Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-21

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messed the execution, Ike confessed to hav-
ing killed six redskins and two white men.
EASTERN OREGON.
Hay is worth IS so per ton at Cove.
Grand Ronde valley is to have fruit
cahnery.
Prineville levics tax of % mills for city
purposes.
Wheat is selling at IS cents per bushel
at La Grande and -four at 81 per barrel.
The tank built by the o. r, and n.
Company at Pendleton has capacity of
46, 756 gallons.
Immigrants are pouring into Wallowa
valley. Most OF them propose to become
permanent settlers.
Some 500 head of hogs belonging to the
French estate were sold at Cove recently
at four cents per pound.
The tax levy of Umatilla county is ISL
mills, the same as last year. The net tax
assessment is 50. 500 900; poll.tax amounts
to 81, 7l3
Work on Tunnel No. on Meacham
creek is now being prosecuted night and
day. One of the longest cuts on the route
was completed last Saturday. Over %, 0GO
yards OF rock was removed III its excava-
tion, requiring three months solid labor.
The tax levy of Baker county is 24b
mills on the dollar. The value of the tax
able property of the county is 81 ,057, COB
indebtedness, $3.50, lS3. The levy is
thought to be sufficient to pay current ex-
| penses and interest on the debt for the
year.
WESTERN OREGON.
There are sixteen convicts in the Peni.
tertiary under sentence for life.
Most of the farmers on Salem and
| Howell prairies have finished their fall
seeding
The largest crop of oats in Washington
county is from field belonging to VIM
Tompkins, which yielded los bushels to
the acre.
IDAHO.
Snow was ten iyches deep at Silver City
on the 7Gh. The wood fiend ia happy.
Barley, oats and wheat range from 81 TO
81 cents per pound in Boise City, and flour
is retailing at Sl2, with no disposition to
Wholesale at less figure. A short crop
and increased demand combine TO cause
these high prices. The only bid for furn-
ishing -four at the Boise barracks was SD
per barrel Ii was rejected.
j. II Paddock, of the Payette, came ia
from Wood River Thursday evening. He
says that he has encountered heavy snow
storms in the Western States and in the
mountains in this Territory, but he never
encountered so hard storm as they had
on Camas prairie. The snow fell two feet.
and the wind blew perfect tempest.
Every team and the stage going east was
laid up; nobody could travel and face the
wind, and Transfers stopped just where
they happened to be and crawled into
their wagons or struck into the brush, and
let their auimsls GO loose Boise States.
man, October 18Th.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
Dayton Touring mills are running day
and night.
Twenty. five families have located in the
Cottonwood country during the past month.
The tie drive is making rapid progress
down the Yakima. 1t was within two
miles of Yakima City Thursday week.
Timothy Lynch raised the "big pump.
kin " in Yakima county this year. /.
weighs l29 pounds, and is over six feet in
circumference.
Thomas P. Page sold his fine farm of
4S0 acres, about two miles from Wala
Walla, recently, for $50, 500, 1t is one of
the finest dairy farms in that section.
Immigrants are arriving at Kittitas val
ley IL considerable numbers, and are fast
arpropriating the vacant land. They are
as class industrious, and are well pleased
with the country.
There are l 200 children of school age in
Yakima county. The recent apportion.
ment of the school fund amounted to 1916.
There are % school districss-the smallest
report is 10 and the largest l65 pupils.
NJ Fellis says that forty acres of land on
Mill creek bottom, about three miles from
Walla Walla, produced 900 bushels of
fine merchantable corn. He planted in
April, cultivated five times and did not
jrrigate
Two hundred dollars has been subscribed
by the citizens of Ellensburg and offered as
a reward for the arrest and conviction OF
any person for selling or giving liquor to
Indians, the result OF which is that no
drunken Indians have been seen in the
town since the reward was offered.
The Grand Jury of Spoksn county de-
voted considerable time to the investiga-
ton OF the lynching Of Andy Neal. They
examined large number of witnesses, but
could not obtain such specific evidence as
would be necessary to secure conviction,
and SO the case was laid aside. The evil
dence showed that eighteen men were en-
gagged in the hanging and the names of the
eighteen are known to moral certainty,
but the legal proof lie not forthcoming.
Jacob Kibler informed us that he raised
the last season 5000 bushels OF grain on
200 acres, which is an average of As BUSH
els to the acre. He has large crop of APP
pies and grapes, some pears and few
peaches and plums. He says that he in
tends to seed 80 acres to alfalfa next
spring. This is a good more. The thing
is to get the ground well pulverizsd and in
good order before spring; then not SOW too
early in the spring. This precaution is
necessary to avoid the spring frosts, which
are fatal to the young shoot when it first
energies from the ground. 1t is certainly
the most profitable grass to cultivate it
comes on early in the spring and endures
longer in the fall than any other crop
[Patsha Spirit
The cultivation of sorghum and the
manufacture of syrup has been practically
demonstrated ia Yakima county. Says
the Record Early in the summer Cap.
tain Simmons, living on the Matches,
planted An acre in cane. Recently he har.
vested it and run il threagh the mill. The