Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-09-25

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Grant county Is wiling - pay
$40 for panther or cougar scalps.
AIR. D. S. K. Buick, of Myrtle
creek, has purchased the Reseburg
PEaisdealer.
A new public school building
costing $4,000 is being construct
ed i'll Salem.
Coos bay furnishes nearly all the
wood from which the whole Pacific
coast is supplied with matches.
The Oregon Pacific railroad wants
Albany to put up $4,000 to secure
a bridge and the railroad shops.
A trout weighing Ell 5hteen pounds
was recently caught at the mouth !
of W ood river, klamath county.
ettlers in Wood river valley
protest against "aesert land" en-
tries upon first class grass or grain
land in klamath county.
The mountainssnrrounding Grand
Ronde valley were covered with
snow on the morning Of the 18th.
1t has since disappeared.
The assessment of property in
Ashland school districS, completed
last week, shows taxable property
to the amount of S364,9 1888.
Upward of fifty armed men of
Prineville, Croek county, are seek,
ing for a band Of cattle thieves who
have been running Off stock in that
section.
Work has been commenced on
the snow sheds and fences on the
0. r. & n. near PendIeton. Fences
are teing built first, as the timber
for the sheds is coming slowly.
John Wright, Of French settle.
ment, Douglas county, was kicked
twice by a horse in his stable re-
Gently, and received internal injur-
les that may prove fatal. He is
about 70 years old.
Parties from Pine valley at Ba-
ker City report the discovery of an
Immensely rich silver ledge about
four miles from Cornucopia, up the
creek. An assay made Of the ore
gave 500 ounces to the ton.
There is considerable vacant land
south Of Jacksonville, wluch could
he put 70 good use by intending
settlers. Some Of it lies in the Ap-
plesate, Poorman's creek, Muddy
and Forest creek sections.
Twenty-feur iron bars, nearly fif,
ty feet long, for the Linkville
bridge, were taken ont by freight
teams from Ashland last week.
, They had to be heated and bent
, double in order to make the "trip by
teams.
) Cinnamon were driven out Of
Huntington a day or two ago by
white men, who attacked the heath
ens in their hunks with revolvers.
Some Of the Chinamen narrowly
escaped death as their blankets were
, riddled with bullets.
Work on the Klamath county
ditch has been suspended until next
spring, when its extension to the
: California state line, a distance OF
= = twenty one miles, will be resumed
The portion already built will be
put in first class shape this fall.
| And now it appears that the bill
''regulating and simplifying proceed
il gs IN justices courts" never passee
J the senate, and is therefore no law
: though it was "approved' by th'
governor and appears on pages 136
1877 ard l3S of the session laws o
1885.
j Curry county, according to tn
t census, has a population of ll4O
) The number is about 100 less tina,
: in 1880; but the local paper say
the census was very incorrectl,
taken, since some of the precinct
!, have more than doNbled in popula
tlon
= The death of the Hon, Henr,
C Warren, says the Orego1aa'', adds
q new factor to the situation as re
specting the vacant senatorshiF
In the case of an extra session thsr
J. would have to be special election
n in Iamhill county, to elect a senate
I to succeed Mr.. Warren.
The caves on Williams creek
!, Josephine coun ty, have been visite
by quite number Of people durin
the past season. Next year the,
v will be fixed up in good shape AM
l. Will no doubt attract a much large
y patronage. A number of new dis
e coveries were made there recently
IS An industrious gardener O
IS Muitnomah county, who owns
few acres Of land, one and one-hal
r. miles from Portland tells the Orr
E go3ejun that he set out a year az
IF last spring two acres of straw serr
d plants, and the crop this year wa
a. l2,l00 pounds and that he sol
Ie them for 500; that on three an
h one-half acres planted with straw
berales, raspberries and black berrie
$4,000 pounds have been raised tn
., present year. The profits after con
~ mission for selling and ali other e,
40 pensss had been paid, anouated t
a" a" $500 per acre.
4 The Portland Ne1cs understand
&c from geod authority that the Or
= gon Pacific railroad will begin wor