Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-26
OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS.
News And Notes Of a General In
teFeSt TO the WeSterner.

The Jackson county Jail is with
out an occupant.
Ashland estimates her population
at 25OO and tits increasing daily.
The trestle work at Bandon, con-
Meeting the quarry with the break
water is complete and is now being
ballasted.
Never before has Linn county
grand jury brought in SO large n
batch of indictments as at the pres
ent term of court.
The citizens of Corvallis intend to
get the coming legislature to grant
them permission to build a bridge
across the Willamette there.
The new Methodist church at
Lebanon is nearing completion, 1t
will be dedicated, if nothing hap
pens, some time next month.
a Hillsboro man threshed 1900
bushels of New Zealand oats from
10 acres. One field of 81 acres
averaged 20 bushels to the acre.
Couch Lake at Portland is to be
filed, and the earth is to be taken
from point ON the Northern
Pacific, distance of four or five
miles.
The citizens of the town have
solicited Superintendent McElroy to
hold the annual district teachers
institute in Corvallis during the
holidays.
The melon season is about draw
ing to close, Signs are seen out at
numerous grocery stores chronicling
the fact that the last ofthe cacawbar
are on the market.
Pendleton hns received PROPOSE
ton from Berlin capitalists to
erect wool-scouring establishment
costing $50, 600, if the people there
offer encouragement.
The town board of Marshfield is
having brick reservoirs built at
various accessible points in their
town, which will be filled with
water, TO be used in ease of fire,
Southern Oregon is agitating for II
protective union for the sale of fruits
and for IA cannery. 1t is confidently
asserted that these would in one
season more than double the acreage
of fruit trees.
Arrangements have beenperfected
for the erection of II magnificent six
story stone and brick business struc-
ture, to cover the entire site of the
recently burned block. The princi-
pal owner is Mrs. Alice Houghton,
who has inaugurated the new enter
prise.
The wheat crop of the "lnland
Empire" the country east Of the
Cascades i'm Oregon and Washington
territory, was excellent this year,
and already three-fourths has been
sold at fair prices. The acreage
next season will be much larger than
ever before.
On July 2nd the first ripe peaches
were shipped from Ashland, and as
there will undoubtedly be peaches
picked ripe from the trees as late rs
November 2nd, it can be announced
the Tidings says, that the peach
season is four months long, at least,
in Southern Oregon.
The Albany collegiate institute
will hereafter receive the special
care and support of the Columbia
synod. II will be known as the
Presbyterian college Of this synod
and has been empowered and di-
rected to provide college courses of
study and give honors and degrees
to students completing their courses.
The Caracas, the new steamer Of
the Oregon Improvement Company,
is on her way here from New York,
and Is now twenty-five days out.
Her name has been changed to
Yaquina City. The new steamer is
said 10 be 252 tons larger than the
steamer Santa Rosa, plying between
San Francisco and San Diego.
They have about ten men and
five teams engaged doing service for
the governmet at the "cut off7' at
Corvallis About seven hundred
piles will he driven and the bank
sloped of TO the waters edge. IL IL
estimated this will cost about $4,000
and the balance Of the appropriation
will be expended next spring In
Inattressing the bank with willows.