The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-16
BRIEF STATE NEWS.


Portland and Astoria marketmen are
now on Shoalwater bay contracting for
their oyster supply for the winter.
As j. Wilsey, of Camas valley, was on
his way home from Roseburg his team
ran off steep grade. The horses were
crippled, the wagon demolished, and Mr..
Wilsey badly hurt.
Peter Hume, a farmer southwest OF
Brownsville, was thrown from the high
seat of a grain wagon, receiving a severe
injury to his spine. He was insensible
for long time after the accident.
Work has been begun on the bridge
across the Willamette at Albany. The
cantilever idea has been abandoned, and
the old plan of circular piers will be car
ried out. 1t is expected the bridge will
be completed by December 1.
Bert Jennings, son of Hon. A. c..
Jennings, aged Is years, met with se-
we're accident at the farm of his parents,
near Irving. He was riding horse,
when it stumbled and fell on him, break
ing both of his arms, the left arm be-
tween the wrist and elbow and the other
one at the wrist.
Isaac London and Charles Hull, South
ern Pacific section hands at Twin
Buttes, received some painful but not
fatal injuries from plank thrown from
passing train. Both men were struck
in the face by the flying missile, London
receiving severe cut on the cheek and
Hull deep cash upon the nose.
Fish lake, up in the Cascade noun
tains, has been visited this year by more
campers than ever before. Messrs. Far
low and Wright, OF Upper Butte creek,
have made good dugout canoe and are
spearlng the lake trout at night. There
are some fine fish in the lake, but they
are very shy and hard to get.
Residents in the t1mpered districts of
Clatsop and Tillamook counties say that
large gray wolves are becoming more
numerous, and that they are rapidly des-
troying the elk, as they kill the young
calves in the spring, and even the old
ones when they catch them alone. A
bounty on wolf scalps would, in their
opinion, do more to protect the elk than
the rigid enforcement on game laws.
fire while lying at the Marshfeld mill
wharf early Monday morning. She was
beeched on the mud flat opposite, where
she burned to the waters edge. The
hulk lies near the wreck of the old Mes
senger, which met a similar fate many
years ago, where small portion of her
hull and her machinery are now visable
at low water. 1t is not known how the
fire originated.
A soda water deposit has been discov-
cred in the Nehalem valley, near Ver-
nonia. A soap mine has been found
near Caldwell, on Lewis and Clarke's;
crystal springs of the purest water are
bubbling up on the hillside in Astoria;
gold is being dug out on Genevieve street,
and coal on West Eighth street in the
same city. This is the record of the
week with forty eight hours more to go
on, says the AstoriGn.
The government snag boat is still at
work below Weston. The wingdam
there, which has just been completed, is
400 feet in length. Captain Rappe, who
has the work in charge, is doing the work
faithfully and we'll, says the Dayton Her
aid. The Three Sisters went up. to Lam
bert's landing, above Weston, on Mon
day and took down load of wheat with
out any trouble. Work is now progress
sing on the dam just below Weston,
which is to be It's feet in length. The
wingdam at Candana, just below where
the boat is now at work, will be extend
ed, and will he 100 feet in length. The
snagboat went up the river as far as
Harrisburg, On the trip up and down
the river from Portland the boat pulled
4l9 snags. Captain Rappe has orders to
take his boat to Portland on the Goth of
September.
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