OREGON SCOUT.
TELEGRAPHIC.
COAST CULUNGb.
AGRICULTURAL.
OREGON NEWS.
JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers.
U.VIOX. ttltliO.
Kkcknt parties visiting the volcano
Popocatapoti report increasing activ
ity in the, crater, with clouds of smoke
unil Btilphurous funics. Reports from
Central America show that several
volcanoes are unmistakably in re
newed activity.
Thkkk is a bookkeeper in a Now
York wire factory who has merely to
glance at broadsides of figures, row
after row, filling a wholo sheet of legal
cap, and declares the result instanily.
He doesn't know how he dues it, nor
does anybody else.
Bktwkkn December 11, 1808, and
' November 11, 1809, 1,152 persons were
confined in (ho New York Debtors'
prison. None of the debts exceeded
$25. The debtors principally re
ceived sustenance from tho Humane
Society.
Many persons use tho phrase "in a
trice," who have no conception of its
meaning. A trice is tho sixtieth part
of a second of time. Tho hour is di
.vided into sixty minutes, tho minute
into sixty seconds, and tho second in
to sixty trices or thirds.
A school, boy of Insterburg, Ger
many, recently wroto to tho Emperor
of China asking for some Chinese
postage stamps for his collection. A
iow days ago tho Chinese embassy in
Berlin forwarded to him a letter from
tho emperor inclosing tho stamps
which ho desired.
Hamilton was in King's Collego at
.sixteen; when seventeen ho niado a
notable address on public affairs to
tho citizens of New York ; at twenty
ho was intrusted with a moBt import
ant mission to General Gates ; was in
Congress at twonty-livo, and Secretary
of tho Treasury at thirty-two.
It is curious to note that according
to Thomas Wilworthy's Guido to tho
English tongue," which waB accopted
as a standard in pronunciation by po
lite English socioty of a century ago,
tho vowel soundB in lilo are foil, bile
and boil woro pronounced aliko, as al
so were thoso in tour and tower, aro
uud air, dew and do.
A 1'AMi'in.KT condemning in mod
crate terms Russian reactionary policy
and predicting internal disasters is
being circulated in tho highest circles
in St. Petersburg. Tho pamphlet is
remarkable for tho elegance of its
language. Tho polico have so far
failed to discover tho authors of tho
work.
A llAHTKOHD man started a good
firo in a shout iron stove in his oflico,
forgot to oloso tho draught, locked tho
oflioo door and wont to drive. When
ho camo back he found the liro out;
hut it had made itself felt before go
ing out. Everything in tho room was
scorched, apples on a shelf were br.ked,
and a dog that had been locked in
was dou'd, ovidenlly Bullbcatod.
Yahiationh in tho size of rain-drops
are dependent upon the diUbronccs in
the height from which they had fallen
and to tho amount of atmospheric
disturbance present at tho time. If
fallen from a great height the drops
Buffer gradual division into smaller
and smaller parts until they aro con
verted into a mist. In calm weather,
with tho clouds near tho earth's sur
face, tho drops aro largo and heavy.
Til Kit K have boon frequent losses of
life through pontons losing their way
cither in tho snow or in a fog. At
night, of courao, there in no othor
course to adopt than that of reaching
some shelter, if possible. Uut during
tho day, while the sun is still in tho
sky, tho right direction may be gained
it is said, by a simple means of deter
mining tho position of tho sun. This
consists of placing tho point of a
knife-blade or sharp lead pencil on tho
thumb-nail, which will cast a shadow
directly from tho sun, no mutter how
thick tho snow or fog is.
Finn under water can bo produced
by placing a small piece of phosphorus
in a conically-shaped glass tilled with
water, and somo crystals of chlorate
of potash covering tho phosphorus,
and then pouring through a long
tubo funnel, or a glass tube, a fow
drops of sulphuric acid down on the
mixture at tho bottom of tho glass.
Tongues of Ihuno can bo scon Hushing
up through tho water. Tho intense
chemical notion produces sulllciont
boat to influmo tho phosphorus under
tho water. Whero there is sulllcicnt ,
heat and oxygen firo will burn,
-whether in air or watei.
Ad Epitome of the Principal EvenU Now
Attracting Public lottrwl
Tho Dunn mine at Scranton, Pa.,
burned. Loss, $100,000.
