Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-08-21
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Abcut sixty perssns are at work
in the Blue River mines.

3 AbCus sixty perstns afe at Work
L the Blue River mines.
LAFAYETTE viii haze six months Z
rec school tie conirg year.
John Cannon, aeed60, committed
uicide at Newport tae other day.
At Brownsville list week Andy I
Kirk broke his al IN while working {
bout threshing ma achine.
The fall meet ing of the Baker
county Agricultural Society will Z
at Baker Cit October 9th Z
md continue five days. F
Last Tuesday, Lotta, 5year- old
laughter Of DR.. S!nipley of Heppner,
broke both bones q her arm, while :
playing in tie barn at her fathers
place.
A party of s:oIdiers from Fort
in charge Of Capt. Miller,
are engaged i'll repairing the mill
tary telegraph line between Ash,
land and Linkville.
The work of surveying the new
road to the Pine Creek mines will
be commenced next week and push
ed to completion. The work will
be done by private parties.
James Philips, the brakeman
who was stabbed at La g Grande last
week, is out Of danger. His hurt
was not SO serious as at FIST sappos-
cd. His assa..lant u fres yet,
Corvallis Gazette: The penny and
silver three cent piece are coming
into general Use in this county, the
Oregon Pacific railroad having late
ly procured large number for max
ing change i'll fares over the road.
Alfred Guild was fined 500 at
Hil!sboro the other day for smear
ing the seat Of P. B. Lewis buggy
with tar whereby the Sunday 60 to-
meeting trousers and Prince Albert
coat of the latter were seriously
damaged.
A ton Of ore from the Pine Greek
mines was shipped, short time ago.
to Onaht. to be reduced. The re-
suit was $3.50 gold. There can be
nodoubt but that this new discovery
is one of the greatest bonanzas CT
recent times.
Harvest is nearly completed, and
the yield has bee, the largest ever
Witnessed in Wasco county. The
average will be as high as forty
bushels to the acre in some places.
while in others it will not reach
over twenty.
: A 10-year-old daughter Of John
2 O'Brien, Applegate, met with 6
l serious accident On Wednesday last
' The little girl was climbing on E
large gate, when she slipped anc
fell, the gate falling on top of her
;. causing a fracture Of one of tht
, thighs.
n Fire broke out at Alkali at 10 p
e m., on Saturday last, in building
G occupied by lottery racket. Lin
C ders saloon. Hendrici's butche-
shop, q building owned by j. Ser
vice, and W. A. Rodkey's me1chan
s Fdise store we're totally destroyed
g The loss is about $4,000. Their
6 was only small insaranee and tina
81 on Hodkey's stock.
II Astorian: From North Beac
d come stories of Sharklets seen b
g daring bathers. A real live shar
would be thrilling, thouS
unusual sight along the sand -strew
q coast But for real genuine seoss
4 ton nothing equals a devil Iisi
q Let some Of the Cla5sop or Mort
- beach r9mancers invent one theboat
;, from, Portland will be crowded wit
: passengers coming down.
n About 2 o'cloc, Sunday aftel
@ noon George Cosdon, who works j
,r keIler's slaughter house On I'll
tt White house r0ad, was attacked b
an irfurtted ox, and received il
juries which will probaiy prov
-. fatal. One of the horns Of th
,s animal struck Cogdon over I'll
+ right hip, and pierced it's way u
- ward as lar as tAe ribs, penetratln
,f the cavity Of the body. The phys
-. cian thinks his condition is ;rltica
- and that there is little hoIe Of r
n covery. =
Y. Old "C!ubfoct," an inmers
to grizzly bear shat has dtstroye
hundreds OF dollars worth Il stool
.s and !cng been the terror OF S.sklyo'
~ says the Shasta Courier, vas slai
- some days ago Ivy three hunter
- who were induced to go alter hi
~ on the strength OF a liberal rewar
ID In the fight the bear mace mln'
~ meat Of q herd os dogs, and on.
~ ~ gave up the ghost after
~ pound or two of lead lad bee
5a !" pumped into him from Wircheste
~ at short range.
De- The stage between The Dali
Dr. and Canyon City was overtaken i
he a waterspout when near Bake Ovt
last week. The spout was preced'
, and accompanied by heavy thund
ne and lightning. The water pourt
Z down In a torrent, and vas thr
ny feet in depth, with stock svimmi'
's' and wading around in ii. A pa
yer senger on the stage was Kidding
"a "a umbrella for protection from t,