Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-01-27

klamath county stock is suffering
on account Of the deep SHOWS.
I. H, Rondeau was killed by a train
at Gervais, while walking on the
track between Woodburn and Gervais
Thursday night.
The Portland council has raised the
wages Of laborers employed by the
city from $2.75 to $500 per day Of
eight hours. This will cost the city
about $4,000 a year.
Mrs Susan Lake, who had been
resident OF Portlai for So years, and
who was Il years Of age, died at the
Portland sanatorium Sunday, Janu-
ary 10.
The trainload of insane arrived in
Pendleton at 7 o'clock in the evening
Saturday, being 12 hours on the jour-
ney, which was uneventful.
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Mrs. Ann W. Jaeger, aged so, died
at the home of her daughter in Oregon
! City Thursday afternoon.
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Mrs. Arrene Hester, aged SO, died
last week at her home near Gates.
She crossed the plains with her pa
rents when a girl of Is, taking the old
OK team Pullman, and locating in what
is now Portland in 1916.
Fair progress is being made on the
S. P. branch line from Eugene to Coos
Bay. About 1000 feet of the Mott tun-
mel are dritted, and 900 more will COM
plete it.
The Scots of Oregon generally cele-
Drated the l54th birthday anniversary
Of Bobby Burns Saturday.
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Clifford Miller aged 25, son Of r. C.
Miller, Of willamette, while trying to
steal a ride on an S. p freight train,
at Oregon City, Sunday night, fell and
both legs were cut off, the right at the
hip, the left below the knee. He died
Saturday night.
Monroe Saturday celebrated the
laying of steel rails through the city
by the p, Il, & E.
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The Arcade moving picture show, at
Lebanon, was burned early Saturday
morning, A new electric piano had
just been installed, and 1t is thought
defective wiring in this caused the
fire.
The Sterling mine, a big placer prop
osition in Southern Oregon, has been
purchased by S. S. Bulls and his son,
r, b. Bulls; they are from New York
An unsuccessful attempt to derail
and rob the San Francisco express Of
the S. p. was made near Oregon City
Saturday night. Ties were piled on
the track, but the engine swept them
aside, -Four coaches, however, left
the rails, but were soon cotton on
again.
! The body Of an unidentified man
aged about 20 years, was found in q
tent shack in the timber near Amitv
wednesday by some boys. Trash ant
gew gaws in the pockets Indicate the
man was insane. lie had been dead
evidently several weeks.
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Six Of the National Guard Officers
dismissed for refusing to obey orders
threaten to appeal to the courts to be
roinstatod. They claim that disband.
ing part OF the regiment and not all
Of It is Illegal
Robert Shleze Is under arrest nj
Burns on charge Of having murdered
an old trapper in his cabin 35 miles
from Burns, and he is also charged
with setting fire to barn and burn.
Ing six horses to death.
While playing on the Fisher ranch
at Garfield Water Fisher, aged G, was
shot In the eye by an arrow by Ira
Graham, aged 19, The arrow penetrat.
ed the oyeball, destroying the sight
A Forest Grove man complains that
eggs shipped by parcel post from that
place to Portland reached their des.
tination with many broken, though
wrapped I'm cotton I'm Cartnns