Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-16
STATE NEWS


capped the vigilant watch of the many
nimrods of that vicinity last week and
was brought down under the aim of
Alfred Pendleton, ll-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Pendleton, who
live some five miles %ast of Molalla.
The boy was returning aeross-pasture
to his home after a visit at neigh
Dor house in company with his grand
mother. The two caught sight of fne
buck grazing in the pasture. Alfred
was carrying a small-guage shotgun
and his ammunition amounted to only
three shells. With these he peppered
the deer, but only wounded it. He
dropped the gun and hurried home for
more ammunition and succeeded in
killing the animal.
Albany Democrat: Three years ago
large number of young Sunfish, or
Bluegills, were planted in Third lake,
three miles east of Albany, through the
efforts of A. G. Schmitt. This year
fine catches of these fish are being
made by men and boys angling in the
lake. The fry was brought from the
east where this species of fish abounds.
and planted in the lake. Their repro
duetion has been remarkable and there
seems to be a large number in the lake.
They are small in size, but large
enough to be eaten. They are said to
be a very delicious fish. Catches "a
high as 80 have been made at one time.
With little protection the lake would
soon become very well stocked with
this edible fish.
Silver Lake Leader: Geo. w. Mar
tin, j. S. Martin, and s. w. Martin, of
Silver Lake, made business trip to
Lakeview last week, returning home on
Saturday evening. Mr.. Martin said
that in his conversation with Judge
DAILY regarding the irrigation problem
the judge stated that if the people
wanted to actually see what irrigation
would do, to go to the west side of
Goose lake and look at the Hanson
ranch The third crop of alfalfa is
about ready to be cut, and the total
yield will be between six and seven,
this ground was covered with sage
brush.
BY the aid of a big magnet, an ef-
fort is to be made to raise from the bed
of Tula lake near klamath Falls the
scowload of pumping material lost last
year when the big barge belonging to
the reclamation service sank. A com
plete pumping and drilling outfit was
on the barge and the cost of the mater
ial has led the engineers to make the
experiment. The materials have not
been greatly damaged by being under
the water for year. The outfit was
used in drilling in Tule lake in tho
hope of creating an outlet for the water
into the lava beds south of the lake.
George Schumacher, of Roseburg,
German scientist, has been making his
home at Sumner for the past few
months, and in that time has been man
ufaeturing digitalin from foxglove,
which is abundant in that neighbor-
hood. All the boys in the neighbor-
hood are making circus money by gath
cring the poisonous weed for the Ger
man, who has enlarged his operations
and asserts that he is extracting valn-
able medicinal properties from the
weed, which heretofore was not consid-
cred to have any commercial value. and
was only admired for its symmetrical
and colorful blooms.
The police are hunting the meanest
man in Oregon City. They don 7 know
his name. but they earnestly hope that
before this day is done they will have
the ease cleared up. The meanest man
robbed Doc Mosicr, blind cigar dealer,
whose shop is located on Main street
between Fourth and Fifth. Sometime
Monday afternoon or before O'Clock
that night, the meanest man helped
himself to purse containing S21.
Astorian; A 65-foot whale which
came ashore at Cannon Beach during
Saturday night attracted a large crowd
Of people to that beach on Sunday, and
il is estimated that more than 100 au-
tomobiles made trips to that resort dur
inc the day, many of which were Asto-
ria cars. The whale, which is one oil
the largest to come ashore in Oregon
for years, had apparently been killed
by one of the whaling crews operating
from Gray IS Harbor.
Astorian. r. A. Hawkins, of llwaeo'
arrived in Astoria yesterday, bringing
with him five boxes of the largest ana
best strawberries that have been seen
in this city this year, which he pre-
sented with his compliments to +. ~
Whitman. Of the Wcinhard hotel. The
berries. which were picked yesterday
from the Hawkins garden, graeed the
Whitman table last evening.
Baker county produced more metal
ores than all other counties in l9lo,
lust as it has done for many years
Baker eounty's mineral production IN
1915 totaled $3,496,l7s, of which $l,-
6S5 ,3s2 was in gold and the remainder
81 $40. .796, in copper, silver and lead
Only Union and Marion counties are
credited with less ore production thah
is Clackamas county.
davs later than usual it commenced
little ahead of the schedule time.--Si'-
verton Tribune.