Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-08-25
WILD WEST WAITS.

"A humpback whale 40 feet long has
| drlfted ashore few miles above Ban
| don, Or.
A fish company at Bellingham Bay.
Or. canned $1,000 salmon in TWO days
| recently.
A fruit drier is to be erected in the
! Mosier ncighborhood, Wasco county. Or.
| to handle this years crop of prunes. Is.
timated at 225 tons.
| Bears are reported to be plentiful in
the mountains near Delta, Ida. and
anyone having a good bear dog will find
excellent sport in his line
In future all brick used at Agnew's
Insane asylum in San Jose, Cal, will be
made at the Napa asylum. thus saving
I the state thousands of dollars
-Eightytive head of horses were sold
| IN PrlneVllIe, Or, at prices ranging from
$40 to $50 Il head. They were said to
be intended for cavalry service.
A cougar was killed in Alsea. Or,
the other day by Richard Zahn and his
dog. The cougar is the seventeenth that
Mr.. Zahn has killed with the aid of the
same dog IN the past eight years.
The mountains in Washington are
literally full of berries of all kinds, par
tlcuiaTly in the burned districts Black
and dewberries, blackcaps and buckle
berries, especially, are very plentiful.
Some years ago it was the Cherokee
strip with not white settler in all its
bounds. Now the Territory Of Oklaho-
ma, with 100000 inhabitants and a har-
vest worth $100,O0O,000. seeks admission
as a state.
Bears have been killing yearling cat
tie out near Chesnimnus. Wallowa coun-
ty, Or, this summer. In radius of ten
miles seventeen carcasses were found hy
the cattlemen while making a tour of
that section.
A farmer near Hitchcock, s. D.. has
demonstrated that sugar cane can be
successfully grown in that climate He
experimental with twelve acres Of what
is commonly called sorghum cane" and
is more than gratified with the result.
Vancouver. b. G., reports that the
fiShermen's strike is over. The men
agreed to work for the remainder of the
season at - cents straight, without ref
erence to size of the catch. and the ques-
ton of recognition of the union was left
undetermined.
Squire Parker of Parker's Station.
Or, and Mr.. Dunbar a cruiser for the
Bray-Choate Land company of Oshkosh.
WIS. closed a deal with j. w Hamaker
for the purchase of 1910 acres of his
timber land for $4,000, says the Klamath
Falls Express.
The total assessed valuation of prop
erty in North Dakota after the board of
equalization adjusts the values of va
rious classes of property will he between
S1lS,O00U00 and S120.000000 This
VIII be an increase of several million dol
lars over the valuation last year.
Chemist Ackerly of the Oregon Suc-
ar company states that he has already
made several tests of this seasons sugar
| beetS and finds them exceedingly rich
says the La Grande Observer. and the
indications are that the tonnage will be
greater this year than heretofore
The Rod and Gun club of Marion
county, Or, has decided to stock the
county with gray English partridces. The
club will purchase fourteen pairs of
these game birds, which they expect 10
receive late III the fall, when they will
be turned loose in different parts of the
county.
A dispatch from Huron. s. D.. says
the prairies are covered with a thick
growth of grass and are in better graz
ing condition than for ten years. There
is an abundance Of hay Of excellent quail
ity and the $4,000 or more cattle in Bea-
die county will not lack for feed the COM
ing winter.
Two very pretty children, boy OF s
years and a girl of q, reached Portland,
Or, the other day. They were from
British Honduras. Contra! America. and
were tagged 70 an uncle in Portland.
Passengers OH the train treated them
with marked kindness, and made them
voluntarily contributions of money.
July %, little spark, said to have
dropped from the smokestack Of Lucky
Baldwin's waterworks engine, started a
fire in Big Santa Anita canyon. To-day
the fire is still burning: a million dollars
worth of damage has been done. and 10
follow the margin Of the burned district
a man would have to travel go miles.
Over 1900 carloads of citrus fruits
have already been shipped from southern
California and it is estimated that the
total for the year closing the last Of
October, 1900. will reacn pretty close to
$4,000 carloads. The -alue OF this year
crop of southern California citrus fruits
will probably be something over $1,000,
600.
Councilman Frank Busch Of Oregon
City. Or, complains that the cutwOrms
took possession of a beehive filled with
honey standing in his yard. drove the
bees out. AID after deyouriug the honey,
finished NJ On the empty comb. Il was
apparent that the sting Of the bees had
no effect On the hairy bodies Of the in
sects.
Sixteen hundred dollars was paid for
crop OF eighteen acres Of Mission