Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-12-03
OREGON CLIPS

The new schooner the san jose =
nos o. duty.
y. E johnson a Uaion printer
was di>chs-sed from the Assnrian
orics for bgyins his clothes o.
Chinese tailor.
East Porrlxnd'. electric lights
nsve oa~u shut Oe. The contract
expired on Dee. lsc-
The s1e-cummittes II The iHint
enp -ressnnai committee OF imuf-
r-stfou : in PG-t.tn in session.
Tire cars az expec.ei TO he sb1-
20 cross the NJ trri>nn street bridge,
Portland. py Christmas.
The police Of Pnrsland made 50
ares, during November, - OF
which we're drunk and di-orderly.
The wholesale merchant. OF PurC-
lznd hsve organized freight
ouresu.
The Washington electric csr had
collision with locomotive al PO-J-
hand Monisy. No one hurt serious
".
EiSar Patton nas eontssse5 ne
stole tse money n alleged was
taken by burCisUs-
There was tie vote between \.
B. HuddIe-ou and 3. W. Long
worth for Mayor So Lebanon.
Ms. EIizs Warren claims to be
the first white cnnd Doru west a.
rhs Rocky mountains she was
borr in ls37. She l. now living two
snd onehalf miles west OF Browns
vile.
WONDERFUL HORss STORY.
Esrly yesterday morning, a. one
OF the employees 81 H. D. Jones :
livery stable wss engaged in giving
the ho-ses their breakfast, he came
TO the stall in which was standing
horse owned by J. y. Bristol, grocer.
He gave the horse slap and said,
stand over. Major" when the ami
NAL started 10 move over and in
s,antiy fell as if struck by light
ming and WAS dead in few seconds.
The hostler SAYS their was great
noise and flames seemed to issue
from the horses head, and MS idea
was that the animal was struck by
lightning. There are no electric
lights about the stable, but there is
q place burned around one Of tine
hurSe's ewes a. if scared with a red
not iron. There i e terra Gotta tiue
passing up through the horse - sLall,
covered with g zinc casing. 1t was
raining nayd al the time, anu
a.! whether lightning passed down the
zine coating Of the fiue or whether
some electric wire Came IN contact
with IL, il not known. The acci-
dent vas very singular oue. and
Mr.. Bristol feels very SAD al the loss
uf his hnrse, which, besides icing
worth $50. was great pet.-OtegUn-
ian.
WHY JOURNALS Do StT GIT To SUB
slRIBERs on TIaE.
The postal CLERKS whu were il
jured in the wreck at Lake Labi=h-
Ambrose and his helper, A. :. Raud,
have both been lying of for recurer-
alton since the accident, and Ihi-
has left the five remaining clerks on
I the Tuute between Ashland and
( Portland to do all the work. The
/ work il entirely too much for them,
and a. consequences much mail
( has az times been carried back and
+ firth on the road unwUfaed, and the
/ public has been the sufferer in the
delay in delivery of papers, This is
I a good time TO remark, too, that the
newspaper men Of the country
know, or al least they ought 10
know, that the work on the railroad
/ between Ashland and Portland. 10
too much at all times for the number
of clerks that are employed in it,.
! The run il q long and exacting one,
and il il simply Impossible at many
times for the clerks to work the local
mails a. they are expected TO. The
( result of this il that unwOrked mail
goes into the Portland office, and
I mas TO be sent out a. isst it can be
Dy the clerks in that Office who are
not prepared, nor are they expected,
/ to attend to such WORK. For all this
Z the public has 10 suffer, especially
the people who ARE the subscribers
of newspapers that come to them
DAY or two later than they would il
the postal force along tine railroad
were adequate. The postal officials
vino travel through this part Of the
country investigating the service all
admit this and all promise to ar.
range for more help when they get
h,,cE Ia Warrington bat somehow