Roseburghasa Mile Society.
Spelling school is Itt order at I
Eugene City.
Corvallis is donning a new coat
of paint.
Eugene City is going Maying
on the 1st prox.
RbsebUrgers are going to have a
May-day party.
Lafayette Grangers are going a
Maying on the 1st prox.
Yamhill tanners are organizing
tor a general coyote hunt.
Wrestling Joe has had a tew of
his toes amputate' 1. Poor Joe.
Spiritual lectures will interest
the Corvallis folks shortly.
Dallas, Polk County, is prepar
ing to celebrate the Fourth of
July.
The spankiiig season has com
menced in Dalian. Pupils are
numerous.
A valuable horse died very
suddenly on a Lafayette street last
Friday.
Something like pin-cushions are
indispensable in Dallas ladies fix
ups. Cohip'aints are made of the
miserable condition of roads in the
interior.
' Next Monday the Odd Fellows
of Oakland will celebrate in An
appropriate manner.
Chinamen ami Indians engaged
in a riot at the Capital a few days
6incd. Nb funerals.
. .(Tlie,.Ui)ty Council pf Grangers
of Lane County .vill meet in
Eugene City on the 5th ot May
PendletttnianV clamor for more
mutton
Jackson villiaiis now want a .fire
engine. '
Building material is h brisk de
mand at Jacksonville.
George Rogers now publishes
the Hoseburg Plain dealer.
The coming races is the topic of
conversation in Union County.
Sheep shearing will soon com
mence on the t-pfwr Columbia.
Montana farmers are busily en
gaged in sowing pain.
Travel in Montana is reported as
being exceedingly lively.
Baker City is undergoing sundry
improvements. A sign of pros
perity. Montana cattle have been eating
poisonous herbs. A number have
died. , ,
The raining season in Montana
has opeued ' under, favorable
apjiearnces.
A party of. t oven persons left
Tacoma for Swai.k mines last Men
day morning.
Wesley Roberta is wanted. He
is supposed to k living somewhere
in Montana.
The Keating &, Blacker Mine at
Kadersburg, Montana, has 680,000
worth of ore on ? lie dumps.
A man named Kelson Was
drowned last Snfurday by falling
overboard from the Alden Bessie
at Portland.
Eugene City for the year ending
April 13th expended $2,540 96.
for citv government, and owes
8720 48, . ,
Dr. Johnson, of MeMinnville,
"A1I bver'tne' valley tho farmers
are tprogtessitig rapidly1 with'' their
fjprlhg 'planting', in sonfe cases now
nearly or quite finished. Eat ' 6f
the mountains spring work has inst
begun, in eauwsti
J. Layman, of Pendleton, wIm
last Fall went to-, the lakinm,
mines, has : returned home, ai. .
gives encouraging accounts of these
mines. A nugget, of gold, which
he picked up on his claim, is valued
at $35. ''
The late rains on the foothills
with the fcnow on the mountains'
still keep water in the ditches and
in the large creeks in Jackson conn,
ty, and; raining continues active as
yet much more so than wasantici-.
pated a month or so ago,
the streets of Olynipia, each
Saturday for some weeks past,
have been crowded enough to lead,
to the supposition that it must be
the Fourth of July, the Grange
there has so many members is the
cause. 'It is also constantly gain
ing strength.
At Silver Dale, in Colorado,
George Hammond and Bill Mackey
differd as to where the next dance
should be held. They settled the
dispute amicably wtyh pistols.
Hammond had the dance at his
house, and Mackey has a funeral at
w , '. uu - io mi ' i ' m
The Jacksonville Sentinel says :
I')
John Kear'ns and Henry Norton
have been sent to th' Penftdntiery
foi two year from Yamhill comity
for larceny, in a dwelling, ,
, The pricp of wood in Boise; city
is.$12 per cord, and very scarce at
tha. The cause is attributed to
tne deep snow in the mountains.
Idaho has lately received an
addition to her fine stock, by the
purchase, by a Boise man, of two
tine stallions, Kentucky thorough
breds. :
1 The rewlpts from the festival of
St. John's Episcopal Church,
lympia, were Very satisfactory,
l aving cleared, after all expenses
u ing paid, $135 80. ! i
First campmeetlng of the siason
ii' announced to commence June
4ti, on the Newsoro campgrounds,
1 ive,r end ot isyjri P rairie,
Marion county.
