Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-09-08
NORTH PACIFIC NEWS NOTES.

The Dalles has guitar and man
loIiu club.
Richard Conway was drowned
I III Mad river SEP. /.
The hop yield in Puyallup vale,
is unusually good.
! The surveyors OF the Hunt r. Il
are near The Dalles.
! The jefferson warehouse has 2D. .0Ot
/ bushels of wheat stored.
Forest Grove stands in need oi
( better fire protection.
a vein of coal six feet thick has
been found near Chehalis.
The fruit shipments OF California
amount 10 10000 car loads this sea
son.
The steamship Queen of the Pa.
cific has made her last trip of the
season u Alaska.
The Pnrtlands defeated the Astor.
las last Friday at Astoria. Score Is
to ].
The American Farmers Alliance
of California has been incorporated.
No capital stock.
d. Z. Beaver an old soldier of Eos.
sll received $500 back pension a few
days ago.
The Union Pacific r. r. Go. has
established free reading room for
its employees at Pendleton.
Bertha Altrup has sued for divorce
in San Francisco because her hus-
band bit off the end of her nose.
A. &. Ogilvie a sheep herder on
Pine creek received $500 from his
uncle in Scotland few days ago.
There is a reward of $25 for the
arrest of John Harvey for stealing
cattle near Sprague.
A big cougar was killed on Da-
mons point near Gray's Harbor, the
other day, measuring nine feet
from tip to tip.
Morrow county has 233 900 acres,
open to settlement. There are g.
403, ,040 acres in The Dalles district
open for settlement.
Astoria paper, Aug. "a: The larg-
est sturgeon caught yesterday
weighed $50 pounds. None of the
catch weighed less than $50 pounds.
Townships Nos. 30, 81 and 80
North range "a and % east, North
Yakima land district bill be opened
'or settlement Sept, %, 1880.
Oregon has splended crop OF
grain this year and prospects are
.ood for fair price. Hay is high /
md fruit is commanding a good |
jrice.
The Cathlamet Gazette suggests
hat some enterprising man start u
,lue factory and use the refuse from
he sturgeon house for raw material.
The La Fayette city council have
lhaly succeeded in running out one
'illiard hall by importing a license
hat they could not afford to pay.
Senator Raley has called q meet.
ng Of the senate assessment and
axation committee, to take place at
he state house, ia Salem, on Octo-
er 18th.
The steamer from San Francisco
rived at Yaquina on Sunday last
nd a number Of passengers and a
'rge amount Of freight was brought
p. A special train from the bay
ent up TO Albany with passengers
a Sunday evening.
More houses are being built in
ortland this season than ever be-
Dre. Take any Of the car lines and
in any direction and you zee a
nprovements going on everywhere.
orlland is destined 10 be q great |
Graphic.
The Corvallis Gazette says Alon- q
Gesner one Of the projectors of :,
e Salem and Silverton m0ter line
~ ex-senator Voorhees, Of Marion
unity, were in Corvallis last Mon
" and Tuesday. They have been l
oking at the country about Alsea y
y and followed the river 10 Alsea :,
Illey and from there came TO Cor =
Ills. OF
An s0O pound wheel to propel the
achinery, will be there the first of
.tOber and the erection of the mill =
III commence, and ere another =
'eive months passes the hum Of =
achinery will be heard, is Whist Is q,
edicted of Winchester, ON the ~
nth Umpqua. N
Work commenced on Monday last
the new bridge which Ii ~ be nj
lit scross the Ysmhill river at