Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-05-19
STATE NEWS

Inc bIeeu OF hOfseb IL impIoNihB III
the vicinity of Scio.
Roseburg's new broom factory is
kept busy filling orders.
Ladies of Independence are going to
organize riding club.
Six thousand people went TO the Nor.
ris & Rowe circus at Astoria.
A Hamburg, Germany, commission
house wants to handle Hood River ap-
pies.
Crook county has more wealth per
capita than any other county in the
state.
A spur track is to be put in by the
s. p. to the stone quarry north Of Rose
burg.
Pension claims of survivors Of early
Indian wars in Oregon are to be al
lowed.
branch office of the government
secret service has been established in
Portland.
One Of the features of the Fourth Of
July celebration at Eugene will be a
paper chase.
After tomorrow all Oregon residents
who want to hunt will have TO pay
a license fee Of 81.
The county commissioners Of Umatil-
la county are going TO remodel their
court house.
The Oregon state bank will erect a
new one.story brick building in Jefrer-
son in the near future.
The ladies Of the Presbyterian
church at Corvallis will hold rose
fair or carnival on May 90.
Eight hundred dollars is expected to
be raised at Grants Pass TO celebrate
the Fourth Of July with.
The militia company at Roseburg has
received the new uniforms to be worn
at the coming encampment.
There is talk Of company Of Port.
land people Incorporating and manu-.
featuring glass in Umatilla.
A hotel man at North Bend starts his
ad, "Get your feet out Of the sand, and
put them under my Mahogany"
Fourteen Eugene men who will do
duty as guards at the Lewis and Clark
fair left for Portland Sunday morn.
ing
Sheriff Word is raiding private poker
games in Portland-declares he will
close all forme Of gambling in that
city.
The Glendale News says there is
good opening in that town for a cigar
maker, harness maker, photographer and
dentist.
Great interest was taken in the an
nual meeting of the Lane County Good
Roads Association held at Eugene last
Saturday afternoon.
A sherman county girl attempted TO
kill herself by shooting herself in the
breast because her parents would not
let her marry the hired man.
A baseball tournament will be held
at Lakeview commencing July 2. The
tournament is open to all clubs, and
$500 in purses has been raised for the
event.
Clackamas county officials will not
take the initiative in suppressing the
pool room evil in Milwaukee, although
they stand ready TO serve warrants
and prosecute any offender against
whom a complaint is made.
The McMinnville Telephone Register
says that the rather unusual sight Of
stock ear filed with hogs, attached to
a regular passenger train, was wit
messed in that town one day last week.
Hon. b, +. Jones of Lincoln county
will furnish 80 bushels of clans for the
that will be pulled of when
the Willamette Development League
meets at Independence the first week
in June. This will be the first clam.
bake ever enjoyed in the interior Of the
state.
Thomas Buffum, indicted by the
grand jury for conducting a gambling
game at Independence, pleaded guilty
and was fined $lOO and costs. II. b. |
KelsO, indicted for gambling, was given
a similar fine. Both fines were paid, |
and the defendants were discharged.
Roseburg Plaindealer: Many fine
salmon catches are still being reported
in the North Umpqua river over at
Winchester, but Chas. Bruce still holds
the championship catch for the season |
be having recently landed a 55-pound |
salmon over there with a hook and |
line, the big fish being four feet, one
neh in length.