Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-01-13
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest In 9
Condensed Form.

The yearly shipment of bullion from
Jackson county aggregates $loo,OOo.
Saloon licenses IN Baker City have
increased from $500 to $500 year.
The survey of the Grand Ronde res
ervation has been completed.
A porcupine was recently killed or
the mountains neer Weston. THESE
animals are very scarce in Oregon.
The Northern Pacific runs train
of seven or eight cars over the switch
back every hour.
There are forty-two patients at the
Spokane hospital, a number of whom
came from outside the city.
During the past year there were l3C
business failures in this State, with
liabilities OF $64S, 500; assets, 1884 800
Cattle are reported poorer and grass
shorter this year in Harvey valley
than was ever known before.
Sanger has but three ladies, while
her male population numbers over
thirty.
A company has been incorporated
at Enterprise for the purpose OF build
ing Touring mill.
Two wash-house Cinnamon were
murdered at Monmouth, and their
bodies were thrown into a well. The
object was robbery.
John Click was sentenced by Judge
lson to eighteen months in the peni-
Tertiary. Click is Baker county
horse thief.
Sportsmen have been able to find a
few deer on the desert, but the mule
deer, once so plentiful in Eastern
Oregon, are becoming almost extinct.
The pupils It the mute school at
Salem will soon commence the publ
cation o. n small monthly paper in the
interests Of the school.
AT Medford the Episcopal Church
people have secured handsome
building site, and expect to erect a
church thereon.
The city council of Junction have
passed an ordinance compelling all
persons engaging in the laundry bust
ness at that place to pay a license of
500 per quarter of 5000 per year.
The Northern Transportation Com
pany has filed articles of incorporation
with the Secretary of State. The in
corporators are Holt G. Wilson, JOS.
Delay, J. I'll. Steffen and Joseph Good.
Capital stock, $4,000; principal office,
Portland.
The M. E. Church of Burns, Grant
county, has filed articles of incorpor-
alton with the Secretary OF State. In
corporators, p s. Stemyer, ]. O. B.
Embree, j. III. Pratt, Amy Byrd and
W. 9: Byrd. The object is divine
worship.
Cook county exchange: For more
than three months Cook county has
not had pauper to support, nor has
there been an INDECENT family to be
supported by the charities of the peo-
pie in Prineville this winter.
Mrs. Sewers, who lives on the Sandy
near Cherryville, while in an epileptic
tit fell on the kitchen stove and was so
badly burned that she died within two
hours after the terrible accident oc-
CURED. She was alone at the time,
and alter recovering consciousness got
OIL the stove and went out of doors.
where she was fonnd by the neighbors.
As the road on the Siskiyou noun
tains Is soft and in poor condition, tn
railroad company will keep four stages
there In case of accident. A slide OF
earth may cover the track at any time
so that it may not be possible to move
1t inside OF several days. 1t is then
that the stages will prove handy.
d. R. King, aged about 60, boarded
the down train at the Pendleton depot
on his way home near Nolin. When
the train reached the curve lust across
the bridge, about mile below town.
MIR. King, while attempting to walk
from one Car to another, was thrown
headiong from the Car platform to the
70 ks below, distance of twelve feet.
and wss Instantly killed.
Governor Pennoyer has addres led
letter to the commissioner of the gen |
eral land office at Washington, stating
that Col. Elliott, special agent, has
forwarded reports to that office of all
his examinations of swamp lands in
Or g>n, and Col. Shackle,o ord has in.
formed him that all of his reports will
be completed and forwarded by the
lst OF February next, and asking the
Commissioners to act at once upon such
reports, and cause patents to issue as
to the state of all swamp lands so re-
ported, on or before the 1st of March
next. He also informed the commits
'loner that the State relinquished all
claims to lanes embraced in list No.
81, rejected by the land Office March
list, 1883, for want of proof, but which
lands are yet withdrawn from settle.
nent in the local land offices, EXCEPT
rs to such lands concerning which
proofs have been fur.
niehed, and asking that with these
exceptions the lands embraced in said
list be opened fer settlement.
ism t 1t dreadful" asked Miss
hliybud, 'to run over manp" ayes,
indeed. mum. replied the stoker of
he express. at jolts the engine up
vuss nor a COW. - Exchange.
Cute Son-''Say, pop, can't Wa
compromise this matter without com
ng to blowsa' Pop-"How SOP" Cute
you give up all idea of
icklng mo, and | will give IN all lido,