Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-07-27
STATE NEWS.

The Battleship Oregon may yet be
In Astoria for regatta day.
The Burns Times has been sold and
relegated to thing Of the past.
The new empire cannery on Coos
bay expects TO start next month.
A. b. Conley, Of near Union, expects
TO harvest 100000 bushels Of grain this
season.
Thomas Boylen has been re-
appointed stock inspector for Una
tilla county.
The 8-year.old son ofMr.Achenbach /,
of Albany, drowned Saturday while In
bathing. The body was recovered.
Mr.. Ferguson, Of Falls City was
arrested and fined $40 and costs for
pointing revolver at some children.
A. A. Unruh, OF McMinnyille, has
received a patent on crank for bicycle
which increases the power when going
up hill.
The l9-year-old son of James Powers,
living 10 miles northwest of Pendie-
ton. was kicked full in the face by a
horse last Friday and badly disfigured.
At a church entertainment in The
Dalles yesterday, Father" Harper
and "Grandma" Ward gave recita-
tions. Mrs. Ward is 10 years old and
Mr.. Harper 50.
II. u. Bewley, of Sheridan, "a promin-
ent farmer, while driving his team
down the bank with water-tank up
setting and crushing his leg and dis
locating his ankle.
Professor Kanematz's silk station is
a busy place, says the Coquille Herald.
A million little worms are chewing
the raw material and getting ready
to spin their cocoons of the nossy
fiber.
The distance from Albany to New
port as the bicycles 30 Is go miles; of
which all can be ridden except about
3 miles in all. The road goes II miles
north OF Toledo, and considerable
more north Of Yaqulna.
Green Barett's great copper ledge,
on Indian river, has been jumped. Mr..
Barrett claims he has always done the
necessary work to make his claim valid
and proposes 20 hold at the point Of
the rife. He is guarding 1t with a
rifle.
While in swimming last week In the
river above Independence, Glen Good
man saw something bright shining in
the water and dived down for IL. 1t
proved to be a silver coin about the
size OF dollar, made in Saxony, and
dated 1885.
Five "prairle schooners, "loaded
with as many different families, sailed
into Pendleton Thursday morning.
They came from Sherman county,
Neb., and have been on the road since
May /. They are on the way to Will
lamette valley.
Walnlo Johnson, aged years, was
missed from his home at noon Thurs
day. He had been playing on wharf
in upper Astoria during the afternoon.
A search Of the river was Immediately
instituted, which resulted in the find
ing of the child's body.
Josephine county friends of Senator
John IL. Mitchell a few days ago re-
ceiyed letters from him TO the effect
that "no one would do more for Nc
Klnley and Hobart" than he, says the
Grants Pass Mining Journal.
Columbia George and another In
dian fought with knives in Pendleton
Wednesday and both were badly cut.
Columbia George could not he found
after the fight, and 1t was said that
he was carried off dead by other In
dlans.
An 8-year-old son Of w. Il. Reid OF
Arlington, shot his younger brother
with shotgun, not knowing the gun
was loaded. The shot struck the lit
tie fellows head, tearing off a portion
of the left ear and glancing Off the
skull.
During the first OF the week fierce
forest fires ragged in the timber on the
hills between West Dairy creek and
Gales creek.John Mills, who'll near
Manning postoflice, in Washington
county, came near being burned out |
HIS dwelling was on fire four different
times.
Their rights, title and interests In
the electric light plant in Silyerton
has been transferred by bill OF sale by
Grant and Lincoln Davis to Coolidge
4 Mechanic, bankers, for cOnsidera.
tion OF s3,l0l, which included the
building, It's equipments and 300 feet
of tiume and the book accounts.