Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, April 28, 1888, Image 1

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    VOL.
T he New Yurk Assembly lias or­
dered an investigation into ttie lobby |
and its methods.
MONMOUTH, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 28,
TELEGRAPHIC.
In Kpilomf of the Trineip&l Eveots Now
T he bill for the eleventh census
Attracting Pablic Interest
calls for an appropriation of $0,000,-1
COAST CULLINGS.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.
Legislation Pertaining to' the Interest
of the Pacific Coast
AGRICULTURAL.
NO. 6.
GREG01M NEWS.
Devoted to the Interests of Farmers Everything o f General Interest In a
and Stockmen.
Condensed Form.
NKXATK.
A. Treffell, who was badly burned
T w o Valtitfthlo F a r m C r o p * .
The music of the hammer and saw
000.
I
Senator Mi to hell "introduced a bill,
C. E. Cole, writing from Buckner, is heard daily at McMinnville.
, ‘
- =—
Roscoe Conkling died at his home in the fire at BoJie, died.
T he Hennepin Canal steal has been in New York after a short illness,
A {»ostotfiee has been established at making it unlawful for the postmaster- Mo., says : I give you my ex|>erience
The Dalles jail has but one occu-
Metlakahtla,
Alaska, and William geueral to annul a contract which had with two of the most valuable farm pant.
a-rain shelved by a committee of the i McDowell Crawford, colored, was
boon made for carrying mail until the plants 1 have ever known. First, the
Chinese phe««««*« are very numer-
House.
I sh ot a n d killed by an unknown person Duncan was appointed postmaster.
contract had expired, unless the ser­ mammoth Russian sun flower, which
John
B.
Bennett
has
been
appointed
ous around Airlie.
at a point two miles from Nolensville,
Fot'K thousand Irish emigrants Tenn.
postmaster at Kent, King county, vice is to be expedited in different has proved to be a positive preventive
%
Wm. Culm an, formerly mate on
manner from that provided under con­ of malaria, also a quick cure for colic
sailed from (¿ueenstown for the United
coasting
vessels, died at St. Mary’s
The body of a Chinaman was found Washington territory, in place of W. tract.
or foundt r in horses by drenching with
hanging to a tree about three miles H. Morton, who has resigned.
States in one day last week.
strong tea made by mashing tl i seeds. hospital, Astoria.
The
senate
committee
on
foreign
re­
Charles John Zimmerman, engineer
from New Westminster, B. C. An in­
Mrs. Sarah Wilson, of Scio, was
It is also the best egg and butter pro­
T he Post otlice Appropriation Bill quest was held and a verdict of sui­ in the railroad yards at Nogales, A. T., lations decided by a parly vote, to re­ ducing frxxl for fowls and cows, and taken to the insane asylum, having
port
the
fisheries
treaty
adversely.
was shot and instantly killed on the
projHi es to devote $00,133,340 to the cide was returned.
been declared igsane by a board of
Mayor Pond will appear before the very fattening for horses fed in small
street by Joint Sherman.
Thomas
M.
Kennedy,
a
wealthy
quantities by breaking tip the heads medical examiners.
support of the Post-office Department.
house
committee
on
public
lands,
to
Abraham Winn, was kilhd in a
cattle dealer, of Bownoville, Texas,
The schooner Wm. F. Witzermann,
present the ease of the wagon road with seeds in tuems It will produce
T he New York Senate lias passed a was killed by Sheritf Jose Marie Es­ shaft at Colusa, M. T. being knocked
over 100 bushels per acre on rich and, while trying to sail out, heavily lum­
land
grant
in
Oregon.
besides a large quantity of good fod­ ber laden, took s»n<l at Smith’s point,
bill to limit the number of liquor li­ parza, a wealthy Mexican near Ferry out of the cage by striking the wall in
Teller reported back the house bill der—stalks, 2 to '.'4 inches thick ai d
ascending.
near Astoria, aud is atill ashore.
censes to one to each 300 of popula- Landing, Texas.
to
give
validity
to
certain
patents
for
7 to 14 feet long.
