Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-07
OREGON NEWS,
Everything Of General Interest IN
Condensed Form.


now without any protection.
A linseed oil mill will soon be
started in Portland.
At Portland, eight men were ar
rested for gambling. 1t is the inteh'
ton to put a stop to gaming there.
NJ ,Allster, josephine county, Il
building a new schoolhouse, to cost
5000.
Cyrus Bennett OF Butter creek
Morrow county, was thrown from his
horse and his shoulder dislocited.
The potato crop in Linn county this
year promises to be the largest IN the
history of the county.
Pendleton is trying to raise WV
900 bonus for u paper mill. The sum
OF $500 has already been subscribed
A stranger, Norwegian named
Seibert, was taken ill at Pendleton
from typhoid fever and died.
Casper Myer, of Marion county,
While milking, was kicked by the COW
and his right arm broken.
Crook county has one of the best
iails in Oregon, but it has been unoc-
cupied since the first of April last.
At Grants Plss. Rosa ROTOR, aged
Is years, while kindling a fire with
k, rosene, was badly burned, and it
Is thought she cannot recover.
Alex. Mcdonald, lad about or 8
years old, while playing with raft At
the foot OF Stark street, Por,l,nd, Ill
into the river and narrowly escaped
being drowned.
Mill city, town lately laid out ct
the end of the D. 2. railroad, on the
Santiam, i, desert.d. Everyone has
moved away except the ranchers. The
sawmill has closed down, as no one is
there TO buy lumber.
While chopping timber on Cracker
creek, w. 0. Ridgew',y suffered very
p ,inful accident. His AK came off the
helve and to save his head he caught
the blade in his hand, receiving Very
deep cut in the palm.
Elwoo1, the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John A. Ward, of Pendl' ton
died from lock jaw, resulting iron
blood poisoning brought on by thu
running OF a rusty nail in his foo
about ten days ago.
Lum Louden was shot at Jackson
vile by Frank Allen. Four fesl
wounds were made by shots. Allel
deliberately walked up to Louden
telling him he was going to kill him
and opened fire, resulting as above.
Hannah German, pioneer ne
/ gress, who came to this country fror
, Missouri as slave of Capt. Sharp, i
. 1874 and settled in Polk county, wa
foun dead in bed at the home of he
son, Hiram Gordon, in Salem. H,al
disease was probably the cause.
: The Sullivan Extension Mimi
Company filed articles of incorpor;
, ton with the secretary OF state. Ii
, corpordtors-B. Goldsmith, s. Golt
r smith and L. j. Gold smith. Capt,
stock, $l,OOo,OOO. Principal otiic
Portland.
> At Heppner, while A. NJ. Gum an
; Billy Ruirk we're working together
r the anvil, the sledge-hammer in NJ
a Gums hands slipped and instead {
striking the iron hit Ruark on til
Q forehead, ;nflicling painful thong
! not serious wound.
!. Fred Davis, aged IS, living near A
r, bany, lost his leg. He, with two otht
: boys, had been trying to fire eff a
!. old murket. After they had given
i up, it was unexpectedly discharge
the charge shattering young Davis
leg and rend ring amputaLion nece
: sary.
a While wheeling some joists from on
i, part OF the upper story to another, O
the Exposition building, at Portlan,
! the truck jumped the track and on
| OF the men, Adolph Haberly, W.
obliged to jump to the ground for h
v lie, distance of forty feet, but fo
: ,unately escaped with but few il
a julies.
e A Chinaman employed in til
> kitchen of Portland restaurant a
y tempted to fill lighted lamp, usin
e one OF those oil cans having a pun
e attachment. The first thing he kne
:. there was an explosion, the Lamp wa
s. blown to atoms, the can demolsh he,
n the whole kitchen WIS abaze, and on
very badly scared but uniniure
v Chinaman rushed for place of safet,
:, Damage light.
Gus F. Better, an employe of tn
r T. d w. V. railro I'd, met with Sc,
= ious accident at Por land. He WA
working under a Car standing on
n siding, when another car was backe
up against it, starting it in motor
n In Mr. Becter's endeavors to es,ape.
/ ~he' OF the car passed over hi, ripl
leg just above the ankle, crushing I'm
bones. 1t is hoped his leg will b
l. saved.
In the county clerks Office at Por
md, the Adams street M. E. cbnrc
lied articles of incorporation. ri
: incorporators are F. l.. Possen. Jams
y Abraham and G orge A. Prentis
> Since Rev. G. NJ. Pierce has been !;
charge OF this church it has grswn !;
numbers and many improvement,
nave been made. The chap,l insiI
{ has been plinted and fitted with sea,
d ard otherwise made comfortable
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