Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1901-04-18
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS.

The Portland brewers strike nears
an end.
Lowell, Wash. had an $4,000 fire on
Monday.
Nome mail dated January l5 has ar
rived at Seattle.
The Presbytery of Oregon is in ses-
sion at Albany.
Salem hopgrowers are contracting
hops at IL cents.
Boise knights of Pythias will build
a hall to cost $40 900.
j. b. Osborne will establish popu-
list paper at Moscow.
Colfax horse owners are organizing
to protect against thieves.
The Portland brewers strike has
been satisfactorily settled.
The Nome rush this spring will be
greater than ever before.
Boise requires saloons to pay the
years license in advance.
Harney county people are again de-
manding railroad connections.
Portland carpenters are demanding
higher wages and shorter hours.
Placer gold has been found at Vale,
county seat of Malheur county.
four-mast schooner has been built
and launched at Everett, Wash.
the Bonanza mine will install six
additional concentrating tables.
Donations of standard literature are
needed for the Salem penitentiary.
Palouse soil is now said to be especi-
ally adopted to sugar beet raising.
Pneumonia is prevalent in the Klon-
dixie and many deaths are expected.
Malheur county expects large i'm
migration from the East this season.
The Arlington postoffice has been
equipped with 200 lock and call boxes.
Clark county, Wash, has prospects
for the largest prune crop ever known
there.
The Skagway townsite case will bo
retired before the secretary OF the in-
terror.
British Columbia gives assurance OF
support for the Lewis h Clark CEN
tennial.
R. +. Dunphy, the alleged bigamist,
has been taken to Portland from Cali
fornia.
The steamer Mascot sunk in the Will
lamette river. She was launched on
Monday
The move to the new capitol at
Olympia will probably be made next
summer.
The horse meat cannery has started
up again, having been closed since
last fall.
National Railway Employees Union
will look into the street car strike in
Portland.
Governor Hunt denies that lie had
declared martial law off IN the Occur
d'Alenes.
Salem had heavy frost Monday
night, but fruit is not damaged, say
orchardists.
So far as examined, Napoleon Davis
books az school land clerk are found
TO be correct.
Salem will have new and larger
creamery plants to replace those
recently moved away.
The Oregon Short Line train escaped
wrecking at the hands of persons who
placed ties on the track.
Leigh s. J. Hunt, so 1t is now posi-
lively asserted, will establish the
Washingtonian in Seattle.
James Aiken was convicted OF mur-
der in the second degree for killing a
Chinaman at Oregon City.
Lieut.. Col. W. B. Lubn, OF the
Washington volunteers, will be lieu
tenant in the regular army.
Spokane millmen are demanding
: lower rates on lumber. to enable them
to compete with Sound mills.
Existence Of wood trust at Salem
IL now confirmed, and the state institu-
tions must pay their figures.
, The Umpqua Valley Oil company is
, formed at Roseburg, and is securing
: large tracts of supposed oil lands.
r II. W. Corbett gives 5000 to the
, Salem Y. VI. G. A. ZOO fund being
raised. The amount now in hand Ia
? 5000
! The appeal case of Henry Lang, in
the penitentiary at Salem Tor horse
: stealing in Malheur county, has been
D dismissed.
Seth Jaynes, a miner, came from
Dawson to Seattle by the American
trail, in 10 days, breaking the record
for that route.
Washington's supreme court decides
that Eben l.. Boyce must die for kill
ing his wife in Tacoma restaurant on
February 10, 1900.
Prof. jos. w. Marsh will fill the
, position OF dean OF Pacific university
during the absence of Dean W. n.
Ferrin in the East.
r Chas. Homer, Salem, and Ivy Grace
Burton, Independence, are to be re-
0 spectively saiutatorian and valdedic-
e torian at the Corvallis agricultural
college.
Twenty townships in Stevens, Terry
q and Okanogan counties, Wash, are to
\ be plated and surveyed by the
a federal government and opened for
e settlement.
W. II. Hacker sued Dire. W. p. Via
] and G.. l.. Large for malpractice at
, Hllsboro, the X-ray having been
y used in examining his arm. They
@ were acquitted