Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-08-14
STATE NEWS.

A hot wave is prevailing over
e State. z
The Yamhill County fair will be
Id at jMcMinnville from the 10Th
the 18th of September.
Charles W. Pierce, a pioneer Of
$50, died at his home in Washing
IN county, July 20, aged Is years.
D. c. Lounsbury has just finish.
d taken a census Of the Chinese in
'nrtlana, finds that there are 4, 1913
, the city and county.
Mary, the l7-year-old daughter
f Job Denning, fell from a plum
rec at Lookingglass few days ago
md received internal Injuries from
which it is thought she will die.
The Brownsville woelen mills
nave just received and are putting
1p two magnificent Crompton looms,
rom the mandatory of John
Crompton, at Worcester, Massachu-
setts.
AS E. Thayer, was driving down
to St. Johns, Sunday, accompanied |
by his wife, fence rail fell down a
bank by the roadside and scared a
hog out of the brush. The hog
scared the herse and Mrs. Thayer
was thrown out of the carriage and
had her arm broken.
A Stayton correspondent of the
Albany Democrat says: The wheat
yield is very fine. Whit. Crawford
has just harvested a field of seveAty
acres that made an average of 81
bushels per acie. Thirty acres
made an average of Al bushels per
acre.
w. B. Keen, of North Yamhill,
informs the Reporter that field mice
destroyed some wheat on his farm.
Several years ago field mice were
very troublesome in some parts of
the willamette valley. One winter
they were drowned out under fall
of snow.
Eugene Journal: A new well is
being dug on the University grounds
near the new buildings. It is a
very large well, and will be put
down deep enough to afford plenty
of water. A little further south
east Professor Collier has a well
torty-two feet deep with thirteen
feet of water in it.
Marshfeld News: There are now
seventy. five coal miners employed
at Newport. The yield of the mine
last month averaged 200 tons per
day during the days the men work.
ed, but to some unavoidable delay
in shipping the coal bunkers filed,
the miners did not have a full
months work.
A correspondent at Airlie says;
Farmers are getting along nicely
with harvesting in this neighber,
hood. Quite a number havetinisheo
threshing their fall grain, and many
others will finish the coming week
Judging from what has been thresh
ed we think twenty. five bushels
will be an average yield for fal
wheat. Spring grain will fall con
siderable below this.
| A few days ago the boay Of Gao
Hopwood was found in his cabin
near the mouth of the Little Salmon
about twenty-five miles up Snake
river from Asotin. From appear
ance it was concluded that Hopwooe
died from an attack of bleeding Al
the lungs. He was a brother o
James Hopwood of Woodville
jackson county, single man atou
4S years of age, and possessed of {
good ranch and considerable liv'
stock.
A report from silverton, Oregon
States that ON Sunday morning a
$50, an cid man by the name of G
F. Libbey shot and killed I
young man named Arthur Patty,
partner of his son. Patty, at th
time of the shooting, was engaged il
washing buggy at the pump, ant
after receiving the wound in tn
left side, walked away some distanc
toward the house, but fell dead be
fore reaching it. Seeing the resul
Of the shooting, the Did man entered
the house, turned the gun upo1
himself, and thus ended his life
The cause which led to the shoot
ing was not stated.
There are, it is said, about 30'
people in Washington county alon
who have been making regular pay
ments upon the une2rned lands o
the Oregon & California Railroa
company, said lands now being de
clared forfeited. The people ar
wanting their money back, w'blcl
has been paid in sums ranging fror
$50 to $500. A large number hav
paid in full and are ready for thei
deeds. A meeting is to be held a
Forest Grove next week, for tn
purpose Of agreeing upon plan 0
procedure, in case the compan,
persistently refuse to refund tn
money, which it now unlawful,
holds. The meeting will be al
enthusiastic one, as a large attend
ance is expected.
| Further particulars have been re
ceived of the drowning accident a
the Cascade Locks on Saturday last
| The names of the drowned perror