At Jacksonville, O.T., January 25th, the wife of John Anderson, a daughter.
Sacramento Bee, February 5, 1859, page 3


    DISTINGUISHED CORRESPONDENTS.--We venture the assertion that no paper in America has a more distinguished corps of correspondents than our northern neighbor just over the line, the Jacksonville (Oregon) Sentinel. In the last number of that very admirable paper we observe Washington letters, addressed to the editor, from each of the Senators-elect from that embryo state. We hope our Senators will place us on a level with our neighbor of Oregon. According to the Constitution of the United States, "the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states." If Oregon editors can have U.S. Senators for correspondents, we do not see why we shall not. We hope Messrs. Broderick and Gwin will attend to this little matter.
Shasta Courier, Shasta City, California, February 5, 1859, page 2


    Sim. Oldham recently shot and killed a man in one of the lower counties. Sim. must be rather a dead shot. A few years ago he shot and killed Dr. Alexander, formerly of this town, in a "scrimmage" in Jacksonville, Oregon.
Shasta Courier, Shasta City, California, February 5, 1859, page 3


    We are happy to notice and record the proceedings of the convention reported below, from the Oregon Sentinel. We are glad to hear of the energy displayed and the zeal manifested. Success to their efforts.
    Pursuant to a previous notice for an Agricultural County Convention to take into consideration the propriety of organizing an agricultural society for Jackson County, a number of the farmers of the valley and citizens of the town met at McCully's Hall, in Jacksonville, on Tuesday, February 8th, at 2 o'clock p.m. The Convention was called to order by Dr. Jesse Robinson, and, on motion, Col. John Ross was elected Chairman, and W. J. Robinson Secretary.
    Mr. James Kilgore stated the object of the convention, and made some very appropriate remarks on the benefits and advantages to be derived from an agricultural society.
    Messrs. J. A. Brunner, J. H. Reed, Jesse Robinson, Thomas Hopwood, and other gentlemen addressed the convention upon the propriety and necessity of organizing an agricultural society, and it seemed to be the general feeling of all who were present that such an organization would be beneficial, and advance the best interests of the whole people of Jackson County.
    On motion of Mr. James Kilgore, the Chair appointed a committee of five, consisting of Messrs. James Kilgore, Stephen Watson, Curtis Myers, Jesse Robinson and J. H. Reed, to draft a constitution and by-laws, to be presented to an adjourned convention, to meet at Jacksonville on the 22nd February.
California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, San Francisco, March 4, 1859, page 2

To the Senate and Assembly of the State of California:
    The undersigned pray a law authorizing the division of the state of California, in accordance with annexed bill, and as in duty bound, etc.
    Signed: F. G. Hearn, M. Erlenbach, J. M. Watson, H. A. Winckler, Wm. Ottenheimer, E. Steele, Charles F. Hoben, H. J. Hellman, L. Cohen, R. L. Westbrook, D. Isaacs.
    Yreka, Feb. 9th, 1859.
    AN ACT to authorize the citizens of the state of California, residing north of the fortieth degree of north latitude to withdraw from the state of California, and organize a separate government.
    Section 1. At the next general election the qualified voters resident in that portion of the state of California north of the fortieth degree of north latitude may cast a vote for or against the organization of a separate government, embracing that portion of the territory of California and Oregon lying between the fortieth and forty-fourth degrees of north latitude.
    Sec. 2. At all of the election precincts within said district a ballot box shall be provided for the reception and deposit of such ballots, and the canvassing and returns shall be governed by the laws upon that subject regulating the elections for members of Congress, and the balloting shall be subject to the laws now in force regulating elections.
    Sec. 3. The voting shall be by ballot, said ballots shall be either written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, upon a separate slip of paper, the words: "For Separate Government," or the words "Against a Separate Government," and if after election it shall appear that a majority of the votes cast upon such question are against the division of the state upon said boundary, then the provisions of this act shall cease, but [if] after the canvass of the vote aforesaid, it shall be found that a majority of the votes cast at said election upon the question of separate government shall be found in favor of that proposition, that portion of the state of California is authorized to withdraw from the state at any time when the southern portion of Oregon, as far north as Rogue River or further, shall join for that purpose and form and establish separate governments.
    Sec. 4. In case of the separate organization as above provided, the state of California and the new government so organized shall forthwith, upon the complete organization of said new government, each appoint their commissioners, whose duty it shall be to assemble at the capitol of the state of California, there to settle and determine the property and right and the financial liabilities of the two governments, upon the following basis: The said commissioners shall cause a just and true valuation to be placed upon all of the state property and effects, of what kind soever, and the same shall be charged to the state at the rate so fixed. They shall then estimate the sum total of the indebtedness and liabilities of the state, which shall be placed to her credit and the balance struck. The balance so found shall be apportioned between the state of California and the new government, pro rata, to the amount of taxable property in the state of California, and the taxable property in that portion of the new government which now forms a portion of said state of California, as estimated by the last assessment next prior to said division; provided, if the indebtedness of the state of California shall exceed the assessed value of the assets, that portion assumed by the new government shall be made payable in the like manner and upon like terms and conditions as those resting upon the state of California.
    Sec. 5. The school fund belonging to the state of California shall be divided by said commissioners between the said state and the said new government pro rata to the number of white citizens resident in the state of California and in that portion of the new state which is framed out of the northern part of the state of California, estimated according to the census taken next prior to such division.
    Sec. 6. The said division and separate organization shall be subject to the further condition of the ratification thereof by the Congress of the United States of America and the establishment of a territorial government therein until a further organization shall be had by the citizens residing therein, and in case the vote shall be in favor of such separate organization, the state of California as a part and parcel of the federal government is pledged to the perfection of such separate government by the Congress of the United States.
    Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.
"California Legislature, Tenth Session," Sacramento Daily Union, February 18, 1859, page 1


