Yamhill County OR Archives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for April 25, 1879 April 25, 1879 USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C Teal Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net September 19, 2005, 12:44 pm The Yamhill County Reporter April 25, 1879 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM THE "YAMHILL COUNTY REPORTER", McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon NEWSPAPER ISSUE OF FRIDAY, APRIL 25th, 1879 LEGAL NOTICE, FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that the undersigned administrator of the Estate of W.E. Lambert, deceased, has filed his final account of said estate in the county court of Yamhill County, and that an order has been made by the Judge thereof appointing the 9th day of May 1879 at 10 o'clock a.m. on said day, as the time of hearing of said final account. J.W. Lambert, Administrator; April 11, 1879. _____ PACIFIC AREA NEWS Many immigrants are settling in Wasco County. --- Eugene has a fire department fund of $800. --- News of successful trout fishing from all parts of the state. --- The people of Corvallis are complaining of an opium den in that city. --- Seattle received 3,500 tons of coal from the mines in its neighborhood last week. -- California is to send exhibits to the International Exhibit at Sydney, Australia. -- Every train that arrives at Roseburg brings prospectors. New and rich diggings seem to be cropping out in Southern Oregon this spring. --- The new Constitution of California will relieve Chinamen from payment of poll tax. --- A narrow gauge railroad is being built in Sonoma County and will be finished about the end of next month. --- On the 17th inst., ice formed a quarter inch thick in the neighborhood of Lake Washington, W.T., and the fruit trees all in bloom at the same time. --- A workman at the new Capitol building in Salem, one day last week, had $3.50 abstracted from the pocket of his coat which he had thrown down while at work. ---- Many of the Umatilla Indians are dissatisfied with the arrangements lately made between the government and Chief Moses but the latter thinks he can smooth matters over. --- A passenger on the steamer Josephine, named Armstrong, was drowned while going up the Skagit to the gold mines last Monday. He fell overboard and could not be rescued. --- Fred Lance of Dayton, W.T., during a row with his wife, drew a pistol and threatened to shoot her. A scuffle followed and in some way or other the pistol entered his body. He died the next day, the 14th inst. --- On the 17th inst., Wm. Young, the proprietor of the New England Hotel at Olympia, was found dead in his bed, is a sitting position, with a cigar in his mouth and a newspaper in his hand. --- Gold has been discovered at Mill Creek, south of New Tacoma. Considerable excitement is felt and men of business have temporarily abandoned their callings and became prospectors. -- The Odd Fellows of Harrisburg will celebrate on the 26th, by an excursion to Eugene. They have chartered the steamer for the trip. The Eugene Lodge will entertain them with a basket picnic. -- TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS Dr. W.S. Tharp, late of Missouri, is a new aspirant for public favors in our town. -- Prof. Henry has a class in music at Sheridan now which he visits twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays. -- Next week is Cooper, the Dentist Day in McMinnville. -- Messrs. Perkins and Hoberg of Lafayette dropped in to see us yesterday and to render favors for which they have our thanks. -- Dr. Johnson has returned and offers his professional services to those citizens of McMinnville and vicinity who may desire them and are willing to pay for same. --- "Grandpa" Garrison started for the Palouse ysterday morning on a visit to his son. The old gentleman is upwards of 73 years old we believe and this trip will furnish him with his first ride on the cars or a steamboat. May the steam engines give him an easy transit and prove to him all his fancy painted them. --- Henry Arthur, the lad who lives with Mr. Gault, got a severe scorching last Saturday while starting a fire in the stove. He got down pretty close to the grate while applying a match to some papers which some one else had put in the stove; there seemed to be something inflammable about the papers and when the blaze touched them they went off with a flash and the poor man got the most of it square in his face and eyes. He was badly burned but we believe not lastingly injured. --- On Monday last, Dr. Young, assisted by Dr. Calbreath of Lafayette, extracted a cancer from the breast of Mrs. Mitchell who resides several miles from McMinnville. The tumor weighed about half a pound. It has been growing very rapidly within the past few months and gave the lady much pain. She is getting well along in years, was