Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-10-23
WORLDS MEMS.
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! ~ Nipiulkc . output lOr tnlS year
is estimated at Sl2,OOO,OO0 The total
shipped to date from Dawson is given
$1O255, 600.
The work of taking eggs on the
Columbia River by the United States
Fish Commission has ceased for the
season. At the four stations over
2G00OOO0 eggs were taken.
The total tax levy at Spokane for
the ensuing year, including city,
county and state, will be "a mills, or
reduction of l mill as compared
with the present levy.
The yield of corn in the fields
around Athena will be from % to 50
bushels per acre. Corn is q paying
crop in Umatilla County, and the
acreage is increasing each year.
Another sensation is looked for in
the st. Louis Doodle cases. 1t has
been ntimated that the sheriff or his
deputies have been aiding the boodlers
to delay the prosecution.
1t has been discovered that nnder
the new initiative and referendum
amendment no act of the Legislature
can so into effect for so days after the
close OF the session. This applies also
to appropriations.
The Supreme Court OF Idaho holds
the act OF 1889 relative to the carry
irg of concealed weapons so be uncon-
stitutiona on the ground that it was
in conflict with the state and federal
constitutions declaring the right of
citizens to bear arms shall not be
abridged. The Court decided, how
ever, that the Legislature has right
to pass law regulating the method
of carrying weapons.
There has been an alarming spread
OF smallpox in Walla Walla during
the last few weeks. Eight Gases are
now at the pest house west OF the city
and over dozen persons are quaran-
tined within the municipal limits.
An active campaign Will likely be
instituted against the practice OF
transporting logs to San Francisco in
the form OF huge RATS. 1t is consider
ed dangerous and masters and pilots
will petition congress to enact legisla
ton forbidding it.
In the United States Court at Spo-
kane, Tuesday, Judge c. H. Hanford
issued permanent injunction forbid
king certain members OF the Cooks
and Walters Union or their assoc
iates 20 interfere with the restaurant
business conducted by X. Takaahshi,
a japanese.
A dispatch from Washington yes
telday said that the crisis was near at
hand in Venezuela and that it was
not at all improbable that Minister
Bowen will in the near future be con-
fronted with the necessity of recog-
nizing either the Matos or the Castro
Government.
A report was given out in Havana
Yesterday by business men who had
been called in to consult with Presi-
dent Palma, that Cuba will accept the
treaty with America.
General Brue- Brown, pastor of the
Christian church in Denver, was ask
ed to resign his position yesterday at
the session OF the Christian church
convention, now in session ut Omaha
He is charged with sensationalism.
1t is estimated that the worlds out
mt of coal for 1891 was S66, l65 ,140
short tons, with the United States in
the lead.
The mine owners and operators OF
the Baker City district have organized
for the purpose of securing change
in the recent order OF the Secretary Of
the Interior creating the Eastern
Oregon forest reserve. A meeting was
held and it was resolved to invite Sen
ator Mitchell to visit Baker City and
look into the condition of affairs.
A sheepherder who owns band OF
25OO sheep met with an accident ont
z in the hills near Baker Gig last weck