Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-17
State Items.


Albany wants more light.
The Harrisburg bridge is all right.
Portland has trouble about her gas.
East Portland has mite society"
The great ditch Oh Burnt River is
finished.
Real Estate is reported high in East
Portland.
The OIL Mills of Salem, are shipping
oil to Honolulu.
The q & c railroad Co, are building
woodsheds, at Albany.
The Willamette river is said 10 have
gone up-dur:ng the late storm.
The .Stdtesman is Boosting Of the
good roads leading out from Salem.
Temperance rallys and mass meet
iagS. are re ported all over the State.
W. ID. c. Dagidson. has been sent to
the Insane Asylum from Marion county.
Sunday Feb 4 the mercury was ten
degrees below zero, on Powder river.
The Blockade of the Columbia is
opened and steamers are running to the
Dalles.
Mrs. Dunniway, has been lecturing in
many of the East Side towns during the
last two weeks
4 movement is on foot in Portland,
to petition the next Legislature to
ijcense gambling
Two persons in Albany have ten
thousand dollar building, " all to their
selves. It's the jail,
Thos. Rowland, Of North Yamhiil.
had his house burned one nigut last
week. Loss 81 500.
The Reqisipr. says the thief who ab-
stractcd the goeds from the ST. Charles
Hotel has been caught,
David Nathcna for % years a res
ident of Oregon, died at hi. residence,
near Wheatiand, last week.
fremont House" is what you hear
now on the arrival of the cars in Salem j,
instead of the Commercial"
The Baker Democrat says the min
ing prospects of Baker county are very
aa'tering. 1t estimates that the yield
Of Baker county will be from half to
two-fhirds more than last year.
The Guzene has information that the
snow on the 9Th lust. was eighteen
inches dep in Goose Lake Valley.
John Pelliug, of Jacksonville, sues
Thomas Sly. for $1,000, for battering
his nose. lie knows how that is him
self
Mr.. Chas Moore. of Marion Co feb
from plank, last Thursday, shattering
his leg so that amputation was neces-
sary.
The contract for constructing the
Marion County Court House, was award
ed to Messrs Miller, Boothby aud Sta.
pleton.
a saloon keeper of Dayton, has been
arrested on charge of perjury, for
swearing to false signatures on license
petition.
1t is now certain that the suits in.
volving the Caruthers estate have been
compromised, and the proportionatc
shares allotted,
A Quartz ledge of fabulous riohness
is said to have been discovered within
two hundred yards of the Court House,
in Canyon City.
The business transacted thron IN the
Money Order Department of the Port
land Postoffice, for 1871 amounted to
s718,297,21.
Mrs. Dunniway, Mrs. Weatherford
and several other passengers, were in
jnredfby railroad collision near Ore.
gon City last Sunday.
A man on raft was riding along. in.
tending to ran his raft into the bay at
Salem but was carried by, and sold out
at Lincoln, last Monday.
From the Enterprise we learn that
the steamer Dayton knocked hole in
her bottom and beached above Rock
Island last Saturday.
The Statesman has information that
man on the Pelouse has lost Eve. hun
dred head of cattle by the severe winter.
Another on Wild Horse Creek, lost
twelve e-hundred head of sheep. MANY
are losing their stock for lack Of feed.