The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-02-10
LOCAL ITEMS.

us pleasant call last Thursday.
Hay is selling at fifty dollars a ton and
wheat at p cents per pound at the railroad
front.
Benjamin Huntington of Yoncalla, paid
our city visit this week, more on business
than pleasure.
Last Thursday night week ago, burglars
entered the store Of Henry Smith, on Wolf
creek, and stole some three or four hundred
dollars from the till
Isaac Thompson, well known merchant
of Waldo, Josephine county, in early times,
died at Napa. California. Of paralysis, on
January 18th, aged about 6S years.
Governor Moody has appointed Wallace
Baldwin of Corvallis, a commissioner to su-
perintend the erection of the fish ladder at
Oregon City. authorized by the last 1egisla-
ture.
Farmers and others desiring a genteel, lu-
crative agency business, by which S5 to $40
day can be earned, send address at once,
on postal, to Fl. G. Wilkinson & Co., l95
1877 Fulton street, New York.
A religious discussion between "Pap''
Comley and man namen O'Brien, of Grave
creek, was decided in favor of the former
one day last week, Comley coming out first
best. Knives were used, O'Brien receiving
serious wound in the groin. No arrests
have yet been made.
On Thursday of last week John Murray
of Oakland, who was engaged at work in the
shop at the end of the track on the
extension of the 0. & G. railroad, died
! suddenly, supposed of heart disease. The
deceased was formerly marshal Of Oakland
| and young man highly respected in tie
community where he had lived.
w. H. Herman, the genial Singer sewing
machine agent, has returned from an extend
ed trip south on the stage ROAD through
| Douglas and Josephine counties. He reports
| that feed fer teams in that section is ex
tremeiy scarce. Hay is selling for sixty
/ dcl.ars per ton and oats at one dollar per
bushel, and difficult to obtain at that The
sewing machine business is good.
Thursday of last week about three o'clock
in the afternoon, as the men who were at
work in the north end of the Cow creek tun-
nell on the extension OF the O. & c. railroad
south of Roseburg, were about to change
work, q blast was prematurely exploded
and two of the men, Daniel Silvy and Geo.
Whitton, were killed and six of the men Sc
aiousl ly injured.
! Caldwell and Dodson, the two men in
dicted for assault with intent to kill Charles
| Hanna. at q special session of the circuit
court for jackson county, held recently,
were acquitted The assault was one of the
most cowardly and uncalled that has come
under our observation for a long time. At
the same term W. P. Benn, convicted Of
cattle stealing, was sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary. 1t seems to be greater
cffsnse in jackson county to steal measly
oll COW than to make violent assault upon
human life.
w. D. Fenton has not, was stated IN the
Plaindealer some weeks ago. retired from the
practice of law, nor does he propose doing So
On the contrary he is favored with large
and payipg practice, from which he was ena-
bled to purchase a fine farm in Yamhill
county. He was always sympathizer with
the grangers and We wish him better success
as farmer than was obtained by the illustri-
GUS Horace.
A. S. Jacobs sheriff of jackson county,
spenta day in Roseburg during this week.
He was on the way home from Salem, with
er he had been to take w. P. Benn, convicted
of cattle stealing, to the penitentiary. Mr..
Jacobs formerly resided in this city and has
many friends here, who were glad to meet
him.
While the people of Oregon have been
complaining of the few frosty mornings with
which we have been favored during the last
month, with the mercury but little below
freezing point, our less favored bretheren on
the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains
have been patiently enduring an atmosphere
ranging from eighteen to thirty degrees be
low zero, and yet in many of these states and
territories they will tell US that they enjoy
the finest climate under the sun. Whilst
we 0regonians rest in perfect security, de-
pending on the native grasses to furnish us
fat beef during the entire winter, our neigh
bors east of the Rockies are compelled to
house and feed even their stock cattle in or
der to winter them over, and yet Oregoni,
ans will complain if it happens to freeze ice
little thicker than window glass. We
should really be thankful for our climate.
In the case OF the State of Oregon VS.. s.
F. Chadwick and his official bondsmen, ar
gned at the last o ctober term of the supreme
court before Judges W atson and Waldo, az
elaborate and exhaustive opinion has been
fled. by the latter, the former concurring.
The pith of the decision is to the effect that
the assumption of official duties is not con-
tract, but burden imposed by the state up
on the citizen, which he is bound to accept
in the interest of the community and good
government; that no additional liability il
created by the State, requiring bond; thai
it is only an additional remedy for securing
the faithful performance of the duties which
the citizen would be bound to perform with
out the official undertaking; that where ar
official acts in good faith and according t.
his best judgment, that he is not liable for 1
mistake in the law, or liable to the state fo
any losses it may have sustained by sait