Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-06-17
OREGON STATE NEWS.
Interesting Collection OF Items From
Town aud County.

COuub1 NObO nhb AhOAOdeOu
since 1894 from TT to SOL.
About 1000, 900 pounds of wool is
stored in Dalles warehouses.
Llewelyn, Lane county, will put up
new school building this summer.
There are to be firemen's races, BIZ
cycle races, footraces, barbecue, danc-
ing, parades, q baseball game and
torchlight procession at Pendleton on
the Fourth Of July.
There will not be much early fruit
in Southern Oregon this year. and the
prospects for large crop of late fruit
are not encouraging. Considerable is
dropping from the trees.
Doc Wilson, an Eastern sheepbuyer,
drove band OF 5000 sheep East from
Grant county last week. He will
drive another band out this week, or as
soon as shearing is completed.
Two teams loaded with wool from
Wagner, Grant county, arrived in The
Dalles. 1t was the first of clip
from 1000 head Of sheep that will be
shipped from Wagner to The Dalles.
Postmaster ]. G. Crossen, of The
Dalles, received notification that after
July /, 1896, The Dalles postoffice will
be rated as second. class office. the re-
ceipts of the office having been suffi-
cient to entitle it TO be raised one
grade.
The Umatilla grand jury at Pendle-
ton indicted G. T. Hogan for unlaw-
fully selling liquor. Hogan pleaded
guilty and was fined $50 and costs.
Oliver Walden and Gus Fisher were
indicted for stealing eight sacks of
wheat.
County Clerk Kelsay, Of The Dalles.
has shipped four tons Of peas to Mon
tana, receiving an average of 500 per
ton. He will soon have another ton
for shipment, The peas planted in
February did better than those planted
in the fall
1t was A. P. Berg's idea of joke
to write to the Astorian from Fort
Stevens that John Fish had been shot
and killed by Mr.. jackson for elop-
ing with Mrs. jackson. There is no
Fish and no Mr.. and Mrs. jackson in
Fort Stevens.
James Christopherson and another
young man were crossing the Umatilla
river at Cayuse station the other day,
and, the river being at higher stage,
the horses lost their footing and were
drowned. The young men succeeded
in extricating themselves from the sad
dies and escaped
John Mccormick, of Gervais, has
entered into contracts to supply San
Francisco hopbuyers with 10000
pounds of hops from his farm during
each of the years 1896, 1897 and 1895.
He is to receive seven cents per pound
for the hops, delivered at either Ger
vais or Woodburn by October 81.
Notwithstanding the attractive ap-
pearance of the many fishweels and
traps that are distributed along the
river, the royal chinook refuses to be
enticed into their meshes, consequently
salmon is as scarce as winter butter in
this market, and the canneries are
lying idle, says The Dalles Chronicle,
The first cargo of coal from thu
Shasta Costa mine in Curry county
was delivered in Wedderburn recently.
The coal has been tested and proved &c
be of fine quality. For many years,
the Wedderburn Gazette says, efforts
have been made to have the deposits OF
coal in the EASTERN part of the county
developed, but this is the first practi.
cal attempt.
At the regular annual meeting OF
the Southern Oregon Pioneer Society
held at Ashland, the following officer
were elected President, Hon. P. p
Prim; first vice. president. H. f. An
keny; second yice-president, @. K
Klum; secretary, Silas J. Day; treas
urer. G. G. Beekman. The next an
nual reunion will be held in jackson
vile. September 3, 1895.
+. Mcdonald is the possessor o
. quite a collection of Indian relics
which he found upon Chehalem noun
tain, in Yamhill, few days ago, pre-
sumably at an old Indian grave Their
are two mortars, a small stone last ant
obsidian trinkets, and several flint anC
obsidian arrow and spear heads. Mr.
Mcdonald isn't satisfied with his find
and will make another visit to the spo
in search Of more relics.
While man was hunting COWS il
the woods near Nehalem last week. h
found three large circular saws hidde
! in the brush near the bank of tn
J river. The general impression is ths
the saws were stolen from a sawnni
: at Grand Rapids, on the upper Nehs
lem, and brought down the river an
Q hidden. No saws of that size hay
. ever been in use on the lower rive
D and this seems to be the only plausibl
g explanation, as it is known that gre,
q deal of machinery has been carrie
away from the mill at Grand Rapid
The capacity of the Grand Rome
j. Lumber Company s sawmill at Perr,
: in Union county. is considered to
J: 100, 900 feet of lumber per day, bI
9 occasionally this output is exceeded
n The high water record so far was thi
i. made on the 22d ultimo, when the e
70 tai output in IL hours was 114,00
It feet. On this day 400 sawlogs wer
It transformed into lumber, and the out
o put on that date would be equivaler
to about ten carloads.
The three placer mines in Fox vale
in Grant county, are all running
10 full blast with full head of waite
i They expect to have plenty of wat
70 until after the Fourth OF July, al