Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-12-16
NEWS NOTES.

Eighteen refrigerator cars arrived from |
the East, and they will be all loaded
with Grande ROnde apples and sent to
Omaha and Kansas City,
The cattle shippers are allowed two
extra men to every three carloads, with
transportation both ways, and many
persons have embraced the opportuni-
ty to make a trip East.
The Oregon Pacific employees have
received instructions to move up snd
forward to the general Ofiice all reports
up 10 l o'clock, p. M, Dec. Is.
A go-as-you-pIease walking match
from Corvallis to Albany and return is
TO be one Of the events during the
holidays, we are told there will be some
iine mud piashlug during this contest.
Work is progressing on the Soldiers
home at Rpseburg.
Over in the northern part of Grant
,unty, Oregon, where it is many miles
to any river or railroad, wheat is selling
at 80 cents bushel.
There has been great food up inthe
PAlouse country doing much damage.
Fhe streets of Colfax were under water
and in many places cattle and horses
stood in water from one to two feet
deep.
Ths Dalles still holds its reputation
Of being one Of the best sheep markets
of the Northwest. It ia claimed that
there has been 10000 mutton sheep
shipped from there during this year,
A large Touring mill is being built
At Baker City. The machinery is all
N the ground.
w. T, HattOn, of Warm Springs, has
patented self-dumping dirt wagon,
that he believes will come into general
use.
There is a movement on foot to dis
continue the Burns land Office, by add
ing it to the La Grande and Lakeview
district.
The colony of orchsrdists on the
Nessly place and those adjacent thereto
along the Grand Ronde river are pre-
pairing to set out about SO, 900 fruit trees,
mostly apples, in the spring.
A novel way of churning butter has
been discovered ny lady near Albany
who recently set pot Of cream In
spring near the house that it might
keep cool. During the night frog fell
in.o the cream pot and In its struggles
to get out actually churned the cream,
So that when the lady visited the
spring the next morning, she found
the frog sitting on q ball Of butter
washing its feet in buttermilk.
Ben Kelley, the trapper, who assist,
ed the Carlin party to escape from the
Clearwater country, has brought suit
against Gen. Carlin for the reward.
Louis Rees, of Eagle Point, was
gored to death by his bull which was
known to be a vicious animal. The bull
was afterwards killed.
r. d. Owenby bad hard aud dam
gerous trip Sunday, across the Blue
mountains from Milton to Elgin. He
got into snow too deep for travel, and,
being without food or blankets, was In
precarious position. With small fjr
limbs and strips torn from his clothing,
he constructed pair of snowshoes, and
succeeded in getting out of the snow
and reaching the settlements.
The Washington state horticultural
society Is In session at WhatcOm.
There has been 10000 feet OF lum.
Der shipped from Gray's harbor this
year.
The Tacoma city council is making
life burden to peddlers, beggars and
street musicians.
The state land commission, of Wash
ington, announces that 1t will take Of
fetal cognizance,of the hard times, and
be easy on delinquents who show good
faith.
Work has commenced on the new
state university in Seattle.
Olympia merchants threaten to take
their business from Tacoma TO Seattle
unless the Tacoma chamber OF COM
merce makes the Northern Pacific give
the independent steamers docking priv
ileges.
A Yakima Indian on the way from
Walla Walla TO the United States peni-
tentiary on McNeil's laland, under SEN
tence Of three years, jumped from the
train Wednesday while II was going rs
miles an hour aud escaped.
pRoM npATN UopMAr aOxyonr