Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-08-07
STATE NEUg.

tHo ISnAteltlaIy, WIS awarded 20
Trenkman i Wolfe, Of Portland, by
the state board of public buildings on
Tuesday. The bids for the contract
were as follows. Trenkman Il Wolfe,
1899; II. G, Wandt, of Portland,
$l5, 928; b. f. Drake, Salem, S16,728,
Vim. Druck, Portland, SIT 1000; Rob
ert Collier & Co.. Portland, sl9,4l5;
and that OF the Willamette Iron works,
Portland, was for $4,000. The work
of placing the cells will be commenced
as soon as the brick work is far enough
completed.
The county Jail at Baker City, Or
egon caught fire last week and burned
10 the ground. There Were six pris-
oners confined in the jail, two for MUIR
der and four fer theft Five We're
burned to death, and the sixth, Fred
Winkleman, the l8-year-old murderer
is not expected to live.
It is proposed to place a monument
over the grave of Col. Nesmith by the
citizens of Polk county. Let the whole
State take the matter in hand.
East Portland is in debt $1S,605.
The largest colony that ever came to
Oregon is being organized in Indiana
and Nebraska, and will start about
August lst. It will settle in the Will
annette.
The citizens of East Portland, Or,
finding that they could not get rid of
certain Chinese living in cabins near
the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company's wharf, stationed fire en-
CINE near cabins to prevent confag-
ration and set fire to them. The Chi
nese fled.
The register of the land Office at Ore
gon City has received official informa-
tion Of the forfeiture of the Astoria
land grant and that the same is open to
homesteading and rre-empting.
The Oregon State Temperance AL
lance appointed the following delegates
to represent them at the National Con
yention to be held in Philadelphia in
September next: DIR. and Mrs. II. K.
Hines, Mr.. and Mrs Wallis Nash, Cor
wallis; Elder J. w. Webb, Portland;
and the President, Prof. Miller, of
Philomath College; and the Secretary,
j. E. Houston, ex-officlo
VIM. Lyons, of Oakland, CAL, has
purchased Binger Hermanns saw mill
at Coquille City, which he intends put
ting in order and running regularly
Coast Mail
The new mines are only sixteen miles
from Joseph, and the Josephitcs are
cutting tail.
The graduating class of the Indian
industrial school numbered %, of whom
10 are girls. These children will re-
turn to their reservation homes at once,
carrying thither, it is hoped, the ways
of civilization that they have learned
in sheir few years at government
school.
Repairs to the tunnel of the Oregon
Pacific were completed last week.
Oregon pine is now being sought af-
ter by ship builders for masts and is
fast superceeding that of other regions.
No more Oregon stoves from the
prison foundry at Salem will be allowed
TO be taken to Victoria.
The excitement over the discovery
of gold at Little Meadows, on the head
of Owens creek, near Pendleton, is un-
abated.
The Teachers Institute held at
Grants Pass last week WAS probably
the most successful ever held in Sou
thern Oregon.
The reports of the wheat crop are
more encouraging as the harvest pro
crosses.
Eastern Oregon is attracting quite a
number of Gentiles from Utah. who
are tired of the irrepressible conflict,
and are desirous of peace and plenty
in white man country
The Astorian estimates the salmon
pack of the season of 1885 on the Co
lumbia river at 500,000 cases, against
672,O00 cases for 1884 This is quite
falling of, which was caused by the
ten days strike at the commencement
of the season and the small run of sal
mon during the last week. Of this
amount 100000 cases or half the pack,
is afoat and en- route for market. Tie
remainder will shortly follow. The
season as q whole has not been a salts
factory one to either Gamers or fisher
men.
Gen. Jos. L. Johnston, the great
confederate chieftan was in Portland
Monday but was summoned to New
York to act as one of the pail bearer.
of Gen. Grant.
All Oregon papers are advocating
manufactures as the panacea for hard
times,
Tho salmon season is ended and fish
ermen are folding their nets. A fewer
number of deaths has been reported
thaneyer before in the history of salmon
fishing on the Columbia.
The land Office at Oregon City is be
siege4 with ilers on the forfeited lant
giant of the Oregon Central railroad.
Father Upchurch, the founder Of the