    YREKA.--McDonald of the Trinity (Cal.) Journal gets off the following good hit at Yreka--the place Brown went to when he left Jacksonville on account of the immorality of the people:
    "Rev. Mr. Reasoner states, in a letter to the Christian Advocate, that he has 'arrived in Yreka and the Lord is still with him!' We are advise that the reverend gentleman's traveling companion was much surprised at the extent of the place--never having heard of Yreka before."
Oregon Statesman, Salem, February 15, 1859, page 2


    The Siskiyou Chronicle has an article urging the formation of a State out of Northern California and Southern Oregon.
"Further from California," Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, February 17, 1859, page 1


    Several bills were introduced, among them a bill to allow the creation of a new government out of the northern counties and of Southern Oregon. . . .
"Legislative," Sacramento Daily Union, February 18, 1859, page 2


    THE NORTH DEMANDING A SEPARATION.--The Yreka Union demands that the northern part of the state shall be cut off from California and united with Southern Oregon to make a new state, which is to include all the territory west of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains, between parallels 40 and 44 of north latitude.
Daily Alta California, San Francisco, February 18, 1859, page 1


    A MEETING of the citizens of Jackson County was held at Jacksonville, pursuant to adjournment, on the 22nd ult. A committee, previously appointed, reported a constitution, consisting of eighteen articles, which was adopted. The name adopted is the "Jackson County Agricultural Society.'' Some thirty citizens subscribed their names, and the following gentlemen were elected officers:
    President--W. C. Myer. Vice President--John E. Ross. Secretary--Jesse Robinson. Corresponding Secretary--J. H. Reed. Treasurer--R. F. Maury. Directors--James Kilgore, Isaac Constant, and J. H. Walker.
    The fairs of the Society are to be held between the 25th day of September and the 25th day of October, annually.
California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, San Francisco, March 18, 1859, page 50


     GREAT NORTH.--The Yreka Union demands that the northern part of the state shall be cut off from California and united with Southern Oregon, to make a new state, which is to include all the territory west of the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Mountains, between parallels 40 and 44 of north latitude.
San Joaquin Republican, February 26, 1859, page 1

