The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-11-10
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News Items From all Over the Northwest

Rainier-run on the American plan.
A canal between the Walla Walla
and Columbia rivers is talked of in
Wallula.
The President has appointed A. c.
Mcclellan, of receiver of public mon
eys at La Grande.
The Portland Telegram says: This
city is full of gamblers at present, and
there is not room for more"
The Baker City counciImen have
voted themselves salary of $50 each
for The year. The mayor gets the
same.
Two sacks full of Chinese pheaSants
were recently shipped from Shedd to
San Francisco and offered openly for
sale in that city.
H. HI. Cline, proprietor of the Ma
tional." and "Comique," at Tacoma,
has skipped to Canada, owing $4,000,
and taking $1,000 cash with him.
About eight TO ten inches of snow
was encountered on the summit of
the Cascade mountains by parties who
crossed few days. ago into Crook
county.
Adrian Sheehan, son of ex-sheriff
Sheehan, Is reported to have left Port
Townsend, owing bills amounting to
over $500. Cards, wine and women
were the cause.
The delicate operation known in
medical practice as the Caesarian op-
Grafton was successfully performed at
Seattle last Friday. 1t is said to be
the first of the kind on the northwest
coast.
There is said to be $4,000 in coin
In proposition urged in some quarters
for the hands of the Seattle Relief
committee; and inquiries as to the
disposition of the money are becoming
frequent.
The Southern Pacific train wrecker
was sentenced, at Albany, to ten years
in the penitentiary, by Judge Boise,
last Friday The two Rolfe brothers.
indicted jointly with him, have both
been discharged.
John w. Lee, formerly from Grants
Pass, Oregon, who has been in Red
ding about two months, and who was
put in the calaboose a few evenings
ago, cut his throat with a razor. He
bled profusely, but will likely recover.
Four Walla Walla ladies who have
brought suit against the judges and
inspectors of election, ask damages in
the sum of $1,000 each because their
votes were not accepted and counted
at the October election, as other votes
were.
While attempting to break into the
express Office at Whatcom Mon
day night an unknown man
came near being killed by the
agent, r. X. ellison, who fired at
the burglar, putting bullet through
his hat.
DagO Frank, killed by Tom Ed
ridge at Spokane Falls, was buried
last Friday. 1t has been discovered
that he was robbed of a gold watch
and chain and S160 in money while
dying in the store where he fell. The
watch and chain were recovered.
John B. Irwin, one of the pioneers
of Eastern Oregon, has discovered one
of the richest free-gold properties ever
found in the state in Union county.
The quantity is large, and the best
judges say it is free milling cornpo-
sition of at least 800 TO the ton in
gold.
Mrs. Meadow, one of the owners of
the Spoiled Horse mine of Montana,
recently drove into Helena in a buck
board, unattended, carrying a gold
brick worth $4,000. it took two
porters and a truck to get the heavy
mass of gold from the wagon into the
bank.
John I. Givens, a heavy timber
owner OF Gray's HarbOr, is in San
Francisco, where he says that Wash
ingtOn and Oregon are still filling up
with Fasteners, who are taking up gov
ernment timber land. He thinks
there will not be an acre of railroad
or government timber land unbought
within five years.
McNeil's island penitentiary is
United States prison which now con-
tains 65 inmates. The question has
UCCn W lIC
probable disposal of this prison, after
the admission of the state. 1t is not
the custom of the general government
to maintain its own prisons in states
or territories.
Nine persons, man, a woman and
seven children, attempting to cross
Yaquina bay in a small boat Wednes-
day, were drowned. The bodies of
the mother and six of the children
have been recovered. The name of
the man was II. A. Wagner; the
mother and six children were the fam
ily of G. w. Parker.
By some queer arrangement the
boundary line of Yamhil county was
extended or moved west until it in
cludes a strip of territory about three
miles wide west of the Grande Ronde
Indian reservation, thus leaving Tilla-
nook county only a little over six
miles wide, from the eastern boundary
to the coast in the Nestucca country,
and almost cut the county in two.
Convicts IN the state penitentiary
continue to cut off or attempt to cut
off, their hands. The latest to attempt
the self amputation feat were Cum
mings and Burke from Multnomah
county. The former succeeded only
in part, getting off the end of one
finger, and the latter made two bad
hacks to the bone. Five have now
performed this feat and as a punish
ment will be kept in dungeons.