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III. Simmon Lebanon O" miwi
Aurora Oe-o Miller
Lewlsville.HOIcTinimonds
Looking Gl-ws. M Cochran
Mncoln . .1. Abranis
McMlnnvllle. J McPhllllps
MiCoy . . ..S Robblns
Mt Pleasant . V S Thayi.r
Marl.. ..It II Rutherford
Mohawk J 8 Churchill
Monmouth .W Waterhousc
NoYamhlll. OWSapnliiL'ton
Powell valley TK Ytilllanu
frrnwmvllbi W R Kirk
Buttevllle John Ilatchellcr
ntiftjiPrrclc ...Kbkervin
Brooks . W if Harris
Bcllcir.lo . .Jell Pads
Crafordlllo..Ilobt Glass
Cottage. (lr..J II Shortrldgc
Oorvallls ..Mcjcr Harris
CSiampoeg . . ..A Jettc
Damascus E Forbes
Dayton . . .EC Hadvway
BYalns.. .Hon i C Drain
Dallas .. ..J I) Smith
Dufur -A J Dufur, Jr
Kola Thomas Poaree
Klktan A II Haines
Pilot Rock.. ..KOilllam
Pendleton.. Ix)l i.ncrmorc
Pcrrydale. . .i W McGrow
Plcasantllill OWIIandsakor
Riverside I'F Knowles
nnaotniri.. .H K Raymond
Athene. .Hon J HMcGlung
Blcniliurg.. Hon M Itlley
Ftrcit Urnve.... 8 Hughes
StctIIome Z B Moss
Salem 8 WCIiunh
Slayton ADGardner
Sublimity. . Jno Downing
Stio .... J 8 Morris
ox Valley. ..A I Gardner
oshen .....J Handsaker
Oaston .... AC Raymond
nervals M Mitchell
Shedd w M Power
Tangent. ...John Luper
Turner. ...K8 JIattcson
Ooblendale.il V Saylori Co
irarrlsbiir?...Hon II Smith
ITalsoy...l)lack, Pearl &Co
living AC Jennings
Independence W L llodirln
Jacksonville. .Mix Muller
Junction WHUahcr
llbur. ... lion J nos nmuii
Willamette F....M Wllklns
Welles A A Williamson
Weston LSWood
Waltsburir ....WN SmltJi
Walla Walla J Jacobs
JeCcraon J W Roland
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THE CHAIN LEHQTHEN1N0.
Last Momlay tho first roular passenger
train cninmenccd tho through running from
Portland to tho Cascades, and now tho pas
senger bound for Montana, Northern Idaho,
Kaitern Washington or Oregon, can tako the
can at Albiua, opposite Portland, and go
speeding over tho railroad for five hundred
miles, or whatever lesser distance is desired.
Of tho two thousand miles between Pugct
Sound and Lako Superior only four hundred
miles in Montana remains incomplete, and
thousands of laborers arc steadily working, day
and night, to picrco tho backbone of the con
tinent tlic Rocky Mountain tunnel and to
grado tho highway for tho locomotive over
that intervening distance. The foity mill
down tho Culun.bia from Portland to Kalarha
will bo constructed at an early day, and
within a year, and possibly within ten
months, complete railroad lines under the
Villard management, will bo in operation
from Seattle or Taooma on the Sound to Chi
cago, and connect with friendly lines to tho
Atlantic seaboard. It now requires seven
days' timo to make thi journey frpm San
Francisco to New York, but vtithiu loss than
a year to come pissago can bo made from
Portland to St. Paul, Minn., in four days'
timo, and from St. Paul to New York in two
easy days' join ney; so we shall bo one day
nearer New York and Chicago than is San
Krsncisco. Tho emigrant for California will
require to mako the full journey, almost, to
reach a listing place, but the great wheat
fields of tho Pacitio Northwest will be only
four days from Chicago, three from St. Paul,
or fivo from Now York. Of all tho progress
ever made by this State the most important
iu its consequences is tho completion of the
railway from Portland to tho Kvstward, aud
with that roul oxtoaded to mako a complete
iron track aoroas tho grsat North American
continent, tho act will be completed rtiiui
situ for the working out of the retl destiny
and tho perfect Greatness of tho Columbian
region. Thereafter no exertion v. ill be neces
sary, for immigration will pour in upon us
from tho Kna't in a continuous flow that will
occupy and auKlue overy available nook of
the agricultural lauds wo possess. The power
of immigntioii cannot easily grasp the im
patience to us of these wonderful tokens of
progress, or picture the graud results that
will certainly accrue,
Tiik graving dock at Ksiiuimault will bo an
immonsi affur when done. Wo haveu't any
duros for It, bat we can say that it is intend
ed ts accommodate a bigger ship than tho big.
gnt tint has yet floated on tho 1'icilio O.'can.
