scio.
Keystone Shaving Parlors urn or nit ra
...OO TO THE...
I.IXX
BIG FIRE IN MONTREAL
Marly Thrt« Mdbo« OolUrs te^rth ef Fr«fh>
Gl'ISSIPPE VERDI DEAD.
SOUTH Stt TOON ADO
Se m paaar
Only First-Class Shop In the City
Shaving
Hau Cutting
Shampurung
Baita
IS cent*
25 "
.15 “
2$ -
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...
All eo-l «»a*»,:e»4 «*•!
•«•
‘rum AU Parti of th« New World deetn u«e tires tr-.m winch this city Great Devgitdtion in New Htb-
baaever aufTrrcl («yen at * o clock
rides and New Britain
and the Old.
la,t night, and. m twtibalaudlng the.
*
INTFRfST TO out WANT RtADfRF
.Ort»p-«h<n»lv« Rsviev, of the Important Ha»
p<n>n<< ot the Put Weak M a
londtmed form.
0R. J. W. VOGEL
Specialist for Refraction .mJ
Defects of the Eye.
PORTLAND, O
ICO*
Will make regular tup» Io ‘■r ■>
Welch local column lor date of »'site
Commercial
House
J. BEARD, Prop.
%%
Our table, are supplied with th«
tart th* market, aflord.3 kJ*
SOO. OREGON
J. J. BARNES &• SOX
%
General Blacksmiths and
Wagonma’ ers...
W» bn y o’» r stork tn large ^-antiEM and
t
.
.
•
tai <11 t «»4« vl
<■» V'lf ¡¡ff 4 -«r on
•buO
e
r*
Al Ho Ho .W.OOO
•W'>rn allegiance.
Illlpin-s have
The menlater of “hariff ‘•umniara, In
Montana. «a. ruu down
I!««» nil, fur Transvaal m< uni« I |«>li a
are I ■am g enlisted at Victoria.
• llif-lu . inarm* alia* March nail
will be lt> ligli-le to hold ort>oe.
Hcldwin
baa c..mplele«l arrange
manta for hi, l. rtic r >pa<liii<>u.
Ina l«allla with Kantooky m<«a-
ahiiier, two oil.car. ware killed.
German, brltera
hotierle*
frank
arowala haatened the qoeetia' .loath.
Newly Fumuhed and Refitted
T hroughout J* J* J*
South «I Bruice.
Agulnaldo says ba a ill m>t accept
am Maty.
hlata akateta broke through ice near
Brooklyn, and two I*.ya were drowned.
There I, much aywculatlon m IVaah-
ingt. ti aa to the probabllitv f an ettia
aeaalon of cougreaa.
Fira in a Washington Ix.ial tnlalled
a loan of
All the gur.l, aa-
cape.) unln;nrw<l.
A •ympatlietic atrtke. which niran,
a complete tic up haa be- n luted by
Sort her ti Colorado miner«.
Fmperoi U illlam of Germany, haa
been ap|»iulwl a field maiahal in the
Brltlab army aa a birthday token.
Owing to the fan. In*. thou>anda
have did an-' there haa t<ecn grew. d:a-
I • ••• Hi I • < p.
, ■ n»u 'I. Ct.
...Hoiseshoeing a Specialty...
scio. or
The leader of the Creek Indian up
rlalug ha, Imn captured and it ia
thought thia n.raiia the end of the in
anrre. tion.
..BANK OF SCIO..
A bill providing for a lioatity of 1
wul per poaud Ou auger made In in
Idaho beet, haa leen Introdu. ••<1 III the
hoiiee of the Idaho IgiaialUie.
CAPITAL, $20,000.
OFFICERS:
President
Vice President
Cashier
...
E. P. CadwrF
). W. Cisme»
C. V. Johnaor
The revenue cutter (.rant haa »tartel
on one of the moat perl.oua voyagee
ever undertaken
Shipping men and
un lerwrltnra ol the entire I <■ lAi t <-t
Will ati.i u !v await her r.t.irn -<>r
ahe g > m in anarch of mieetng ve«-.-ia
and dlalreeted marinera.. Twentv llve
veeaele laiuud lor I'uget Bound an I the
coaat are iiil>aiiig, auppoaedly driven*
n> rth.
