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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1888)
The Oregon Reinster. FUBLISHED EVERY FJ^J d AY COAST CULLINGS. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted Principally to Washington Davotad to tha Interests of Karman Territory and California. and Btockmen. k . A- LAFAYETTE. - - OREGON Waitsburg, W. T., has organized a board of trade. The citizens of Lewiston, Idaho, F ish must have air in winter aa well have organized a board oT trade. as summer, and if they cannot got it The steamer George W. Elder will they will die. There is a mistaken run between Portland and Alaskan idea that the fish frozen in (olid ice ports. will survive, and when the ice thaws 1 Washington _ __ Territory _______ has 100,000 they will exhibit healthy life. It i*, acres of coal lands, and 2,000,000 tons not the case. They survive but a few have been marketed, George W. Lewis,Jof Elko, Nevada, minutes. _____ _____ — was sentenced to ninety nine years in Gov. W est , of Utah.! ha8 returned the State Prison for murder. A boy named James Hooker, son of the anti-tobacco bill to the House. The bill prohibits the sale of tobacco a widow who lives .in. ¿Sacramento, and cigarettes to minors. He sug Cal., was run over by the cars and killed. gested that a provision be inserted Captain H. W. McDonald, late of making it a misdemeanor to sell to the whaling brig Hidalgo, committed bacco to a minor only after written suicide *t San Francisco by taking notices from parents or guardians for carbolic acid. The Spokane Falls city oouncil has bidding such sales. adopted an ordinance taxing Chinese A mong the “fowls of the air” are rwashhouses at the rate of $50 per three, the eagle, swan and raven,which quarter. During the eleven months ending live to the age of 100 years or more. December 1,1887, the shipments of ore The paroquet and heron attain the from Hailey, Idaho, aggregated 22,- goodly age of 60 years. The sparrow 829,877 pounds. hawk, duck and pelican may live to be 1 Carl Kruse, tunnel man of the 40, while the peacock and linnet reach j Cloverdale A Ukiah railroad, near the quarter century, and the' canary ' Cloverdale, Cal., was drowned in Rus sian river by a boat capsizing. 24 years. The charred remains of Louis Gib- I n this oountry the chief creators I bons were found among the ruins of his burned cabin in the Huerhuera of wealth are the farmers. The money region, near San Luts Obispo, Cal. received for, our surplus agricultural Tine President has nominated Edwin products is almost wholly the total Eells. of Washington Territory, to.be amount of wealth this country draws agen,t for Indians of the Puyallup from foreign peoples. The value of agency (consolidated) iu Washington farm products sold in foreign coun Territory. Sufficient money has been sub tries. it is estimated, has averaged for scribed in Goldendale, W. T., to build the last ten years $600,000,000 per an armory for Company B. The annum. building will be about 40x100, and sixteen feet high. .A propos of the recent sale of an While the freight train bound for egg of the great auk which fetched Garrison was switching at Deer Lodge, £168—the highest price on record for Montana, it becked on to and killed a a bird's egg—it is worthy of note that, msn named John Ganley, from Helms- according to Prof. Newton, there are ville, who was walking on the track. Montana has an area of 92,016.648 but sixty-six of these eggs in existence, and forty-three of them are in thé acres; a population estimated at 175,- 000, and a taxable property t . valuation British, Isles. The great ank is now in 1886, of $55, 076,831. Indian I res- believed to be extinct. ervations in that territory comprise 20,574,648 acres.----- O ne of the laws passed by the recent Joseph Garcia de Cadiz« aged 84 Legislature of Washington Territory, years, formerly professor of mathemat provides that -county commissioners ics, while sitting on a window sill in his room at San Francisco, lost his are authorized to levy a tax nol-^ fell . His. His brains brains were were ceedmg three-tenths of one mill/ to dashed out on the sidewalk below, create a fund for the relief of indirent . . .. . ., . TT . ... .. . , At a meeting of Alaskan fishermen Un 1011 soldiers, sailors, marines and gan Francisco, a resolution families of those deceased or indigent, was adopted fixing the rates for the to be expended under the direction of coming season as follows: Wages, $50 Grand Army posts. » »nd ten cents ad«iilional for J, J.