Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-05-13
NEIGHBORING TOWNS
PROGRESS AND DoiNGS OF THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.

PACIFIC MORT INVEST.
Budget of Interesting and spicy
News From All the Cities and Towns
ON the Coast-Thrift and Industry
In Every Quarter-orexon.
An Oakville teacher whipped five
boys and one girl On a recent forenoon.
Elgin has a new tent of Maccabees,
and will soon have camp of Wood.
men.
f. w. Blumberg has been made sec-
retary of the Albany board of immigra-
tion.
Kern q Church are going to build q
cannery at the mouth of the Siletz
river.
The Wollowa county grand jury re-
turned true bill for each indictment
submitted to 1t.
A. ]. Knollan is gathering mp IL, ,00O
sheep at The Dalles, which he will
have driven across the country to East
ern markets.
Increase to the fiocks of Morrow
county will not be above 80 per cent
net, ON account of the severe weather.
Shearing has just begun.
Sheep are getting SO numerous in
Lake county that unless 90, 600 are sold
this summer the ranges will be covered.
The increase this spring is expected to
be quite large.
K. Broughton came very near losing
his life near Athena by squirrel poison
a few days ago. He put pocket knife
in his mouth that had been used to still
a poisonous mixture.
klamath Falls is to form q Crate,
Lake club to cooperate in the summer
excursion and to induce the Mazamas
to return TO the valley by way Of the
fort, agency and klamath Falls.
The city marshal of La Grande pro.
poses to strictly enforce the law pro
hibiting the riding of bicycles on the
sidewalks. Union has similar ordin
ance that is continually being violated
1t is stated on good authority, say,
the Astorian, that about 400 gambler
and all-around toughs have recently ar
rived in Astoria from Portland ant
other cities from which they have beeI
shut out.
| Cut worms are said to be doing con
siderable damage to growing crops il
sherman county. A few warm days
however, would put a stop to thei
ravsges, and set everything growinI
in that county.
In the Albany schools one Afternoon
they had bird day" Cages of can
aries filed the rooms, reinforced b.
parrots, red-b birds, owls, etc. A pro
gramme made the occasion useful a
well as entertaining.
Henry Conn, ST., died at his hom
near Melrose. in Douglass county. las
week. He came to Oregon and settle
in Douglas county in 1853. He wa
buried under the auspices of tn
Masons in Roseburg.
J. II. Townsend, of Newberg, has
prospect of making contract with tn
new immigration board Of Portland {
go East with his stereopticon and 81
lection of views, to be furnished b
the board, ana in this way advertis
Oregon.
John Barto shipped four carloads c
sheep from Pendleton one day lai
week, about / 1850 head, to Long Pin,
Neb. He has already made oontrac
for 8. 900 head more, all of W hich wi
be shipped to different points in N,
braska at an early date.
The town marshal of Mitchell a
tempted the other day to arrest Fran
5tice, but Stice drew revolver an
chased the marshal around the ba
room of the Central hotel. Stioe wi
afterward arrested, however, and he
TO the grand jury in the sum Of $50
T. r. Sheridan has been appointe
administrator with the will annext
Of the estate of Stephen Minard,
Douglas county. The executor name
in the will, John Fl. Minard, died
, few days after his father. The Dor
of the administrator has been fixed
| $40, 900.
n ]. Fl. Albert, Of Salem, has a bib
, $50 years old, that has been in Il
Albert family 175 years. 1t is bour
ia full calf, with stout wooden cove
! and back, and is i51a inches long,
inches in width, 8 inches in thicknes
I and has weight of l2 pounds, al
was formerly clasped with iron. II
a old and new testaments take 1,1S
pages of the volume, the remainder b
ing devoted to the publishers prefac
glossary, indexes, the Augsberg confe
. sion, and to numerous biographies
the Saxon princes, under whose pa
ronage the work was done.
1 Washington.
: There is much inquiry througho
r the Yakima country for beef cattle.