Veaaela from Aiaake report the
entire we»t Quast of V ancouver lalaud,
250 ml lea ol rveka and roof, atrawn
with wreckage. The Graut will es-
amine every equate inch of Vaneonrer
coa,l a, ar u rth a. Cape ' it in
email laiata and launchre, and will
aear. h every pi. eof wreckage for id.n
tiRcatton.
efforts uf the entire tire department,
the progress of the flamee wee not
checked until I o’clo. k thia morning
By that time II had destroyed property
ertimated at let ween f'.’.AOO.OOO and
>3.000,00’>. and was still burning,
though the appearance was that the
tireu.eu have al last got II under outt-
trol. Included in th« property burned
la the splendid board »1 trade'* betid
ing. which coat 4*00.000, and honen.1
over loo tenants, half a dusen large
business bouaes an-i two score of «mail
er but Id I ng«. The weather wee cold
and the firemen were greatly hampered
in this retpert. Outside ol the b>«rd
of trade building there was not a mod-
trn »tructure among thewe burned
I'rw.l. ol people Jammed thenar
row streets, and the plice could not
control them.
Women fainted and
their clothe« were t rn and a few
slightly injured tn rushes tor aafetv.
The tire started in the premises ol
M Fate A Co., wboleeale clothiers,
al Iwmerne and St Peter street.
The
aireeta tn the locality were deeerted at
the time and the tire apparently had
good headway liefore the fliat alarm
waa aeul tn. The firemen lend live
building a three story atone atiucture,
a maw of flaiuea
A. W. HAGEY
SHASTA ROUTE
Trains laa*» Weot Mel a for Pori land end way
••aiK'fsa at 1« ♦» a m Mara tor Albany at B ut
ft •
loares Portland • » a « . 1 p m
Albany U » P. M . >• ftftf *.
Arrltre la a
Û a m il a- a m
•oftrnrsu in a J
i m
- nan Ft am two 7 A* a m • 1A a •
• Ogden s V» a m 1! 4 » a m
•• ¡’rater ta • .ta m
•* Ka«««aa ' Hr 7
m . t ■> a m,
• <‘btrago 7.4* a m t » a m
•» ( zmi a ng* les I JU p m , 7 a M
• Kl Pasotp m .Aft •
•• Fort W nrtb •
• m , ft * ft m
•* City al Notira t Mft m . ft Jft a m
• II» ’ision Ia n .la m
• New orieana A r ft la , A 15 a an.
*• * sehiagton < <7 a m . • «7 a an
*• Naw York It Up aa . If Al ft aa
Falman and Torrrfst rars on h**th trama
Chair car«
a^ier !.. Io < h fen aa-l > Pa
a ’
•
a
loara and F aehington
ton noeti eg at >an Fra nr I ero With sor eroi
|tn«a lor Huhci iln, Japan. « htna Fhlllpf inoe
Central and ft«.’»th A ma Hr*
no- In M I Woodaaanoeo agoni al Wrd
•ria "iftt»on or ad«! es*
< H MARKHAM.
Aaal OftB Fgt A Pass Agl
Portland, Ur. j
Plchon, the trench imni.ter, haa an-
eigetlcally reqaeetod their Immediate
diapereel.
NATIMS WfHr
URVHNfU
Ano Bnu»h t «ling «v f srnwr Icland,
InnunwraW, Craft Wr«<k,d
lrv|ur«d at Kswams. Ill
Kewanee, 111 . Jan. 26.—Fire early
this morning deal roved the Commer
cial bouae and an el the death ot
three men
The dead are
C. C. Cot
ton, aged #2 years. Terre Haute, Ind ,
advance ag-nt of "Uncle tom's Cabin"
run pane, suffocated In U-d; F.lmer
I e’.-r ■■ ■;.
.r . I .. . i tbk
James Fincher. Waluut, 111., auction«
eer.
John C. Gruber, of Fort Wayne.
Ind . a contractor, end Martin Jacoba,
of Chicago, an expert
mechaub,
jumped from the third story windows
and were liarlly hurt.
Au explosion In the kitchen sent the
flame, into every corner of the honee
aud cut <>ff eacajve bv means of the
stair«. The irantic gue«ta ruebed to
the windows, «here some burled them-
selves to the ground, others had to
be carried out by the flremou
The
loaa I, fl.OUO.
ROCK ON THE TRACK.
Train Robbrr, Trlrd to Hold l.'p th« Overland
f.xpcM Naar Ktanwy.
Bl« Washington Hop Contract.
Of
french Trader, Report,« TrvM •" Mw bp
Thr«< Men Wtr, Burned to Death and Ssvsral
Corvallis à Eastern R R.
EAST AND SOUTH
M MBFK
FATAL HOTEL FIRE.
Cheyenne. Wyo., Jan. 28. — Informa
tion was received here today that a
despetato attempt
waa
made la«t
I» et a r»vr*l b n'*'n< »nd rihing-
night by a gang uf train roblier, to
bovine**. I an, m t* e il ruteni rate*
bold up the overland ex prove near
aid di.l » h-’U-d on prim pii c lie*.