The entiro oxca atiou i ill be i i 000 feet
ong, aud must bo 400 feet wide at the top,
while its depth is 60 or more feet. A station
ary engine hauls the little cars loaded with
earth up au incline, wh'ii tho earth is used iu
filling up civitiea in the surface of tho coun
try adjacent, which aro sufficiently numerous
iml great to take all the earth to spare. The
f wit u( tho dock ii composed of a most sub
utautiataloiiu wall, while tho inside will ho
I'omeutod, several thousand tons of cement
biing ueoossary In the great work, A num
ber of yoira h tve already been used in the
construction, aud a nmulier mora will yet be
required, while the cost of the work will bo
probab'y a half milliou dolla-s. Its location
ii bctv.Mii the town of Kniuimalt aud tho ua
val jard, midway, and directly opposite the
auchoraga ground o( her Majesty's fleet.
Annual Meetinc.
Tho Hoard of M singers of the Oregon State
Agricultural Society will meet in Salrm on
Vueeday, December 6, 1832, at II a. . The
)bject of the meeting is to arrange tho list ot
premiums for the fair of 1 883, to hear tho re.
porta of the Bocrvtary and Treasurer and to
transact nil other business pertaining to the
interests of the society ior the year ending
18S3.
'e have a full icport of the Heekecpcr
Convention held at Oregou City, Nov ember
S3, sudwveral other iiittr.stiiig communica
tions willapptar mxt witk. Corrcspondeuca
aoliolttrtl upon all topics) of au agricultural
barcUn.
(Conttnned from first pse.)
in their summer retorts. The herder is always
with them; he puU up a rough shelter for
himself, and builds corrals to which he drives
the flock at night. Animals dangerous to
mutton are not more numerous in the moun
tains than on the plains; with ordinary care
there aro few loss -a. The herder has his
callies or shepherd dogs; these aro often
trained to be as useful as human bings, ai d
far more fleet.
TIIK IIFKDFR AND HIS FLOCK.
Mr. Wilson had three bands of sheep, well
into the mountains; it required another man
to go back and forth to bri.ig supplies, etc.
The sheep owner knows enough to provide
good supplies for tho herder to keep him con
tent. Ilfgular wajres arc $40 per month "and
found;" unless good supplies wero furnished
tho I erdcr might not be found, or tho shefp
cither, when wanted. Hit duty is to put the
sheep over new grass aud keep them distinct
from other bands. Once mixed it is not easy
to separate them. Many f the herders are
careful and aaving men v. ho lead this solitary
lite to earn "a Btikn" for themselves. They
get gooJ pay, but for it they lose themselves
in tho mountains from May until October or
November, seeing no one, having no social
life or privilrgcr, only sharing their solitary
lot with a couplo of intelligent shepherd dogs
and 1,800 innocent but very ttupid sheep.
Unco in awhile new supplies come to cimp,
and tho messenger bring! out the accumulated
mail and reading matter. While some hrJers
aro careful o'hew arc reckless. They finish
tho year's work when they got back to camp,
and draw their pay. The twenties burn the
pocket. A new suit of good clothes helps to
ileplcto tho sum; thin commences an orgio
that lasts often not longer than a week
u.itil tho gold is all gone. Ho sobers, up
enough ti sell Irs "store clo'hes" and goes on
another sproa with tho proceeds, and when
that is gone, resuming his old garb and shep
herd's crook ho is rcidy to commence oik
for another year, but he is within "a wiser
nor a hotter man." You will ask s What re
liability can be placed on such a character?
Put them away from all temptation and with
out money, and they make good shepherds
Wo give this picture as a specimen of the
tra le, very gladly stating that tho specimen
given is far from being the rule.
HOW IT PANS OPT.
Mr. Wilson has a homo ranch and rango
whero he pats up hay aud raises farm sup
plies, whon the season threatens, or snow be
gins to fall, the flocks go bleating towards the
valley and are wintered on the bunch grass
range. It snow comes tney crop tne dry stems
that rise above it, and winter cleverly on the
dry stalks of tho grass they refusoj to touch
in its moro succulent growth of May previous.
TIIK UAYH OK RAT'8 CRKKK.
Kay's creek, b uth of Hcppncr, a branch of
Willow creek, was named twenty years ago,
after a settler who cai,o up fiom the Willam-
ottte, and I cctmo a stock man. We met Mr.
