Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-29
STATE NEWS


proven failures
Eugene's school superintendent
will receive a salary of 1920 for the
ensuing year.
The Methodist Episcopal Columbia
river conference will be held in Pend
Teton, August % next.
The residence OF DR.. r. L. Lincoln I
of La Grande burned Thursday. Loss
$1,000. Insurance 800.
The first races on Medford's new
fair grounds took place on Thursday.
The track was rather neavy.
Ninety-nine cars of cattle will be
shipped from Eugene this week aud
several thousand head driven To the
range.
The term of the Clatsop county
court is over, and some cases which
were on the docket for 25 years, were
cleaned up,
a Benton county young man is said
to have gotten even with rival. of
whom he was jealous, by sticking
twenty-oLe pins in his bicycles tire
Judge Fullerton has overruled the
demurrer to the complaint in the case
brought by women of Eugene to test
their rights to vote at school elections.
The Yamhill county Baptist Sun
day school convention and young peo-
pies rally closed Thursday, at McMin-
nville. The next convention will be
on June /, 1898.
The Medford Mail gives a fifteen
column write.up of jackson county,
/ which gives that county what it de-
serves. The Mail is to be cOngratu-
lated upon its effort.
In the case Of William j. Sherlock,
at LakeYiew, charged with murder
in the first degree Of Charles j.
Walker. at Summer Lake, last Septem-
: Der, the jury returned verdict of not
guilty
Ranchers in Gillian county are
becoming alarmed from the vast
amount Of graSshoppers on Rock
Creek. They are thick and more
hatching. They are making inroads
on the gardens.
Gus Wells, of Tillamook, lost his
life in Frank Severence's logging
camp last Tuesday by log rolling
over him. He leaVes family and 10
children most of whom are small and
unable to provide for themselves.
The city council of Eugene have
instructed the city marshal to in
struct the Salvation Army to hold
their street services so as not to in
terrupt lodge and other services, COM
plaint having been made by several
lodges and churches.
The date of the trials of Magone,
VIM. Rector, and Ed. Long respec-
lively are for June IL and IA. Chas.
Montgomery plead guilty to two in
dictments, one for robbing the grave
of the body and one for stealing the
head board.
AS the merits of the case were ar
gued on the demurrer, this settles the
case, as far as this opinion of the
court is concerned, in favor of the
right of women taxpayers to vote for
officers Of a school district. 1t is un.
derstood that the case will go to the
supreme court.
The following advertisement ap-
pears in the Lebanon Express; Par
ties wanting to trade bacon for lum-
ber call on or address r. R. Humphrey,
Waterloo, Oregon, who has lumber OF
all description at Lebanon and the
mill. Will trade for anything that
man or beast can eat, until we get
, free coinage of silver.
SIN Astoria servant girls who earn
but eight dollars per month will pay
Q FIVE dollars per month for install
ments and spend the other Three dol
, lars for repairs. Young men wh'
hayn't a second suit of clothes to thei
l names and go to bed while they ger
+, their shirts washed manage to stanC
: off their debts and buy wheels Bud
= get.
: That band of gypsies, or rathe
: Spaniards, arrived in Albany Thurs
0 day morning much earlier than wa
!, expected, having made forced marche
: from Drain. They we're informed
: there that the state far was in ses
h sion at Salem, and they are in a hurr!
. TO get there. They are"bad eggs" al
= the way through an orney' CULTS lot
n Albany Democrat.