The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1892-08-12
COAST NEWS.
The Telegraphers' Strike at an End.
Forty Stockmen Indicted For
Murder, Etc.

OemOcfduc primaries at w ala
Walla resulted in the election of
delegation favoring Dr.. Blaloek for
governor.
A large Touring and sawmill at |
Davenport, Wash.. belonging to |
John A. johnson, burned Saturday. !
The loss 1890, 600.
The forty-two Wyoming stock
men, on trial at Cheyenne, have
been indicted on 9. charge Of mpr-
der in the first degree.
The Union racifc has allowed
the railroad telegraphers all the
concessions they demanded, and
the strike has been declared of.
Miners in the Ceur d Alenes re-
fuse to work if deprived Of their
protection, and troops will remain
on guard an indefinite length of
time.
The artesian we'll boring at Te-z
koa is success. The water ponrs.
forth in a volume of 4o,0t0 gallons.
per day. AS it will require 10000.
gallons per day to supply the town
and keep the reservoir full, the hole
will be sunk deeper in hopes Of Sc
curing stronger flow.
Weston & Bean have made p1r-
chases of Umatilia county sheep to
the amount of 5000 head, which
viii be removed to their winter
range in the Yakima country next
November. Lately they bought
100 head from ]. W. and Harold
Salisbury, and band of 1900 from
Suiste Bros.
J. H. Shearer, resident of the
Deschutes, and the owner of a large
,hock of sheep, has concluded to do
away with middlemen in handling
his wool, and is having it shipped
to Portland and placed on board
the American ship Tillie g. Star
buck, for Boston. Mr.. Shearer has
2l8,000 pounds Of choice wool.
"Here goes for a suicide" said
Eva Morton Monday afternoon as
she sat in a carriage with q picnic
party from Compton on their rxMay
to Redondo Beach. Cal. As she
volver and the next moment 45-
calibre bullet broke its way through
her pretty head and she fell into
the arms Of Miss Lucy Howas- I,
who sat beside her. Miss Morton
was 20 years old and had Just
graduated from the State Normal
school. The verdict of the coroner's
jury was accidental death.
| General John Bidwell, of Chico
was officially notified of his nom
ination for president by the Prohi-
bition party at the Metropolitan
Temple, San Francisco, Wednesday
evening.
The grand jury of Whitman
county, Wash, at its session jus,
closed brought in true bills against
% persons charged with stealing
stock. A spirited war is being
waged against the rustlers in tha,
county.
The Oregon Pacific railroad com
panv was incorporated last Satur.
day by VIM. Hoag, Wallis Nash
B. Wilson, 2. Job, and Abraham
Hackelman, with capital stock o
$1S,050,O00. The object is to buile
and maintain telegraph, telephon,
or phonophone lines from Yaqnins
bay to a point on the eastern
boundary Of the state, with tn,
right to extend it to Boise City
Idaho.
There was one "we- view with
alarm" in the Democratic platform
!, and its appearance was greetet
, with derision. But how does
happen that the platform contain
no "we-point-with. prides?" Th
omission of so essential, time-hon
ored and immemorial a 'phras
= cannot but be detrimental to th
Democratic cause among the resi-
dents of those back counties wher
platform without it is considere
: a freak.-St. Joseph News.
: Charles Herman, the half bree
Indian taken to Portland from Th
Dalles for selling liquor to Indian
: and confined in the county iai
! pending an examination on
: charge of poisoning whisky, fror
e which three of them died, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself i
d his cell Thursday afternoon. Hel
g man has been in his time famil:a
figure in the United States couI
d and deputy marshals have repea
: edly gained honor and fees b
h taking him down for bestowin
;, frewater upon the siwashes.
% A startling condition of affair
- has been disclosed with referent
. to the smallpox at Chula Vista,
miles from San Diego, Cal. Mo-
than two weeks ago it was reporte
to- the board of supervisors tn,
IS there was one case, that of your
ge man who recently returned fro
iy Mexico, and the health officers il
4. sisted that he be isolated at ono
+. The disease, however, was CO.
se tracted by others of the san
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