The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-07-31
Oregon Notes

oregon notes,
Tho three inmates Of the insane asylum
/ waS escaped last Wednesday, we're cap
tured Friday near Scott's Mills, in
Marion county. $3.50
The Burns city council has purchased
q FIRST class fire engine for Burns The
town has long been without any means
Of fighting fire.
| Several reports have recently been re-
ceiyed in Eugene that fish in the McKin-
| zie river, north Of Eugene, are being
killed by giant powder.
The steam brick and tile plant OF d.
Giles & Sons, at Myrtle Point, is running
In full blaet They will put up kiln OF
| 200, 900 brick, besides q large kiln Of tile
| this season.
The postal department. has disappoved
OF the proposition to establish mail line
from Klamath agency to Silver lake, and
to increase service on the route between
Silver lake and Prineville.
| w. j.. Wade has resigned the position
as farmer at the Siletz agency, and John
Magee, ir., has been appointed to ill his
| place temporarily, until the department
sends civil service man to take his
place,
Joseph Emery, Of Salinas, GAL, will
succeed NJ. D. Shelby as agent OF the
Klamath Falls Indian agency. MIR.
Emery was formerly the agent Of the
| Klamath reservation, having served
under Cleveland's first administration.
The residence Of Homer Mace, 10 miles
southeast of Burns, In Harney county,
burned last week A pan OF grease on
| the cooking.etove caught fire, and Mr..
and Mrs. AIace, who were the only ones
there, we're able to save nothing. The
loss was about $4,000, partly insured.
Mrs, Hubbard, wife of ex,County
Judge w. @. Hubbard, of Marion county,
while out driving last Thursday with her
husband, and another, along narrow
road on the upper santiam, waa injured
| by being thrown from the vehicle, which
went over the road bunk. She struck
head first. and was unconscious for "a
hours afterward. The Others were not
seriously injured.
| ]. M. Lawrence and M. d, Balm have
+. made arrangements to begin tho pnblica-
tion OF q semi-weekly newspaper In
Oregon City, beginning about August 20.
| in response, they say to the demand for
GidaT-Cut IepuUilChH newspaper, acLu-
ated by republican principles, and not
merely by personal factions" The busi-
ness and good will Of the Three Sisters
will go to the new paper.
| ]. FL. Shearer, Of Wasco county, ia
probably the only wool grower in the
Northwest who ships his own product
| direct to Eastern buyers. Mr.. Shearer
has his own baler, prepares bis clip for
1, shipment at his ranches on Deschutes,
and ships 1t direct to Boston. His clip
this year amounts to 100000 pounds,
which he is sending to the D. P. q A, N
warehouse, In The Dalles. and will ship
1t by the Regulator line to Portland, and
from there TO Boston.
The river by ths Eugene saRmill con.
tains as pretty a lot of sawlogs ais can be
seen anywhere, says the Guard. A big
boom has heen stretched diagonally
across the river, and the stream is
crowded and packed with logs from o
point for below the mill almost up to the
bridge. Tho Fall creek drive Of over
100000 feet, which was run down the
willamette by |. Barbre, is now all in.
Tho buzz OF the saa may now be heard,
and the mill will bs kept busy during the
summer to dispose Of the logs.