The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-01-15
OREGON.

maker, matchmaker, furniture dealer
and bath house.
A man named McDcrmott is in
Jail in Yamhill county for burglary
and want of bail money.
There is but little snow on the
Blue mountains at this time, and all
are predicting mild wilmer.
Some ofthe shccp-raisers in Farm
ington Precinct, Washington county,
turned out one morning recently, and
killed four dogs before breakfast.
* .ris to-fcr-k- lum- bus" was all a
Benton county farmer sad, when
informed that they were twins, and
looked just like their patcrnal anCes-
tor.-DemOcdat.
The miners of Southern Oregon
have plenty of water and they are
very busy. There is good chance
for money to be little more plentiful
there next spring than tor twoyears
past.-Albany Democrat.
Judge Caplcs, leading lawyer Of
OREGON, with residence in Portland,
is in the city. He hasn't extensive
law business, but large number OF
Republicans are looking TO him as
the proper material for our next y.
S. Scnator.-Salem Stat sman.
Typhoid fever is alarmingly prev
alent in several ncighborhoods III
some of the valley counties. The
Albany Register ofthis week records
the death Of two persons in Browns
Vile, !. S. Brown, and John Caro-
line, three in Van Bur.n and two
children in Jefferson, and Mrs. A.
B. Morris and Mrs. Matt. Miller
in Albany. A large number of 9TH
crs arc reported dangerously III.
Major Cornoyer, the East Ore
gomian learns by private letter, has
been appointed Indian Agent at the
Umatilla Reservation. This is a
good appointment, and one that will
please both the Indians and the
whites in the ncighborhood Of the
reservation. OF course the dcposed
agent will not like ii very well,
neither will some other parties, per
haps, but then we guess they will
have to stand it. Walla Walla Union.
The McMinnvillc Reporter says:
The heavy descent OF The water in
Panther creek played sad havoc at
Mr.. Bingham's sawmill, tearing
away the dam the c and carrying
off about 100000 feet of logs. The
logs were swept into CANYON below
and there they arc lodged. To re-
cover them would cost moro than
they are worth, hence they are count
ed as totally lost. To build the dam
will cost, says the mill man, about
5000; and as time is most valuable
at this season of the year, whca wa
ter is plentiful, which is not the case
in the summer time, the loss by stop
page will not fall below $500. The
total damage Of this disaster will
probably be over $500.
A Portland exchange says: "a
little below Columbia city, on the
beach, is sandstone rock, visablc at
low tide. with the water at its pres
cnt stage, bearing the inscription
"rSII." 1t also has cngravcn upon
it the letter ~" and a drawing of Z
ship. In "Frsncherc's narrative" an
account is given of an expedition
being made up the river in
the early part of May, ISII-Ghc
Fur Company arrived at Astoria the
last of March land of making vari-
Gus landings on either side of the
river. Among the gentlemen of
the party were none whose name
began with V. But as one OF the
sailors of the Tonquin was named
Peter Vcrbcl, and as sailors arc
much given to engraving upon
ivory, she'll, stone or wood, it is more
than probable that Peter Vcrbcl was
one of the boats crew on this occa-
rion, and that he and nonc other left
this inscription on the rock o5 years
ago. AS all the Tonquin's crew
were murdered by Indians of the
north coast in the following month,
this stone is the only and lasting
memorial of that ships company in
Orcron.'