___ _ | each king salmon, and half a cent for T he mysterious Philadelphian who ! e»®h •«»» «»Imou caught. TELEGRAPHIC. ¿iHOSB^ACHt U Kpitm if the PiW brt Nov Attnriiig hblie Interest Value of Mtruw. A cyclone struck Newton, Kansas, Said a well known fanner: “æ*1* RHEUMATISM.NEU^ time has come when every man should destroying the carriage works and • OR KINDRED IL bale his straw as soon RB threshing is causing two deaths. over, and what he cannot use ship to The French steamer Fleur de la Mer BETTER HAV Portland and sell for seventy five cents foundered off the island of ¿Cayenne. per cwt. or whatever it will bring. He Sixty passengers were drowned. should have hie own feed mill, or there Thos. J. Potter, Vice-President and should be one owned iD every neigh General Manager of the Union Pa borhood, and farmers should thus co cific Railroad Company, died at operate to be able to grind their own Weicker’s hotel, in Washington. meal.” The survey of the canal contem Now, every man should have a tank or boiler for steaming stock feed. The | plated in. Southern New Mexico is cut straw should be put in the boiler, about complete»!. It will cost nearly and meal or chop mixed with it, and $5,000,000, and will reclaim 3,000,000 when steamed or cooked it should be acres. A fire occurred in the MethodiBt fed to stock. This feed will keep cat tle gaining and make them fat enough University, at Mitchell, Dakota, from the spontaneous combustion of rags in for beef. Any farmer tian have cattle worth the art room. There were forty in raising and fattening, and should uti mates in the buildiDg, including the lize his straw for that purpose. His faculty, students and servants. All oats, wheat, barley Or corn can be but ten of these escaped. Four young ground into meal or chop^and by men jumped from a second story mixing with straw and c«x>king and window. Four others and a professor steaming you can make beef feed jumped from third story, and another milk cows to advantage. When our professor descended from the roof by farmers get this far ahead there will a clothes line. The building was com be no complaint made by the grange pletely destroyed. The loss is $50,000. that “agriculture does nqt pay four The university will be rebuilt. per cent, interest on the investment.” A man and hie ron living at Poplar Of course it does not pay where men Grove, Dakota, were eaten alive by a use no judgment or are too lazy to pack of wolves.' The facts, as near as work, but here in the Pacifio North can Le obtained, are that the father west, thé beet country to farm that is and eon left their house with shovrl» known, any good farmer should earn to clear snow from some haystacks not his living and clear ten per cent, per more than fifteen or twenty rods dis annum up3n the value of the farm tant. They/were at onoe attacked by and t»jols and the stock on the place— a pack of sixteen wolves, which liter* or on all the capital he has invested. ally ate them alive, while the wife and —"Ui say, Mike!” "Ptiwall”' The farmer who burns his straw mother gazed through a window at sins against knowledge and deserves the horrible sight, knowing it was be’s-ye wuiTukin’P” “Not wan no sympathy. Last summer, stand certain death to gp to their assistance. at all. I he’s condiictohr on i ing on a hill in sight of the state capi After the brutes had eaten all the flesh carb Where he’s ye wuim] tol, the writer Saw columns of smoke off the bones they came up to the “Not wuiTukin’ at all. I be's i by day and fire by night, going up house, ran around it several times aud intendhent of a brick elevatohrit towards heaven to bear witness against then went away. Next day the re. new hotel.”— Drift. Oregon farmers. It is criminal and mains were visited, but nothing was —“Poor fellow!" said a byitu inexcusable. The time is come when found but a few bare bones. looking compassionately at i i all this waste should stop, and straw Irishman whose leg had been mu The new office of the Evening Union become a means of income. To farm by a street ear. “It will havs i» properly men should make all things at Springfield, Mass . was burned out, amputated." "Amputated, is itf around them that can be utilized a and the blaze was attended with the claimed the Irishman.-wcorniullj,• most rickening horror ever witnessed source of income. be cutoff!”— Texa* Siftings. A man with a forty acre farm well in that city, six of the employes meet tilled ¿an raise grain, roots, fruits and ing a terrible death, most of them —When four-year-old Johnnj ft vegetables ; can fatten sheep, pork and jumping from the fifth storyand being beef and sell wool ; can sell live stock crushed into a shapeless mass below., sni.l his prayers one night, and i and poultry*; make .butter and sell six others were badly injure#* A ljrge asked God to bless papa and inn. to shame canvas sheet was stretched over the and to bless Johnny and makeliii eggs and honey, and i ' put , the "showing of many farmers, so- sidewalk. Three men jumped on this good boy. he surprised mamma by, called, who now pretend to.çultivate but broke through and fell on thq Ing: “And please, God. blew Mr. I a whole section of land.— Portland Ore pavement. A woman also fell through ry and make him it good man.” ‘1 the canvas and lanned on the sidewalk do you mean by that?" hi« m., gonian. insensible. Joseph Landlord was asked. “Why," said Johnny, ■ This is generally a month of abund standing on the sidewalk at the cor don’t suppose I Want to be a little ant rain on the Pacific Coast. See ner, when Mrs. Farley fell. He stood all my life, do you?”