    A little more than two years ago, Mr. John H. Reed, a lawyer of moderate ability, who hung out his shingle in Jacksonville in partnership with Gen. Lane's son-in-law, Mosher, was nominated in Jackson County as a Democratic candidate for delegate to the constitutional convention. A short time previous to his nomination, he had been concerned, with Mosher, in the prosecution of T'Vault, editor of the Sentinel, for perjury, and had therefore incurred that worthy's wrath. Accordingly, during the canvass, the Sentinel pursued Mr. Reed most vindictively, attacking his character, both public and private, in the vilest Billingsgate of which its editor was master. To such an extent did the editor of the Sentinel carry his malignity that Mr. Reed was obliged to silence him by a threat of personal chastisement ("a very cogent mode of reasoning with 'old T.,'" Reed said.)
    However, Mr. Reed was elected, and at the time appointed appeared at Salem and took his seat in the convention. During his short stay here he acquired the respect of his associates, without much reputation, but his career in the convention might have been a brilliant one, but for its brevity. Mr. Reed doubtless intended, when he took his seat in the convention, to remain during its continuance, but Mr. Reed was but human, and subject to human impulses and human passions. Mr. Reed had his weaknesses, among which was an inveterate hostility to bunkum speeches. Now it chanced that Delazon Smith was also a member of the convention, and his besetting weakness was a passion for making bunkum speeches. Upon the questions that arose, Mr. Smith favored the convention with his views, greatly to the annoyance and disgust of Mr. Reed, who declared that Smith's "brains were all in his mouth." At length, Mr. Smith so exasperated Mr. Reed, that one day, when he had commenced a speech upon some question, the irate delegate from Jackson, with a portentous frown on his brow, rose from his seat, tore up his papers and trampled them under his feet, jammed his hat on his head, strode from the hall, went to his hotel, ordered his horse, paid his bill and returned in wrath and disgust to his constituents in the "sunny South." Just before leaving Salem, he wrote and sent to the Jacksonville Herald, for publication a correspondence in which he "pitched into" Mr. Smith and has oratorical pretensions unsparingly; it was not published, however. And, until a quite recent period, Mr. Reed entertained a profound contempt and dislike to Delazon Smith.
    It is rather amusing, considering these things, to find Mr. Reed now supporting Delazon Smith for U.S. Senator, and rather astonishing to find him acting as sub for T'Vault during the absence of that worthy from the sanctum of the Sentinel. We can account for Mr. Reed's present support of Smith, on the ground of his connection with the Lane party, but we are at a loss to conceive how he could condescend to play second fiddle to T'Vault, a man whom he despised and hated, and whom he had frequently denounced as an epitome of everything that was vile and infamous. But so it is. We must take the facts as we find them, and leave to others the task of assigning the philosophical wherefore.
    In the Sentinel of May [sic] 28th, we find an editorial article headed "The Oregon Statesman," evidently from the pen of Mr. John H. Reed, and intended as a complete extinguisher of the Statesman. Indeed, if we may believe Mr. R., this paper was already in a rapid decline, when he undertook to give it the finishing blow, and it only needed the "withdrawal of a prop" to bring it tumbling down. The reasons which induced Mr. R. to the belief that the Statesman was in a sinking condition are several. 1st. It had ceased to support Jo. Lane. 2nd. He (Mr. R.) had discontinued his subscription. 3rd. "The school houses scattered throughout the land, the general dissemination of learning," &c. 4th. "We (i.e., T'Vault, Reed, Jo. Lane & Co.) need no Bush." Several other reasons doubtless exist, equally convincing. We shouldn't be surprised, however, if the Sentinel, under the management of Messrs. T'Vault and Reed, aspires to the position of party organ, and imagines the Statesman to be the only obstacle in its way to that dignity. At least, such a conjecture, under the circumstances, is quite natural.
    In the course of his article, Mr. Reed gets off the following, which, were it not for his relations to those gentlemen, might be considered a good hit at Lane and his "ancient enemies," T'Vault and Delazon Smith:
    "We often see men of ordinary caliber, and less than ordinary integrity, elevated by circumstances to a position and a power above their deserts, and to a place from which they will drop at once when the supporting power is withdrawn."
    If the quotation was not intended for the persons we have named, it is at least quite applicable to them.
    The closing sentence of Mr. Reed's article is a model of impudence. Says he:
    "Whether or not the Republicans will have him (Bush) after we have discarded him, remains to be seen."
    It matters not whether the personal pronoun "we" means only Mr. Reed, or includes also the senior, demands Mr. T'Vault. The idea of them, or either of them, discarding the Statesman or its editor is so supremely ridiculous that the Republicans, and everybody else, can but join in the laugh at it.
    However Mr. Reed is, on the whole, something of an improvement upon the editorial staff of the Sentinel. He is less frequently guilty of violations of the orthographical and syntactical rules of Messrs. Murray and Webster than his predecessors in the editorial chair of that sheet. Indeed, he makes a quite readable article, and those of its readers who have been often completely bewildered and befogged in endeavoring to follow its luminous senior through half a column of stuff, travestied from the N.Y. Day-Book, which nobody--not even himself--understood, must be exceedingly gratified to learn that Reed "writes for it," and that at least a portion of the editorial matter of that interesting hebdomadal is couched in plain English, however much it may lack in common sense.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, April 14, 1859, page 2


