Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-12-04
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to the eastern states to secure purchas-
ers and send ont colonies.
D. P. Thompson, Receiver in the case
of Joe. Holiday against Ben. Holla
day, has made his monthly report tt
the circuit court which shows bal
ance in his hands of $8,985 81,
Prof. O. W. Roby received his com.
mission as postmaster of Portland Nov.
Is from Washington. The valuable
document was signed by President
Cleveland and Postmaster General
Villas Mr. Roby will take a short va
cation before assuming his duties as
postmaster.-Albany Bulletin.
1t was wild day at sea Tuesday.
The white-caps rolled in on the sand
hills across from Empire until at times
it looked as if they would come oven
into the bay, and the breakers from
the bar extended to Rocky Point. The
oldest steamboatman On the bay never
witnessed the like bofore.-Coos Bay
News.
Salmon catching for the season is over
for Yaquina Bay Those engaged in
it have found it to pay reasonably well
for the disadvantage attending it. Nc
attempt was made to can the fish, and
for various reasons no large amount
were salted, the bulk of the catch be.
ing disposed of rs caught, or shipped
to the valley. A well managed can
merry would have paid Benton
Leader.
Last Friday evening, three miners
named John S. Smith, John Cannon,
and Henry Gaul, who worked in the
Franklin mine near Seattle, were in
stantly killed. They were sitting in
their cabin, smoking, telling stories,
andwere about ready to go to bed, when
a tall, dead fir, without note of warn
ing, fell across the cabin, crushing it
to the ground. All three men were in
stantly killed and their bodies badly
mutilated.
Last Friday a man eptered Ladd d
Bush's bank at Salem and asked for
some money. When his check was
requested he drew a big butcher knife
and said that was his credentials, and
threatened to annihilate the cashier if
the money was not handed out. He
was covered with a revolver. Sheriff
Minto and others, after desperate
struggle, in which the Sheriff received
several cuts, arrested the fellow He
claimed he was from WestpoTt and his
name was Hunter He was evidently
non compos mentis or a communist, it
is hardly known which.
Alta meeting held in this city last
week for the purpose of instituting a
fluit growers association, temporary
organization was effected by electing J..
r. Cardwell. president, and S. A.
Clarke, secretary; and committee con
sisting of J. IT. Lambert, w II. Wat
kins, A. F. Miller, J. r. Porter and S.
A. Clarke was appointed on permanent
organization.
In the afternoon the committee on
permanent organization reported Con-
stitution and Bylaws that were
adopted. and having ordered that the
permanent organization shall be ef-
fectcd at the January meeting, the
association adjourned-Dalryman Or.
Speaking of huge bell to be as a
fog signal at Point Conception on Pu-
get sound, the San Francisco Chronicle
of recent date says; "It is identical
in size with the bell made for the
Trinity church of this city some years
ago, which has heretofore been the
largest on tue Pacific coast. The new
bell weighs over $1,000 pounds, and
had clapper of 104 pounds weight.
1t is claimed that its sound, which is
rich and clear ia one, can be distinctly
heard at distance of ten miles. The
clapper will be moved automatically by
the action of the waves The first bell
ever cast in this city was sent to Ma
zatian and hung in the tower of the ca
thedral.
Says the Walla Walla Statesman:
"The Cinnamon must go! The hurri-
cane crashing through ten thousand
mountain gorges, from the Alleghe-
nies to the Cordilleres, from the Adj
londacks to the Cascade range, shall
chime it; the raging Billiards, hurting
six-inch hailstones on skybounded and
horizon faced Nebraska plains, shall
whistle and rattle it; the prairie wolf
shall howl it, the loan owl hoot it, and
the grizzly bear shall growl it; and the
burden of it shall be-"America for
Americans! China for Mongolians! One
country, one flag, zwei lager-from
Greenland's icy mountains to Darien's
golden strand! E'Plur bus Unum! Erin
go Brah! Now, henceforth and forev-
ermore, world without end-amen."
Wherever there is thoroughbred
blood, whether in the trotting horse or
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