Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-22
Oregon Items.

a great deal of hay is being cut in
Lane county.
The wool-clip of Wasco county will
exceed 100000 pounds.
Smallpox has entirely disappeared
from Cornhills, and measles appeared
instead.
Business of all binds seems to be
very. brisk and money plenty at pres
ent in the Dalles.
The Odd Fellows and Red Mems
Lodges at Baker City are reported to
be in hourishing condition.
The Springfield Manufacturing Com
pany are now running night and day,
turning out large quantity of lun-
ber.
Mr.. Humason will commence work
on the wagon road from the upper to
the middle landing at the Cascades
Immediately.
There has been a new postoffice es-
tablished at Parkersville, Grant
county, and Eliza Newton appointed
Postmistress.
DR.. B. P. Quivey of Portland will
take the place of physician at the
klamath Indian Agency, recently va
Gated by DR.. G. w. Odell.
Some children on last Sunday built
a bonfire in front. of the new Democrat
building, Baker City, which came
near proving serious matter.
A grizzly bear has killed number
of sheep for Mr.. Frazier, in Umatilla
county. The beast has been seen sew
eral times, but no one has attacked
him yet.
Col. Green and his command arrived
at Walla Walla Valley on the 9th in
slant. No Indians were found in the
valley, and the prospect of fight was
very remote.
The Portland Oregonidn says: "Hon.
G. a. LaDow, who unavoidably
gained some notoriety and an office in
the late election, has gone up into the
Blue Mountains to fish,"
Jacob Stouder, sheep-herder in
Snipe Valley, near Camasa Prairie,
while hunting,w was attacked by bear,
when skirmish ensued in which he
had one of his arms broken between
the wrist and elbow.
The flour mill now in process of con-
structiOn at Umatilla City will be
completed some time next Septem-
Der, and all the wheat the farmers
may have to sell will there find ready
market.
A terrific wind and dust storm
passed over Umatilla county last week,
and, like the fogs of Egypt, the dust
entered the houses, into bed-chambers,
upon beds and into ovens, kneading-
troughs and into every nook, corner
and crevice imaginable.
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with Cinnamon and their traps, have
left the Dalles during the last ten days,
bound for the interior gold mines. One
load was taken up the Columbia river
to the mouth of the John Day, where
they intend mining on bar near that
locality.
A party of scientists, consisting of
Professors Arnold, Hawthorne, Mil
ner and others, of Corvallis, propose
to start on trip of observation to Mt.
Hood. They will take instruments
with them, and make a thorough eX-
animation of the country, geologically
and scientifically.
Theodore N. Parmelee, who died at
Banford, Connecticut, July Sd, at the
age of seventy, was for many years
connected with the American press,
having been editor of the old Middle
sex (Ct.) Gazette, Washington cores
pondent of the New York Herald in
the days of Van Buren, and Tyler, and
later in life the editor of the Buffalo
Commercial. Being clever, affable
and sagacious, he became favorite
with the leading men of his time, and
during the Tyler administration was
on intimate terms at the White
House. His Recollections of an Old
Stager," contributed during recent
deemed entertaining, the mind of the
author being we'll stored with the his
tory of the country anterior to the
war.