Georgo W. Itider was hanged at
Marshall, Mo., for tho murder of It.
P. Tallent, about three years ago.
Three men were arrested in Chi
cago on suspicion of plotting to blow
up buildings with dynamite.
The Iron Manufacturers' Associa
tion at Pittsburg, Pa., has been mu
tually dissolved.
Henry Ebort was hanged at Jersey
City, N. J. Ho murdered his wife for
151,500.
A locomotive and four cars jumped
the track near St. Louis, and tho fire
man and conductor weie killed.
A passenger and freight train col
lided near Birmingham, Ala., and
both firemen were killed.
Murray Lewis, colored, who cut the
throat of his mistress, was hanged at
Greenville, Mise.
Afif.lmnl DntiTilit ulirit lnu lirtJinr
and himself, at Brooklyn, N. Y., whilo
drunk
Fred Manny, while
lloopeston, 111., was
bathing at
seized with
cramps and drowned.
Humphreys, colored, was taken
from jail at Ashoville, N. C, and
lynched for outraging a young white
woman.
Thomas Wells, of Arthur, 111., whilo
pulling weeds, was bitten on tho linger
by a rattlesnake and probably injured
fatally.
A heavy liro occurred at Chicago.
A music store, carpet storo and piano
manufactory were burned. Loss,
$275,000.
John Stuart, living on Martin's
fork, in Harlem county. Term., shot
his wife through tho head, and in
stantly killed his cousin John Stuart,
in a quarrel over a gamo of cards.
Four perBons wero drowned whilo
urossing tho Aikunsas river near Ar
kansas. The party had boon attend
ing a dunce, and wero on tho way
home. When in tho middle of the
river tho bout upset. Tho bodies
woro not recovered.
H. W. Moore, managing editor of
tho Post-Dispatch, and tho wife of
John W. Norton, manager of tho
Grand Opera house and Olympic
thealorof St. Louis, loft tho oily to
gether in a clandestine and scandalous
manner.
Mrs. Mary E. Kersey, of Lebanon,
Ind., visited Decatur, 111., on a stem
chase after her husband, a barber, wno
had deserted her a few weeks before to
elopo with another woman, whom ho
is said to have married in Decatur.
Mrs. Kersey found her rival, but her
husband had iled.
J. B. Carpenter, a prominent notary
public of New Orleans, bus disappeared
and taking with him between $20,000
and $50,000 of his creditors' money.
Carpenter was tho adviser of many
Creole families there, who intrusted
to him large buihb of money for in
vestment. Tho body of Alice Kelly, a woman
of bud reputation, wus found in tho
outskirts of Ottumwu, Iowa, with tho
throat cut and the head badly beaten.
A horse and buggy was hitched to a
tree near by. Tho nature of the
wounds indicate murder. It is thought
sho was slain by somo person whom
she was attempting to blackmail.
Twenty men wero on an excursion
from Baltimore, in tho schooner
Lancelot down tho hay. Off North
Point about ton of tho party got in a
yawl boat to go ashore and bathe.
Tho boat capsized, ami Frank Voaflax,
aged 20, Win. Finn, aged 30, and
Joseph Lutz, aged 27, wero drowned.
Tho bodies wero not recovered.
A cowboy walked into tho bunk at
a Junta, Kan., and, covering Unfits
Phillis, cashier, with a revolver, or
dered him to drop all tho funds of tho
bank into a bug that ho placed on the
counter. Tho cushior complied with
alacrity, mil tho daring robber at onco
mounted and osoapi d. Tho amount
of the Ins is estimated at from $10,
000 to $20,000. There is no clue to
tho robber.
At Cooney island, ton miles up tho
river from Cincinnati, Samuel Young
made an UBeont of 1.000 feet in a hot
air baloon, and let go to make the
descent in his parachute. Tho para
chute for !HX) feet did not open, and
ho went down into twenty-lio feet of
water in tho river ui.d sank to the
bottom. When he came up ho got
tangled in tho parachute, but was
rescued by a bouttnup unhurt.
Ed. Hill and M. Dwyor, aged ID and
21 years respectively, woro engaged in
fumigating a theater at St. louix with
Bulphurio acid, which Hill and Dwyer
woro pouring from stono jugs. both
jugs exploded at onco, scattering the
acid in every direction, saturating tho
clothing of both young inone and be
spattering thoso standing near. Hill
ami Dwyor nearly crazed with pain
run through tho streets until caught
by a policeman, and taken to tho city
dispensary where their wounds wero
dressed.
