Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05
NEWS NOTES.

Z Id kictEuluk.
Nine feet Of snow is on the ground 81
Monte Cristo, Wash.
There were Is1 marriage licenses is-
sued in Linn county in 'e5.
United workmen Of Oregon report
an increase Of 25l during December.
Lincoln county is but ten months
old and has . $1,000 debt
EIwinstOu, the fugitive Walla Walla
tanker has been arrested in Idaho.
Albany has sold $4,000 Of school
bonds to Gay & StanvOOd, Boston.
il. Hall Elliot, piano tuner Of Cor.
wallis, has skipped by the light Of the
moon.
Everit, Wash, has 8 wife beater who
is 81 present serving time In the county
jail
The total coal receipts Of the Colum-
bis aud Puget sound railroad for 1893
Is 340t tons
Tseoms's present city administration
costs sl3,sll.oI monthly, less than the
one previous
A car load Of oysters were stolen from
an /. r & y. fat car at Sealand one
night last week.
The Peabody gold mining company
Of Monte Cristo, Wash, has 6 capital
stock Of slO.OOO,OO0.
Mayor Finn, Of Albany, advises that
the wagon bridge across the Willamette
at that place oe made toll one.
k A hunter on one Of the mountain
me41ows near Cams prairie killed
FIVE cougars in one day. The largest
WAS nine feet long.
The Seattle board Of trade urge the
county commissioners to do something
/ TO prevent the overh)w Of the White
and Duwamish rivers.
Teddy Rowe, of Dallas, has a half
breed China pheasant with which be
expects to multiply and reple nish the
! eAFtn WltD eucn DlTQs,
The holiday match hunt which took
I place al Oehaco, last Thursday between
eleven sportsmen and resulted in 800
rabbits and sagehens killed.
Walls Wal a, Wash, merchants be-
gan the new year by signing an agree
ment TO close their places of business at
8 p. %. after January lst.
The finance committee reported upon
the examination Of the books of ex-
Treasurer Murphy Of Baker county,
and find a shortage of 81, ,049.59.
The young man who was shot near
the Locks Monday morning is dead
and Hull the murderer has been held
to await the action Of the grand jury.
The Peudleton Tribune will in the fu
ture be conducted by George +. Hal
sey, Clarence Macdonald, Gsuy L.
Judson 81 nd John P. McMsnus.
The Asotin, Washington Sentinel re-
ports that the Josephine Indians have
now in progress their annual winter
amusement, the medicine dance,
which will probably be kept up as
long as the winter season lasts.
The room Of bousemaid at the Roy
al Jubilee hospital, Victoria, was re-
Gently searched and her trunk found to
coutsin enough linCn and household
goods, stolen from the hospital, to set
up small family. The girl, it is said,
Was contemplating matrImony.
The largest fish caught in the Colum-
bia river this season was a sturgeon
measuring IL feet, inches long aud
weighing 1855 pounds, which was landed
at KDsptOn, Wash. The head alone
weighed $50 pounds, and the fish
yielded AT pounde Of edible meat.
H. L. Collier, special examiner Of
surveys, will soon commence the TO-
spection Of all tracts Of government
laud surveyed during the past season
IN Oregon. II will take some time 10
do this, AS the tracts are widely scat
tered and inaccessible by railroad.
Robert Mays reports the loss of Is
head Of young cattle out Of a herd of
30, at his Tygh valley ranch, that
have died from a peculiar and fatal dis.
ease. They seem to die in a few min.
utes after being stricKen, aud without
a struggle. William Floyd reports a
similar condition Of affairs
A number Of the ladies Of the Eugene
w. r. q. have formed = corporation to
be known as the Beneficiary Associa.
uon Of Laue county, their object being
10 bulid = hall for The Cumberland
Presbyterian assembly, to be held In
Eugene in May, after which the hall ia |
10 be the property Of the corporation.
Louis Armsheld, q Is year old bow
living with bis parents at Wilbur, nine
miles this side Of ROseburg, on Tues.