The Paily Reporter.
D. C. IRELAND A CO. PUBLISHERS.
■McMinnville, Or.
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Sept. 27, 1886
Capt. Lafollett is rapidly recovering
lliis health in Salem.
A. J. Apperson and wife, and Jacob
Wortman and wife, took in the New-
H» rg fair Saturday.
We will take your order for a Victor
■ire proof family safe. See advertise-
Inent in weekly Reporter.
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neighbor and ask him to become a
subscriber. Two copies, to separate ad-
Idresses if desired, one year $3.00.
A son of Hon. J. R. Sanders, living
Lear Amity, met with a serious acci-
■lent by falling from a horse last Sat-
lurday. The horse stepped on his head,
inflicting a bad scalp wound.
When letters of inquiry are address-
led to this office upon topics interest
ing only to the inquirer, a stamp for
■»ayment of postage on the return let
ter is necessary to secure an answer.
It is thought that Willis Skiff, the
I missing Union merchant, was murder-
I id at north Powder. Three or four ar
rests have been made including Dr.
■'ipwet, lately employed by Philip
Ktitz in the nursery trade.
Mrs. I>r. Barclay’s visit to Yamhill
County was occasioned by the death of
her mother. Mrs. Catharine Pambrum,
who died at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. Rogers, near west Che-
halem. Mrs. Barclay had the satisfac
tion of being with her mother when
|he breathed her last.
I One of Geo. T. Myers’ Indian fisher
men caused a sensation in Seattle one
day last week by drawing several liun-
■red dollars on a check at Horton’s
bank. As he left the bank a reporter
instituted inquiry when the Indian
good naturedly established the fact
that he and his fellow laborers were
making an average per diem of $9
•ch fishing, at four and one half cents
per fish. He said: “Sometimes we
get 200 salmon at one haul, and some
times 2000. Sometimes we make two
hauls in one day and sometimes three
or four hauls. Every few days Mr.
■vers gives me a paper, which I take
to the bank and get all the money,
and then I pay the other men who
work for me.” Where is the white
man in this valley who can show a
better record than that this year?
D. M. Caldwell and family paid Mc K ing of the R oad . By a combination
Coy a visit Saturday, to return to-day. of springs on the shaft all jerking mo
The sale of personal effects at the tion is done away with, and it rides as
Fenton farm was well attended, and easy as a buggy. Over eighty have been
sold this year. For full particulars in
fair prices realized.
Hon. John Catlin of Portland, is in quire of Henderson Bros., at the city
attendance at court in Lafayette this stables.
Fred Schwatka has been heard from
week.
in
his Alaskan expedition. July 26th
W. H. Bingham has gone to Lafay
ette to assist Judge Boise in running his party got to a height of 17,020 feet
above the sea level on Mount Elias,
court to-day.
Grover Simpson, W. F. A Co.’s route the highest climb above snow level
agent paid the McMinnville office an ever made. One of his most impor
official visit Saturday and O. K.d busi tant discoveries was an immense river
emptying into Icy bay, a mere inden
ness.
A. H. Hodson has the finest Lima tation of the coast sixty miles west of
beans we ever tasted in Oregon. Why Yakubat bay. The stream is from a
there, isn’t more of these raised is a mile to a mile and half wide, SOO to a
1,000 yards of which is running water,
mystery to us.
the
remainder being at low tide mud,
Price, the artist, not only takes first
class pictures, but he took also that sand and gravel. This great river is
Winchester rifle, in the late contest entirely too big in every way to be
draining only the seaward slopes of the
at Collard’s shooting gallery.
Have you tried Uncle Jim Fletch Mt. Elias mountains, from which it
er’s Missouri pumpkins? They are apparently comes. It must head far
fine, when cooked, and baked into pies beyond the range, and break through
according to directions, and a man them. Its muddy waters, from glac
who can't relish them and kiss the iers, discolor all the waters of Icy bay
cook ; at home of course; ought to be and for many miles out to sea. It
was named Jones river.
disfranchised.
Portland papers recently published
E. B. Fellows is prepared to give
people the finest surprise in picture an account of the death of a little
frames they ever had. Frames that girl who had been sent to one of the
formerly sold for $10.00 he sells for city hospitals from the vicinity of Os
$2.75 ; and the $2, $3 and $5 frames wego. The parents of the girl were
sell for 50 cents, six bits and a dollar poor people, and when she was taken
each. Call and see these fine frames. violently sick with typhoid fever, in
A team ran away Friday night near the absence of a neighborhood physi
Newberg and badly wounded a girl cian, sent to Portland for one. The
named Crawford. One leg was brok only one who could be found to go
en, besides other injuries of a serious demanded $50 for three visits, which
nature. Her brother was driving, and of course the poor people could not
they ran into a rut in the dark, which raise and therefore could have ;lO
threw him off the seat. The team physician. In their dire extremity
fetched up all in a heap in a fence cor their only recourse was the city hos
ner.
pital, where she was sent with hopes
The CPR is losing considerable traf that the skillful treatment might save
fic from the sound on account of not her life. But the hopes were vain as
having adequate steamer facilities be the removal was too much, and the
tween Seattle and the terminus of its poor child died crying pitifully for
road. The people of the sound are some hours before her death for her
jubilant over occupying a position mother, who was left ill at home, and
midway between two great transconti for whom there was not time to send
nental lines. It is rumored that the ere dissolution took place. In view
CPR will bring out their lake Superior of the facts in this case is it not per
line of steamers to ply between Port tinent to inquire if humanity should
not suggest that physictans attend
land, Seattle and Victoria.
the wants of such patients, even if
L. D. Mulkey, general agent for the their salaries be assured by the people.
State Insurance Co., Salem, is also
Advertisers can take their choice,
general agent for the sale of the best
either
daily or weekly, at the same old
road cart on wheels. It is made at
rate. No advance in the price. We’ve
Independence, and is known as the come to stay, if you say so.