, 1879-07-17
Oregon Items.

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tial warehouse at Halsey. ''a'
Haying is finished and harvesting will 400,
commence in Jackson county. ''0n
Cinnamon pay $1,000 for 400 square feat :.
mining ground near Canyon City.
Drunken Indians fight" with each other ,,s
attack white men, near Pendleton
The Indians had big time and war.d,,,.
over the departure of the Umatila scouts
Jesse ID. Carr has been buying beef cattla;u
Lake county for the San Francisco market
Mrs. Duniway is spending a month !,
Rogue River Valley, and lecturng acceptablv
From all parts of Eastern Oregon comes tbs
report that the grass was never better or stocI
fatter. 'A
The old wire bridge across Salmon river
built / years ago, has been carried off by biob
water.
The Jacksonville Times says John Weis.
OF that county, shows samples of rye eirbt
feet high.
The Salmon river bridge has been carried
away and is great loss to the people az
Warrens.
The State Board have appointed G. W
Bailey, Of Pendleton, agent Of the Board for
Umatlla county
Mrs. Parsons, a widow, aged 60, formerly
of Oregon City, late Of Coos county, was found
insane and sent TO the asylum.
We reproduce column and a half editorial
from the Lewiston Teller by saying that
Lewiston is going to be big city.
Geo. Thompson and Geo. Newall escaned
from the Umatilla Jail, but Sheriff Sperry ran
them down and reCaptured them.
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other day petrified human foot and stocking
which was found somewhere on Rogue river.
The Ashland Tidings tells how John
Walker was bending an OK bow, when it
struck him in the eye and that eye doesn't see
well.
A man named Roberts keeps ferry on the
Klamath, and man who went there to give
him thrashing came away with a bullet in
each leg.
The Pendleton Independent tells OF snake
about two feet long with two heads, one head
being at each end. The snake could travel
either way.
One hundred Thousand feet of logs, cat on
government land and destined for the new
town of Ainsworth, were seized at Lewiston
last week.
Some audacious scamp has been palming of
some counterfeit coin upon Weston merchants.
In appearance they are good limitations Of
| tifty-cent piece.
The scouts and soldiers who are hunting
Indians i'll the Salmon River Mountains had
to shovel out a mile of snow to get their
animals through.
The Albany Register says: Buyers have
been paying 22l cents for wool during the
week. Geo. Simpson sent down quite large
amount during the week.
D. s. X. Buick has had q force Of men at
work upon the road ON Roberts Hill, this side
Of Roseburg, and is making substantial i'm.
provements on the road.
Trains run daily from Walla Walla TO
Wallula, but carry no daily mail, and the peo.
pie interested are now moving to have daily
mail service on that route.
Hunting and fishing parties have gone to
Bear and Sylvia valleys from Canyon City.
The trout in Sylvia river are as big as tele.
graph poles, that we know Of.
A. II. Moore, sheriff OF Coos Bay county,
has invented a valuable labor saving machine
for stutfing salmon in cans Mr. Hume has
bought the patent, paying $1,000.
Dr. jackson, of Jacksonville, has added
to his interesting collection of natural curl
osities and rarities large aerolite which was
found upon the banks Of Rogue river.
A correspondent of the Tidings says; The
hay crop in this neighborhood this harvest
will be abundant, the wheat little less than
last year and the oat crop little heavier
The Ashland Wooden Mill are still running
to their full capacity. The company have
now on hand between twenty-five or thirty
thousand dollars worth Of manufactured goods
The Walla Walla Statesman says; There
are large quantities of railroad iron beng
shipped from below to Wallula for the Weston
branch of the Walla Wala and Columbia
River railroad.
A farmer, living about one mile and hal
back from Cellilo, while digging we'll not
long since, up on top OF the mountain, found
some human bones, partially petrified, when
were thirty-seven feet under the ground
Mr.. Jonathan H. Parker, OF Baker county,
challenges wool growers to produce Duck
that will compare with his, the Bed ROCK
Democrat says; he is Spanish Merlno, ah9
produced fleece OF wool this Spring thae
weighed thirty-two pounds.
The Cornelius Courant says: During tne
raising of the tower frame OF the chnrch Iues-
day last Mr.. Lew Sloper came near losing ns
lfe He was upon ladder when the entlfe
structure commenced falling and in its descen%S
took the ladder with it. Mr. Sloper leh
heavily upon the sills beneath though for'u'
nately broke no bones.
The Eugene Journal saye: Williams y BlacS
are working on the second million OF feet ~
saw logs on the Middle Fork, and expec1
start to run them to Springfield ere lons,
Some OF the hands have had narrow escape
from getting badly hurt, the last one repoI'e;tt
is d. Rigdon, who was hurt yesterday, Du'
is to be hoped not seriously.