, 1879-05-29
Oregon Items.

SeNeFa4 lAhlhes Toln AAlnOlS have SetrloL
near Dayton.
Marsh & Co. aro to build the new Mosou,.
| Hall at Oakland
A Chinese leper lately died at Apple,ato
the best thing he could DO
The toll road over Siskiyou mountain,
being put in first-rate condition.
Considerable Summer following will be so,o
! by SusIaw farmers this season.
The Coos Bay News man has dug and a,4o,
new potatoes from his own garden.
Crops look well in jackson countv h..
warm weather'witl rnake them look better.
| A man was accidentally but not dance,
ously shot ip the hand at Sand Island on Ri. .
day.
Business men at Halsey are building n byc
water tank, to have Il supply of fluid in cass cass
| of fire,
John Sullinger, young man Of Canvoo.
vile. has been fined for malicious mischief and
| imprisoned.
Douglas county has over three hundred.
miles OF county roads, and not mile of It ;s
| decently navigable,
The Guard learns thay two attempts have
been made to burn the blacksmith shop OF
| Ellmaker, Long Ton, ...
Rev. h. N. Condit OF Astoria, has been
called to the pastorate o' the First Presbyte.
rian Church of Albany. .....'
The Roseburg Independent says large and
enthusiastic meeting was lately held there in
favor Of the Coos Bay railroad -''
A new road ID 10 be, immediately graded
| from Suislaw to Cottage Grove Over 100
days work are already subscribed.
| The Town Talk has discovered two more
Mexican war veterans in Salem, Il. S. Glover
and VIM. Brown, making six in all ''t
7 According to the Yamhill Reporter one
effect of the wet Spring has been to produce
webfooted chickens for d. B, Crawford.
! The hills about Naquina Bay are said to be
well stocked with deer, running in bands,
with fair supply Of cougar and bear.
Capt, A. p Ankeny, who was lookingafter
mining interests in Jackson county the
Times says, has left for San Francisco
The Ashland Tilmgs says Colwel, the
Lakeview mail contractor, who has suffered
much tribulation, still carries the mails
A little son of Mr.. CardwcIl was lately
drowned in South Myrtle Creek, Douglas
county, while fishing in his fathers mill dam.
MIR. Thomas $, Ogden, formerly of Oregon,
brother of Mr.. VIM. Ogden Of Astoria, has
located at Invercargill, Southland, New
| Zealand.
! Uncle Jessee Applegate, the sage al
| Yoncalla, still lives at the old homestead. Flo
isQuite feeble, but yet carries on his farming
operations. .....
A passenger from the lower Willamette
lately jumped off the train at Ion2alla, and
not being Killed or injured ran away but no
| ,,. 1ypn t,,I,a al hn
The Roseburg Star is informed that vii.
| liams & Flint have abandoned their mining
enterprise ON the North Umpqua their claims
not justifying them in continuating labor.
A few days ago Mr.. L, A. Loomis made
center shot and killed large black bear on
his place in Pacific county. He was fat, and
! yielded quantity Of OIL. The weight was
800 pounds. .....
| Two young bucks, at Independence, under
took to fight out their difference with their
fists, according to the coae-not the "Deady
code" Pity the Deadly code couldn't settle
| it for them. s.,. f.,. ...l.,
4 The Eugene Guard says AS Mr.. j. W.
| Skaggs was driving his team through one OF
our streets Friday Afternoon, the wagon nn.
coupled, throwing MIR. Skaggs out on tue
ground and breaking his right,leg laa
Mr.. Stickles informs us that the boat re-
Gently lost by j. q. Megler g. Co., when ono
man was drowned, came ashore all right near
the entrance OF Shoalwater Bay The net,
oars, anchor, and all the tackle was saved In
| tact.
Rev. MIR. Sollwood, Of Oregon City, has
| declined sthe iCalls extended to hinf by tbo
church in Walla Walla, w. T., and Santa
Rosa, California. Mr.. $. will remain IN
| Oregon, and go on with his work in his pres
ent parish.
The proprietors of the Astoria aud Win
nomucca railway company hnvo gone to woFE
earnestly, and they mean business. A sur
veying party will be put into the field at once,
| and the corporation will not leave stone nm
turned, SO to speak, to place this oity in sno
line for recognition, op.e.F"
Pete lawson, of Kings Valley, carried o
flask of powder and some matches In hS
pistol pocket" up last week, but now ne mas
resolved that as soon as he finds his coat taiI,
the dome of his trowsers and his lost pocEer
that he will carry nothing there but poh'iC-
! We learn from the Historian that in copse.
quence of bad weather progress OF woTk az
sand Island has been very slow and tedious,
but the wrecking company still have large
force of workmen employed, and will be SAVING
iron and machinery for three months YET 10
least, donkey boilers, condenser tubes, etc.
etc. ''' W.
A correspondent of the Eugene Guatu
writes from Irving, Lane county; The Iate
rains have damaged the farmers in this v.
cinity very much, as it will be some time t,e
before the sloughs and low lands can be pns
in. Grain that is in the ground looks very
we'll and the prospects for a good yield A''
favorable.
Last week Mr. George Dean, Of h"Tsr
Nehalem, along the coast, plowede, UP ~"
pounds Of beeswax in one of his fields NJ,
j. H. Larsen picked up a large piece on nS
way to this city from Iilamook, in the SAM no
vicinity. This beeswax comes IRON ,onS snU
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