Kearney, Neb. The tiandita placed a
large pile of rocks on the track In or
der to wreck lbs train, which io re
The queen a fortune ia not co large ported to have bad a large amou.ti •>(
money. The robbers secreted them
aa generally auppoeed
selves behind a hill near the railroed,
The arreMl n of Klug F.<lward waa
A |>sdaetrian traveling along the track
attende.1 wilh mti h pump in Um.lon.
came
upon
the obatrm lion, wa,
Thoma, Ke.rn» h«a been ele ted pounced U|ion, sev erely beaten, and
United Mate, e natot from l ull
rohlied of all hia money, amounting to
A tire In Moutreal deMroyed propel- 4160. lie got away from them and
AU I «4« of «atrhes Ct ks anA Jewelry re
ía r*M |*fA<n«|»uy
ty worth Irmu IJ.'.OU.OUU Io f.3vKH),> ran to Kearney, «here he gave the
alarm, and a posae was at one organ
000.
SOO
•
-
OREGON.
tied and ordota given to hold the train
< slliornia'a orang* crop thia year
I he powe came upon ths bandits and
promleea to break the record of pre«.
captured < n-, the other« e-capmg The
Iona ynare.
utiicvr, are still lu pursuit.
Three men held op a aalnou and
TIO < kill».
Hi, Naturaliiation Was Pmlpeivad
gambing houre lu North Vakuua aud
bra ft, tar tannini
New York. Jan. 26. — A man who
Traitt
Al b» b Y
_ n r» r M ee>ured (SOO.
•• < orYBIil»
1 « r M
.Shelby M. Cullom a a, re elected gave the naiiit of Henry Ziuitner ap
**
tt^uina
• u r M ;
United Malea aenator from llliuota. plied Io the naturallution bureau in
W» 1 , rwlttrnlng
the county court bouae lor hla final
Thia ia hie fourth term.
A le a M
¡«•atek \ aqulita
l>a**a »’©»wttllia
II M A il
naturalisation paper«.
Zimmer said
l.ieutenant
Taylor,
of
the
United
Arriva* A it*au.
11 u r M -
Clerk Luce
Statea revenue cuttei I'euruee. waa be was an Englishman.
K« 1, fWr Uatrelt
started to administer the uaual oath to
î OO A M
drowned at I'en.acula, Fla.
Ixaat rv A lbatt|
Zimmer, and had got so lar as for
H » A M.
ArritttA ¡‘•trvtt
William A. Denton, a eoldler of the swearing "allegiance to all foreign
N«, ft, reiaralai
Black Hawk Indian war. la dead at powers or potentates," and especially
>1 !• r M
l<a«*R
Arrives Aiaany
< r M ’ Madieun, lud., aged 101 yeare.
to the queen of Greet Britain and Ire
. I a
*
Washington aenate pgmed memor- land. when a nreaaeugrr rushed in and
lie • |th tb.utbern far! ft, Iran* rim* ft 4 rvrt
str»’-**» Io and trosas x»ra|w»fl a *4 adiaren' lala praying congreaa to appropriate announc*l that the queen was dead.
b*a« haa
(15,0(H) lor Improvementa ot lx>wle Zlmuier'a naturalisation waa immedi
fraine for the m*>nn«atna ar«lve al
at
r
- •
«... river and flOO.OH) for «ompletion o( ately |*>atpound until the naturalisa
tion Irureau Is officially Informed of the
fnsnoda on the HrvivrnbH.it aio! Miti ato rira t The Dallea-t elilo canal,
the sama «fa*
A dUjiatch from Pekin aaya SO.000 queeu's death and the an oeesor to the
H L W*I I»KN
ft!»* IS
T VAI* A.
M «.*»•* a r
Chineae
regular« have rea,*einbled throne ot England formally anuonne»!.
J. TVKXKft. Agent. Albany
near Chan Ting Fu, a day'a march The last Rrttieb «object to f- r-wear
from the French trnopa. Generel Vey. allegtauce in thia city ia John J.
ron is cloeely watching them, and M. I sG.-n.
1
Victoria. Ji. t'., Jan. 28.—Great
devastation was wrought and a number
• I natives were drowned by the hurri
cane In the New Hubridee and New
Britain. Itecetnber >. * aud ». accord-
lug to news brought l-y the Aorangi,
At llerbertabobe. while tne settlement
waa aaleep, a tremndeme sea carried
lighters, bunt«, ketc hes ami wreckage of
all decryptions ash ire.
Innumerable
craft were wrecked.
