, 1875-08-19

y The daily mail contract from
Steilacoom to Lake view Station is to be
let Saturday. The route is only four
miles in length.
II The new postal cards will be of
cream yellow color, instead of violet
tint, as was first contemplated. They
will be issued by about the 18th inst.
ES District Court convened at Steil-
accom- lest Monday. The docket is not
large, and it is thought tina. it will not
take more than ten days to clear it.
II Mr.. Chas. Churchill met with a
very severe accident at the residence of
Mr.. Peter Mckinney, near Roseburg,
last Tuesday week. 1t seems Mr..
Churchill vas engaged in feeding a
threshing machine. and in some man.
ner get his right hand caught. tearing
two of his fingers entirely off, and por-
tions of the other two.
e The Vieutemps Bros are now Civ
ing music lessons in Jackson, Califor-
MIA.
s| Three women voted for School
Trustee in Amador County, California,
and what is more, they elected their
man by one majority.
70 The proprietors of the race course
at Waila Walla. offer purse of 500 to
the fastest horse in Oregon or Washing
ton.
~ The Portland Bulletin says that a
gentleman OF that. city, who spent a
large amount of rNoney, twenty-five
years ago, in the useless endeavor to
found city upon Bakers Bay, Wash
ington Territory, has not yet abandoned
the proJeet, and sirce the seaside has
become fayorite with seaside loiterers
he has hopes of final success. Within
tie past month he has disposed of sew
eral lots.
u The fishing season has closed on
the ColumbiaRiver. The shipments made
are as follows: Cases, dozen each,
11S 800; barrels. 5,6G5; half barrels, q
S37; tierces. 113; kits, 2S3
~ The Spirit of the West says: The
dealers in hides at the Dalles have been
giving from 40 cts to rs cts piece this
Spring and Summer. Some of the deal
ers in Yakima county have bought up
some of these hides, and in selling at
the Dalles, have just lost the hauling
and dollar besides. for their trouble
This is not all, there was no distinction
made between murrain and slaughtered
hides. At Seattle slaughtered hides are
worth from So to $5 y each.
ry About twenty energetic men,
from town and country, went out to the
fair grounds on Thursday and did a
splendid job of clearing for the accom-
mediation of the public. There are some
who gre determined that the grounds
shall be put in good shape and that the
fair shall be in 20 wise behind the exhi-
billions of former yeals.-FdrD,er.
EY The Steilaccom Grand Jiury. so
far. has returned two true bills into
rt-indiutmeats for selling liquors
to Indians. The prisoners are of Taco
ma. where the offense also was com>
mitted.
II The Albany Deniosrat has begun
its XIth vo.ame.
ly The Port Oxford Lumbering
Company has suspended operations.
U A family returned home to Sa-
lem, few days ago. from two weeks
excursion, bringing with. them so gallons
of blackberries and 20 gallons of whor-
tleberries for winter use.
70 Hon. Warren Cranston, of Waldo
Hills, has likely young heifer calf that
sports two tails, the duplicate appen-
dage being affixed to the spine at the
point of the shoulders and having bone
of its own aud is four inches long.
y Edward Parmenter. of Salem, re-
ceived a wound from an accidental dis
charge of a pistol about a week ago. and
paid but little attention to it at the time.
The ball struck his knee, and few days
ago it began to swell and serious conse-
quences are feared.
V Squire Duncan, Milton and
Frank MARKHAM, have returned to Alba
ny from q successful raid on the wild
blackberries of the western slope Of the
Cascades. They went up to the big
burn on the headwaters of Silver creek.
twelve miles northeast of Stay ton and
six miles from the Bigger ranch, and in
five days gathered los gallons of splen-
did berries. They had to pack them on
horseback six miles.
Ey The sheriff of Yamhill county is
searching for a man who stole some
horses from Mr.. Smith near Wheatland
a few days ago,