— Alta Califa that the poultry yards are well drained, his ground and'reached out his arms _________ and that all depressions where muddy, catch her. She fell on his neck, The Oregon National filthy water may collet are filled up. to throwing him to the ground sensei« ss. As a rule short-legged fowls will Mrs. Farley was killed instantly, The fatten more rapidly than those “well dead are as follows t^Henry J. Gould- up on their pins.” This is important ing, foreman of the composing room, to the'broiler raiser, as his object is to burned to death ; Miss G.' Thompson, j get a nice plump chick as soon as proof reader; Mrs. Frederick E. Far is inviting proposals from all over the , The Governor of California has ap- possible. ley, editorial department; fell from the country as to the best disposition to E°'.nte<? Houghton^ and A g<5od supply of dry earth and fine window and killed; Mr. Lamzon, make of $50,000, wh>ch he will give the 8ute UniTereityi the fo8rmer in. “gravel will be found a great conven Quebec, jumped and killed; W. E. ttEND 8TAMP8 FOB CIBCULAB toUQ ience during the winter months. The 0 FIN, Cattonwood, Shasta County, OaLfH* away when be finds the best way to | place of A. L. Rhodes, and the latter gravel supply should not be neglected Hovey, of Boston, fell to the sidewalk ;- of Upper Sacramento Valley; or, to 8. GRIFTIK.1 Jackson, County, Or., center of Rogue Blur Vi bestow the money, is believed to be | in place of John Swift, the terms of until the creeks arc running full of Mr. Brown, a compositor. _ m||4 climate and prodiictlvenerit Isaac V. Williamson, a wealthy and . both gentlemen having expired, water, and it is impossible to get it. POBTLABD rkOlltC« BABKBT. * J. H. FIlSK, Almost the entire crop of hemp charitable Quaker. Mr. Williamson The area of Washington Territory is B utter — is worth $18,000,000, lives at the rate P1»««’ »‘ «,796,160 acres, of which grown in the United States is raised in i an nnn j • .114,107,55$ are Indian reservation lands, Kentucky. The total is aoout 12,- Fancy roll, F lb of $2,000 a year and gives away thous- T’he ^)puUlion in November last war 000,000 pounds. But ths annual pro Oregon.............. Inferior grade . A88ÀYKR ands of dollars on the dead quiet and estimated at 160,000, and the taxable duct of the manufacturers, of cordage Pickled............ ani » ToxicoLotiin. without making as much fuss as the .he I property in 1887 waa given at about in the United States is ten times as California roll . do pickled Laboratory, 106 First St., Port ordinary millionaire would over a |56 (000,000, not including railroad grçat/'Or 120(000,000 pounds. ’ ! , $• ’>6,000,000, C heese — OREGON. t>in, ' property. E .stern, full cream ....... . ' property. The'best roots for horses in winter NALYSES mads of all «ubatanMZ Oregon, do ............ for assaying gold or silver, $1.50. Re< Black ftieaoiee ate creating frightful is the carrot. Give two or three messes California............................. for testing all kinds of ores and metaiii factored and for sale. The first pension evet ghtnied a havoc .with the Nez Perce Indians of a week, though when they, are plenty, E gos — Fresh..................... U pon the receipt of $1 will furnish * 1 feed some every day with oats or other D rikd F ruits — Chinaman has been given to Ah Lin, Chiefs Joseph and Moses’ bands, on grain, the rat'ou of which may be pro Apples, qrs, sks and bxs... for making all kinds of metallic alloyi; the western side of the Colville In recipes for soaps, dyes, perfume», fluid ext do California............ of San FranciicO, Who on the 4th of dian reservation. Forty-two are dead portionately diminished. essences, liniments, ointments, salves, eta Apricots, new crop............. formation furnished on all kinds of cm July, 1867, waa in the service of the from the disease, and fourteen more When scalding hogs, if the water be Peaches, unpeeled, new ... composition. Packages sent by mail ore promptly attended to.____________ United Blates navy as a landsman. are at the point of death. The medi too hot the hair will not come off as Pears, machine dried Pitted cherries... cine men there treat it with hot Bteam readily as if the temperature be lower. Pitted plums, Or« While firing a salute on board a vessel under a blanket, and then a dip in the The Van Mono Figs, Cal., in bgs in San Francisco bay, the gun ex river. The treatment is attended with Boiling water discolors the skin. A Cal. Prunes, Fren temperature of 100“ is warm enough ploded and Ah Lin’s leg was injured fatal results in nearly every case. The for a young hog, but there are some Oregon prunes... DISPENSARY. F lour - VQB.’LAMX so as to render amputation necessary. whites in tbaT section have it,'but the hogs that require as high as ISO’’. A Portland Pat. Roller, F bbl | His claim for a pension was presented disease yields to treatment in their slab or smooth surface permits of the Srlem do do cases. The Indians affected are those work being done in a cleaner manner White Lily F bbl............... but no favorable action cclftld be se transferred from Indian Territory on than when a rough bench or tablé is Country brand.........;.......... Superfine ..'