The
■ team er
Msttin, the steam yacht I ll-erhard ami
the givermeul steamer Sir phen were
•av<-d by running to Matupt lor shelter.
The mission gjeamer Kingfisher was
totally wreikol and the goverumeut
wharf washed away. IWcvtnlwr H the
stone breakwater surrounding the Now
Guinea wharves gave way and veaselea
inside wore all wrecked, with lueses
amounting to 100,0 0 marks. A num
ber of natives were drowned aud mauy
lnjur»l.
The Aorangi bring, news of a fire al
Greta mioea. N 8. W.. tn which five
lives were lost. Rescue parties worked
all night,.but were driven ba- k after
every effort.
Finally the mine was
ordered eoelad down in an effort to
fight the fire, ami the men were a an-
doned Io their fate.
On arrival at Sydney from Vi toria
the bark Defiame re|s>rt*l |-a,»lng a
derelict vessel of from 300 to 30<l ton«,
100 feet long, keel outward, evidently
wrecked a mouth ago, in 31 «outb, 166
east.
The Sydney Mail publishes a state
ment from Its New Hebrides corre
spondent stating that French trader,
and sailor, have l>een st tbo*« Island,
eU-teavoting to stir up auti-l’.ritiab feel
ing among the natives of the New Heb
rides. The allegations ia made that
the French traders have rcpre«eiite*I to
the uatives that I ng'aml's |s>wer la
warning, ami have promised them var-
ton, i-n v i.egea (■ r a. • . -
. r■ • i r. n. h
Interests
It is « il I that ’ile Hall ■»
are Iwing encouraged in various acts
of law les,ne,s agalust British traders,
an-l that a native murderer of en I ug-
I lab skipper named Captain Nasmith
wa, shielded from punishment by tbe
captain of a French ship. Serious
trouble is predicted In the New Heb
rides.
While the sbmnier Time waa at th«
Gilber group, st Butantan island,
Nov ein tier 16, some excitement waa
<aiise.| by a terrific report. The na
tive, had heard it nnd were terribly
frightened, but they could offer no ex
planation. The opluon was expressed
tha It waa due to a st-vere vuhanio
disturbance on some neighboring isl
and.
Extraordinary results have tieeu ob
tained tn New South Wai*-, l>y the gov
ernment engineer, who have been bor
ing (or oil wells, and a number of
tanka have been complete,I.
Spanish Drydock Not Wanl«d.
Washington, Jan 3*1. —The naval
board, headed by Judge Advocate Gen-
eral la-mley. appointed to decide on
the advisability nt ju>icl:a,liig the large
floatlug drvdock in Havana harbor
from the government of Spalu. rep-rt«
that to place the dock tn thorough
shape aud to prepare it for a voyage
would Involve an expenditure of over
4600.OOU, am) Dial a dock could tw
built new al a figure not greater
Ad
miral Endicott, chief of tbe bureau of
docks and yards, ha, recommended
that, aa there ia no present necessity
fur tbe acquisition by tbia government
of such a dock, the tender of tha Span
ish government for Its removal to the
Untied States shall not be accepted,
secretary Ixvug baa approved thia race
ommaudatli >n.
Th« Aagl»(rtrwvan Allianc«.
lam-lon, Jan. 36.—Tbo Daily Chion-
lcle. in the course ol an editorial un
the "threatening aspect of Russian
policy in China.’’ refer, tn the rejort
that Emperor William will be appoint
ed a field marshal of tbe British army,
and says.
"We hope the report la cor
rect.
A German alliance is *>ue we
cannot afford tu throw away Who can
tell how soon we may need Ila piertlge.
if tret its active co-uperettoni”
Tacoma,
Wash., Jan.
36 — Pier
Brae , bop dealers, of New Yolk, have
A damage haa been aettled at Tn«c». closed a contract with W eller A Mc
looea. Ala., for which n>> pro.-edenU Gowen lu operate three large hopyar la
la lea cuulj bo fuuud.
1!. Wllaua waa in Poyaiiop vailev, aggregating B0
talking over a telephone during a acres, on the basis of advancings cents
thunder etorm, and waa «truck by a pound on an a«tlmaled crop of 110,-
Han«« al Aruwpoh«
lightning and
killed.
thiH
was OHO pounds for m;tlveting an-l deliver
Washingbin.
Jan. 36. — Representa
brought lor damage,, but waa ar tiled ing crop free on board ears.