Hay tho other day, aud got much interesting
information from him. He had been iu the
shoep business for seven yoirs psst, and ha
b"en very successful, He and his family oc
cupy Ray's creek for several miles, which
gives them monopoly of tho range on the up
lands for as for back as stock will range. If
we m'staku not they claim the creek for at
least ten miles. Thoy aro near the mountains
and pursuo tho same, course as Mr. Wilson
docs; only they have 23,000 sheep among
them all. Ot course that necessitates more
euro and a wider range. The Iiays originally
had tho country to themselves, for thirty
miles Kast and Wott, and from the Columbia
to tho heart of tho mountains, had little stock
when wo wont over it in 1802. In 1870 they
went into sheep. Along the creek bottoms,
which are narrow, produce prodigiously, so
that 100" bushels of barley wculd be nothing
extraordinary to tho acre, they raise that
grain to cut it for hay and grow rye on the hill
laud, also cutting it'for hay. This feed is
kept for years sometimes, unused, aud then a
hard winter cornea and requires it all. During
the winter of 1880-1 they had one band of
6,000 sheep, chiefly wothers, that wintered
with little, loss on tho bold hill points. Hav
ing scarcity of ftod, they took up a laro tent
to use as a horse stable and kept tho horses at
work with a snow scraper, hying bare the
grass, so that tho sheep could follow and dig
it out for themselves. That baud went through
with small loss. Sheep can bo kept alive if
you givo them half a chauco is tho testimony
of good sheep men,
K1IKM' WALKH OF TIIK I-LAIN.S
While most of those who ha vo sheep drive
them to tho mouutaius iu summer, to give
change of feed and save tho homo pasture for
fall and winter use, there aro theso who keep
them 'ou the thins all the year. Sheep are
successfully kept in tho country botwoen
Walla Walla and Snake river and never go
to tho mountains. Also, lietweeu John Day
aud tho Deschutes near Hake Oven, sixty
miles from The Dalles, Mr. Geo. Young is
Interested in 8,000 shoep. By agreement, tho
shoop men sell otT the iucrease eaoh year aud
retain only the original niimbei, s as not to
overatx'k the rango. Wo met Mr. xoung
last spring, after ho had sold his wool, for
which he received $10,000, or $2 each for his
lleooes. His sheep being highly bred to Mer
ino, gave a little over ten pounds average
flWcs, which hold for J0 cents, netting' about
the same as Mr, Wilson's, which were not so
highly bred, averaged 71 pounds each, but
old for '.'1 cents per pound. Mr. Hay's shoep
are of diuVreiit character aud grades ot wool;
some flocks give sev-m pounds each, aud one
lot, very highly bml, had fleeces weighing
over eleven pounds. Taken aa an average,
K tab ru Oregon fleeces seem to be w orth about
l,"3 to 2 and net about $1.50 after paying
expenses of shoiriug aud transportation.
This fall gtxxl vcthcisaud ewes are held at
3 aud laml at fully $2. The immense profit
ot tho butiuess has caused an improvement iu
piicts, aud tho steady advance iu meats
makes muttou more of an object tbau it hat
ever before been in this region.
WILLAMETTE PARMER: PORTLAND. OBEGON, NOVEMBER
SHEEP IN WA8C0 COUNT..
THE CASCADE MOD.NTAIN3 FOB SUMMER KSOE.
Many sbeep are kept south of Tho Dalles,
along the Cascade Mountains, snd a'on the
creeks that put into the Deschutes. Among
tho most successful sheep breeders of Oregon
are Dufur Bros., who live on Fifteen Mile
creek. They own several miles along the
creek and their summer range is iu the Cas
cado Mountains. The others we hsve written
about hive their ranges in Umatilla county, a
hundred miles eastward, and include the
ph as mt slopes and grassy reaches of fie Blue
Monntairs. Tho Dufur'n occupy the lower
foot hills of tho Cascades as their heme, and
pursue very much tho same course as others
we have described. When the shearing is
over they r tart their flocks towards Mt. Hood,
lor towards its base they have laid claim,
under State laws, to a gi cat tract of swamp
land that is fed from tho mountains melting
snows. 1 his u their summer pasture, thirty
miles from the home ranch on Fifteen Mile
creek. They movo by slow and easy stages
as they do not wish to tire their flocks and
they keep them gaining all tho time they are
on the drive. Ou the mountains the sheep
piospcr. There aro taw animals to trouble
them if a herder has good dogs and is careful.
They stay there all through July, August and
September and aro driven down by the storms
of October. Then they have the home r.iuj;e
that has been fairly well preserved for them
and unless they have an extraordinary winter,
with deep snows and excessive cold v. eather,
they do well all winter on this range without
other feed. They must have plenty of sslt
and water and exeiciac, and there can lake
care ot themselves.
