' stniseKisttraerenneaaKtB I '. ' ?.' VOL. XIII. CATTLE IN MIDDLE OREGON. Hr. Summerville of the firm of Breyman k Summerville, of Prineville, who was here last week represents the stock interests of the southern part of Wasco county, and lives one hundred or more miles south of wheie Mr. Dufur lives in the samo county. In that part of the country there is little or no farm ing done, and stock raising is the chief de pendence for business. Cattle and horses are owned in numerous herds and sheep to soino extent, but are i ncrcaing. Mr. Summerv ille gives us many interesting particulars concern ing stock-raising in that section, and we briefly desciibe it as having tho Blue Moun tains on the Ea3t of Piiceville, affording a great Summer range for stock, with the valley and table lands of Crooked river affording good grass, while the extensive upland region known as "tho desert," reaching along the Cascade range from the Warm Spiings reser vation South to tho Klamath, and East of Prinevillo fov over one hundred miles, affords unlimited Winter range, as will hereafter ap pear. To give an diea of the cattle iuterests, the firm of Mays k Smi own 10,000 head; Brey man and Summerville win 5,000 head, and there are a number of other heavy owners in Southern Wosco; while to the East, in Grant county, Peter French owns 20,000 head and Riley & Hardin, of Santa llosa, Cal., own over that number, and there are many others who own less. Breyman & Suinmervillo are now beginneis, comparatiely, having closed out an extensivo mercantile establishment at Prinevillo to make a specialty of stock, in which line they have already had experience They expect to have 1,000 calves to brand the coming Spring. There is something almost romantic about cattle raising as practiced in this wild region, where settlement is confined to"Tliey alone tbsstrumo, and for hundreds of miles in nil. directions extend wfdoaTCaTontabTo lands, great expanse of waterless and treeless w astes called "desert," and wide regions of moun tains and foot hills that abound in grass that grows amid forests of scatteicd pines without underbrush. Ten years ago cattle bore a high price and there was probably more stock than at the present time. Bands had more owners, man being satisfied to own a few hundred head where now they own thousands. At that time cattle were woith more money than now, bufe the price went down fearfully so that many became discouraged and sold out, and in that way the bands were consolidated. At that time whole bands were disposed of for f 3 to $9 a head. Then there came a demand on Eastern buyers who took off 150,000 bead in a single season, and -the price has now" ad vanced again to pretty good figures ; 3 to 41 year old steers sell for $22 to $25, an advance from $20 to $21, in 1SS0. Ten years ago a bind was worth $20 a head, all through, where it would now average 15, but there are plenty of people who find money in it. Some pains has been taken to improvo cattlo but the tho timo seems to have como when stock men appreciate mora highly than heretofore tho need of raising tho grade. Of coursi, putting good males on a range is folly nnles3 a combined effort is made. The cattle men around Frincville talk of owning good males in common and putting tnojgh of them on tho range to bring the stock up. Mr. Summerville has the purchase of short horn bulls in view before his return. The increase of weight and quality of beef will soon show what is the value'of good cross. The stock that has been so graded up speaks for itself, but any one can see the difficulty of making improvement, except on wholesale plan and by co operation, where stock range in common over such an unlimited extent of conntry. A description of the work of caring for stock through the year will be interesting, and we give it from Mr. Summerfield's re cital. It is spring time, and in May and June the cattle men go out in force for the annual "rodero," or "round up," as they call it in Colorado. Those who have cattle on the range come in person and frequently bring assistants, each band being represented by three to five men and homi, and perhaps hfty in a party. The object is to find all the stock and brand the young calves. It is a busy time with them ; some are driving stock together and others breeding. The calf re ceives the brand on the cow, and if any calf has become weaned before it is found and can not be identified by its mother's presence, then the first comer puts bis own brand on it and there is no