The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1897-12-10
OREGON STATE NEWS.
brief Review Of the Week Throughout
the State.

Salem has at last a chamber OF COM
merce organized and in working order.
The government improvement work
at Bandon has stopped, the appropria-
tion having been fully expended.
An old-fashioned freight train ar
rived in Lakeview from the south last
week. 1t consisted Of 10 wagons and
80 horses.
The entrance to Coos bay harbor is
marked by new whistling buoy
placed there by the lighthouse tender
Manzanita last week.
During the recent heavy storms the
oyster beds at Willapa harbor were
buried in drifting sands until at least
half the crop will be lost.
The Baker-Canyon Telephone Com
pany now has the long-dlstance line
between Baker City and the Grant
county town in working order.
Lyons broomhandle factory, in
! Coos county, shipped 40, 600 Of its best
product to San Francisco last week A
portion OF the consignment will ls
forwarded to Australia.
Captain Berry, the aged lighthouse
keeper at Port Angeles, died in the
Sisters hospital at Port Townsend
Sunday. He has been keeper Of the
light at Angeles for the past 20 years.
The farmers who supply the Coquille
creamery received 2G1a cents pound
for butter fat, delivered during Ooto-
I ber. Two thousand dollars was dis
tributed among those who supplied the
creamery.
A Polk county farmer has been ex-
perimenting with tobacco culture, and
has been so successful that cigars made
with tobacco grown by him are said to
be as good as the average cigar smoked
in Oregon.
1t is said that the next grand jury in
Curry county will not meet until sep
tember next. If this is the case, it is
apt to be long time before the Van
Pelts will have to answer the charge Of
killing A. Coolidge.
A drove of about 1875 nice trim young
mules, which had been bought in Lake
county, were secured at the low average
price of $l5 per head They will be
taken to Huntington and then shipped
to the Eastern market.
Joe Silver, who is making a tour OF
the United States from New York and
return on bicycle, was fined $40 in
Harrisburg for riding on the sidewalk.
He was allowed to 60 on condition of
his leaving the city at once.
The checks for the second dividend
declared by the cont oler OF tie cur
rency in favor Of the creditors OF The
Dalles National bank have been re-
ceived by Receiver Wilson, and are
ready for delivery to the owners.
The Albany iron works is very busy
place these days The company
shipped out 10 TONS Of machinery last
Friday, including a quartz mill manu-
factured for Southern Oregon mines,
and machinery for the state pumping
station at Salem
One hundred and forty four bales Of
hops, aggregatng over $4,000 pounds,
belonging to five growers in the vicinity
of Laurel, were sold Monday for IL
cents per pound. Tuesday 43 bales,
aggregating over $500 pounds, were
sold to j. NJ. Russell & Co., for III
cents per pound.
The grain acreage in Jackson county
for the coming year will in all likel-
hood suprass in extent any year in the
history Of Rogue river valley, and If
conditions prove favorable, the greatest
number Of bushels of grain in the his
tory OF the county will be harvested in
1898. This, says the Tidngs, is the
opinion Of well-informed persons.
During the last few months a Crock
county firm has purchased 16, 900 head
OF sheep, and are now handling about
%, 900 head. They are all in their
winter range, and each flock is within
convenient distance of big stacks Of
hay, more than sufficient to carry them
through the hardest winter The