The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-10
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.
News Items From all Over the NOrihwes

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at that place.
! Congressman Hermann lost $2,80(
/ by the absconding of cashier Silcott al
Washington.
! 4 company with capital of $500,
| 600 has been incorporated at Salem
TO operate mills.
The Tacoma Mill company shipped
3,240,000 feet of lumber during the
month of November.
A boy II years old has been ap-
pointed referee i'll three divorce cases
at Dallas, Polk county.
A $1,000 wager has been made at
Tacoma that Washington will have q
population of 100000 in 1890.
The estimated wheat crop of Or
egon this year is 100000 bushels
worth S9,500,0O0. The total acreage
of the state is estimated at 100000.
The total number of buildings COM
menced and erected in Seattle since
the great fire of June 6, is 1,167; their
estimated cost is over $5,5O0.000
O'Neil Bros, of California, bonded
themselves to put in a City thousand
dollar paper mill, if Lebanon would
raise a five thousand dollar subsidy,
and it was taised.
Alfred Towers and T. McComber
were arrested at Ferndale, Whatcom
county, the other day, with 55 pounds
of contraband opium upon them 1t
is thought they belong to an organized
gang of smugglers.
A young son of DR.. J. NJ. Boyd,
shot himself accidentally last week, at
Baker City, Oregon. His life is de-
SPARED Of, as his entire shoulder
was torn off by the charge of buck
shot.
A gentleman who keeps posted on
such matters tells Dallas ItemizeT
that within the past year fully 100
draft stations have been imported in
to this state, and that the grades of
horses are being rapidly improved.
In a few years such a thing as a scrub
animal will not be known in Oregon
Explaining why a certain city or
dinance does not appear in the paper
the Ritzville Times says: ut is very
lengthy and rs there is no money in
the city treasury, nor Is there liable to
be soon, and the pay for its publica-
ton. has not been guaranteed, the
Times has no space to spare for fun
An old Oregon pioneer, now resid
ing in Pendleton, tells of a curious
relic which was discovered In 1851
and may still be seen, at a point neal
Grants Pass iii the Rogue River val
ley. 1t IS a cast-iron wheel, weighing
possibly $50 pounds, which is lying
underneath tree, enclosed by a dense
growth of vegetation. How came il
there is a mysterey which will give
curious food for conjecture.
Washington's surveyor general, Il
II. Cavanaugh, has reported in re.
sponse to the senate resolution on sur.
veyed and unsuryeyed public lands
to the effect that there were 21,715,.
261 acres surveyed, and 23,0SO, ,S99
acres unsurveyed of public lands il
the state of Washington, the latter
amount including 100000 of Indian
reservation in eastern Washington
and $4,000 of the same in western
Washington.
The town of Florence on the Sius
law river is going to have a newspa
per. There is a great deal of lant
ready for the market in that vicinity
The experience of the TillamOOl
Headlight has suggested that tenn
pOrary newspaper in the vicinity O
public land is a paying investment
Some Yankee now can cast an anchor
to the wIndward by putting a pape
on wheels to go wherever there is
large amount of advertising prospect
The Northern Pacific railway com
pany has settled for $1,100 a sui
for $4,000 brought by Adele Nelson
the Australian equestriene. The claim
was made on account of injuries re
ceived in q wreck near Gold Greek
Montana. The company had decided
to fight the claim, but it is said Ma
dame Nelson's attorney sent out t.
the scene of the wreck and procured
the tie which had allowed the rails t.
spread This was so rotten that i
would not hold a spike, and the at
torneys, after looking at it cOmpro
missed the claim.
Lish Applegate is at Portland. A
fine illustration of the wonderful gov
ernment red tape run to seed is givel
in the case of his bonds as Indian
agent. The bonds were made out tt
cover the case of his appointment
dated September Both, but it wai
found that records showed the ap
pointment to have been made Sep
tember 18th, and so the bonds had tC
be sent back to Oregon, and be re
placed with new bonds just the sam,
in all respects, except that the date i:
to be September 18th instead of Sep
tember Both.
Jacob Sittell has begun suit against
E. X. Whitehead, a Portland police
man, for $500 damages. The
grounds upon which the suit is based
are that on November 18th, White
head entered the plaintiffs hous'
without warrant to do so, unmer
cifully beat and assaulted Sittell, an(
placed him under arrest At the time
Mrs. Sittell had just given birth to
child, her husband was in attendanc,
upon her, but Whitehead conveyed
him to jail without allowing him Il
obtain assistance from his neighbors
thus endangering his wife's life.
Last Sunday q flashily attire(
young man, who gave the name of A
T. Watprhousa was arrested in Port
land for passing fraudulent checks
both in this city and in California
The check passed in California wa
for $35, on the First National banl
of San Francisco, and was given tC
the United States hotel in Marysville
California. The check which causes
his immediate arrest was drawn o.
the First National bank of Chicago
and was hypothecated to S. Bailey
proprietor of the Gilman house, i
liquidation of a board bill. This checl