The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-11
OREGON.

The potato crop in Yamhill county will be
large and of good quality.
The average wheat yield per acre of YAM
hill county, is 50 bushels.
Eighty-one newspapers are published in
Oregon and Washington Territory.
The telegraph company is putting up a
line between Portland and Corvallis.
II. G. Burns, merchant of McMinnville,
has been adjudged insane and committed to
the asylum.
More prospecting is being done for gold
and silver in Grant county this year than for
several years past.
ID. Nj. Guthrie of Polk county, raised this
year thirty-six bushels of wheat for every
bushel of seed sown.
The new dam of the Fish Propagating
Company on Clear creek, in Clackamas
county, is completed.
All Howl, a Chinese washerman of Hills
boro, chopped three fingers from his left hand
last week. All, how he howled.
Henry Eigenbrod, the cook of an lndepen-
dence hotel, has fallen heir to $4,000 by
the death of an aunt at New York.
The Oregoaian claims that jackson Grant
has confessed the murder of Dennis Spellen
and the Salem Statesman says he has not.
In Portland on Sunday last while Arch
bishop Blanchet was at dinner some person
entered his room and stole his valuable gold
watch.
Some Lafayette hoodlums painted Mr..
Huzzy's COW, shaved the tail of Mr.. Jenning's
pony, and killed one of Mr.. Dunn's horses
recently.
The Parker boys, living on the road be-
tween Ashland and Linkville, killed pan
Their that measured ten feet from tip to tip,
last week.
One day last week Captain Smith, of Elk
horn, killed a fine large elk. The elk weighed
500 pounds, and the fat in some places meas
ured inches in thickness.
Mr. McColl who has lived at the Wallowa
Lakes for years is convinced that the famous
red fish there are salmon which have got into
those waters via Snake river.
Mr.. w. J. Stephens has contracted to
build another schooner forthe halibut fishing
trade, says the Historian. He has already
commenced the work at st. Helens.
As Mr.. and Mrs. Gerber were riding. on
hay rack, near Oregon City, the wheel struck
root catching her finger between the rack
and the wagon cutting it completely off.
Mrs. w. Marshield of Willow Springs,
was seriously injured last week by the ex-
plosion of fruit can, which she had put on
the stove to melt the wax about the lid.
7. 2. Hyde, residing near Murphy, Jo-
sephine county, raised rye this season that
measured nine feet six inches in height. He
had pea vines also which measured nine
feet.
Some of the finest lumber that was ever
sawed comes from Hampton. One spruce
plank in one lot | I inches thick, "a feet long
and % feet wide pure stuff, had not knot
in all Of it.
Mr. Johns, ont on the Conn place in the
Waldo Hills, has harvested and threshed
1900 bushels of wheat; he measured 81
bushels of nice clean wheat from two acres
46 per acre.
One of the Clifton fishermen sold his outfit,
wife and all, for $50. at the close of the fish
ing She thinks it was all right, and stays
with the boat net, and ''her new man"
quite contentedly.
Intense excitement has been created in the
northern portion of Douglas county, by the
discovery of rich deposit of gold in the
Calapooia mountains, about 40 miles east of
the o. & c. railroad.
Thomas Wilson, while mining on Skies
river, Curry county, found under ground an
old pickaxe OF awkward pattern worn off
nearly to the eye and small unknown coin,
composed of gold and copper.
On the Saddler place near Dickey's prai-
RE, in Clackamas county, while three little
boys were playing with little dog, a large
cougar jumped from the brush in their midst,
seized the dog and carried it off.
Lebanon, Linn county, has improved
greatly during the year. New buildings have
sprung up, new streets laid out, sidewalks
extended and a general appearance of thrift
and activity pervades the handsome little
city.