Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-08-14
ROSEBURG REVIEW.
FRIDAY. AUGUST a, 1885.
Site NEWs.

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The Yank Ledge still promises to be
the big bonanza OF Southern Oregon.
The county clerk of Jackson county
is kept busy paying the bounty on the
scalps of wild animals,
At Mt. Angel, Marion county, is a
Benedictine monastery containing fifty
monks. They and most of their neigh
bors are from Switzerland. There is a
steam saw mill at the monastery aud a
large apple and grape press is being
built. The milk from the best COWS In
herd of 200 head is made into swiss
cheese and sent to the Portland market
The principal duties of the monks are
obedience, morality, and celibacy. AT
ter vespers no woman is allowed to be
n the institution. A stone cloister
having facade of SIS feet with a
church 100 $50 feet as the western
wing and college building as the east
.ern wing is to he built.
Stoves from the Oregon Penitentiary
will be no longer admitted into British
eColumbia the Canadian customs laws
forbiding the importation of any con-
rict-made goods.
George La Rocque, of portland, has
purchased the sole right to sell whiskey,
beer, ETC., on the grounds duriug the
state fair week He is to pay 1926.
The management, though, thought it
would be wrong to licence any one to
sell pools.
A. Stint, real estate agent of Eu-
gene got tired of this mundane sphere,
and tried to shuttle off this mortal coil
by the aid of morphia, but actiA inter-
ference hindered his design.
tits stated that about 0,000 bushels
of wheat are awaiting shipment at
points on the Oregon Pacific road. Ar
rangements are being made for storing
IL at Corvallis until holders are ready
TO forward it to portland
W. s. Ladd, the Portland banker,
has sunk an artesian we'll TO the depth
of over 1900 feet, on his farm back of
East Portland, without finding water.
He will so still deeper.
The corner stone of the new Univer-
sity building at Eugene contained
eighty-two different acticles, and such a
variety; chips from the foundation of
the obelisk, pebble picked mp near
Washington's tomb, bark from big
trees, newspapers, poems, hotographs,
curiosities, etc. The stone must have
been full and overfowing.
Civil service examinations Of applicants
for appointment to federal offices in
Oregon will be held at Portland on
September 10Th. At the same time
examinations will be held for persons
wishing to be examined on special sub
jects, as law, special Pension, examin-
ers, stenographv, French, German,
Spanish and Italian Those who intend
applying should request officisl blanks
from the civil service commission at
Washington.
A few sparks from passing engine
set fire to pile of ties near the depot
atsAlbany last week, and spread to a
pasture belonging to A. D. Barker,
burning the grass off ofseveral acres.
A painful and possibly fatal accident
occurred in Jacksonville lass Tuesday
evening. While Miss Bell, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs w B. Waters, was
working about the stove when her a
pron took fire, which was rapidly com
municated to her other clothing anc
before assistance could be had, the
family being away, her clothes were
completely burned off and the skin O.
the body in many places almost crispec
to a cracklin She now lies in mos
critical condition, and it is not known
whether she can live or not.
A reductionfor shipping oats betweel
Medford and Portland has been made
rate % cei,ts per hundred.