A VETERAN BREEDER'S EXPERIENCE.
We met Hon. A. J Dufur, father of tho
Dufur family, who is interested with his sous,
and when traveling with him up the Columbia
the other day, received many interesting par
ticulars. Last winter they did not feed the
common flocks a pound of hay and thoy came
through in good shape. It is not well to feed
sheep unless they aro in actual need of it.
They depend on being fed if it is commenced,
and when compelled to rustle for their living
they benefit by the exercise and it keeps up a
a-lf-rcliance and courage that is necessary for
thoir own safety. Mr. Dufur explained their
experience in bad winters as follows: As long
as possible drive out the herds and have the
herder send them over the snow in search of
grass. If it can be got jt they will dig for it;
if tho snow has a crust and the grass stems
stand above it, they will crop them off, and,
when possible, will scrape the snow Off to get
tho rest. L t them go to water after feeding
and give them salt to aid the digestirn of dry
feed. When it becomes so that when they
cajnot get at feed, haul out wheat or oats or
hay, or any feed ou have, on a sled, and
scatter it over the snow, then open the corral
gate aud send the sheep out. Make them go
around after it, and so get exercise, and then
drink water, and they are all right with very
littlo feed, whereas, without exercise, feed
them all you will and many will die. Mr.
Dufur sajs it is necessary to spread down
straw to make beds, and that is better than
shelter, but many claim that shelter is neces
sary. Mr. H. P. Isaacs, of Walla Walla
w horn wo mot the same week, says that in
1802 the case of Joseph Watt vs. John Booth
was referred to him, Mr. Booth had several
thousand sheep on shares, of Joseph Watt, of
Yamhill, and lost all but ten per cent, though
ho had plenty of wheat and oat hay. It was
given in evidence that Orville Olney rented
aheep the same year and out of 500 lost only
50, thoush he had very little feed. He made
a shelter by tligging into tho bank and erect
ing somo brush covering to protict them from
the cold. All the fted he had was a .ittle
barloy and the barley straw. He deled out
the straw and gave them perhaps a tablespoon-
ful and a half of the grain apiece each day and
they did well on it, whereas, tho mtn who
had no shelter and plenty of feed lost ten
times as many sheep. Probably he also gave
his aheep more exercise. Mr. Isaacs considers
shelter very necessary. He is also an exper
ienced stock man.
A HIOH PRESSUBK SIIFEP TRADE.
Mr Dufur sold, threo years ago, a thousand
ewea to Mr. Charles II. Staughton for $0,000,
to be paid, with interest, in six thousand dol
lar yearly paymeuts. The bujer has paid up
punctually for the third year, and has antici
pated $1,200 on future account. His state
ment is that besides paying up his regular
payment, and interest for three years has sold
$12,000 worth of wool and sheep. Trt'iaa
wouderful story to tell, but the names are
given and the faoU cau be proved. It is sus
tained by other facts, as follows; The Dufurs,
when they try a inau and find him reliable and
careful, sometimes make this s. rt of a bargain
with him i "We will rent tou a thousand
kwks for three years. The wethers of the in
crease shall belong to us, and we w ill tako
them every fall. We will pay taxes; half the
wool shall belong to you each year and all the
ewea stay in the baud, and wc will divide
them at the end of three years. All the time
we shall have control of the sheep, and can re
claim them whenever your management don't
satisfy us. You shall take up a ranch that is
vacant, and occupy the mountain range that
ii adjacent; you shall raise feed for winter
use. This sort ot bargin has been made with
several, and has resulted in a nun getting a
valuable ranch by filing his pre-emption or
homestead claim upon it, and he occupies a
range that constitutes a good claim for ita fu
ture use. The first year he has $750, worth of
wool aa his profit, with which to "pay ex
penses; the second year his wool is woith
$1,000; the third $1,500. He has made enough
off the wool to pay all expense and fix up his
ranch, and at the end ot the three years,
when tho band is divided, he haa 1,000 to 1,
500 ewia with which to run his own ranch
and occupy his range. The sheep aud tho land
secuietl will easily be worth $4,000 to $6,000,
all earned by three years' patient industry,
and the ueat three years he oucht to tiud him
self worth a small fortune. Twelve hundred
ewes, well 'ha- died for three years, allowing
$1,000 a year fcr expenses, oughs to become
worth nearly or quite $20,000, which illus
trate, the immense profit of sheep-raising in
Oregon at the present time. Mr. Staughton
had $12,000, besides having paid Dufuia S3,
60 , which was cl-ar of all expenses, and he
had his original band and increase to some ex
tent remaining. His case must exced our
estimate. If a band of ewes worth $3,000 cm
be made worth over $20,000 in three yetrs,
what excuse is therefor a man to permit them
to die'in'some hard winter for want of care?