question. Occasional trouble comes from this, but when the owners are all represented all goes suooth. When an owner is absent, his brand is pat on all calves known to belong to him. At the time of the Spring "rodero," all the beef steers are driven up and tamed over to the buyers who may have con tracted for them. PsllBpsMsreMaBBasWWBBsssWWBWssssMls5sSMM " .. ' J!i-JJitJrrr-ri?"I i-X.. ,! " B3slr"T"'KgflBjjffiSsilMgissiillffllra We have described the "Spring Drive," but there is also a "Foil Drive," which takes place when the stock comes out of tho high mountains in September. Then the sime ef fort is made to find and brand the calves that were omitted in June, or that may hae been born in the interval; then all tho Spring calv es aro put into pastures to wean and allow the cons to gain in condition, so as to be able to winter well. This warning of the calves is a modern feature, only ha ing been done of late j ears, but very necessaiy. Tho expense of cattle raising is literally il most nothing, tho original outlay being tho extent of tho investment. The rancher puts up no feed, and stock take tl eir chances in the mountains in Summer and in the desert in Winter, lie 'doesn't even bnj salt, because the prcsenco (if alkali supplies fiat need, find stoA will not eat salt if offer ed. No help is required except tJ make tho Spung and Fall drives. The Summer range of cattle is towauls the head of Ciooked Hiver (which is the main btaiich of the Deschutes, heading in tho Blue mountains,) anil in foot hills of tho ranges ; as Summer deepens they work into the higher n ountains, finding good grass among tho pine trees. Thcie is home browse on the foothill, but tho mountains aro all open timber. With Autumn instinct causes cattle to lea c the mountains for the plain", and as soon as snows fall they woik their way onto the "deseit," which dry region is some times good soil but more often rocky and un fit for cultivation, but on all parts of it theie is thu best of bunch grass that will never be eaten out. for in Summer there is no water to keep toek alive, so tho grass makes its Sum mer growth and waits for the stock to eat it off in Winter. Ono in eat irtuo of this grass is that when dry it retains all its nuttitious properties and makes good Wiuter feed. On tho desert are scattered junipers tint give 5lk .PlgtoTZZu nn',1 ! drink from pools tliat himiu ,ri"lrtc (i.is Spring, when the snows melt. This region is not overstocked and singalarly enough tho Winters aro not so eeveto as near tho Colum bia. Comparatively, no btock died in South ern Wasco last Winter, when heavy losses wero experienced in the northern part of tl o county. The tame was true of all Middle and Southeastern Oregon, including Baker and Grant counties, as tell as in Lake county south of Wasco. S owfall was so light that stock made an easy living and did well. So long as that region shall be left alone and not invaded by railrc ads that will induco settle ment and cultivation the stockmen will have a good thing of it. The man who owns 100 cows needs 4 bulls with them, and has only to brand his calves and drive up his beef steers, when Nature does all the rest. There is no danger, een, that they will stray beyond his reach, for they carry his brand, which is also as good as a burglar proof lock to pi event their being driven of by thieves. No thief could get out of the country with a stolen band if ho made the attempt, and no one ever tried. We published last Winter the experience of a cattle owner in Harney valley, which shows how w ell the business pays, but even he as serts that some men cannot carry it on with out failure, as is the case with all other kinds of stock. Owing to the neglect of late years the increase of cattle on these ranges has been lesn less than it should be. Since tho advance in value more interest is taken. Cows will live and bring calves to 20 years of age, and life on the bunch grass range seem to be pro longed, but cows lose their teeth, or they wear down so that they cannot munch the dry Winter feed to good advantage, so a ten year old cow, if in good order, is sold for beef, Of late many whole bands of stock cattle havo been driven East. The demand for beef is both from the East and from California, and it seems safe to count on a good market for years to come. SUEKP IN MIDDLK OKKOON, Sheep are becoming an important interest in Southern Wasco county, ana Messrs. Breyman ft Summerville own six thousand head. Mr, Summerville gives it as hi opinion that