Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-12-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Talcott Brothers have struck flow
ing we'll in Olympia at depth Of ll9
feet.
w. .. HUDSON, of Kamilehip, Wash,
$ I'D 81 Angora goats recently for s.
each.
A man named Grant has been fined
$50 aud costs at Clallam for illegally
voting.
The Medford Mail has been enlarged
to six column quarta and is brigh'
and clean.
Otto S. Bergland, while hunting in
the Olympic mountains recently, per-
ished with the cold.
Harrisburg has a dramatic club.
They will play East Lynne" for
the benefit of fine Harrisburg band,
On last Thursday night the hardware
store of Jewell q Dodge, of Grants Pass,
was entered and some firearms stolen.
Wild animals are unusally numerous
this winter in Grant county and many
depredations have been committed by
them upon stock.
Deer have been forced down from
the mountains in many places by the
heavy SHOWS and thus become an easy
victim TO the hunter.
The Spokane Outburst urges that
work on the city water works be stop
ped aud the contract cancelled, owing
to the depressed condition of affairs.
A man was heard to say in Lafayette
he other day that be would have 10
quit coming to town as the town cows
eat everything left in his manger, says
the Valley Times.
The city of Puyallup, Wn., is
uniquely fortunate in one respect. Her
warrants are shaved but 2 per cent, and
there is no bonded Indebtedness to
struggle with.
Three boys, Oscar Doury, Jas. Holez
and Will Walker, all of Eugene, were
fined $40 apiece and costs for stealing
melons. They will all three serve out
the fine.
Two Pendleton attorneys have
drafted bill for the next legislature,
providing that no attorney fee proyis.
ion shall appear on promissory note
or contract, and invalidating any
paper containing such provisions.
Owners of mining claims on which
no assessment work has been performed
this year and who desire to hold the
claims should remember that Decem-
ber 3lst is the last day on which notice
of suspension of assessment work, under
the special act of congress, can be filed
with the county clerk.
Israel Patton of Talent is consider
able of bear hunter. He not only
hunts bears but he kills them-and In
large numbers. He was In Ashland
last week with full wagon load of
skins, which he sold In that city. Mr..
Patton's hunting ground is the Big
Butte country.
At the regular meeting of the Eu'
gene Engine company Thursday night
Wild McGee, |. l.. Simpson and Thos.
Jenkins ere elected to succeed them
selves as delegates from this company
TO the board of fire delegates for the en-
suing year.
News comes from CanyOnyille that
since the discovery of rich placer mines
In the StarVeout vicinity, many miners
are coming into this section aud are
taking up claims. The gold that has
been taken out thus far IL as large AZ
grains Of wheat, and the soil gives eyi'
dence OF containing as rich gold az
was ever discovered IN this state.
The bonded debt Of New Wbalcom ie
stated at 100000 aud outstanding
warrants at S72 OPS 1885, total debt, S564,'
055 .83; assessed valuation, 1894, 3d.
002, ,Osli levy for 1894, ~! mills bal
anee OF delinquent taxes S2l ,b7LS0i
estimated municipal expenses, 1890, IN
Guiding tS4, 1865 Interest VIZ ,B92 current
expenses, aud 5000 for street work,
900 ,0b7,