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Summering bas Iready commenced at Clatsop. The mantch stare of brick “Will bg, com menced in Astoria very soon. Erystpelasis. prevailing throughout Polk county tt ® malignant form. The Astoria, Nehwlem valley and Wash ington county wagon road matter will be the subject of ve investigation. Right Rev. Morris visited the Dalles, on one beford last and confirm ed five persons, , During the services held ‘by Dr. Nevius during the preceding week, eight persons, adults and children, were baptised?’ The contract for the new church at the Dalles, to be built by the Episcopa lians, will be set within the next week. A large number of horses, mules, cattle and hings will’ be driven out of Jackson county this year. The wheat crop of Walla Walla county, dt is estimated,“will reach one million bushels, the coming harvest. D. 8) K., Balek organized a grange at Hot Springs op. the Tithur. The annual meeting of the Jackson County Agricultural Society will be held the court home, In Jacksonville, on Saturday, May 8 ,1275. Officers of the society for the ensuing year will then be elected. Mr. Bushey, living across the creek north of Roseburg, permitted a traveler to go through its field to shun the mud. The gentleman had a dog which took occasion to worry one of Mr. Bushey’s fine sheep so severely that it died. Several, carloads of vegetables started from California for Chicago were stopped at Salt Lake by the ‘blockade and were disposed of st auation, and for a few dayn peas, cabbage anl cauliflower were dirt cheap among the Mormons. Rye seems to grow on any kind of Jamil in Walla Walla county and ylekis a “heavy ”rop. No use is made of it, however, ex oapt as hay. A good field of rye will yield from two to three tons of hay to the acre, and that of the very best quality. The President of the Siskiyou (Cal.) Ag ricultural Society requests the Journal to state that the residents of Jackson ‘and Lane counties, in Oregon, are privileged. to conlse for premiums at their county fair next fall, ate? are respectfully invited to bring in stock and products for exhibi tion. «A writer i the Farmer, whose letter is ditec st Sublimity, speaks of the new dis ease among sleep, and says: ‘It would seem as though that every sheep that dies it is taken for granted that this disease was the cause of itz death. Now, I think there are other diseases “that are As prevalent and much more to be feared; probably the worst is the peak of which there is a great deal iri us is‘ “vicinity. ‘I know of several huge bands Which have the sand, here the owners have lost from 25 to 50 cent. of the old stock this winter, and nearly all the Iaind’ f think, so far as I have been able to observe, that over-stock ing and the want of ‘sufficient food is the prime cause of three-fourths,of the fatality among sheep. * A restaurant- keeper named Geehr, at Salt Lake City, attempted @ifelile last week by the harf‘kari process. “The wound, in the center of the abdomen, slows that Geehr inflicted is with all this force, and, if he did Hot Stab himself twice, must have turned the blade after penetrating to the Intestines in sucha a manner as to make jagged incisions on the sides of the princi pal world, and through this the bowels protruded, while great loss of blood fallow ed the cutting... ... After esarching the riff race at Salem thoroughly for the body of the lad named Howell, he waa found.Lid in a lumber pile, dry as a chip. His lgte sister had fallen into the water and was rescued, and WiFras thought: he Waa somewhere in the race. We learn that the stage company will not commences tunning on summer time between Roseburg and a week or ten days yet, as the road- sine por tions of tle State crerauier-rowgl Goose Lake valley has the ‘appearance’ of prosperity. ‘Stock looking well, and farmers are busy plowing and sowing, Messie. Foudray, Watson 4 Manning have mery employed running 4 tunes” into their quartz ledge on Brush creek, Jack son county. «Work is progressing finely and pacts att couskered goon. The spakesaation pees says: . “Hon. Henry Klippel, wh the other day arrived from the Eyttaabeth 1s is has been, ound: four deet wide The’ ¥ . t Was a y are ¢ : ’ ’ of the ore from the enormous win HGi tu ho hills shew mnSieF” eecthecent as owned ‘by, Messrs.. Bilger, ae _Foudray, and others. it is fine looking: ‘rock’ tid'wiil- doubtless ‘yielt _Toa mash of cer ‘alnes in, South Oregon, has not been very ‘extensive signa, ontag eS tae wo eenapie rat “ai Eeewerenet aon om Ry ilonlor.en gebs i aes The Vancouver Htegister says: “It is a matter that we can no longer disguise, that the milling interests In Clarke county are assuming such proportions that we are disposed to believe that our hills are full of rich treasure. A party of several men left this city, this week for the Purpose of de veloping what are called the Star ‘mines, in the eastern part of this county. The best of results are looked for, as competent men are now engaged in the business,?’ As an instance of the advantages of home manufactures, the Walla Walla Spirit says: “The Dayton Woolen mills have already saved to that county four times as much money as it cost to built them. . it brings a load to this city. It is gratifying to know that very few blankets, flannels, tweeds or harftimes are now im ported, the articles produced by this es tablishment being of a superior quality and furnished at lower rates that the same can be obtained at abroad. When the system of patronizing home productions, becomes more general we will bear less complaint in regard to ‘the scarcity of money. 