, 1880-03-04
State and Territorial.
Willamette valley.

McMinnville.
The Christin church at Eugene has received
numerous aecessions lately.
The next session of the State Temperonco
Alliance will be held in Albany.
Nick Baesen is the unanimous choice of tho
Corvallis fire boys for chief engineer.
a post office has been established at KNIGHT
Marion county, with Frank L. Knight, PM
Corvallis proposes to maintain public free
school the current year by tax levy of three
and one half mills on the dollar.
The McMnnville school district renorts
2S2 children Of school age. Number Of in.
habitants, 67j; legal voters, $40
Corvallis people think that o'clock A. NJ.
Is rather early to start on n journey, and de-
sire the West Side to change the schedule.
Lively times in Eugene last week. Two
hundred delegates to, the Alliance children's
temperance meeting, overflow meeting, pat
rons of public school incensed, woman suf-
irage discussion and DIR. Sims looming up in
the immediate future. no.. IT
Hon. 7. w. Davenport has sold lis Marion
county farm, 3oo acres, for $4,000. "a
Lane county has large acreage of Fall
sown wheat, which is extremely promising.
10 rust Is feared in that section this year.
East of rho. c.srounialns. 20
Dayton newspapers boast of the number,
character and variety of the social amuse-
ments OF the town.
NJ. Ii. Abbott will remove to Boise Citv in
April, when the Democrat of that CITY is
again expected to blossom as rose. ..'
Says the Columbia Chronicle. 1t is now a
certain thing that Dayton is to have bank,
and that it will be opened about the lst of
April next by Messrs. Hawley 4 Wallace of
Portland The location selected is the room
on Guernsey Wolfe's corner, and is q con-
venient place. The door for the vault has al
ready arrived at Hawley, Dodd & Go. Is place
in this city, and from its appearance, one
would judge that the parties mean business
sure. HI1i f.a' '1iu3 a.jy fna.rb
Pendleton was treated to the hardest storm
Of the season last week
The first salmon Of the season Appeared in
Walla Walla markets last week, rra,9l
Walla Walla dismisses fear of n gra,shop.
per raid. The last snow anu .teeze "tixed
them" 'H'..E .n. g,blaa
At.Spokan Falls, says the Times, -four is
selling at the grist mill at SIX dollars and
half and seven dollars per Darrell ''"j
The Pendleton school teacher was arrested
and tried for assault and battery upon one o
his pupils. The charge was not sustained
and the podagogue was discharged. l7"3
The Walla Walla Watchman SAYS Not
less than fifteen men left the city lately
out in search of land Everybody wants it.
We expecta big stampede neXt Spring but
wheat will be wheat for all that.
DR.. N. G. Blalocls, G. W. Colby and d. s.
Colby with capital stock of $4,000, are
now duly incorporated as q tlume, company
for the purpose OF constructing a flume to ex-
tend from the head waters Of the north fork
OF the Walla Walla river to Milton.
Southern Oregon.
Gardiner City contains 300 inhabitants.
The late storms have driven 4 large num-
ber OF ducks into the Callapoia valley, much
to the joy of the sportsman.
The champion hunter of Green valley,
Douglas county, boasts of having killed in
1879, 3G5 deer-one for each day of the year.
The Umpqua drains with its tributaries an
area of 4,200 square miles of mountainous
country, q large portion OF which is bare OF
other vegetation than coarse grass.
The floods Of the Umpqua occur in the
Winter. The highest recorded is that Of De-
cember 1861, which rose to q height of forty
feet above low-water mark at Scottsburg, and
covered the marshes in the bay to o depth OF
two feet.
George Jones OF Roseburg became so enthu-
siastic in an attempt to kill a deer that he
.blew,olf about six inches of the m,Yzle OF a
$50 gun, having first imbedded that imple-
rneit m the mud bYway of preparation
Stock in Josephine. county is farihgr better
than in many other localities,
Company r. 2lst Infantry, CAPT: Riley,
now at Fort klamath, Oregon, has been or
dered to Vancouver Barracks as soon as the
roads are in condition for the march to Rose.
burg. T. ST. sJNmmpO 01Hr "A
A petition is now in circulation in Doug
las county praying for the construction OF a
lighthouse at the mouth Of the Umpqua river,
on the south side, The nearest Lighthouse to
that harbor is that on Cape Blanco,; thirty
miles south. Tho commerce of the river, and
of the coast. demand the lighthouse as de-
sired, and the petition is meeting with the
signatures of everyone. 10 s4a1w I'd
ti-tg Southern Oregon. -,
The editor of the Jacksonville Times is
president of the literary association of that
citY!hsu. ~ d. f 6l ..... .' llg
A prisoner languishes in the Roseburg Jail
for Obtaining pair Of boots under false pre-
tences. '''''. 't' OF 1909 .
Reports from Lake county are again uafav-
orable, and a heavy loss of stock in that Sec
tion is anticipated. "h'.'
A literary society to which ladies are adj
mitted on equal terms with men, has been
started at Jacksonville. hH.. .N yfr
a II is feared that some Of the wheat tbat has
been sown in Jaeksoncqupty Will ba frozen,
and resowng necessitated, ,s..ig hes
, Mr. Thomas Brown. Of Garden Valley has
plowed $50 acres OF land this season and in
lends to plow 100 acres more, ".1
old pioneefs say that tiie present winterhas