The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
CURRENT EVENTS.

Cocoanuts are profitable crop in Florida.
Ex-senator Yalee is said to be worth 50,
10000.
Walla Walla is to have another iron
foundry.
Judge Wingard taxed Colfax faro games
$50 each.
Harvard has 1,552s students in all de-
partments.
Moscow, /. T., has real estate and
building boom.
Tacoma expects to ship q, 5000 tons Of
coal this month.
Tacoma wants and probably will get a
new opera house.
A telephone exchange is to be established
at Billings, NJ. Z.
Grand Lodge, Mich, has a barber shop
conducted by a woman.
There are $1,000 sacks of wheat at Snake
river awaiting shipment
The papers of Seattle and New Tacoma
are having general war.
Snow is about three foot deep in the vi
emma and Sawtooth mines.
Coal-ly speaking, Tacoma is coming up
abreast with Scranton, Pa.
A Georgia negro has just paid a doctors
bill of twenty years standing.
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hisspictures, etc., cost $150, 600.
Bartley Campbell is drawing an income
of $1,000 week from his plays.
Cayuse station has been closed and the
agent removed to another point.
1t is said that there are 100000 persons
engaged in Japan in making fans.
A saloon keeper in Centeryille bit off a
half breeds ear in a recent scutt1e.
School boys at Pendleton, Or, have a
habit of going armed with pistols.
Half a dozen business houses in Olympia
opened doors on the 1st of January.
A Chinese joss house has been dedicated
within the boundaries of Baker City.
It is said that the funny man of the
Louisville Courier-J Journal is woman.
Governor Moody spent his Christmas in
his old place of residence at The Dalles.
The Coeur d'Alene miners have decided
to keep all Cinnamon out of that country.
The people of Harrisburg, Or, Joined in
a Christmas tree and had a jolly time OF 1t.
A woman 108 years old was converted
and joined the church in Whitefield, Ga.
The Dalles people indulge in the luxury
of Vermont butter at 10 cents per pound.
Mr.. Irving's receipts for the first six
weeks in this country aggregated $lO8, 1885,
Hunters report lots of antelope between
Big and Little Lookout mountains, in Ore
gon.
A company in the Ceur d'Alene mines
recently sold fifteen acres of a claim for
$1,000.
Rhoda Howard, of owingsville, KY, 116
years of age, has smoked tobacco for 100
years.
The President went to see Mrs. Langtry
play Julia in ''The Hunchback at Wash
ington.
At Astoria, Christmas was made sort
of Fourth of July, and much powder was
burned.
An important discovery of coal has been
made on the Indian reservation near Ben
ton, ID. 7.
Mrs. James, of the Fanny Paddock Hos
pital at Tacoma, was injured in runaway
on the 9th ult.
The Boston verdict on Henry Irving's
acting appears to be that he is an artistic
stage manager.
A small unoccupied house in Tacoma
was blown down by the gale on the night
of the 18th inst.
The Clalam Indians of Clalam county
alone paid last year $16830 into the treas
ury of that county.
Major Evans, of Myers, Fla, has a
grove of cocoanut trees that produces 300
or more nuts per tree.
1t is reported that the wind storm did
considerable damage in and around Walla
Walla on December 10Th.
1t is rumored that the Chemeketa Hotel,
in Salem, will be supplied with an elevator,
operated by water-wheel.
A Newport, KY, horse ran mile with a
wagon containing nine children, but not
one of them was spilled out.
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CITY. M, t. on Christmas night, there being
$1,70O on the table at one time.
A S35. 600 transfer of Lake Washington
property was recorded in the Auditors of
fee at Seattle few days since.
A Miss Williams came near meeting her
death recently, in the Brunswick Hotel OF
Seattle, by blowing out the gas.
A man named McEvoy was badly
squeezed between two trains in Walla
Walla on the 10th of last month.
Thomas Owens, commonly and familiarly
known as "Oyster Tommy" died at The
Dalles poor house on the 23d ult.
Three San Francisco firms employ twelve
vessels in the Oschotsk sea, and this year
they have caught 81, ,750, 600 Goldfish.
DIR. William A. Newell, Jr., son of the
Governor of Washington Territory, has
been commissioned Executive Clerk.
The Mayor and Recorder of the city OF
Salem have been authorized to negotiate a
loan of 81, 900 to pay off crowding liabilities.
All the ponds and lakes in Maine are
frozen hard, and the Kennebec, Penobscot
and Androscogin are closed to navigation.
A prisoner in the Colfax, W. T., Jail, re
Gently set his mattress on fire the other
day and narrowly escaped death by suffo-
cation.
A c. Il. - alz
ging match on Christmas night. The re-
suit was broken jaw for one of the COM
batants.
Charlie Besserer, of Walla Walla, has
gone to Chicago TO buy material for news
paper. He will add one more to the four
there already.
Robert Farling, working on the Green
River Railroad, had his leg crushed two
weeks ago by log rolling over it, and will
have to lose it.
Senator Garland, of Arkansas, is a
smooth-faced statesman, in whom there is
no guile. He is a good lawyer and a
charming man.
Christmas night Mrs. Armstrong, of
Salem, met with serious accident, by fall
Ing down the stairs at Farrar's store, in
the above town.
William G.. Beecher, son of Henry
Ward Beecher, has been elected one of the
deacons of Plymouth Church. The men,
bership of the church is 2 2555.
N. S. Styles, of Warrentown, Ca,
watched for the robbers of his hens nests,
and saw alf.grown heifer go to nest
and eat the contents, shells an all.
A small slide occurred on the Columbia
and Puget Sound Railroad on the 29th
inst, but resulted in no damage further
than q few hours detention of the train.
A man by the name of Monroe, stopping
at The Dalles, on Christmas robbed his
bedfellow of $50, drove out of town. Sc
cretAd the money returned and was ar