    FROM THE SOUTH.--The Jacksonville Sentinel says the extraordinary winter and spring have caused the Crescent City road to remain blocked up so as to prevent travel, only an occasional expressman being able to cross. The snow on the mountain, April 2, was very deep; the past week it having been almost continuously snowing. It will probably be as lste as June before wagons can pass over the road, which will prove a great injury to the interior of that section. On the 28th of March, a party of eleven men left Crescent City and arrived at the mountain early the next morn, where they were overtaken by a severe snow storm. They soon lost their way, and wandered about over the mountain until the second night after, when some of them found their way back to camp, where some barley was found, parched, and some of it carried back to those who had lagged behind. One man gave out, and was left there, at Elk Camp. The rest of the party reached Jacksonville on the night of the 31st, having been for two days without anything to eat but the parched barley, and several of them so badly frozen as to be unable to walk.
    The week previous, a man named George Muma was frozen to death in attempting to cross the Crescent City mountain.
Oregon Argus, Oregon City, April 23, 1859, page 2


By the subscriber, living at Vernon ranch, five miles east of Gasburg, Jackson Co., one pale red cow, eleven or twelve years old, white in the face, and branded HP. Also, one four-year-old steer, red sides, white back and belly, marked with an underslope in the left ear, and branded T. Also, one four-year-old steer, red with white face,marked with a crop off the right ear. Also, one pale red cow, four years old, white in the face, marked with a swallow fork in the right ear, and crop and slit in the left ear. Also, one yearling calf, light red, white back and tail, some white in the face.
"Found," Oregon Statesman, Salem, April 26, 1859, page 3

On Bear Creek, about six miles east of Jacksonville, in Jackson Co., a brown Indian horse, white legs, a white spot on his left stifle and white face, the white ending around the lower end of the upper jaw; he is about 14 hands high and is supposed to be at least ten years old.
March 21, 1859.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, April 19, 1859, page 3

    Wm. and Eli Judd were before the County Judge on the 8th, on a writ of habeas corpus, under which they claimed their discharge, on the ground that so much time had elapsed since the finding of the indictments against them without their having been brought to trial. The application was denied.
    We learn that the stable, three valuable horses, harness, etc., belonging to O. Vining, of Kerbyville, were totally destroyed by fire on the 23rd.

    In Jacksonville, Oregon, on Saturday last, Abel George killed a man named McCasson by stabbing him in the breast with a bowie knife, from the effects of which he died instantly. No just cause is assigned. George is notorious as an Indian hunter. He is now in jail at Jacksonville. He was intoxicated at the time of the affray.
    Five men are reported to have been killed by Indians near Klamath Lake. A party of thirty men, with provisions, have started from Jacksonville in pursuit.
Sacramento Daily Union, May 11, 1859, page 1


    THE LATE MURDERS BY INDIANS IN THE NORTH.--A telegram from Yreka, dated 14th May, says:
    James Clugage has returned from the scene of recent Indian murders on the trail leading to Klamath Lake about sixty miles from Jacksonville. He reports that the party have found the bodies of four of the murdered men, and the jaw of the fifth; they were buried in a thicket and the graves covered over with brush. Mr. Teal is in Yreka in search of an Indian chief by name of LaLake, to act as guide in search of the offending parties; all the Indians in Jacksonville were arrested yesterday.
    Abel George has been committed for trial on charge of the murder of McCasson. There is great excitement in Jacksonville, and the populace would certainly have hung George had the result of the examination been otherwise.
San Francisco Bulletin, May 16, 1859, page 1


    Judge Lynch has been operating in Southern Oregon. A man by the name of McPherson was recently hung there, as will be noticed by a telegraphic dispatch.
"News of the Morning," Sacramento Daily Union, May 16, 1859, page 2


