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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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