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.
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