Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-05-08
STATE News.

Morrow county has tax Of sll,
D.
Salem is able to run on a four
liii tax. Coed for the capital city.
A Young lady from the East has
'pened a barber shop in Baker
;i,y.
The Washington county fair will
,egin OF the md OF July and CON
inue three days.
H. B. Glover of LaGrande made
n assignment last week for the ben
fit Of his creditors.
There arc 391 patients in the
state insane asylum inciudir 6 three
Indians and eight Chinese.
Grand Ronde valley is not suf-
fering for rain as much as other
portions of Eastern Oregon.
1t is said that Portland school
teacher named Rshy, will get the
postnastership at that place.
The Teachers Annual Institute
for the Sixth judicial District will
be held at Baker City, August 4,
5, 6 and I.
A. Shaw, of Summerville, had
his right arm broken and several
ribs displaced, by being thrown
from wagon few days ago.
John .Rinehart, of Summerville,
is dangerously sick. His wife is
also not expected to live, she being
afflicted with dropsy Of the heart.
John Russell, aged 70 years was
killed on Thursday by falling down
a hatch way in the barn of the
Northern Pacific Express Company
at Portland.
A gentleman who las observed
the weather signs in Oregon for the
past thirty years says We will have
rain by the 10th. Failing at that
time, it will continue dry during
the month.
The horse show reported from
Yamhill county is but one of the
many similar exhibitions this spring
in various parts of the state. They
show an increased and general inter-
est in stock production which prom
ises well.
Forty four Europe-bound vessels
have crossed the Colum bia. bar since
January lst, 1885. They carried
l,906,964 bushels wheat, worth
81, ,43O, $50; 49, ,l32 bbls. flour, worth
1926, ,292, and H. $50 cs salmon,
worth s59,95o.
The Jacksonville Sentinel says
that an enterprising New Yorker
has made the O. & G. r. r. Go. 8
proposition to buy their tunnel or
the Siskiyou to be used as a celia,
for large als and porter brewery
which he proposes to erect there
| It is stated in San Francisco jour
nails that the Northern Pacific peo
pie are contemplating seriously 0
putting line Of steamers on the Co
lumbia river between WaIluls
and Portland, with pertages at Th
Dalles and the Cascades; in othe
: words, re-establishing the line Of tn
old 0. S. N. Co. The line is to b
principally for freight traffic.
F Alfred B. Meacham, now decea.
: ed, used to be United States supel
intendent of Indian affairs fo
} Oregon. His bonds men WEI
Philip Ritz, B. F. Dowell, Cyrr
Olney, S. Welby, John H. Mitchell
/ John Cummins, S. S. Thompson
: Samuel Lyon, j. II. D. Henderson,
a Geo. [. Hill and w. G. Langfer'
: Meacham detaulted and nox sui
r are bought by the governne,
). against these parties to recovt
,, 81, 1866, amount of the de6cien,
q in his accounts and interest at l p
&c cent. from March 81, 1872. Suit
q brought in Washington terrific
is against Philip Ritz and w. G. Ian
= ford.
n United States Marshal Penumh
1t Kelly is authority for the followi
ID story: On the Sandy river lives
,e farmer named Revenue. A fl
n- days since Mr.. Kelly was passi
is by the place when four dogs rush
e. out barking, accompanied by d Ian
~ This was such curious sight tt
the Marshal conyersed with t
"a farmer concerning it, and was t.
,f that the lamb was the consta
w companion of the dogs. The owl
n further said that a few days ag'
10 fierce looking wolf came near t
X house, and. the degs chased him a
a. so did the lamb. the latter being
ID times q little in the lead. The "
as was chased out of sight, and af
two or three hours the whole ou
is. returned, the lamb appearing to
,e the NEST self-satisfed member
nd the party. Whether this fierce
ninant quadruped had portion
the wolf inside Of him is
hns known, but the Welt has not b'
he seen since. This is indeed revt
lr- ing the usual order of things, wi
~ fierce sheep chase wolves all @
ne the country.