Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-01-04
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Spokane's building improvements I"t
Dp to $750,0O0.
Pendleton has $l5O,OOo to show as
Improvements for '94.
The Astoria railway will bs ex'
tended out to Alder next spring
Mrs. ]. r. Hornlng, of Portland, lo't
seventeen relatives IN the Silver Il axe
fire.
At Milton, Oregon, places of bnsI 'ess
must close by o'clock p. m.. very
night.
Ray King, of Tacoma, 10 year
old boy, was accidentally shot by his
brother.
Mrs. Rose Wilson of Corvallis has
been elected master of the CorVailis
grange.
Patitions for new constitution are
being circulated over in Moro"
county.
Baker City has forwarded three car
loads of provisions to the Nebras<t
sufferers.
HARRIET Townsend, of Dallas, aged
IS years diei December 30. Sne can
to O:egou in AZ.
Four thousand seven hundred and
three pupils are enrolled in the oP''
kane city schools.
Mrs. VIM. Buskirk, of Hood River, g,
aged IS years, was stricken with part'-
ysis last Monday.
Spokane will soon be one of the
largest railroad towns in the north
west, having nine railroads.
The dog poisouer is again at large In
Silverton aud some valuable dogs have
partaken of his dope.
Nebraska hogs are being shipped
into Washington and Oregon to be fed
on the che.p wheat of the latter.
Four hundred thousand bushels
more of wheat was shipped from Puget
Sound ports the past year than in 1893.
Pencil wood will in the near future
be supplied to the world renowned
German pencil maker, A. w. FAber,
from Oregon.
J.W Wiley, of Medforl, shipped
another consignment of hogs from that
point to Frisco. Medford is the great
no market of Southern Oregon.
Mrs. Alice Rush, an unfortunate
w1m IN, of Peadleton, was found dead
in her room from an overdose of NOR
phns,, taken with suicidal intent.
The output of coal of King county,
W4shin gtou, for 1894 was 24,095 tons
less than the year lS03 The total out
put of the state. however, was 764,O5S.
At Christmas dance at Dry creek,
Walla Wulla county, all the carriage
robes, some so in number, were stolen
from the s,eighs of the participants
and the guilty left no clue.
Rev. John F. Oman, Of Seattle, takes
the cake for solemnizing marriages,
having the past year united $50 couples
in M ,rrage. Since 1869 he has solemn
lied 1,0i0 marriages, baptized l5S per-
EOIB anu HDbhtu at ~
A big race was run at Prineville on
Christmas day between an Antelope
sprinter and Charles Hammond, of
PrinevIlle. About $1,000 changed
hands. Hammond won and then 1t
was learned that he was Henderson.
alias Sampson, the fastest sprinter In
the United States.
Ten years ago, says the Peadleton
Tribune, the thermometer at Baker
City fell to forty degrees below zero,
and sixty degrees below at North Pow
der. Weather prophets predict regular
Dakota winter during the next few
weeks. A visitor from Haines reports
nine degrees below zero at that place 3
day or two ago.
While w. Edwards, Marshfeld, aged
about IA, and a companion, young
lad named Crystal, were handling
% calibre rife near the residence OF
ths former boys parents In the north
east part of ths city, in dropping the
hammer snapped the cartridge to hard
and the ball struck the Eds wards boy
In the calf of the right leg pas Ing
through. Seattle Telegram,
An encyclopedia agent called on an
old lady in Eastern Oregon the other
day aud before showing his prospectus
the agent began TO talk of the good
qualities Of the work, when the old
lady, who was ION TO her Do" at ehok-
log OF book agents, came at him Ia
this wise ~ have no uss for 1t at my
age, but you may talk to John here,
aud II he wants II and can ray for il, !
have no objections, but as tor me, am
80 old couldn't ride the thlng II ! had