, 1879-08-28
Oregon Items.

hS NHNtAV Nl'lJ III NbIullN IS IfGC from
rust and : yieIdingnot only large but plump
yield.
|. n. Muncey will soon start up the quartz
mill at the Telurium mine, says the Western
Star.
Overland travel has been light this season,
which is evidence that times are hard through
out the coast.
Brownsborough, jackson county, has be.
come entirely deserted by business men and
the post office is closed.
John Day, the Tillamooli mail carrier bv
mule power, was victim of a runaway and re.
ceived some severe bruises.
Col. John f. Ross and others will take n
band of horses to the Willamette Valley in
the Fall from Jackson county
1t is understood that Prof w. T. Leeke
will be employed as principal of the Ashland
public school for the next term.
s. G. Carter and others cut bee tree on
Elliott Creek last week, from which they OBJ
tanned 100 pounds of excellent honey.
The third annual reunion of the Pioneer
Society of Southern Oregon will be held at
Ashland on Thursday, the llth of September
ensuing.
The Cornelius Courant says: Five bridges
have broken down within the past ten days
and it hasn't been very good weather for
bridges, either.
The Town Talk says: News from the
Mimic Pass Wagon Road party places them
at the base of Mount Jefferson, pushing for
the Black Butte.
Jesse Appegate's property in Douglas coun
ty is being sold to satisfy the balance of the
claim still held by the State against the
bondsmen of Sam May.
The harvest still progresses in Jackson
county and the farmers are finding that the
wheat crop will not be as heavy by consider.
able as at first anticipated.
TO show how plenty game is in Powder
River Valley, the Democrat says Our devil
went out hunting one day last week and
killed six sage hens in less than half an hour.
The Mercury says; The machinery of the
Farmers Warehouse in Salem has been over
hauled and two new cleaners put in position.
They have a cleaning and receiving capacity
of 500 bushels per hour.
One day last week the little town of Forest
Grave came near being destroyed by fire.
The slashing had been set on fire outside OF
the town and the fire got under such head.
way as to compel the citizens to turn out and
fight the flames.
A Dayton correspondent says: Considera.
BILE inquiry is being made about the price to
be paid for the incoming wheat in this mar.
ket. j. H. Olds is offering S7a bents per
bushel, sacked, and it is generally conceded
that wheat will start in at SIS or 90 cents un.
sacked.
Several specimens of the new ore found in
the tunnel of the Tellurium mine have been
left at the Office by J. Il. Jennings. The ore
q. ,,, IL 4 1,I,k L,,A
few tons of il will make the stockholders in
the mine wealthy. We doubt if we have ever
seen richer quartz.
Work is being pushed forward quite rapidly
on the narrow guage. They have three gangs
of Cinnamon with a white foreman, and have
got to Harrison's station, about eight miles
from Dayton. They expect to have the work
completed to Sheridan in ample time to carry
off the incoming crop from that place.
The Walla Walla Statesman says: A few
crickets have made their appearance n the
valley. They are yet too scarce TO be utilized
at present. When they become more numer-
GUS our farmers will capture them in large
quantities, roast them, knock off their legs,
and ship them to Portland for peanuts
During the week Henry Conn, Sr,, and his
son Creed of Douglas county, killed two
black bears on the farm of the gentleman
named. They were enormous and savage
animals, and had killed in their time many
sheep, cattle and hogs belonging to farmers in
the neghborhood in which they were
slaughtered.
During last week many farmers took ad-
vantage of the pleasant moonlight nights and
kept on harvesting from sunset till sunrise,
but what harvest weather Fortune has
smiled upon us from the time we put the
seed in the ground until we gathered it again,
many fold, and put it in the granary. .-Walla
Walla Watchman.
Mr.. Frank Harris was seriously hurt last
week while blasting in the new cinnbar mines
near Oakland He went into the tunnel to
ascertain the reason for the non.explosion OF
blast, and while but short distance from it,
the explosion took place, knocking him some
distance and bruising his head severely, and
will cause the loss of one eye.
The Eugene Journal says; A company OF
eleven energetic individuals went from Foleys
Springs to the summit of the Three Sisters
last week. 1t took good deal of nerve and
ambition to make the trip over the ice and
snow, but they finally succeeded in reaching
the pinnacle. That is probably about as near
to heaven as some of them will ever get.
The McMinnvile Reporter says There is
one crop that will hardly be likely to fail us
this season. and that is the potato crop. we
find them in patches of several acres each be-
tween McMinnville and Lafayette--or IN
other directions, for that matter. Rev. Russ
caps the tallest, we believe, with his field OF
fourteen acres, which he has planted on the
Rogers farm, south OF town.
Tho R,Lar Coupt,t Dnmonrnt SAWS. Work