    MURDEROUS AFFRAY AND LYNCHING IN SOUTHERN OREGON.--At Roseburg, on the 7th May, the sheriff of Douglas County attempted to arrest a desperado named McPherson, for shooting a man in the hand. McPherson resisted, and the sheriff ordered several citizens to assist him. McPherson then drew his pistol and fired several shots, killing Brad Robinson and wounding two other men. On 9th May, during the examination before the Justice of the Peace, the prisoner attempted to wrest a knife from the witness who was testifying against him and to escape. This so exasperated the populace that they hung him without further ceremony.
    I. O. of K.--The Supreme Council of the Independent Order of Knighthood, in session at Sacramento, elected on 13th May the following officers, who were duly installed by the Past Master Worthy Ruler, George Johnson, of Volcano: W. S. Kendall, M.W.R., Folsom; W. V. Rinehart, M.W.D.R., Napoleon, Or.; S. W. Prothero, M. W. Secretary, Michigan Bar; E. A. Rice, M.W.L., Jacksonville, Or.; H. B. Meredith, M. W. Treasurer, Folsom; E. B. Manny, M.W.P., San Jose; C. Hall, M. W. Herald, H. H. Fellows, M.W.G., Sacramento.
San Francisco Bulletin, May 18, 1859, supplement page 1


    ANOTHER INDIAN MASSACRE NORTH--THE LATE PARTY OF FIVE.--James Miller and one Parrish recently left Butte Creek (near Jacksonville) on horseback, with a pack mule, for a hunt in the mountains. On the 14th of May, the mule returned to Miller's house alone, with its pack on, and as nothing has been heard of the men, it is supposed that they have been killed by the Indian murderers from Rancheria Prairie. They were hunting on the same route taken by the Indians. The party of five who were killed several days ago were attacked while lying in bed, as was evident from their wounds. Two men were shot through the head, one cut in the head with an ax, and one shot and also stabbed in the head. The fifth was burned, either alive or after having been killed along with the others.
San Francisco Bulletin, May 20, 1859, page 1


    TROUBLE WITH THE INDIANS IN OREGON.--A few days since, we published by telegraph the news of the massacre of five men by the Indians, near Klamath Lake. A correspondent of the Siskiyou Chronicle, writing from Jacksonville on May 9th, says that the company which started in pursuit of the Indians was commanded by John Hillman and Henry Klippel, the former Captain, and the latter Lieutenant. He also says:
    News has just reached town that a small party of Indians were seen this morning on Rogue River, dancing the war dance. The person who saw them approached within about two hundred yards of them, when becoming a little suspicious of their movements, he halted. The Indians asked him to come over, at the same time some of them showing their guns and using vulgar expressions in regard to the white race generally. He, not caring to comply with their invitation to come to their camp, turned and proceeded immediately to this place and reported the above.
Daily National Democrat, Marysville, California, May 21, 1859, page 3


    MULES WANTED.--There is now, and will  be for some time to come, a great demand here for pack mules. The road and trail are both open, and the former probably will be in order for wagons on the 15th June. There is a very large amount of freight here waiting transportation to different portions of the interior, and prices of packing are very high, higher than ever before at this season. There is  no point at this time in Northern or Southern Oregon that it would pay packers to visit so well as this one.
Crescent City Herald, May 25, 1859, page 2


    MULES WANTED.--There is now, and will be for some time to come, a great demand here for pack mules. The road and trail are both open, and the former probably will be in order for wagons on the 15th June. There is a very large amount of freight here waiting transportation to different portions of the interior, and prices of packing are very high, higher than ever before at this season. There is no point at this time in Northern or Southern Oregon that it would pay packers to visit so well as this one.--C.C. Herald, 25th inst.
Daily Alta California, May 27, 1859, page 1

    The Crescent City Herald gives the following items from Southern Oregon:
    A man named Wilson was arrested at Jacksonville on 2nd May, charged with incest with his child, a girl about fourteen. There was great prejudice, says the Jacksonville Sentinel, existing against the prosecuting witness, and at the close of the examination he would have suffered violence from the people but for the protection of the officers. Wilson was held over in the sum of $1,000, and the bond was signed by no less than fourteen men, among whom were some of the most substantial citizens of the place, such as John Anderson, James Clugage, Brunner and others.
    A man named McKesson was killed lately, at Jacksonville, by Abel George. It seems that George was on a spree and continued jumping up behind McKesson, who was on horseback. McKesson finally dismounted and asked George "if it was him or his horse he wanted to ride?" when George killed him instantly with a knife. George was examined and committed for trial.
San Joaquin Republican, Stockton, California, May 28, 1859, page 3

By the subscriber, living one mile and a half north of Jacksonville, Jackson Co., a black horse, branded K Λ on the right hip, and K I on the left shoulder, has a star in his forehead.
June 8, 1859.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, June 28, 1859, page 3

