The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-11-26
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.
News Items From all Over the Northwest

1He uHlOn 1aDOr party Will nominate
state ticket next June.
The $150,000 paper mill at Oregon
City is being pushed to completion.
The estimate of the expenditure for
the state of Washington for the first
year of statehood is $3.50, ,401.
An asbestos fire-proof drop curtain
for the Tacoma theater has been re-
ceived. 1t weighs 300 pounds.
There are now three organized
oranges in Josephine county. The
grange has a membership in Oregon
of 5000.
The Salem Gaslight company has
received thirty carloads of coal from
Sydney. Australia, 1t cost S23 per ton
at Sydney.
Tin mines have been discovered in
the Cascade mountains, and an analy-
sis shows eight per cent. of tin. The
vein is large one.
The Willamette valley is fifty miles
wide and 150 miles long, and contains
$500 square miles. Nearly every acre
is fine farming land.
Over 10000 acres of government
land In the neighborhood of Chehalis
have been taken under the various
acts of congress during the past year.
The Bandon Recorder says that the
law against. placing constructions
across rivers in Oregon so as to pre-
vent the movement of salmon is most
firgrantly set at naught at the mouth
of Rogue river.
A sand-pump near Boise City, Ida
no, recently brought up a flint idol
from depth of 320 feet. 1t is claimed
to be the Oldest mark of human life
on record, by Professor Wright of OBJ
erin college, Ohio.
The weavers in the Oregon City
woollen mills went Oh a strike last
Thursday on account of a reduction
in wages of weaving two lines of
blankets. The old rates were restored
and the men went to work.
Near Silverton, Oregon, is a quarry
of what is called Fireplace stone"
1t is soft when mined, and can be
sawed or chopped in any desired
shape, and when subjected to intense
heat does not seem to be affected.
Washington's wheat crop this year
is estimated at 100000 bushels,
from 100000 acres of land, and is
worth S8,500,000. Last year there
were harvested from 4S7,790 acres.
100000 bushels, worth $7,O24,680.
Ex-Judge Thomas II. Smith is seri-
ously i'll at Alameda. Smith was the
first sheriff In Oregon and adjacent
territory, his bailiwick then compris-
ing great extent of country. OF late
years he has been a practicing lawyer
In Alameda.
Seventeen German Russian families
arrived in Albina last Wednesday
from Dakota. They had section of
a train to themselves and brought
their household furniture, farm i'm
plements, chickens, ducks, pigs, COWS,
etc. in freight cars.
The following oracular gem is taken
from a recent number of the Orting
Oracle: 1t may probably never have
occurred to many of our readers that
whatever We do not do at once, or at
some time in the near future, unless
some one else does it will in all likeli-
hood remain undone.
Good coal in paying quantities has
been discovered less than three miles
southwest of Eugene. At depth of
twelve feet in the hillside one of the
veins is five feet thick and from Is
to 20 feet wide. The expense of
mining would be very small. Keep
your eye on Eugene" says the Regis
ter.
There were caught in the Coquille
river, during the last fishing season,
says the Bandon Recorder, $500 cases
of salmon. The price paid for fish
was 30 to 30 cents each. The total
amount paid ont for raw fish was $15,-
600. In addition to the cash paid for
raw fish, the other expenses of the
cannery were $4,000.
G.. w. Hunt met the citizens of
Waitsburg last week and secured a
subscription of $4,000 for his road.
In answer to question he said that
if In consideration of the $4,000 sub
scribed there he failed to carry pro-
duce to the Sound as cheaply as the
o. r. & n carries it to Portland he
would pay back to any man so treated
the amount subscribed by him, with
interest.
The Democrat says there are busi-
ness men in Baker City to-day who
lay awake nights fretting about So
advertising bill the end of the month,
while there are others who would
rather have a tooth pulled than pay
out one dollar for advertising. The
latter are the first men In the COM
munity to find fault with the news
papers because they are not as large
in size as the San Francisco EG.
anliner; and, too, they never sub
scribe for the paper, but steal it morn
ing after morning from the doors of
those who do subscribe.
The Idaho territorial insane asylum
at Blackfoot was destroyed by fire last
Sunday morning. The fire caught in
the basement from a defective flue
early in the morning before all the
patients were up, and the greatest
difficulty was experienced In arousing
them. There were sixty-four patients
: in the institution, and out of this num-
ber two men and two women are
known to have perished in the flames.
Four others are missing, and are sup
posed to be burned. The building
was entirely gutted and the walls are
all that remain. The loss is estimated
at $4,000
The Grants Pass Courier wonders
how many of the busy, hopeful people
= of La Grande, when they sit down to
their next New Years dinner to talk
railroad and plan excursions on the
/ railroads, will recall the fact that the
first New Years dinner ever eaten by
Americans In eastern Oregon was par
taken of by Mr.. Hunt and party in 1872
Q Mr.. Hunt was one of the partners of the
J. then rich John Jacob Astor. His din.