Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-10
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest In
Condensed Form

The postoffice at Acton, MOTION
county. Oregon, has been discontinued.
The machinery for the new roller
mills at Milton is on the ground.
Charles Canon, aged 8, Of Pendle'
ton, fell from stills and broke his lei'
arm.
W.B. Cunningham killed lynx
near Heppner. He measured lee'
4 inches from tip of nose to tip OF tail
John Corkish, OF the Puget Sound
Pipe Company has been awarded
contract for the construction OF water
works at Milton, Umatilla county.
Roland Mcpherson has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Mountain Dale
Washington county, Oregon, wee
Nathan A. B .rret, resigned.
Represent tive Hermann has Sc
cured an extension Of mail service IT,
Looking Glass from Oakland, in Doug
las county, Oregon.
Charlie, 13-year-old son OF L. s.
Winters, a groceryman, Tell OIL the
trestle work near the Salem Mills aud
broke his right leg.
An increase of mail service has
been ordered from six to seven trips a
week from LinAville to Lakeview,
Oregon.
The following patent HIS been
granted Joseph Leole, d lies, and
John Hacton, Portland shawl strap
and fire escape.
A salmon was hauled up on the
Cutting Packing Company's dock tina,
weighed seventy-four pounds. A
Booth, of Chicago, sent it on ice tt
Chicago.
VIM. O'Neil, of Pendleton, wa
tried, convicted and sentenced to on,
year in the penitentiary for the crime
of mayhem on the person of John
Brassfeld.
Johnny Lonon, of Pendleton, whil'
blowing fire-cracker to see if it hat
gone out, had his face dreadful,
burned by the explosion that folio wed
His eyes were not much injured.
While woodchoppe1 at Meacham
named Henry Winderman, was lyin.
in his tent a tree about ten inches il
diameter WAS blown down across hi
body at the hips, injuring him severely
He was taken to La Grande for medi
Cal treatment.
A man named Cummins, of Con
wallis, while in somnambulistic stat
the other night, walked out OF a room
on the second floor of the Murra
hotel and fell out of door to tn
ground, eighteen feet below. He es
capped with only slight injuries.
The Alaska Gold Company, tn
Oregon Bituminous Rock Company
and the Pacific Iron works have file,
articles of Incorporation with th
secretary of state; also the M soni
Building Association; incorporates
George F. Simson, George w. Mastor
Chas. E. Wolverton; capital stock
$4,000; location, Albany.
| Frank Marshall, Pete Ross and bod
Savage became involved in a row i
North Salem, in which Savage wa
knocked down by Marshall, and il
falling his leg was broken. Marshal
also broke the nose of Ross with hi
fist. Marshall was arrested but wa
discharged, no one appearing agains
him.
Arthur Burton, mulatto, was al
rested at Brownsville for the rape {
Miss Eliza Harrington, and was lodge
in Jail, hiving been bound over b
Justice Avery of Brownsville. Hi
victim who is aged about Is, state
that her ravisher entered her bedroom
and administered chloroform and ou
ragged her, leaving her unconscion,
Much indignation is expressed 8
Brownsville, and Burton only escape
being lynched by the strenuous exc
tons Of his guard.
John Mcdonald, known as ava,
couver jack" met with what migf
have proved fatal accident. IL
rooms at lodging house on Fifth an
Washington streets. Portland, and wa
sitting near rear window skylarkin
With some young men in the court b,
low. In attempting to throw basi
OF water on them he lost his balane
and fell out of the window ON a fenc
below, a distance of about twent
feet. A superb ial examinatio
showed that no bones were broke,
but he was pretty badly shaken vi
and may be internally hurt.
Word comes from Sand island of tn
drowning of two men, Charles Gu
tlnson and Alfred Blank, boat pulle
fishing for the Astoria Packing Con
pany, The men had their boat a,
chored off the Great Republic spit. A
the turn of the tide the water alwa,
gets rough. The waves rolling in, ii
men concluded to leave the boat an
swim ashore. Both were overwhelme
and drowned. The boat was reco
cred and brought to the Gamer
Guslinson was II fine young ma
aged 70, and is deeply regretted. I'll
boat-puller was a stranger in II
country.
Pretty Summer Silks,