Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-12-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Corvallis is advertising for bids OF
their bonds on water works.
A S25O0 creamery Is already sub.
scribed for and will be built at Barlow
The Baptist people If Oregon City
will dedicate their new church on Jan
uary
Newherg has an oyerplus Of good.f1r
nothing dogs aud wants an ordinanc,
taxing dogs.
Thomas Bell, Of Corvallis, has in.
vented an appliance 10 clean boilers to
steam engines.
The Western Union telegraph com
pany Is putting in new poles from Port
land to Huntington.
The Eureka Coal company, of Wasl
ington, has just struck a fine vein oi
coal at Cumberland, Kiug county.
An excursion is being arranged for
Corvallis people to take place on New
Years day from Corvallis to Portland.
Senator d .keback has taken sam
pI of gold obtained by his machine
from the OcostA sands to Seattle for
tet.
The mysterious Disappearance of
Prior Scott, of Corvallis is cousing
con siderable anxiety on the part cf his
friends.
lh,Vannd
forty.fve dollars is the amount the
Pen lIeton securing mill disbursed IN
wages the past year.
The city librarians of Washington
are uniting in getting bill in shape to
secure law permitting tax of J a
mill for public library rurpo.es.
The Northern PAcii: ra ilroad cngi
neers are now cIn ferring with the Ho
quiam people in reference to extending
the Aberdeen line to the former city.
A panther is appearing frequently il
Ferndale, suburb of Mansfield. Sun.
day night he walked part way home
from church with Mrs. Dimmick and
Mrs. Arlington.
A Forest Grove real estate agent took
a dose Of umbrealla administered by
Miss Britten, of Gales Greek. The
woman claims to have been rudely
treated aud insulted.
Parties were recently detected in the
act of stealing 5000 tons of iron rails
from the track of the old portage rail.
way across the Cascades, on the Wash
ington side of the Columbia.
Eighty.three members Of the Gray's
Harbor FishCrmen's Protective Union
have been enrolled. 1t will invoke
state legislation for the protection of
the harbor fishing interests.
August Miller and W. A. Bean, in
dicted for robbery of the postoffice at
Olalla, this morning pleaded guilty In
'f.s9 United States court, and were each
sen enced to one year at hard labor and
to pay fine of IS.
Captain Feneken, one of the Oldest
Columbia river pilots, has been sus-
pended by the Oregon pilot commits
siOner, charged with ruaning the ship
Primrose Hill aground in the William
ette river, causing loss of $257S.
II is reported from Yaquna that the
schooner Mary Gilbert, Captain Dodge,
from San Francisco, for Alsea bay, for
lumber, in attempting to sail in oyer
he bar yesterday went ashore and is a
total wreck. No lives lost.
Several gangs of boy gamblers, from
II to 20 years Of age, have been broken
up by the police in Portland. Their
shacks, where they assembled to play
cards for money, were torn down and
hereafter all such boys will be pun
ished.
The wool receipts Of the Pendleton
securing mill for 1894 were, 362S,sls
pounds, total shipments, 2O5li276
pounds; amount secured 2l62,U7
pounds. The total receipts made about
1853 carloads, and the saving To growers
Is figured al t2B 1900
The Mount Tacoma exploring party
from seattle secured seven homng pig
cons which haYe been training one week
especially sor this occasion, lhey nav
ing honled from Auburn orllng apd
Carboudale 10 Puyallup returning safe
ly each time
The corners jury ln The case OF Apqy
Rowep, the pugillsl who was hlllea a.
New Orleans, has returned Fs'alol
ezoneratlng Layigpe' The ysI9la'
read AZ follows THAT death - aus 70
hemouage caused by conclusion ol llf
brain, apd the jury further hpas 'h'i'
was neglect op ihe part of The eluO lpI
moi having the ripg padded
John %, Ogeri0p, lhe iarmef h'lNF
twslve uliles eaat of Portland Wlp %