A party of four pitched their tent
at tho head of a little stream in tho
Kenish mountains, about fifty miles
from Denison, Tox, They oamo to
hunt and fish and brought provision
to lust somo time. Parties passing
the camp discovered tho dead bodies
of the mi n literally riddled with bul
lets. About fifty yards from tho tent
was the body of a white man, evi
dently a K'ttler, By his side whs a
Winchester rlllo. Ho hud undoubt
edly been one of tho party with wlu m
tho huntus had hud trouble.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.
The steamer Daisy, from San Fran
cisco, sank in the Sacramento river.
A Chinaman at Marysville, Gal.,
while smoking opium, kicked over a
lamp and was suffocated in tho (l imes.
A ship loaded with 35,505 packages
of tea has just arrived at Tacoma, V.
T., from China.
The wife of Chae. Brazil, of Port
Townscnd, W. T., ran away with their
only child and $187 in money.
A m,m named Frinl: died in a San
Francisco hospital from delerium tre
mens. A'liro in tho business portion of
Calico. Cul., destroyed $20,000 worth
of property.
John A. Coutolcnc accidentally
shet and killed himself at San Fran
cisco, while cleaning a shotgun.
John Doucher, a murdorer, com
mitted suicide at Sun Bernardino,
Cul., by hanging.
! F. G. B. Decarvalho, aged 21, was
drowned at Crystal Springs, Gal.,
! while bathing
A sailor named W. A. iiurbiglit,
was lost at sea from the schooner Cole
man, on tho trip to San Francisco.
Wm. Miller,
drowned while
near his ranch.
of Aplos, Cul.,
bathing in the
wns
surf
George Stevenson, of Glumis, A. T.
was found shot through the heart
A Mexican was arrested on suspicion
A fireman named Fish, wus caught
under a train in a collision near holer
unto, Cul., and his leg hud to be umpu
tated to relcaao him.
While J. Flood and Wm. Bacon
woro lighting at San Francisco, a bull
nog belonging to i loou bit .bacon so
badly that ho died.
Mary Von, a conv'ct in tho San
Quentin State's prison, seriously
wounded tho matron, by striking bo
on the head.
A colored man was shot dead by
thrco deputy shojifis while resisting
arrest by force of arms, at Albcrquer
que, N. M.
J. Sloman, a clerk in S. Newman it
Co.'s store at Hill's Ferry, near Mo
desto, Cal., was drowned in tho Sun
Joaquin river, whilo swimming.
Mosher Sheun, 19 yours old, shot
himself at San Francisco, Cal., whilo
playing with a shotgun. The bullet
entered his liver and he will probably
die.
Tho Sutton house, a famous sum
mor icsort 35 miles from Chico, Cal.,
on Clneo ridge, was totally destroyed
by fire. Tho lodgers barely escaped
ahv. 1 ho total loss is $b,000; insur
ance $3,000.
A report readied Laredo, Tex., of
tho disastrous wreck of a construction
train on tho Mexiuin National rail-
ioiuI at tho front, in which fifteen
men wero killed. A rilief train was
sent to tho scone from Saltillo
Fifteen houses in tho Chinese
quarter of Oroville, Cal., were destroyed
by lire. Tho (iro started in tho Chin
ese Masonic hull, a two-story frame,
and burned seven houses on each fide.
Ono brick store, supposed to bo fire
proof, was destroyed. Loss, $10,000;
insurance small.
E. G. Marshall, a brakemun, while
running oh top of a moving freight
train at Daggett, Cal., fell between
tho ears, badly mashing and cutting
his loft leg above tho knee, making
amputation nucessary. Five cars
passed over mm. Ho died during
tho operation,
old.
Ho is about 35 years
J. T. Butler, an old resident of Los
Angeles, Cal., was thrown out of a
wagon, tho wheels of which passed
ovor his hip and chest. A number of
railroad ties with which the wagon
was loaded aUo fell on him from the
wagon and broke his neck. He leaves
a wife and three children.
