The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-10
BRIEF STATE NEWS.

John Day City has organized board
of trade.
Union is not going to have woolen
mill after all.
A new paper, the Leader, has been es-
tablished at North Yamhill, with Ira A.
Phelps as editor.
1t is reported that the o. & w. 7. z.
r. will soon commence work on depot
building at Pendleton.
State Senator Raley of Pendleton is
said to be willing to take his chances for
congressional honors at the next election.
The Grand Ronde Valley Agricultural
society has been incorporated with a
capital of $4,000. The society proposes
to hold fair on October'5.
Thomas Waterbury, an Oregon pioneeN
of the year 1S47, died at his son'ssfesif
dence, near Long Creek, Grant county
August 81, aged 79 years. 4F
The natural gas wells of Ohio, Penn
sylvania and Indiana are giving out and
it is becoming difficult to find new
"pockets" containing gas.
Andrew Person was killed at Haynes
slough, Coos bay, last week, while cut
ting down a tree, which split and
clicked" back injuring him SO that he
died in few hours.
There is talk of salmon hatchery be-
ing established on the Umpqua river.
The California board of fish commission
ers have ordered 5000 900 trout to be
raised at Sissom this year, all goes
well.
While hauling oats from the field,
Saturday morning last, John, the IT,
year-old son of Benjamin Windsor, of
Lincoln, Polk county, fell and was
crushed under the wheels. He got up
and drove home but soon sank away
from internal hemorrhage.
The common council of Milton, Una
tilla county has passed an ordinance for
holding another election, to submit the
question of bonding the city for $4,000
for an electric light plant and an i'm
proved water system. The Eagle be-
lieves that the proposition will pass al
most unanimously.
The road from Tillamook river to the
to the light house will be built by the
government next, summer. This is
about $4,000 of money remaining of the
appropriation to build the lighthouse,
and it is thought that it will be an easy
matter to divert it to the road fund, un-
der the circumstances.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
Corvallis wagon and carriage factory
building. 1t is expected to be completed
by the 1st of December. 1t will give
employment to about 300 men. It is
possible that the wagon factory will
prove of more benefitsto Corvallis than
the recent gold and silver discovery.
John Austin and John Guthridge, the
Grant county men who are in Jail at
Pendleton ON the charge of stealing cattle
from the cattle monarchs, Lux & Miller,
have been arrested on another COM
plant. One of the steers n the band
which they brought to Pendleton, it is
alleged, was stolen from Robinson &
Son, Malheur stockmen.
Thomas Waterbury, of Long Creek,
died last week, aged 20 years. Mr..
Waterbury has been ailing for time.
Mr.. Waterbury was a native of New
York, coming to Oregon in 1S47, settling
in the Willamette valley, in which
place and Western Washington, he spent
most of fortyfour years. He was an
exemplary citizen, and has an almost
unboundedf circle of friends.
Last Wednesday night the little a.
year-eld girl of G. G. Zahn, or Lebanon,
was sick and her mother gave her some
homemade cough medicine. The little
girl afterward got the bottle and drank
all in it.. Mrs. Zahn, discovering this
fact on her return, promptly summoned
physicians, and the little girls was
saved. The physicians say that there
was poison sufficient taken to kill three
men.