Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-09-18
STATE NEWS.

I NhT 0AAO tsst0 VI &efC CAulUklS
sent cast in the Oregon Apecimen
car, are from the counties of jackson
and Josephine.
A. q. s. geological surveying party
went out &c Crater lake, short time
since, to take observations, but owing
to the dense smoke were unable to do
anything.
1t is reported that ZOO acres of
swamp and overHowed lands were sold
in Silver Lake valley recently to Cali
fornia capitalists. The amount paid
was So, ,965.
The steamship Yaquina has been put
into the grain carrying trade from Ya-
qriDa Bay to San Francisco and wheat
at Corvallis has raised SIX cents a bu sh-
el onaccount of the reduction in freight.
Nearly all the saloon-keepers of Lake
and klamath countiesa are selling liquor
without license The late grant jury
of Lake county failed to find any indict-
ments, but what thegrand jury of KIazs
math county will do remains to be seen.
E. Bigham, of Walla Walla, prom
trent horseman of this coast, who in
former days took an active part in. the
Oregon State Fairs, but for several
years has not been in attendance, will
this year bring down some of his best
horses to the State fair.
Special agents OF the government are
visiting the so-called swamp lands of
Oregon, and it is expected that there
will be some squcaling in various and
ssndry parts of the state before long.
The swamp land this time of the year
is not large in our state.
During the next state fair there will
be a meeting of delegates, and we hope
from all the counties of Oregon and
Washington territory, of those that
served their country in the Indian
wars of the great northwest, for the
purpose of organizing so that we may
be placed correctly in our country1s
history, and have our unpaid claims
properly presented at Washington.
Mrs. S. NJ. Yoran and Mrs. Martha
Thompson, while out riding in buggy
in Eugene city on the 9Th, the horse
became frightened at steam wood
saving machine and ran away throwing
both ladies to the ground. Mrs.
Thompson died from her injuries on the
llth and Mrs. Yoran has regained con-
ciousness and is in a fair way to re-
cover. Mrs. Thompson was ffty-three
years OF age.
Regarding the jetty at the Columbia
river bar, the report of the chief of
United States engineers says.it is ex-
pected with the funds on hand, after
reserving small balance for care of
property to extend the complete brush
work to make 1900 feet in length, and
to leave the work in condition for
promptly resuming full operations
when the funds are provided. The
amount estimated for next year, 81, 800
900, is for building three miles of .iettv.
The amount required for the completion
of the project is s3,700.000.
Managers Of the Yamhill county fair
have decided not to charge an admis-
sion fee 10 women. The fair opens at
McMinnyille next Tuesday, and,
weather permitting, the farmers of the
county and their wives and daughters
will all be there. This is the first fair
ever held By the county society and ev-
cry effort is being made to make it q
popular success. Care is being taken
also that 1t shall not be financial fail
ure, very necessary matter looking to
future success. The management an
nounce that every courtesy will be
shown members of the press and every
facility given them for obtaining infor-
nation such as an agricultural and in
dustrial fair seeks to furnish.
The Oregon Pacific railrosd company
has made proposition to the people of
ALBANY. It proposes to run their
road to, build the bridge opposite,
and its shops in that city in considera-
tion of s50, 900. Itagrees to take land,
water power, or rights of way, in part
payment The bridge which they pro-
pose to build is to be made to accommo-
date teams rs well as trains. The
payments ara to be made one-third
when the railroad is completed to q
point in Benton county opposite Al
bany, one thitd when the bridge is be-
gun and $4,000 already expended
thereon, and the other third six months
after completion Of the bridge Albany
will certainly not miss this chance to
increase her business interests.
As usual the grain feet is at our
gates without sufficient depth of water
to float them through, with cargo.
In dilatory methods the people of
Portland excel. They are at won't to
censure the farmer who allows the rains
to catch his crops exposed, not consid-
sring that while he harvests and
gathers into granaries they should be
equally busy in clearing the road to
the worlds markets. As conse-
qnence, the work which should have
been done. in July drags along into the
middle of September Ships are at
anchor in the lower Columbia waiting
cargo Ly the slow, laborious and ex-
pensive process Of transportation on
barges, because there is lump on the
bottom of the river in one place reduc-
ing the depth to seventeen and half
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