The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-19

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ty, is having auite building boom. Two
large firepro6 buildings are going bp,
and hotel to take the place of the one
recently burned
A petition signed by many citizens and
nearly all of the business men of Watts
burg has been presented to the city coun-
eli, asking that the laws regarding Sun
day closing be rigidly enforced.
Two men have got themselves in trouble
in Corvallis for permitting a, brutal fight
between q bull dog and a coon. The
unfortunate coon was killed in the con-
test, and the men will have: TO pay for
their fun.
A correspondent of a Roseburg paper
says that Secretary Kincaid and Col.
Alley through their respective newspa-
pers are about the only Republican ad-
vocates of free silver In the first con-
gressional district.
The pay roll of the Pendleton securing
mill during fifteen months actual run
ming time in 1894 and 1895, has been $2S,-
290l3. This money was paid out in wages,
most of which was spent among the Pen
d,eton merchants.
The 100000 paid by Hammond & Co.
for the oregon Pacific is rapidly melting
away, and outside of the referees and
attorneys and officers, the creditors will
| get about per cent of one per cent Of
the amounts due them.-T. M.
The American Banker, of New York,
of September 4, contains the following
very important mining item: Horace L.
Hotchkiss & Co. have sold a gold mine
property located at Quartzville, Linn
county, Oregon, on a basis of valuation
of 100000"
Requisition papers were issued by Gov
ernor Lord Saturday on the governor of
| Illinois for Frank Hanscom. who is
at present at Chicago He is wanted in
Portland for procuring signature by
false pretenses to a draft and afterwards
cashing the same.
The Umatilla Indians are camped in
the valley near Enterprise, awaiting
the arrival of the Lnpwais, when they
| will indulge in horseracilg, "seven-up,"
etc. 1t is very doubtful if the Lapwais
visit Walowa this fall, as they have
business to look after at home.
The Oregon Central 4 Eastern put
a construction train and fifty Japanese
laborers to work on the line between
the docks and the summit. This section
of the road is receiving q thorough over
hauling. The wharveS and warehouses
at Yaquina are also undergoing extensive
repairs. News.
The Pendleton East Oregonian says:
"a man killed q Chinese pheasant in
| the willamette valley and he was
| brought before "a justice of the peace and
| fined $25 and costs, amounting to $50.
Several years ago a man could have
killed Chinaman in the same locality
and escaped with a lighter penalty than
this"
| c. o. White is interesting farmers in
stocking Umatil[a county with Mongolian
pheasants. In the vicinity of Milton the
increase has been very rapid. e. ].
Sommerville put out two of the pheas-
ants year ago, and now there are forty
or fifty about his place. There are at
least 300 and perhaps 400 near Milton,
all bred during the past year or two.
The fall term of the circuit court at
Heppner was one of the most remarka-
BILE ever he'd in oregon. For, with sew
eral dozen cases on the calendar there
was not a case tried, criminal or civil,
| The showing is all the more remarkable
when it is stated that there had not been
held in Morrow county a term of court
during twelve months preceding.
Peter Christopher, who lives six miles
| north tvtt
sacks of wheat one day last week. The
men came about 1 o'clock in the morning
and loaded it on wagon and drove away
and then returned for more. Some one
saw them when they came the second
time and frightened them away. Il. Bruce
arrested, charged with larceny of the
| wheat.
The number of school children in Ore
gon this year is 126,935; in Washington,
119,SF. Oregons state fund for dis
tribution among counties Is $133, ,2Sl.
| Washingtons Is $13O,552. School children
and voters are indices of population
Last year Oregon cast S7,265 votes Wash
ington cast 77031. That is, Oregon last
year cast 1924 votes more than Wash
intgon and this year has 1888 more schoo
children.
Running newspapers on Yaquna Bay
is not all sunshine. The Misses McKen
ney tried their hand at editing the Post
They kept bravely at 1t for eleven days
According to the Leader they left in
very hot frame of mind towards Mr.
Vancleve, whom they asserted misrepre
sented things to them. The Record Of
Newport will not appear for several
weeks on account of a falling out with
the editor of the News who was doing
the printing.
Campers annually slaughter hundreds
of seagulls on the coast. These inoffen-
sive birds are quite tame and are an
easy target for the pot hunters. The
game warden ought to go over to Tilla-
nook in cog. and nab a. few Of the fell
ows, as there is a penalty attached to
gull killing. These are harmless scav-
engers, and were 1t not for their offices
the rivers and bays on our coast would
reek with filth and smell to heaven
Sheridan Sun.
Every one acquainted with the people
of Curry county will conclude that the
captain of the Bawnmore has formed a
very ERRONEOUS opinion of their moral
character. 1t will be hard to make peo-
pie believe that the residents Of that
county are the depraved wretches and
adroit thieves the skipper pronounces
them. 1t is more likely the thlevlng was
done by some of the crew Of the Bawn-
more than by the people of Curry. He
is as far off on his reckoning Of Curry
county people as he was on his reckoning
Of his course at sea.-Coast Mail.
A correspondent writing from Crook
county under date of the 18th says:
Crook county is enjoying good soak
: ing rain today, but as the farmers are
not through threshlngi it Is not meeting
with a general welcome. Yesterday
Ralph Profelia and his brother, Vance
were brought in under arrest charged
with arson. Sometime last week the cat
tie boys in gathering In a band of cattle
let band of wild steers run over Pro-
felia's sheep camp damaging 1t consid.
erably, and 1t appears that Vance (whc
is the man that promoted himself tc
the neuter gender last spring, and who
since has become insane) brooded over
the loss Of the camp, and last Friday
night he went to Vanninias and set fire
to his barn and hay stacks, burning the