, 1879-10-30
Oregon Items.

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The average daily attendance at the D,v.
ton public school last month was | 10 scholars
John Flannel attempted feonous doines ot
Canyonville and after sharp chase bv two
sheutlS he was captured
| Game is now abundant near Astoria.
/ party left the city ON Sunday and returned in
the evening reporting success.
John Blencken, OF Applegate. one of tn.
| pioneers OF the coast, died at the Douglas
county hospital on Saturday last,
! The Astorian says that Mr. John RYAN was
Killed ON hlS claim on Jim Crow creek bv
tree falling on him. He was chopping it him.
self.
| The Watsburg school was never in n more
ilourishing condition than at present: has a
full corps OF competent teachers and good at.
tendance.
Latest advices give wheat buying at Walla
Naila at 62a cents per bushel Buyers pay
% cents per bushel delivered at Snake river,
and 40 cents i'll Dayton.
One of Col. Bernard's troopers, after facing
bullets through the last two Indian cam
paigns fatally shot himself with his own car
bine at Boise City last week.
Col. Rube Robbins, chief of scouts in the
last two Indian wars, has been presented with
fine gold watch by the citizens of Boise City
IN recognition of his valuable services.
fire occurred last Sunday forenoon, burn.
ing dryhouse belonging to j. w. Crlbb,
living just above Dayton. About seventy
pounds OF peaches were drying at the time
tent belonging to Daniel Walker & Co.,
and containing several hundred dollars worth
OF txtu.es, was burned in the vicinity of
Sprague rlver the other day. The fire was
accidental ''
The Columbia Chronicle says: While Mr..
Charles Heiby was riding ON First street his
horse slipped and fell with him, dislocating
his right ankle and breaking the bone few
inches above, ..... ......
The Boise Statesman tells of the robbery of
SChwabacker X Co.'s store, the breaking of
the safe and robbery of S3,5OO. There was
$50, 600 in the safe, but the robbers got scared
and left in haste. .I.
The Walla Walla Watchman says. A
stove was stolen from Mr.. Thomas O'Brien,
of the Exchange Hotel. The parties returned
abe next night and took stoye belonging to
Mr.. James McAuhf.
''John Il. Clark, NJ D., London, England"
a pretended English tourist, is the last fellow
who bilked the good people of Jacksonville,
hiring horses, buying mining property and
cutting big swath generally. I...
The Times says Sheep are now being
driven in from Summer ranges and provided
with Winter quarters, Losses have been gem
orally slight, though few bands were depop-
ulated to considerable extent.
Capt. Bendire's gallant troopers have n fine
company garden at Walla Walla in which
they raised potato weighing 50 ounces,
which they presented to Col. Frank J. Parker,
the noted scout and Indian fighter.
The Democratic Times says Snow has
fallen the Rogue river road to the iDcon-
veniemce OF teamsters, who find considerable
difficulty in getting through to Fort Klamath,
as the thoroughfare is becoming rough.
The Columbia Chronicle says that an unu-
sually large numbe~ OF immigrants have ar
rived in Dayton seeking homes and fortunes
in the far west. They will find what they
came for il they stay with the country,
+. H. Canaris lately killed an elk whose
horns measure five feet nine inches. Distance
between tips, three feet six inches. This elk
furnished $50 pounds of dried meat He also
shot buck deer that dressed l54 pounds.
Two day is his average
The o. s. N. Co are now taking from differ
ent shipping points on the Upper Columbia
and delivering III Portland and Astoria 1900
tons per week, mostly wheat. For all this,
much wheat will have to be kept over the
Winter in this country. ... ...
Hon Thos. H.. Brents, delegate to Con-
gress, left Walla Wala last Wednesday, ac-
companied by his family for Washington. He
will go by way OF Puget Sound, where he will
pass a few days at various points, to learn the
needs OF his constituents. ...... ....
Mr. j. C. franklin, OF Butter creek, sent
the East Oregonian lot of as fine strawber-
ries as we ever saw picked from the vine, last
Tuesday, also lot of backberries. He has
Strawberries Just in bloom and in all stages
from that to the full grown ripe berry.
Several papers have recently stated that old
Eagle Eye Chief of the Weisers, was among
the hostiles recently captured by Lieut.. Far
row. This is a mistake, for his bones are now
bleaching among the black pines between the
Starkey rancho and the north fork Of John
Day river, where his outfit was jumped in
July, rs.
The Walla Walla Statesman says: Re-
Gently several adults have died from what the
physicians call typhoid cholera. The patient
is taken with violent pains in the bowels, and
after suffering from 10 to "a hours dies, and
immediately after death the body turns per-
fectly black. It is disease never before
known here. "a, .r,u
Several members of General Grants party
visited places OF interest in the city Friday
evening, including the engine houses. Cen
eral Grant himself strolled through the city,
once at least in perfect freedom from the be-
hests of an eager, gazing crowd, watching ev-
cry opportunity to peer into his face lie en-
joyed that eveningat Astoria highly.
Mr.. Girls. Rentz yesterday caught forty
pound sturgeon with the hook, fishing from