Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-07-14
OREGON.

Star concentration, Just north Of Con
couully.
OREGON.
Harvest commenced last Saturday.
On the farm OF rome A. Derby, west
Of McMinnville, work was begun in a
piece Of barley.
Seals are getting thick in the Colum-
bia river. There should be small
bounty, say 80 cents head, offered by
Oregon and Washington for their exter-
mination.
A fire at Brookheld DESTROYED a house
belonging to J. G. Megler, but occu-
pied by fishermen, who lost all their
clothing and everything in the house at
the time. 1t was narrow escape for
the cannery, as the burning house was
only $50 yards distant
W, H. Butchard, a photographer of
Salem, was waylaid by two highwaymen
the other night. but escaped by running
into another mans yard and upon the
porch. The mghwaymen, thinking it
was Mr. Butchard's home, made them
selves scarce.
a summer normal school for Sout :
ern Oregon will be held at Grants Pass,
beginning July 10 and continuing two
weeks, Superintendent G. A. Savage
is making every effort to make the nor
nal success. Professor W. A. Witzeil,
of Portland, has been engaged to assist
w. D. Adams in the work of instruction.
A huge grizzly bear has been making
things interesting for the residents of
the Farlow neighborhood in the Butte
Creek seatlon during the past few weeks
and as yet they have streven in vein to
capture or kill HIM. His track meas
ures - inches in diameter, and he
knows all about a steel trap, refusing to
get intoono.
The McMinnville Telephone Register
wants 1.-THE next Legislature Of Oregon
to pass a law making the proprietor of
warehouses in the state give bonds for at
least 33l per cent. Of the capacity of
his warehouse, the value to be deter
mine by the average price of wheat dur
ing the year before. Warehouse fires
and failures are getting altogether too
common"
\ senseless part of the new game law,
say tho Eugene Guard, ''is that which
makes it a penalty for any one to have
deer or elk hides in their possession. It
drives the buckskin. tanning industries
from the state, and while it allows the
game to bs killed at certain seasons,
renders it criminal to preserves the
hides. 1t says in effect that they
should be left to rot
At the Judsor mine on Coyote creek
cunnel $50 feet long is just about
completed ard Harry expects to strike
the pay chute" in four feet more.
This tunnel, the longest in Oregon, will
serve as drain to the mine. The up
per levels had become too noise to work
satisfactorily. Some $4,000 haa been
expended an this claim, but Mr.. Judson
will get it all back again very quick
when the ''pay chute" which is known
to be there is tapped.
Wednesday night of last week South
ern Oregon was trea ed to a steady
downpour Of warn rain all night. Some
hay was damaged, but the loss will be
nothing compared to the impetus given
late grain and vegetable gardens. The
biggest loss heard of was to Robert
Faulkner's brickyard in Grants Pass,
Mr.. T. had $4,000 newly nodded
bricks laying in the yard ready for the
kiln but the steady rain washed them
level to the ground. The total fall dur
ing the storm amounted to III inches
The Brownsville Times is informed
that como Of Sanford Cochran's boys and
a person named Cocholl, who resides
above Charlottesville, killed four con
gars last Saturday near McDowell's old
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