The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-07-17
OREGON NOTES.

The first editorial new potatoes have
shown up at Gold Beach.
The Jackson county court fixed the
salary of the school superintendent at
$500, payable quarterly.
ago over whom he killed her step-father
She has been married in the meantime
but Is nov a wid-w,
It cost $5610O to pluck the tail feath'
ers out Of the eagle as he scared over
Marshfeld on the Fouth.
The newly elected sheriff OF Douglass
county has resigned on account Of the
poor health of his mother.
Billy Howe. the ex-treasurer OF Kla-
math county, has been arrested for EN-
bezzlement of county funds.
They are threshing wheat over in
Umatilla county, and the best wheat
is turning out so bushels to the acre.
Ex-Chief of Police Barry, formerly OF
Astoria, is chief of the deputy United
States marshals sent to Southern Ore
gon.
Rainier has human barometer who
can tell by the "feel" of his joints when
there is going to be change in the
weather.
The Most. Rev. Archbishop Gross pre-
sided Sunday over the 40 hours devotion
held in the Roman Catholic church at
Marshfield
A Marion county girl took prize in a
strawberry picking race last week, but
as the prize was hammock, the reason
for unusual exertion is manifest.
The local land office at oregon City
has been instructed to dispense with
two clerks. This leaves but one to as
sist with the work of both offices.
James Hards, who has lately been par
doned out of the penitentiary, has re-
turned to jackson county and intends
to be married to his wife of thirty years
The appointed assignee of the Box
and Barrel Mfg. Co, of Marshfield, de-
clines to act. His name is Merchant,
and he don't want to be manufac-
turer.
A $4,000 deal in town real estate has
caused more feather dusting Of town
-pla',J at Ashland than anything that
has happened in that town since 1t got
q railroad.
There's no mistake about there being
mischevious boys in Silverton now that
some Of them have made it warm for
their companions by putting cowhagc,
Oh 'cow-itch" on tdem.
The tie-up" brought on great suffering
in Salem 1t delayed the arrival of a
bridegroom twelve hours, and the neigh
bors had to drop back and talk of
Brother Flaggs printing bill.
One Of the blessings to the Grants
Pass young men is the railroad strike,
as it has interfered with the flirtations
between the good-loolSing train men and
several of the feminines of that village.
The U. s. lighthouse tender Columbine
in endeavoring to replace the whistling
buoy off Empire City, lost the mooring
chain. She brought the buoy into EN-
pire and left for the north to obtain
another chain.
The Rebekahs gave dancing party
at Marshfield last week. 1t may be a.
shade warm tearing the works out of a.
two-step waltz but the young men put
handkerchiefs under their collar and
sail in to do or die.
The Cooperative Company is saving
lumber in Bay City and selling it to-
the local trade for $3.50 per thousand,
and the other mills are watching and
waiting for something to happen when
the coop. takes balance sheet.
The Ashland Valley Record speaks
land papers have lied like troopers inl
regard to the strike in Ashland. Every
reference is a mob riot, destruction
of property, and the customary wild-l
eyed statements. The total damage of
railroad property by this strike is 1915
and the Oregonian is simply a plain,
ordinary fool liar. The railroad enl-
ployes and the people of Ashland are de-
cent, orderly and law-abiding, theI
skunk newspaper reports to the contrary
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