Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-08-28
THE STATE.

IS.
There are 4,l23 Chinese in Multno.
NAH county.
Ashland and Brownsville woolen
mills are running on full time.
Lumber is being shipped from Weld
lers mill in Portland, to Omaha.
Marion county has population Of
Is, l3l, an increase OF G55 since 1880.
The Portland water company will
furnish free the water for the Skidmore
fountain.
Charles Sullivan was accidentally
shot and killed by Daniel Winkle in
jackson county while out hunting, en-
the Hth.
W. Fl. Saelor, NJ. D., of Portland,
has been appointed grand medical di-
rector of the A. o. u. W., Grand lodge
of Oregon.
Miss Julia Burleigh has been ap-
pointed preceptress and teacher of lnu-
sic in the bind school, at Salem.
There are now rs coal miners en-
ployed at Newport, says the Coast Mail.
The yield of the mine last north aver
aged 200 toas per dly during the days.
they worked.
The narrow guage railway company
has sued. the city Of PortlanI TO gain
possession of the public levee, which
the railroad claims was given to it by
an act passed by the State Legislatures
at its last session.
A man at Ca,nas Prairie lost eigh~
teen tons of hay few days since by
fire, says the East Oregonian. His, lis~
tie bop saturated rag with coal oil and
tied it to dogs tail and set it on fro.
The dog ran into the hay. Tableaux.
The foundries and stove works at
Milwaukee, Oregon, have been run
ming only on one-third time this seaon..
1t is to be hoped that business will in-
crease, or they will soon be forced toy
abandon the enterprise which would
be much regretted.
A. j. Heyt d Brother have begun
starch factory at Fairview,
seven miles from East Portland. They
propose to make all grades of starch
from grain and potatoes, and endeayor
to supply the Portland market as well
as outside towns. They expect to have
the works running in. time for produc.
tiooc of fh4. e al1 tl,io gal1
The Portland News says: The Vilf-
ard collapse took fully $4,000, 900 from
Portland and stringency in the money
market, an1 a general depression in
trade followed, not peculiar however,
to Portland, but embracing the entire
country. Much of this large sum OF.
money is now finding It's way hack fer
investment, and it is only question
Of time when business in all lines will
be lively again.
The Standard says: the first vessel
Of the grain fleet for this year arrived
here on Tuesday It. is the British
ship Nagpore of; 1909 tons register
and consigned to John Reed in ballast.
She is lying at Flanders wharf awaiting
cargo, but her charter rate has not
been made public yet. Part of her
load will probably be lightered down
the river, owing to the low stage of
water on the bars
s Fred Barneburg of Eden precinct
sold his wool at Roseburg not long
since, 2and of such an excellent quality
was it that he got Is cents pound
for it. What makes his profit still
larger is the fact that he obtained
800 lbs. of wool from AGO head of
sheep, and the clip was less than one
years growing. Mr.. BIS sheep are
Merino. We have yet to
hear of this being eqnaled in southern
Oregon. Times.
The growth of hops in Linn and
Benton counties is uncommonly large
this season, but the prices offerered in
these localities viii hardly justify pick
ing and curing. In Linn comfy alone
not less thap SIS, 900 worth of hops
viii be left out in the fields. One man
near Brownsville has about twenty
acres that will not be picked. The
business has been oyerdone aid three
fourths of the men who have invested
in it will hereafter turn their attention
to the culture of cereals.
George FL. Chanc., j. n. Dolph, E.
L. Bristow, W. C. Tweedle, r. NJ.
Black, James Cummings, and A. n.
trustees of the Odd Fellows
orphan home, located near East Port
land, have issued circular stating that
It is their unanimous wish to have the
building finished during thel present
year SO that it may be put to use at
the earliest possible moment. The
fund for the home up to date has been
made up of voluntary donations from
lodges, Rebekah Degree
lodges and encampments, and individ-
ual contributions. The trustees ask
that these be continued.
A correspondent from Harrisburg
writes to the Oregonian. "The new
mines on Blue river, Lane county, are
creating a good deal of excitement.
There was some werk done on the crop
ings of the ledge now known as the
Treasure some sixteen years ago; but
the solid ledge is now surely found.
1t is forty inches thick on the groupings.
and fifty inches thick at a depth Of ten
feet. A true assay of the rock haspo
yet been made, but it is certainly very
rich. much of it containing gold visible