally wounded, and none escaped painful injuries. C. H. Honibtend, while engaged in a game of baseball at Oakland, Nob., was struck in the stomach by tho knee of a baserunner and fatally injured. Ho was an employee of tho Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha mil road. August Michaelsou and Hans Tidgc wro drowned on the Loup river, Neb. Michaelsou wishing to frighton Tidgc, who could not swim, tipped tho boat until it finally capsized. In trying to save Tidgo tho latter clung to Michael sou, and both were drowned. It is learned that tho boarding-house at tho Banner mine, about thirty miles north of Idaho City, I. T., was burned, and two men, Miko McCul lough and Con Bunigartnor, were burned in it. Several men in the second story saved their lives by jump injr out of a window. A looso engine while backing around a curve at Boaz, Ky., ran ovor two children of Mrs. Helen Harper, who were lying asleep on tho track. The eldest child escaped uninjured, but ttie youngest, aged four years, had its arm and leg broken and skull fractured, from tho effect's of which it died. Goo. llickard, a minor well known in Nevada, and lately from Eureka, was drowned in Wood river, Idaho. A wagon loaded with minors was com ing to town, and while fording tho river tho wagon was overturned. Tho other men had a narrow escape The body of llickard has not been found. For a poriod of twenty years thorn has been carried on a systematic plan of embezzling goods from ono of the largest printing concerns in Boston, and a thorough investigation by do tectivos is now in progress, which threatens to result in tho arrest of many of its oldost employes. Tho lowest estimate of tho value of the goods stolon is $ 100,000. Mrs. Josophino Marek, of Allegany City, Pa., administered strichnino to her throe children, aged 7, 3 and 1, and then swallowed poison herself. In less than three hours tho mother and children wore dead. Tho motive for tho deed is supposed to bo anger be cause her husband had ordoied his brother from the house, whom ho sus pected of criminal intim icy with his wife. Sergeant Nolan and Private Taylor of Fort Madison, Nob., got into a quar rel ovor a woman named Carrie Heed, during which both drew revolvers anil began firing. Nolan was fatally wounded and died shortly after. The woman was also shot and is in a criti cal condition. Taylor gave himself up, claiming that he acted iu self-defense, hut a coroner's jury decided that he shot with felonious intent. A uovii-lisli, or ocean vampire, accidentally lontally caught near Vampico, 1 ico, in a fishing-seine recently. es wore thrown around tho moil- and bv tho aid of horses it was ' wus Mox Hopes sier, ami uy mo aid oi Horses it was drawn to tho shore. It weighed two I tons, and when spread out on the 1 beach dead presented every appear I mice oi an enormous vat or vampire. It measured fifteen feet wide from tho edge of the pectoral litis, and its mouth was live feet across. A collision occurred on tho Choy etiiie & Northern branch of the Union Pacific, near Bordeaux, Wyo, between a work train and a passenger engine, which resulted in tho death of Pas ' - , senger Conductor Under, Fireman hem and Brakoiuan Maytield, and the probably fatal injury of Engineers Brooks and Mursden, and tho serious !..:. ..I I .. .1 i i injury of four other employes. A washout occasioned sending out the work train. On the arrival of tho north-louud passenger train at Bor deaux, the conductor rim with the empty engine to the scone of tho washout to learn tho situation. While making the run the collision occurred with tho work tniin, which was run-able mug to uotimaitx at tun speed. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to the Interest of Farmers and Stockmen. Too much corn or cornmeal causes chicken cholera. Linseed meal should not be fed to very young pigs except in small quan tities, and not very often, as it is too much of laxative for I htm. To prevent tho formation of long lap roots and got n largo number of small roots on plants raided in boxes use a shallow seed-bed, not over two inches of loam in tho boxes. This dries out quickly, and care should be taken to kiep it moist, There is more gain, in proportion to its feed, during the first year of any animal's lifo than there is any time after. Acting on this hint, calves pre destined for tlic butcher including all grade malep, may be well fed until they are a year old, and then turned iffforbeof. If killed thus early, tho male should not bo castrated. Tho utility of windmills on tho farm is now very generally recognized , and they are seen dotting hundreds of ; farms where five yeirs ago none were to bo found. A Western farmer writes that with his windmill he grinds all kinds of feed, makes a good article of