Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-18
STATE NEWS

The Candy campmeeting begins to
day.
One Of the highest tides ever knowr
. in Astoria occurred last Sunday night
The State Horticultural society viii
be held in Newberg, on June % and 3s
Next Monday is election day in The
DalIes. a mayor and one councilman
for the city.
Fourteen thousand sheep were ship
ped from Saltmarsh & Cos, stock
yards at The Dalles to Chicago, Tues.
day morning
The Corvallis printers, challenge
any nine railroad men, school teach
ers, clerks or professional men to a
match game OF ball.
All county warrants presented be-
tween October 10, 1890 aud January /.
1891, have been called for payment by
the county treasurer OF Jackson
county.
Thomas r, Lyons. Of Heppner, has
been appointed townsite commissioner
at Juneau. Alaska. W. p. Whitlock
was appointed postmaster at Berry,
Marion county.
a company has been formed to con-
struct wagon road from Merlin,
Josephine comfy to Gold Beach,
Curry county, through the Galice
creek pass. The company have a cap
ital stock of $4,000.
There will be campmeeting in Ben
ton county, four miles east o: Monroe,
and seven miles north of Junction,
near the Ingram ferry. held by Elder
A. d. Skaggs of Corvallis, commence
ing June IS, and continuing over two
Sundays.
The badly decomposed body of a
man was found on Desdemona sands,
near Astoria, Wednesday. On the
body was found a number of dis
charges, the last being the name of
Henry Smith. a German, from the
British ship Solitaire.
A tramp, while trying to force en-
trance into a house owned by w.
Ewing, near West Fork, Douglas
county, was shot by set rifle. Some
of the contents of Mr. Ewings house
was stolen some time ago so he caught |
the thief by IA trap, His arm was
shot and badly shattered.
While j. w. Johnson was breaking
sod on his farm on Chenoweth creek,
three miles from The Dalles, when he
discovered the bones Of a human body,
a few inches under the surface. From
appearances the body had been in the
ground for Is or 20 years, the bones
being considerably decayed.
The receipts for fines and forfeitures |
in the police court in Astoria will run |
behind this year about $1,000 as COM
pared with last year. The estimate
by the council made up last February
from this source was $500. For April
and May last the receipts were $40
and $50. Last year the same months
fines aud forfeitures amounted TO 1856
and S77l. In July and August last
year the total for two months was
$2257.
Rather peculiar accident occurred
Monday evening, as Herbert Thomas
and BERTHE Woodruff were going to
Albany Gays the Democrat. The lat
ter boy was handling a pistol when it
was discharged, the ball passing
through his leg above the knee, emerg-
Ing, aud re-entering below the knee
and passing through the calf and en-
Jering the knee joint of his compan-
lon.
The Myrtle Point Enterprise tells
IF a German farmer living near that
,lty, who came into town one day
asst week, and In response to the in-
luiry OF friend as TO how he was
getting along, sand: "Mine vrend,
vas here for sure, now, for
nine old Zow she got zeyenteen leedle
'igs, and the whole beezeness is
live"
A fire at Junction City, Monday, .
'urned the Masonic building, loss ST.
90, insured for $500; Odd Fellows ,
loss 81 900, insured for 5000;
7. w. Starr building, loss $500, no in
urance. The furniture stock in this ]
belonged 10 Mrs. ii. W. :
and was totally destroyed. IL
'as valued at 81 ,O00, insured for s4OO; 2
humphrey building, loss $500, no in {
arance; The Junction Times build \
lg burned, loss $500, no insurance, 4
nd the plant was damaged 10 the n