Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-10
NEWS NOTES.

session at Portland.
Rich gravel beds have been discov-
cred at CanyOnville.
The Lucky Boat mine cleaned up
$l3. 900 in December.
Over 500 people took supper at La
Graude's anti-Chinese ball.
Lake Colville, Wn., Is frozen over,
the ice being four inches thick.
Douglas county was treated to six
inches of the beautiful last week.
Walls Walla, Wash, population &C
cording to the new directory is 7,77O
The log output of the Luckismuu
river this season is the largest it hs'
ever had.
Mr.. Chas. Gorsuch, of Grants Pass,
has invented au emergency rudder fol
marine vessels.
A lot of spurious coyote scalps wert
presented at Albany last Saturday
Iney were Manufactured.
A laprock and box made mostly ol
cloth has been invented by NJ. Y
Meeser, of Puyallup, Washington.
A bullet from a careless hunters rid
passed through the Elk City school,
room, just over the children's heads.
With the salary reduced TO S65 q
month, AZ candidates are 10 the field
for street commissioner at Whatcom.
The safe of John RAst's brewery was
burgIsrized last Thursday. The rob
bers got about $50. Tney worked
the combination.
A young man by the name of Hap
good, of North Ysmhill shot and kill
ed himself last week; the reason of th,
suecide Ia not known.
Oregon is the only state IN the Union
10 which horses are worth more THAI
mules, the difference is $46 for the mule
and $5l for the horse.
An advance guard of Scandinavians
who are to locate a colony Of Dakots
people Of their own nationality, ar,
looking oyer Jackson county.
The Oregon aud Washington shingle
men have set prices based on the old
association weights of lS0 pounds pei
1000 for star Ashton aud 200 puunds
for clear.
The mayor Of Oregon City called the
attention of the c)uucil to the fact tha,
the bonded debt was $4,000, an In
crease per year Of 81, lG6 for the pas,
six years.
The eleven uniforms of the Stanford
team were weighed after the football
game with toe Multnoma abs and tippen
the beam at 548 pounds. Nearly 4OO
pounds of this weight was mud aud
water.
Tue shipping business from Medforo
the past year aggregated over !, ,OOO, ,OOO
pounds more than the preceding year.
Nearly the entire amount of products
shi ipped out was of livestock and greer
frult-no wheat or other grain.
Suit has been begun to foreclose a
mortgage for SIS, 600 against the Port
land exposition property, which c, ct
$2SO,OOO. 1t will go by the board.
The fair has been badly managed, the
same exhibit being made year after
year.
Last "Wednesday evening on lake
at Uuiou, Vancouver island. Martin
Hanson aud Miss Rosie Melado broke
through the ice while skating. Hsu-
som saved the girl, but was himself
drowned. He was 10 years old, aud a
coal miner.
Geo. Belt, we'll known hop grower
Ut PiEe township, near North YamhilI.
bought five gallon can Of alcohol, for
the purpose Of having q jollification.
de INDUCED so freely Of the alcoho,
that In few days Sunday he died
from the effects of excessive indulgencs
n the drink.
A petition signed by So persons who
believe that the death OF WIN. Jones
whose body was found exhumed and
eft in the Dundee cemetery, was by
oul means, Was presented To the cOuu-
y court this week praying FOR a scien.
ific Investigation for the purpose of
Ietermining the cause. The oour, re-
Used 10 act Ia the matter.
Vancouver has been d ,oded with
apAnese aud Straits settlements silver
o such an exIeut that the banks, s.ores
estauranls, etc, have refused TO receiv.
at auy price. 1t is stated thst the
liver Was bought down on the sound
30 cents on the dollar by a couple of
mart sehemers, who took il TO VaL.
ouvsr and got rid Of it at par.
George II. Smith shot and almost
ls'AnIly killed Charles Long, at Pal.
ier lake. eight miles from Loomis
A'nrday night Smith, who ia =