Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-03
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest In a
Condensed Form.

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is about completed.
Tree planting is the order Of the day
in Rogue River Valley.
McMinnville has voted a tax Of
$4,000 for schoOlhouse.
Roseburg will, in all probability,
have woollen mill this summer.
About fifty new buildings are now
in course of construction in Pendleton.
Several parties have been arrested
in Jackson county for killing deer out
OF season.
Near Ashland, Jake Kennedy shot
and killed panther measuring nine
feet from tip to tip.
A postoffice has been established at
Groves, Wasco county, with William
Mercer, postm ister.
Ten thousand pamphlets descript-
i've of Rogue River valley have been
printed and circulated.
A postofiice has been established at
Ferry, Curry county, with Sarah e..
Cooley as postmistress.
At the city election in La Grande,
B. w. Grandy defeated A. r. Nation
for Mayor by one majority.
A street railway and water works
are to be built soon, and electric lights
are to be put in at Pendleton.
The young ladies of Forest Grove
have formed base ball club. Miss
Zulu Warren has been elected captain.
The postoifice at Little Elk, Benton
county, will be known hereafter az
Eddyville, the name having been
changed.
Bear Valley, Grant county, has in
creased in settlement to such degree
that postoffice is almost an impera-
tive necessity.
During the past eighteen months
twenty seven persons have been sent
from Lane county to the insane asy-
lum at Salem.
John Olsen, while working on the
edger at n North Bend mill, had the
thumb of his left hand completely sew
cred by coming in contact with saw.
At the teachers examination in
Umatilla county there were twenty
niue applicants for certificates. OF
this number ten were granted second
grade, ten third grade and nine failed.
A young man, a son of Mr.. Finn
Cooper, was dragged to death by a
runaway horse in the presence of his
mother and sister. He was buried in
the Masonic cemetery near the town
of Roseburg.
The identity Of the man WHO jumped
from the bridge al Salem still remains
a matter of doubt. No one appears to
be missing from Salem, and it is alto
gether likely he was a stranger. No
effort was made to recover the body.
The stockmen OF Eastern Oregon
will have grand encampment near
Olex, Rock creek, about twelve miles
south OF Arlington, commencing May
l and continuing five days. The pro
gramme will be characteristic of the
life of the stockman.
William Desuret, carpenter, was
instantly killed at Albina, while eros
sing between train of cars. He
climbed upon the coupling all right,
and was just about to jump, when the
engine gave the cars sudden jerk
and the unfortunate man was hurled
to the ground, his head falling directly
across the rall. Several cars passed
over his head, mangling it frightfully
and nearly severing it from the body.
A stranger went to the ranch of Dan
Colwell on Lost river, and borrowed a
wagon and team, stating that he
wished to take a sick woman to Link
vile for medical treatment. As he
did not return the following day it
was ascertained that he had absconded,
monopolizing the borrowed property
A telegram from Yreka, Cal, announ-
ced that he had been arrested at that
place.
The work of raising the sunken
steamer Bentley at Salem has been
abandoned, an emergency having
arisen which renders her successful
withdrawal from her position for the
pr, sent impracticable. The action of
the current and the position of the
boat have caused the formation of a
sandbar just below her. Her machin-
cry viii be taken out, and next sum-
mer when the water is low an effort
will be made to raise the boat by
| jackscrews.
Special Timber Agent Bernhardt
states that while inspecting timber
lands in Tillimook county he saw
many acres OF blackened stumps. He
was told by an old settler that on
account of quarrel between two men
wenly-five years ago, about some rails
which one had cut and the other
claimed were split too small, the rails
were set on fire and they set the forest
on fire, and the outcome was that 144
square miles or four townships OF
timber were destroyed.
Fire broke out at Arlington in Raj.
ston's building, and before anything
could be done the flames rose beyond
control. The fire then caught d. s
Sprinkles & Cos store building and
burned the whole block, including the
Arlington Times building, restaurant.
J. l.. Adams vacant building, the
building of NJ. C. Harris, j. f. Has
kins' old blacksmith shop and the
county Jail. In the meantime it had
spread To the opposite side Of the street
and had burned kirby's hall, j. B
Woods furniture and provision store,