Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-11-10
NORTH PACIFIC NEWS NUrES.
OREGON.

r. f. Case, one Of the proprietnrs
of the Oregon hotel, Portland, was
arrested Friday for stealing $Ss.75
The Benton County Prune com
pany have contracted for Is, ,0O prune
trees to be delivered by Dee. 10.
A brsss band with over twenty
members, has been organized at the
Onsou Agricultural College.
$500 was left from the Admission
Day fund which will be divided
among he orphan asylnms of Sa-
Fraucisco.
Halloween was not celebrated IN
Eugene this year. The Officers
made 1t too lively fer the boys ia>l
year.-Gu2ru.
T,m Stoidart, one of the prnprie
tors of the Petaluma Imprint, WA
shot aud dangerously wounded b,
Oifice- Walsh on Friday night
Articles uf incorporation for tn,
Washington 5, cial Marriage Bureau
head quarters AT Taconia, were filed
last Friday. The capital stock il
$4,000.
H. G.. Lewis will remove his saw
mil to Camas valley, Dn"gias
county, at onct, where he will ell
cage in cutting timber for the man
ufacture of matches.-Jacksonville
Tins.
l. G.. Beardsley has sued the Cor
wallis Gazette for 5000 for libel
The Gazette several months agu
stated that Beardsley had left towL
without paying his bills, etc.
John Bays, the Cow creek rail
road contractor, reports that the new
road will be flushed about Christ.
nas, or sooner If the weather con
tinues favorable. The road bed only
amounts to about three ard halt
miles and will cost $3.50, ,0OO.-Valiey
Record.
1t must have been trying to the
Sierra, Cal, fair managers, to wake
up Thursday morning and fiud
four and a halt inches of SNOW Oh
the race track, when they had spen'
the day before hauling water tC
sprinkle the said track.-Eugens
Guard
The Corvallis Law Library Asso
citation has been Incorporated with
john Burnett, S. T. Jeffreys and E
Holgate as iucorporators. The Oh
ject of the association is to place q
law library in the court house. Th,
capital stock has been placed a
81, l,OO.-Benton Leader.
The board of trade of COrvalli,
passed Il resolution at its last meet
ing condeiniimg the Corvallis Times
for an editorial OH the .. p. r. r
The Benton Leader states that the
editoruf the Times voted for the
resolution and that 1t was passed
unanimously.
A Hainesville correspondent says
We are very correctly informed thai
Mr.. Geo. Hill, who used to WORK a
the Grohs and Gwinn ranch, wa,
shot aud killed in Big Valley, Cal.
while in the act of skinning beef
which he had just killed in the
woOds.-Klamath Star.
Thomas Smith has an apple tree
in his orchard that has been bloom
ing through the entire spring, sum
mer and fall. 1t now has ripe
apples, green apples, apples in
stages of growth, aud buds and
blossonis.-CoOs Bay News.
Geo. A. Blood has received the
contract to cut 1900 cords of wood,
or as much more as he desires to cut,
from Sisson d Crocker on Siskiyou
mountain, and was in town Tues
day hunting wood choppers. Sam
Brundage has contract with the
same company to cut 50 acres OF
their wood land.-Valley Record.
Mr.. Cox passed through Medford
on Monday with his steam engine,
on his way home from the Beekman
& Reames farm, where he has been
turning over the soil for cultivation
1T the rate Of sixteen acres per day
He pulls eight plows with the en-
glue, which IL certainly showing
that steam plowing is success, a.
the cost of running IL not over s.
per MedfJrd Mail.
Mr.. Lotion, OF Drews valley, says
the mining excitement of Sch"'
creek il intense. The discovery Of
free gold there has brought capita
to the front already. Claims arr
selling at from $50 to 500 and DIR.
Frank, of Lakoview, lately offered
500 for fourth interest in the mine,
after testing the quartz. klamath
Star.
The party of surveyors and view
ers headed by &. Magruder aud
Peter Aapplegate, who have been
into the practical'ility oi
building a wagon road 10 Klamath
county, following up Butte creek
from Eagle Point aud crossing ih'