Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-22
gfAfE NEWS

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Walton and Morse, of Astoria had
}onr round bout ending in Walton
ht|ne worsted. The city issued per-
mi Tor the contest it is claimed.
K.amath Falls is preparing to
Amt the electric light and water
tonIpany of that place, to restrain the
canpany from collecting interest on
$1,000 bonds.
specal municipal election to be
held on Friday, June %, at Myrtle
pa|at. to vote on the question of bond
lne he town for $4,000 for the purpose
olpntting in good light and water
sysiem.
The Dalles Times. Mountaineer says:
4t Is reported that 10000 head Of
horses have been bought in the section
OF country between Umatilla and
Castle Rock, in Washington, by the
Liunton cannery, at an average of S1.50
per head.
At meeting of the stockholders
Of the Lake County Cooperative
Union. at Pine creek, last week, it
was found that the store business
was about 5000 behind, that the longer
ii was run the farther behind it was
getting.
A little l3-months old child of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Dye, died at Myrtle
Point Monday. The little one acei-
4 nIr nf
trated lye from a can, and was
brought to town for medical aid,
which proved futile.
A special officer of the Wells Fargo
express, 9. II. Jennings, arrived in
R0seburg Sunday with Albert Pool,
whom he had arrested in Washington
county, Idaho. Pool will be held for
trainrobbery in Cow creek canyon,
1895.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Swaggart, at
Athena, celebrated their 50th we'd
ding anniversary. Mr.. Swaggart is
80 years of age and Mrs Swaggart 66.
They crossed the plains in 1853. They
lived in Lane county 20 years and re-
moved to Eastern Oregon.
Tony Hansen, aged II years old,
made the trip from the Alsea country
ia Lane county, distance of 60 miles.
He was thinly clad and bare footed.
having on light overalls and a thin
shirt and ragged coat. He came to
ask the county board for aid. He
Il, lly t,,nHa hn lpnp
foot.
12-year-old daughter of section
foreman at Oregon City fell through
the railroad bridge at the Clackamas
last evening, a distance of fully II
feet, to the ragged rocks below. She
was carrying an umbrella, which
opened as she fell, and served as a |
parachute to ease her fall, and her in
juries consist of bruises.
A phenomenon in the shape of a |
calf was born to one of Mart Walters |
COWS. at Lakeview, last week. Twins
were born, one of them without vest ,
ige Of a tail. In fact, says the Ex-
aminer, in the place where that useful |
appendum ought to be, several of the
yertebra are missing, which gives the J
calf a very ludicrous appearance.
S. S. Piersol came to Pendleton Fri
day evening from Ritter, Grant
county and reported that, while he
was at Jacob Browns place, on Owens
creek, between Ukiah and Alba, word |
came In from the mountains that a
sheepherder had shot himself in the
leg near Camp creek, at the head Of
Camas prairie close to the North
Fork.
There were only two Kangaroo Col
umbia bicycles in Oregon, One is
owned by e. M. Waite, the vetern
printer of Salem, now over 70 years of
age. Mr.. Waite, continues to ride his
wheel regardless Of its being for out
Of date. The other is owned by the
Man about town, of the Democrat Of
iice, and there is rumor that it will
be seen in the plug ugglies on the 4th
Of July. 1t has not been used efor
several years.-Albany Democrat
The Rosepurg Review gets this off |
on the women of Eugene "a balloon
ascent and parachute jump is to be
an attgaction at the Albany 4th of
July celebration, and the professor (?) |
adyertises that he will marry any
women who will make the ascent with |
him and stay in the balloon after he
cuts the parachute loose. If this
proposition is ever made in Eugene,
Il IS stated upon good authority that
The bold aerial navigator will be
forced to enlarge the carrying capac-
.ty Of his balloon" The Ashland Rec
ofd gets the same thing off on jack
1uFille. Come to Albany and see