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were conducted by clergyman at
Modesto Calf, few days ago, the
bride being sister of the deceased,
The old Arlington hotel, in Junction
City, destroyed by fire last week, was
valued at $1,000, and the furnishings
at $500. The hotel was insured for
$3.50.
Frank B, Clopton, who was appoint
ed TO examine the hooks of George r.
Lash, Pendleton's ex recorder, finds
that there is total shortage for three
years Of 4,O27.SO.
The Eugene soap factory is now
making on an average 5000 Bounce
cakes Of laundry soap each week. The
soap Is Of good quality and finds ready
sale on the markets,
A station agent at Phoenix, Arizona,
wants some one TO take box Of live
rattlesnakes and Gila monsters off his
hands. il came from Kansas in 0cto-
Der and no one claims il.
Because of reduction in the appro-
priation the police commission Of As
toria has decided 10 dispense with the
services oi Chief Of Police c. W.
Laushery after March !.
An undertaken in Alameda, Calf,
returned TO house after funeral to
got some Of his trappings when a
neigbbor, seeing him trying to open
the door, took him for a burglar and
fired three shots at him.
Athena's city council hes declared
that all gambling games must stop,
and that all saloons must close Sun
days. hthena's city election will
occur March 2, when it is expected
that the pros and coas Of the closing
question will be warmly discussed.
II Is learned that Horace Mann in
tends soon to remove to Idaho to
engage in newspaper work. MI. Mann
has edited the Times here, says the
Stayto1 Mail for about three years
and last week announced, without fur
ther explanation, that it would not be
issued this week.
The burglars that broke into New
berg store little over week ago were
deliberate crooks.n They took 30 or
40 suits Of clothes into the dressing
room, and each of the two carefully
fitted himself with a full suit. They
also took several dollars worth Of jew
elry and two overcoats.
AT a sale in Hillsboro of some per-
sonal Effects dlstraiDed by j. ?. Hicks
for board bill, DR.. Adkins bought a
coiu wallet aud its contents. An ex-
animation shnwed collection of very
old coins, mostly Of Portuguese mint,
One piece bears date of 1895, another
1876, while one is of date 1886.
A justice of the peace in Colfax,
Wash, was called upon recently to
perform a marriage ceremony in Ger
man. He al once secured an instructor,
and in an hour he memorized in that
tongue the American marriage cere-
mony, with which he joined the lives
of Christian Klewend and Anna NJ.
Poffenroth.
James Cooper, Of Mount Hood, has
an orchard of 1858 young apple trees,
which he bought last spring. They
made a fine growth last season, and
the loss was but l3 trees, most of which
were destroyed by gophers. He will
set 1000 trees this spring Mr.. Cooper
has been very successful in poisoning
gophers with strychnine inserted in
carrots,
City Marshal Lane, of Hillsboro, is
getting the tramp problem down TO a
fine point. 1t is his practice when he
sees one of these travelling gentlemen
about town, to keep him in sight, and
if the visitor cannot show habitation
either at one of the hotels or some
other place after O'Clock in the even
ing, to put him to bed in cell at the
city Jail, after first searching him.
There the tramp rests till morning,
when Mr. Lane turns him out with
notice to leave town in half an hour or
he will work on the streets.
Perhaps the first black walnut lum-
ber ever manufactured on the Pacific
coast from Pacific coast timber was
sawed few days ago at the mill of s.
H. Horton, west of Monroe, says the
Corvallis Times. The logs came from
old Lancaster, Two or three miles from
junction, and the trees Were planted
while the commonwealth was still in
swaddiug clothes, The logs We're in
dimensions from u to Is inches, and
only few hundred feet of the lumber
WIS made, The fiber is tough and the
grain smooth and susceptible of the