These make an j Gov. l’ennoyer has appointed Wm.
Win. Deffney was struck by a large
At
Jennear,
La.,
in
a
dispute
at
the
i tion.
inventions that were irregularly issued, enormous quantity of gcxxl kindling I
polls Nicholas Provost was shot dead, pieee of rock falling from overhead in
being signed by the second assistant and stove wood. Seed heads are 12 to F. Muir, of Portland; O. F. Be'l, of
the
3l)t)-foot
level
in
the
west
Colusa
and
his
brother
L.
P.
Provost,
was
A city ticket composed of women
secretary
of the interior, instead of the 18 inches across, which, with the seed Union; D. W. C. Nelson, of Norih
The trouble is mine, M. T., and it is doubtful if he re­
Powder, and J. M. Brown,of Silverton,
[for the Council and a woman for mortally wounded.
secretary
himself; passed.
in them make fuel equal to coal or notaries public.
said to have arisen from a family feud. covers.
Mayor has been elected at Oskaloosa,
Butler reported back the house bill wood cn account of there being 30 or I
Another car load of colored immi­
Carrie Bciswenger, while scrubbing
At Albany, Claude Vunk, little son
to ratify and confirm an act ef the.
Kans.
cent of rich oil in them.
at Wheeling, W. Va., ran a big splin­ grants arrived fiom Charlotte, N. C ,
of R. B. Vunk. while playing at school
Nfw
Mexico
legislature
creating
the
”
I
planting
put
one
see«!
3x3
feet,
j
A physi­ at Fresno, to work in the vineyards.
T he reduction of the public debt ter under her thumb-nail.
county of San Juan; passed, with an in \ * climates aud latitudes, aud time j was accidentally struck in the face
cian removed it, but ttie arm swelled Another installment will follow the
amendment declaring Aztec the county from early spring to the first of July. | with a ball bat, inflicting very severe
[during March amounted to $21,586,-
badly, and hick-jaw set in, and it is 10th of next nwiith.
injuries.
seat.
if people of the Northwest, where!
i o.)9 68. 1 otal cash in the treasury, j
the girl cannot live.
William
Snead, |K>stmaster at
Miss Ida Turner was very seriously
blizzards
prevail,
would
plant
only
an
|
The total number of bills and reso­
$586,451,002 66.
The Western nail manufacturers Seaton, Thurston county, Wa-hington
acre, they will have enough stalks and i hurt by being thrown from a horse at
lutions
intro
(need
in
the
senate
ami
met at Pittsburg, Penn., aud fixed the ! territory, has been removed, and S. M.
T he gavel used by the presiding of­ basis of a scale of prices. The scale Bliiinaer appointed postmaster in his house is 12,568. So far the house has seed to warm them a whole year. It Sumner, her head striking on a log.
passed 425 bills, and the senate 831, stands drouth splendidly. I would as ' The breaking of the saddle cinch was
ficers of the United State» Senate has slightly advances nails between ten place.
j the cause of the accident.
and 185 house bills and 21 senate bill* soon miss a crop of corn as it.
been in use for over fifty years.
It is and twenty penny, and will reduce
E. O. Bagge, a native of Schleswig, been sent to the president for his ap­
Second— I send a small package of
A. Glausen, a painter, of Portland,
Holstein, and professor of music, shot proval.
; made out of an elephant’s tooth and those under ten-penny.
the wonderful prolific flour corn that was arrested for permitting a vicious
The jail at Friars Point, Tenn., was himself in the head at Los Angeles,
is as white as anew and makes flour I dog to run at large.
His dog bit a
; has no handle, nor it never had one.
llO C H K .
