Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-01-31
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
La Grande levied ten mill tax for
city purposes.
The city of Heppner is now out Of
debt. Has money In the treasury.
The ladies of The Dalles are work.
ing TO get public library for the
town.
The Touring mill in Fossil has shut
down and will remain closed until
spring.
MaryA. Caldwell hasbeen appointed
postmistress at Carlton, vice Jbhn w.
Collins, removed.
John Prov, of LaGrande, Oregon
died Wednesday night of pneumonia.
He was taken sick Saturday.
Duncan Bros will erect a steam saw
mill at Duncanville, in Grant county
on the headwaters OF Silvies river.
Trains were blockaded on the Elgin
branch IN Eastern Oregon. A ratory
snowplow had TO be pressed into SER
vice,
The employees Of the paper mill and
excelsior mill, in Lebanon, are form
ing a stock company to send two men
TO Klondike TO prospect.
| The boiler of the Eagle Woolen
mill, at Brownsville, sprung leak on
Friday night, which necessitated the
closing down Of the mill.
A Farmers Institute will be held at
La Grande from Feb Il to 255h in
elusive. Twenty professors and ex-
perts from abroad will be in attend
ance.
The injunction suit restraining the
payment of warrants isued to the
sheriff OF Lincoln county and for ex-
perting books was dismissed Thurs
day.
The committee appointed In Astoria
by the Astoria Progressive and Com
mercial Association reports haYing
completed the fund for the establish
ing or the Sandy river hatchery.
The sale OF lands in the IFort Kla.
math abandoned military reserva-
tion, which was advertised to take
place on FEBRUARY 8, has been cost |
ponen. A new date has not yet been |
fixed.
On the Bowman farm in Syracuse |
precinct, Linn county, w. III. Bow |
man, Alex Dumond, Fred Farlow and |
Winifred, Elias and Walter Truax |
ran upon den of full grown skunks |
in log. They drove the skunks out |
with sticks and clubbed 13 of them TO
death
The Point Adams life-saving crew,
OF near Astoria, found the body of
man, which they sent to Astoria. 1t
Is supposed TO be the body of State |
Boatman Bradford. He was drowned
October 26 and is ia n badly decom-
posed condition. A bunch of keys and
a knife were In his clothing and were
recognized.
The 10 days extention OF time
granted Gus Wachline's attorneys 10
prepare and file bill OF exceptions for
an appeal 10 the supreme court eX-
pired Saturday. No papers were filed
and il is believed the execution will
take place at Hillsboro as ordered by
the death warrant, February be-
tween the hours OF 10 a, m. and 4 D. m.
Ben Hinton and Harry Creighton,
aged 10 and II respectively, of Hamil-
ton, small burg in Eastern Oregon,
we're at a dance and an alteration !
-ook place. Young Hinton stabbed
Nrighton under the left shoulder blade :
causing an ugly wound. No arrests
yet. The wound was not fatal, though
q required ten stitches. The matter
Will be dropped owing TO the youth
'ulness OF the parties,
The estimated expenses OF McMin-
'ille for 1898 for salaries, street work,
interest on bonds, floating debt, etc,
Ire $4,000. The floating debt is $553S,
making the total estimated indebted
ness Sl2, l3S, The estimated income
rom water, light, taXas and licenses
5 $40, 1873, This will leave floating
lebt at the close Of the year OF S2OO5.
The floating debt in 1893 was S3505 80, a
Mrs. GATHERINGS S. Davis died Thurs n
lay night at the home OF her daughter, y
lTS. James Iuddleston. She was 81 n
ears OF age, and one of the promi- il
ent and respected pioneers OF Eugene p
HE came across the plains q
With her husband In lS47 and settled ,
n a farm three miles from Eugene. p
newport; l., Davis and Mrs. James u
luddleSton, OF Eugene; w. l.. Davis, b
{ Nashville, Or, and DR.. NJ. NJ. Da- Il
is, OF Corvallis =
Considerable interest is manifested i,
= Corvallis In an effort the Earl S
Tuit company is 10 make 10 collect
ack freight and commission charges m
n green prune shipments, 10 the East q
ISt summer. Many of che growers
no shipped found, when the accounts
sales were rendered, that, instead
havirg balance due them, IL had
ot sold for enough 70 pay tTanspOrta-
on and commission charges, These ii
ack charges in the Willamette wall
y are said by those who know, TO
mount 10 $4,000; ia Benton county 4,
ley aggregate between $1,000 aud Go
500 Fruit growers have combined -
nd will resist the attempts 10 collect se