05 Aug 1899
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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1899
Page
1
Fragmentary report notes annexation talk around Caroline Islands, U S Navy vessels an attraction in American docks, and immigration and agriculture disruptions in Oregon and Washington. Mentions Klondike output, tea industry plans, and recruitment issues for Philippines service amid tensions and unrest.
The first semiannual examination of applicants for county certificates will be held in Coquille City houses in August 1899 beginning at 9 am. Persons under 17 are ineligible for a certificate and 18 years is the minimum.
Crops doing well across the state with 1185 patients in Salem asylum. Edenhower builds a new public school in Dongiaa county. Sheep losses from poisonous weed in Fake County. Allen cannery in Salem canning 30000 cherries and other produce. Heppner warehouses handled 6000000 pounds of wool this year. Prof John B. Walker elected president of Central Oregon Normal School at Drain. Governor Geer invited to Dewey celebration in New York. Shafter lectured in Ashland on the Santiago campaign. Dairy industry in Coos County expanding with two creameries each producing about 1000 pounds butter daily. Band of 60 head bunch grass mustangs sold in Eugene. State school census lists 182888 school-age children. school land commissioner's apportioned $199,905.58 to districts. Hop growers expect record money due to high wages for labor. Philippine souvenir arrives in Eugene a Filipino cannon on a wheel barrow. A reader recalls a child suffering diarrhea and describes using Chamberlain's Cough Formula and Pepto-Bismol as relief.
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