sheep can do well wherever cattle can live, and when the coarse bunch grass is eaten out and cattle no longer thrive, then sheep do batter than ever, because a fine grass, known as sheep grass, comes up in place of the origi nal growth, and a crop of weeds also grow a, which grass and weeds furnish sheep with more congenial food than the long bunch grass. It is a fact well known to all sheep owners that sheep prefer the finer and shorter grass to any of the coarser growths. It requires more care and expense to care for sheep than for cattle, as they require to be herded and also to be be dipped twice a year to keep them clear of the scab. But sheep do not exhaust the range, on the contrary, when car rying only what it can properly support they improve me range mry ran on, bummer range for sheep is in the foothills. and through the open pine forests in the near mountains, ana in w inter tuey are herued on the open country, the table lands adjoining Crooked river valley and on the edge of the dtaen. - nociu in Boutnern wasco ave PORTLAND, OREGON, now being bred up w ith the Merino blood, but do not seem to have acquired the quality and weight of wool attained by the Dufurs in Northern Wasco and, and l'raer, Dcspain and others in Umatilla county. Tho flocks of 11. & S. turn off about fivo pounds to the fleece. The native stock of their sheep seems to be Cotswolds and coarse wools, but w ill no doubt be improved rapidly under tho manage ment of thoiough business men who know the value of impioviug stock. They sell their mutton sheep for 1 S7 in tho Fall, ami they are then driven South to Winter in Lako county, to be driven again in the Spring to the railroad in Nevada," destined for the San Fiancisco maikets or to Chcjcniie iu Wyo ming on their way East. KonE nut. dim.) in wasco coiiNrv. Hr isc raisins has become a very important stock interest m the three greet gra.mg coun ties of Eastern Oregon Wasco, (5 rant and Baker whieh hid more than ten times ns many horses returned by the U. S. census in lSSOthanin 1S70. Ten years ago (in 1S70) Wasco county returned less thin 2,500 head in all, and in 1b80 the return was 17,701 head; Giant county increased fioni 509 head to !),700 ; Baker comity, from 2S7 to 0,080 head, certainly a great increase. Thousands of hors.c3 arc required m the great farming districts of Oregon tor working puipose3, but farming his only a n une in the southern part of Wasco, so that nine-tenths, perhaps, ot the stock of that county are in possession of men who grow horses as a business. 'J'heso ani mals aro not owned in suth great numbers as cattle. Persons making a business of it own 100 to 300 head, of which 50 per cent, arc mates. They buy Woik stallions and breed generally for sire and strength, often using full-blood Peichcron or Clyde sires costing from $1,000 to $3,000 per head. They nro beginning to breed sires for their own use, but often co to California for fresh blood, or import from Illinois. Tho farmers of tho Willamette, Douglas and Jackson counties, make a businesf of breeding good stallions. ilepenilii'g cmclly on the demand iroin east oi the mountains for their maiket. Half-blood Pcrehcrons and Clvdes aro often profeircd as sues for trood work stock. In tho fall of tho year Eastern hoisemtn drivetheir stock across the mountains to find a markst in western W pOUIHlS M 'e hav -s'aot time or spaco for fua cicsirTp tions of horse-breeding in that region, but can summarize and say that no better region can bo found ; that stock mo exceptionally hardy and well boned; that all kinds of horses aro giovvn there with littlo eato and almost no cost. Tho only cue is during biecding season, and bands of horses take caio of themselves without feed or sheltoi through tho whole year. A horse will piw away snow and live wheio cattlo will die. Hoi se-bi caking is a profession and costs $5 to $10 each animal, and a horse is never petted, tiainod or touched until perhaps four yeuir old, whin he is broken and dtivcu to maiket. The great demand for work animals on the railroads has about cleaned out tre old and well broken horses of the country, slid as railroad work" ramiros old and well broken stock, the farmer here sells his old team and replaces with young animals newly broken, We havo particulars from Mr. Dufur, of northern Wasco, and Mr. Summerville, 100 miles south, which show very little difference in modes, iseitncrot tneso geu'leuieii aie in this branch of the stock business but give us their observations. Unbroken