Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-10-03
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N'4tS "CSh VIII OV sIuuenls.
There are two more to come in, SO
that the total attendance will be the
same as last year.
Secretary OF State Dunbar has pro-
cured designs for m,tal badges which
ne will have made for the state house
employees during the session OF the
legislature.
Hood River is to have q Fruit Fair,
beginning Oct. s and lasting four days.
Il will be one OF the best ever held in
the state, probably the best purely
local affair.
The average attendance at the
Chemawa Indian SC ool for the past
year was 800, 81 mo e than the pre-
ceding year, while the enrolment was
$50 as against 500 in 1901.
Rev. +. a. Powell, formerly OF the
Eugene Divinity School,, who has re-
Gently been pastor of ths First Chris
tian church OF San Frantisco, has
been converted to Unitarianism and
will oiiciate in a Salem pulpit of that
denomination soon.
law authorizing school districts
to combine and conduct one school
ior several districts, is a measure that
will be proposed for enactment by the
next legislature. A similar law is in
force in some of the eastern states and
is found entirely satisfactory.
An exhibit for the Lewis and Clark
fair that will attract much attention
will be that OF the model of the first
snip that went up the Columbia
Rive. This ship WAS commanded by
Capt. Gray. Z. NJ. Simpson of San
Francisco is owner of the model, but
has kindly offered to loan it 10 the
Fair company.
1t is Oregon's turn, now, to be the
center Of movement that shall de-
velop latent resources and multiply
the strength of the commonwealth
Other states have had their period oil
development under the spur of heavy
immigration and the coming of Rast-
ern people Of all classes. Oregon will
during the next few years, forge ahead
rapidly.
Mrs. Waggoner, who found Merrill !,
body and eloped with the murderer
brother, has been in Chehalis. She
was discovered heartbroken at Seattle
recently and is sorry for the deed and
cries for her children, 1t is said that
those who were interesting themselves
in obtaining the reward OF 1890 from
Oregon for her for the finding of Mer.
rill's body have abandoned the project
The richest strike in the history o
the Eastern Oregon gold fields wai
made in the Cracker Oregon mine
Friday. The mine is on q parable
ledge with the North Pole and c. & Z
mines. Hon. J. H. Robbins, who
witnessed the assay oi several average
specimens Of ore taken from this new
find at Sumrter says that tney aver
age $4,000 in gold to the ton. Picke'
samples 90 as high as $4,000 to tn'
ton.
So bitter is the feeling against tin
proposed 5000 square mile forest re
serve from the Blue and StraTberr,
mountains in Eastern Oregon, amonj
the citizens OF Grant county that peti
tions we're sent last week to every pre-
cinct in the county with appeals t.
the voters to sign the remonstrancei
wholesale. The sentiment agains
the reserve az at present constituted
is so intense that over four filths G
the settlers are expected to af1ix thei
signatures. The protests will then b.
forwarded to the Department Of tn
Interior.
r. Rice, who is interested in largt
amount OF inrsn land near Wallow;
lake, has just returned from Seattle
and expects to make arrangements t.
plant rock oysters, CLAIMS and muscles
start a shell fish industry in that sec
tion Of our state. He will be assiste,
BY f. L. Roup who desires to intro
duce the Australian Mussel that la
! proven great success in the anti