The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-11-30
NEWS NOTES.
....: NOVEMBER 30. 1885,


about starting creamery.
Corn and apples are selling in
Iowa for 25 cents per bushel
The second case of yellow fever has
made its appearance in New York.
Cardinal Gibbons advises the pope
not to condemn Henry Georges writ
ings.
Beach has defeated Hanlon in a
rowing race, at Sydney, Australia, for
e5OO.
Duluth capital will put line of
steamers on the lakes costing $4,000
600.
Ed. Hallock put in the fishing sea-
son at Tillamook at loss, the Head
light says. --'
Hertenstein, president Of Switzer-
land had his leg amputated1ast week,
and is dead.
Surgeon Simeon, of the U. s.
steamer Boston, is dead of yellow
fever, from Hayti.
John 3. Baird succeeds John Y.
Ostrander as register OF the U. s.
land office at Seattle.
Washington, ID. c., saloon keepers
who shall hereafter sell on Sunday,
will not again be given licenses.
The Southern Pacific railroad is
shipping Wyoming coal into Califor-
mia, fifty TO sixty carloads day.
Two of ten smallpox patients in
Tacoma have been discharged. Frank
Sands, aged IT, died last Monday.
The o. r. & N. Co. cannot supply
tie demand from eastern Oregon for
cars to carry away the wheat crop.
All over the Willamette this winter
literary societies are being organized,
and mutual improvement is the idea.
An Albany firm has bought Polk
county potato crop of several hun
dred bushels for 20 cents per bushel.
Farmers in Polk county have a
good crop of potatoes and bave been
busy digging them, but the price is
low.
Lord Lonsdale, q Scottish natural
ist, says he will walk to the north
pole If his Esquimau guides will not
desert him.
D. G. Cole, of Netarts, Tillamook
county was killed by falling tree,
which he was saving down Wednes-
day week.
The secretary of the navy has in
formation that lives and property OF
Americans in Hayti have been safe
since Sept. %.
James Robinson, of Helena, Mont,
was lost twenty-one days. His skele-
ton was found in his cabin, the flesh
knawed off by mountain lions.
Every county in Oregon is repre-
sented at the Monmouth Normal
school, save Curry, Wasco and Wal
Iowa; also some from Washington
territory.
Miss Mamie Davis, q telegraph
operator, has stuck to her post dur
ing the yellow fever epidemic at
Jacksonville, and thus afforded COM
munication from that city.
Henry Miller, sixteen years old.
who killed Willis Wright, aged seveb-
teen, with q case knife at Yaquina
bay few months ago, has been SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life.
The London police have received q
letter from "Jack, the Ripper's Pal,
stating that Jack is Bavarian, who
has mesmeric influence over him
and that both committed the crimes.
Timber for making lumber is not
80 plenty as it was down the Colum-
bia. Mr.. Trullinger, who has mills
below Astoria eight miles, says they
find it difficult to get timber to saw,
Gays the Oregonian.
Spokane Falls has graded seven
and one-half miles of streets this last
year, costing Sl75,0O0. 1t has three
systems of street railways; horse, ca
BILE and steam motor. Population
has increased from 5000 TO 1900.
Chas. Beach, convicted of snborn
ing persons to make false entries or
timber lands in. Humboldt rmnty
CAL, has been sentenced ny Judge
Hoffman, at San Francisco, ~ three
years in the penitentiary at hard la
bor, and a fine OF $4,000.
The Ochoco RecieaO says: In al
probability the Harney country vii
be set off into q new county by til,
next legislature. Then il the western
part of Grant is attached TO part y
Gillian and Crook and made into {
new county, there won't be mach o
Grant left.
Josiah Collins, chief of the fire de
partment, James Murphy, fire mar
shal, and street commissioner Cum
mings took a crew of twenty men n
Seattle last Tuesday, and forcibl.
tore down four wooden building
erected in defiance of the recent!
enacted fire limit ordinance.
Work was suspended on the Wash
ington & Idaho railroad last Wednes
day. 1t is thought that Willard ha
secured control OF the Oregon
Transcontinental stock, and that thi
order is one of the first evidences tha
harmony between the Northern Pa
cific and the o. r. & n. will be re
sumed.
The o. s. land Office at Seattle, hai
decided that the property of person:
dying intestate escheats to the terri
tory, and not to the United States
According to territorial law the KIM
county poor farm, valued at $4,000
esoheated to King county. Berial