Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-18
state Items.


CnamDers, Danlel murphy ana IL. y
Cook, in making the turn around the
corner near the Catholic Church the
team, being young, became unmanage-
able, and the wagon was capsized, throw.
ing the whole party violently to the
ground The Messrs Chambers escaped,
receiving but few slight injuries, but
Mr.. Cook was badly bruised and lay
insensible for some time. The boy,
John Chambers, is supposed to be in
ternally injured, but the extent and
character is unknown.
From the West Side we take the fol
lowing:
The man Webster who has been
confined in Jail for some time past
awaiting the action of the Grand Jury,
made his escape on Sunday night last 1t
is not definitely known how he obtained
the tools, but there is possibility that
the officers will get the prisoner, and also
find the parties who assisted him 10 OBJ.
tanning his freedom. We learn that he
sawed the bolts of the cage door, and it
was then only the work of minute
to get free.
The bridge over the Cozine Greek
will be finished in few weeks Parties
are at work framing, and as the lumber
is coming as fast as wanted, it won't be
long before We have u safe crossing over
this creek.
The Eugene City Guard says -
The recent sale Of lots at the new
town of Cresswell was not to any alarm
ing extent success. Only one lot was
sold ut auction, as bidders were not in
clined to pay over so an acre for lots
in this embryo city.
Gu Wednesday night of last week
Mr. A. j Cruzan killed large cougar
out on the prairie between his house
and CloverdaIe The varmint was
probably looking for a good = square
meal :"
Joseph Sherfey, convicted of larceny
was on Thursday sentenced to year in
the Penitentiary. Joseph and Julkins
will pasture their sheep on different
hills until next fall.
The Corvallis Gazette says Mrs
Caroline Josline, of Salem, Oregon.
while on visit to her relatives IN this
city, was taken sick on last Saturday
with the Bilious Fever, and died on
Monday following She leaves hus-
band and five small children to mourn
her death.
Sim Bcthers & Co. have sold the
laquIna Stage Line to Joseph Woods
ol Mary's river Mr. Woods, We un-
dcrstaud will run a weekly coach
during the winter.
An effort is being made to have
nail line established between Albany
aud Ochoco.
Hay has been sold IN Eugene recent
y at retail for $40 per ton.
From the Bulletin We take the follow
ing
\ GLASS CUTTER Messrs. =.
Runey and c. ID. Snyder have purchas-
ed the right for Oregon aud Washing
ton Territories to vend patent glass
cutter The little +" fixing" is shaped
almost exactly like a diamond glass
cutter. From ocular knowledge we know
it will cut glass fully as vel. as a dia.
mond. 1t is sold for the small sum of
81.
We learn that meeting of the
Puget Sound Land Company was held
in this city last week, when it was de-
tcrmined to make no Sales of land at
the present juncture, but to allow the
same to remain in the name of the in
corporation, until more favorable op-
portuulty presented itself for disposing
of the same.
From the Oregonian of the 18th
instant We CLEAN the following:
In Washington Territory the Legis
lature has passed an act declaring that
dogs are personal property and that it is
larceny to steal them. In Portland the
idea prevails that dogs are nuisance
it is meritorlous to steal or even to kill
them.
The STORM AT THE MOUTH OF
THE CoLUMBIA.-A gentleman who
came up last evening from Astoria by
the John l.. Stephens, informs US that
the storm of Sunday was the severest
known for many years. The water was
driven in by the force of the storm so
as to submerge the wharves and all the
lower streets of the town. At Fort
Stevens, where our informant was on
Sunday, the water flowed clear up to