The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-20
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.
News Items From All Over The Northwest.

w. A. Carruthers is going to start a
bank at Pacific City.
The Madison street cable road in
Seattle will cost 100000.
The catch of fish at Bandon, Coos
county, is about 5000 a night.
OystervilIe sends $50 sacks of oys-
tiers weekly to Astoria and Portland
"The House That Jack Built" is the
appropriate name of Tacoma hotel
kept by j. o. Jack.
A recent freshet in the Skagit river,
Wash, enabled loggers to drive down
30000,000 feet of logs.
Jas. A. Mccormick has been ap-
pointed a special land agent, with
headquarters at Vancouver.
The Tacoma and Seattle hook and
ladder teams are to contest each
others ability for $1,000 a side.
The first carload of hops ever sent
to San Francisco from Puget sound
was shipped last Thursday from King
county.
E. Ingle, a farmer living near Walla
Walla, has sold nearly $4,000 worth
of fruit this year from a fifteen acre
orchard.
Bricks are sold at the Walla Walla
penitentiary for $3.50 per thousand,
delivered on the cars. They are made
by the cOnvicts.
TJ. Carlisle, Walla Walla hotel
keeper, was notified Wednesday morn
ing that he had drawn $4,000 in the
Louisiana lottery.
The Centralia NeoOS has been pur-
chased by John A. Taylor, who for
merly owned it, and is now straight
Democratic in politics.
Henry Drum, of Tacoma will be
lonesome when he gets to the legisla-
ture. He is the only Democrat in the
state senate and drnm hard to beat.
The Walla Walla board of trade has
turned SS5,000 over to G. w. HINT, it
being the subsidy raised for buildin g
the Oregon and Washington road.
The o. r. & N. Co.'S Mullan branch
into the Cpur d'Alene mining district
is completed for distance of twenty
eight miles out from Spokane Falls,
and it is expected to have it finished
to Mullan by December 1st.
Lakeview recently had $500 fire,
a livery stable and contents burning.
A man named Wilson talked about
the firemen. making insulting remarks,
about midnight startling example
was made of him by giving him big
dose of tar and feathers.
T. NJ. Kruse, of Wilsonville, Clacka-
mas county, got the prize at the fair
Tuesday night for being the fattest
man in attendance. He measured
5515 inches around the waist, 5015
inches around the chest, and weighed
800 pounds. The $50 suit of clothes
is his.
j. NJ. Ogle, of Puyallup, entered the
contest for the American AgTicul-
turist $500 prize for the greatest yield
of potatoes from a single acre of
ground. The ground he chose was
near Slaughter, King county. The
tubers were dug few days ago and
weighed 27,61915 pounds, or 400
bushels 101a pounds, equal to nearly
IA tons.
According to the Corvallis Times, a
wild deer ran through the agricultural
college farm Wednesday afternoon
and passed within twenty feet of the
dormitory, where fifty or more stu
dents stood watching it. The Eugene
Register says that deer are coming
out of the mountains a month earlier
than usual this year. which is q good
sign of an early winter.
A trader writes: At Gray's Harbor
City, HOquiam, Aberdeen and Cosmo-
polls [ found that all the butter, eggs
and vegetables used in these towns
were shipped from Portland or San
Francisco. Here is population OF
about 5000 people depending on the
markets of Portland and California for
everything they use, and yet they are
located at the mouth of a river, the
Chehalis, which flows through a val
ley as rich in agricultural products of
all kinds as any which exists on the
broad continent.
The most novel feature of the late
fair in southern Oregon was race be-
tween a red and roam bull, each sad
died and backed with rider. The
red animal proved sulky and fractions,
and the steady dog trot of the roam
was surely winning him the race, when
some sharp witted individual who had
his money up on the red, hired about
two dozen small boys to 60 out armed
with switches and clubs and chase him
in. The wisdom of this maneuver
was speedily apparent, for the thor
oughly frightened and panic stricken
animal, with head down and tail erect
and wildly shying from one side of
the track to the other in the vain en-
deavor to escape from his bowling
tormentors as they would dart out at
him, swept down past the grand stand
like hurricane, winning the race
hands down amid the deafening plaud
its Of the multitude.
Thousands of people have found in
Hoods SarSaparilla positive cure fol
rheumatism. This medicine, by its pu.
rifying action, neutralizes the acidity OF
the blood, which is the cause of the dis
ease, and also builds up and strengthens
the whole body. Give it trial.
Pacific Lodge. No. IL, X. of Il.
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