Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-09-11

Owe 80 ..sas-7 nave ta=>.. ca.-,l
\ the Pine creek oilslgIcs. II
Klamath county is receiving
immigration this year.
A tri weskly mail will shortly
70 established between Heppner
md Echo.
Hayes & Elliott's blacksmith shop
It Jacksonville was burned last
tuesday. Loss, $1,000.
An average of FIVE mining loca-
ions per day are filed with the re-
corded at the Pine valley mines.
About fifty lodges have been
prospected in Pine creek district,
and shafts on some are down fifty |
feet.
A man by the name of Elkeles,
has. been arrested in. Portland en-
suspicion of having fred Powers
furniture manufactory.
Miss. Belle Waters, of jackson
vile, who was so severely burned
few weeks ago, died last Tuesday
night, after much suffering.
The ninth ANIMAL reunion of the
Pioneer Association of Southern
Oregon will be held in Ashland
next Thursday, September 10th.
Morrow county has 1s7,636
sheep, 5,l94 horses, "A mules, 81
949 cattle, and 1892 hogs. The
population of the county is 2,704.
1t is reported that placer mines
have been discovered on upper Fall
creek, aboutsixty miles from Eugene
City, and that pen are making 81
or SIS day.
Bears are committing depreda-
tions On focks of sheep in Gran.
county. One day last week $50
lambs were killed by them in the
band of John Luce, in Bear valley.
The German carp. which Mrs.
Tolman had placed in a pond on
the farm above Ashland little
over year ago have increased
wonderfully, and some OF them
are nearly large enough for table
use.
A young lady of Jacksonville,
who became enamored of festive
individual sporting the title of NJ
d., was indu ced to return home
from Medford a few days since
with the assistance of a public
officer.
" }. G. Swash, of Union county
has besn appointedby Gov. Meody
as honorary commissioner Of i'm mi
grafton for the state Of Oregon te
the kingdom of Great Britain anc
Ireland, to serve without expense
to the state.
George W. Ratire, one Of th'
old residents of jackson county
died at his home on Big Butte las
Friday Of paralysis, and was buriet
in Jacksonville on Saturday. Fl
was native of Virginia, and abou
SO years Of age.
MIR. G. H. Merchant was strucl
on the head by a maui at Aaronyllle
Coos county, last week, and suffered
several days from slight concussio
of the brain. The maui came loos
while a workman was swinging
and struck Mr.. Merchant with tn
above result.
John Jetfery, we'll: known anon
newspaper men, while making b
', way into the mines from JOSEPH
got lost in the mountains shol
time ago and was found in deserte
cabin in starving condition. H
was taken to the mines, with limb
badly swollen, but is now recove
8 ing.
The Oregon missionary car is c
exhibition on the Iowa State Fa
5 grounds at Des Moines, and is tt
greatest attraction in the midst
. many. A constant stream
~ farmers pass through from earl
morn till dark. It is a great revel
e tion to Iowa people, and a wonde
0 full success for Oregon.
d Saturday morning Nate Kir
n soh of W. R. Kirk, a well-knov
VI and respected citizen of Brownsville
g was arrested by deputy sher
r, from Corvallis, = on suspicion
d heing concerned IN the murder
an Indian woman at Yaquina la
:. Sunday. Rowe!l, son of the po'
,r master at Sweet Hsme, was al
is arrested for the same oferse. Bo
10 affirm their innocence, but it
=, understood the circumstanti
a evidence is very strong again
II them.
is One of the most horrible traged
in the history Of the Willame'
Valley occurred in the Moha1
IS Valley, near Eugene, last Sund
y night. The circumstances in t
re case were about as follows, as nea.
"a as can be ascertained from facts a
le circumstances About two yes
* ago Mrs. Evans WAS divorced fre
1e her husband. Shortly afterwar
't, David Boggs sought her hand
OF marriage. She consented; but me
u ing D. w. Church, from Califerr
- in the meantime, she went hack
~ Boggs, and married Church. Boz
';c was jealous and the two years viii
~ have elapsed only added to the fl
49, ip his bosom. About two wee