Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-10-14
STATE NEWS NOTES AND COM
MENTS.

Net taxable property of Union coun
| ty is S., ,542, ,347, as against S3,5l9 735 In
1892. The deduction for debt last year
was S2,O35, l75, which just aboat maker
the difference.
Cabbages weighing forty to fifty los.
are to be sent to the worlds from Cove,
Oregon.
The Chinese were driven off SIR
Geer's place in Union county agd he
lost great deal on his hops.
Eastern Oregon boasts of Hungs-
rian prune eight inches around.
The Chinese have been driven out Of
LaGrande.
A lumberman calls attention to the
fact that Oregon, while making no pre-.
Jentions and having no appropriation,
got away with Washington and carried
of the prize ON its exhibit of CONNER
cial woods.
Astoria will never get railroad with
wind. ThelBudget says: "It is about
Time for Pat Donan to show up with a
railroad proposition. 1t has been a
month at least since there was her
oU."
Oregon bacon is good enough to have
1 worldwide reputation, and the hog
an animal with a good present and IA
great future in Oregon.
Portland Telegram: The tramp exc
dus has set in.
Claims against Hamilton, Job & Co.'s
bank at Corvallis foot up to 1923, 4l2 "a
rhe assets are reported to amount to
SO cts. on the dollar of this.
Flour retails at So 25 barrel at Ore
gon City.
An Oswego man has just been re
leased from a California insane asylum.
He sold his farm last year and went to
the city to see the sights. Gu the night
Of his arrival in Portland he stopped
in several saloons and partook of con-
siderable quantity of that which exhil-
crates. He finally wandered into ii
saloon on the east side where he met
two confidence men who discovering
that Smith was in possession of cOnsid,
erable money, made his acquaintance
and invited him to take walk when |
taking him into saloon they quickly |
had him drugged and he knew nothing |
of his course until he came too in the |
insane asylum at Agnews, Santa Clara !
county, Cal, and heard everybody ad
dressing him as Henry Webberly |
against which be protested declaring |
his name to be George Smith. For |
this he was ridiculed by the physicians
and attendants as some mad raving of |
diseased brain, no attention being |
paid to his repeated demands for liberty |
and the privilege of writing to friends
was either denied him or the letters |
which he did write were thrown into
the waste basket by the attendants. |
This continued from the 18th day of |
July, the day he was committed by the
Alameda court until finally gaining |
the confidence of the employees he
managed to send a letter to Oswego |
and friends came to his release and the |
other day he walked into town to tell |
his strange experience.
Douglas county has debt of $780,
347.39.
There has been some disgraceil |
"monkeying with the justice mill" in
Umatilla county. The report is that |
the court reporter offered TO insure one
Tucker that he would be 'let down |
easy" probably by pleading to petty |
larceny, if he would put up $50. Some
of the prisoners friends agreed to as
sist him by signing their names a.
sureties on note, and the little dea |
was nearing satisfactory adjustment
when Judge Fee happened to hear oft
He asked the grand jury to investigate.
Dwellings are reported very scarce in
Baker City.