The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-15
STATE NEWS.
Interesting Items Culled From Oregon 5
Leading Newspapers.

Leading Newspapers.
The Coast Mail calls attention to the
fact that the government surveyors now
working in Coos county have a span of
mules which they drive in transporting
their outfit from place to place. This
is the first time" the Mail says, "a pair
of genuine. simon pure government mules
have ever visited this county
Just let anyone make a comment that
affects Portlands interests and how the
papers there howl" says the Albany
Democrat. at ought to be a lesson to
them not to be everlastingiy hitting
other sections, for instance Yaquina bay.
They can't say mean enough things about
Congressman Clark, of Missouri"
The First Protestant Episcopal church
ever built in Bandon was completed this
year. and consecrated on Sunday, Aug
ust 18th, by Bishop b. Wistar Morris,
bishop of the diocese Of Oregon, assisted
by Rev. VIM. Horsfall. The church was
built by Mrs. Be.e 1. Sellwood, relict of
the late Rev. John w. Sellwood, in
memory of her husband, and by her re-
quest dedicated to st. Johns by the sea.
-Bandon Record.
"Chump" Clark's argument says the
Portland Welcome in its usually gentle
manly and courteous manner, scarcely
needs refuting. He is reported as start
ing out with the proposition that no ap-
preparation should be made for river
above its mouth"
Needless to say this statement is a de-
liberate untruth. Mr.. Clark never ut
tered a sentiment that could be ccnstru-
ed into anything Of the kind.
ARTICLES of incorporation were fled
yesterday in the office of the secretary OF
state by the Hammond Manufacturing
Co. The object of the company is to
manufacture quartz mills and other min
ing machinery, to build quartz and other
mills, to carry on a general contracting
business, to build and lease hotels, stores,
and other property, and to purchase and
deal in gold, silver and other mining
properties. The capital stock of the
company is $4,000, to be divided into
500 shares of 800 each. A. b. Hammond,
j. Frank Watson, and j. 5. Spencer are
the incorporators, and Portland is the
principal place of business. Post.
Jack Mayo and 1SO other employees of
the o. p. r. r. who a year ago petition
ed the court for an order asking that the
Farmers Loan and Trust Co. be requir-
ed to pay into the court the balances due
them as employees of the o. p. during
the Hadley receivership, a demurrer to
which was sustained by Judge Fullerton,
have appealed. The petition of Mayo ct.
al is based on the legal position that
the plaintiff in a suit is responsible for
the costs, and they sought to have the
court declare that the railroad, being in
the hands of the court, indebtedness to
employees incurred in the operation of
the road were legitimate court expenses
or costs, and that therefore the plaintiff,
the Farmers Trust and Loan Co., should
be made to pay them. The aggregate
of the sum the petitioners asked to
have the plaintiff pay into court was
about $50, O,00O.-Times.
The Corvallis Gazette is authority for
the following statement which, if true,
shows that all hunters are not without
conscience, and are willing to obey the
law. The Gazette says: Joe Begin
went hunting Sunday and amused the
pheasants. The law prevents one man
from killing more than twenty birds in
one day. and Joe came back from his
trip greatly disturbed. He hunted up
four lawyers and asked them their ad-
vice on one phase of the law. He want
ed to know if having killed 10 birds he
should shoot at another and by accident
kill two he would be liable to a fine.
The attorneys could not agree, but the
report soon spread that Joseph had vio-
lated the law and some kind friends
were about to telegraph Mr.. Mcguire to
come up and prosecute him. 1t seems,
| however, that Joe began debating the
| question before he had fired a shot, and
| fearful lest such a condition should arise,
| he immediat tely drove back to town to get
proper legal advice. He vows he won't
go out again until the supreme court
passes upon the matter. His nerves have
not yet recovered from the fright caused
| by his narrow escape.
Assistant Chief Goode, of the United
| States geological survey, who visited Or
egon last summer, says that the Wild
est region of the entire United States
is an area of 1000 square miles between
Roseburg and Coquie, in Douglass and
| Coos counties. He describes it as a mys-
terous, undiscovered country, in which
roams undisturbed wild game and whose
| brooks and rivers are filed with wild
! fowl 1t is nearly covered with a dense
growth of pine, fir, hemlock and other
| trees. Many of the trees are of enor-
nous size, and so thick that it is diff
! ficult for men to make their way be-
! tween them. Where the trees are not
| so thick the heavy growth of bushes OF
| various kinds take their place. 1t is
| country that is filled with all kinds OF
wild game, including, as reported to him,
Elk, different kinds of bear, mountain
| lions, deer and other animals, including
! lynx and otters. There are also the va
rlous kinds of fowl. The streams all have
an abundance OF trout and other kinds
of fish. He penetrated into the wilds a
dozen miles and saw things that filed
him with wonder at the vastness Of the
! forest and that any one should attempt
| to live in it.
I "F. H. Skinner, agent for the Wash
! ington National Building, Loan and In
/ vestment Association, seems to have got
his employers into serious trouble by
| bilking a number of residents of Doug
! lass county" says the Review. "He sold
stock in the association, it Is said, ana
guaranteed the purchasers that they
would be granted loans, the plan being
similar to that upon which the local
building and lean associations do busi-
ness. As the as- 1'iat'on already had
] several loans in Roseburg ana Dram, ana
is regarded as a solid institution Mr..
Skinner had less trouble working his
sch sme than he otherwise might have
had. He sold stock TO 3. C. Agee, prom
ising a loan upon his place, and soon
after exhibited a letter purporting to
have come from the head office of his
company in Seattle. stating that the
loan had been made, and that Mr.. Agee
would receive his money September ].
He represented that person to secure
a loan must subscribe for shares of stock
in the association, and make the first
monthly payment. together with de-
posit to cover cost of examining the alb
stract of title to their lands, and other
expenses, and that a letter from the
head Office regarding Mr.. Agee's loan,
assisted him in his scheme. Among those
who advanced various sized amounts are
r. 3. Dixon, 3. c. Aeee. Charles Ander-
son and w. H. Hudson. Now comes
J. H. Hawley, general manager Of the
association. and pronounces SHinnre'
letters forgeries, and 1t is supposed that
he has skipped to British Columbia The
officers are ON his trail. but there is not