All alrove tive Sherman, of Now York, today in-
by the payment of fl,*00 by the tele eight ceute ia to be equally divided.
trodmed a reaoluti.in which aa, re
phone company.
ferred to the naval committee, provid
A Coaaumptl«« Quarantined
A apecial tonrirt train on the St.
ing for appointment of a «elec* com
Ixrala, Iron Mountain .k Southern
mittee of five mom hers of the house to
San Francia««,
Jan. 26.—J. W
Railway, waa wrecked near Walnut Thom peon, a consumptive, who er- investigate baaing at the naval acad
Ridge. Ark
The only peraon Injured rived here from i’.ritleh Columbia on emy al Annapolia.
waa the Pullman p>>rter. The paaaon
the steamer CilT ok California, waa not
gera w-re only badly ei aken up
The allow») to land, on the ground that be
To R sim Small Fnttt.
accident waa the result of an attempt waa a flip-led with a contagious die
Fiori fa people are going more and
to wreck the Cannon Ball train which ease.
Thia la the flr«t instance where
wan an hour l-ehind the special, by a perann afflicted with cuuautnplion more Intu the amali irult and orange
business.
opening a switch.
baa treen dented a landing.
—
Compulsory ^location in Sew Zen*
land ia cou,idered a auc<-em.
The Georgia stale university at Ath
ens celebrated tu centennial.
Yale a football awoclatiun la,t year
paid ont |l.Tut H.V for mein.al attend
ance and |<4k.*0 tor ''shoes and re-
pwire.”
„Tbs British ambamiador in a com-
mnnlcallon to the secretary of ata'*
praiaed Amerionua at the siege of P*-
kin.
)»M k < Jam«» B. Starrett
rf S a w»,
rt
tha
World,
f toast
Opart, P» sm , to the (w«rt Bay end.
LeM.
Montreal, Jan 2A — One nt the mart
0. L VIMCEIT. Prop.
IMO I.
EKIIIAY, FEBKl’AKY
('Ol’N'I'Y, OHE».OX,
I
Rome. Jan 36.—A special dispatch
to tbe Faina says that Verdi, the corn •
p*aer. n deed, lie waa burn lu 1813
near I'arrna, at the lot of the Aper-
nines
At II ho waa tbe organist of
Roncole, his native village.
He first
married the daughter of the conductor
ot the theater ol I-a Kcals. For 50
years no he, made the villa of St. Ago*
the. near Buaaeto. hla favorite Foal-
deuce. After the death of hla Brrt
wife he married Mme Mrepponl. who
plaved in tbo fid performance of hla
"Nabucco," at Milan, over 66 years
ago.
Verdl’a lather waa the keeper of
an inn. a fee* which would seem tn
prove tbe theory ol »me men of
science that all human beings are l«-rn
eqnal in possibility. What Verdi haa
done for mankind cannot be measured.
"Ernani."
liigoietto."
"II Trove-
tore." "let Travaita." "Aida”—there
names tell the story of what Jos and
peace ami pleasure tha genius of tbe
Italian nt bumble origin haa brought
to hie kind, ilia compoaltluns have
Iveen very numeroua.
As early aa I St;
be wrote tbe "‘Maanadiori.'* It was
composed for Jenny Lind, an-l was
rang al Her Majesty theater In Don-
■Ion with the gToat soprano tn the prin
cipal part. "Trovatore" ia his m et
popular opera. "Al la" la his greatet
work, but opinions vary on this point,
as they vary about tbe greatest of
Shakespeare's playa. Nlguor Verdi did
other thing, than write mueic.
He
waa a member of the Italian parlia
ment, and served hla country In the
capacity of minister of public Instruc
tion. France gave him the legion of
honor, Russia gave him the order »1
HI. btauialaus, Italy the order ot the
croun. and Egypt the order ol Osman-
leh.
Australia presented him with a
cross of conimauderehlp oi the order
ol Frans Joseph. Of let«- years Verdi
wrote works that are almost as well
known as bls earlier efforts. They are
"Othello" and "Falslaff." The lat
ter waa written when the author waa
*t> years of age
HANGING OF STICKEL.
Wavhinyton Moi Who Mn*d«r«d Thr«« Prepl«
— i.onloMd Hi, Crim«,
Kalama, Wash., Jan 36 —Martin
btickel waa hanged in the jail yard at
9:37 o'clock Filday morning, (or the
murder of W. II. Mianklin, near Kelso
In November, 1699. Htickel was taken
from the cell al 9.45 by sheriff Hunt
ington and
four attendants.
Ho
walked to the scaffold unaaatsted, ami
ascended the steps with steady tread.
,h->wiug that he waa determined to die
like a man. He etep|Mwi to the center
of the trap dour, stood erect am! raid
’Hieutlemau. I but you good-by.
God help you; God forgive me. This
ia the last time I will ,oe vou on this
shore. Jesus help you all; Jesus lake
me. take me now."