Win. Campbell passed Boise on,
the 15tjh ilist- on his way to Rocky
Bar, having with him a fine band
of fat cattle, from Grand Rbnde
valley, Oregon.1
The men of Turn water, thirty
strong, will commence the grading
ot; the OlympiaTenino Railroad
through their town, next Saturday.
A distance on the line of about One
mile has been left to them.
Several emigrant wagons, headed
toward Easterti Oregon, passed
Salem Monday. The usual tar
Notwithstanding the risks taken by , ?uckels BWng to fro naer
J ' 1 i , a
A number of SalemitcsaresuthW'0" ."' " ' :, . T" 17
or iwo ago--ine resaii or a run
away. ! i
. W
ing from stickeen gold fever. The
best doctor i ex perigee.
f The editor of the 1 'Vmpqna Call
has an appetite thirty-six inches
lung, lie subsists on vegetables.
Marion County Democrats are
gouig to wear coon-skm caps on
election day. All they want is a
hollow log to crawl into.
A Corvallis horse, in attempting
to jump a fence, run a picket into
his .breast twelve inuhea. , lie soon
passed in his checks.
Somebody stole the axe belong
ing lo the Umpqua Call previous
to its first issue, which in a measure
aecounts'for some of its editorials.
i A-sun of Mrs. Keenoy, while
working on the railroad track at
Eugene City, last Friday, tell and
broke his arm het,weei the elbow
and'wrlst.
The 'mastet of the bark Dublin,
arrived at Sail Francisco April 16th
from Port GarAble, reports that, on
the 18ttrof February, John Oaks,
second mate, fell through the
hatchway and was instantly killed.
The Salt Lake Tribune makes
this thrust at the Mormon leaders :
"Worse men than Bender remain
unhung in Utah, They are
Pophets, Apostles, Bidet's, etc,,
and are shielded by the garb of
religion."
The Arizona Miner says :
"While all intelligent ArizonianS
hope that Congress , will enable
Colonel Sc;.tt to build a Southern
Pacific railroad, many of them tear
that Congress will not grant such
aid and cdncessions as he demands "
A gentleman who has made a
canvass of Tacoma estimates its
actua, t .resident, muuicipal-voti ng
population at three hundred a
number six times greater than that
of one year ago, and second to that,
a;inother, town on Pngotr Sound:
'J he assessment of the town, though
yetKineoWptetev' Hrffcates arf ' ail
vauce over last year of 300 ' per
',,':, .'..! '
4J , to stood, on a teuce uicKet with
httyj'1Weral t66lf "jJlifle w
next dayv iron: x nui ,?''j I re
Bji Wright's store at
Tacoma ivas closed by creditors last
Saturday, but ho- hopes to pull
through all riaht.
The'latest joke'at TafcOma is A
man who fried t borrow moiiev ol
an editor to nuy k lit aid build a
house with.
Several P.uet Sputiders arrived
at rescott, Arizona, on Uie 31t
ulu, and are expected to settle in
tint vicinity..
The total rail ft II, as reported at
Beale Spring, Arizona, from May
1873, to March, 1874, inclusive,
was 18.07, ',!. ;
Tlie Indefiendent Literary Soci
ety of Jacksonville will Shortly, give
a benefit in aid of the sufferers by
the fire. . JJ
Donald McKay's hand of Warm
Spring IJraves arrived at Portland
Saturday, and danced in war paint
and feathers at Oro Fino Theatre
during the week,
I'aker ' Connty has a Jenkins
who caused the arrest of a camping
party, for burning a rotton log on
his grounds. The1 party were
immediately dismissed.
The average .temperature at Ua
ker (fity dnrrng the week ending
April 15th was 44 1 degrees ; cold
est weather, 32 degrees; warmest
64 degrees, j (pi
A Montana paper' says: Six
horse stock on, the Helena route
now ; full loads to Deer Lodge, and
the carrying capacity inadequate.
The world moves,
Two Olympia lads, aged about
twelve years had a scrimmage the
other day, in whidV, knives ami
clubs were freely used anc some
bad blood spilled.
A man sporting the name of
Charles Jackson' Wilson played
"sick and destitutb",on die cnarita
bio X!op)e of lOlympia and: rrised
considerable money to enable him
to get out of thecoiH$rjv,bnt forgot
himself, and diank qp or. gambled
away the.gthX whereupou the prfo.
pie concluded, , that; m& djdti't
want him to'Bo. and , li.id him' an
rested unaW-pten'"
everybody during the firi?, we have
only heard ot one person sustaining
any bodily injury, and that is Mr.
