Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-03-20

Oregon City elected a woman,
Mrs. Athey, to fill the Office of
school clerk.
1t is reported that large brick
hotel will be erected at McMinn-
Vile this season.
The residence of W. J. Cromwell
at Turner was burned a few days
ago. Loss $1,000.
Newman's store at Millar's Sts-
tion was robbed of 5000 worth of
goods few days ago.
1t is reported that block lin has
been discovered at Quartzville, in
the Cascade mountains.
a sturgeon weighing 500 pounds
was fshed out of the Columbia, at
The Dalles, a few days ago.
The Guard says Eugene City is
the best location on the Coast for
the establishment of an iron foun-
dry.
The Big klamath irrigsting ditch
is about completed from the lake to
Linkville, a distance of a mile and
a half.
A span Of horses belonging to Pc
ter Slater was drowned in trying to
cross the Calipooia at Oakville, Lane
county.
James G. Blaine's works have
been added to the Laurean and Eu-
taxian library Of the State Univer-
sity, at Eugene.
The residence Of F. G. Lawrence
at Albany was destroyed by fire last
Tuesday evening, supposed to be
the work Of an incandiary.
The spring clip of wool in East
ern Oregon is estimated will reach
100000 pounds, a much larger
amount than was ever sheared be-
fore.
From five to ten thousand peo-
rle, it is claimed by a Portland pa,
per, soon intend to emigrata from
near Cleveland, Ohio, to the North.
west.
| A Canyon City correspondent
says: "There are five cases of diph
thereto paralysis now to attest the
certainty Of our having had diphthe
ria in our midst.
Ex Senator Nesmith's cond;t tio1
shows slight Improvement ant
hopes are entertained that he vii
soon be able to return home and b.
cared for by his family.
The school meeting at Heppne
resulted in raising a 5 lnill tax
which, a correspondent Of tie Time
says, will cause the shortening q
the schools without paying the in
debtedness of the district in full.
Stock in Eastern Oregon are gel
ting fat, and on examination til
stock men find that not more tha
! three or four per cent. Of the horse
have succumbed to the hard winte,
with S per cent. of cattle and onl
t 10 of sheep.
A new law fixes the rate of rea
: work at $l.50 day, which makes
q slight difference to citizens who 6,
compelled to pay their road tax j
cash, instead of serving the count
!, by leaning on the handle Of shov
= and talking politics six or eigl
S hours a day for two or three day
II in the year.
- Articles of Incorporation Of IL
Oregon Mining Development Cor
pany were recently filed by L. ]
e Brown, A. J. Kane and G. e. Blu
a rows. The business of the compar
: is to engage In gold mining, al
l, dispose of for profit what is know
e as the Centrifugal sluice. Capt.
y stock is $50, 900, divided into 2O(
shares at $25 each.
Q By an act Of the Legislature tt
4, apportionment of school money
e made the third Monday in Apr
e and the third Monday in Angus
S, and the amount of school none
& due each district is apportioned
1t this manner: Every schoo. distri
receives $50, and the remainder j
the school fund is given per capi
: to the different districts.
,r The Legislature passed Represe
a tatlve Riddles bill to pay bounti
ir on the scalps Of wild animals. II
d bill authorizes the several count
,e to pay bounties as fellows: Fer a
:" ther or cougar not more than
nor less than 50; for each wild c.
not more than So nor less than S
Is for each bear not more than So n
< less than 81; for each wolf or CO
oI ete net more than SO nor less thu
P s.; for each ground or digger squi
2s rel not more than cents nor lie
" :, than l cent.
in The new county of Morrow, la'
ly formed by the Legislature, Ii
oe the following boundaries: T
- - northeast corner Of the county
~ in the middle of the Columbia riv
- channel about 6 miles west Of Z n
=, tilla;-then run due south % mil,
- - then due east 8 miles; thence sou
- - miles; thence east 6 miles; then
s. south 35 miles; thence west
" miles; thence north Il miles, Il
line being six miles east from Lo
- Rock; thence west 6 miles; theI
:, - north 6 miles; thence west 6 mil
= themes due north So miles to t
middle OF the Columbia river; til
up the river - miles to the pls
Of eegianing.