The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-18
BRIEF STATE NEWS.

Sheriff Pittman, of Lum berson, n. c.,
arrived in ALBANY Thursday afternoon
and took charge of John McDougall,
who is wanted for the murder of his
uncle.
Rust is reported in some fields, late
sown grain in low places suffering the
most therefrom. The damage done is
less in jackson county than in most of
the counties of Oregon.
The citizens of Newberg are about to
raise Il purse for the purpose of pros
ecuting G. NJ. Mccullough, charged with
having murdered an unknown man and
afterwards burning the remains in
barn.
There passed through John Day city
Monday last seven teams loaded with
immigrants, men, women and children,
who hailed from Nebraska and Kansas,
and were bound for Portland, and points
in Washington.
H. B. Hubbell, of Camp creek, in the
south end of the county, sent to Condor
Thursday specimen of very sparkling
opal, which he has discovered on his
place, and which mines are certain to
create some excitement.
All along the railroad from Eugene to
Drain the fields are filled with shocks of
wheat and oats, excepting where the
grain has been hauled in and stacked or
threshed. A more abundant crop has
never been harvested in Oregon.
An inspection of the cascade locks
shows that the water is nearly pumped
out of the canal and that force of
laborers have been put to work on the
sand pit, preparatory to commencing the
laying of the concrete in the bottom of
the canal.
An irrigating ditch to run between
Yreka and Little Shasta is to be con-
structed at a cost of about 100000. The
fiume will be twenty feet wide by four
deep, and it will not only irrigate thous-
ands of pretty dry acres, but also float
lumber from the Upper Klamath mills
to the railroad.
A laborer on the farm of Willard Her.
rem, at Gervais, came near being suf-
located Tuesday. In going down an old
we'll the damps were so strong as to put
out the light which he was carrying and
to render him insensible. He was
brought to the top with much difficulty,
and lay unconscious for some time.
Ned Parker, known all over the coast
l'as Big Jack, the prince of fakirs, was
arrested at Grants Pass Friday, for con-
Quoting lottery scheme on the streets.
He sells few pens for dollar and the
buyer has the privilege of trying his
luck, by drawing an envelope out of a
box said to contain bank notes and
blanks.
Indications are that a good body of
ore will be found in the Buffalo mine
near Pendleton when the tunnel is run
sufficient distance to strike the ledge
and the prospects are considered en-
couraging. The company will hold a
meeting soon to decide on further opera
tions. 1t is probable that when the
Monumental mill is started, ore will be
taken from the upper level for reduction.
GENERAL PERSONAL MENTION
Sara Bernhardt has promised to con-
tribute a painting to the women s gallery
of pictures at the Chicago exposition.
Attorney General Miller Is the only
cabinet official on duty in Washington,
now that Secretary Foster has gone out
to Ohio.
Frau Wagner will porbably be invited
by certain people in Milwaukee to hold a
musical festival in that city in 1898, as
an annex to the worlds fair.
Baron Krupp is hesitating about ex-
hibiting some of his great cannon at the
worlds fair, but there will be plenty of
big guns on hand there, notwithstand-
ing.
Mr.. Ruskin thinks the English people
ought to love the apple tree mot for its
fruit but for its fower''-a sentiment
with which the parents of the American
small boy will fully sympathize.
Ex-senator Ingalls, tells Chicago re-
porter that he is really and truly out of
politics and is not even watching the
course of events. He is quite absorbed
in agriculture interspered with lecturing.
DIR. Frederick M. Fling, of Biddeford,
Me-, has been elected professor of Euro
pean history in the university Of
Nebraska, in place of Professor Howard
! who has gone to the Leland Stanford, jr.,
university.
The queen of the Sandwich islands, in
her passion for music, has organized g
band of trumpeters. There are a few
street bands and piano organs in this
section of the world that she is welcome
to if she wants them.
i A Church OF England clergyman was
recently asked why he engaged in out
side work. ssTo increase my starving, ;
was the odd reply, which he explained
hv saving that he called an income q