Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-15
Oregon.

Lumber is being sawed at the Yainax
mill, klamath county, for building a
bridge 200 feet long across Sprague river
near Eagle ford.
The baccalaureate address to the State
Agricultural College graduates is to be
delivered June "a by Rev. Thomas l..
Cole of Trinity Church, Portland.
After several months of quiet Astoria's
Salvation Army has commenced holding
open-air meetings again, and more
trouble with the hoodlums and author
tiles is anticipated.
Three men went over the Barlow road
from Lebanon to Wamic last week. They
report the snow as covering the road for
about fourteen miles and its greatest
depth about twelve feet.
Suit for 5000 has been brought
against the corporation of Eugene on
behalf OF Claiborne Bonney, five-year-
old child, who fell through defective
sidewalk, sustaining permanent injuries.
By man in position to know it is
stated there is at least money to the
amount of 5000, 900 hid away in jars and
socks by the different owners in Clatsop
county, waiting to be banked or invested
when confidence is restored.
Mr.. Morrow OF Dallas has two Indian
skeletons, one being that of an old man
and the other that Of boy. Both skel-
etons are well preserved, and have at
tracted considerable attention. The doc
tor dug them up from an old Indian
burial ground on Long Island, just below
Umatilla.
The Board OF Prison Directors, Gov
ernor Pennoyer. Secretary of State Nc
Bride and State Treasurer Phil Metschan
have advertised for sealed proposals for
the construction of an addition to the
south wing of the State penitentiary,
These proposals will be opened at the
executive office at noon on Monday,
June II.
The Butte Creek Coal Company has
incorporated by filing articles with the
Secretary OF State. The incorporators
are 9. r. Hougham, B. f. McLoney and
l.. I'll. Tarpley. The duration of the COM
pany is fixed for twenty years, and the
principal Office is at WOODBURY., Marion
county. The amount of its capital stock
is $780, 900, divided into 500 shares. The
termini OF the tramway it proposes to
construct are to be at Mount Angel and
in section 4, township z south, range 2
east, in Clackamas county.
In the United Presbyterian General
Assembly held at Albany these recon-
mendations of the Committee on Re-
form were adopted: Protesting against
Catholic encroachment of Indians, and
against the measure before
Congress to appropriate 1866 600 for ex-
penditure by the Catholic Church for
this purpose; protesting against Sabbath
dissertation; favoring suppression of the
liquor traffic; favoring amendment to
the constitution of the United States
recognizing the Deity; expressing sym
pathy with unemployed labor and those
who find no market for their products,
and declaring that members should use
the right OF citizenship to elect men who
will rule in fear of the God Of the Re-
public. The assembly engaged in a
special service of prayer for veteran
soldiers of the Republic as an expression
of sympathy with the Decoration Day
exercises. Twenty thousand dollars
we're appropriated to colleges Of the
church. The report OF the Committee
on Appropriations gives 1888, 725 to the
various boards of the church. The as
'embly adjourned sinA die.