He can easily aflord to spend a dollar such
winters on them if seviru winters come, and
we who havo lived here thirty yeara know
there have been in that time, only three se
vere winters, with three others, partially se
vere, all tho other years, twenty-four out of
thirty stock needed no feed in all that region.
THE PASTURKS WILL IMPROVE.
It has been often asserted that grasses are
being fed off and tramped out, but the best
evidence is not in that lino The Dufurs
bought a worn-out range, as the seller as
serted, for ho felt sorry for them after they
had bought him out, but they say that wheo
the big bunch grass has failed three or four
kinds of fine'grassc sui'cd to sheephive come
up in its place; in somo places the flower is
taking in, a plant so nutritious that s'eep,
horses, cattle ard even hogs will get fat on it.
Mr. Dufur aserta that their range will carry
more than double the stock now it c uld orig
inally. He says, too, th it their horses and
cattle do not shun the sheep range.
We showed last summer that this whole
region will produce alfalfa, and we believe an
acre of thst will carry four to s'x sheep. We
saw thirty acres of alfalfa growing n'ar
Dalles City, and have no doubt it will do well
ail along the Columbia river.
The Dufurs started with a bU band, and
lost $4,000 worth of sheep the first winter.
They say : Start small and work up gradu
ally and have all the points sure and certain,
and you will havo no losses. So maiy men
tail that th3 world doesn't like to believe the
truth of others, but the fact is, sheep raising,
well managed, is immense not easily ex ig
gerated, but if not well managed there is not
only nothing in it, but there is great loisin it.
So far as the range is concerned, any man can
afford to look on at leisuro before taking one
up and venturing into the business. There is
a creat deal of sheep range unoccupied
through all the eastern country, but those
who come to occupy should be careful to un
drstand all tho points of climate, of soil and
grass, water and the want of it, and of the
soveiity of winters, before venturing.
A MONTANA MAN'S EXPERIENCE.
On the same journey wo had a long talk
with an enterprising man who lately came
from Montana, where he had wiutered sheep
hst winter on his way East with them. He
had returned here to buy more stock sheep
and wether?, but prices were so high he could
not risk it. Wothers averaged $3, and taking
the risk f driviug to Montana in the spring,
and wintering them here, into consideration,
ho was afraid to try it. That gentleman's
description of raising stock in Montana was
more interesting than anything we have ever
read. Montana is a country lying on the head
waters o; the Missouri, and consisting of bold
mountain ranges that put out from the Rocky
Mountains and of foot hills and high table
lands, all of which carry but very little tim
ber. Last w inter ho drove his sheep to almost
tho summit of bald mountains, where they
ate bunch gtass from the wind-swept points,
and got through in good shape. Though such,
a mountainous country, its altitude is not so
high as Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Ne
vada or Wyoming, and owing to tho absence
of heavy frosts and undergrowth, the bunch
grass grows on the very summits, therefore
nearly all the surface area of Montana is good
grazing country, and as Chinook winds p-c-vail
there as here, stock of all kinds thrive
and winter well. Sheep are being introduced
successfully and do very well there. They
cannot raise crops, but there is a short, thick
grass that is nativo to the country that makea
excellent hay it they can irrigate it. They get
water on this graBS and then cut it, and even
when irrigated it is not over eight inches, but
so heavy on tho ground aa to make several
tons to the acre. From appearances, Montana
offers wonderful advantages tor stock raisers,
and must rapidly become stocked.
A WONDERFUL COUNTRY MONTANA.
Our informant had occupied about the mid
die of the north half of the Territory, north
of the Northern Pacifio road. According to
his statement the ranee is even mom exten
sive and grasses more certain than in our own
region, and, despite its location, the winter
climatx is alleviated by the winds and cur
rents of the Pacific Ocean, whose mild influ
ences ame'iorato the seasons of the far inte.
rior. This account agrees with mauy other
statements, and is above question. Montana
is already reached from the west by bands of
iron to ally ita interests with ours, and will
grow great in unison with the tier of States
that must arise along the pathway of the
Great Northern Railway. It seems that from
tho Pacifio Ocean to tho Missouri river, on
this liue, the wholo region possesses great ca
pacity t j raise mutton, licet aud wool, and to
produco maguiScent horses, endowed with
such bone and sinew aa warmer olimatea and
lower latitudes never can possess.
