Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-07-07
OREGON NEWS.


The postoffice At Acton, Morrow
county, Oregon, has been discontinued. 9
The machinery for the new roller
mills at Milton is on the ground.
Charles Canon, aged 8, of Pendle
ton, fell from stilts and broke lis left
arm.
w B. Cunningham killed lynx
near Heppner. He measured 8 feet
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 APP
pointed postmaster at Mohntain Dale,
Washington county, Oregon, vice.
Nathan A B .rret, resigned.
Represent tive Hermann has &C.
cured an extension Of mail service to
Looking Glass from Oakland, in Doug
las county, Oregon.
Charlie, 13-year-old son Of L. s.
Winters, groceryman, fell off the
trestle work near the Salem Mills and
broke his right leg.
An increase Of mail service has
been ordered from six to seven trips a
week from LinAv.lle to Lakeview,
Oregon.
The following patent his been
granted: Joseph Leole, D llles, and
John Hacton, Portland; shawl strap
and fire escape.
| A salmon was hauled up on the
Cutting Packing Company's dock that
weighed seventy-tour pounds. A.
Booth, Of Chicago, sent it on ice to
Chicago.
VIM. ONeil, of Pendleton, was
tried, convicted and sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary for the crime
of mayhem on the person OF John
Brassfeld.
Johnny Lonon, of Pendleton, while
blowing q firecracker to see it it h I'd
gone out, had his face dreadfully
burned by the explosion that followed.
His eyes we're not much injured.
While woodchopper at Meacham,
named Henry Winderman, Was lying
in his tent tree about ten inches i'll
diameter was blown down across his
:, body at the hips, injuring him severely.
He was taken to La Grande for medi-
cal treatment.
A man named Cummins, of Cor.
' Wallis, while in somnambulistic state
;. the other night, walked out of room
on the second floor Of the Murray
' hotel and fell out of door to tht
: ground, eighteen feet below. He es
!, capped with only slight injuries.
n The Alaska Gold Company, thu
o egon Bituminous Rock Conpa y
). and the Pacific Iron works have FL I
;. articles of Incorporation with th
= secretary of state: also the NJ soni
= Building Association; incorporatorf
= George F. Simson, George w. Maston
y Chas. E. Wolverton; capital stock
= $1,000; location, Albany.
,e Frank Marshall, Pete Ross and bod
n Savage became involved in q row i
ts North Salem, in which Savage wa
knocked down by Marshall, and i
il falling his leg was broken. Marsha
m also broke the nose Of Ross with hi
n. fist. Marshall was arrested but wa
ir discharged, no one appearing agains
re him.
e. Arthur Burton, q mulatto, was a
d. rested at Brownsville for the rape ,
C. Miss Eliza Harrington, aud was lodge
Id in Jail, having been bound over b
re Justice Avery of Brownsville. H
ey victim who is aged about 16, stat,
hat her ravisher entered her bedrocl
O. and administered chloroiorm and ou
Id ragged her, leaving her unconscion
rs Much indignation is expressed
ID Brownsville, and Burton only escape
II. being lynched by the strenuous exc
les tions OF his guard.
as. John Mcdonald, known as eva
he couver Jack" met with what migl
er have proved y fatal accident. I
nut rooms at q lodging house on Fifth ar
" Washington streets. Portland, and W
sitting near rear window skylarkir
a with some young men in the court b
to low. In attempting to throw bas
ats of water on them he lost his balan
tv and fell out of the window on fen
-, below, q distance of about TWEEN
mo feet. A superficial examinatit
en showed that no bones were broke
ed but he was pretty badly shaken U
ZEN and may be internally hurt.
the Word comes from Sand island OF t
his drowning OF two men, Charles g,
to tinson and Alfred Blank, boat.pull'
fishing for the Astoria Packing Coz
The pany. The men had their boat a
,ed cbored off the Great Republic spit.
Ian the turn of the tide the water alwa
Ger gets rough. The waves rolling in, t
,er men concluded TO leave the boat a
,tly swim ashore. Both we're overwhelm
ned and drowned. The boat was rect
he cred and brought to the came
led Gustinson was a fine young m
nd. aged %, and is deeply regretted. I
,ad boat-puller was stranger IN
nee country.
IVY The question whether marriage
-. Africa between an Englishman and
~ woman of an African tribe was va
10, 10 has just been legally settled. 7
,an @ woman was Of the Baralong tri
,an, OH which allows more than one wi
ac. and the native ceremonies were us,
tho The court decides that the maria
the was not valid, on the ground that
,e.- was not formed in accordance W
me. the universal law Of Christendo
heir namely: that marriage should be =.
n a voluntary union for life of one m