Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-05-29
THE STATE or OREGON.

Portland claims population Of % 1000.
exclusive Of Chinese.
There are 265 convicts in the State pen
iteatiary 20 being for life.
ALI hopes for the mental recovery of
ex Senator Nesnlith have been given up.
Plenty Of rain is reported in all parts of
thestate and prospects for good crops excellent
Archbishop Gross of the Catholic church
hiss arrived at Portland ana taken charge Of this
diocese.
Ex-senator Mitchell will shortly return
to Portland to permanently locate. Probably the
Senatorial bes Is haInming IN his bonnet.
The publishers and editors of Oregon
will meet at Portland june 18th to complete the
organization Of the stgte Press Association.
Gov. Whiteaker has filed his bond for
s5s 900 collector Of internal for Oregon
and will take p,ssessonof the Office in june
The Grand Army Of the Republic IN this
state pumbers SIS members Among these are rep
reseatatves from SO states and territories, repre-
senting in all fa5 regiments.
The State Fair is to begin on the 2lst
ing with the Lano county fair which has the same
dates. This is q great mistake.
The cheese factory at Cove, Oregon, uses
the milk of 12o cows, and viii increase the number
to over 300 during the season. The daily yield Of
choele viii reaeh 800 pounds ere long
--W orlx on the Indian school buildings at
Salem viii be commenced soon. There are 2ls stu
g..
ress remaining for the present at Forest Grove.
| -Devol's foundry and Adams agricul-
tulal works, Salem were destroyed By fire of an
neendiary origin, last week Loss ss so0 insurance
/ So, 500. An attempt was made at the same time to
burn saw-ulill but the incpient flames were dis
/ covered.
The cattle shipments to the Mortana
ranges from Oregon and Washngt on this season will
amount to 10000 or 4e. 600 head The shipment Of
live stock viii cease to be much OF business the
shipping OF slaughtered meat in refrgerators viii be
much cheaper and better.
"A large number of sheep which had been
just sheared end dipped in Eastern Oregon. died dur
ing the prolonged rain Of the first OF the month.
Bands which hid already been driven to the un-
tain suffered most. The loss viii no doubt reach
several thousand in the country
! The City of Stayton, Marion county,
was incorporated BY the last Legislature. Officers
have been elected and everybody was jubilant. 1t
transpires that the enactng clause left out
original bill and therefore it is null and void
| Tally one more for the last Legislature.
| According to the Walla Walla Journal
the orthern Pacific railroad has contracted to haul
wheat from oregon to Chicago 81 cents hundred
pounds. This is distance of $500 miles and is
almost the rate paid from koseburg to Port
land--a distance Of 200 miles The Hoult bill should
have tackled the freight question.
| According to the Telegram ten families
were to start from Wisconsin, having for their des-
tination seme portion of southern Oregon. Each
family win average from three to four persons.
They all said possess considerable means, and
heir object is to purchase farms adjacent to each
other, and make this state their permanent home
| -Heppner Times: Since j. @. Wilson left
here for his home in Salem, which last Tuesday
! (May 12th) 1900 head of his sheep have perished
They dipped in warm solution just after being
sheared and turned in the cold rain On the 13tE
when it was quite cold and very stormy, the sheer
chilled death. This is big loss and the end is not
yet, as others are cropping Of nightly.
/ Martin Mackey indicted for the murder
Of Nike Purcell in Josephine county tried on
change of to jackson county and convicted Of
murder IN the second degree As this was under the
old constitutional jury law he indicted, 1t is
more probable that The verdict will stand. His
sun, VIM Mackey VINO was indicted forthe same crime
discharged there but little evidence against
him. The cost to Josephine county was $1,000.
Tho new4iigh school building in Port
| land, now being erected on the block bounded by
Morrison, Alder, LowEsdale and Twelfth Streets is
to be completed by the Goth Of next August Accor-
ding to the contracts under which the work is being
done the building will cost sl23,oc0, which, with
$50 900 paid for tie land will make the total
! sl53,oG0. 1t VIII be the finest educational building
on the Pacific coast and Of the fnest in the Uni
ted States. It is 2ooxl4o feet ana four stories high
the front tower reaching to height of 1853 feet and
the flag staff 21s feet. It will accommodate from
/ 100 to 500 scholars.