The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-06
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.
News Items From all Over the Northwest.

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the wife of Pen Long, Chinaman,
has been declared citizen by the
courts of Portland.
E. E. Coy, farmer of Garfield
county, raised 700 bushels of wheat
this season on ten acres of land, which
is an average of seventy bushels per
acre.
A paint mine has recently been
discovered near Union City, Mason
county. The pigment resembles ochre,
and when burned makes a beautiful
sienna.
A car load of blue granite, quar-
ried near Snohomish Falls, Is to be
shipped to Portland to be tested. 1t
is said TO be an excellent quality, says
the Eye.
Uncle Sam is making a survey of
the channel of the Columbia river
above Priest Rapids, with the view
of removing the distractions to navi-
cation therein.
G. A. Wiley, of Portland, has be-
gun suit against the Portland and
Willamette valley railroad for SIS, 900
damages for injuries sustained while
travelling on the road.
Proceedings have begun at Port.
land in the important cases of the
United States against four military
wagon-road companies of Oregon to
forfeit their grants.
Aberdeen and MontesanO are both
claiming the largest population. Edi-
tors of the newspapers of the towns
propose to take census of their cities
to settle the question.
We now have says the McMinnville
Telephone, gentleman by the name
Of ToOthaker, a gentleman named
Longacre and we also have a goodly
supply of Bellyachers.
The steamer Gaelic, for Hong Kong,
from San Francisco last Thursday af-
ternoon carried nearly 500 Chinese,
the largest number that at any one
time has left the country since the
passage of the exclusion act.
The Ellensburg LOcalizer says that
it learns that over thousand bushels
of peaches and large quantities of
plums are going to waste in the Win
atchie valley this season, which is
said to be one of the finest fruit re-
gions in Washington.
Recent measurements OF the fishing
grounds off the coast of Washington
by the United States steamer Aba
trOSS show that the Flattery bank
covers an area of about LOO square
miles, the lowest water, 27 fathoms,
being IL miles west from Cape Flat
terry lighthouse.
Latest advices from the wreck of
the steamer Arctic, with supplies for
the Yukon river miners, state that the
vessel has been hoated and brought
back to st. Michael. The Alaska
Commercial company will send the
steamer Erplorer to the station with
two boats in tow, with a sufficient
amount of stores to cover the amount
lost on the Arctic.
A bear which is declared to have
destroyed $1,000 worth of stock was
killed by William Hood on the Upper
Coquille river several days ago. II
weighed dressed $40 pounds. At one
| time he slaughtered 800 sheep that
belonged to Mr.. Hood. Since settling
in that country that gentleman has
TILED forty-three bears, and no end oi
wildcats and panthers.
Several members of the Minneapolis
building and loan association which
was organized in Eugene last spring
and which has never done anything,
held meeting in the Lane County
Bank Monday evening and passed
resolutions requesting the managers
of the association to refund the money
put in it, They will be fortunate il
they ever succeed in getting it.
La Grande must be a poker town
judging from the following in a local
paper. Stud poker is one of the pop
ular games of eastern Oregon, and it
would be difficult to strike a town
where such a game is not played.
The gang has been hitting the thing
pretty hard in La Grande the past
week, but behind closed doors. One
set of high rollers stuck to their
chairs forty-eight hours, and several
dollars changed hands. Betting
must have been lively for as high as
$3.50 was staked on jack high, and the
call was made by the man who had
king high,
The Pendleton East Ore90nidn
says: Agent Moorehouse had in his
possession last evening a goodly sack,
containing about $4,000 with which to
pay the quarterly salaries of the
agency employees: Uncle Sam spends
about $4,000 annually on the Una
tilla Indians-gives them land; buys
their plows, seeders, threshers; hires
an agent, carpenter, doctor, black
smith, ETC., for their benefit; supports
a school for the education of their
young, and does everything in hi;
power to make them comfortable. And
yet it is said that sometimes the heart
Of the red man yearneth for better
things, and he says unto himself In
choice Cayuse: "The paleface doth
rise up In his might and oppress me-
and / cannot redress my grievances
for the tomahawk is buried deep, and
the white man is as numerous as the
leaves on the trees"
r. Clinton, alias Perry, who has JUS
been sentenced to the pelitentiary fol
two years, first went to East Portland
before he went the Portland, and wa.
attached to the Yindicator in the
Icapacity OF advertising solicitor, anC
| by his smooth address was very sue
cessful; but when to gamblers made