Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-18
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.


Union is confident of securing the
woolen mill. IL is expected work
will begin on IL IN week or two.
Work on the Hillsboro water
works is now fairly under way, aud
will be pushed as fast as possible
until completed.
Potatoes are plentiful this year in
Southern Oregon, aud some bave
been sold at Grants Pass at As cents
a hundred.
The young son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Benson was drowned in a
spring at their home near Kirbyville,
Josephine county, Sunday.
The city Of Weston is agitating
the subject of improving and ex-
tending her water system, which
cost $4,000, and also purchasing an
electric light plant.
There is considerable opposition to
the proposed building of a new
courthouse at ROseburg. High
taxes and bard times are assigned as
the principal causes.
Harvest hands are very scarce in
Eastern Umatilla, and especially in
the vicinity of Milton. Wages this
season are 81 so per day and 81 so Tor
man and team.
Walla Walla couuty's forty-two
leading fruit-growers cultivate 110l
acres Of land for fruit growing pur-
poses, the total plumber of trees H.
the forty-two orchards beiug ll7,935
Joseph Klineman, of Hillsboro,
will close up his second kiln OF
200, 900 brick this week. He expects
to burn another kiln this fall. The
Adams boys have burned an equal
amount.
Mrs. Kasson Smith, we'll known
in Eastern Oregon, hes commenced
proceedings for divorce against heI
husband In the superior court OF
Walla Walla county. She asks for
800 per month alimony.
Work on the Washington county
cour:: house is being pushed as fast al
possible. The brick work is already
nearing the top of the second story
The building will be very hand
some one when completed.
The hot winds of the last two
weeks in Gillian county have dam
aged to come extent the crops in
that section. Fall wheat, is, of
course, uninjured, but spring wheat
that was at all late has suffered
severely.
The little l0-year-old son of Mr.,
Rudio, of Long Creek, wcs badly
injured In consequence of tying
himself to a calf and being dragged
He was severely cut about the head
and face and his nose broien.
j. II. Nichols, one of Benton
county's prominent citizens died al
Corvallis last Wednesday, He had
been apparently well he day pre-
vious, but Wednc day morning ht
was stricken with apoplexy and
died in q short time.
Messrs' Eddy and Bushee report
the work Of allotment on the Una.
tilla reser Iation as progressing favor
ably. They find little difficulty IN
satisfying the Indians, but are
occasionally delay by reason OF
destroyed or displaced monuments.
Johu Zimmerman, of Helix, ,sti-
mates that the wheat crop in his
vicinity will average from thirty
iive TO forty bushels to the acre.
Thirty bushels per acre with wheat
at 65 cents means something more
than $4,000 for each quarter sector.
There is II strong Likelihood of
large summer hotel gracing the
wooded slope of the Columbia at
Calhlament before another year
rolls around.
Pendleton Tribune: Abraham
Jacobson, who has been in this
section siuce 1865 considers the con-
dition Of grass upon the mountain
ranges the best the present year that
he has ever seen it. This argues
favorably for the sheep and stock
men.
The fruit crop In Southern Oregon
viii be very large and tiue. Henry
Adams, of Myrtle creek, expects to
have 5000 pounds of dried prunes
and John Weaver still more. The
grain crop in the vicinity of Myrtle
creek IL very large, aud there is no
rust to speak of.
A visitor from the Cascade locks
Informs The Dalles Sun that the
water Is nearly all pumped out OF
the canal and that IA force of laborer
have been put TO work on the sand
pit, preparatory to commencing the
concrete In the bottom of the canal,
A young man at Halsey went Il
sleep with a lighted cigarette iu his
mouth, aud WAS awakened durlup
the night from the intense beat ofn
burning bed, He was forced /,
carry the mattre = down s,airs to
extlngulsh the flames. lie doesn't
smoke aow when he goes to I'd.