The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-02
BKIEF STATE NEWS.

Mr.. Moorehead, of Eugene, will begin
the publication of the Weekly Times at
junction next week.
The town of Susanville, Grant comfy,
was named after Susan Moffatt, daugh-
ter of the keeper of the hotel at that
place in early days.
Two horses afflicted with the glanders
have been discovered at Salem, and the
Domestic Animal commission of the
state has ordered the county stock in
spector to kill them.
1t is said the river bottom some two
or three miles below Pendleton is alive
with rattlesnakes, of which there are
more than have been seen for years.
Mrs. Hill lost the best horse on her
place recently from a rattlesnake bite.
John Blanchet, a rancher in the Nye
neighborhood, Umatilla county, SAYS
that crops OF all kinds have been better
than for six years i'll that section.
Wheat is making Twenty-Five and barley
thirty-hve bushels to the acre, and hay
about one and half tons to the acre.
The la1ge band of sheep brought up in
Douglas county last spring by the Han
ley Bros, of jackson county, have been
driven as far south as Marysville, Cal,
where they are being disposed of at good
prices. They started 10, 500 head, were
four months on the road, and reached
their destination with 940O sheep.
Athena is somewhat excited over a
personal encounter between two women
of that place. One, Mrs. H. Mortimer,
visited the house of the other, Mrs.
Fisher, and the two engaged in lively
combat. They were separated by
fruit peddler who passed that way
Mrs. Mortimer has been arrested on
Mrs. Fishers complaint.
An occasional case of land-jumping is
now heard of, incident to the forfeiture
of railroad land. Mr.. Mccormick, a
dleton, woke up the other morning to
find jumpers cabin on one of his rail-
road quarters 1t had evidently been
all put together and hauled ont there
during the night.
A new variety or wheat known as the
new golden is attracting considerable at
tention among wheat growers. 1t is
product coming originally from the'de-
partment of agriculture, and produced
in Oregon for the first time in any guam
tity the present season. The yield sur
passes that of little club under like con-
ditions, while it is apparently less af-
fected by dry weather than any other
variety heretofore sown this season.
Last week Howard & Baldwin, of
Crook county, delivered large band of
beef cattle at Deschutes bridge, for ship
ment to the Portland market The ay-
erage weight of their three, four, and
five-year-old steers was 1342 pounds,
which is the best average any band of
cattle from this part of the country has
shown this season. One steer weighed
1870 pounds and another 1920 pounds.
When such cattle as these can be raised
it is folly to say the range is exhausted.
The government locks at the Cascades
are going up at the rate of a foot and
half per day. The lower gate will be
completed by the middle of next month
Heretofore the work has been slow, as it
was all under water, but now they can
hurry it. The south gate is completed
and the north one is up probably third
of the way-twenty feet. The building
OF these great locks is magnificent
piece of work, which, when completed,
will stand as monument to the engin-
eering skill ofthis age. The gates, when
hung, will be the largest lock gates in
the world, being 93x40 feet and weighing
130 tons. They are of steel and are to
swing upon giant hinges.
GENERAL PERSONAL MENr1oN