The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-09-29
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.
Items Of Interest From The Northwest

Seattle has over 200 lawyers.
Tacoma spends $1,000 a day fol
street work.
The silver salmon have commenced
running in Coos bay. -.
The stock OF the Santiam, Lumber
Co., has been increased from $4,000
to $4,000.
For the first time on record the nav.
igation of the Snake river is entirely
suspended.
The Commercial bank, of Oregon
City, has been formed with capital
stock of 100000.
In the immediate vicinity of Dallas
about $4,000 has been paid out for
hop picking this season.
| The quarry on Coos river, at which
rock is being gotten out for the gov
eminent work, will be run all winter.
The trustees Of the state asylum
have bought 320 acres for 1900
where they will establish farm for
feeble minded patients.
The cable railway company at Spo-
kane Falls has consummated the pur-
chase of all the horse railways in that
city, together with their franchises.
When the location of the state capi-
tai was voted upon in 1862, the vote
stood as follows: Corvallis 941, Eu-
gene 1872, Portland 1850, and Salem
3,112
Last week 100000 pounds OF grapes
were sent from California by way of
Portland to the east. In few years
Oregon will be sending them east by
the car load.
The state agricultural college at
Corvallis has over one hundred stu
dents, about three-fourths OF them
boys. There are seventy-five in the
military company.
The ModOc has retired from the
route between Salem aud Portland
and is running on the lower Columbia.
Not single boat, says the Democrat,
is running south of Portland.
Mason Smith, a young and promi
nent merchant of Spokane Falls, re-
ceived skull fracture by fall from
horse last Tuesday, from the effects
OF which he died the following day.
1t is conceded by careful canvass
that the Republicans will carry the
state of Washington by a large ma
jority next Tuesday, while the legisla-
tive ticket will be exceedingly close.
H. W. Fairweather, William Singel-
ton and Jack Clunie, better known as
though Nut jack" has sold the Ruby.
mine, in the Salmon river district, to
Aisky 4 Co., ct Portland for $4,000
The Chas. E. Falk, three-masted
schooner with 9 carrying capacity OF
400, 900 feet of lumber, was launched
at Humboldt lately, and has been
chartered by A. NJ. Simpson for the
northern trade.
A railway meeting is called to meet
in Glencoe at 9 O'Clock tomorrow
afternoon. The object is to endeavor
to induce the community to offer
inducements to the Astoria railway
company to make a depot at that
town.
An expert says there are three kinds
OF foreign pheasants in the Willamette
valley and that our native pheasant is
really grouse. Il is thought that
the native and foreign breeds are
crossing and producing various
mongrel types.
The government Is now conducting
two fish hatcheries on this coast, one
at Clackamas, Oregon, and the other
at Mcleod, California. The annual
cost of putting 100000 young sal
mon into the waters of the Columbia
river is about $4,000.
There are now over 100000 head
OF sheep being pastured between Fish
Flake and the Deschutes river. The
bunchgrsss range of eastern Oregon
Is being rapidly demolished, forcing
the sheep owners to seek pasture in
the Cascade mountains.
Lieutenant Commander Atkinson,
Of Il. b. Nj. ship Acorn, now lying at
Esquimault, has started for England,
where he is to be tried by court mar.
tial for not rising TO the toast, "The
Queen" at dinner aboard the StDift.
sure by Admiral Heneage.
The Pendleton East Oreaoaian
figures that it represents cash in.
vestment OF $4,000: that it costs
l,748 month to rnn it, and that
Pendleton furnishes about $1,000 q
month, and eastern Oregon and
Washington and the east, the remain
der.
The gross value OF all property in
Polk county for 1888 was "a, 4,165, ,383,
while the gross value amounts to $3,-
6S0. .480, or depreciation OF 1926, ,98.
This is In the face of the fact that
property all over Polk county, has in
creased in cash value at least 80 per
cent.
The Joggins Raft company has
been incorporated with capital of
$500, 600 to do rafting on, the Pacific
coast. J. ID. Spreckles and J. NJ.
Donohue Of San Francisco are the
incorporators. The RATS are in
tended to contain 100000 feet Of
lumber each.
j.. A. Tinker, living near Upper
Lake, was putting poisoned apple in
tree for squirrels, and placed the ap-
pie on the stock of his gun to put it
up into the tree, when the hammer
caught a limb and the load was dis