Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-07-16
STATE NEWS.

According to the Albany city treas
urers report that city has debt OF
S109, ,O6O.66.
The Roseburg Water Company ha.
been offered 5000 for use of water fo,
fire protection.
The total expense of the state in or.
dering out the militia TO Astoria will
be about $4,000.
The Albany Colts are being dined,
wined and toasted with poetry. prose
and wet goods
The managers of the Crook county
campmeetlng advertise good fishing
as one of the attractions.
Good authorities claim the wheat
crop of Umatilla county was damaged
80 per cent by the late hot weather.
Mrs. Egan, of Walla Walla. was
present and dressed VIM. j. Bryan
when that gentleman first saw day.
light.
A family band in McMinnville coz
sists of Mr.. Glow, three daughters
and two sons. They make excellent
music.
Crook county cattle rasers have
this season sold 5000 head of cattle.
OF this number 1000 go to Montana
and 5000 to Colorado
The bondsmen of A, GOttings, the
defaulting sheriff of Harvey county
will have to put up about $1,000 TO
make his shortage good.
Opposite the names of escaped pris-
oners from the Portland Jail, the word
discharged" is written, and it is
causing SOME comment.
There has been thirty postonices
two trains, and two stages robbed in
Oregon and Washington, and the
amount stolen, was all the way from
S. to $500.
Sheriff StinsOn, Of Klickitat county,
Wash, estimates that there are A.
534 Oregon sheep in that county,
which have been driven there for a
summer range.
Hon. George Bennett has donated to
the Methodist church South, of !
Bandon, foNr acres of land on which |
will be erected a handsome parsonage |
for use of its pastor.
Four cases of diptheria are reported |
in Eugene In the family of Frank |
Johnson. Mrs. Johnson :and thereof |
the children. The cases have been
duely quarantined.
William Kenick was accidentally |
killed at Milton last Saturday by |
being thrown from buggy during a |
He was driving a span of |
horses that became frightened.
The news comes from Grant county
that the sheep war, as it is called, is
taking on an alarming nature, and il
sheepmen overstep the quarantine
limits as prescribed there will be
blood shed.
A second meeting Of the farmers of
Lane county to consider the mill ques-
tion was held at the courthouse In
Eugene. A permanent organization
10 be known as the Farmers Protect
I've Association Of Lane county, was
effected.
The viewers of the Bohemia road
'ay the grade OF the proposed new
'oad will not exceed twenty inches TO
,he rod. The road to the Bohemia
mines from Cottage Grove in some
)laces has a grade of fifty TO sixty
nches to the rod.
Company f and the Hospital corps
4 the Second Regiment o. N. g.,
tationed at Albany, and Company c.,
t Eugene, are planning for volun-
AIRY encampment near Newport, =
about August 10.
The big drive of logs for the Goods
lie Lumber Company, OF Coburg, will
e started down the Mckenzie next
Ionday. The drive consists Of be-
ween 1900, 900 and 100000 feet and
he distance they will have to be run
own the river is about 80 miles.
Mr.. Andrew Lythe, who liYes on
Willow creek met with quite serious
ccident last Tuesday morning. He
Yas on horse back when the horse
ecame unmanageable and ran into
barb wire fence and seriously
lcerating his left arm and left leg.
Mr. Showers of Forrest Grove, has
Plymouth Rock hen that laid an
gg measuring 81 inches around one
Iay and s inches the other way. She !
lid another egg this week one-quar-
r of an inch less in one dimension
Ir. Showers has the eggs 10 prove 1t. .,
'regon dOsnt do things by halys =
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