The Benton democrat. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1871-18??, 1873-01-25
PACIFIC SLOPERS..

nHty papers puUHsh0u III OTSSon.
Flour SO per barrel at Walla Walla.
California is suffering from the.
epizootic.
Eggs down to 90 cents per dozen in
Por tland.
Next Tuesday begins tho Chinese
New Years.
Six bales of cotton arrived at Port
land this week. .g.g ! 8ss&#
Portland is using condensed milk,
from New York. .
Arizona raised 100000 pounds of
grain last year.
jackson county promises an immense
harvest next fall.
The Annie Stewart will be ready to
run in two weeks.
Forty interments took place in Jack
sonville last year.
Olympia had another earthquake last
Tuesday afternoon.
A new college building is to be erect
ed at Forest Grove.
The O. S. N. Go. are building anoth-
er steamer at Portland
The Washington Guards are anxious
to go after the Modocs.
A fire alarm telegraph apparatus
has arrived at Portland.
The loss by the late Portland fire
will almost reach 100000.
A Jacksonville paper advocates the
raising of alfalfa for sheep.
A half dozen new stores have been
opened in Portland this week.
The first boat of the season reached
McMinnville on the 18th inst.
Snow has disappeared in Umatilla
county, and stock is doing well.
The first boat passed down through
the Oswego canal last Wednesday
Efforts are being made to establish a
mail route from Eugene to Ochoco.
The Ajax last Wednesday, brought
65 sacks of paper mail to Portland.
A hand car is run between Oakland
and Roseburg the travel being light.
The Portland police are not allowed
to smoke OF take drink when on duty.
Sixty cases Of cartridges were fowar-
aed to the Modoc country last Thurs
day.
Yamhill farmers have discovered that
it is dogs, not wolves, which kill their
sheep.
One hundred families are on the way
from Holland, intending to settle at San
Diego.
Fliedner Brothers, formerly Of Cor
wallis, have the finest barber shop in
Portland.
More troops have been sent to the
lava beds-both from California and
Vancouver.
It is reported that Ben Holladay will
shortly receive $3,00O,00O from Ger
man bankers.
Thank Heaven there is no truth in
the statement that Olympia is to have
another paper.
During 1872, there were 125, ,o95
tons of coal exported from Coos Bay
to San Francico.
The stage time from Roseburg to
Redding, the end of the California Rail-
road, is four days.
R. H. Prices residence, in Salem,
was burned last Sunday. Loss, $4,000,
insurance, $1,000.
Wheat at Dayton is quoted at 95
cents. The farmers at st. Joseph sell
their wheat at 81.
The Portland Bulletin has entered
upon its sixth semi-annual volume. 1t
is an excellent paper.
Thomas Ottley, of Albany, has re-
turned home from Peru, and says it is
no place for white man.
Freight from Portland to Wallula-
passes through nine landings before
it reaches its destination.
Some of the farmers of Linn county
are rejoicing in fields of volunteer wheat
that promise muchly.
The Salem Mercury has a disgraceful
article about Scio couple, going to bed |
with their chamber window open.
Senator Mitchell has gone to Wash
ington. He was accompanied to the
steamer by a company of niggers.-
The Indians on Grande Ronde, ac-
cording to the testimony of Wapato
Bill, have stopped that dancing
A religious revival has been going on |
among the Indians at Warm Springs. |
There are over 200 confessed Christians. |
Captain Jack, who manages the Mo- |
doc war on the part Of the savages, is
said to be the best shot on the Pacific
slope.
Oregon is one of only seven States
that raised, the last season, an average
of over 100 bushels of potatoes to the
acre.
"The last blast in the shaft at the
Bohemia mines of Douglas county |
threw out rock that assays $4,000 to
the ton"
Rev. Thos. Pearne Indian) informs |
the Jacksonville Times that many of
the klamath Indians show signs of re-
pentance.
It is stated that the salmon fisheries
of Alaska, if freely developed, would
be one of the richest possessions in the
United States.