Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-05-27
NEIGHBORING TOWNS
PROGRESS AND DOlNGS OF THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.

Budget of Interesting and Spicy
News From All the Cities and Towns
on the Coast-Thrift and Industry
In Every Quarter-oregon.
Enger, in Marion county, is working
for creamery.
The roundhouse at Kamela is being
repaired and improved.
Prineville's schoolhouse is being
fitted with new furniture.
The senior GLASS at the state univers-
ity numbers twenty this year.
The Woodmen of the World propose
to have great Fourth of July cele-
bration at Ashland.
A single-fare rate for the round trip
has been secured for the Pendleton
hremen's tournament.
About 2,500 pounds of quartz have
been shipped from the Ochoco mines
to the Tacoma smelter.
Linn county is to vote ON the ques-
tion whether stock shall run at large
or not, at the June election.
Rogue river has fallen sufficiently to
allow fishing to be resumed, and the
boats have started out again.
The Union county pioneers hold their
annual meeting at Cove, June 30. A
basket dinner will be served.
The Southern Pacific tie train is still
at work hauling ties from Henderson
to the creosoting plant at Latham.
Along Panther creek, in the Benton
county foothills, they are picking
strawberries these days out of snow
drifts.
The Oakland stookyards are being
improved and enlarged, in anticipation
Of big business from the fertile Ump-
qua valley.
The Dalles Chronicle says that
though last week was poor one for
| fish, the wheels paid expenses. Fisher
men at the Cascades have been doing
well.
Niday & Sexton are piping yet ON
the Wines mine, at the head of Jump
off-Joe. The late rains have extended
the season for this as we'll as all other
places in Southern Oregon.
Porter Squires, of Pennsylvania, has
rented the creamery at Fort klamath
and will begin making butter in few
days. Cheese for the early market is
now being made at the creamery.
Mrs. Alice Booth died at Wheat
land, Or. She was born December
26, 1909, at Aston Under Line. York.
shire, England, emigrated to Pennsyl.
vania in 1845, and came to Oregon in
1874.
A petition to congress is being signed
in FOSSIL. 1t asks that law be passed
allowing a wife to file on a homestead
of 100 acres of land for her own use,
the land not to be subject to the indebt.
edness of her husband.
Digger squirrles are destroying q
good many young turkeys in the neigh
borhood of Calapooia, in Douglas coun,
ty. Last week farmer followed q
squirrel to it's hole, where he found
twenty of his young turkeys slowed
away.
The sheep raisers Of Antelope have
had a good lambing, and expect tc
shear an unusually large crop of WOO
this season. A shipment of over 40(
bales of hops was made from Gervai
last week. They were from the Hard
ing pace.
Messrs Taylor & Wells have forc'
of six men at work getting out ore a
the Lucky Bart mine, and as soon al
the roads get good the unrefined meta
will be hauled to the mill. Some 50l
tons of good rock are now on the dump
Some of it will be shipped to Sal
Francisco for treatment.
The Farmers irrigating ditch, tn
main ditch in the Malheur valley
broke last week, and the shareowner
succeeded in getting it nearly mende,
when the fresh earth washed ava,
in defiance of their efforts to stop it
They are working ON it again, and will
doubtless have it as good as new.
All old Indian war veterans of Yam
hill county, and their wives an,
daughters, will meet at McMinnvill
on the first Friday in June, to elee
officers for the ensuing year, and {
choose delegates to the state enoamp
ment, which meets at Portland Jun
15. Il is expected 80 be very enjoy
able occasion.
Two young men made ten-strik
one day last week when they foun
five tiny coyotes under rock Will
out hunting in the brakes of the Johl
Day. The scalp of each pup is wort
50, just the same as though they wer
full grown. The same day the boy
, shot an old coyote, and will get .
each for their days sport.