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

aud its planning mills are kept yer
busy on all kinds of work.
Gold las teen discovered in roc
Brought up from digging a we
almost within the city limits {
Corvallis.
John a. Taylor, mayor Of Centra
liza, has resigned on account Of Il
health, and will spend the wintsr a
Ogden, Utah.
A ditch is to be dug through tn
Wauncb swamp IN Chehalis an'
Thurslon counties, Wash, whicl
will reclaim about 500 acres Of flo
land
Dallas Observer: Every train nov
buuDded for Portland goes loade'
win grain. More wheat has beel
sold early IN the market this seasol
tlian ever before.
rbe Aibatross, which has beer
making soundings on the Pacific
c, ast for some time past, reports
hn,ipg found several places that
v eie over four miles deep.
A brute named irving shamefully
misinaied two Cinnamon at Irving,
Lane county, Friday, tlieir wounds
having to be sewed up. The offend
er WAS arrested.
Charles Clauson, while working
with "A lbreshiDg crew near Dayton
OH Wednesday, had his. left hand
torn 10 pieces 10y beiug caught in
lLe eide gear be was oiliDg.
NJ. o p. Bcardsley, the hop man
Of Epla, says he will have about nine
acres of hops that are not worth tn,
picking on account Of lice aud mold.
q; her fields are badly damage !.
JUhu Kiements, formerly an en-
plOye In wine house, committed
suicide at Anacortes, September !.
with Il Lit of rope. He lost aboui
5000 Mt craps and had been drinking
extensively.
Scio Press: w. q Montgomery
has harvested the boss field Of wheat
that we have as yet heard Of. From
sixteen acres yield OF 72S bushels
was obtained, or 4S bushels per acr' Z.
President Blalock has issued a call
for meeting of the lumber pro-
iucers Of Washington to be held at
Tacoma, October 6, at which time
plans for the most complete lumber
exhibits will he formulated.
Near Walla WaIla a farm of 95
acres this year averaged go bushels
per acre of A No. wheat The
grain was sown last fall on prepared
ground, and the owner Is jubilant
over the result Of his years work.
Pennington citizens are delighted
over the bright prospects they now
enjoy Of soon having another flow
ing well. Work on the arteslan
well at that place ls progressing
avorably aud every indication OF
success is given.
The fertility of the wheat land
about Adams, Umatilla county,
needs no demonstration, but the
phenomena yield this season on the
ranch of Neil Mcdonald, In that
precinct, which reached sol bushels
to the acre, is indeed worthy Of
mention.
They came near having destruc
tive fine ut Peuydule on Monday.
A spark from the smokestack of the
warehouse engine set fire to the
rcof aud was discovered just In time
TO save things, as IL had already
burned hole about four feet square
In the roof,
The Dalles Chronicle; The conn
mttee appointed to look up those
needing aid nnd many families who
are without shelter or food. AS soon
NJ the needs are asceriained list of
supplies necessary will be published
and depot established for recelv-
ing articles contributed.
A hopgrower from Pleasant Hill
reports that there are active little
bugs OF the beetle specie, little
longer than the lady bug, that are
In his hopyard. These
bugs apparently destroy hop lice,
working among the leaves Of the
hop blossom, no lice heing found
the cater,
There Is talk OF a salmon hatchery
boing established ON the Umpqua
river, lie California board of fish
commissioners have ordered 3,000,-
900 trout TO be raised at Sissson this
year, II all goes we'll. Lake Tahoe
has been selected as the hatchery
for land locked salmon.
For the first tlLle ia years the
Sound waters swarm with such an
abundance OF salmon that they have
become a drug ON the market.
there have learned the
lesson taught Deleware peach
growers this season, that II Is possi-
bile TO have to much Of a good thing.
The tlrsl instance OF drawing the
color line in Tacoma occurred last
sunday, when a proprietor Of a
restaurant there refused 10 allow u
colored man 20 be served with din-
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