The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-10-24

of Athena, who took her and the horses
in charge, and escorted the wayward
girl back to her home.
Executive clemency was exercised in
two instances yesterday, one being an
errlng sister. Mel Griffith, who was con-
vlcted in Ti,Iamook on charge of lewd
colhabitation and sentenced 10 term in
the county jail. She has served a large
part of her sentence, and Governor Lord
aIcceded to The request of large number
of citizens for her release on account OF
tler being afflicted with heart disease
and la grippe The balance of her SEN
tence was remltted. The other was the
case of w. N. Parker, convicted of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses and
sentenced in June, 1894, to two years in
the penitentiary. His time having ex-
pired throngih good behavior, the COVER
nor pardoned him TO restore him to citi-
zenship.
Wasco ccunty's spokesman, the Chron-
icle of The Dalles, says: II attended THE
Midwinter fair he'd year ago at San
Francisco" sand a gentleman, as me
Cooked ait the fruit exhibit In the pavil-
ion, land tell you, sir, If Wasco
county had sent such table OF fruit as
that to the Midwinter fair 1t would have
paraayzed all California. They don't
and cannot raise fruit equal to that"
Said another gentleman from the WEra-
met'te valley: "Your fruit exhibition is
revelation to me. have just come
from the state fair and the quality OF
your fruit far exceeds anything they had
on exhibition There" Said still another:
II was at the Worlds fair and took
particular pride in hooking over the Ore
gon fruit exhibit. You have some fruit
here that beats anything Oregon exhibit
ed at the Worid'e fair. and the Oregon
exhibit beaIt the world"
This morning at an early hour, says
the Post, several Salem citizens who lulp-
.pened to be in the vicinity were startled
by hearing two pistol shots in rapid sue
cessfon on Court street, near the alley
running between Commercial and Lib
erty. Officer Latourette hurried to the
scene, and arrested the man who fired
Hhe shots He proved to be Frank
Kaiser a well-hnown young man, who,
with his brother, had brought prisoner
to the city whom they arrested on sus-
pfcion Of stealing hop receipt, and who
had made his escape as they passed I'D
Court street on their way to the office
OF the district attorney. The young
man shot at the escaping prisoner twice,
but evidently missed him, as that worthy
made good his escape. The gentleman
who fired the shot was released without
having any trouble over the matter.
Messrs, John and Peter Syverson, OF
Dent, are the owners OF a. tramway log
ging road from Dent to Downlng's land
ing. The road fs constructed from tim
ber obtained along the road. The cross
ties are made OF logs from one to three
feet thick and about eight or ten feet
long On. the top of these ties are |
placed wooden rails from eighty to one |
hundred feet Gong. and are the full size
OF tine tree. The cars have capacity |
of 5000 feet, with large fiat whees fore
carriage, and smaft fiat wheels TO run as |
Ranges and hod the car in place. The |
cars are drawn by an engine that weighs |
forty tons, width thlrty-slx inch drive |
wheels. The engines are fed by 100 |
horse power boiler and are geared to |
give 1.0O0-horse power. It wild draw |
load Of 10000 feet of logs up grade OF |
four and " l1acf feet 10 the hundred with |
perfect ease The engines and roadbed
are all the Invention OF Syverson Bros. |
They c1ave spent about 5000 In this enter
prise. Pittsburgh Sentinel.