INCREASED VALUE OF ALL STOCK INTERESTS.
Brief examination of the subject will show
that stock raising hss attained preater im
portance than ever lie fore in Oregon. Horses
are grow n to great advantage, and tho demand
for good roadsters will always increase. Cat
tle aro worth twice as much as they were ten
years ago, aud beef retvils at fifty per cent
advance on a twelvemonth since, and hojs
are worth six cents on foot, whoa they did
not couimand that price dressetl. A few years
ago sheep averaged at $1 25 each, and many
banda sold for $1 in Kuteru Oregon, where
now $3 per head for a whole band is avked,
and we recite a case where a man lias ac
quired a small fortune buying 1,000 ewes at
24. 1882
a ..!. on rradit. and selling off $12,000
worth of surplus wool and mutton in the first
three years. Our lesson ii that a vast terri
tory is yet unoccupied, and that Western
Oregon farmers should start their sons East
of the Mountains with small flocks and let
them grow to great ones. Also, tho wneat
......rno.B who does not make part of his
farm support aheep misses it ; he should keep
sheep for bis summer tallow anu ior in. ....
grown wheat fields, and should have half his
land in grass to make more money off it than
he can mike on wheat. Besides that, the new
comer who will commence properly and con
tinue cautiously, can mako sheep pay him all
it does any body.
"Both Can't Survive,"
Sljs Pennsylvania, on all her Sttto docu
ments. The Key-Stone State means that
there is an irrepressible conflict between
tyranny aud freedom, and one or tho o her
must succumb So there is between health
and disease. Every force that fights success
fullv aciinst disease ehould be heartily, wel
comed. Such a force a host in itself is
Hunt's Rem dy, and its special lino ot aitacK
is aga'nst kidney and liver elUcaies. over
which it achieves a wouderful triumph. If you
nave uoany weaitiieas, u iwinug ..,.., &
eral sense of weariness or inertia, or dropsical
L ... It IU Mrlnairc, ff ltvof AfH llo-
synijuuiiia, it vw .i.uwjo v. . - --- --
ranged, there is no such medicine as Hunt s
Remedy. It gives notico to all such diseases
to quit. Pennsylvania is right; both Hunt's
Remedy and these diseases can't survive, and
it is thoy that are conquered.
Breeders of Swine.
Tho follow in? arc reliable breeder of
swine in Oregon : A. Hutsenpiler, Albany;
Thomas Cross, John W. Gilbert, and Mr.
Chamber, Salem; also, Morgan & Ellis and
F. X. Moisan Bro ks & Son, of Portland. An
inquiry was mado a few days since for the
above, and we take this means of info ming
inquirer and the general publufcj,
"TTnVildden ruests are oft-n welcomed
when they aro gone." Diieaso is an unbidden
guest whieh Kidney-Wort almost invariably
"shows the door." Here is a case in point:
"Mother has recovered," wrote an Illinois girl
tn her Eastern relatives. "She took bitters
for a long timo, but without any good. So
when she heard of the virtues ot ruuney- vv on
she got a box and it completely cured her, so
that she can uo as much work now as she
could before wo moved West. Since she got
well every one about here is taking it.
New Photograph Gallery.
Geo. W. Davies, who has been so long 3-n-nected
with F. G. Abie's photogroph rooms,
has established himself in business at the cor
ner of First and Tailor streets. Mr. Davies
is a fiist-class artist himself, and, as he will
employ none but the best of help, will bo en
abled to give complete satisfaction. His par
lor is a model of neatness, and is second to
none in the city.
Among the ladies who may read this
there may bo several sickly ones who have
made up their minds to act on the. old law
which specifies that "What can't be cured,
must be endured,'" While the truth of the
old proverb is self-evident it is just possible
they may have erred in judgment as to the
possibilities of the healing art outside of the
medical profession, and before giving up in
despair they had better test the efficacy of
Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Com
pound, which is now attracting universal at
tention. l.MTKI) (STATES JUKI'.
The following have been drawn to serve as
jurors in the U. S. Circuit Court for the term
beginning Nov. 28, 1883:
D R Lakin, farmer, Eugene City.
David Moseby, farmer, Cottage Grove.
James McLaren, saloon, Kugme City.
Rodney Scott, farmer, Springfield.
U F Norman, farmer, Junction.
J B Ferguson, farmor, Long Tom
Frank Bdwell, farmer,. North Yamhill.
Cyrus Smith, farmer, Amity.
Joseph Brisbine, farmer, North 'Yamhill.
O H Adams, lawyer, Brownsville.
