Click image to open full size in new tab
Article Text
The corner-stone of the new hospital Colfax was laid Sunday. The Sisat Charity, under whose auspices comprise an ters it 488 of laid, order old. in the It Cacholic church tat is 50 years had its foundation in 1843 in Montreal Canada, bv the Rt. Rev. Bishop Bourget for of Montreal. Mother Gamelin, who to some years previous had belonged some lay confraternities, was selected In by the bishop to be its foundress. 1856 the sisters arrived at Vancouver, Wash their present mother house labor on the Pacific coast, a new field of fached after great difficulties of travel H., Mother Joseph, S. directress of the buiiding in now those days, They in Colfax, now was appointed superior, have hospitale and academies of education a Walla Walla, Spokane, Olympia, Portland and other places on this coast. OREGON. J. W. Stewart arrived at Prineville Friday of last week from Corvallis, bv having on come across the Cascades of the Santiam route. He found from about way 14 miles of snow, averaging one to six feet in dept. John Porter, a farmer aged 40 years, and unmarried, who lives near Creswell. His hae been committed to the asylum. mania is of a suicidal and homi idal nature. and o ly affects him occasionally. Mr. Porter asked to be taken to the asylum, as he was afraid to trust himself. An old feud existing between Riley Mills and Frank Gilman, of South Slough, Lane county, about a young Gillady, culminated in the shooting of by Mille. G lman had knocked when man Mills down aud was beating him, GilMills drew a small pistol and shot a man. The wound 18 not considered dangerous one. Arrangements have been made with of creditors by which the property mills the the proprietors of the Red Crown hands at Albany will be taken from the Mr. of the receiver and transferred to John Isom, who will be the proprietor of the same, while Mr. John R. Stock- mills will act as manager, The to man will be run at their full capacity, meet orders ahead, for some time, Nettled at attention being called a fact that Umatilla county sends the many convicts to the penitentiary, great the Pendleton East Oregonian says: $50,"Well, Umatilla county pays about send 000 annually to have the right to Salem many of her tough citizens to crimas she chooses. We convict our them as inals up here instead of letting of run loose, as is done in some parts the Willamette valley.". An effort is being made to reopen the Linn County National bank under a reorganization so strong as to secure once. the confidence of the people at $30,A. Bush, of Salem, who OWDS Al000 Mr. in stock, has had a meeting at Ar. with the other stockholders: Jennings, bany the bank inspector, has about will completed his in yestigations, but few have nothing for the public for a days. Depositors are safe. The serious question is with the stockholders. The house of Joseph Lind, the Lewis and Clarke mail carrier, with all its con- was tents was destroyed by fire while he in Astoria with the mail last Saturday. he The fire was out in the stove when home at four o'clock in the morning, the and left the only way he can account for in fire is that a spark must have caught he the roof, and was smoldering when and The house was built of cedar, left. lumber to build it was carried by the the owner on his back from Sackett's mill, which is two miles away. W. W. Caviness, Pendleton, who added is hunting at Leman's Sprins, has an exanother bear to his list. Quite with the citing incident was connected out exploit. Mr. Caviness had gone were with his wife on horseback. Both dismounted when the bear was and seen. the "Wes" shot and wounded it, furious animal, a female, charged of upon her It was within five feet situation became bullet ended and another his wife. the timely critical, its and career. when were Two cubs were left motherless captured alive. Viewn 900. during the Indian war.