Whilo a construction train was bo
ing loaded on the lino of the Califor
nia Southern, between San Diego and
National City, Cal., u huge muss of
earth caved from tho bunk, covering
W. Sluuson and Suiuuol S. Stanley.
When tho men wero dug out it was
found that both wero injured so that
they will dio.
James Brown, a colored horso
trainer, fatally stabbed a white man
named Harvey Hawkins, also a horso
(miner, at Sacramento, Cal. Tho
men hud a quarrel over a young
white woman, and Brown wuyluid
Hawkins on tho street and stabbed
him in the abdomen.
In a runaway accident at Soattio,
W. T., Captain Norman Penfield,
superintendent of tho Seattle Gas
Works, an dd poineor of Seattle, was
pinioned against a shudo tree by an
upturned express wagon. His collar
bono was broken and ho received in
ternal injuries which may prove to bo
serious.
Tho San Luis Obispo and Tomple
ton otugo was tobbed five miles north
of San Luis Obispo, Oul., on tho
mountain. Six passengers wero
robbed, tho mail and Wells, Fargo's
bags and boxes woro broken open, and
probably $2,000 taken. Tho sherilf
anil district attorney, with a posse, are
in pursuit of tho robbers.
A caboose and car loaded with
wood, and attached to a freight (ruin,
wero thrown from tho track near
Marysville, Oal., by tho switch being
loft open. They fell down the grade,
and tho wood car was completely de
molished and tho caboose badly
broken. In tho caboose was a young
mini named Frank Culvert, who was
tuki n out unconscious and badly in-
' Hired about the face and spine. Ho
I la not expected to live.
MARKET REPORT.
Reliable Quotations Carefully . Revised
Every Week.
WHEAT Vnllcv, $1 22iU 23
Walla Walla, $ I 151 17.
BARLEY Whole, $1 10(31 12;
ground, per ton, 25 0027 50.
OATS Milling, 3840c. ; feed, 44
45c.
HAY Baled, $18 00.
SEED Blue Grass, 14$lGc. ; Tim
othy, 9.10c; Red Clover, 1415c.
FLO UK Patent Boiler, $-1 00;
Country Brand, $3 75.
EGGS Per doz, 22.Jc
BUTTER Fancy roll, per pound.
25c. ; pickled, 2530c. ; inferior
grade, 15202.
CHEESE Eastern, lG20c; Ore
gon, 14lGc. ; Culiforniu, llc.
VEGETABLES Beets. pr suck,
$1 50 ; cabbage, per lb., 2c. ; carrots,
per tk., $1 25 ; lettuce, per doz. 20c. ;
onions, $1 00; potatoes, per 100 lbs.,
90c$l ; radishes, per doz., 1520c. ;
rhubarb, per lb., Cc.
HONEY In comb, per lb., 18c;
strained, 5 gal. tins, per lb. 8jc.
POULTRY Chickens, per doz..
$5 007 00; ducks, per doz., $2 50
G 00; geese, $G 008 00; turkeys,
por lb., 124,c.
PROVISIONS Oregon hawis, 12.Jc
per lb.; Eastern, 1313Ac; Eastern
breakfast bacon, 12.Jc. per lb.; Oregon
1012c. ; Eastern lard, 10ll.Jc. por
lb. ; Oregon, 10c.
GREEN FRUITS Apples, $2 00
2 50; Sicily lemons. $0 507 00;
California, $3 505 00 ; Naval oranges
$G 00; Riverside, $4 00; Mediterra
nean, $4 25.
DRIED FRUITS Sun dried ap
ples, 7c. per lb. ; machine dried, 10
11c; pitless plums, 13c,; Italian
prunes, 1014o. ; peaches, 1214c;
raisins, $2 252 50.
WOOL Valley, 1718c; Eastern
Oregon. 915c
HIDES Dry beef hides, 810c;
culls, G7c; kip and calf, 8 10c. ;
Murrain, 10 12c. ; tallow, 33o.
LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00;
edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G.
sheathing, per M, $13 00 ; No. 2 floor
ing, per M, $18 00; No. 2 ceiling, per
M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00;
clear rough, por M, $20 00 ; clear P. 4
S, per M, $22 50 ; No. 1 ilooring, por
M, $22 50; No. 1 coiling, 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; lengths 50 to GO,
extra, $4 00; lj lath, per M, $2 25;
L lath, per M, $2 50.
