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OREGON STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

lie schools or Seaside.
James Wilmington, a resident of
Baker City, committed suicide last
week by jumping from a stairway at
the State Insane Asylum.
rnere is project on foot to have
the California & Oregon land grant
recovered by the Government do
mated to the State of Oregon.
A pie social, which was partiei-
pated In by upward of 200 braves,
was the feature Of the big Indian
campmeeting at Tutuila mission last
week.
w. II. Beard, of Lebanon, who
shot himself while insane two weeks
ago, died last week Beard snatched
a gun from the pocket of the officer
who had arrested him and shot HIM
self in the head.
The Women's Auxiliary of the Eu-
gene Commercial Club was organ
ized last week with a membership
of so. This organization has grown
out of the great interest taken In
civic improvements for Eugene.
In a fight above Waterloo last
week, ]. o. Brown stabbed E. l..
Potter with a knife, inflicting a
wound in the left hip, Potter Is not
dangerously wounded. Recently
The men had trouble over some hogs.
The girls debating team from Al
bany College defeated the william
cite University girls at Salem last
week, when the question. Resolved.
That the United States should per-
manently retain the Philippine Is
lands" was discussed.
John Kelly, who stabbed man
named Wren about year ago. caus-
Ing death. was pronounced not
guilty by jury at Coquille. At the
September term the jury disagreed.
The stabbing occurred In drunken
brawl, the men being coal miners.
The body of Allen Varney, the g.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Willis
Varney, was discovered by boatmen
Friday in Coos Bay. near Marshfield.
The child had been missing since
in Coos Bay, near Marshfield. The
child had been missing since April
81.
Discovery in his trunk of tobac-
co pouch full of 1-cent pieces led to
the arrest last week of Claude Hen
bricks on suspicion Of being the per-
son who robbed the postofflce and
general store at Brockway, eight
miles southwest of Roseburg recent
ly.
A double train service was inaug-
urated last week on the Elgin
branch, necessitated by the increased
traffic and the demands of the Palm
er Lumber Company. Both trains
carry passengers between La Grande
and Elgin.
A fire which started from either
defective fiue or an electric wire,
practically destroyed Superintendent
James cottage, at the Penitentiary.
in Salem, Friday. The entire roof
was burned off and the house will
have to be rebuilt.
Commencement exercises opened
at Willamette University Thursday,
when a class of 10 and two nurses
were graduated from the College OF
Medicine. Dean Byrd conferred the
degree Of doctor of medicine on the
graduates.
A s150,0O0 land deal was con-
summated in Pendleton Friday,
when the Hinkle ditch reclamation
project was decided to the Western
Land and Irrigation Company. J.
w. Messner, of Baker City, is presi-
dent of the company. Eastern capt.
tai Is largely represented.
With his throat cut from ear to
ear, the lifeless body of Andrew Sud-
derlund was found last week in
Simpson Park, in North Bend. His
hand grasped razor and his coat
and vest were folded on the grass
near by. Coroner Mingus held an
inquest and a verdict Of suicide was
returned by the jury.
A feet of eight armored cruisers
passed by the mouth Of the Column
bia river at 4:30 o'clock Saturday
afternoon, en- route from Puget
Sound to San Francisco, where the
vessels are under orders to Join the
Atlantic battleship feet on May S.
The cruisers are under the command
of Admiral Sigsbee.
The five-year-old daughter of John
Miller, of Juntura, 20 miles east of
Drewsey, was badly Injured last
week, while playing with her little
brothers near a hill. The boy unin-
tentionally rolled huge rock down
the hill which struck the little girl,
who was playing under the hill, on
the right side of the face, causing a
painful and ugly wound.
Government Postal Inspectors
Clement and Riches, of Portland,
are in Roseburg In furtherance OF
= heir investigation into the opera
tions Of c. |. Leavengood, lawyer
of Roseburg, who Is alleged to have
muIcted scores Of people out of
thousands of dollars by locating
them on o. & C, +. r. timber lands
on the representation that they
would ultimately secure the lands
beyond peradventure of doubt.
Leavengood reached his victims by
means of cleverly worded circulars.