corn-meal and graham Hour, shells corn, runs a feed-cutter and a 29 inch wood Baw. When tho farmers nre advised to give warm water to stock, it should al ways bo understood that if above blood heat it should have fed of seine kind stirred in it to make it palatable ; bran or corn meal will do. If given to them clear it should bo, for tho best robiilts, only a little warmer than spiing water, tho icy chill entirely re moved. It certainly does not pay to keep a low grade of sheep and then let them take care of themselves. The small amount of wool secured, as well as the poor quality, is such that no margin of profit will bo left to tho farmer over and above tho cost. Even with poor sheep a much better growth of wool can bo secured if they bo reasonably well cared for than if thoy bo left to thenibolves. The very best time wo beliovo to make plant cuttings of grape-vine canes is just as scon as frist destroys tho leaves. Make two-joint cuttings, leaving an inch of wood beyond each. Plant these at an angle of 80 deg. in mellow soil, a foot apart. Finn the soil, especially about tho lower joints; and then cover three inches deep after the first freeze with straw or litter, 'Ion tons of superior Toxas cotton seed wore shipped from Galveston, Tex , consigned to tho German East African Colonization Society, Zanzi bar, Africa. An experienced planter accompanied tho seed for tho purpose of instructing tho natives of Zanzibar in tho cultivation of the cotton nlant This event marks tho introduction of cotton on the oabt coast of Africa. A method for protecting trees against rabbits and ground mice, practiced by Missouri farmers and in dorsed by tho Missouri State Horti cultural society, consists m covering tho trunk of tho treo around with wire cloth. If this be inserted an inch or two into the ground, it is claimed that it proves an equal pro tection to ground mice, which often girdle trees at and below the surface during tho winter. Experiments in pig feeding, insti tuted under tho Danish Agricultural Socioty, go to show that skimmed milk has double tho feeding value of buttermilk ; that rye and hat ley are of about, equal valuo, with a slight percentage in favor of rye, and that six pounds of skimmed milk have the same feoding valuo as ono pound o rye or barley, and twelve pounds of buttermilk aro required to obtain the same result of feeding value. Thoro is no popular craze just now for growing sunlloweis. It is quite as wen, siuco mo oiu-iasmoneu reasons for planting them aro as strong as ihoy ever were. They mado excellent winter food for honw, and if protectct wnuo young, uio suniiower win rap idly tower up and make a splendid shade for them iu hot. weather, iu the yard whore fowls run. The plant is a cross feeder, and oven tho heuyard is scarcely too rich lor it. Twenty years ago tho valuo of fruit imported to ureat. lintain whs given at about $15,000,000 from aU points. Now it lias increased to $37,000,000 Of the apt lea from North America one-third reach British ports from Canada. Judging by tho quantity shipped, tho yellow Bollotiour must be immensely grown for American ex port, while tho Baldwin also roaches """ "i "umenso numbers. The Newtown Pippin brings tho highest l'rice- Tho old-fashioned open ditch is in our climate an expunsivo nuisance, Evorv snrine it is nartlv filled with ti 4 " sediment, leaves of trees and soil washed down from its banks. There is, beside, a waste of time in plowing, cultivating, and every other teamwork in a Held imis uividcu. l lie noonei the open ditch is made into an under drain the better it will bo for the farmor's purse. It may cost at first, but it will pay every way. Excopt for boetsand mangels, which thrive iu hot weather, no heating ma nure should be t Bed for root crops. 'Turnips, carrots and parsnips are bet . i.i . i. f . ... ter manured the year before with sta ble manure and some mineral fertili zer at seeding time. Too much heat and nitrogenous manure makes the roots grow faster, besides causing gieater injuries from injects. Hog mature is especially lich and heating, and is therefore especially exception on any giound intended for plaut I ing in root crops. MARKET REPORT. Reliable Quotations Carefully Eevised Every Week. WHEAT Valley, $1 25H 20 Walla Walla, $1 17$! 18$. BARLEY Whole, 1 101 12$; ground, per ton, 325 O027 DO. OATS Milling, 42i45c. ; feed, 4-1 0345c. HAY Baled, $15 0017 00. SEED Blue Grass, 14l16c ; Tim othy, 910c; Red Clover, 1415c. FLOUR Patent Roller, $4 00; Country Brand, $3 75. EGGS Per doz, 25c. BUTTER Fancy roll, per pound. 50c. ; pickled, 1520e. ; inferior grade, 15223. CHEESE Eastern, lG20c.; Ore gon, 1416c. ; California, 14ic. VEGETABLES Beets. wr sack, $1 50 ; cabbage, per lb., 2Jc. ; carrots, per sk., $1 25 ; lettuce, per doz. 20o ; onions. .