By the time the last words were
spoken, the ,berlff and hla attendants
bail strapped Stlckels leg, together,
hla hands lu hl, aides, place*! the black
cap over hia face, aud the u*»»e around
hia neck.
At 9:67 Sheriff Huntington grasped
the lever and suddenly sprung the
trap. The condemned man fell seven
feet, aud his neck was almost Instant
ly tiroken.
At 10 o'clock doctor» pro
nounced life extinct. The body was
cut down and pla. ed In a coffin, to be
turned over to the murderer’s motlter
aud brothrr. it will I k * then to Catlin
fur burial.
The hanging waa private.
Every
thing worked like eicckwoik.
I here
waa no trouble in any respect.
I be
■ p-ctator, wm very quirt
There was
o- talking ur demon,!ration.
Ntickel wm lorn in Adame county,
low». February 9, 1879.
He had re-
ai led in this section alout 1'2 years.
Tbe condemned man slept well last
night aud ata a Iveariy breakfast.
14.
to or this mid Moomnii states
lnttrestin< Events and Gotsip of the PaM Heck Reported From
Cities and Towns in Uashing.on, Oregon
and Idaho.
ORFGON.
WASHINGTON.
Canton City has a new fire bell.
Jefferson
year I9uI.
will
for the
There 1« talk of a new uatl nal tank
Klleusburg,
ha« l«en fix»)
Work on the new BeaMlQ labor Tem
pi» will twgtn within 80 days.
levy no tax
The Toledo lax le,y
al 5 mills.
II - julm will sv*uu have a uight tele
phone service.
Tbe F ugene Military Club has in
nvrpoiatad.
Tbs Southern I's- ifia lie
: Latham la running again.
A . ream cry with a daily rapacity ot
I» unda ol butler la I■> bo built al
Everett.
plant al
Baker City school
elector» have
ruled tn favor of a 10-mlll spm-ial tex.
Char!«« Neymelr ha, moved hie mill
from Machias to a site near Woodin
ville Junction.
The 9-vear old sou of II S Filton.
of Iswt Valley, was killed by a falling
tree.
Mrs. Julia Paden
a resident of
Ki «ilia elu e I »KO, Is dead al her home
in that city.
There «ere nesrly 60>) mining loca-
! Ilona re>-orded to Josephine county last
| year.
Il la auii*<unced that a foundry and
machino »Ix p to coal 3‘>*',0iX) will i-o
erected al Everett.
The receipta of the Canyon City p- *rt-
office last year amountal to 327.-
' 181 99.
The bank of Harrlngt- u received la,l
week a time lock safe which la sop-
The bridge acroea Trask river at the pMed to tar burglar proof.
Millwell place waa washed out by the
The Harrington Flour Milling Com-
freshet.
l>auy has finished an order for 3,600
Lumber ia being delivered on the barrels uf flour, which u tu bo soul to
i ground lor tbo new hospital building China,
al Eugene.
I i Shanti F. W Delairimer. of Teu
The Standard mill at Baker City. Mlle, haa l<een ,pp"lul*-*l state iau-f in-
; with a capacity ol ID.lHH) Let |«r day. «pet • r by latid Coiuuilssluner H. A.
t .’allvert.
la nearly finished
J. M. Hall ba, resiguml the office of
James Y.,1< m has sold hia farm of 60
acres, near Irving, to Mr Hunt, late Yakima co inly surveyor, aud the com-
rni'»i*>ner» have appointed II F. Mar
of Iowa, for alioet 43.-W.
ble to succeed bint.
Ix>cal miner, are sinking a shaft on
George Pangl-urn. a pioneer uf Waab-
. the Watt hills east ot Amity on th»
lugl- II. dropped dea I from heart fail-
■ He ot a ,tip|,>>o<l gold mine
ore at Emilcot, 30 mile, ««el ot Col
Free milling gold ore has I even die
fax
lie was 66 year« old.
covered in the mountains just «»«( of
W P Damon «a, knocked down in
Ixietine. Test show ths ore literally
-rout >>t hi, residence bv a tongh. who
tilled with black suphurets.
■truck him on th« head with a club,
Miss Elisabeth Gieay, an Dragon
rendering him IUM*usll*le.
pioneer, aged 75 yeare. diml »1 her
M*-n engaged in working on tbe T.
- home In Aurora.
Ihvceanrd was a ,1,-
J. Itawlev road, south of Kent, discov
I ter of Dr. Martin an*l Jaiob Gieay.
er. a -i-m - I - -af while bleating on
A large sm-mut ol drill b-fged
the able of Crow hill,
it ia about
against Hu* railroad bridge, north of
four inches in diameter.
