The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-08-28
OREGON NOTES.


The Salvation Army at The Dale
have added a large bass drum to thei
band.
Pendleton has a Fruit and Flowe
mission SO well organized that II is
positive pleasure to be under the weath
er in that town.
Mr.. Simmons, who resides at the up
per end Of Lake Labish, Marion coun
ty, claims to be the pioneer in the rails
ing Of cranberries in Oregon.
An Arago boy made steam engine
out Of an old salmon can. The doctor
who attended him says he can't cure
him without leaving a few scars.
The good-hearted mayor of Eugene
City named Friendly has appointed a
bright man named Day as nightwatch-
man for the town on account of SC
many burglaries.
L. c. Hill was discharged In the cir
cult court at Grants Pass last Tuesday.
He had been charged with attempting
to wreck the northhound passenger
train near tunnel No. 9 in 1892.
In spite of its being so dry around
Grove City that you have to soak the
water over night like Goldfish before
they can drink it, the mower is making
music over the second crop Of alfalfa
A rising young preacher named Horn
was married at Elmira on the 18th to
Miss Inman. Here's a chance for to
hear a woman blow up one of Gabrieps
Horns If true love does not run smooth.
The men who hold the collegiate
high jumping records all over the East
could make good wages coming to Ore
gon now and helping harvest the hop
crop. Their presence will save step
ladders
One of those gold-plated, jewel-set and
indestructible boons of Providence has
been set down in Gold lIlil where a
deaf and dumb barber phys his trade,
utterly oblivious that in his silence lies
his fortune.
The fruit farm of f. 3. Watson, lying
east of Eugene, sold one day this week
to Mr.. w. T. Halliday, recently from
California. The farm contained 45
acres, and brought $4,000. Frasier &
Svarverud made the sale.
A Vale hotel keeper intends pushing
business. He advertises that he has
received force pump for his saloon.
The Oregon hop crop this year comes
pretty near making up for the slump in
the price Of the wheat crop.
Union county has Just issued call
for all warrants indorsed prior to May |
1st, 1887, for redemption. Seven and |
one-half years expenses would natural |
ly seem to be pretty good-slzed debt
for the county to pay interest on.
The difference between Salem girls
and Albany girls is thus defined by
literary Oregonian: The Albany girls
act like the woman in "Ships that pass
in the Night" while the Salem girls
act more like Dodo" than anything else.
Euinunu BOSQuet, Dau man from
Bitter Creek. who threatened to kill his
wife and burn down the house. was
jolted down hard on the floor of the
justice court at Junction City, and
bound over to appear before the next
grand jury.
Deputy Sheriff veach of Cottage
Grove, reports that Helfrich, the horse
thief, received five buskshot from Con-
stable Linton at the time of their
meeting near Creswell. Helfrich says
he will not be taken alive; and the
officers think he is hardly worth killing,
so he may go his way for some time
yet.
II was written on the shining book
of fate that the Cook family. of Una
tilla county, would rise to FURNISHED
glory. but nobody expected that they
would choose the way by being put on
record as having the youngest taxpay-
ers in the state. Willie, agen seven,
pays taxes on $4,000, and his four-year-
old brothers assessment is SLIPS.