Despondency was
burned, and five prisoneis perished in dying soon after.
equal to wlieatland the best roasting 1 little doughtor of Jolm Schmidt, who
Hermann
has
been
notified
<by
T . ie New. York Democratic State the flames. An effort was made to the cause.
Each grain, by shoot­ made the complaint against Glausen.
Postmaster-General Dickinson that the etus known.
Hi James, wanted at Stockton, Cal.,
ing, produces from three to six stalks,
¡Convention for the election ef dele- rescue them, but without success The
The Blagen Tanning Company has
mail
service
between
Vale
and
Burns,
, vr .
1 .
jail is supposed to have been tired by for the murder of Lem Dougherty at
from one to three ears and four times tilesi articles of incorporation with the
gates to the National Convention *'iH OIle Qf the inmates who was under Lodi a year ago, h is been captured at Or., has been increased.
more and better stock fodder than Secretary of State. Incorporators, N.
The house committee on judiciary other corn, as the stdks are soft ami
[be held in this city on Tuesday, May 1 sentence to the penitentiary.
Hailey, Idaho. Janies shot at a gam­
J. Blagen, Geo. Medgeley and Win. J.
15th.
The assembly at Albany, N. Y., bler, and killed Dougherty, a by­ decided to re|x>rl favorably the copy­ as sweet as sugar, which causes stock Miller; location, Eugene City; capi­
right
bill
iutrodaced
by
Breckenridge.
to eat it, stalk and all, clean after it is tal stock, $6,000.
passed a bill providing for the execu­ stander.
A B ii . l has been introduced in the tion of the death penalty by means of
Hermann urged the ¡Secretary of cured. It is goixl for canning.
My
Marshal Meade, who arrested and
Mrs. Rosetta Parker was reported
United States Senate to remove the electricity. This is the hill recom- convicted Smart and Green, the train the Interior to direct his agents, dur­ little patch last year made at the rate to be in a dying condition at the home
I prohibition against the appointment ] mended by the commission. It pro­ robbers, Ht Tucson, Ariz., has been ing the coming summer, to exercise of 144 bushels per acre, notwithstaiul , of her son, near Turner station, Marion
of ex-Conhderates to positions in the I hibits newspapers from publishing do- awarded $4,000 by the Southern l’aci eareful watch to prevent forest fires mg drouth and chinch bugs. It does j county. She was the widow of the
next summer in Oregon and elsewhere. well north or south.
tic Company.
late Hon. Samuel Parker, and one of
I regular army.
tai'8 of executiops.
Belmont intrtxluced a bill to pro­
1 semi you a small package of each. the old pioneers of the State.
Her
While two Indian policemen at
Sydney March, who was killed by a
T he four best advertised men in i tempted to arrest Sacate, an Apache runaway hor.-e at the blooded horse hibit the coming of Chinese laborers If you will split the grain open you husband died about eighteen months
in the United States; referred. Its
America to-day, and without the ex- Indian, and his son, at Los Ciuces, N. races in San Fsaticisco, was a resident main provisions are similar to those* will find a solid mass of flour itself. I ago.
will send a trial package of each to j Messrs. Parquet & Smith, have two
1 M., who were drunk and causing of Portland some years ago, where he
penditure of a cent on their part, are trouble in camp, a tight ensued in
contained in the new treaty.
those
who send me stamps for mailing. 1 «rge and one small scows and a force
was engaged in the dry goods busi­
The conference report upon the bill The sunflower makes fuel here and I of men are rai-iog the sunken steamer
Robert G. Iugersoll, Chauncey M. j which one of the policemen werekilled. ness.
«4 Depew, Father McUlynn and ltoscoe ! Sacate’s son was fatally and three wo-
authorizing tfio President to arrange saved many lives in Kansas last win­
A railroad laborer named Joseph a conference between the Uuittd ter. In growing the corn, don’t pull - Pe ltley, below Lincoln. The stern of
’ the boat lias been raised snd pumped
■ Conkling.