George Grown, whp cut his , toot
with an ax ivlile chopping down
awnings Though severe it will not
confine him jo the house.
, A daughter of Jacob Evans,, ot
Cape ArragOi Coos Bays' was
terribly burned a few day since,
by heY clothes taking fire froni a
fireplace. "Hr1 little1 brother;' in
atterrrfnii'g'roektingm'sh the flames,
n'as also Baaly Hiiriied,' and the
llyds of both are despaired of:
Tlie -'i'e('of William, McFarlud,
who resides on tlie ocean beach,
some twenty-five miles north of
(iray'k iharbpr, was severely
wonnderl, the first of last week,
by the acoideutaLesplofioW- fn a
metallic cartridge; Site was hand
ling it. and dropped it, causing it to
explode. , The ball entered, her
wrist and ranged up the arm be
tween the bones, coming) out near
tlie ,eJbow. : , i . i -
Th Demooratic County Com
mittee' ' ot Marioti, met on last
Saturday and made the following
nominations to fill the Vacancies on
the' Democratic 'county ticket. J.
W. Weatherlofd and B.' F,
Fletcher were nominated for Rep
resentatives, vice Lf'PettyjnhiV and
Davis Shannon, declined. L,
Judson was hominated Surveyor,
Vice Wib. Pugh, defined,
Clympia fjinapgp ,had a full
meeting on Saturday. Twenty:
eight members were, initiated, ad
vancing them to full membership
as patrons . A bountiful harvest
(east was onjoyed by the Grange.
Oelegatos i train seven Granges, and
a goodly number ol patrons from
other Granges joined on the occa
sion. Olympia Grange voted' . to
turn out on the, 1st of, May and
help srade the railroad on Bush
Prairie,' : ,htit ii
A gentleman at Helena, Ml T.,
has a pair pf lmge iponntaht lions
or cougars, which be lias raised from
wne ips, i nose peasis are now
the wagon, and the "regulation"
number ot dogs followed the tram.
, The Salem Record, says : Ben
Btauton, who is "reposing upon his
laurels" in the county jail, Wcrtt
three days Without eating last week
-agoing to starve himself to death ,
but weakened when be found that
Billy Barker, the Janitor, didn't
scare worth a cent.' ' '
Tlie "Woolen
Mills tr ttie
'onit.
These
, nit' h ! . . k.
aiwut two years oia, and fully , as
largo as a good sized panther. Tliev
do not attain tlteir full growth until
four.ycrs.of age. They 're very
ferocious, and give no evidence of
liocomiug tractable, and an ordinary
sized dog, thrown into tie pagei, did
not Hiirvivo long enpjjgh to .give a
yelp, The owner says they have
already devoured some .'ten, or
twelve dogs apd, twenty., or, jthirty
W w''icn. Kae "oe: , giyen ' therij
to play wjl Three, of Ithe tam.e
There are on the. Pacific coast
eleven woolen mills eight in Cal-
lforiua and three mOregon. Those
in California are: Two in San
Francisco, one at San' Jose, One tit
Marysville; 1 oe at Stocktori, one at
Sacramentd, One atf Los1 "Angeles,
and one at Los Gatos. fir Oregon,
theris amrtlat 9igl(in (Dlty, onti
at Salem, and one' at Brownsville.
They Have in-the. aggregate1 20,840.
spindles and S2 broad looms
Their capital js $2,000,000 ; the
value of buildings and machinery
is $1,525,000: the number of
pounds of w'ool Used last year was
5yaS0,00X of a y atue ot $1,200,000,
and the value of the rnanutactiire
was $3,000,000. Of the vf ool used,
3,680,000 lbs was Calitbrnian, t
200,000 lbs was Oregon, and 500,.
OdO Australian. About 250,000
ofcottpn were also used. Of cas.
simeies, 11,000,000 yards were
made, and of blankets, flannels,
etc, 1,600,000 yards. The total
number of employees was 1,356, of
whom 851 were Chinese, 260 white
men, 137 white boys, and 138
white w6men and girls. The
wages paid aggregated $556,400.
The value of goods sent East was
about $350,000, and the . total ex
ports at least $400,000. ' 'ncb an
exhibit is highly creditable to the
coast, and gives the highest prom,
ise of a. glorious future tor. this
industry.
