The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-06-05
OREGON.

Three cougars were killed in one tree in
| lost valley on Monday Of last week.
In a few weeks Jay Gould, the railroad
king, Of New York, will visit Oregon.
| Elias Hughes, Of Butte creek, jackson
county, has killed l22 deer during year.
Lane county, Oregon, is nearly as large as
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island
| Four men were drowned on the 2Sth near
storia, which makes twenty -four this sea
son.
Charles Krebs, of Salem died in the county
hospital at Jacksonville recently, aged 1O3
years.
The schooner Rescue has sailed from As
toria on her fishing expedition to northern
waters.
Mrs. c. A. Coburn, for five years an editor
ial writer on the New Northwest, has laid down
her pencil and left the tripod.
The Roseburg Independent says large
and enthusiastic meeting was lately held there
in favor of the Coos Bay railroad.
A detachment of boys in blue from Fort
Klamath recently corraled an outfit of stray
Cling Snake sayages in Lake county.
The hills about Yaquina Bay are said to be
well stocked with deer running in bands,
with fair supply of cougar and bear.
The amount of salmon canned and ready
for market at Astoria this year. judging from
present indications, will exceed two and a
half millions of dollars.
Eighty five families are on the way from
California, with wagons, to locate in Tillamook
county. Let them come, there is room for
500 families in Tillamook at present
The Supreme Court has reversed the decis-
| ion in the case of the Indian Grant, convicted
of murder He must have new trial, but
with less chance OF acquittal than before.
A SOW belonging to J. w. Collins, of Table
Rock, recently gave birth to a couple of pigs
possessing two mouths each and one of them
| had four ears. They did not survive long.
polk county family have been danger
ously i'll from the effects of eating pie-p plant
leaves, boiled and served up as greens. One
of them died before medical advice could be
obtained.
Never in the history Of Grande Ronde Val
ley has there ever been as great u fall of rain
as this season. There has been but one week
since the first of March that ii has not raned
quite hard.
The lime deposit at Five Mile creek, in
Wasco county, is said to be of the best quality
and lime for shipment can be laid down at
the Dalles as cheaply As San Juan lime can
be laid down at Seattle.
Last Monday evening a daughter, eleven
years of age, Of Mr.. Thomas Berry, living in
East Portland, undertook to start fire by
pouring kerosene upon it from a can, which
exploded, and she was burned to DEATH
Rev Mr.. Sellwood, of Oregon City, has de
clned the calls extended to HIM by the church
| in Walla Walla, W. T., and Santa Rosa Cal
| iforna. Mr.. 5. will remain in Oregon, and
go on with his work in his present parish.
The settlers of Nehalem valley are cutting
a wagon road from Ncrmonia to st. Helens,
and as soon as it is flushed machinery for
saw and grist mill will be brought into the
valley and mill erected on the Nehalcm
river.
Salem Statesman says Messrs. Parish d
Games, of this city, have been engaged for
some months past in making machine that
will cut, thrcsh. measure and sack grain at the
same time, and have it nearly ready for the
painters.
The Pendleton paper says: From the way
parties are going out on the reservation with
chain and compass We imagine that nearly all
the lands are taken. We guess however, par
ties will have to wait little while before they
take possession.
An Albany man Of enterprise .has lately
gone into the business Of weaving wire. He
weaves all kinds of wire CLOTH which is used
in millers rolling screens, grain separators,
fruit driers and in a great many other ways.
Three looms in his establishment are run
ming almost constantly, and he is now max
ing arrangements to put in two more.