’ Iwbanon. and 15 men have laseu at
Fred Lyman who had been working
work all week dislodging It.
on the steam shovel on the railroad,
A telephone line ia teiiig built by
north
of Arlington, waa instantly
the Sunset Company from Jacksonville klile I. A land,lule oeanrred aud ho
i to the i'piwr Applegate country, aud
was warn»!, t ut did nut have lime to
I will piobahly lie counected with the
gel out uf the way.
Grant's l'»a William, Hue.
A third interest In a gronp of Ave
J. W Parker, who has a rich ap
peering quirts le-lg« near le-land. un claim, located on lion creek, sight
miles from Keller, haa l«ett sold Io A
der l«n*l from B*irnett A llnrlw-n. is
| A. Re*lm* nd, of Republic. The clalit s
making prepsratmna to equip the pr* p-
i ire th« Mary Mack. Luckle Four. Last
arty allh an electric plant.
; Chance, Copiwr Klug and Nq. 5. and
0. A. Parker and Jatnea Buchanan tro owned by II I'. McCarthy and
have secured a contract to .-til ami de Fred I'-audreau. The terms are kept
liver poles for H>e teleplmno Ilan which a secret.
is to l>e built from Pleasant Hill via
The Weal Coast mill, at Rallard,
Jasper aud N'atrun to the main line al
wh • h has been c I omm I for the past four
Springfield.
weeks, ha, lean med work. During the
The l->ng l<aiked for English par-
time the mill wae closml many Im-
tri-lge, arrived at Independence and
proveniente an-l repairs were ma-le
were taken to the O Prien farm a few
to the engine ami machinery, trv means
miles north of that city, aud turned
<>t whl h the output of tbe plant will
| luoae
Tbe birds appeared very wild,
be greatly Increased. The mill build
appareutlv owing to their Itmg Journey
ing was also repaired ami a new foun
Reports from the country eum-und- dation put under part of it.
Ing Albany are general that the tall
The (I R. A N. engineers, who hsve
wheat is In excellent o« n lltlon, with
out any indication, al this time, of an been making surveys along the line of
enemy uf any klu I
Notwilh»ian*liug tba ll»,<<> Railway A Navigation C oqi -
the poor crop f laai year, the acreage l-auy. have finished their lat»>ra an-l a
l<>r< e ot men are etpecld to l-egin work
is large.
>u the content plated Improvement«.
After an illoeaa of several years.
Jerne, A. Cautborn. at one lime a |!esida« the repairs to the track, a new
pr-milneut grain dealer of Corvallis, trestle is to be built al Ilwaco aud
died at bls home In that cltv.
Ill, I— k, to be put in at each «ml ot the
Il la nleo stated that cars lor
ailment was rheumatism, and enter line.
it, effc- ta the decea-e l had been an hauling logs from Willapa harlcir are
to bo put on the road.
Invalid for several years.
D,slh ol a H,ro of Saw Jvua.
An effort is being ma le to have the
mall route changed t >e tween Long
Creek an I Pendleton so that the route
will go over lb* Yellow Jacket road
from Per« 11 st->n to Uliah ami via the
lower gulch road from Ukiah tu Ixing
Creek aud supply Ritter from l-ong
Creek.
A deal of considerable magnitude
wa« consnmmatml la«t week at Tilla
mook tretween C. ami E. Thaver and
the Beals I-and Company.
Almut
410.000 worth of agricultural land and
town pioperly wae transferred to the
company, au<! will probably be placed
on 1) m market.
Owing to the recent high water on
the Coast Fork which cans»! tbe loss
of many thousand feet of logs. Mr sere.
Grer and Rouse, the saw mill men al
Amo«, are arranging to erect a teui-
porary saw mill at Cottage Grove and
CeUWr's 6<«kl> is South Anwrea
will drive the logs there
The t*oiler,
With the Idea that South America
an-l engine, of the new light plant may
may rapplant South Africa and China
be used.
as a war new« center, Uullier 'a Weekly
Tbe owner» of the Red. White and
eent a epactal correepondent and a spe
cial photographer to Veneauela. Temp- Blue mine, at .Malheur, will poah de
aa rapid I v as
possible
eats In teapots are common down there, velopments
but this ia on« that look« >lke it might There ate two parallel ledges, oue
m«*»-unug 13 f*—t and th- other three
boll over and born the cook.
feet, an I thr owner» lx-1 leva that de
T«eth Natioesl IrngaUs« Ca»^r«,a.
velopmrut will prove that they come
The Colorado Springe National Irri together. The mine Is «pipped with
gation Congroea ia anLooueed to meet a three stamp mill and a ateam hoist
Jaly 13 to 18 next.