of a nervous temperament, weak from her suffering and altogether a subject not the most fit to undergo such an operation. An old physician and competent judge who saw Dr. Young's performance in the case, however, speak highly of the skill displayed and pronounced the operation well done. The patient is doing nicely and Dr. Young has high hopes that he can now affect a permanent cure of the dreadful affliction. --- The baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frazier died early Saturday morning after a brief sickness. She was about two months old. --- On Friday last, Edson Savage, son of Mr. Wm. Savage, near Sheridan, had his shoulder broken through the vicious antics of a horse. Edson rode the animal and it bucked furiously until it finally threw him, bringing the young man underneath in it some manner with the result above stated. Young Savage was full of grit however and after being hurt he remounted the unruly beast and put him through to Sheridan, two miles, with all the speed there was in him. The young man's injuries proved to be quite severe but he received proper surgical treatment and is getting along well. --- We cannot read carelessly of the Great Republic disaster as we do of the many which are reported to us throughout the world and remote from the land we live in. Its dreadful effects come right home to us. Hardly a nook or corner in Oregon, it is likely, but contains some bruises from this violent hand of misfortune. McMinnville, among the rest, shares the disconsolation. C.H. Cook and wife, son and daughter-in-law of Mr. L.H. Cook of this place were passengers on the stranded vessel and were robbed of nearly all their earthly possessions by the disaster. The young couple were on their way to this place to take a residence. They left San Bonita County, California on acount of the drouth which threatened to rob them of everything they had there, and partially succeeded. Young Cook started for Oregon on the Republic with four fine horses, a valuable carriage and harness, a good farm wagon with heavy harness, and all his stock of household goods. One of the horses reached shore after the wreck so nearly dead that Cook gladly took $20. for it and the rest were all lost. He saw the carriage go off the steamer's deck with a crash and the remainder of his property is, or was at last accounts, hidden in the meshes of the shattered vessel. The young couple had planned to get out of the carriage rig as soon as they reached Portland and drive out here to give the old folks a pleasant surprise, not having apprised them of their coming. That happy little ruse was cruelly frustrated and the couple were driven finally to take another direction. They are now at Oregon City, the home of Mrs. Cook's parents. They are among friends however and will not suffer. Our fellow townsman Jacob Wisecarver, reached home Tuesday evening after quite an extended visit with relatives in California. Uncle Jake was a passenger on the Great Republic and like the rest of the 1,200 came away and left his "carpet sack and things" on shipboard but he didn't forget about them. He says after this if it is necessary for him to visit California, he will take passage in a wagon drawn by oxen before he will risk any more ocean steamers. Newton Wisecarver stopped in Portland to attend to getting their baggage in case it is recovered from the wreck. --- CARLTON News We had a lively time on Saturday, to which all Carlton, who were big enough to walk, turned out. Mr. Handley of McMinnville, and attorney Fenton of Lafayette were here also to survey a tract of land belonging to the Cooper heirs over which there was been a squabble for some time. The matter was satisfactorily adjusted on this occasion. --- AMITY News Mrs. E.M. Williams is sick but is in a fair way to recover. __ NOTICE Capt. Charles Lafollett has permanently located in Sheridan, Yamhill County, Oregon and has opened a Collecting and Real Estate office. Persons having collecting to do or wishing to rent, buy or sell real estate would do well to call upon him. Legal instruments prepared at short notice. Chas. Lafollett. ---- MISCELLANEOUS News Chief Moses and other Indians called at the executive mansion yesterday and were presented to the president who said to them " I am glad to see you my friends. I hope Secretary Schurz will make a settlement with you that shall be satisfactory. We are friendly toward you and want to deal with exact justice. I hope you will always be our friends." Some Umatilla Indians yesterday morning at the office of the secretary of the interior expressed their dissatisfaction with the terms agreed upon yesterday. Chief Moses however stands to the contract. ---- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/yamhill/newspapers/newspape2nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/orfiles/ File size: 9.9 Kb