"SALT Liverpool grades of fine
quoted $18, $19 and $20 for tho three
sizes ; stock salt, $10.
BEANS Quoto small whites, $4 50 ;
pinks, $3; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50;
Limns, $4 50 per contal.
MEAT Beef, wholesale, 33Jc. ;
dressed, Ge. ; sheep, 3c; dicsed, Gc. ;
hogs, dressed, S9e. ; veal, 78o.
COFFEE Quoto Salvador, 17c;
Costa Rica, 1820c; Rio, 1820c.;
Java, 27Jc; Arbuckle's's roasted, 22c.
PICKLES Kegs quoted steady at
$1 35.
SUGAR Prices for barrols ; Golden
C, 7c; oxtru C,7.Jc. ; dry granulated,
Sjc; crushed, lino crushed, cube and
powdered, Sjo. ; extra C, 5c. ; halves
and boxes, c. highor.
"You are a jewel." said tho gush
ing young man to his girl; "and I'm
going to have you set." And then ho
quiotly took her in his lap. Yonkers
Statesman.
"This tiling is gottinj conta
gious!" said a hoy who had several
times been told to go to bed. "What
do you moan?" asked his fathor. "I
mean that I shall catch it if 1 don't
move on:" The Teacher.
"Clara," said tho old man from tho
head of the stairs, "hasn't that young
man gono yet?" "No, sir," came
hack an exceedingly prompt reply, and
it wasn't in Clara's voice i4thor. "but
ho is going at onco, sir." The Epoch.
Cousin Arabella "Well, Kitty,
what did you think of 'Lohengrin'
lust night?" Kitty (from Oshkosh)
"I don't like to give any opinion, as
tho only operas 1'vo seen at homo
wero 'Unelo Tom's Cabin' and 'Ten
Nights in a Bar-room,' and they're so
difturont, you know." Harvard Lam
poon. "1 hear t hoy are going to havo a
donkey party at B 's," said a Par
sin villo man to his neighbor. "Sol
understand." was tho reply; "are yon
.rolng?" "Of course 1 am," said the
I'ursonvillo man, " they couldn't havo
ho party without mo!" And ho
couldn't niako out what tho other fel
ow was laughing at. St. Albans Mes
senger. Husband? (to wife) "I'vo boon out
half tho day trying to collect money,
and I'm mad enough to break tho fur
niture. It bouts all how somo mon
will put oft and put oft. A man who
owes money and won't pay it isn't fit
to associate." Servant (opening tho
door) "Tho butcher, sorr, is down
stairs with his bill." Husband -"Toll
him to call again." Life.
Love's Hyperbole Sho 'Hero is
my new photograph!" Ho "Beauti
ful, thrieo beautiful! Showing you an
augol, but the Humor an earth-born
elod." Sho "Whv do you say that,
sweet?" He "Because." Sh "Be-
cause what, foolish?" He -"Bicuuso,
why. 'c .iiise darling, with you as a
Mibjeet 1 could t:ik. a bottir pieti rr
thau that with an aceu-divu,' Vt.u 1
Devoted to the Interests oi Farmer
and Stockmen.
CllltllHKL'S.
This useful and common vegetable
can bo easily grown and easily kept
through the winter. Not long since a
carload of cabbage went through this
valley and on up the Columbia, on its
way to Butte, in Montana. It is pos
sible that other carloads havo gone
since then and havo gone often this
f-pring. The question that comes
home to producers hero is : Why do
miners in Montana have to depend on
California for their supply f cabbage?
and why do the people of this valley
eat California cabbage this spring?
These questions show that something
is wrong in tho producing capacity of
Western Oregon. It is to be hoped
that the present year will see cabbage
enough planted to Btipply Montana
from Oregon as well us to supply our
own home market.
Probably the day will come when
sugar can be profitably made from
sorghum wherever sorghum thrives;
but that day is yet somo distance in
the future.
It appears that there is about as
much difference in maple sup from
different, trees, as there is in tho milk
from different cows. This difference
in sweetness may be duo to age, loca
tion, exposure, strength, time of sea
sou and other causes.
In California the raisin pack of 1887
will amount to 1,000,000 boxes, and
tne good quality ot lormer years is
I ally maintained. The demand in the
East increases every year, and the un
favorable season in Spain proves to be
advantageous to the California grower.
