Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-12-31
THE ALASKAN FLEET.
Steamships Headed for the Northwest
Business.

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reported is the British steamship Amur
which Victoria trading company has
purchased in London. The Amur is a
comparatively new vessel, having beer
built in 1890. She is 216 feet long
28. 1 feet beam, and 11.2 feet depth Of
hold, and is $40 tons net register. In
addition to about a dozen resurrected
vessels already on this coast that will
be in the Alaska service the following
steamships are now reported as listed
for the Pacific Northwest, some of
them having already sailed: Bothnia,
Scythia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Indiana, Cottage City, Curacao, Cone
maugh, City of Columbia, Valencia.
Amur, Brixham.
Oregon Notes.
Sleds are now being used on the
Union-Cornucopia stage line, from a
point four miles east of Medical springs
to Cornucopia, in Union county.
The heaviest surf experienced since
1884 prevailed on the Curry county
beach during the storms last week.
Many of the miners lost their beach fix
lures.
The report of Agent Emery shows a
total of 1,020 Indians ON the klamath
reservation, an increase of SO over last
year. These red men have been de
prived of allowances for the past IL
years, and most of them are supporting
themselves we'll.
A Lakeview paper says that scow,
to carry freight, has been put ON Goose
lake. in Lake county. The scow will
be fitted with sails and will be navi-
gated as we'll as may be that way until
gasoline engines can be put ON board of
her
A Southern Pacific official says that
up to December, the present season s
shipment of hops out of Oregon amount
ed to 26. 900 bales, and, since that time,
5000 more bales have gone forward,
making a total of 81, 900, or nearly one
half of the 1897 crop.
The city council of Salem has accept
ed the proposition of E. J. Swafford,
ex-city treasurer, and George Williams
and ]. A. Baker, his bondsnen, where
by they agree to pay $4,000 before De-
cember 81, in full payment of the bal
ance due the city from ex-Treasurer
Swafford.
Stock Inspector Vandvert, of Crook
county, will soon have finished his
semi-annaual inspection of the sheep in
Crook county. Only about 15 bands,
out of about $50, 900 head, remain un :
inspected. In all this lot, he has only
found three bands infected with scab,
and heard of two others that he will in
spect later.
The Brownsville Times is authority
for the statement that the greater part
of the hops in that vicinity are yet in
the hands of the growers. Joseph and
week shipped their '97 crop to a New
York commission house, and the hop
men are anxiously awaiting the returns
of this shipment.
The work of clearing out the dirt
from the quarry at Point Terrace, on the
Siuslaw, was finished last week. Part
of the machinery has already been
taken to the mouth of the river, and
stored in the buildings there, and the
rest will be placed there soon. Mr..
Jacoburger, who has had charge of the
work, informs the Florence West that
he hopes to have all this business in
Florence arranged SO he can leave this
week. About 45, 900 tons of rock have
been used and about 450 feet of jetty
built this year, says the West. The
channel has changed SO that nearly all
the water flows through the south
entrance.
In the trial of Allen Logan in Dallas
last week, on the charge of numbering
Enoch Sylvester, the head of the dead
was produced in court. The prosecu-
tion secured Identification of the grew
some piece of evidence, and showed the
jury fractures in the back part of the
skull sufficient to cause death. The
defense, however, produced as witnesses
three of the physicians who had been
present at the post-mortem, and estab
lished that the careful examination
these physicians had made was with
special reference to establish the fact
whether or not the blow delivered by
Logan had fractured the skull, and
each swore positively that at the post
mortem no such fractures were to be
found. The head turned out to be
boomerang for the prosecution, and it
probably contributed to the verdict in
Logan's favor.
1t has been many years since the tax
of Umatilla county have
showed such satisfactory footings as
they do this fall. For the last two
preceding years there was not an at
tempt made to collect the overwhelm-
ing list of delinquencies with which
the books at the sheriff's Office were
filed, for the taxpayefs were in such
straits that it would have been of little
avail to do SO. But it remained for
1897 to be the banner year, and for
the last several weeks the delinquent
accounts have been rapidly paid off,
until there remain but comparatively
few to collect. For three years pre-
,eding the present tax collection year,
the amounts of delinquencies that have
been paid this fall amount to $32,-
i17.06, apportioned among the periods
AS follows: Taxes of 1895, $23, 3,6O2. rs;
1894, $7,314.31; 1898, 1900.
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