.......... . cured. However, the one legged account of their ill health, some time 1 used«- G rain — Chinaman has been made happy by since, Some years ago benevolent-minded W heal, Valley, F 100 lbs.. —. ............ c of ¿° Walla Walla........... receiving a pension of $8 per month the dehorning During r gale the steamer Alice i people denounced „„ gro^rd^F'ton....... with arrearages, which amount to over , Garrett, which was anchored in San cattle as a cruel practice, only worthy. Francisco bay, having on board seven of barbarians. Lately the stock jour-1 Oats, choice i'nil’ling°F bush 50 »3,000. teen passengers from the China nals of the country have asserted the j do feed.good tochoice,old 47 **100 ®>s...................... 25 T he Senate has passed a bill which steamer City of Puking, draggetl her contrary, and cite’proof that the op-1 is of great importance to the arid're- anchor and drifted to and against the eration of cutting off the horns of a f Bre^K'/wn 00 j Spear-street wharf. The Alice Gar milch cow is not a painful or any way ! Shorts. F ton 00 gions of the country. It requests the flow of milk does Hay, F ton, baled............... rett was in quarantine on account of dangerous act, as the now 00 Secretary of the Interior to direct the smallpox which had developed among not^essen and the relish for food does Chop. F ton......................... uu Oil cake meal F ton............ oc These assertions are F resh F ruits — director of the geological survey to i the passengers and the City of Peking’s not weaken. examine the water courses in the crew while en route from China. From borne out by the actual experience Apples, Oregon, F box....... co j Spear-street wharf the steamer drifted narrated in the Seattle Poet-Intelligen Cherries, Oregon, F drm... Western States and Territories from California, Fbx.. so I down to Stuart wharf, breaking off cer, where it asserts that at the Puy Lemons, which water ¡ b taken for purposes of several piles en route. /The passen allup creamery they have cut off the Limes, F 100........................ 25 Alfalfa, Onion Bota, Grata, Cloror. V^oto» Riverside oranges. Fbox... Flower 8eeds. By far »he largest and mo «*1 irrigation, and to locate at various gers, mostly women, scrambled ashore horns from sixty-eight head of stock Los Angeles, do do ... stock on the Pacific Coast. Large illustrated, descriptive and pnjea Peaches, F box ................... i within two weeks, many of them being points thereon sites for the construc as best they could., Some ,took des mailed, free, to all applicants. Hinas— - K. J. BOWHN __ tion of reservoirs, to hold, out of the perate chances and made reckless milch cows. The operation is simply Dry. over 16 tta, F lb......... leaps. Others climbed the slippery to cut off the horns as close to the 63 Front Street, Portland, abundance of the winter supply of piles, and more hauled themselves up bead as possible. The result has been Wet salted, over 55 tbs.... Or, 815 and 817 San some St, San Francine.» Murrain hides.............. water, sufficient for irrigation in the by means of chains. Every one es that more than twice the number of Pelts .................................' V eobtabi . eh - summer. Tho reservoirs are to be caped. The Relief' tug came to the cattle can be put in the same inclos Cahbage, V tb.................... located in natural basins adjacent to rescue and had towed the steamer ure and the vicious ones have no way parrots, F sack................. wni BubstanCes fwe»<h »nd In Wisdom »IW1 1U U U onous found ® 1 CO tlAnn scarcely a hundred yards from the to impose on the quiet ones. That is Cauliflower, F dos............ acknowledged the moat delightful and WT the streams from which they will be toilet article ever produced for m » wharf when the Alice Garrett sank. the chief reason for so doing, and that Onions ................. 1 10 harmleM and ¡ reserving ttw complexion, removing tan." supplied. They will only be located She turned completely over, nearly is enough of itself to justify dehorning. Potatoes, new, F leoibs'.' 7ó freckle« and aU blemiaher and roughnem « W ool — Used and indorsed by the elite of society" in such portions of the public domain swamping the tug, and appeared It would seem that cattle without Kaat Oregon, Spring clip. •Uge Bold by all druggist« at » W h a IS White and Fletk Manufactured by W M. >1 shortly after on the surface, bottom up. horns were to be the’rule, hereafter. Valiev Oregon, do as are susceptible to cultivation. A nalytical A E. J. BOWEN'S SEEDS REWARD! « u a v I 20 * OO.. Chemists Portland Oraton.