Thia will t>e ini- ing plant. The capacity of the mill
m»llately preceding the Trane-M Gaia is to t*e increased and a puuip Installed
elppl congress al Cripple Creek.
at one«.
New York, Jan. 36 —Alter suffering
for more than two years with Cuban
fever, Allred liosetsky, «bo io mid tu
have been the liret imerioan soldier U
lord San Juan creek, where the tiers»t
of the bpaulsh tire »as directed, tu
the battle of Han Juan hill, has just
died in a Newark hospital,
lie non-
tract»! the fever In Santiago, ami waa
a mere skeleton when he got home. At
-an Juen Roeetakv luoghi in troop C,
Sixth cavalry.
ilia clothes were «mt
by bullere, and while he wae aacending
the bill with a nuiulwr of other sol
diers, a shell expl'sled close by tn«iu,
A lump of earth struck the young sol
dier in the side, knocking him »use
less. Alter the battle ho waa pereou-
ally complimented (or hla courage by
Uabsral Wheeler.
Bu,h Fir«» in Auttralva
Senator » Son a Br*e»t.
XO.
WASHINGTON.
Beattie. Mash.. Jan. 38 —A special
The basine», me^n of Wenatchee have
l’hila*'»lptiia, Jan. 36 —James P.
Concur.I. N. II., Jan. 26. — William from Vancouver, B. C.. ray«: Tbe de
Sterrett, ex-jnstlca o! the supreme Gallingnr. a-n of United fftetee «00810» struction by bosh flreo in Australia, taken the first steps toward crgsnisinj
commercial
club.
At the first
court of Phlla-lelpnta. is dead at his Galllnger, began hla noviUta at the according
to mall advices by the a
home here, from the effects of a Otf- monastery of Graymore, three nitlre steamer Aorangi, has been appalling, meeting over 60 prominent citi sens
buricie. He was 78 years old.
distant from Garris* n so-Hudson, in M bile many people are dropping den.l were preeeut.
tbo Order of Atonement today. He io from beat apupleiy, the thermometer
William M. Racon, an engineer *>n
Rural Drllvtry far Ossham. Or.
now known ao Brother Lou. At tba running up to 116 and 130 in the tba H|okana Falls A Northern, who
Washington. Jan. 36.—Rural free end of two yeart Brother Loo will bo shad«, hundreds upon hunlrodsof lam- was Injured In the collapoe of the
delivery Is to be established al Gres formally ordained a priest of the Epis Hies have Iwen burned out, «»me of the bridge between Moyen Falls and Mar
ham. Or., >n February 15. with two copal church, and »111 r- <*»t np*>u bls country residents destroy»1 being cost otta, July 33, 19(H), ha, sued the oom-
cbooen work as a astseiuoarr.
ly atructurea.
pauy for |76.760 damage».
oarnsra.
IDAHO.
Il*>g cholera has made It, appearance
in th« vicinity ol Moacow.
Jain«» Judge, of Coiier *le Ale.ie
City, one <>f the beat knowu men of the
1 «tale, I, Head.
I
tirorge W. Hunt and Frank I'etligo,
of Orn Fino, »rrmel on a charge ot
* ,lt!e sleallng. have baen discharged.
George R. Lubkln, a Boise mail car
rier. haa Bled a homestead entry on a
valuable piece of laud near that cltv,
which had l-een overlooked.
According 1« reports from Delta, the
scene of re-ent the placer strike, pros-
l-ecta are eaealienl.
Nuggets have
ta»eu picked op worth 47 aud 4» ami
theia are said to be lot« more of them
thirre.
Eight row« burn»! I>> a crisp, Jacob
Usurer alin*wt fatally burned, 25 tons
of hay nnd a fine barn totally con
sumed. are the result of a fire on a
ranch owned l>y Davl-i Ixx ke near Cal-
iapell. 'Ihe loss ia estimated at about
41.000.
Th« result ol a disputed road election
in Kooteoni oiunty haa t>een deter
mined by lot. Jatnea Graham an-l
Noah Washburn, both ot Port Hill,
sr.-re the claimants.
The romrnl ison«
era flipped a ooiu to determine the re
sult.
The Polish h country ia lnf«st»l
with cattle thieves again.
K«p**rta are
coming from tbo sorroun-llng country
that a few hea*l ha-1 been stoleu. ho
far none of the thieves have been ap
prehend»!.
It is reported front Nos Pereea that
Messrs, (’roller and Hchsffer have com
pleted arrangements for buying all the
hogs on the prairie. They have leased
ground out of the cltv limits, where
they have erected building« for tba care
of the stock.
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