Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-01-07
LOCAL AND Personal.

The Salem police cost for the year
$5495.
Salem pays $456O a year for cleo
trio lights.
Why not use the mayors message
as eastern advertising matter?
Inventory of the VIM. Benson
assignment shows stock footing up
$697.65.
Two drunken, disorderly individu.
ais appeared before his honor Recor
der Goodell, one paying fine and
the other serving five days.
Judge James Walton, county
topographer, is about again after
few weeks of the grip.
Valley and Protection lodges 40.
/ U. w. held very nice union in
stallation service at Protection hal
Wednesday evening.
w. M. Boshen, who had been
cook at the asylum for about sixteen
years, has resumed his old place in
the big kitchen.
E. l.. Thompson, special agent
and adjuster of the Northwest Fire
and Marine Insurance company of
Portland is in the city on business.
Salem postoffice has requisition
in for 100000 of the new postal
cards, but they hale not yet arrived.
J. w. Hobart of Garfield precinct
will probably be among the caudi-
dates for county assessor.
A test of the water works at the
asylum farm showed stream could
be thrown over the cottages.
The new bell of Willamette uni
versity is nearly in position.
The will of VIM. Cornell has been
filed and proven.
A. G. Connolly of Frontdale has
been to brought the asylum.
The Tillamook LAUNDERING Co.
and the Northern National Build
ing and Loan Association of Port
land, have filed articles of incorpor-
alton.
Hon. Geo. w. Mcbride. secretary
of state, is home from a trip for his
health in California. He is consid-
erably recuperated, and back in time
fol- the annual tax levy.
Hon. T. T. Geer is in the city and
and declined to have anything to
say on the congressional situation.
He said he was satisfied to serve the
people in the legislature if he should
be wanted.
The fact that the floods of 1890
caused immense expense for numer-
GUS new bridges shows why Salem
has run few thousand dollars In
debt.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. J. Ellis have lost
their four-weeks old baby. The
funeral was held at 8 a. M, and the
remains were taken to Dallas.
Miss Tennie G. MiDthorn, daugh-
ter of DIR. Minthorn, of the Oregon
Land Co., is quite sick since two
weeks with kind of nervous fever.
There is to be a meeting of Demo
Gratis this evening at 1880 at Dia-
mond's music hall to organize the
Democratic club and elect delegates
to the state convention at Portland
Friday and Saturday.
l.. V. Ehlen, q substantial Butte
vile farmer, is in Salem with some
friends who are pressing his candi-
dacV for the nomination of county
clerk with considerable force. He
will come into the convention,
with several precincts to back him,
is a we'll educated man, has lived in
the county since 1868, and as a
staunch Republican would add
strength to the ticket.
10 his monthly report DR.. Row.
land, superintendent of the asylum,
says: "We butchered of our own
stock for the asylum for the month,
6O6 pounds Of beef, 1902 pounds of
pork, and 322 pounds Of veal. Our
own men and teams have hauled
from the state brickyard at the
prison, $4,000 brick for building
purposes at the asylum in enlarging
the chapel, kitchen, etc, as planned
and in process Of construction. The
laying of water pipes at the Cottage
farm is approaching completion and
their practical efficiency is to be
tested ln a few days"
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