Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-11-27
OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS.
News And Notes Of a General In
terest to the WesteTneT.

Corvallis is to have electric lights
in operation by June 1st.
John IT. Mael the county clerk of
Grant county, had to resign. He
fell short in his accounts about $1,000
on an $4,000 salary.
The case of State against Miller,
the boy case-knife murderer, was
begun at Corvallis yesterday. J. F.
Caples of Portland has been en-
ployed to help conduct the prosecu-
ton.
1t is stated in a dispatch from
Cheyenne that some cowboys, while
gathering beeves last month on the
Sweetwater river, in Fremont
county, Wyoming, ran upon herd
of % buffaloes. They followed them
ten miles and captured six calves by
lariating.
The Union Pacific will build a
line of their own in the near future
from some point on the Oregon
Short line to the Pacific coast, Sur
veys are already being made on a
route that has been recommended,
and work will be commenced on
the road in the spring.
AT Cove, Union county, last week
the largest woman of the Pacific
coast died. Her weight was AGO
pounds. Itrequired for her inter
ment coffin seven feet long, three
feet high and four feet wide. 1t was
said she was sister to the "big
woman" with Sells Bros circus that
visited Oregon the past summer.
At Lebanon Saturday Geo. Elkins
and Charlie Parrish were manufac-
turing spit balls for amateur fire
works. Walter Miller was holding
a can containing the powder, when
a spark from a burning ball fell into
the can igniting the powder, burn
ing Walters face and eyes badly.
He is as yet unable to see, but it is
thought his sight will not be per-
manently impaired.
On arrival of the freight train yes
terday evening at Harriburg, one of
the brakemen, young man named
Leathers, was missing, and on re-
turning back with the engine the
mangled body was found a quarter
of mile below the station. His
head was fractured and his leg
broken. His home was in East
Portland. 1t is not known how he
came to fall from the train.
A few days ago a freight train of
the Southern Pacific, near Tucson,
moving twenty miles an hour,
down grade, ran iutO a herd OF
cattle, sttikiDga yearl;ng cali, which
jumped on the pilot of the locOmO-
tive. 1t quietly lay down and rode
for niue miles. AS the train APP
preached Tucson, the signal whistle
aroused it and the calf jumped from
the pilot and scampered across the
range.
a great many people, both in
Sehome aud Whatcom, favor
changing the name of Whatcom :
and Sehome to "Belr ughsm,' all t
.btee of the towns adjoining one an
other and fronting on the bay, VIZ;
Sehome and BelIingbam
% be incorporated as one city under !
ln ample charter to be obtained J
rom the first Legislature when state 5
lood shall arrive. 1t is evident c
hat one large city will be built on I
bay, from the projects g
IN foot and in prospect. a
Upon the Suislaw few days ago
Tohn Schwartz, George Montgomery =
md others went out hunting and
tarted a bear, which the dogs put r.
n a thicket of brJsh and brought to
'ay. John being very quick on
DOT got the lead of the boys and ,
ushed in the thicket and shot and
.illed the bear. In the meantime
ieorge Montgomery came up, and
eeing Johns black coat, mistook it
Or the hear and shot, the ball pass -
ng through his body near the short b
lbs. He c,ied out, al am shotw
ieorge ran to him and picked him
p, when he said, LAY me down |
nd let me die" And in a few
linutes after killing the bear he \
'as corpse in the same thicket.