< I * ËRÀhB 10 1 PACIFIC COAST. NEWS OF THE WEEK MONMOUTH AND VICINITY. Weather very pleasant this week; ; ■ Mrs. Chas. Miller is very sick with intermittent fever. Mrs. Parker, from Parker’s Station, spent the first of the week in town.« Allen A Osborn, Furniture Dealers and Undertakers, Independence, Ore- goii* ~ ........- ............ —.................. Miss Maggie Butler spent several days last week visiting friends near Dixie. Pres. D. T. Stanley will preach next Sunday at 11 a . m ., and also in the evening. • Prof. W. W. Bristow and family,^of Corvallis, made Monmouth a short visit last week. Mr. W. Waterhouse has been making improvements at the post-office, in the form of a woodshed. Xkunl J Thursday for Spokane Falls, where he intends entering a Btore. The daily expected rain is a thing of There are 3,000 children of school age in Columbia county. Thenewbteok of tba Montana National bank in Helena will cost $80,000. . .... ‘ Salmon have commence! to run in Coos bay; The Clearwater bridge at Lewiston will cost $24,000. The receipts at the Ôlympix land offi c e H Yei, a 'ge ,$ W> ;000'»"mo nth. ——— ■ The new jail at Livingston is com­ pleted. Tourist travel to the National park is increasing daily. The town of Great fulls will be two miles long and one and a half wide. The corner-stone of the Presbyterian church in Walla Walla was Iain on the 16th. Sprague has voted in favor of a spe­ cial tax to build a $3,500 school-house. There are 180 school children in Ihe district.. 7 A . Fair weather has built a "thirty foot addition to his largo store, making it the largest stores in extent in Eastern Washington Territory. ~ »----------------- s. ■ • • » . . » her most peculiar seasons. Mr. E. W. Adkins was Attacked with a congestive chill on Tuesday, and is .now lying in a very critical condition. Miss Mattie Powell, a teacher in the Harrison street school, at Portland, has been making Monmonth friends a visit. Several from this place went to Salem on last Wednesday evening to attend the lecture given by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. A gentle shower of r»in on Wednes­ day of last week caused the smoke to dis­ appear for a short time. However* it soon returned again. ’ The farmers are all now very busy saving their crops. Fields of grain that have not had enough rain on them since they were sown to lay the dust are yielding good average crops. Mr. Hann unhand his daughter, Miss Nellie, fron^mar Lewisville, were in town last Friday. Miss Nellie in com­ pany with several others from that part of Polk county are making arrange* ments to attend school this year. Our townsman, Wm. Dawson, was made glad on Tuesday evening by the arrival direct from Liverpool of N, J. Sharp, his youngest sister’s son. Not having seen any of his father’s family since he left his native home in Scot­ land in 1838. His sister then being only 4 years old. • . Prof. J. D. Hawes, of Portland, has been elected as Professor of Natural Sciences and Book-Keeping in Christian College, and has accepted. The entire Faculty of last year remain, and with this addition there are eight professors und teachers besides assistants. The prospects for a successful year are all that the most ardent friends of the institu­ tion could desire. The session will open Sept. 18th.- of Weston, in Umatilla county, belong­ ing to Mr. Moorehouie, yielded a little over fifty bushels to the acre. His barley averages forty bushels to flip acre. season. The first wheat of the ’83 crop re­ ceived in Portland came from Umatilla CQJlDiy^LQCfi sacks. ____ _______ The surveying party at work on the Astoria Railroad will soon be ready to submit their report, Daylight has been struck in tunnel No. 8, on Cow creek. It ii 2800 fest long, and vvill soon be ready for the laying of the track. .Mx^XillAril ifi-U^txikeLii^ once for each TOO miles of Northern Pacific road—the line is 1930 miles in extent.' This will make 19 full blows and one light one. The driving of the Last Spike, that is ihe blows us they are given—will be heard in New York, Boston, Philad» lphia, Washington and Portland. it having been decided to connect telephone or telegraph wires to the rail which is fastened by the spike, and which will resound with the blows. A cordial invitation is extended to all citizens throughout the State to partici­ -pat«-«* 41w recoption to die given Qen. IF. T. Sherman, iu Portland, on Mon­ day evening, the 27th inBt. Arrange ments have been made for a reduction of forty per cent, on fall fare, on round trip tickets,~good for the 27th~ and 28th. The fifth annuul exhibition of the Portland Mechanics’ Fair, to be held at Portland, will convene Thursday, Oct. 11, 1883, and close Saturday, Oct. 27th. On the first of October the two cent stamp will be need instead of the three .cent stamp, which will be abolished. . ■ t « NOTICE TO FARMERS. VY. P. CQNNAWAI, A wki , 1... ALLEN & OSBORN Wish to inform their friends of I At a fire in Empire City, a building occupied by W. A. Luse was burned on the 10th inst., and all the furniture, etc., was burned, besides $1000 in coin EASTERN. and $2000 in greenbacks. Total loss, The wheat crop in Ohio is reported to $8000. be a partial failure. It is reported that Geo. M. Pullman, W ashington , Aug. 19.