$1 00; potatoes, per 100 lbs., 90c.$l; radishes, per doz., 1520c. ; rhubarb, per lb., 6c. HONEY In comb, per lb., 18c; strained, 5 gal. tins, per lb. 8$c. POULTRY Chickens, per doz., $5 50G 00; ducks, per doz., $5 00 G 00; geese, $G 008 00; turkeys, per lb., lG18c. PROVISIONS Oregon hams, 13.c per lb.; Eastern, 1313$c. ; Eastern breakfast bacon, 12c. per lb.; Oregon 12()13c. ; Eastern lard, 10 lLJc. per lb. ; Oregon, lOic. GREEN FRUITS Apples, .$2 00 2 00; Sicily lemons, $( 000 50 California, $3 50f 00 ; Naval oranges $0 00; Riverside, 1 00; Mcditerra nean, $4 25. DRIED FRUITS Sun dried ap pies, 7$ e. per lb. ; machine dried, 10 11c; piliess plums, 13c,; Italian prilncs, 1014c. ; peaches, 12A14c. raisins, $2 252 50. WOOL Valley, 12lGc; Eastern Oregon, li lbc. HIDES Dry beef hidoe, 810c. culls, 67o. ; kip and calf, 810c. Murrain, 10 12c. ; tallow, 33$c. LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00 edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G sheathing, per M, $13 00; No. 2 lloor ing, per M, $18 00; No. 2 ceiling, per M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00 clear rough, per M, $20 00; clear P. S, per M, $22 50 ; No. 1 flooring, per M, $22 50; No. 1 ceiling, per M $22 50; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 50 stepping, per M, $25 00 ; over 12 inches wide, extra, $1 00; lengths 40 to 50, extra, $2 00; leiiKths 50 to GO extra, $4 00; 14 lath, per M, $2 25 U lath, per M, $2 50. MEAT Beef, wholesale, 33Ac. dressed, 7c. ; sheep, 3$c; droned, Cc. hogs, dressed, 77$c. ; veal, 78c. BEANS Quoto small whites,$2 25 pinks, $24;; bayos, $2; butter, $2 50 Limas, $3 00 per cental. COFFEE Quoto Salvador, lttc Costa Rica, 1820e.; Rio, 1820c. Java, 25Jc. ; Arbucklo's's roasted, 21k1 SALT Liverpool grades of fine quoted $18, $19 and $20 for the three sizes ; stock salt, $10. PICKLES Kegs quoted steady a $1 35. SUGAR Prices for barrels; Goldon C,5io. ; extra C,GAc. ; dry granulated (2o. ; crushed, lino crushed, cube and powdered, 74c. ; extra C, 5c. ; halves and boxes, 4o. higher. Bishop Webber, of Queensland, is described by a leading paper of tho colony as a tallish. well-nourished, rather awkward sort of a man. with a foxy heard and an occiput inclined to be bald ; no sort of figure, and doesn't wear stays or improver ; beard and forehead held at an angle of forty-live degrees to tho horizon ; expressionless eyes; restless demeanor ; takes twenty -live seconds of preliminary prayer always; prize-lighter s nose ; theoerat ie, mythical and oracular. The manager of tho Hotel del Monte, at Monterey, Cal., recently con tracted for a lot of cheap swallow tail coats, which ho o tiered to supply to his waiters for eight dollars apiece, at tho same time pro mitigating an order that all waiters in his hotel must wear dress coats. This was too much for tho free and in dependent hush si i tigers of the Pacific ..1 1 .1- I- !.. 1. 1.- . Mope, ami niuv shuck iu a uouy. jV.s ill many another striko of recent date tho only effect was that tho waiters lost a job. At Hartford City, Ind.. a girl who hud been confined to her bed for Hourly three years, anil given up by her physi cians and friends as a hopeless para lytic, got up and walked about tho room on being told that the man who had promised to marry her years ago was betrothed to another. She rapidly recovered and her recreant lover, hear ing of her wonderful restoration to health again, returned to his tirst love. All was forgiven and forgotten, ami thoy stood before tho altar anil the postponed nuptials wore celebrated. There is often wondor expressed how Cliauncoy M. Depow can stand tho strain of attendance night after night ou dinner parties, public and private. Tho more task of oating and drinking. let alone making speeches, would use up orditiarv mon in a short time. His secret Is to oat sparingly and to drink only one kind of wine. If he starts In with claret, ho drinks nothing else. If it is SHiiteriie, thou saiitorno booomas tho favorite for the night, and so with ohauipuynu, Uu likes champagne the better, but claret likes him and agrees with him bcttir than an) other. j COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Waabingtou Territory and California, Walla Walla, W. T., will hav elec- trie lights in a few weeks. A brakeman named A. A. Martin was crushed to death by a Santa Fe train near San Anita, Cal. The 13-) ear-old boy o'f W. K. White was tun over by tho cars at Gold Run, Cal. Ono leg was cut off and the other badly broken. He will die. Peter Wh'.tmore, the 19 year-old eon of Captain Whitmoro, fill from the ton-mast of r- vessel at Los An geles, Cal., and was instantly killed. M. Bow, a wealthy farmer living near Kent, W. T., was caught under a fallinu tree and crushed to