Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-03-27
STATE NEWS.

April 5 when two councilmen will be
elected.
Mr.. Roney's store of Goshen was
robbed for the sixth time. $3.50
worth of good were stolen.
The soldiers home board at its
March meeting reelected all the
present officers.
The Union Telegraph Co., OF Union
Or, let contracts for polling all their
proposed lines.
Geo. Means, of TillamoUk, a we'll
known contractor, died at his home
Thursday. He was 81 years old.
"Not a cent for the state" that is
the decision of the Clatsop county
court in regard to paying the sta9
taxes. 7.
Grandma Curl, of SciO, fell last
week and dislocated her left Shout
der. She is slowly recovering although
u years of age.
The chicken thieves around, " ar
renton Or, have ceased their depreda-
tions simply because all the chickens
had disappeared. 2 - 'c.'
A graded course Of study has been
arranged by the county superintendent
of Lane county especially for the use
of country schools.
The Hall & Son opal mine, near Elk
press, on Burnt river. has been bonded
to Eastern capitalists, parb pay
ment being made.
1t was not wild parsnips that killed
the calves at the experiment. station
of the agricultural college, but water
hemlock says Professor French.
George Donahue found a prehistoric
mammoth's tooth in the Virtue min
ing district recently. The tooth
weighs 81 pounds, and Is 5xS inches
across the face.
The fund to erect a monument to
the victims of the Silver Lake fire, 10
Lake county, now amounts to $500
and negotiations for the marble have
been entered into.
Guy Parker of Portland has com
menced suit against the Overmar
wheel company for malicious prose
cution and false Imprisonment. Thu
sam sued for is $4,000.
Joseph Young, of Eagle Creek, wa
severely hurt by a runaway acciden
and has been taken to Gladston'
hospital at Oregon City where he
lies in a critical condition.
After a nine days session the gran
.Ijury, of Washington county, submit
, ted its report and was discharged
Fourteen true bills were returned.
recommendation was made that tn
t county provide a better jail.
Original pensions were granted t
Isaac j. Stacey, of Sans valley, Jacl
son county, and Walter s. Kitchen,
Jacksonville, Jackson county. Orig
: nal widows-Elizabeth Ray, of Ente
! prise, Wallowa county.
3 The Yamhiu circuit court close
: and as a result S. Ernest was charge
q with larceny, got one year in the per
Brown and Dryden, of Newberl
charged with burglary, plead guilt
and the later got two years in I'll
penltentiary.
Two cattle-buyers from Kansi
were in Corvallis last Monday, lookir
for prime beef stock. They wante
nothing over 3 years, nor young,
than last years calves. They expeC
!, to ship the cattle to Kansas and fro
there to England.
Society item from an exchang
"With the prospects of a saloC
ahead, we learn that the young ladi
have organized a 'lips-that-tOuc
ever-touch-mine clu
The young men have retaliated |
: organizing a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ers-shall-never-warm- their-feet-on-n
back."'
; Company B, O. N. g., of McMin
: vile is preparing for a series of pra
I tice marches. The first trip will
to Amity, with full camp equipag,
They have mapped out three marche
j one to Dayton, one to Newberg al
one to North Yamhill, each march
be somewhat longer than the pT
ceeding.
It At the annual meeting of the Or
gon Fruitgrowers' Union at Milto
u the following directors for the ensuiI
r. year were elected: M. d. Leedy, q
rus Powell, H. L. Cauvel, E. j. Davi
IS J.. NJ. Evans, M. ID. Leedy was elect
IS president; I'm. Evans, vice-preslder
= H. L. Cauyel, secretary; Cyrus Powe
% treasurer. .
70 The hummer Gulch mine, on Jun
office, is proving TO be one of q
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