, 1879-05-15
Oregon Items.
Hotels at Pendleton are crowded

| rs often as they ought to. ~
The new town near tuc mouth Of g.,
river, will be named Ainsworth maze
The teaming season has opcnci and No.,
aye improved IN Southern Oregon. '"d'
rhc Cascade mountain road is helm, ,,n.
order fer Spring and Summer travel. q ''' "
Sacri.cg.ous hands yob the floral o,r,-,.
from graves in the Albany cemetery.
The Statesman learns that tho fitjt c,o, -,
Walla Walla promises to be excellent.
| Six hundred head of cattle are to be dr;y,.
from jackson county to Grant county,
Philip Reichart, committed for several h..
gIarles, has escaped from Coos county jail. 80
The Democratic Times says that Chin,
man was lately drowned in big Applegate. '
The patriotic people of Lakeview Arc :,
ready agitating Fourth Of July celebration
The Fast Oregonian says Heppncr is tobavo
new church ediice and school buildino'
The Mimic Pass Road Co. have levied q,
| assessment of 25 per cent. on it's capital stocI
The Independence Riverside tells of A Lara.
| and enthusiastic anti. G.Chineso meeting be1J
| there.
The Grange is very fourishing at Sinslav
and the Good Templars have thriving lodpe
there.
A new road has been opened from the head
! of the Sinslaw river to Cottage Grove, called
Crow road.
The Pendleton Touring mills proprietor
have built a good mill across the river on Tho
| Weston road.
All over the Grande Rondc Valley country
| e. I
! ever before.
James Ferguson, of Heppner, received ~.
we're and dangerous injuries by being thrown
from his horse.
About ! 200 head of cattle persisted in The
Okanagan country last winter, but there Ars
over 10, 900 left.
The Astorian says Mr.. u. G. Holden hs
received the appointment OF Associated Press
| agent for Astoria.
Several Mexicans with a large band of hot.
SEES are in the southern part of the STATE
bouRd for Eastern Oregon.
Bud Edwards, living near Lebanon, acc.
dentally shot himself in the calf of the lcs
with revolver he was loading.
Charles b. Durbin, of Antelope Valley, b.
marked 500 lambs this Spring. His sheen
wintered well and are free from scab,
The States Rights Democrat says that John
| Harbin has been arrested at Lebanon, on in.
dictment from Lane county for horse stealing.
Immigrants from the Willamette Valley
are beginning to pass through Walla Walh,
bound for the Palouse country, the WebioOt
Mecca.
Mrs. Sedore, wife of D. Sedore, living on
Birch Creek, near Pilot Rock, was thrown
from wagon and had her arm broken in two
| places.
The Statesman says that General Nesmith
is preparing to commence work on his rail.
road contract, for a job Of grading on the road
in Polk county
A Lake county badger hole. George Den.
ny's horse stepped into it. Ground and lofty
tumblng, with broken neck accompaniment
Denny unhurt.
Esmonin, of Albany, missed money from
his till, bored n hole through his partition and
discovered that two little girls were tho
thieves. One stood watch while the Other
stole the money.
The State Journal says: w. H. Crawford
was convicted of burglary and sentenced 10
five years in the penitentiary, and made Q
speech when he was sentenced
The Appropriation for Coos Bay is $780, 600;
but the last session failed to provide funds out
OF which to pay the amonnt, hence we fear
nothing will be done this summer.
Jay Beach, for long time settler at Fort
klamath, has bought largely of State land in
the vicinity of LinkvilIe and intends to 60
into the business of raising fine horses.
The Sentinel says: Fiom Ben Boswell Of
Wallowa we learn that over two thousand
head OF cattle have been sold out of that val
ley and everybody is happy and prosperous
The Union says: The branch railroad TO
Weston will connect at Whitman, five miles
below Walla Walla as the nearer and cheaper
route, but the Walla Walla people don't hhs
| it.
| The Mountain Sentinel says: 1t is safe %
estimate that $2,OO0,000 will be paid out
in this county tor stock this Spring., anu
times are beginning to improve materially
| already.
Three little boys were playing on logs, u
the Calipooia, near Albany, which is stockea
with logs for half a mile, and got in, one beng
drowned-named George Slodin, son OF EnOcn
| Sodin.
The Eugene Guard says: The late rain As
been very beneficial to the farmers; while no'
heavy enough to stop them from work 1t hs
loosened the earth and will start the grain ~
ready sown.
The Watchman says: The prosecuting Az
torney and U. s. Marshal Of Idaho Torrltoy
are going hot and heavy after all parties WV
take or have been taking timber from Govern
ment land, surveyed or unsurveycd
From Hon. G. H. Montgomery it is Learned
that large settlement has recently Deeu
made on Deep Creek, fine region OF coGn.S
south of the Spokane Falls, and east OF wv
Colvillc road. There is fine body oil i"n'
there yet, open for settlement
Henry sindlinger eight years p reside!n.,%d
Astoria and formerly OF Portland, comnlsSMv
suicide the other day, very premodIta!eryY
| shot himself through the head with Pl',Us
He is described in the Astoran az quite ag
nj, III. l..iF,.y ,,.aii his Ill5luJef