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’MONMOUTH AND VICINITY.
HISS MILLIE I^OUOHTY, EDITOR.
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Mr. A. McQueen, of Amity, was in
- town this week.
Mr. J. L. Murphy has moved to bis
farm, near Lewisville.
Mr. Stine editor of tho West Side call­
ed oil the H erald office Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Lewis, of Lewis
ville, spent Tuesday at Monmouth.
BflWW WUl'JWa llblli
a visit to McMinnville on Monday.’
A new fence is being erected in front
of the College and H erald office;
Air. Claib Kennedy, of Colfax, W. T •9
is spending several days in town.
\nder the preaching pf Bro. H. M.
Waller, onei c^nfeMron“wa’s'm*adeo’n^
TTFhT'Tn'rnVere
Sunday.
them around here ; they are well provi­
Miss Retta Nealy, of Walla Walla, has ded with feed. Much grain was sown
been making her many friends of this last fall on the sod and does not look as
well as grain sown on old ground, but
placea visit.
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Mr. L. Ground and Mr. W. J. Mulkey, a fe*
of warm
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left on Tuesday for a short visit to it all right.
Writing
a
scrap
history
of
Heppner,
Eastern Oregon.
OregonT'the Gazette claims that the start
' Miss Lou
rey has gone to
was made in ’65; that there is now a
Salem where sh
ill spend several
population of 600 people; total business
weeks visiting her brother.
done amounts to $300,000 a year; there
Bro. F. D. Holman, late of California, are 200,000 sheep an that section; that
formerly a resident of“ Oregon, paid the section produces 1,400,000 pounds
Monmouth a visit on Monday. He made of wool annually, aud that the Gazette is
the H erald office a pleasant call.
just a year old.
— Miss Ada Waller, who has been teach- ....Writing of the cdHl land contest in
ing av hj via,*T’eruTu®<r nonio oirTJMTnicinjr•1 "' Fftirtyeg o u g ty r^th a "»B e at t ie" ^j E W^way»»
This completes the second term of school The land is now, worth $100,000, and
that Miss Ada has taught in (hat district will be worth $1,006,000 in ten years.
since September.
There are about 25,000 school children
Died, onTnesdayevening,^fItTDgin tbcTerritory.aijd their interest in
fever, the little daughter of Mrs. Kate this land may be truthfully stated at $4
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Burbank, aged 1 year and 8 months. apiece.
From
the
California
side
we have the
May the sorrowing ones find comfort in
the words of Him wh& said “suffer little following information about the O. &
children to come unto me and forbid C. road : The road is, now ready for
them not, for of such is the kingdom of grading’Tor a^ristance of 41 “miles above
heaven.”
Redding and nearly all the grading has
been completed for that distance. The
CARD OF THASKS.
track has been laid for 33 miles beyond
Redding, or to the first bridge across
Sister Bonneyr of Sumner, W. T., the Sacramento. The bridge is nearly
-wishes through the columns of the H er ­ completed as tho timbers were^11 fram­
ald , to thank the people of Monmouth
ed at Oakland beforehand. About three
for kindness shown her son, who was miles beyond the bridge is the longest
ill for several weeks with remittent of the several tunndls which it will be
fever, and she wishes to assure all necessary to excavate before the com­
friends of her family that such kindness pletion of the road to the State line.
will not soon be forgotten.
This tunnel will be nearly 2,000 feet in
length through-hard slate. The work
PACIFIC COAST.
to be done in it will retard'the comple­
Corvallis warehousemen are now tion of the road’considerably, as it will
offering 75 cents for wheat, and Lave not probably be through before the hit
bought several hundred tons at that of June. A temporary track has been
figure dnrieg the last two weeks says surveyed around this point and the
the Leader.
next tunm-1 beyond, which is only
Twenty men are now employed in the about 100 yards north of the long tun­
Bflsh, door and blind department of the nel, but it is impossible to state wheth­
Yesler mill at Seattle. In the lumber er the laying of a track around these
making department and yard are about points will be successful or not, and
twenty-five men and the daily cut is upon this depends to a certain extent the
about 34,000 feet.
rapid progress of the work. North of
Eleven hundred people of Eastern the great tunnel there will be three or
Washington petition Congress for pro­ four smaller ones to work through, but
tection of their titles in the controversy it is expected that before this work will
between the N. P."and themselves.
be completed the grading will be in a
The Regents of the Washington Ter­ presentable condition.
ritory University have under advisement
On the avenue we gather the follow-
a proposition to lease a part of the
ground of that institution for building ing budget, says the Olympia Courier:
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I A move is being made to change the
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if t niiu u f or r-TM r wiosy i - Among thnan
suggested arc found Cascadia, Yakima,
Tahoma or Takhoma, and Olympus.
Four deaths have bees reported in
the Occur d’Alene district. A good
-many more probably, but not reported.
| ,J. H. Albert hap been elected Presi­
dent of the Salem Board of Trade, C. B.
Mores, Vice President, and F. C. Hodg­
kin, Sec.