animals are sold at $100 to $125, and the purchaser .hooses out of a hand, breaking and making a profit on the sale. Good work teams sell at, 4 and 5 years old, from $250 to S.I50 the matched span, wt-ight 1,000 to 1,400 pounds. Of course teams can bo had nt 6150 to $200 the span. Horse breeding is carried on more or lc-s extensively in all tho region cast of the mountains, in both Oiegon and Washington, and our description will apply to the whole reitton. To Be Sold. The Malheur Reservation being no longer needed for Indian purposes, and having been vacated and a gieat part of the public prop erty and supplies bav ing been removed, the Commissioners ,f Indian Aflairs calls atten tion in his annual report to the desirability of Congress taking action to provide for its ap praisement and sale. A memorial from the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, piayini? for the restoiation of the lands in cluded in this reserve to the public domain for pre-emption, settlement and sale, was re ferred to this office in Felniiaiy last by tie chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The proposition to dispose of the laml in the manner therein indicated did not receive the annroval of tho olfice. ami it niav be well to add that any plan looking to the disposal of the reservation that does not con template and provide substantial return to me i nutans, tor wnose sole benefit it was es tablished and set apart, should not receive the sanction of the department. These Indi ans will need assistance in the future in their etrorts at self-support, and the proceeds of the sale of their reservation will be properly in vested to affbid such assistance and relieve the government of the burden. The Indians who formerfy occupied it are either at the Yakima agency, Washington Territory, or in the vicinity of Camps McDermittand Bidwell and the town of Winnemucca, Nevada, where they meagerly support themselves by labor among the whites or cultivation of the soil. Cutlery and dona. Ben. Fcstuer is about the best known man in Marion county, and is known to be a fair dealer, too. He has got in a first-class assort ment of guns, breech-loaders as well as every other sort of make. Fostuer I skilled in the working of metals, and is able to do a job of any kind where mechanical genius is needed. For fair and square dealing, go to Fostuer, on Commercial street, Salem. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1881. IllMIS 11Y TELEGRAPH. Yellow fever has become nn epidemic on some of tho West Indies. In tho benate, Vest introduced a bill to in corporate an inter-ocean company. Morrison, of Illinois, introduced a bill to reduce all tariff duties ono per cent. The committee on financo opprovo Shir man's bill for issue of tin coper cent, bonds. Secretary Folgcr will appear before tho committee Thursday and give his views to tl e Senata. Mrs. Garfield has been elected the first honorary member of the Loudon Shakespeare Society. An e'xpert says tkat the sliapo of Guiteau'a head and one-sided tongue aiu symptoms of insanity. Martin Pachctt, foi tho murder of James ll.u lies, sentenced to bo hanged tho 20th of JamMty'in at. Louis. ItIs reported that ox-County Cleik Stuait, of San 1 raucisco, w ho skipped tow u some montjta.ago, is back again iu a demented con ditioVy The Chilian baik "Twenty-first of May," bound for Port Townsend in ballast was wieckecfou Race Rocks in the SUaits of Fuca on the Stli. The Southern Paoific seeks Oregon trade, and will run two steamers to tho Columbia and Puget Sound, to carry wheat to railroad connection for New Orleans. James Brown committed suicide in the United States Hotel, San Francisco, on the 13th, by taking strychnine. Family troubles and drink are attributed as the cause ot tho deed. Tlje Poughkeepsie bank defalcation is $50, 000, and is thought to be a deficiency in couuty funds. Hallow ay, the cashier, is at home in a state of cxtiemo nervous prostration and threatened with bruin fov cr, It is reported at the police station from Visitacion valley, near ban Francisco, that the body of AulouiaGnlliiuo, who was stabbed by his brother, was found in a cabbage patch on tho ranch on the 13th. Thejrrand jury, accompanied by an archi- Tjl visa the theatres and nublic halls of - '-' -r3P,--"4t Ri'WT-feliuijiLhBse,!!"' of exit, Mo not sufficient, it is cocpectca -j licensVriU be.wnliurs.Wn; Return; from all but two precincts of Doston show the election of Samuel A. Uiecno, Re publican and citizen's nominee fur