The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-08

Flour is retailing in Long Greek at $S
a barrel. However, there will be roll
Ter mill in operation soon and the price
will then come down.
Deputy Sheriff Cochran, of Eugene,
who has just returned from Gardiner,
says Albertson is improving daily and is
now able to sit up. 1t will be about one
week yet, however, before he is moved
to Tacoma.
| The parties who were boring for oil at
Hubbard, in Marion county. and lost
their auger at a depth of $50 feet, have
begun operations again. They are
Pennsylvania oil men, and are confident
that there is oil in Oregon.
In the divorce case of NJ. W. McMurry
and wife, at Eugene, an agreement has
been reached, the defendant, McMurry,
paying to the plaintiff the sum of $1,000,
and the further sum of $500 to E. r.
Skipworth as guardian of the children of
the defendant and plaintiff, the latter
fund to be used for their benefit.
meeting of a number of the large
taxpayers of Eugene was held Wednes-
day evening, snd it was agreed to fight
the present levy OF taxes under which
no Indebtedness was deducted. They
will employ counsel and ask the city to
sue one person for his taxes, for the pur-
pose of making a test case.
The assessment rolls of Grant county
for 1890 show the net value of taxable
property to be 81 ,209,57 while that of
1891 is $1,199,S40. The tax roll shows
an increase in the number of polls and
taxpayers while due to an increased in
creased Indebtedness, the net value of
taxable property has been decreased
$9730.
The woods are full of people up at the
head of tide, says the Florence West.
They are people from the Willamette
valley mostly, and are there camping
out for a few days, and are loading their
wagons with fish, which they intend
sailing. The steamer Coos has taken up
for these people as many as 500 fine sal
mon this week.
Esther Roeder, a woman of the street
in Astoria, went to bed drunk with
lighted cigarette in her mouth. An hour
afterward smoke was seen issuing from
the room, and an entrance being effected
the unfortunate woman was found to be
dresdfully burned on her neck, face,
breast and shoulders. She was removed
to the hospital.
1t is estimated that SAC, 600 will be re-
qu1red for county purposes. A tax levy
of sixteen mills has been made-one-
tenth of mill for the state university
five mills, school: two mills, road eight
and nine-tenths mills, county. The tax
roll for the county foots up $4 300 900
about s., 900, 900 less than the city-that
is, the entire county of Clatsop is worth
So, ,0O0, 900 less than one corner of it. In
mathematics, says the Astorian, 'the
whole is equal to the sum of its parts, -
but the assessors are different.
The pioneers of Coos county have de-
cided to hold grand rally at Coquille
City on the 5th day of next November
at one O'Clock p. M, for the purpose of
organizing a society. All those who
settled in Coos county prior to 1888 are
invited to attend the meeting. Judge
Lowe, G. NJ. Deer, John Handbook, ].
Henry Schroeder, Captain w. H. Har-
ris, Richacd Cussans, Charles Merchant,
Alex Stauff, /. Hacker, David Holland,
and w. P.Hermann are committee to
advance the organization.
Sunday last the force employed at the
Baker City Lime and Marble Works put
in block of giant powder to reduce
bluff of rocks and earth. The explosion
had the effect of loosening the bluff but
it did not fall and Monday two men
named Bud Crews and Jesse Beam went
on top of it and commenced work, using
crowbars. Suddenly the rock gave way
under Crews and the unfortun; man
was precipitated headlong over -he pre-
cipice distance of forty feet Beam
went to his relief and found hls right
leg broken between the knee and hip
and his shoulder badly mashed.