A New York paper says: If Western
dealers would realize that it is utter
folly to send stale or even rotten eggs
to this market tho country would bo
better off. Good fresh eggs, are in de
mand. Stale ones are not wanted.
When ever they come hero they cause
trouble, disappointment and profanity
An authority on dairying says: A
healthy milch cow, in full flow of
milk, will drink and requires sixty to
ono hundred pounds of water per diem.
It is utterly impossible to get ono to
take one-half or oven one-quarter of
this amount of ice-water, nor will they
drink the ice-water or cold water with
any regularity.
America is tar aliead ot Europe in
many things, bin in the matter af for
estry in all its branches this country
is 100 years behind them. The Rus
sian city of Kazan is said to have
better collection of American trees
than can bo found in any one city in
the United States. We have far more
natural foiests than exist in Europe.
Meat, it is said, is actually dearer in
Buenos Ayres than in London. In
deed, tho people of tho former city
complain that whilo tho best of Ar
gentine mutton is gold to London eon
burners at nine cents u pound, they
cannot get the best at all, but have to
pay ten cents to twelve cents per
pound for inferior mutton.
Because the fields are getting green
don't imugino that your stock can now
get a good living there, Tho animals
that havo been confined to dry feed for
months may nip eagerly tho few bits
of grass thev can find, but it doo
them little good. Keep up the rations
of buy and grain or your stock will
loso rather than gain for several weeks.
Make tho change of diet gradually,
kindlv. Take advantage of rho com
ing season, but don't push the present.
Make liasto slowly now. It will
pay.
Barley is somewhat better than outs
to sow early for soiling purposes. It
glows up to cutting tizo more quickly,
and just before beading out is espec
ially rich and succulent for cows giv
ing milk. There is still time after tho
soiling barley is out off to grow a crop
of fodder corn or Hungarian grass.
i lus) double cropping systun requites
heavy manuring to make it successful,
but that does not matter, as it fur-
nislus abundant feed for tho stock re
quired to make tho manure. It needs
also the beet attainable oows to make
this double cropping for feeding them
pay.
Farm help undoubtedly costs more
than tho great majority of farmers
can afford to pay. It is quito possible
thai there will bo some reducton in
wages from this causoauother season;
but it will probably be very slight, and
not sufficient in itself to give material
relief. Wages aro slow to riso in times
of prosperity, and correspondingly
slow in responding to a time of indus
trial depression. If farmers in the
East or West wero to pay only tho
wages that present prices and crops
would warrant, after reasonable pay
for their own labor and capital, theie
would bo a decisive reduction, where
now there is likely to bo little, if any.
What reniuins is to deviso every pos
sible means to make labor as it can
be.
Ono of the common causes of thinly
seeded meadows and poor pastures is
hick of sufficient eeed. Tho common
idea is that grass will spread and cover
vucant spaces. Usually, however,
theso will bo filled by weeds that have
greater facilities for spreading than
tho more valuable herbage. If the
fartnor would get grass seed freo from
weeds, and then double tho amount
sown, putting it on twico and crossing
tho Mold each way, the value of tho
grass crop would bo immeasurably in
creased, It is scarcoly possiblo to havo
grass fill tho ground to completely.
The closer it is seeileil the liner the
fnge grows and (he more easily it is
cured. Ibis is especial! true ofj
clover, wloso thick, jimy stems,
caused by too thin teeding.ai-o alnu stl
Impossible to dry for hay.
Everything of General Interest in a
Condensed Form.
Heppner needs a fire engine, being
now without any protection.
A linseed oil mill will soon he
started in Portland. f
At Pot Hand, eight men were ar
rested for gambling. It is tho inten
tion to put a stop to gaming there.
McAllister, Josephine county, is
building a new schoolhouse, to cost.
$G0O.
Cyrus Bennett of But'or creek.
Morrow county, wns thrown from his
horse and his shoulder dislocated.
The potato crop in Linn county this
year promises to bo the largest in the
history of the county.
Pendleton is trying to raise a $10,-.
000 bonus for a paper mill. The sunn
of $3,700 has already been tubrcribed.
A stranger, a Norwegiun named
Seibert, wns taken ill at Pendleton
from typhoid fever and died.
Casper Myer, of Marion county,
while milking, was kicked by the cow
and his right arm broken.
