Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-06-19
STATE NEWS.

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The tax levy Of Eugene has been |
reduced frsm 5 tc % mills.
Cherries are bursting on the trees
by reason Of too much rain.
DIR. Rafety, Democrat, was elect
I'd Mayor of East Portland by Ill
majority.
Grasshoppers have made their
in Jackson county and
are doing damage.
Heppner and Blackman of Al
kali have shipped l,500. 900 pounds
of wool SO far this season.
Horse thieves have become so
bold and desperate in Eastern Ore
gon that no mercy will be shown to
them when caught.
Thomas Graham, who has a placer
mine on Granite creek, Umatilla
county, recently Ticked up gold
boulder which netted $3.50.
Eugene Register: We understand
that Hon. John Whitaker will
move ia Portland soon to attend to
the duties OF the Office to which he
was recently appointed.
A Boston drummer whc had
travelled great deal and knew
evsrything-in his mind-was re
lieved of $400 diamond pin day
or two ago while en- spree.
Wheat is no longer an expert
mental crop in Wasco county. It
is reported that the total product
this year will reach 100000 bush
els, Of which 100000 will be ex
ported.
| John r. Ladd has received the
contract from the government for
carrying the mail between Fossil
and Alkali, three timss u week.
He will begin carrying mail and
passengers on Ju'y l.
The stable near the Fort Klamath
Hospital was burned on the night
Of May 25th, together with guam
tity Of hay and D horse and COW be
longing TO DR.. Robinson. The fire
was of incendiary origin.
| An old man named Howard wa!
robbed of $1,000 at his daughter!
boarding house in Portland las
week. No clue of the thief has a
| yet been discovered. The old maj
was lately from Missouri.
Julius and Eugene Trum BILE were
last week convicted in the Justice
Court at Jacksonville for violatln!
The fish law, by maintaining a tra]
in Rogne river, near their fourin,
mill. They were fined $75 an'
costs
John Gates, Republican, wa
elected Mayor of Portland owe
Sylvester Pennoyer, Democrat, b
100 majority. The Republican
t elected Councllmen in the Secon
: and Third Wards, and the Demo
1 Gratis elected j. j. Gallagher in tn
8 First " ard.
The O. r. & n. Co. election r.
: suited in drawn battle. Eliza
Smith was re elected President, an
;, Brayton Ives got into the Board
- Directors by majority Of 70
= shares out of 235,000 cast. Por
land stockholders voted for I've
=" For a while 1t looked as if the NEE
:. ing would break up in row.
1t W. w. McElroy, of Umati'
s. county, was adjudged insane
It Judge Shaw and sent to the Iusa
Asylum yesterday. Drs. Jess
le and ". G. Warriner, and attorn
" Mark A. Fullerton, made an {
r. animation Of his case before t
IN Judge.
III Ia Portland LAST Saturday at @
Us o'clock Wong Econ shot and xiii
10 All Hee. The cause of the sho
ne ing was gambling in the 20
he House" The murderer was C
IL tured by painter named S>ni
ne who reused up policeman 6
ey had the murderer committed to ]
III,
he The two Morrow county sa
he arrived Monday. The large ,
WIS brought up by Tom Hint
las the boss tsamster on the road.
lite weighs 5000 pounds and was loa
ole on wagon hired especially for
re- occasion, of NJ. V. Harrison,
of Alkali.
his
,ot Alkali Enterprise: A Il year
,os son of /. @. Zachray, living on 81
b;s tie fiat, sustained severe factur
he the lower bones of his right leg
na week by falling between the VIII
mo of a water wagon, which run {
oil him. DIR. Bacon set the bro
,Tor bones and now has them encase
plaster paris with every hope of
,n- patient fully recovering the us
his limb.
TED Young Beebee, who defrau
cen Shindler Il Co. of Portland, Ore
ara some months ago, and who
i'es away to Canada, was capture
c al day or SO ago at Toronto, but a
'C a wards escaped from tho detee
not who had him in charge. His N
ner er who lives in Boston, says
F!SA Is, will make good the money he
FIX frauded Shindler Il Ce. Of.
: he
and The Oregonian Railway
nan pany, limited, has brought
tab against the Oregon Railway
lrch Navigation Company, in the Ur