    Mr. George W. Brown, of this place, handed us, on last Saturday, a copy of the Sentinel, published in Jacksonville, Oregon, containing an account of the murder of his brother, A. J. Brown, and four other persons, by the Indians, about the first of May. He also gave us a letter from his brother, F. M. Brown, containing all the particulars.
    It seems the party left their homes, in Jacksonville or vicinity, for the purpose of selecting stock farms in a region of country as yet uninhabited. As they had no intentions of intruding on Indian territory, they, of course, entertained no apprehensions of an attack, but were well armed. After the day had passed on which the party was expected to return, their friends began to fear that they had fallen into the hands of the Indians. A party was immediately organized for the purpose of searching for them. They immediately started on the trail of the missing party. The first expedition failed in discovering any clue to their fate, except that two or three dead horses, shot with bullets, were discovered; they were identified as belonging to the missing men. A new expedition was organized, which finally succeeded in discovering the dead bodies of four of the party just as the search was about to be abandoned as hopeless. F. M. Brown and Indian Agent Abbott made the discovery. A correspondent of the Sentinel says:
    "The men had been assailed while lying in bed, as was very evident from their wounds. One was shot in the head, one had his head split open with an axe, one was shot in the breast and stabbed, and the other was shot through the breast. The throats of all were cut."
    Mr. Brown in his letter says: "I found our brother in the grave. He had his throat cut, and a gash on the side of the head made by an axe. The wound extended from the back of his ear to the middle of his forehead." The following are the names of the murdered men: A. J. Brown, Eli Ledford, Samuel Probst, James Crow and S. F. Conger. The body of Mr. Ledford had not been discovered, but doubtless he shared the fate of his companions. A volunteer company had started in pursuit of the Indians, but with what degree of success we have not learned.
    Mr. Brown had on his person about three hundred dollars in money at the time of his murder. Of course, the Indians appropriated it to their own use before burying his remains. He was born and reared in Butler County, in this state, and was, we understand, about 24 years of age at the time of his death.
Democrat & Sentinel, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1859, page 2


    CROPS IN THE NORTH.--Every report that has been received from the farming section north of us, and also Southern Oregon, confirm us in the belief that there will not be a third of a crop raised in those localities. The Jacksonville Sentinel, speaking of the crops, says--"The farmers are in low spirits. It seems that everything combines against them to prevent the production of good crops. The dry weather, the grasshopper, the cricket, and locust, all are proving destructive to the crops. Not half a crop will he produced on Rogue River Valley." If this turns out to be the fact, the entire northern mines will have to receive their supply of flour from this section of country, and will probably cause wheat to be higher than it otherwise would be.
Red Bluff Beacon, Red Bluff, California, July 6, 1859, page 1


    In Jacksonville, Abel George (who killed Hugh H. McCasson), has applied for a change of venue.
Weekly California Express, Marysville, July 9, 1859, page 2


    DROWNED.--On Sunday, June 25th, a German, aged 23 years, named Adam Numerick, was drowned while bathing in the river at Red Bluff. He was lately from Jacksonville, Oregon.
San Joaquin Republican, Stockton, California, July 9, 1859, page 1


    FAILURE OF CROPS IN THE NORTH.--The Northern Californian says that the crops at Scott Valley have failed this season in consequence of the drought. The Jacksonville Sentinel says that in Rogue River Valley the dry weather, the grasshoppers, the crickets and locusts are proving destructive to the crops. The Humboldt Times says:
    But few good crops of either grain or grass will be raised in this county this season. In the vicinity of Union this week we noticed fields of wheat, all headed out, not over twelve inches high. In that vicinity but few farmers will reap more than one half the yield of last year, and we are informed by some of the most extensive farmers below this place that their fields will not yield more than one fourth the grain that was produced on the same ground last year.
Daily National Democrat, Marysville, California, July 13, 1859, page 3


