Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-11-06
OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS.
News And Notes Of a General In
tereSt TO the WeSterner.

Inc establishment of State Min
ing Bureau, is being discussed in
Oregon.
The Tacoma News says the pro
prietor Of dive in that town de-
posits 800 in the bank every day.
Ice a quarter of an inch thick
formed on water exposed in small
vessels at Truckee last Friday morn
ing.
The taxable property of Washing
ton Territory, for the year lSSS,
foots up SS464l, ,54S, an increase of
over S23,OOO,OOO since 1887.
y lynx weighing twenty pounds
was killed near the residence of
George Zinc, on Round mountain,
Nevada county, last Sunday.
The average single life of good
looking school teacher in Mcrced
county is less than n year, according
to the editor of the Merced Express.
One Of our valued exchanges
speaks of another paper, rs "owned
by n banker and edited 10y Il skunk ~
We should call that powerful COM
bination.
y young man recently started
paper in Tillamook county, and
now they are circulating all kinds of
mean reports about him, one story
being that he was born in Dakota.
At Tiliamook the wrecl<age of the
steamer Marah is settled all along
the beach, while the hulk is turned
upside down about one mile above
the Bar View House. All hands
were lost.
The band of horse thieves that has
been preying upon the stockmen of
Union county of late, are now i'm
close quarters. Two of them are
now in Jail and the others hiding in
the timber near Elgin, but certain
of capture.
The following is n copy of bill
posted on the wall of a country viii
lage: "A lecture Oh total abstinence
will be delivered in the open air, aud
collection will be made at the door
to defray expenses
The Nevada law denying the suf-
frage to bigamists, polygamists or
members of the Mormon Church
having been declared unconstitu-
tional, the people will vote on II con-
stitutional amendment containing
the substance of that law.
1t is with no small concern that
the stockmen Of Jackson county
note reappearance of blackleg or
anthrax during the past two weeks
on several ranges in the county.
Near Brownsboro Ed. Mills lost
seven head of calves by the mystic
rious malady last week.
All indications point to "A larger
immigration this year than we have
ever before enjoyed. Such an exc
dus has never been known as will
take place from the drouth stricken
portions Of Kansas, from the FROST
stricken region Of Dakota, and the
bli2zard's home in Iowa and Ne
braska.
Mrs. Edwards, Editor of the
Bazoo Of Bay City, in apologizing
Tor the non appearance of the paper
says: "To the readers of the Bazoo
apologize for not appearing the
last two weeks. The cause lies in
the non-arrival offreight which had
our paper on board.s As soon as that
arrives look out for us, as we are
loaded for a BOOM"
The author OF that oft-repeated
quotation "last but not leastn little
dreamed Of its application TO the
development of the last, vitality inn
portant town site on American soil,
yet the last and coming great city Of
the West, Is this penlnsular ely Of
Post Townsend ON Puget Sound,
It Is Literally IN It's water surround
ings and lts penlnsular location, the
New York city Of the West, aud
this city,of Port Townsend presents
a similarity in shipping import,
with its nearness 70 the sea, with
that Of Americas great city, New