The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-22
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.
News Items From All Over The Northwest.

| Settlers III the Big Bend country,
Wash, have to ride forty miles to get
their mail and to vote.
The Alsea Packing company has
shut down its cannery on Alsea bay
for the season. They put up 5000
cases.
Yakima" is All Indian name mean
ing ''great sOcatash garden" and
also applied to tribe of Indians thus
named.
A recent number of the Waitsburg
Times had the following ad.: Wanted,
a saddle horse for woman weighing
$50 pounds
Over ten thousand tons of flour will
have been shipped from Oregon to
China for the year 1889. against 5000
for the year 1888
The press and engines of the de-
funct Portland Daily NeJCS have been
purchased by Palmer & Rey and are
being shipped to San Francisco. The
type is being sold in lots to suit.
The land Office officials at Seattle
have rendered a decision that Valen-
tine script is mo go" for the purpose
of locating claims on tide lands In
front of organized cities and towns.
The editor of the Sprague Herald
refuses to resign from the city coun-
Gil, of which he is a member. He says
he wants an office and will hold on to
that till something better turns up.
The Deep Sea Fishing Co. is max
ing arrangements to put on the stocks
another steam schooner to run in con-
junction with the George II. Chance.
She will be 80 feet long and first
class III every respect.
A girl farmer in Crook county this
year put up eight tons of hay, which
she cut with pair of shears. She has
for neighbor young man who has
sold thousand bundles of shingles
made with pocket knife.
Captain Blackburn, formerly in
command of the steamer UmGtillG,
has chartered the International COM
pany's steamer MOntSerrGt to run in
the Sound coal trade for the Oregon
Improvement company.
Maybe it is news to the world that
the first paper ever printed west of
| the Rocky mountains was printed
by the Nez Perce Indians. Father
Spaulding brought them the printing
press, perhaps fifty years ago.
Assistant Commissioner Stone of
the land Office holds, in regard to a
large number of school indemnity
lands selected by the State of Oregon
on expired pre-emptions, that the
burden of proof is not on the state,
but upon the pre-emptors.
Frank A. Sears. of the Tacoma
grain firm of Sears q &C., has been at
Walla Walla since grain threshing
commenced, purchasing wheat for
shipment to Tacoma. His last pur-
chase was 10000 bushels in the Eure-
ka Flats region at 50 to SO cents per
bushel.
Farmers about Walla Walla are
now receiving 81 cents per bushel for
their wheat from the Pacific Coast
Elevator company, who are buying
large quantities. Since the company
began buying, these farmers have re-
ceiyed more for their grain, relatively,
than they did before.
Portland is to have an athletic club
which is to be a counterpart of the
famous California Athletic club of
San Francisco. Dave Campbell has
been elected instructor of the club,
and apparatus recently used by the
California Athletic club, has been
purchased. Purses for matches will
be offered AZ soon as the club is incor-
porated.
We hope, says the Cowlitz Bulletin,
our readers will excuse us for coming
out late last week for we could not
help it, Our patent insides had been
brought from the depot early in the
week, and had been left in our front
end among the groceries. Farmer
Dusenbury came in and bought horse
feed, pork, etc, and on leaving, loaded
in our patent insides- -mistaking it for
a roll of bacon, and failed to return it
until Friday. We hope such a thing
will not occur again.
Seattle offered the Portland brick
trust 50 per thousand for all the brick
on hand and what it would manufac-
ture this season up b six millions.
The Portland trust hesitated to fill an
order to that extent, as it would de-
prive Portland builders of seasonable
material to carry out their purposes;
and the trust decided to hold for Port
land uses all required brick expected
to be put in construction this season,
for which the price should be one dol
lar less per thousand than were Of
fered by Seattle. Brick at Seattle
costs Sc per thousand delivered from
Portland to that city, to which the
first cost of S8 at the kiln, makes S14,
at which they have already contracted
for 100000 the present fall from
Portland, and are ready to duplicate
the order at dollar advance. Chinese
who formerly jobbed around Portland
for 81 day, now get from S1.75 to
$3.50 per diem at the brick yard.
Ben Holladay was fertile in resourc-
es when it behooved him to have
cash, and many were the subterfuges
resorted to by him for purposes of
wind raising. The story of how he
asked Sol. Abrahams, of Rosehurg, to
dinner consisting of scrambled eggs,
tea and bread and butter, and then
with tears in his eyes, on account of
his apparent poverty, tapped him for
$500, subsequently having his regular
fine dinner served, is chestnut ~
but it is not generally known that