I men were severely injured by stray Davis, was killed near ^Pomona, Cal.,
States and South aud Central Ameri­ off the suckers. 1 have seen twtlve i out, and the senni in her bottom tern-
| shots.
by a Southern Pacific train running
S ome experiments have been placed j Chester Draper was accidentally tlirougti an open switch and striking a can republics, ll-y li, San Domingo good eais and eight stalks from one |X)rarily patched. She will he taken
and the empire of Brazil, was agreed hill.— Oregonian.
j to Oregon City an 1 placed in the dry
I on record (says the London Electri- \ „hot and killed by Percy C'andaland, hand car. A number of others had
to.
I cion), iii which a number of eggs were I at Salt Lake City, while a party of a narrow escape.
Many half hardy plant«, which arc I dock for permanent repairs.
The bill to establish a department
■ hatched out in a magnetic field, with I "ddeh Draper was one were serenading
left in the ground and are destroyed i A freight train collided with a switch
Ar°nts Hendricks, 6 years of age, of labor v/as passed.
engine on the curve entering Albina.
1 a newly married couple, friends of was probably fatally burned at Oro-
Boin, of Pennsylvania, offered an by the severity of our winters, might 'The freight was coming with consider­
the result that the d ick e n s were all \ Candaland. The latter fired ttie shots
be
saved
by
covering
the
plant
witli
a
ville,
Cal.
While
playing
with
amendment providing that in Indian
more or less deformed— blind, deaf or as a practical joke, to frighten the ser-
able mo centum and the switch was
matches his clothes caught lire and da}' and training schools that are fairly deep coating of ashes, which I moving slowly. When the engineer
cnaders.
lame.
burned the lower part of tiis laxly so church organizations, and are assist­ may be raked over the soil and dug in of the freight saw the switch hb tried
The marines and blue jackets of the that the flesh came off in pieces,.
ing in educational work, the Christian when spring comes.
j to atop his train, but was unable to do
M uch of the so-called ivory now in North Atlantic squadron, participated
The postotlice and store at VYash- bible may be taught in the native lan­
Wixxl ashes also form an excellent
I use is simply potato. A good, sound jn a sham battle, at Pensacola, Fla. ougal, W. T., kept by Geary & Herzig, guage of the Indian, if, in the opinion manure for plants, and spread over so until bis engine was on the switch.
There was not much darn 'ge to either
potato washed in diluted sutphuiic Five blue jackets and a marine were was entered by a 13 year old boy of the persons in charge of the school, lawns produce beneficial effects.
In engine, only the wood work being torn
acid, then boiled in the same solution,* wounded. It is supposed the material named Chris Goebel, aud robbed. The it is deemed conductive to the moral dressing a lawn with ashes it is best off.
in the cone of a shell had hardened, boy stole a sum of money, a quantity welfare of the pupils; adopted.
done when wet weather is likely to
Dr. C. W. Jeffrey, veterinary sur­
and then slowly dried, is already to be and tore off, the metal cone wounding
of postage stamps, cutlery and other
After lieiug spread on the geon, was attacked by two footpads on
A bill general in its character, for­ follow.
turned into buttons, poker chips and t})e men
small shelf goods.
lawn
ought
to
bo
rolled.
The
result
feiting all lands opposite railroad lines
State street, Salem, knocked s< nsa'ess,
innumerable other things that ivory
Two notorious criminals were cap- j Myers’s salmon cannery at West not completed within the time speci­ will be a strong, close growth of fresli and robbed of $1,475, of whir h $300
lured at Billings, M ont, having in Seat ly‘, IV. T., on the other side of the fied by law, was agreed to by the grass for the ensuing season.
was used for once upon a time.
was money and the remainder drafts.
their possession fifty-eight head of. harbor, caught tire and burned to ttie house committee on Pacific railroads.
By tying a small corn cob to one The doctor had just returned from
T he saloon has evidently lost its horses, bearing thirteen well-known ground. Tlie loss is about $15,000.
