, 1880-01-22
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| has no lumber yard.
Or. Glenns "0rcgon ranch covers an are,
- miles long by 20 wide.
WalIa Walla Is not supplied with wate,
sufficient for fire emergency.
AL Acton, Of Pendleton, had his law
broken By the kick OF vicious horse.
''No fence and Country division" give,
rise to warm discussion in Uma;ila county.
\ number Of persons reached Pomerov
during the freeze with frozen hands and
feet
Postal orders TO the amount of 81, 900 have
been drawn at the Weston post office during
the last quarter. ..v..
\ town is being laid of on the Oregon side
of the Columbia, opposite Columbus, w, r
1t will have big back country.
Chas. Pringle, of Dayton, died on the 9th
ult, aged 80 years. He was the Oldest mem.
Der of the Masonic Order in Washington Ter.
ritory.
Stone is being used in the place of brick for
building foundations in Walla Walla: the
brick made there will stand the test Of
severe weather.
A hotel three stories high and containing
y bedrooms, spacious parlors and c0mmo.
dious dining room, will be erected at Pendle.
ton this season by Abe jacobson.
Walla Walla had several fires last week;
losses slight. In the attempt to reach fire
at the lower end of Main street, one of the
engines got hopelessly mired in the main
thorcughfarc of the city,
A delegation of Indians from the Umatilla
reservation will meet Archbishop Segher as
| PendletOn on Friday and escort him to the
reservation, where he will remain week.
Jack Lowe, living near Pilot Rock, had
his hay and straw stacks burned last week
Two representatives of the Smith family have
been arrested for this wanton act of incend
| arlsm.
A terrific wind storm visited Pendleton an!
vicinity on Wednesday of last week, pros
trating fences for miles, unrooting barns and
houses and carrying rails and boards great
distances.
There is a brisk advance in the price oil
good sound sheep, in various sections. This
is partly owing to the hard Winter and partly
to the indications of further advance in the
| price OF the next wool clip.
The Wala Walla Statesman says that sew.
eral years ago good many tons of beans
were raised in the valley and home markell
was found for all that were produced at A and
cents per pound. Now we are importing
beans, and the retail price is 8 cents perl
pound, but people have gone wild on wheat
raising to the neglect OF almost every other
| industry.
The Columbia Chronicle says that the
| people are awakening, and year from this
date will see railroad communication with
Dayton. %, 600 acres of the best agricultural
| land in the world is tributary to DaytOn
with down grade. Besides this there are
four townships of good timber land which
cannot be handled in any direction without
passing through this place. We must have
railroad.
.D I. Southern Oregon.
A steam grist mill will shortly bo erected
| in Jacksonville.
Lakeview was treated to slight blaze on
the evening of Dec. 30.
Farmers in the Calipooia region complain
about the scarcity of food.
q Complaint of the scarcity of tarm and gar
den stuff in Lake county.
Stock men in Lake county will not suffer
so severely as was feared.
Douglas county pays S. 20 per week each,
for the keeping of her paupers
Virgil Cohn Of Roseburg bagged in q re- ,
cent hunt 90 ducks and mammoth wild cat \
The mail route from Lakevew to Prime
vile has been almost impossible for seveN
weeks.
A temperance society, called the Cham
pions OF Honor, has been inaugurated
Lakeview. .. .....
Douglas county has paid since the first o.
September $500 Hnterest on the Sta@
schOOl fund.
Tho State Line Herald enters upon its sec
ond year enlarged and improved, an indies
tion OF the growing prosperity and increasing
population Of Lake county.
In 1879 there were issued by the Jackson
vile post office 2,GS0 postal money orders
and l6j registered letters were sent during
the quarter ending Dec. 81, 1879.
A company Of men have started to cut oa'
trail to Co.'s Bay, to commence at the lowe
end OF Coles Valley and 20 ~ miles down Ip
Ompqua and so almost direct 10 Coos rNu'
The names Of the passengers on board In'
schooner Mary d. Pomeroy, lost near cl'i
cent City, are rs follows: Eugene u. mOy-
David Pomeroy, Albert Tucker, i. I. p'"~
The road from Drains 10 Fkton are 10
very bad condition and Coos Bay man IN
piling up to an alarming height in the PO..l
Office, with but little prospect OF being ''' Y
yeyed over this route very rapidly. 2
Business transactions Of the RoSeOsSrSss sSs
Land Office for December is as follows; ~
acres sold for cash; 10 homestead entries, e~ ~.
bracing $3.50 acres; II final Homestead .os ~
tries, embracing $50 acres; l3 pre-emPN~
filings; donation certificates issued.