Crook county has ono of tho best
jails in Oregon, but it has been unoc
oupied since the first of April last.
At Grant's Pass, Rosa Roton, aged
13 years, while kindling a firo with
kerosene, was badly burned, and it
is thought she cannot recover.
Alex. McDonald, a lad about 7 or S
yeurs old, while playing with a raft at
the foot of Stark street, Portland, fell
into the river and narrowly escaped
being drowned.
Mill city, a town lately laid out at
the end of the O. P. railroad, on tho
Sautiam, is deserted. Everyone has
moved away except tho ranchers. Tho
sawmill has closed down, us no one is
there to buy lumber.
Whilo chopping timber on Cracker
creek, W. O. Ridgeway suffered a very
painful accident. His ax came off tho
helve and to save his head he caught
tho blade in his hand, receiving a very
deep cut in the palm.
Elwood, tho little son of Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Ward, of Pendleton,
died from lock jaw, resulting from
blood poisoning brought on by the
running of a rusty nail in his foot
about ten days ago.
Linn Louden was shot at Jackson
ville by Frank Allen. Four flesh
wounds woro made by shots. Allen
deliberately walked up to Louden,
telling him he was going to kill him,
and opened firo, resulting as above.
Hannah Gorman, a pioneer ne
gress, who came to this countrv from
Missouri as slave of Capt. Sharp, in
1S44, and settled in Polk county, wits'"
found dead in bed at the homo of her
son, Hiram Gordon, in Salem. Heart,
diseiiBe was probably tho cause.
The Sullivan Extension Mining
Company filed articles of incorpora
tion with tho secretary of state. In
corporators B. Goldsmith, S. Gold
smith and L. J. Goldsmith. Capital
stock, $1,000,000. Principal ollice,
Portland.
At Heppner, whilo A. M. Gunn and
Billy Ruark wero working together at
tho anvil, tho sledge-hammer in Mr.
Gunn's hands slipped and instead of
striking tho iron hit Ruark on the
forehead, inflicting a painful though
not serious wound.
Fred Davis, aged 18, living near Al
bany, lost his leg. He, with two other
boys, had boon tiying to firo off an
old murket. After tlioy had given it
up, it was unexpectedly discharged,
tho charge shattering young Davis'a
leg and rend'ring amputation neces
sary. While wheeling some joists from one''
part of the upper story to another, on
the Exposition building, at Portland,
the tiuck jumped tho track and one
of tho men, Adolph Huberly, was
obliged to jump to the ground for his
life, a distance of forty feet, but for
tunately escaped with but few in
juties. A Chinaman employed in tho
kitchen of a Portland restaurant at
tempted to fill a lighted lamp, using
one ot those oil cans having a punu
attachment. The first thing lie knew
there wus un explosion, the lamp was
blown to atoms, tho can demolished,
tho wholo kitchen was ubluze, and one
very budly scared but uninjured
Chinaman rushed for a place of sufety.
Damago light.
Gus F. Becter, an employe of the
P. it W. V. railroad, met with a scr
ions accident at Portland. Ho was
working undor a car standing on a
siding, when another cur wus backed
up against it, starting it in motioo
Iu Mr. Becter's endeavors to escape, A
wheel of tho car pussed ovor his right
log just above tho ankle, crushing tnt
bones. It is hoped his leg will bo
saved.
In the county clerk's ollice at Port
land, the Adams street M. E. church
filed articles of incorporation. The
incorporators are F. L. Possen, James
Abraham and Georgo A. Prentiss.
Since Rev. G. M. Pierce has been in
ohargo of this chinch it has grtwu in
numbers and many improvements
havo been made. Tho chapel insido
has been painted and fitted
aud othorwiso mado comfortable.
August Roth, an employe at tho
North Pacific sawmills, while walking
across a revolving shaft at Portland!
was caught by a protruding pjn j,;
such a manner as to hutl him to tho
ground with great forco. The mYi
rvin.rlit 1.1... i ,1. I . l.'V I
-....(,.. .... l,JW ,uwvr J)rtrl u Jn
abdomen, ci.mplttily tearing it open
and cxpoting the int. sinus. H,s ,,i
ju us arc iut iu cessanly fatal and if
Hood poisoning does not set m thero
are fcomo chunas o( recovery. 1