The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-13
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.
News Items From All Over The Northwest

mlSS1OnerS contracted for the sale or
100000 brick to Spokane parties at
rate of Sc per thousand.
Miss Piberin, the girl who was so
badly burned at Browns hop-yard,
near Eugene, a few weeks ago died
from the effects of her injuries
The new Northern Pacific ferry in
cline at Kalama will cost from $4,000
to S101,000, and when finished, cars
can be transferred in ten minutes.
f. A. Garlic, for ten years the man
aging editor of the st. Paul Pioneer
Press, has assumed the managing
editorship of the Portland OTegOnian.
Hon. Binger Hermann is now in
eastern Oregon looking after the
needs of that portion of the state. He
has completed his tour of the Will
annette valley.
Mrs. Page carries the mail twice a
week between Neskowin and Grande
Ronde, Tillamook county. The dis
tance is thirty miles and she never
fails to be on time.
At the general Episcopal conven-
ton, In session in New York, Oregon
was last Monday admitted as diocese,
and unanimous consent was given to
the election Of bishop Morris.
A west side distiller of plum and
prune brandy, has an order from
New York. city for 300 gallons of
liquor. There it will be put in bottles
with fancy labels and reshipped to the
west.
An up-country paper telegraphed the
Walla Walla Statesman, on election
day, to send it 200 words of election
news. The Statesman replied: mo
need of 200 words; everything gone
to he'll"
Judge A. g. Hardesty of Lincoln
county, Kansas, arrived in the city
day or two ago and is so favorably
impressed with Astoria and its sur
roundings that he intends to remain
and practice law.
United States engineers are examin-
ing the rapids of the upper Columbia
with view of enabling the govern
meDt to make Improvements of that
part of the river and make it more
easily navigable.
The country sawmills are booming.
Some of them charge S22 per 1000 feet
for dressed clear stuff, $40 for second
grade, and $16 for third grade. All
the lumber is unseasoned and is hauled
away as soon as sawed.
A timber expert from Wisconsin
made mistake of exactly 1880 feet
in one tree, recently, over on the
Sound, standing along side of it. He
said it would cut $4,000 feet; it was
felled and did cut 81, 800 feet.
Silver lake is in an awful fix. Thou
sands of dead fish are lying in the
mud. The stencil is awful. There
are acres and acres covered with them
on the west side of the remaining
water. Pelicans are doing well.
The government dredger while at
work at st. Helens bar was run into
few days since by the steam collier
Willamette and damaged to the eX-
tent of about 800. 1t will take about
two weeks to repair the damages.
The dimension timbers for a Tur-
kish ironclad vessel, to be built at
Alexandra, Egypt, is being got out
by the Port Blakeley mill company.
An English ship is in waiting at Port
Blakeley to take the lumber to its far
off destination.
Harry Bowmer, of the Milton Eagle,
was treated to a surprise on his re-
turn home the other day. A number
of Milton people had pledged S242 to
pay off the Indebtedness on his house
and lot, in appreciation of his services
on behalf of the town.
Negotiations, says the Albany Her
aid, are pending for the purchase of
the Santiam canal, the Magnolia flour
ing mills and the city water works to
Mr.. II. B. Turner of New York, one of
Col. T. z. Hogg's party. The value
of the property is about $150,O00.
The net profits from the water-works
owned by Portland, amounted last
year to $4,000. Although there have
been $1,000 more interest on the bonds
issued to pay this year, the net profits
from the water-works to date amount
to over $4,000, and will be double
those OF last year.
One of our exchanges publishes the
following local: John o. Upper
lately lost pig; ate supper all right
and was found dead next morning"
AsksfT The Dalles Times -MOuntGineer:
''How did John lose the pig? Was it
John or the pig who ate the supper?
And was it John or the pig or the
supper that was found dead the next
morning.
A nine foot vein of tin ore, assaying
8 per cent tin, has been discovered
near the Cascade branch of the North
ern Pacific railroad, west of the sum-
NIT of the Cascades. The character
of the vein is black oxide of cilicates.
1t is found in large quantities and Is
said to be equal to the best Connall
grade of tin ore. Z"
The Seattle Post InteILtgencer'S
new press is web-perfecting machine
OF the Goss make, printing from ste
reotype plates, and its capacity is "a,
600 four-page or 5000 eight-page pa
pers per hour. 1t folds as well as
prints, receiving white paper from a
roll at one end and turning out at the
other complete papers in the form in
which they reach their readers.
1t is announced that another con-
tract on the eastern extension of the
Oregon Pacific railroad has been let
to Orman & Crook, well-known con.
tractors of Denver, Col. The contract