death, lie was 70 years old and well known William Higgins, aged 22 years, was run over and fatally injured at Lath rop, Cal., by walking off the end of a car while the train was in motion. At Oceanside, Cal., Frank Martin, a freieht conductor, slipped from a brakebeam while making up a train and several cars pass, d over his legs, lie died in a few momentp. E. C. Allison was shot at San Mateo, Cal., by a shoemaker, who asserts that Allison entered his shop and attacked lnm lirsl witli a stick. Allison sas he struck tho cobbler after he was shot. The wounded man is not dan gerously hurt. Tho body of O. H. Peterson was found on a bank of the Russian rivtr near Cloverdale, Ci 1., with a gash in his left wrist severing the artery. He had died only a short time previous. O" his right wrist was a similar cut whi h was almost healed. A boy IS years old was killed at Dixon, Cal., while attempting to boaid a freight tiain bound for Sacramento. No ono hero knows him, but Louis Carson says that he called himsill "Dutchy" and that his mother is a widow and lives on Thirteenth street, between G and H, Sacramento. A shocking attempt at murder was made at the larinhouieof R. W.Craig, two miles north of Stockton, Cal. Andy Hoiflich, a farm laborer, entered tho bedroom of tho two Craig gills, with tho intention of killing Julia, aged 18. He en tend tho room, struck a match, and at once attacked Julia, cutting her throat from car to ear. L. M. Hudson, a well-known florist of Sumner, Pierce county, W. T., was accidentally killtd while on a pros pecting tour, near the foot of the glaciers of Mt. Tacoma. A revolver fell out of his pocket and was dh charged, the bullet passing through his neck. His companions buried him forty miles from any settlement. Louis Riva was found murdered at Guernoville, near Santa Rota, Cal., in a cabin. A few days before a woman who went to seo him on businee", dis covered that he was lying a few feet from the door, dead. He had shortly returned from a hunt, and had his powder-horn on when found. Tho bullet entered his body near the hip and ranged upward. Suspicion points strongly to a well-known man. Miss Nettie McClanehan, who is only 13 years old, escorted by a man of about 40, named Henry Nelson, eloped from Chico, Cal. Tho pair were taken to tho police station, where Nelton was discharged on his own re cognizance to appear when wanted. i he girl is detained, pending instruc-i Hons from her family. Nelson told the officers that ho and the girl were ou tin ir way to Mexico, where they would have been married. Savage, Son it Co., proprietor of the Empire foundry, ono of the old est foundries on the coast, mado an as figniiient for tho benefit of their cred itors at San Francisco to James II. Graham, chief olerk. Tho liabilities aio funi $75,000 to $90,000. Tho as sets aro t stimated at $150,000. The failure is reported to bo duo to under bidding on tho part of the linn. About 100 men arc thrown out of employ ment. Frank Sparks, of San Jose, Cal., a man about 45 years of age, wishing to avoid tho noise mado by democrats who wero ratifying in his vicinity, took a w;dk tow.'.rd Normal fchool. He entered the tqtiaro and had gone i thort distance when three men rushed up behind him and knocked him Fom-elefS wiih a sandbag. When he regained consciousness he made tho discovery that $200 ho had in his pocKei was kouo. inere is no cluo to i the identity of tho robbers. Jesus Errada was arrested at tho old town of Temecula, Cal., charged witli stealing a mare and a colt in San Bernardino county. Tho officer started ovenaiui wiin tno pruonor. On tho way tho prise tier got slightly in the lead of the officer, and whipped up his horse at full speed, thinking he would escape. His horso stumbled and fell, throwing him from tho sad dlo with one foot hanging in tho sad die. Ho was dragged some distance and fearfully mangled, dying shortly from his injuries. banniel Robertson, of San Francis co, aged 22 years, was shot and in stantly killed by Albert Bean, another young man. Early m tho day Bean, with Ins frtond George Goldon, wont on a boating excursion on tho bay, ac companied by two girls. Whon tho party returned from Saucelito in the evoning tiny wont to a down-town res taurant for dinnor, and then prome naded iu Columbia fquare, near thoir homes While thoro thoy got into a quarrel with some hoodlums and beau filially sent a bullet through JoberUon's heart. Ho then ran away hut returned and surremled himself. Golden and Iho two girls wero arrested on tho spot, hut lutor the gills were released. Been stated that he fired n tdf defense. , OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest in a. r The postoffico at Acton, Morrow county, Oregon, has been discontinued- The machinery for the new roller