The Indian and pension appropria­ leg, allowing it to dangle at a distance Eastern Oregon, where he had received
Tne seines, tin, boiler, engines and tion bills passed the bouse.
of about six inches, a Main poultry a large amount of money.
He also
grip in Philadelphia.
The judges of Nevada brands. One of the men has
been recognized-as Teton, the noted other cannery equipments were in­
fancier is said to succeed in keepiug received several hundred dollars from
the License Court, acting under the horsethief and murderer, for whose sured for $840.
P O R T IiA N U P K O lir C K M A K H K T . her chickens at homo. The fowl can parties in Portland, and he thinks
new law, are manifesting the most capture there are rewards aggregating
Michael Morris, a german tailor, 28
scratch and get atxiiil with ease, hut some toughs saw him there and fol­
B utter —
years of age, who recently escaped
contemptuous indifference to the in- $6,000, in Nevada and Idaho,
40 will not attempt to fly over palings or lowed him to 8 ilem on the evening
Fancy
roll,
0
!b......
squeeze through a crack.
teasts of Uie liquor-selling tribe, and
The residence of I). A. Hoffman, a from the Territorial asylum at Steila- Oregon......................
1 train. There is no clue to the robbers.
cooni, and has spent the past few days Inferior g ra d e .........
25
16 (4
California stage proprietors are said
Walter Foss, the boy who drives the
seem actually To relish the opportunity j farmer near Oak Ridge, Mo., was
18 rot 3 1 to ►oak all the wixxl-work of wagons “ hill”
wandering aimlessly about the court Pickled..................
ho-se on the First street car
to smite the business hijt and thigh. I burned and three of bis children were house and county jail, was adjudged California r o ll.........
32*
I consumed. Three other children were
*8 «4 35 and vehicles in oil before putting the I line in Portland, met with a serious
do
pickled
.
.
.
insane and taken to Salem.
parts together. Tile oil used is crude accident. His wotk for the day being
C heese —
...
. . .
i so badly burned that it is expected
lfl r<$ 20 petroleum. If the wixxl work canuot ; finished, he undertook to jump on the
W H IL E England is contemplating a lhey wiU die, and Hoffman was so | Louis Schwartz, 3-year-old son of Eastern, full cream.
16
M »
do
monument to Raleigh, France has de- j serjously injured that he died.
It is Simon Schwartz, a merchant of San Oregon.
1U be soakt d an application on the out- i front platform of a car in motion,
Francisco, was run over by a truck on California.................
side, using a brush, once in eight weeks near Jefferson, hut he lost his hold
20
cided on one for Parmenti«
It would , thought Hoffman became suddenly
Kaos Fresh.........
Folsom street and instantly killed. D.
URtED
F
r u it s —
is excellent. The method is said to j and fell to the ground, one foot lying
be bard to suggest the names of two j insane, and fired bis bouse himself,
Stevens, the driver of the truck, sur- Apples, qrs, sks and bxs.
0 prevent the wood from swelling or ! on the rail.
«
The driver applied the
6 shrinking, and saves much valuable : brake«, but n >t hr fore both wheels had
California
do
Ci
‘
men who had less in com m on; but!
Frankie, the little daughter of Rob- re idered to the police and was charged
IN
(9
28
Apricots, n<
new crop.
each in his own country will be recog-!
Pell, of Paducah, Ky., was burned with manslaughter.
i passed over the foot,
The lad was
12«» 14 time, as there is less repairing.
Peaches, unpeeled,
i
ipeel
,
, • . |
to death. She was playing with her
A
reporter
named
Bruce
Douglas,
10
P.-ars,
machine
dried
The report of Col. Switzler, chief of conveyed to the residence of his father
nized as the introducer of the potato. . ..
,
r j
, , ,
.
i
u
brother around a hre in the yard dur- attempted to commit suicide at Los Pitted cherries
40 the bureau of statistics on wool and George Fo«s, corner Front snd Clay,
12 «
P.innentier s is a clearer title than ¡ng the absence of her parents.
