02 Feb 1900
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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1900
Page
1
A garbled miscellany cites figures about education and race in the United States, mentions a river project and a Tennessee town editor, notes Harvard football scores, and references German merchants. It also touches fortifications at Ocean Orchard, Transmilways mileage, a New York Herald survey on direct vote, a French serum claim, and Chamberlains cough remedy in a chaotic collage of names and events.
Oregon reports show 4000 sheep sold in Gilliam county at 4 for owes and 2.75 for lambs. Coos Bay salmon hatchery planned for summer. Linn county fusion arrangements for election. Sherman county sheriff and Moro marshal report smallpox. Gov Geer says 95 percent favor direct US Senate election. Convict Martin Kelley escaped from Salem asylum. Alaska customs collector post likely to go to W Danniway, related to Harvey Scott. Mild Oregon winter bodes for frost and mining. Arlington legislator LC Hanson commits suicide in Portland. Fish and Game Association forms committee to codify laws with amendments for next legislature. McBride Indian war pension bill expands to Cayuse and Oregon-Washington veterans, and widows. Mr Dooley author Dunne visiting Oregon, plans Rogue River Valley stay. Longest mining ditch contracts soon let. 98-mile Jewitt ditch planned from Rogue River to Geld Hill, draining 100,000 acres, costing about 700,000 with Portland capital.
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