The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-04
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.
News Items From all Over the Northwest.

J. IL. 1dlnll1e OF DrONnS NdIlOlldl
bank dropped dead in Spokane Falls
last Saturday of heart disease.
It is stated that Judge NJ. 3. Miller,
ex-register Boise, Idaho, land Office, is
an inmate of the San Francicso poor
house.
A Victoria, b. c., syndicate has cor
nered the potato market by storing
800 tons. Mayor Grant Is conducting
the deal.
Pendlejon has a fossil foot, IL in
ches long. The Tribune thinks there
must have been a prehistoric race of
giants III that portion of the country.
A land slide at Tacoma last Wednes-
day destroyed several cars loaded with
freight on the track of the Northern
Pacific Railroad company. No lives
we're lost.
Samuel Sterling, has struck rich
placer mines on the head quarters Of
the Coquille. He reports having also
found very rich quartz ledge in the
same vicinity.
The Oregon nickel mine at Riddle,
Douglas county, is said to be from a
commercial standpoint the most valu-
able mine in the state. unless it he
the iron mines.
Miss Sabine is superintendent Of
Portland's public schools, and the
Journal complains of the deplorable
condition of educational affairs there,
which it attributes to the lady's exec
utive incapacity.
On the streets the other day, Il
Pendleton young man was overheard
offering little girl ten cents TO tell a
young lady he loved her-a round
about way of conducting a courtsbip
which betokens faint heart.
Thirty suits have been brought in
Polk county against the Narrow
Gauge Railroad company for damages
on account OF wheat burned dur
ing the past summer. The amounts
asked for will aggregate about $50,
coo.
{. \. Jones, a timber cruiser, while
ont cruising last Tuesday, found the
skeleton of man lying beside large
log near the bank of the north fork of
the Stcilaguamish river, where ii Rms
through township 81, range east,
about siXty-five miles east OF Tacoma.
Two other men were with Jones ut the
time.
Adiutant general O'Brian, of the
Washington National Guard, has fin
ished his biennial report, which he
will submit to Governor Ferry as soon
as it is printed. The report reviews
in detail the progress of the militia
since the last report; shows that there
are $1,000 men subject to military
duty in the state.
They have beer war over at Baker
City as we learn from the Blade. One
beer hall proprietor announces to sell
at five cents per glass, another two for
a nickel Teams paraded the streets
with carriages decorated with flags
and banners, advertising the eventful
news, and the beer drinkers were jubi-
liant that the days of cheap beer had
come.
The Wallula Herald says that there
is one railroad running through Pasco.
The maps published by the Head
light, show seven. The Pilot says
Hunt intends to build a round house
at Pasco. The Herald doubts it be-
cause Hunt has not even 4 branch
road running there. All such stuff is
for the man who does not go and put
his ''eye on PascO."
The residents of Orting, Wash, are
proud of the fact that they have a
sensation in the shapeo an elOpement.
Last week Mrs. Sophie Johnson. the
400-pound wife OF lsak johnson, pro-
prietor Of the scandinavian hotel,
packed up all the available furniture
in the hotel and fed with the cook, a
diminutiYe specimen of humanity that
weighs only about 100 pounds.
Il took hard work and much argu-
ment to convince the Union Pacific
officials that fir possessed equal or
greater strength than oak. 1t was
finally proposed to furnish, at Omaha,
free of cost enough fir to make three
cars as a test. This proposition was
accepted by the Union Pacific. The
cars built proved SO satisfactory that
the result was the sale of 100000
feet to the railway company in short
time.
A woman who claims to be the wife
of p. Rothentel. steward of the
steamer HeF7Cjn. and who is sup
posed to be the betrayed Of Gaines
Fisher, the livery man of Salem, com
mitted suicide by poisoning at Seattle
Wednesday morning. The ease is a
remarkable one, as it brings ont sus
picions of several dark crimes. She
left a letter TO the police stating that
her husband burned her house in Sa-
lem for the insurance; that the girl
he had betrayed in Germany drowned
herself, and intimated that he had
committed murder.
The police have discovered that a
man named Ingles, who acted rs the
custodian of the relief fund raised in
Spokane Falls at the time of the big
fire there, was in Manitoba this week.
Ingles skipped out with $4,000 or
more of the funds last summer, and is
now scattering his ill-gotten gains in
Canada. He put in a few lively days
in Winnipeg, having visited question
able places, gambled away a good
sum of money, and finally, as a wind
up, treated a number of friends" to a
grand supper at one Of the leading
hotels in the city.
Something new in gaming may be
seen in Pendleton beer hall. The
visitor is confronted on entering by
an apparent picture gallery, eighteen
hundred photographs of actresses be-
ing arranged in rows. Behind these
photos are hidden the pictures of
steers, sheep, bulls and horses. The
game consists in planking down your
half dollar, taking a whip which is
handed you and pointing at the
ikness of some fairy clad female
which may strike your fancy. The
photo is then lifted, and If the picture
disclosed is that of steer yOu get
nothing, if sheep 81, il bull 81, if a