Hugh Dinwiddie, farmer, Albany.
John Beard, farmer, Lebanon.
Philip Baltimore, farmer, Albany.
J W Compton, farmer, Scio.
Harvev Jones, farmer, Roseburg.
Adam Holder, farmer, Corvallis.
G SV Spencer, farmer, Corvallis.
Haman Lewis, Jr., farmer, Corrallis.
J as P Wilson, farmer, Corvallis.
Ososr Sturgis, farmer, Mollolla.
A D Putiou, mechanic. Oregon City.
R M Woraham, farmer, Oregon City.
John Welsh, dentist, Oregon City.
S H Humphrey, farmer, Scholl's Ferry.
U M Adams, farmer, nnisnoro.
J C Moore, farmer, Greenville.
II A Hogue, millman, Portland.
F C Smith, foundrymaii, Portland.
Samnel Brown, merchant, Oorvals.
J M Kirkland, farmer, Rickreal.
W M Furgus, farmer, Ituena Vista,
A fl R iberts, farmer. Kola
P W Hally, firmer, Monmouth.
.1 M.Stiats, farm, i, L wis .'die.
T J Haytor, farmer, Dalla.
Answers to Enqulrlss.
Mr. R. Simmons, wiiting from Leaburg.
Lane county, asks wher.t he can obtain infor
mation regarding cranberry culture. In re
ply, we will refer him to Mr. A. J. Burr,
Olympia, W. T., who has a large bog, as well
as roots to sell,
Cesisamptlon Cured.
An old physician, retired from practice,
having ha I placed in his hands by an East In
dia missionary the formula of a simple rezeta-
b'e remedy for the fpeedy and permanent cure
for Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asth
ma and all Throat and Lung Affections, also a
positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility
and all Nervous Complaints, after having
tested its wonderful curative powers in thous
ands of cases, has felt it his duty to make it
Known to Ills suffering fellows. Actuated b
this motive and a des re to relieve human sul
feting. I will send free of charge, to all who
desire It, this recipe, in German, French or
English, with full directions for preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addressing with
stamp, (taming this piper, W. A. Notes, 119
Power'i Block, BocXetter, K. Y. 3 mo
A distressed and destitute wife desires in
formation of the whereabouts of one Augus
tus Covert who, there is reusou to believe, is
in Washington Territory, and his alias may
le Brown or August. He is 6 teet 10 inches
in height, about 60 years old, long narrow
face, whiskers rither thin, sprinkled with
cray. Any information leading to his deteo
tioowi'l be thankfully received by his wife,
Mrs. N. L. Covert, Clinton, Wisconsin.
Washingt in Territory papers please capy.
Twill curs jour cold.
STATE ITEMS.
Ro3tbuig cast only 129 votes at her r..
ection. ""
electio
Scarlet fever is raging in
Douglas county.
Co''" Ulley,
Farmers iu the vicinity of Wflbn, k...
their crops nearly all in. ""
Eggs 50 cents a dozen in Grant counlv ..j
the hens still rcfuso to lay. ' D
Work on tho Crescent City vr.. .
over the mount tins has been resumed,
Tho U. O. says the peonhof Ceutervillea
opposed to the division of Umatilla county
It is leported that Lafayette Pewtherer hi,
leased the Reed hotel at Salem aud ill .
the samo for a first-class hotel.
Prof. McElriy, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, is visiting Ewtern Oresm,
in the interest ot the public schools.
The liquor license qilestion is troublmt th.
people and authorities of Pendleton. Th!
council recently raised the stme from Jjiyi.!
$1000 per year.
A large number of cises on tho docket for
tho District Court in Umttdla county that
convenes at Pendleton on tho 27th inst. '
There ara thousands of acres of laad tasl
lie nealec'ed at present in Southern Ore,
which will make pleasant homes for those who
are industrious enough to clear and improri
them.
A new sawmill is in course of constructs
on Rigue river, about ten miles from iu
mouth. Messrs. John and Wm. Hunt'cy an
the proprietors, and the mill will le in opera
tion iu a short time.
The vacant Government land situated oi
the hills adjacent to Butter creek, Umitills
county, especially ou the east side, is lapidlj
being located, and lo and lumber homes tn
to be s en on every hsnd.
The first frame building put un in Snuthm
Oregon was tho old svwmill built at Athlaid
by A. D. Heiman and others on the Helmii
homestead lot at that place. Tho old land
mark w as last week torn down.
Montgomery Station, on the O. & C. R, R.,
in Douglas couuty, contains thirty-five houses,,
including several stores, saloous and boarding
houses, all doin? a thriving business. A ssw
mill cuts 25,000 feet of Iumbei daily.