7” M. Kelly, editor of the Boise Statesman, on Saturday before Inst, was assaulted on the street by a man named Scholl, because of an article which Imd appeared in Kelly’s paper. Kelly was heaven and slightly cut. Afternant Kelly's son, 4d agquiring for an officer to have Scholl arrested, steppe into the district attorney’s office, where Scholl happened to be, when Scholl started after him as he had after his father, but got a good deal the worst of the fight. ~ The Walla Walla Union of last Saturday says: “The reports from all parts of the country agree to saying that the waters in all the streams, except the Snake and Col ombia rivers, are receding. ‘The streams in this valley are now all within the banks and offer 50 obstruction to travel, except the Touchet. But the ‘Touchet on the Wallula road has so long been overflowing its banks that the lower ground, over which the road passes, is so soft that it is impossible to cross without curing down.” Thomas Monroe, of Walla Wallin, at tempted to commit suicide a few days ago, by cutting some deep gashes in his anu and thigh. For a long time Mr. Monroe has been 4TH health, and finally, last fall, had to be thrown on the county. for sup port. He appears to have allowed this to work upo his min oti he has become tired of life, and sought to find relief in aulide. The voters of Astoria school district voted on the 24th uilt., to levy a tax of two nills on the assessable property of the dis trict ($450,000) for the purpose of improve ment of the block lately purchased for the school of Messrs. Hobson Warren. This will give about $900. The Block is a handsome one, purchased on three years e time, at $1.00. ‘The depot at Walla Walla, of the W. W. C. R. E., has been located at or near the junction of Main and Rose streets in the over part of the city, about three fourths of aile from the bridge at the upper end of town. “The Walla Walla Statesmen is told that grasshoppers are making their appearance in myriads along the foot of the moun tains, and that the settlers in that locality apprehend tut they will destroy the crops. We hope these frebodings will not be realized. A teamster who came down from Lewis ton to Walla Walla a few days ago, says Snake river ¢ already very high at ais place, and is still rising. He says the people there look for almost. . unprecedent edly high water, yet that it is not lable to so any Injury up there. Mr. H. D. Cook, of Willa Walla, has just returned from Yakima, and reports the Yakima river as having been higher last week thans It has been known for the past four years. It had fallen a little be fore he left, but will probably rise again sill higher than it has yet been. A man was recently ‘robbed of $200 at Ogden, and then had been gagged and placed on the hillroad traks . Fortunately, ‘he was uncovered and released before a train came along. The Walla Walla Spirit learns that the water in the Touchet river is falling rapid ly, though as yet, teams are unable to ford it. ‘The mail and express have arrived regularly. A young man named Lerwell, near Gervais, was run over on the 27th alt., by a span of horses attached to a harrow... He is very badly hurt. Denry Guldoun, a seven-year oldster, fell heal foremost into a well at Corvallis, in which the water was 25 feet deep, but it was fortunately rescued by his parent. Chief Justice Lewis net with a painful, though met very serious accidenty at Port Lownsent, on Monday” erate ih last week, spraining his ankle by stepping on a broken sidewalk. A man who called himself George MU ‘Jer was engaged at work,on Mr. Settle soier’s farm near Parkereville, on Whver, disappeared ‘a few days ago, ‘taking with him a pair of calf boots and a gold watch Devine we to his employer. ‘The Dayton, W E, woolen, mills, are now Tanning.on ‘tall: time with @ complete @nd the demand for wet op onealiete be erttal to a The Jefferson Institute le doing , ably under ‘the charge of: and c Campbell, who is giving thé the ‘satisfra tion’ under his able Z band skill ‘as Instructor. T he officers of the “Eugetia’ Library for, ensuing year are:. at, ST. Se arg Secretary, W aes Seoeveary,F. H. Grubbs , A. BR. We Honten oeae Gerara Patterson, A. ete er: Ee Grubbs, Finance—Hendricks, somes one had turned abe it is 'Fillamook by five Biomphtends three, so The Indian school at Neah Bay is said to be in a very flourishing condition, under the Superintendence of Agent Hunting ton. From “Mr. Ad. Edgar, who “lately re turned from trip to Grant’ county, the nan learns that the mining news of that section is very encouraging. The quartz, ‘tines’ of Elk’ ‘Creek and‘ vicinity Are prospecting well, and the, Cabel mine ‘is paying handsome dividends, ‘the cin nabar mines’ that were discovered in the year '64 or '65, but on account of the hostility ‘of the Inds ‘is again being prospectedt and” opened by Messrs. Dr., If, “Horsley, Jobo Ray, Gilbert Reynolds and’——-~ Denis, who have’ form ed a company for that purpose. Mr. Ed ger says he saw over ‘ hundred’ pounds of pure quicksilver that came from this mine. They laye ,put up a furnace, and with a rude apparatus have commenced turning out the pure quicksliver, and in sufficient quantities already to supply the home market. These tunnies are situated a few miles from the John Day river, on the south side, and,about 25 miles this, side of Canyon City.
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Albany Register
Albany, Oregon, US
Fri, May 07, 1875
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