mayor, by f!2 majority over Albert Palmer, Dooiocrat. Total vote will b;i about 30,000. Leonidas TnpVtt and Arthur Davis quar tcled at Warrcmon, Va,, on tho 13th. Davis got inplett's hcjd under his left arm and de- Itbeiately blew his brains out. Davis was .incited but mailo his escape. Curtiu aud other Pennsylvania Democrats, intend to vote against several Southern Dom ucratic claimants to scats m Congress, be causon ntunberof them opposed the admission of Cui tin last year. Cousidciablo ill-feeling exists. Davis of West Vircinia. will submit a res olution asking the. Secretary of tho Interior for details on pension fiauds ana what had been to prevent and punish them. 1 lie idea is to punish frauds through the Senate com mittee. The President has ndoptcd i ulcs for recep tion of visitors at tho White House. He to serves Saturdays and Sundays for himself, and on those days will receive no one. Ho will hold his first public rtccptiun on New Year's Day. A Ntu,4 letter sajs the department esti mates tho wheat crop of Orcion tins )car at 13,8-'J,000 bushels, lacking only 70,000 biuh els of cqiuUing the production of all the Ter ritories combined. Seven eighths of the Oil goncrop tlusycar was rawed in tho Willamette valley. A man named Col. E. K Kcyhurn has hem arrested at Omaha on a chaige of forgery and embezzlement in New Yoik, by which ho ie shzed $8,000. About $1,300 was found on him. He refused to disclose what he had done with the balance. Ho was at once taken Ilast by New Yoik detectives. Washington specials have tho following points: It is understood Congressman Cage, if California, who has been for some time iu bitter controversy with the director of the mint, desires to be made! chairman of tho coinage committee. Pago wa ono of Kcifei'a most ardent supporters tor the speakership. Vest introduce! Ead's hill for the construe- tron of a shin railway across the Milium of Tehuantepcc. Tho bill provides that Eada shall first demonstrate the practicability of hu tcheme by the expendi ure of $75,000,000 in preliminary worn, ana that when the plan is proved practicable, Coheres shall guarantee bonds to the amount of $100,000,000. A report received iu San Francisco from Vistaclon valley, the scene of tho rect-ut trag edy, that Biauca Galliano, the young women who was so dangerously stabbed by her brother, is resting easily aud her condition is more ftvorable. I he condition of Marie Iosalo ho to narrowly e.caped instant drath at the hands of the awiassin, is much improved, The H'orU says it is reported iu Irish legal circles that law officers of the crown have been considering the advisal ihty of indicting T. P. O'Connor aud Healey for conspiracy on their arrival in England for the part they took in the proceedings of the land league conven tion at Chicago, which is relied upon as suffi cient to insures conviction. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad formally announce a rrduction of rates ou proriti. ns and grain to 12 cents per hundred. The lenns IS. pea lennsyJvauiahis anuounced a reduction to 16 u lor provisions which carries with It the U differentia! rate. This is the old bat.s rates in operation on the 26th of October when the cutting of tat bound freight cumraenceu. ITEMS BY TELEGKAPII. Senate confirmed Frelinghuysen Secretary of Sttte. Janes retires January 1st, and becomes presi lent of a Now York bank. The Frcidcnt accepted tho resignation of assistant Secretary of State for the 31st lost. Chune Teao J it, the new Chinese minister to Washington, arrived at San Francisco on the 11th. In a drunken row at Lincoln, Neb., on tho 12th. J. B. Hill was stabbed in the breast by J. McKay.' The wound is considered fatal. DmiiiB tho week endini! Deo. 10th, 395.487 standard silver dollars were put into cil dila tion against 4S5.48G for tho coircsponding week of last year. Senator Jones orposcs Secretary Folgors silver views, and advises Arthur to licten to tho Senators and Representatives of different States in making appointments. Liiko Kiuned and Dsniel Haley, noted safe blowers, wero taken into Indiarafiom Omaha by Sheriff Cosgiovo of Fort Way no, to answer tho charge of burgkiiy at Sheldon. Bichard Jenninzs. a Invrd case, without provocation, shot and killed at Austin, Nov., on tho 12th, John Barrott in a banooin. The murdered man was highly lospected. William. Joseph and Johnny, sons of John Johnson, of Manitowac, Wis., aged 8, 10 and 12, broke through the ico and all ill owned. Search for the bodies proved fruitless. In