The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-04-24
OREGON.

Wool is worth 15@ Ice per pound at the
Dalles.
Southern Oregon mines are reported to be
doing well.
The weather last week damaged the fruit
crop in Douglas county.
Timothy grass is already more than twenty
inches high in some parts of Clatsop county.
Wool of the new clip is coming in at Jack
sonyile. The crop is shorter this year than
last.
There is in Douglas county steer over 10
hands high. A half interest in the animal
was sold recently for $500
A deposit of coal, supposed to be of some
value, has been discovered at the head of a
creek 20 miles from llepner, Umatilla Co.
A man named IIildebrand trapped two big
black bears on the little Nestucca river last
week They had previously eaten five filters
of his pigs.
The o. S. n. Co. will Danish all liquor from
their steamboats, after May LIST. No bars on
the boats, nor boats on the bars, will be per-
mitted after that date.
Senator Slater writes home that he has in
terviewed the commissioners, and the pros
pect is good for the removal Of the Indians
from the Umatila reservation.
number of Indians belonging to strag-
Cling bands are confined at Fort Klamath
awaiting removal. 1t is thought they were
among the hosti1cs last summer.
II II. Gilfry has been appointed, through
influence of Senator Grover. as an Asst. Secy
in the L. s. Senate a position heretofore oc-
cupied by II. r. Kincaid, of Eugene City.
i Portland FISH Inspector has an ordinary
pair of scissors which were found in Goldfish
last fall. 1t is probable that the scissors were
dropped from some vessel, and their bright
ness attracting the attention of the fish, it
snapped them up as something good to eat.
An Astoria cat was loafing on the wharf one
day. and seeing sea crab, went up to exam
inc it, Thirty seconds later the crab was
helping the feline investigator up the wharf
at the rate of a mile minute; but, to a crab
in Astoria, such speed must have seemed eX-
tremely unique, as it were.
For some time the Mayor and Council of
Astoria have been participating in bear
dance, the Council deposng him from the
Office. A few days since Judge Bellinger d.
cded that the Council could not either i'm
peach or remove him, and he ordered them
to restore to him all privileges Of his Office
Parker redivivus. Council vice versa.
Last week. in Clackamas county. Dave Vim
zant shot at a squirrel about 10 yards distant
killing it; but the ball did not stop there long,
and steer some 120 yards distant also sus.
pended at the crack Of the rife he was man.
ufactured into beef. Just because he found
the bullet in the steers heart, Dave has con.
cluded to join the Creedmoor rifle club. He
acts now like member of the Sazerac living
club.
While gentleman Of Roseburg, says one
OF our exchanges, was walking just south of
that place on the 18th inst, he SAW a small
dark object fall to the earth; no sound was
produced by the conclusion, yet the ball was
burst into thousand fragments. On going
TO the spot where the object had fallen, hun
dreds of dminutive frogs hoped away. The
relator might, if he chose, have added that
the birds sang in their leafy bowers, the horn
Of the hunter was heard on the hill. and four
teen government mules were not adequate 10
the task of kicking grain Of truth into his
constitution.