mills Ht Milton is on tho ground. Charles Ganon, aged 8, of Pendlo- ton, fell from stilts and broke his left arm. W. B. Cunningham killed a lynx near Heppner. He measured 3 feet 4 inches from tip of nose to tip of tail. John Corkish, of the Puget Sound Pipe Company has been awarded a contract for tho construction of water works at Milton, Umatilla county. Roland McPherson has been ap pointed postmaster at Mountain Dale Washington county, Oregon, vice Nathan A. Barret, resigned. Representative Hermann has se cured an extension of mail service to Looking Glass from Oakland, in Doug las county, Oregon. Charlie, 13-year-old son of L. S. Winters, a groceryman, fell off the trestle work near the Salem Mills and broke his right leg. An increase of mail service has been ordered from six to seven trips a week from LinLville to Lakeview,. Oregon. The following patent has been granted : Joseph Leole, John Hacton, Portland ; and fire escape. A salmon was hauled D dies, and shawl strap up on the Cutting Packing Company's dock that weighed seventy-four pounds. A. Booth, of Chicago, sent it on ico to Chicago. Wm. O'Neil, of Pendleton, was tried, convicted and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for the crime of mayhem on the person of John Brassfield. Johnny Lonon, of Pendleton, while blowing a lire-cracker to bee if it had gone out, had his face dreadfully burned by the explosion that followed. His eyes were not much injured. While a woodchoppei at Meacham, named Henry Windcrntun, was lying in his tent a treo about ten inches in diameter was blown down across his body at tho hips, injuring him severely. Ho was taken to La Grande for medi cal treatment. A man named Qumminp, of Cor vallis, while in a somnambulistic state the other night, walked out of a room on tho second floor of the Murray hotel and fell out of a dcor to the ground, eighteon feet below. He es caped with only slight injuries. Tho Alaska Gold Company, the Oretrn Bituminous Rock Company, and h ' Pacific Iron works have filed artic es of incorporation with the secretary of state; also the Masonic Building Association ; incorporators, George F. Simson, George W. Maeton, Chas. E. Wolverton; capital stock, $8,000; location, Albany. Frank Marshall, Pete Ross and Dodo Savage became involved in a row in. North Salem, in which Savage was knocked down by Marshall, and iu falling his leg was broken. Marshall also broke tho nose of Ross with his fist. Marshall was arrested but was discharged, no ono appearing against him. Arthur Burton, a mulatto, was ar rested at Brownsville for the rape of Miss Eliza Harrington, and was lodged in jail, having been bound over by Justice Avery of Brownsville. His victim who is aged about 1G, states that her ravisher entered her bedroom and administered chloroform and out raged her, leaving her unconscious Much indignation is expressed at Brownsville, and Burton only escaped being lynched by tho strenuous exer tions i f bis guard. John McDonald, known as "Van couver Jack," met with what might havo proved a fata) accident. Ho rooms at a lodging house on Fifth and Washington streets. Portland, and was bitting near a rear window skylarking with some young men in the court bo low. In attempting to throw a basin of water on them ho lost his balanco and fell out of tho window on a fenco below, a distance of about twenty feet. A supeilicial examination Fhowed that no bones were broken, but ho was pretty badly shaken up, and may bo internally hurt. Word comes from Sand island of the drowning of two men, Charles Gus tinson and Alfred Blank, boat-puller, fishing for tho Astoria Packing Com pany, Tho men had their boat an chored off tho Great Republic spit. At tho turn of the tido tho water always gets rough. The waves rolling in, tho men concluded to leave the boat and swim ashore. Both were overwhelmed and drowned. Tho boat was recov ered and brought to tho cannery. Gustinson was a fino young man aged 23, and is deeply regretted. Tho boat-puller was a stranger in the country. "No moat for dinner, ehP" quiercd Jacob Wall as ho sat down to his din nor in Troy. "Very well I'll go after some." That was ono day oight yours ago, and ho has not returned yet. Ho is probably hunting for something ex tra. A Vonnont man who moved out to Illinois several years ago took a trip back last month just to get an old-fashioned doughnut mado by his mother. When ho got it ho found It just like any other, and a littloopdoror than his own wifojnade. A justico of tho pcaco at PonU water, Mich., recontly sontonced a man to ninety-nine yoars' imprison ment for shooting another man's hog. He said hu would linyo hnngod tho mis creant if tho laws of Michigan had In cluded hanging among the punish ments to bo used in extremo cases. hi! I r K M