Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-07-30

The Eugene cannery viii not be OF
erated this year owing to scarcitr 0
fruit.
The Consolidated Virginia mine OF
Baker has started to sink a 500 foot
haft.
N The Lane county sheriff is forcing
follection on about $4,000 d elinquent
taxes.
The Huntington building, at La
Grande, has been entirely destroyed
BY fire.
The Dalles fire company is making
I'M preparations TO take In the Astoria
tournament.
Ross Mathews, OF Eugene brough
large rattlesnake TO town the other
BAY with rattles.
Two of Phil Brogan's horses took
turns at kicking him Monday at The
Dals, and as result Mr.. Brogan is
suffering from lame leg and arm,
A gang Of graders has been put on
fhe Sumpter Valley extension which
viii be pushed TO completion. The
work is between McEwen and Sump-
ier
The report Of the superintendent of
I'he Dalles water system for the month
shows that the total accounts were
sl9l4.9j. The amount collected was
ell996j; delinquent, Sl75.
j. VI, Bentley, deputy United States
marshal, Saturday brought to Pendle-
'tOn from Umatilla Chinaman named
Tie Yee, whom he arrested for failure
10 comply with the registration law.
The champion mine OF Cottage
|Gr0ye will resume operations again In
y few days after shut down of several
|monthS. The new management will
|be under Mr., Weatherford OF Michigan.
Mr.. Preston II. Owings died at mis-
home on Jackson creek, July %, 1895
nged 1S years, month and days.
hr' OwingS was a Mexican war veter-
|nn, Il member of the Baptist church
Rnd good citizen.
AChinaman by the name OF Charley,
b cook in the Columbia hotel, stabbed |
JOe DetTron,a white lad aged 10 years.
Deiiron and other young hOodlums
we're tantallzing the Chinaman when |
Pc stabbed the latter with a knife.
A huge saw log struck the Mckenzie
Ferry boat at Hendricks ferry Satur-
pay evening which caused the boat to
spring leak and the hull filled W ith
"ater, but was run onto the bank be
fore II sunk.
The Journal says: "It will be five
lears, with a waste OF S20O,OO now
appropriated and $4,000 more to
Iome, before a tangible thing will be
zone on the'boat railway fraud at The
Dalles Of the Columbia"
The city council and water company
y koseburg, have at last come to
efms and signed a contract. This
l'y Will pay 5000 per year for water
Ut hre protection only, but will get
70 water forother purposes. HYdrants
re oelng connected with the mains.
Misses Bogart aud Kennedy of
-ugehe killed a large rattlasnake
'nicn oostructed their path. They
'0ned II TO death. 1t was seven
lner and the young ladies have the
ieclous rattles as a trophy for their
rlOr.
senator Mitchell writes Captain
'ppiegate that the postal department
:. a. 'uisapproved OF the proposition to /
''aoiish a mail line from Klamath
Sency TO Silver lake and TO increase 4
''rlce on the route from Silver rake
Prineville.
"a. Johnson and Fred Elliott, OF !
'0"lnnVille, had a narrow escape
@ Oui drowning in the Willamette /;
'er last Sunday. They drove intol !
: rl'er at an cid ford, but Il was too I
'ep and the horses aud men swan for
'o'e which they reached IN safety.
ueOrge McConnell' OF Portland, /
,suu Keeper OF the records and seals
,,, ,ue H. Of P. Of Oregon Is said to be
'oOe Oelller to the amount Of $4,000 OF
49, ~ Experts are working on the 1
'ns 'oAs, Mcconnell is thought TO be in
,pAoa' - having disappeared a week