Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-09-17
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST

From All the Cities and Towns c<
the Thriving Sister States
Oregon.
During the week ending September
4, 81, 522.33 was paid out on money
orders by the Salem postofice.
The revenue of the city of Astoria
will fall short this year on fines and
forfeitures at least $1,000, and prob
ably more.
The Beaver Hill Coal Company, in
Coos county, has received a diamond
drill that will be used in prospecting
its properties.
Everything at the cannery in Marsh
field is running smoothly, and the
quality of the fish is good. The man
agement claims to be able to put up 700
cases day.
A Scottsburg farmer thinks he has
some tall corn on his farm. He says
there is one stalk IL feet inches high,
one 10 feet 2 inches, and two that grow
up 10 feet.
Sheepmen of Gillian county say that
the grass is drying up pretty fast in the
mountains and that the sheep will be
taken to their home range earlier than
usual this season.
The fall run of beshows, or coal fish,
has arrived in Coos bay, and large
quantities are being caught with hooks
aud lines of the cannery wharf. Some
people consider these fish nearly as
good as mackerel.
The Brownsville Woolen Mills are so
crowded with orders for goods. that the
machinery is kept humming from day
light until dark, and some of it day and
night, says the Brownsville Times.
Last week the wages of employees were
advanced 5 per cent.
The cannery at Marshfield ran short
on cans last week, and had to stop the
receipt of fish for one day, but is now
in operation, and is canning all the
fish received. Superintendent Flye
says that they are now able to take care
of 2, 900 chinooks day.
A placer mining company operating
on the Baker county side of Powder
river, one and one-hslf miles from its
mouth, has floating fume quarter
of mile long. three feet wide and a
foot deep, and a few men there are
getting big paying Aesults.
The Vale Advocate says that in the
canyon of the Malheur there is a small
active animal unlike anything described
in the natural histories. By people
living on the Malheur it is called a
"rocket cat," although it is very un-
like the common stubtail wild cat, of
which there are many in the country.
A resident of the Helix country, in
Umatilla county, takes the palm so far
this4season for growing the largest yield
of barley per acre. His barley turned
out 70 bushels per acre, and his wheat
crop went above 40 bushels. He sold
his wheat crop for better than 70 cents,
and he is in excellent humor in conse-
quence.
A savage boar attacked two horses
pastured on the Bellfountain fruit farm,
N Benton county, last week, killing
one and manning the other. The
horses belonged to men working for the
Green Peak Fruit Company. Later,
the owner of the hog removed its tusks
and penned it up. When next he
visited it he found the animal dead.
Washington.
Three inches of snow fell on the
Wenatchee summit one night last week.
The shingle mill at Ocosta has been
started, giving employment to over 90
men.
There are not enough loggers and mill
hands in the Gray's harbor country to
supply the demand.
A. G. Little, state fish commissioner,
hopes to have the fish hatchery on the
Chehalis river ready for the fall run of
steelheads.
Improvements now being made at the
warehouse in Wilbur will raise the
total storage capacity for grain at that
place to $50, 900 bushels.
State Dairy Commissioner Mcdonald
warns owners of cows to look out for
and lumpy jaw. Several
cases of lumpy jaw have recently been
from Pierce and King counties,
and COW suffering from tuberculosis
was killed near Fern hill, not far from
Tacoma, recently, by the commissioner.
The Indians on the Yakima reserva-
5ion complain that some of the squaw
men who used to be employed in doing
.he threshing on the reservation have
'evenged themselves, because of the
of steam thresher, by
putting barb wire into the bundles of
grain, thereby wrecking the cylinder of
he thresher.
detachment of Uncle Sans regular
lrmy, from the Vancouver barracks,
consisting of two lieutenants, corporal
Ind four privates, with complete
amping equipment, has been to camp
n Clallam county surveying and MAX
ng maps of the roads in that vicinity.
While there are six horses and mules
n the outfit, two of the officers use
bicycles, and say that they are far
uperior to horses for such work.
A movement is ON foot in Colville
or the purpose of raising funds with
which to build new courthouse. Lib
raj donations of material are offered,
nd about all the money that will be
equired will be that necessary to pay
or the labor.
The ceremonies attending the dedica-
ing and unveiling of the Whitman
nonument in Walla Walla will occur
November 30, as that will be the 5Oth
nniversay of Whitman's death. The
otal cost of the monument, including
ne Enclosures, will be ga, 10N.