Seattle is to have a mass meeting for
tho purpose of taking immediate and de­
cided action in regard to the Northern
Pacific land grant in connection with
Gathering data ubout the outlook in
Wasco county, the Dalles Sun says :
From all directions we hear from men
attending the Circuit Court, now in ses­
sion in this city; that the spring has
opened with much promise. The grass
"R’Wttrstarted
sheep are doing finely. Cattle and horses
begin to pick up and will do so rapidly
as the grass gets longer. The fruit crop
is promising better than was first pre­
dicted after the excessive cold..nights.
A large amount of grain is being put in
on spring plowed lands. We do not
hear of a single lot of fall-sowed wheat
or rye that has been seriously injured
by the winter, and we have received ac
counts from Alkali, Rock Creek, Lone
Rock, Crown Rock, Oak Grove, Kings­
ley, Bake Oven and from several points
on the Washington side. If good weath­
er for lambing continues it will be very
favorable. ___
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Jffligtiou J« »apposed r to J___
have* resulted ffom a lengthy land con- ►
test, in which she was one of theprinci*
pal parties.
The bottoms and mountain slopes of
Wahkiakum county are rapidly filling
up with settlers from Europe, mostly-
Swedes and Finns, who think it no hard­
ship to carve a farm out of the almost - f • *
unbroken forests, says the Astorian.
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Twenty-four families have settled on
Gray’s river alone since last October.
The settlement made over a year ago,
across the mountain from Deep river, is
y— nd th aaa ha a dv ho™»!
makers seem to have no trouble in get­
ting a living while olearing up their
farms.
The new $30,000 public school build­
ing in Seattle is rapidly nearing com­
pletion. It will have a seating capacity
•XllIiMLcJlPil«. . .... ..
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An Olympia lady who avers that she
is neither a prophetess nor the daughter
of a prophet, nevertheless prediots that
both Houses of the next Territorial
Legislature will be represented by male
and female members, duly elected by
male and female voters.
Ritzville, W. T., is the coanty seat of
Adams county. During the last two
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months 125 entries of land have been
made there.
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The editor of the Independence, or.,
West Side, writing of a recently-taken
journey says : One fact became firmly
impressed upon us, and that was that
between Independence aDd Corvallis
are some of the finest looking wheat
fields the eye of man has ever had tire
pleasure of resting upon at this season
of the year; and, viewed^fro’m our stand
point, all this means dollars and c^nts
in a rudimentary -condition in the
pockets of the farmers.
A correspondent of the Walla Walla
.arating from-Wiiluw Creek,
Umatilla county, Oregon, says: The
snow has entirely disappeared from this
section of the country ; while it lasted
it w-as pretty severe, as it fell to the
depth of 12 inches, but only lasted for
a few days. Stock came out all right
and suffered but little. Sheep are all
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. NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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spondent of Lafayette, Oregon, Register
writes from Cœur d’Alene as follows :
The cost of living is about $3 per day,
and a very coarse one at that, The gpow
is five feet deep, at Eagle City it is not
quite so deep; the camps are all gov­
erned by miner’s laws, and everything
is quiet and every one hopeful. There
are not to exceed a half dozen claims
tTpcned up, they all have prospected weH; J
paying from $15 to $20 per day, to the
man, and upon these prospects thous­
ands of men are risking their last dollar.
The weather being so cold and there be­
ing so much snow, none of them are
being worked. Men can do nothing but
build log cabins and begin preparation
for their spring work. I think it will
be from the first to the middle of May
Absolutely Pure. .
before any work can be done, then even
prospectors can do nothing before that' Thia powder never varies.- A marvel purity,
8trergtn and wholesotneriass. More economi
time.
cal than the ordinary kinds, and can not !«• sold
Writing from Wenas, W. T., a corre­ in competition with the multitude of low test,
w< ight, alum or phosphate powders.
spondent of the Ledger says : At th's short
Sohl only tn cans. R oyal B aking P owdeb C o .,
point there has in all been not less than
12 8-ly
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106 Wall St., New York.
forty ii^hes of snow during the winter
had it all been on ’the ground at one
time. A greater portion has left us, but
we may still boast of an average of ten
inches; though in many places the south
hill sides are quite bare, and a little
£reen grass is seen here and there. The
middle of tho day is warm and comfor­
Will be mailed CDEC to
applicants and to
table to work, but the night is cold, customers
of last « ll£t year without ordering it.
It contains illustrations, prices, descriptions and
crusting the snow, and just such weath­ directions
for planting all Vegetable and Blower
er on the whole as in New York would Seeds, Plants, etc. 1 11 valu aisle to all.
D.M. FERRY & CO.-glS?
be called good “sugar weather.”
Miss Ida Campbell, a highly respect­
ed and intelligent young lady .from
Umatilla county, who has been suffer­ rihIK
can get rich Men, women and
ing from temporary derangement for B II I J I I ® vork
Ten boys and girls, are making for
several days, was taken to Meacham on Will start yon In business* You &**}■ iXTlihlte Jr*
Tuesday, says the Lagrande, Oregon,
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