| Show EDITORIAL NOTES the wool clip of eastern cregor the present year tear will be immense and will increase until like australia its wool product will yield more gold than her mines many of the cattle men ol 01 eastern oregon are disposing of their stock and purchasing large flocks of sheep the last steamer from portland took away worth of wool wooi and still it daily at that point thousands of bales are arc in waiting to ba be forwarded to that port at various points along the upper columbia the yield leid of the willamette Willa mette valley this season will also he be Im immense mente earthquakes are generally sup posed to be caused by an an internal convulsion of mother alother earth but a shaking up which took place not long ago ngoat at virginia city which throw threw down chimney chimneys cracked brick bull buli buildings dings and did considerable adawag damage ge on the surface and was slightly felt in the upper lev lov levels Q as of the mines was not noticed at all in the lower the deepest point at which it was wag aco recognized was in the imperial empire L haft chaff feet below ohp is the station man baid eaid it felt liko like a sudden faint pulsation of tho the air ir comm commenting on thih this peculiar fact a at the flao ti methe metho dold gold erell re marked that the earthquake seemed to bo be an tilee electrical trl tri disturb nce nee proceeding from the atmos atmosphere phere and not from the depths of the earth this is a world of change th tho the folks in have good reason to recognize the truth of the saying A florida paper relates a singular occurrence which tools too k place recently in wakulla county A farmer p abed cox woke uri urr one morning ing to find that during the night hia hla residence ha ba been changed froin a r region 1 where water could not ve fue uce seen and was situated on the horder border ofa of q lake when he retired on the evening before hia house was wad far tar away from Ally any pond lake oy ot river but upon goin going out next bib bis surprise can he bb Imig imagined ined when instead of his 1 garden an lemoge sink fifty or sixty yarm equate filled wit with hwa water running g up within eighteen or twenty feet of his residence met mst his ga darting tho night athla transformation occurred leaving not ovelt even a vestige of ottee tha the tallest pine trees which were standing in their full majesty only olly twelve hours before these sinks however are nop nsf infrequent in lil that county it has only been A ato rt time since bince that a ej sink near mill mill poro pore i te mark ablo abla than tha tda one alluded to 0 o abo above ao in that it occurred upon tio we very top of hill one of the high est eat points of wind kind 1 in that bo couf fity aty the cause of 01 these remarkable changes is not madelo made mado to appear appear |
