Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-01

Nfttt mihluN tNclttuitut HIeNMio
near salt Lake City.
The Pennsylvania salt works have
been destroyed by ire.
salvation Army soldiers In Lon
don were assaulted Sunday.
Another lot OF miners have sailed
from San Francisco for Alaska.
A young man in Michigan has
been unconscious for three months.
Eight Of the Bob slmms' gang
have been captured, but the prophet
is still at large.
Ex Congressman William H..
Scott, Of Ohio, Is failing rapidly aud
viii die soon.
Senator Washburn thinks Blaine
will surely be nominated and Harri.
son will not be candidate.
A German colony Is TO be estab-
lshcd IN Washington county, Ala,
nn grand scale, 10 include about
lOO1 families.
Baker city Blade; Jack Lew, Of
this valley. today loaded stwo four
horse wagons with fruit, vegetables,
etc, for Granite. He showed us
some peaches and plums raised on
his fruit farm, that for flavor and
slze cannot be excelled anywhere,
aud are proof Of the fact that Pow
der River valley can furnish fruit Of
nearly every variety.
The condition of cattle in the
Okanogau county was never better
than now, and the owners are feel.
lug prosperous. G. b. Bash, an ex-
tensive cattle owner on the Okano-
gan river, was In Ruby recently and
reported q slight shortage Ia hay this
season. but said that no Rpprehen-
sion was felt by any of the cattle
men on account of the extremely
line condition that the cattle are In.
IL IL said that the East Oregon
Railway company will commence II
preliminary survey In the near
future. The company was organ
lged some months ago at Pendleton,
for the purpose Of building II railroad
to the Butter creek opal mines aud
the GeeDhorn mining district, the
main line to lead from Heppner to
the coal miRes, thence to Alba, and
thence to Greenhorn, branch 10 be
built from Pendleton to the coal
mines.
Although the pickers are already
at work in several yards In Marion
county, hop picking will not gener-
ally commence until next Monday,
AZ that time nearly every field In
the country will have its band Of
plckers at work. Growers are now
contracting for plokers and every
arrangement is making for the har-
vest next week. Better reports
come from Gervais than In most any |
other direction. The growers down
there tind but very few lice on their !
vines, The berries are of very good
size aud rlpening nicely.
Af,er hearing the petition OF the
Oregon Pacific employees for their
pay, Judge Pipes wisely ruled that
sufficient receivers certificates be
issued aud sold TO pay the men, The
Oregon Pacific management supple
mented the petition 10y asking that
enough certificates be sold TO pay all
Indebtedness brought
about by the operating Of the road
sinco II has been In the hands of r
receiver This also was ordered. In
fact, there seems TO be general har.
mony existing between clients aud
court, for they all recognize the em-
phatic need Of a little cash.
A disastrous fire occurred at Win
nemucca, Nevada ON SUNDAY. IL
Ia some unknown way la
the oUtbuildings OF John Schmidt's
boot and shoe store, and spread with
great rapidlty, The water works
failed utterly, aud in three hours
every building the line of the
dire, except the lire proof First
National hank building, had been
utterly destroyed, The loss amounts
10 Sla00lo. with ab,Ut S6O, 600 insur.
Ance,
Those who take ltnit TO the can
aery or 10 the dryers will tind Il 20
heir inteNst 90 handle q with care.
We saw some greengage plums in
0wn this week that had been
,rouG uGhi la in bushel boXes aud with.
,ut cover from the clouds Of dust,
md the boxes being set In the bot
ON ~ The Wagon without protec-
hon, of coUrso the frUlt was Ia no
shape Cor handling with any proft.
Bring your fruit To market in mar.
Se,aole shape II you want to get
anything for it-NewNerg Graphic.
J. NJ. Stout aud W, A. Cox visited
he formers potato patch the other
lay, Several hills were tested aud
he yield WAS nom six 10 eight
bounds 10 the hill. Mt Cox esti.
mated that the yield would be eao
aushels 10 the acre, Judge S,eat
.sserted that Il would b. l00 aud
o sctlle the question they went "a
iguriug, They allowed tive pounds
u spuds 10 the hill, 40 hills tc the
NV and seventy roWs 10 the acre.
The rssuit Uas ~ Qghl mounds ar lam ,