The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-10
OREGON.

The mail carrier travels over eight feet OF
snow in going from Yamhill to Tillamook.
Louis c. Weber, formerly of Portland,
was drowned at the Columbia fisheries last
week.
VIM. Gilmore, a deck hand on the river
steamer Occiient, was drowned near Corval-
lis last Friday.
Andy Toncy, of Baker county, lassoed a
large 'black tall deer the other day and
took it nome alive.
Judge Perham's son, who was accidentally
shot some four weeks ago, died at his home,
Hood River, Thursday last.
Shepherd, the Clackamas and Silverton
mail carrier, rides So miles a day each day
in the week, except Sunday.
Marion county farmers are holding their
wool in the hope of better prices, but % and
22aa cents being offered i'll Salem at present.
The settlers who have lately been deprived
of their lands near Los Angeles, California,
are all coming to Oregon to make this their
future home.
A vein of coal three feet thick has been
discovered about five miles from Silverton.
L: resembles Puyallup coal and is thought
to be valuable.
The American bark alden Besse has ar
rived from Hongkong. She brings a num-
Der of celestial passengers and a cargo of Chi
nese merchandise.
The Barlow road across the Cascades is
open as far as Laurel hill. The snow is fast
disappearing and the entire route will be
open in a short time.
A band of cattle, consisting of 100 head,
belonging to Lang ( Ryan, left Grand Ronde
valley last week. This is the first drove of
this season from that valley.
The sundry civil appropriation bill, now
before Congress, appropriates So, 600 for ap-
praise,nent and sale OF Fort Dallos military
reservation in Oregon and other abandoned
reservations.
The neigbborhood of Bellevue, Yamhill
county, has been greatly disturbed by horse
thieves. Two men, banned Pearson aud
Brunts, have been arrested and lodged In
Jail charged with the crime.
Mr.. Hagar, husband of Mrs. Barbara Ha-
gar, who was so brutally murdered at her
home in Clackamas county over a year and a
half ago, died at st. Vincent Hospital in
Portland after a lingering illness.
Jumps of silver bearing quartz have been
found on the North Umpqua. If the parties
WHO uIc ScuicuiuS " ~ ouSSSSu III ihAtiuS
the ledge, they will have a veritable bonanza.
as the specimens found assay S2O62 per
ton.
Improvements now being made on the
stage road through the Crow creek and Grave
creek hills are progressing finely. Lieut..
Symonds, now in charge. has about - men
employed to whom he Is paying SIS pei
day.
The citizens of Sandy have literally hewed
their way out of the maze in which the
great blow plunged them, cutting a roadway
through 1000 PROSTATE trees between that
settlement and the approaches to Oregon
City.
Certain we'll known gentlemen are agi-
tating the subject of binding IA large com
modious dry dock at st. Johns. Prelimi.
nary surveys will soon be made, and it is
expected that the project will soon be in
shape to commence operations.
Nicholas Bills, the German farmer resid-
ing on Mosher creek. Wasco county, who,
on the afternoon of Monday last week muir
dered his wife in cold blood, shooting hcl
down in the presence OF her children, the
next day returned to his own house, and
shot himself while lying on his bed.