, 1879-05-08

The Great Republic Wreckine Comn.,r
haye filed articles of incorporation.
Stages on the overland route arc prepar;D,
for short time; are already shooting in.
The escaped prisoners from the Marion
county Jail have not yet been retaken.
Roads are improving and time will be shor.
ened after this on the overland stage route,
Some scamp tampered with the pile drive,
at McMinnvile and deserves severe punish.
ment
The latest idea at Long Tom is a horse raeo
for oats delivered after harvest, to come of
May lst.
Mining claims newly located on Bripus,
Creek; are said to be paying SIS to S6 day 10
the hand.
Fall sown grain in some parts of Lane
county shows the effects of cold weather
looks yellow.
A. G. Deardorf, formerly of Oakland, wm
lately married at Keokuk, Iowa, to Miss r.
NJ Hartman.
10 Thornton's dog tried to jump through
Marks window at Roseburg. Thornton paid
for the window.
The Centennial, at Willow Springs. is yield.
ing over an ounce to the day to the hand and
running three hands.
The Eugene Journal says j. II. BOWLER,
cripple, fell down the st. Charles hotel stsirs
and cut his face badly.
The Jacksonville Times says a number Of
merchants and Others OF that place had lost
by the Republic disaster.
Josephine county had one saloon a few
years ago, but now has six. Is that improve.
mentor fungus growth?
The route between Jacksonville and Crs-
cent City is to he examined to see how rail.
road can be built over it.
Parties are going from Umpqua ferry, with
mining outfits, to placer diggings at OlalA
that yield 81 to SIS day.
The octogenarian bridegroom at Looking
Glass threw off on his promised bride and
has gone courting elsewhere.
Gen. John +. Miller, of Salem, will send
his horse Ryestraw to the Dalles to enter tho
races to come off there on May 18TH
The Polk County Teachers Institute just
closed at Monmouth was a complete success
The next session will be held at Dallas.
John Lick, timer on the State HOuse,
bones. The Statesman gays he had heavy
fall.
We learn from the Yamhill Reporter that
Henry Arthur, the lad who lives with MI
Gault, had his face badly scorched while
Lighting fire.
The Statesman says Joshua Chitwood, a
old gentleman who lives opposite Salem in
Polk county, was thrown from his wagon and
considerably hurt.
Drs. Young and Callveatte, Of Lafayette
removed cancer that weighed half pound
from the breast Of Mrs. Mitchell who Lives
near McMinnville.
Rabbi May of Portland delivered his lee
ture for the the benefit o. the Presbyterian
Church at Salem, to q select audience, and all
were highly entertained.
The ladies Of Rock Point, Marion comfy
are proposing to hold q picnic on the farm Oh
Hon. George Downing, May 10th, and have
a dance at the hall near by in the evening,
Edison Savage, son of VIM. Savage, near
Sheridan, had his shoulder broken by
vicious horse throwing him. He remounted
and rode him home, though severely In
jured.
Mr.. Flint, Of Independence, cut his writ
badly with hatchet, and the Riverside sav
a daughter of VIM. Leman, also Of that place
four years old, cut herself painfully in tho
breast.
VIM. II. Crawford was convicted Of burg
larizing the safe OF the o. g. G. r. r. Go, m
Eugene and was sentenced to five years in tn0
penitentiary. This sentence was the full eT'
tent OF the law.
Mr.. Jacob Wisecarver, of McMinnvile'
was passenger on the Great Republic, return,
ing from visit to friends in California, anu
lost his baggage in the wreck, like many an
other unfortunate.
The residence OF Mr.. Fletchall, situatea
about five miles north of Eugene, was des'
troyed by fire with nearly all its contents Gu
Tuesday night, April Goth. The fire orgu'
ated from defective flue. No insurance
man calling himself Shole, is tramplDS
up the Santiam, pretending to buy farms a1s ~.
be capitalist, when he is only a blk. 40
is feet inches high, weighs 40 polnasSS
has sandy hair and beard and says he IL w
years old.
Eugene losses by the wreck Of the Repuv.
lie areIthus stated in the Guard Robinsons.
Church had on board car load OF wagons
valued at nearly $1,000; Cherry Bros, tar%. trO.
ture, SIPS; A. s. Patterson, stationery, si'"
r. G. Callison, $3.50. None were insured -
Officer Minto, of Salem, assisted by Snenn
Dickey, Of Linn county, arrested fe'el.s fssn
and wife, Worthington and wife and IT .1I's
whose name is unknown, about ten in, LIZ.
from Albany, charged with robbing the ,,Is%. Ts~
dences OF DR.. Jessup and John Belt in SasJI 'S,OI.
They are an organized band of tramps S~
en- goods were found on their persons
The Yamhill Reporter says thai hOms
effects Of the late marine disaster come nUI
to people there. c. H. Cook and Wlte isUIh ths
H. l.. Cook of that place) were robbed py ,rs %
sea of nearly all their worldly possesSS%sr. Ssr.
They had on board carriage, wagon, 40
ness and four fine horses, and had plaihiI md
land at Portland and drive up to Iamnin
surprise the old folks, but lost the aDO'''
well as all their household effects.