Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-06-16

iNoiutHCto duu buoiltSs lOuSeS pre-
pairing for free mail delivery.
The Oregon City wooden mills
Resumed work last Monday, the first
time since the february floods.
Condor is the county seat Of Gil
liam county, having received a ma
jority of 205 votes over Arlington.
The people of Burns are happy
In the recent election their town
received majority ofall the votes
ast for county seat.
Jackson cJunty has the only lady
ensus enumeritor in OREGON in the
person Of Mrs. Afiie Cawley, ap.
pointed for Wood,i le, Rock Point
nd Gold Hill precincts.
The wages of weavers at the Ore
,on City woo'en mills have been cut
lown 10 to 13 per cent, making
hem, says the Courier, as low as
he lowest in the country.
The buried remains Of a man have
be, N found in the northeastern part
f Crook county and they are sup
,osed to be those of George Nutting,
,ho disappeared so mysteriously
bout year ago in that vicinity.
a 14-ycar-old son of MIR. Galvain,
rear Roseburg had both hands bad
shattered a few days ago by hold |
ng them over the muZzle of a gun |
md leaning on it, the gun getting dis
'harged in some way while he was
n that posture.
The closest shave any candidate |
lad for office in the late election
vas that of =. A. COnde democratic |
andidate for sheriff Of Baker
'ounty. He was victorious over his
epublican competitor, j. d. Smith,
~ just one vote.
Capt. A. w. Waters last week re-
ired from the editorial chair of the
Harvey Valley Items, for which he
rs furnished solid reading matter
the past seven months. He carried
he county seat for Burns and now
he is satisfied
Government Engineer Freeman
has gone to the mouth of the Sius-
aw river TO survey ii site for light
louse at Heceta Head, also for a
Dad from the north side Of the riv-
ar to the lighthouse, says the Eu-
enc Register.
The salmon run is light says the
astoria Columbian, the boats aver
ging but about twenty fish yester-
lay. Several canneries are running
without limit, but this did not in
rease yesterdays average. Many
hink the run will not increase much
until next month.
An eighteen months old child of |
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Wagner, Of Soda
iprings, Jackson county, found
Doltle Of landanum lying around
loose one day recently, pulled the |
'ork with her teeth and drank a big
lose of it. Medical directions were
'btained by telegraph from Ashland
md strenuous efforts saved the little ,
mes life.
In Coos county the democrats '
elected representative, clerk, sheriff :
md two county commissioners, the
, lance being republican. Gen. 1
5glin, for joint senator, received '
majority of l25 In Coos county, but 4
\. II. Crook, of Curry, his republic t
AN competitor, received more than I
nough in his home county to over d
ulance this and defeat the doughty e
general (,
G.. w. Glencross, the little midget
previously mentioned IN these col -
mus, died yesterday. He was 7
Weighed last Wednesday and found !.
D weigh Just two pounds; he was .
lao measured, and was l3 inches in 81
eight, being the smallest specimen I
{ humanity ever seen in these &
ARTS The child lived eighteen Z
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This is the way it looks in the ,
Iogue river valley according to the II
lshland Tidings: Crops will he short
A this valley again unless "A timely
ain be at hand. The fall sown grain
) all right, but the unusually long f
winter kept the spring work back II
0 late that the grain had no chance e
D get good start before the dry q
eason set in, "
The Grant County News takes =
his gloomy view of the situation, -
which Is hardly warranted: The ="
)rcgon Pacific may he completed in -
o Eastern Oregon some time In the =
uture, but residents along the line !.
f the proposed road who are any .
Ways advanced in years have about -
.iyeu up all hope of Lying to Wit.
less its completion.
A petition is in circulation In ,
Baker county aud freely signed 10y h
M the old settlers, asking executive II
'lemcncy in the ease of Isaac Hiatt, r
convicted of murder in the second !.
degree In Washington county five =
years ago, and sentenced 20 impris.
onnent for life, lie lived la Baker |
county several years AS school teacher
aud farmer aud the Demoerat saws