Her Angeles.
He shot himself through Pitted plums, Oregon . . . . .
0 manufactures of wexd, is ready for dis- It is thought amputation will be neces-
Figs, Cal., in bgs and b x s ..
<9
Raleigh’s.
i clothing ignited and
was totally the shoulder, after a s'ruggle with an- Cal.
8 <4 10 tribnli>»n. The report shows that the sary.
Prunes, F ren ch ..........
burned from her body. 8he survived j other reporter who tried to prevent the Oregon prunes.....................
10 <
4 124 number of sheep in the United Stabs
A B ill introduced by Senator Mor- but a couple of hours,
F lour -
ib-ed. Douglas claims to 'e the last
M IS C E L L A N E O U S .
4 00 increased from 111,000,000 in 1840 to
rill, Hojr before both Houses of Con-
Edward CoM, r> a colored nian o( living desceudent of the Ear!'rif Doug- Portland Pat. Roller, 0 hbl $
4 00 51.000. 000 in 1884, but declined to
Salem
do
do
—A
woman
never reaches mlddll
:
las.
4 '6 45.000, <X)0 in 1887. This marked de­
gress, confers upon the director of the
Louis, possessed of considerable ,
White Lily tf» b b l...............
life;
she
is
always
young until she get!
At
the
coroner’s
inquest
in
the
case
;)
50
fa
3
7*
Country
brand.....................
cline occurred mainly in the Southern
mint, with the approval of the secre wealth, returned to his home unex- !
of John Mefsutt, the Maltese chicken Superfine.............................. 2 tU r<9 2 75 and Wt stern States, and is attributed old enough to boast of her age. — Epoch.
tary of the treasury, the power “ to |>ectedly, and found Rev. Sidney Hib-
G rain —
—The soil houses of farmers In Da­
.
_ . .
alt ler, pastor of the Methodist church peddler who was murdered in his Wneal, Valley, 0» 100 tbs .. 1 22*r<g 1 25 to the decline in the price of wool
kota were found to be much warmer
cause new designs or models of au- An<1 ‘ pHn^inwl of the school, at his room at San Francisco, the jury found
do
Walla W alla........... 1 15 (0 1 16 since 1884.
I 12*
thorized emblems or devices to be pre home. Not being satisfied with his ex- that in their opinion deceased came to Burley, whole, 0 ctl............
An advocate of corn fed pork ad­ during the recent cold spell than
houses made of wood or brick.
do
ground, 0 ton ........ 20 00 (a 26 00
his
death
by
blows
from
a
hatchet
or
mits
that the hog fed miscellaneously
pared and adopted” for use in the pianation, lie shot him in the head’
47 <4 50
choice milling 0 bush
—If there is anybody who want»
' an ax in the hands of Julian Part« Hi, Oats,
46 >si 47 has the sweetest and tenderest meat,
do feed, good to choice,old
coinage of the country. This is an killing him instantly.
hi* partner.
Rye, 0 100 tbs....................... 1 10 <é 1 26 and if taste be a criterion in pork, as copvwrightit is the editor. So much
admirable measure.
Orrin Steere, a farmer, living near
F eed —
An old pioneer named John Birton
it is reckoned to be in every thing copy wrong Is what is wearing out hi»
the village of Lisbon, N. H., while sit­ was found dead at Downieville, Cal. Bran, If to n ......................... 16 00 «1 7 00 else that is eatable, the fruit-fed and life.—Bos'on Post.