A few days ago a very, hadsome
lady entered a dry goods house
and inquired for "bo.rt The
polite clerk threw himself back and
remarked that he was at her ser
vice. "Yes, biit I want a buff,
not a green one," was the reply.
The young man went on measuring
goods immediately.
.-, - --'rT;-: '"
, "You .cannot taste in the dark."
said a' lecturer "NaUvre ,has in
tended p to 'j see j 0r !tood7:
"Then," inquired, a forward pupil,
"how abo; a bujd,jnaft at dinner?" i
lessor, "has pWhW'With ejp
teeth.' 1
The steamer Otter has returned
to Victoria, bringing one passenger
aml'thfl 'fbllowlnjr iiewti rrom the
northern mining country !
Mj.'A. ChxMpiette (Buck), who
went up on the first trip of .the
Otter this year, has heen through
to the mines, and reached Wrangel,
on his return, the night befor the
Otter arrived. He reports having
discovered iili(ther paying gulch;
also, that Tke Stevens & Co were
making $8 a day on a piece of
ground which they had been able
to thaw out on one ot the creeks
discovered last year.
Mr. Silvester, the expressman,
was at Wrangel, awaiting the
arrival of the Otter, and intended
to start again for, the mines the day
after that vessel left. Several of
those who went np ori the last trip
had returned to Wrangel, ' finding
traveling difficult on account of
water on tlie ice,, It is improbable
that the Sttikeen River will be
open before the end of this month
The Nass and S"keeny Rivers are
fitill closed,' aiid the Government
trail men who went upon the Otter
do not expect to be able to ascend
the latter for another ten days.
To miners who left Victoria
about the end of January, and wf6
have been through to the diggings,
furnish the following information
of "matters and things'? there: ;.;
The snow,, from Buck's Bar
averaged about 30 inches, was soft
and spongy, there laving beeli no
night-frosts to form a crust, and
snow-shoes were necessary. Excel.
lent use 'was made of the dogs in
hauling the' tobogans. The men
who were first ou the creeks had
confined the operations lo the old
diggings. Six and a half miles of
Dease Creelc were staked off,' and
the miners, after obtaining good
pro-pects, had commenced to build
cabins'. About 250 men were' on
the cretVkfc " '' 1 ' ' "
Provisions of all kinds were from
1 to $ I 60 a pound at airy place
above Buck's liar. There wa no
supply at Buck's Bar. There were
only about 80 sacks of Hour at the
diggings-tor sale at $50 per sack,
1 he trip with a loaded tobogan,
from Buck's Bar to Dease Creek,
consumes nine days, Men were
paid $50 for packing in goods.
1 wo hundred and fitly men weifi
encamped on the Stickeen River
banks.
Snow on Dease Creek wa lorn4
and five feet deep. The tlierniom.
eter stood below zero on several
consecutive days in March.
When our informant left, the
"boys" were thawing earth 10
prospect the claims. .
The Government trail men,' whe
went up on tlje last trip of the
Otter, were still at Port ta-singtoh,
unable to proceed' with their, sup
plies. A great number of British
Columbia Coast IndSanffhadstarted
for Stickeen to engage in packing.
1 he ice m atickefii Itivc -js
breaking np slowly. In sorn.e
places the traveler comes across
gfeat fissures and chasms in'ilhe
ice, through Which the water fouie
and spouts in its eagerness to sur
mount the barrier. Jt other patt,
where the current is uot rapid, the
water lies on the fields of ice ahd
men have to wade through it waist
deep Of course all rJbis makes
traveling both ditfieuH and hazard'
ous, and fow care to , imperil, their
lives in braving the difficulties ' aiid
haVe encamped on' the river batik
to await the final breaking, ' it
Dr. Everson has exeftfei thfe'e
rision of little people-oi' Iwth sexes
by stating in a. lecture Umt, "little
women should go out, of fashion.
Physical diminution can be avoided
by right methods iii 'the pse otfood,
1 diss :uiitiaJ;;lii(n
A New York gall got mad- at
her Kansas lover and, expreed
hm 1,400 love leftersi As she
coUld express her own teelihss flv
i8.tpressiug liis; they otight' tjb'.'he
one. m l",RT W
tit-Hum JtnwNH w, f nn
Two hundred people in nQobr
ado town recently turned! daft fa a
bixly to look iipdoia; bedrtiaad' h
castors, it beiag tlie jitia, ptii
n the country,