the Senato J'Mw ards introduced a bill authorising pay for necessary and icasonable expenses incut red in behalf of the lato Presi dent, provided tho aggregate shall not exceed $100,000. Tho French delegation wrro on change at St. Louis on the 12th, and had a pleasant re ception. They go henco to New Orleans to examine K.id s jetties and will report to the French government. Oscar A. Rice, defaulting internal lovcmic collector pleading guilty at New Oileans of embezzlement, was sentenced to pay a fine of $10,304, tho amount of defalcation, and serve two years at bard labor. The city council passed nn ordinance in Chicago on the 12th, requiring thf law de- 'triu'iiKto prepare a proocr orninanco asscs- tjio eacn on ireigm tub ana CTJou baJSWbt! cars of roda doing business in the city. A Tiihunr't Washington special says the annoniicimnit 'is authoritatively made with repaid to tin' appointment of women to offico that the President has determined to make no such tippointmints in future. This rulo will apply to such olliees ns post olliees, pension agencies, etc , anil mil notnl course have any bearing on positions m departments. A Republican Si nator on good terms with the administration says the. Pieeident has not decided upon any now cabinet ofiieeia beyond l'relinghiiysen; that the President intends to fill one cabinet placo with any man Gen. Giant may designate and that nt present Grant hesitates between Chaflee and llf.il-, but indications aie thatllesle will bu selected. STATE NEWS. Thero aro now 22 ftct of water on tho Cooa Bay bar. The Southport coal mine, in Coos county, his thirty miners at work. The Coquillo river now has two passenger (.wduiuoaus nyiug us waters. It will cost $10,000 to put tho Coos Ray wagon load in good condition. An ckjlit pound potato was dug np this season at Baudon, Coos county, Leo yiioii, keeper of a Salsm opium joint, has been uiiested for stealing coal. Frank Rankin's hnuso at Eugono was ro, cently burglarized. Loss, $15 50, Simpson's mill nt Gardner, Coos comity, employs 27 wluto men and two Celestials. The law agiinst vagrancy is being enforci d at Salem, and mignt bo here with good cllcct. One thousand dollars ws raised by sub scription nt Pendleton for the small pox suf ferers at lleppncr. A. J. Davit, the claimant of tho linr.l,. field, Co'is county, towusito is a wealthy iscw loruuroKer aim reconuy mm JI.UUU for a fast train to tike him from New York to Omaha to see a siek brother. It is icported. says the Antorian. that n vein of coal four feet in denth has been ili. covered near Jewell, on tho Nehalein. Also a new veiu ot some thickness northeast of Garibaldi, between Miami aud Nehaiem. The new boom lately constructed noar the mouth of Coos river is 2,200 feet long and 120 feet wide. It will bold about 4,000 average sized saw logs. Three hundred and ainety-six piles were used in its construction. TEKUITOKIAL. The Yakima hop raiser have mado money this years. Tho contract to build six more stores on Frout street, Seattle, has been let. Snow has disappeared from the Klickitat cattlo ratine and stock is doing well. It is said that $000,000 were taken out of tb. Wood river mines in six month, Tho clerk at the Columhia Hotel, Walla Walla, J. Hailey by name, lias been arrested charged with larceny, Aldy Neil, his father aud two brothers, wire arrestrd in the Big Bend country cbargtd with horse stealing and locked up in the Cheney jail. Henry Alexis, an intelligent young Indian, is teaching tho school at MukiUhute, about thirty miles southeast of Seattle, where he hat about a dozen pupils. If any other In dian in this Teriltoiy lias ever befoie con ducted a school, we have yet to Itarn of it. ' -".. l .' u .' ' Kf ' ' "tt -v NO. 44. HIXINO KEvTI. Jacksonville Hints. It has been raining during tho week and he miners are livening up. Ore is now being taken out of Schumpf'a ledge in Willow Springs district. The miners of Leland precinct have plenty of water and are making tho best of it. A company of Chinamen are preparing to mino in Joseph Doudeu's field near Rogue river. Tho tains of the past week havo afforded the miners of Josephine county sufficient water to commence work. Superintendent Ennia informs us that piping is going on at tho Sterling Mine, there being enough water for one pipe. Dan Fishei has turned the water into his ditch running to tho big bar of Roguo river and will do some work thero this season.' Hays and Magrudcr havo completed a res ervoir nt their diggings on Roguo river and aro