«19 00
A t Wath, in Yorkshire, six dozen ting in his dining-room reading a His chest was entirely gone, and the Shorts, tf t o n ....................... 18 U0 «H
—She—"Excuse me, sir, I did not
8 00
milk-fed pork is certainly best. But
Uay, 0 ton, baled................
hot cross bnns are thrown from the paper, in company with bis family, contents of the cavity wero Mown Chop, tf ton .......................... 23 no <k25 no j he adds that if greater firmness be de­ eatch your name.” French Visitor—
was killed by an unknown assas.-in,
cake meal |f ton ............ 32 00 «3 3 X
sired it may he had by finishing off "Octave, Mademoiselle, Octave----- ”
top of the tows r of the parish church who literally blew the top of his head away. He war mining alone, and it is Oil F resh
F ruit «
supposed committed suicide by plac­
She—“ In the piano business? ’ —Town
at noon on Good Fridav, in accordance
^ load of buckshot was fired ing a cartridge of giant powder on his Apple«, Oregon, 0 box....... 1 2 > W 1 60 r tie last few we< ks of fattening by Topics.
Cherries, Oregon, g rirm ...
feeding corn meal, not corn in the
with the will of Thomas Tuke. At throu „ .» w indow four feet away. No breast.
—The California papers report that
Lemons, California, 0 b x .. 4 00 dt 4 60 ear.
1 23
on account of vandalism of the Ameri­
one lime forty dozen used to be thrown reason is assigned for the crime. The
The board of directors of the San Limes, if 100........................
Minnesota
and
Dakota,
with
915.000
entire country is hunting the mur­ Francisco Creamation Company, held Riverside orange«. 0 b o x ...
but the crowd used to create a riot in
people in 1880, and, perhaps, 1,500,- can tourist« the ancient adobe church
Los Angeles, do
do . . .
<9
derer.
a
m
eting.
A
committee
was
ap­
Peaches,
0
b
o
x
...................
000 now, produced more wheat last at Paso del Norte has been closed U
the church yard, and it was at length
As five section men were passing the pointed, with full power to act in re­
H ides —
year than Great Britain and Ireland them.
decreed to distribute thirty-four d< sen
U <9 12 with 35.00d.0fJ0 people. The British
—The cost of compiling and publish­
Oerlings White Sand Comp my'« works gard to the building of a erpamatory Dry, over 16 tbs, 0 tb..........
<4
5
Wet salted, over 55 tba:. . . .
more sensibly at the church door.
ing the reports of the Challenger ex­
The sura of $2,000 whs Murrain
in a hand car, on the St. Louis, Kan­ and furnace.
island«
comprise
about
121,000
square
7
t<t,
0
hides.....................
sas City & Colorado road, near La appropriated for that purpose, and a Pelt« ....................................
10 « 1 25 miles, and devote to wheat growing pedition. the last three volumes of
furnace
will
lie
erected
on
a
lot
which
V
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Mo.,
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only 2,400 000 acres, about one acre which sre about to b* Issued, hai
— The strength of sh ifts or bars of
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2] for 15 inhabitants.
Minnesota and already exceeded 1 1,000,000.
iron is, for binding and twisting an immense rock upon the hand car. was purchased some time ago by the Carrots,
• 1 00 Dakota have about 6,000,000
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—In Northern Alaska the sun shines
acres of
«trains, as the cubes of their diameter. All of the men were fatally hurt. company for $4,000.
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1 10 wheat, or about four acres for every only four hour« out of ths twenty-four
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Thus, a two-inch shaft i* eight times Their Dames are Harry McCowan,
7a inhabitant, and with a good yield l.i winter, and the Alaskan« ought to
Chsrles Nilleon, a sailor, from For­ Potatoes, new, » 100 lbs ..
as strong as a one-inch s'laft, while a Thomas Bemmor, Smith Dougherty,
W ool —
could easily aell for export aa much as bo duly thankfuL Base ball clubs cau
three-inch shaft is twen y«s.-ven times Clark Patton and Ed. Shepherd. Three farshire, died in the Astoria hospital Bast Oregon. Spring c lip .,
14 *
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them
died.
Great Brtain and Ireland produce.
¡of
consumption.
«nly play one game a day.
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