The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-11-03
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.
News Items From all Over the Northwest.

Seven inches of snow at Spokane
Falls.
A prospector struck a pocket near
RObinsonville, Grant county, last
wee k and took out 81 GOO with hand
mortar.
Lots at Gray's harbor. which last
June could have been bought for
S75 to 800 are now held as high as
S3.000
A bonus of $4,000 was raised at
Grants Pass for the rebuilding of the
Sugar Pine lumber mill, burned there
recently. That is a good indication of
enterprise
The Budget boasts that Lexington
has female engineer in the person
of Miss Lavina Hope, aged -, who
manages her fathers planning mill"
A good place for a second engineer.
The Albany Herald claims to be
i'll possession of information from Il
highly reliable source that the Chi
cago & Northwestern deal will not
prevent the Oregon Pacific road from
making its eastern connection.
At the Wallowa county term OF
court the grand jury returned mot a
true bilI' in the case Of a man charged
with horse stealing, but added that
''they thought he ought to have an OPP
portunity to prove his innocence"
The time was up in Washington
last Saturday for fixing war claims of
the states of Oregon, California and
Nevada. Senator Mitchell visited
Captain Mullen, agent for those
claims, and had the time extended.
The Oregon Iron & Steel company
are shipping twenty tons of cast iron
pipe and twenty tons of pig iron
per day to San Francisco, which shows
that there is a good demand for iron
in California and also that Oregon Is
ready to supply it.
1t is not exactly the thing for a
city to use money for grading streets
that was contributed by neighboring
towns for the relief Of distressed citi-
zens. The Ellensburg Register ac-
knOwledges that this is done at Ellens-
burg.
The impression exists among the
Portland detectives that Ii. i. Gibbs,
the colored murderer, is in southern
Oregon, where he must sooner or
later be apprehended. They believe
that on the Sunday following the day
of the murder he was in Bonneville.
The Eugene Register gets it from
reliable authority that the militia
company in Eugene will disband
oh no ~ - ,al,
time most of the members will have
served their three years. The boys
have no good place to drill and have
lost all interest in the business.
Over thirty bOoms have been sent
out during the past week and about
twenty-five men are employed all the
time.-Aberdee1l Herald. Albany has
its hands full of one boom, and about
the same number of men are employed
in running it; but it is a good healthy
one, and everybody is spiked for the
business.-AlbGny Democrat
Says an emissary of one of the
Washington senatorial candidates to
the Yakima Herald: 1T will cost
Watson G. Squire far upwards of $780,
600 If he is elected senator. Some of
this will go to the newspaper men. |
know of one in Spokane Falls who re-
ceived $500 in one draft, and another
in Walla Walla who got $3.50"
That it pays to advertise is proven
by the Pasco scheme. One thousand
persons purchased there last month,
and nearly every reader in the north
west is compelled to keep an eye on
Pasco." Sixteen men put $4,000
together and bought tract of land.
not having the least faith in the place.
but they are selling at an advance on
the strength of the advertising which
the place is receiving.
There is movement on foot, backed
by some eastern capitalists to improve
the Lewis river for logging purposes;
the scheme is to place large pocket
boom below the mouth and a shear
boom above, put in numerous pocket
booms, along the upper side, improve
the banks, dam the small mountai1 !
streams so as'to collect water for dashe
when the river is low. The company
expects to invest about 100000 or
S150,0OO.
Friday morning, says the Portland
Telegram, just as the Southern Pa
cific had landed lot of passengers at
the west pontoon of the F.street ferry,
a chubby little newsboy ran up to a
woody looking individual, and con-
frOnted him with query:
"OregOlliGR, sir?"
mo, not by a jug full, you little
devil, I'm just in from Calaforny,"
replied the thoroughly disgusted trav-
eler, as he went off muttering, Taken
fer webfoot b. gosh.
Mr.. Harriet, of McMinnvilIe, who
is in the neighborhood of eighty years
old, wants to get married. This in
formation he gives to everybody, the
girls especially. The other day, says
the. Telephone Register, he repaired
to the house of a~young lady whom he
was smitten on, and invited her TO take
a buggy ride. She promised him that
she would go and he made prepara-
tions. He met her on the street sew
eral times after that and she ignored
him; this angered the old man, and
one day last week he went to the house
at which the girl was working and be-
gan to upbraid her. The lady weighs
about ten stone and is ''husky," and
she made rush upon Mr.. Harriet and
caught him, holding him until another
girl bound him with ropes. After
this the girls had a great time doing