Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-30
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest in a
Condensed Form.

The postoffice at Onion Peek, Tilla-
nook county, has been discontinued
An opera house, TO cost $1,000, is
to be erected at Grants Pass this
spring.
Among the new industries to be
established at Oregon City is nail
factory.
Coyotes are killing many young
lambs in the vicinity Of Lower Cali
pooia.
The O. r. & N. paid into the UNA
tilla county treasury the sum OF $l7,-
600, taxes for 1887.
A postofIice has been established at
Mckee, Marion county, with David A.
Mckee, as postmaster.
A Portland commission firm has
received orders for several tong of but
ter to be shipped to China.
A postoffice has been established at
Winlock, Grant county, and Peter
Peterson appointed postmaster.
Contracts have been let for building
a Jewish synagogue on Tenth and Mill
streets, Portland The edifice will cost
about $52 600.
A boy named Cassius Robinson, liv-
ing on north Coos river, met with an
accident by which the three smaller
toes of the left foot were completely
severed by an ak in the hands of his
older brother.
Andy Nelson's residence, near Yves.
ton, was discovered to be on fire
Frank Brown rushed into the burning
building and rescued an old man
named Fish. who had become stupefed
by the smoke.
The Army Register for 1888 shows
that nine of the officers of the United
States army hail from Oregon. or
these, five belong to the infantry, two
to the cavalry, one to the artillery and
one is n general and staff officer.
In the IS 600 damage suit of John
Rodgers, administrators of the estate OF
Sophronia Rodgers, deceased, who
WAS run over and killed by the hotel
bus of John Schmeer last summer,
tuc July iSlul iico NCluiCb VI odIIdS yes
in the sum of Us.
Two unknown parties entered the
house of Capt. Saltmarsh, at Sterling,
in jackson county, several nights
since, and one with the iron poker
and the other with revolver, stood
Saltmarsh up and went through his
pockets. They took some small
change for their trouble without doing
any other damage.
Curry county has sent but one per
son to the penitentiary in twenty
years, and that one was Chinaman
sentenced to one years imprisonment
for horse stealing, although it was
generally believed he was innc cent Of
any intentional theft. With the ex-
ception of two or three temporary
confinements for trivial off'enses, the
county Jail has been unoccupied for
over ten years. They have no poor
house and no paupers.
Senator Dolph has received letter
from the third auditor of the treasury
notifying him that the examination Of
the claim of Oregon vs.. the United
States, under the act of July 81, 1861
for moneys paid on account of military
forces in Oregon during the war OF
the rebellion, has been completed, and
that it is found that the provisions OF
| the act referred to cannot by any
reasonable construction be extended
to embrace any portion of the amount
claimed. The items of the claim are
For pay of troops, supplies and trans
portation, $27 ,567.22; bounty and
relief bonds issued to volunteers, 1919,
434.0l interest, $l43,SI7.S7; total
1890, 800. 10.
d. German residents of Portland have
subscribed about $1,000 to import
some OF the numerous varieties OF
BIZ dis which are so plentiful in Ger
many. Arrangements have been com
pleted with party in the Hartz forest
To secure number of nightingales
skylarks, bulltinches, chaflinches, gold
finches, greenfnches, black and gray
thrushes, linnets, starlings and Other
singing birds, in all between 600 and
700. They will be caught during the
coming summer and fall and will ar
rive here next spring, when they viii
be turned loose in such places in Port
land and vicinity as the subscribers tt
the fund may decide, in time to nes
and raise their young. The greater
number will migrate in the fall, but il
is considered certain that they will re
turn in the spring, as it is habit o
ali such birds to return to the pla e
whore they were raised.
The third auditor says that the
provisions of the act authorizing re
endorsement to the States for the
cost OF raising troops, according to the
rules and practice of the accounting
officers, have extended only to the
cost OF troops mustered and received
into or actually employed in the serv
ice OF the United States. at the request
or under the authority of the president
or the secretary OF war, while the claim
of the State appears to have been for
expenditures on account of State
troops or home guards that Congress
has made no provision for repayment
To the States on account of bounty
and relief bonds issued to volunteers
that as the United States is not liable
to the State for any part of the prin-
cipal, there can be no possible ground