Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-09-28
GENERAL MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
OF General lntersst-COneerning Ore-
gOn and the West.

! In Lane, Douglas and Coo
counties there are sixteen Baptis
churches and a membership of 466
There are twenty-six steamers il
the Astoria or Oregon district and
have total passenger capacity
of SIS.
Corvallis is to have new Con
gregational church to cost severa
thousand dollars. Work will begin
at once.
The Astoria Il South Coast Rail.
way Co., has levied an assessment
of 25 per cent. ON the subscribed
stock, payable by October Sth.
In many Of the young and
rapidly-growing towns and cities OF
Oregon builders are reported rs hav-
ing more work ON hand than they
can attend to.
The Union Pacific Railway Com
pany has two exploring parties in
the field seeking the most practi-
cable route for line from Ontario
to San Francisco.
Warner lake in southeastern Ore
gon is said to be almost dried up,
and IL is supposed to be ON account
of but little snow having fallen in
country for several years,
The increase in number and the
prosperity of newspapers in the
Pacific Northwest is another strong
evidence of the rapid growth Of the
county in population and business.
The import of tin plate to this
coast for the season of lSS7-lSSS was,
Approximately, $4,000 cases con-
tanning los pounds Of tin plate; 3O0,-
600 cases Of this was consumed by
Gamers of fruit and salmon.
The statement is made that the
Nevada narrow gauge line running
from Reno north, known as the
Nevada & California, has been
changed to Nevada, California &
Oregon, and the Columbia river is
announced as the roads destination.
1t is said that the population of
Oregon will not now fall short of
100000 The time is not very
distant when another decade will
have elapsed since the last census
was taken, and then we shall know
whether we are as big as we feel
A lady from Nebraska, who has
passed the summer on this coast and
spent a good portion OF it in Cali
fornia, recently visited an Oregon
fruit-farm and pronounced the show
of fruit as being far ahead, i'm every
respect of what she had seen else
where.
For the first six months Of this
year the Oregon & California rail-
road was operated at a loss of $751;
900. Although on the road to pros
perity, this line has not yet reached
that stage in its career when its net
income is large enough to pay in-
terest and fixed charges.
A prize fight TO take place at
on Thanksgiving day pro-
misses to draw large crowd. The
will be Kenneth Nc
Donald and Jim McCrimmon, from
the Emerald Isle. They will fight
in 24-foot ring for prize Of $500,
to be paid by the defeated parry.
II. p Mcclure, editor of the Port
land Siftings, arrested on warrant
sworn out by G. +. Casey Of Albany,
for publishing libelous items
furnished by their Albany cores
pondent, Is held in the sum Of $500
to await the action Of the Linn
county grand jury which conyenes
OctOOer 22nd.
Thomas II. Handbury, engineer
IN charge Of the Cascade locks Of
.he Columbia river, says that the |
work Of eXpending the 5000 just |
appropriated will begin at once, but /
t will only be a drop In the bucket. /
The total estimate for this work ,
is 100000; there has
,een already expended since 1875
With the amount Of the current APP |