Oregon Bent off during the last three montis
nearly $100,000 for bags and baggiog mate
rial. No better place in the world to raiss
the material aud manufacture this article
than in Oregon. It certainly would prove a
lucrative enterprise.
The wheat crop in Goose Lake valley wis.
not as badly aamijred.by the storms as at
first tunposecl. The grain that was threshed
while uamp is much injured, but that which
was allowed to dry before threshing will mass
pretty good flour. The crop was light,
Speaking of the new school house that his
just been completed at the Dalles, the Sim
says: "There are four rooms, each 27i32
feet, and the seats are of the latest patten.
They are heated by a fnrnace in the base
ment, which is a great improvement over th
old stove plan of heating. All the rooms ars
furnished with large windows, connected wits
which are appliances to open and shut them
at pleasure.
We hive received from Mr. A. J. Shram,
of Cherry Creek, in this county, says tht
Itmu-JUounlatneer, a specimen ot sorguam,
Dressed from amber cane crown on hia farm,
Tnis syrup is very clear, has an agreeabls
taste, and will warrant us in saving that
Wasco county is adapted to the growth oi
sugar cane. We nope tne experiments inaas
will induce our farmers next season to culti
vate this product, as it will prove very re
munerative.
Wm. T Pciry, ono of the firt pioneers ot !
Oregon, died at .Norway, uoos county, on ins
4t'i inst. A Die oi History connected wita
his life may not be out of place. Perry was
born near Hartford, Conn , November 19,
1809. In 1839 he was married to Ann Abel!,
who died at Norway June 10. 1879. To this
union wero born six children two sous and
four dauffhters all of whom are liviuz ex
cept one son, who died in infancy. Perry
was one of the first pioneers of Oregon, hav
ing crossed the plains in 1812. He first set
tled in Oregon City, and in 1843 he moved
from there to Clatsop plains. In lool,
company with Aaron Rose, who settled ca
tho plain on a part of which the town of Rose-
hurs? was soon after located, while Perrv set
tled on the adjoining plain on Deeroreek, and
soon atterwaras erected on tnat stream us
pioneer uounng nuns oi tvougias couu.j,
which added materially to the thrift and
prosperity of the then young town of Roso
uurg. in 1803 rcrry moved to tne uoquua
river and located en the old homestead near
Norway, where he resided until' his death.
1ERRITOSIAL.
Pataba City is growing very rapidly- u
The N. P. company is getting its snow plow?
ready for use.
The Sprague hotel, at Spokan Falls, opens
on tne xvin.
The hotels at Seattle are crowded to then
full capacity.
The new hotel at the Wallula Junction hi
open for business.
Beef is being shipped from British Co
lumbia to Puget Sound.
The First National Bank commenced busi
ness at Seattle, last Wednesday,
Three large steamers of the O. R. & N. Oo.
are running on Snako river above Texaa Ferry,
Mrs. John Dickens was thrown from a horse
at Texaa Ferry and severely Injured, last
Monday.
Hon, N. H. Bloomfield, prosecuting attor
ney, at Vancouver, was married to Miss
Maria Petrain, last Tuesday. ,
C. B Reynolds has purchases the Moscow
Mirror, Mers. Ivan Chas k Oo. retiring.
The paper is to be independent of politics.
The contractor for nine miles oonstruotioa
of the Puget Sound shore line grade has ccra
pleted all arrangements for vigorous work.
Smallpox is prevailing at Missoula, and the
citiiens are disinfecting the town by burning
the old shanties.
Walla Walls, having outgrown her cltt
charter, wants the Limitation of her indebted
ness extended to 920,000, otherwise tne
of taxation will have to be inoreased.
R.lwal-,1 Rjivnnl.l fur tri mnrrtar of Q
Allen, has been on trial at Walla Walla. Th
j'iry, it is thought, will not be able to agrw.
Tka W.t.:n.n TpJt.Mu 1ffMlatnre ia TO1
port-d to stand as follows i Council, 0 Repub
lican, and 6 Democrats; Boose, It Democrats
and 10 Republican.
As illustration of the great value, present
and prospective, of hops, says the
C'AroaJr'e. wo may state tnat a nnn ia o
offered $400 for a single year's rent for a hop
a.l mnUtnlaa fr.lnn flVtf 10 SCrOS IB
this couuty. The estimated yield of this bop
jard is 3000 pounds per acre.
sWThe Scarlet. Caidmal JW, d QoM,
Navy Bin. Seal Brow. D VVL
perfect roesJts fT fashicsiabU color, U
cent. ,
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