The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-11-28
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.
News Items From all Over the Northwest.

The Northern Pacific Coal company
of Roslyn is now taking ouS 1,700 tons
of coal per day, and the demand for
coal is so great that it is thought they
will put on night crew and also a
night train.
1t is something of an indication OF
growth in Oregon, says the States
man, to know that q of the assess
ment rolls filed with the secretary of
state show an increase over the re-
turns of last year.
The famous Anaconda mine at
Butte, Mont, is on fire, and the tim
bered shafts and tunnels will probably
be destroyed. It is the richest copper
mine in the world and the capital is
estimated at S20,000,000
The Bellingham bay cities have Of
fered Bennett free right of way
along the water front if he will run
his railroad there, in preference to
constructing it through the streets Of
the towns further back from the
shore.
The contract between the Union
Pacific railroad and the government
makes it obligatory on the part of the
company to run its fast mail trains on
time. The company forfeits $500
every time if it reaches Portland 80
minutes late, no matter what the case
may be.
According to the appeal Silverton
mas citizen over fifty years old who
has resided in that city for the last
eleven years and has not been out of
town farther than two miles in the
whole time. He does not know of
several cities having as many as seven
thousand inhabitants.
The Gray's Harbor salmon pack for
the season just past, says the Aber.
deem Herald, is between $4,000 and
1900 cases, falling a little short of
last years pack. The run of large fish
at the beginning of the season was ex-
cellent and afterwards the silversides
came in plentifully. The pack on
Shoalwater bay was $1,000.
Most of the Columbia county log
ging camps have shut down for the
winter. Owing to the dry summer
and late fall they have had good sue
cess, and got in more logs than usual,
and IN consequence prices have de-
clined somewhat. During the sum-
mer logs sold at fair prices, and hay
ing the benefit of men and feed at
reasonable rates the loggers have gen.
orally made this one of the most prof
liable seasons work for some years.
Says the Cheney Sentinel: Pass
enger trains of from twelve to sixteen
heavy passenger coaches, are daily
passing through, crowded with living
freight. The question is what becomes
OF this army OF travellers moving west?
Like the huge ice glaciers of Alaska,
do they crowd each other on their way
down to the sea, only to break off
into huge icebergs and float away, or
mingle with the tide that is seeking
homes in the great states of the north
west.
In making final proof before the U.
5. land Office, Judge Guichard, of
Walla Walla, usually asks: Have
you familyY Most of them answer
in the affirmative, but the other day
he got hold of man, who had the
biggest family on record Have you
family" said the Judge, as he pulled
down his vest "Yes, sir" said the
man, somewhat confused. "What does
it consist Off" continued Mr.. Guich-
ard. "Well," said the man, looking
up toward the ceiling, so as to refresh
his mind and give true account, "a
wife and twelve children, two married,
hired man, gang plow, a seeder, a
Balm wagon and a span of mules" +"
That's enough" said the Judge with
smile, and the settler got his final
papers without any further trouble.