The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-07
No. 2S.
OREGON.

Steamboat lines ON the Willamette have
| agreed on one tariff rate on freights.
The Lucky brothers. saw mill at Hood
| River has commenced cutting lumber.
Nine -tenths of all the wagons sold in Ore.
gon and Washington Territory are made in
Wisconsin
The last $1,000 necessary to make up the
S35, 900 for the Yaquina Bay Railroad has been
subscribed.
Three million feet of logs have been run
from the head Of the Calapooia to Albany
without loss.
Rev. William s. Haygood of New York, will
take charge of the Episcopal Church ut
Eugene City shortly.
1t is stated that this is the first winter in
seventeen years when there has been SO little
snow in the Blue Mountains.
The captain of the schooner that lately
came into Yaquina Bay in a disabled condi.
tion, was drowned on last Friday.
The Oswego Iron Works will start up
about the first Of May. The company has
contracted for 5000 cords of wood.
Over in Washington county, Mr.. McCunc
recently surrounded "A bear and killed him
with an AJAX identally of course.
The rats at Hillsboro are so hard up for
something to eat in the shape of corn that
they have taken to stealing false teeth.
Philip Glover, near Sublimity, is said to
have lost five children by diphtheria, and that
there are two more at present down with the
same disease.
w. II. n. Stiles, charged with perjury be-
fore the Grover investigating commission,
will be tried on the 18th of March, in the L.
5. district court.
A family Of six children residing on Birch
creek, Umatilla county, were all suddenly
taken with diphtheria, and all died and were
buried the same day.
Oregon has sent man to the State prison
for year for stealing an umbrella How
singular it is that the jokes Of the East be
come crimes in the West.
Snake river is falling and the water is too
low at the present stage to navigate with
safety. The Almota will return to Cello and
lay up until there is rise in Snake river.
petition is in circulation at Salem and
other towns up the valley, asking Congress
| to make an appropriation for a survey for a
breakwater at Cape Foulweather off Yaquina
Bay.
| Mr. Joseph c. Hildreth at one time Super
intendent of the o. II c. X. r., and gentle
man well known throughout the State, has
been adjudgcd insane and committed TO the
Asylum at East Portland.
F. Nodnc living about six miles from
Union, was stabbed by Henry Usher some
days ago. He was cut on the right temple
and three times in the back. None of the
wounds are fatal. Usher is held to answer.
A compromise has been effected between
Dan Holton and his creditors by which they
are to receive p cents on the dollar This
| compromise being satisfactory to all parties
concerned, the petition in bankruptcy was
| dismissed
| The L. S. engineer in charge of this district,
| received orders by telegraph from Washing
| ton 10 proceed AT once in accordance with
the laws of the state of Oregon, to condemn
| the land required for the canal around the
Cascades of the Columbia river.
| Farmers of Oregon conclude that the sur
plus of wheat this season will be compare
| lively small unless the weather be so ad-
| justcd as TO suit the granger But little
| plowing has been done, even in the hills, for
weeks past, and no grain sown in consequence
of rain.
Recently two loggers, named stephens and
| Marvin, got into a quarrel at Rainier about "a
raft stephens became very angry and dis
charged pistol at Marvin, inflicting a severe
wound in the head. He was on the point of
shooting again, when Mr.. Dean Blanchard ar
| rested him.
| nc luSuTuuCt companies promptly pAlu
their losses by the burning Of the Bishop
Scott Grammar School, the Home Mutual
paying S5,5OO and the Imperial $3.50. The
school still suffers n very serious loss, as the
estimated value of the building with It's fur
niture was S25,0oO.
The Portland Oregonian says: Capt. J.
| Kellogg " Co, propose to construct a new
boat to run between this city and Lewis river
Plans and specifications for the new craft
| have been drawn and the contract will soon
! be let. As yet we are unable TO give the di-
that she will be completed and ready for ser
vice within three months from date At
present the company named above have two
steamboats, running between Portland and
Monticcllo-the Rescue and Dayton. The lat
ter is running TO Monticello and the former
to Lewis River.
A short time since, the son Of Mr.. Bodley,
Of Portland, died of that terrible disease, con.
sumption, After the corpse had been laid
out, razor belonging to the father was
taken to shave the corpse. II was lain away,
the funeral over, and nothing more thought
of II. A few days since, the father wishing To
shave himself, took the razor and used IT, In
u short time his face began To swell up, and
panied him most terribly. ii went from bad
10 worse until nature could no longer bear
the torture, and the lingering spirit was set
free. Mr.. Bodley was highly respected
man. and leaves behind him circle OF mourn
ing relatives and friends.
II appears from Eastern exchanges that the