—Private in­ the sleeping car man, will bnild a $10,- formation has been received from Pen­ 000 school house in the town named sacola to the effect that Surgeon Owens after him in the Palouse country. is down with yellow fever, and that Yaquina Pos/On the 28th nit. a there are five more cases in the yard white man was washed ashore just south and three outside and danger of its of the mouth of the Siletz. The flesh is spreading. all off the bones—nothing but the cords L incoln , Neb., Aug. 11.—A heavy left to hold the bones together. The thunder storm occurred to-day. Three corpse was found by four Indians. It boys, Robert Miller and William Miller, is thought by Agent Wadsworth that brothers, and Earnest Smith, were in­ the remains may be those of the late stantly killed by lightning. They had George Stevens. taken refuge under a tree. Several Statesman, Walla Walla : Long trains bouses in this city were struck and four of emigrant wagons pass through this other persons injured. The Telephone valley every day. They come mostly i Exchange was set on fire. The damage from Kansas and Arkansas, and are was small. settling in the Palouse and Big Bend BUSINESS LOCALS. countries. They survey of the extension of the Farmers Mercantile Association of West Side road from Corvallis to Junc­ Monmonth are receiving a very fine tion City is completed, the new survey assortment of goods complete in every department for the spring trade. Dress being two miles shorter than the old Goods and TrimmiLgs of the latest one. It is said the work of grading the styles, Mens and Boys Clothing, a road will commence at both ends in a splendid assortment of Bootsand Shoes, Hats and Caps, Fancy and Staple Goods, short time. * Groceries, Crockery, Glass-ware, Tin­ The old mint property at The Dalles ware, Ac., Ac. Remember you can is advertised for sale. save money by dealing with this estab- Josephine county is said to have but ment. “T“ one church. That was erected many years ago by Catholics. The Soda Springs, 26-miles west of I Yakima City are attracting the atten­ rpiIE SALEM FLOURING MILLS Com pany having bought the Farmers’ tion of many visitors. Warehouse at Independence, will receive A new coaling steamer, to run to .Wheat in store on usual terms, subject Coos, Bay is being built at Coos Bay. to order, and pay the highest market A slightjfire was"had at’Sprague last price at any time the Storer may wish to sell. Sacks furnished free of charge to Friday—loss about $1800. move the Wheat to the Warehouse. A large number of Indians are col­ For further particulars inquire of the lecting on White and Puyallnp rivers, Agent at Independence, Gov, Moody and Secretary Earhart have received invitations to be piesent at the c:\femony of driving the last spike of the N. P. railroad on the 8th of W. T-, preparatory for the hop-picking September! NEW TO-DAY. lr*olk County That they have just received the largest assortment of Xx /x o ix. E ■ 55 j BURIAL CASES, ASl) BURIAL ROBES, That was ever brought to the County, and their prices are lower than were ever sold hero before. »:• We also have the largest- stock of FURNITURE In the County, which we offer at —s~ veryHow prices. We thank the public for past favors, and hope, by fair dealing, tn hold their trade and as many new ones as wish to trade with us. ALLEN & OSBORN, INDBPKNDRNCK, ÒR. 34-if ATTENTION! FARMEES!! :o: Having bought the Formerly owned by REISS BROS. >& WHITE AKER, We are now prepared to furnish Sacks for Storage of Grain. Farmers Warehouse Company. L. D amon , 4 J. R. R odes , ¿Trustees. P. W. H aley ,) I. C lagget , Agent. Independence, Or.. July 17, 1S83. 29- tf IKIDNÉY-^VORT’ c o FOR THE PERMANENT CURE OF CONSTIPATION. E No other disease la bo prevalent in thia ecun- h try u Constipation, and no remedy has ever © oqnalled the'celebrated Kidney-Wort as a E cure. Whatever the oauso, however obstinate w case, thia remedy will overcome it. ----- —------ . © u strengthen* the weakened parts and quickly 0 cures all kinds of Piles even when physician« and medicines have before fUled. tVU you have either of three troubles s tKIDNEY-WORT