Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-09-09
NuRTH PACIFIC NEWS NOTES.

Athena recieyes 5000 bushels of
wheat daily.
The first frost of the season oc
/ Cured an the lst.
Russell Hillebrand, of Olympia,
has mys;erinusly disappeared.
A charter has been granted the
First National bank of Aberdeen.
Chas. Cox, real estate dealer of
Tacoma, has skipped the country.
Major J. a. Times, pioneer o
Spokane, died on the 3rd, aged 63
wears.
The Free Methodist denomina-
ion of Dayton will build a church
this fall.
The press says Sco is to have the
paint mill for which Lebanon was
vainly struggling.
/ There has been 40 residence
houses built at Hillsboro since the
first of January.
/ James Hoover, living near Hills
born, reports yield nf oats of 100
bushels to the acre.
E. J. Brown, member of the i'll
fated Demo party, died at his home
| at San Bonilo, Cal, aged I3.
| Jesse Allen has been arrested at
| GJldendale for arson. He was
ciught setting fire to a barn.
The new schooner WeatherwaX,
/ has been landed at Aberdeen. She
can carry $500 feet Of lumber.
A British ship arrived in Port
land few days since, and in her
cargo were $4,000 demijohns.
The stern wheel steamer Mabel, "A
Snohomish river boat, struck
snag iii that river and sunk last
Thursday afternoon.
The contract has been let for an
electric line from West Whatcom to
Fairhaven, to be completed by Jan.
the first.
+. a. Bee, the Chinese consul
at San Francisco, states that there
are II 900 less Chinese than there
were two years ago.
A hospital has been established at
Centralia for the benefit of Hunts
men. a number of serious cases of
fever are now being treated.
Four Faro Banks, Wheel os For
tune, three Poker Games and
Chuck Luck outfit have gone out of
business at Lagrande, Oregon.
The Branch railroad from Union
station on the Union Pacific to the
town of Union, distance Of about
two miles, will he soon completed.
Track!ayIng will commence this
week.
The grain OH NJ. 7. Walters
place adjoining town has been
threshed, says the Lakeview Exam
iner. The wheat went 30 bushels
to the acre and the oats over 100.
Not so bad where failure was pre-
dic,ed less than two months ago.
There is big "kick," says the Co /.
lumbian, among the Astoria ship /
pers on account Of the fact says
The I. y. d. n. Co. employs no
freight agent here. Shippers now
are compelled to wal until the
steamers come in and transact busi-
ness with the captain. The large
amount of trade developed with
Pacific county within the past few
months makes this decidedly awk-
ward.
Mrs. w. II. Roberts, living near
this city. had quite a narrow es-
cape from death one day last week.
She was starting fire in the yard
to cooking out doors,
and it not blazing rapidly enough,
she added some coal oil, the fame
followed the stream of oil to the can,
which exploded, setting her clothes
on fire. With wonderful presence
Dt mind she procured blanket aud
after a few slight burns succeeded III
sn.nt Ia 81 ,,,. ha "a, apt
The board of equalization made a
of 4l,S4S.lS from the
returns and added
S3, 10000; leaving the total tax
,ble property of Lake ty for
1880, as equalized by the board, ST.
,95, ,9SS.3l. The total taxable prop
,r,y for 1883 was 81 l.67S, S,356.Sl, con-
'idernDle more than this year, which
IS accounted for by the great loss OF
stock last winter. The rate of tax. /,
alton The same as last year, Sl.75
IT'S. per $4,000
Mr.. Hale returned from Portland
TUESDAY, bringing with him some
quartz from Idaho mines, says the
Lebanon Express. We compared
he specimens with some We have
rom Calapooia, Blue River and
districts and find that We
lave richer mines at our own door;
stlll, some people cannot appreciate IA
good thing unless they pay well for !
i. II the mines in the above q
named district necessiiated a long
ourney 10y pack train and a consid.
;rable outlay of money their value
would be Increased ten.fold.
A sure Cure for Piien