preparing to mine on a mote extensivo scalo than ever. Tho Coyote Creek Company's property is advertised to bo sold at sheriffs sale ou Janu ary 2, 18.V2, by virtue of a vendor's lien in favor of H. Kelly. Newt. Haskins who is at work at tho claim of Cha8. E. Chippcl k Co., on Star gnlch, in forms us that piping is now going on there with half a head of wntor. Capt Ankcny, tho well known mining cap italist, arrived last week to look after his mining interests. After visiting the Sterling Miuo, hu left for G dice creek this wook. A STAKTIM1 IOI.ONV. Last Spring the advance gimrdVif somo Rus sian immigrants ni rived hero from Kansas and settled iu East Portland. Last Summer they were joined by others, and now sixteen fami lies, in all numbering soventy-six personB, are living in tho old building krown in East Portland as the Oriental Hotel. Early this Winter most of tho mon went into Washing ton Territory to get work, mid up to this time tbo littlo colony has heard nothing from them, nor has it been alilo to keep tbo wolf fioni tho .door. (l Strsngeis in a strange laud, not even ncqiinint d with thu first words of our lurmiagc, nnablo to obtain work, tho women havo been overtaken by poverty, aud arc now suffering with all tho attending hor rors of squalor and disease. A largo propor tion of tho in. migrants aro either now sick with scarlet fever or havo just recovered fivo children having died within the last ton days and ono poor mother, who hna four chil- ill en lying iu one bed at iltath's door, mudo known to our reporter that tho had nothing to give them but water and potatoes, nor hod ulio beou able for inoio than a week past to provide anything more iioumhing forhsr dear ones, tho till u diaticss of theso poor helpless women was yesterday learned for the first time, and immediately somo charitable East l'ort lander sent a doctor to them, and selected a lxdy and gentleman to canvass the) town for subscriptions. Thoso who contribute to this causoniay be t-ure that their charity will not bo misapplied. ritOMIT Jl STIC :. Tim Wheelan came up for sentence in tho circuit court yesterday, I Jo was somowhat astonished when Judgo Stott gavo him fivo years in tho penitentiary, a punishment ho richly deserved. Tho story he tol 1 in regard to his attempt to murder tho woman Louiso DuBar, proved to havo been falso in nearly every particular, and inst-ad of an attempt having heun mado to rob him of a ono hundred dollar bill and a wutch and chain, it turned out that he had no money nor watch. Wlieu interviewed by n rep Tier of the Stanimhh a shorttimo after thu deed had been committed and informed that her wounds would not Iirove fatal, ho said ho was sony ho hadn't tilled lir. The story ho told was an improb able ono, as was stated at tho time, and his statcmiiits since in regard to thu matter have materially differed. Ho was apparently very coalldcnt of acquittal at first, and when ar raiimud entered a nlca nf not t.nillv Ir. , ciinrgo oi assault with a doadly weapon, hut afterwaid changed it to guilty, thinking to escapo with a light punishment. Ho was most disagreeably disappointed, and toughs from California can take warning by his fate. Acciukntaixv Shot. Whilo hunting on Bear creek last Sunday morning, AIox. Berry, aged 1 1 years, youngest sou of Squiro A. M. Berry, of Jacksonville, says tho Ashland Titling; accidentally shot aud killed himself. He and a young lad named Mentor hail gone duck hunting, and were about to cross tho creek on a foot-log, when the accident occur red, Alex, started to cross first, giving his gun to hit companion to hold. When he had crawled part way across, hoaaked for his gun, which was laid upon the log with tho muzzle toward him. Ho grasped tho barrel, and as he was pulling it toward him tho hammer caught and the weapon was discharged, shoot ing liim near the heart and producing almost imtant death. He apparently did not know ho was shot, but exclaimed t "I'm getting tiff," and fell into tho water. His companion drew him to tho bank and ho was dead, Poktiuit or Akcubjshop Diunciixt. The Archangel, published by the students of St. Michaels College, in thit city, comes to us this week containing a portrait of Most Rev. F, N. Blanchct, D. I)., beautifully engraved and printed. The reverend gcntleinan,wbo is known and esteemed by members of all de nominations in this State, the accompanyirg article says, srrived here on tho 24th ol No vember, 1838, and it was under his auspice the college waa founded in 1871 1 m .11