    FAILURE OF CROPS IN THE NORTH.--The Jacksonville Sentinel says that the farmers of Rogue River Valley are in low spirits. It seems that everything combines against them to prevent the production of good crops. The dry weather, the grasshopper, the cricket and the locust, all are proving destructive to the crops. Not half a crop will be produced in Rogue River Valley.
    The Humboldt Times, of July 2nd, says that the crops in its section are suffering greatly for want of rain. It adds: Last winter being unprecedentedly severe, it was quite late before grain crops could be got in. Since then the weather, as a general thing, has been dry and warm, we not even being visited with our usual amount of fogs and heavy dews. For the past two weeks we have not had a single drop of rain, and the days, instead of being foggy and shedding a heavy moisture over the earth as is usual at this season, have been fearfully dry, and, for this latitude, excessively hot. Grain that was sown early will fare best, as it got a good start before the dry, warm weather set in. But few good crops of either grain or grass will be raised in this county this season. In the vicinity of Union this week we noticed fields of wheat, all headed out, not over twelve inches high. In that vicinity but few farmers will reap more than one half the yield of last year, and we are informed by some of the most extensive farmers below this place that their fields will not yield more than one fourth the grain that was produced on the same ground last year. The last few days have given indications of rain, but unless it comes soon it will be too late for this season. A good shower would be a godsend just now.
Sacramento Daily Union, July 13, 1859, page 4


    MIGRATION FROM OREGON TO CALIFORNIA.--The traveling correspondent of the Christian Advocate, writing about what he lately saw on the road between Yreka and Jacksonville, says:
    We met several droves of neat cattle on the way to California, and a number of families, with stock, moving into our state. They had crossed the plains, among the pioneers of western civilization, and now were backward journeying, too much cramped in Oregon, or didn't like the climate, or were restless, and must go somewhere.
Weekly California Express, Marysville, July 23, 1859, page 2


    We find in the Crescent City Herald of July 20th a paragraph to the following effect: Stout, Democrat, has been elected, according to the Sentinel (Jacksonville) of Saturday last, July 16th, by a majority of sixteen votes. Our last advices from Portland are to July 14th.
"Later from the North," Sacramento Daily Union, July 25, 1859, page 4


    ROAD AND TRAVEL TO THE INTERIOR.--The wagon road is now in first-rate order, although Mr. Hall has not, as yet, completed all the work to be done on it. Even at present, however, it is better than ever before, and said to be at least an hour faster than last year. The stages are running regularly three times a week, and the time occupied from Crescent City to Yreka is but sixty hours.--C. C. Herald.
San Francisco Bulletin, July 25, 1859, page 3


    ANOTHER CONVICT.--Last week, Deputy Sheriff S. R. Taylor, of Jackson County, passed through this place with a man named Smith, convicted at the last term of court in Jacksonville of larceny, and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. It is to be hoped that, while mending the ways in the city of Portland, he will find leisure to mend his own ways.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, July 26, 1859, page 2


    ROAD AND TRAVEL TO THE INTERIOR.--The wagon road is now in first-rate order, although Hall has not as yet completed all the work to be done on it. Even at present, however, it is better than ever before, and said to be at least an hour faster than last year. The stages are running regularly three times a week, and the time occupied from Crescent City to Yreka is but sixty hours. Crescent City Herald.
Sacramento Daily Union, July 27, 1859, page 1

Del Norte Record, Crescent City, February 24, 1894, page 1




    JACKSONVILLE, OREGON.--The Sentinel, of July 16th, has the following intelligence:
    Allen Smith, who was convicted of larceny at the late term of the Circuit Court, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment in the state prison, started for Portland on the morning of the 13th, under the charge of Samuel Taylor, Deputy Sheriff.
    A man known at Yreka by the name of Post, at the Dalles by the name of Badger, and in Marion County, Oregon, by the name of Warren Cooly--we have not heard of any other alias, but suppose there are many--this Warren Cooly, as we shall call him, sold to Roberts, of Corvallis, three mules. Two were proven to be the property of Simms, at the Dalles. Sheriff Hendershott, of Josephine County, found the fellow on Wednesday last at Williams' Creek, and arrested him, when the nice little gentleman attempted to escape. Hendershott fired three shots at him, none taking effect. Cooly, in his anxiety to escape, made a desperate leap down a hill and fell. Before he could recover, Hendershott was upon him, knocked him down with his pistol, secured him and brought him to this place on the stage Wednesday evening, lodged the prisoner in jail, but left with him this morning, where he will be kept until he is conveyed to the Dalles, at which place he will be recognized as Badger.
Sacramento Daily Union, July 27, 1859, page 4


    PERSONAL.--Mr. Freaner of the Crescent City Herald visited our town on Saturday last, remaining until Tuesday the 27th. He expressed himself with being much pleased with Jacksonville and surrounding country. It would not be very strange if Mr. Freaner makes a permanent location at this place. Just such a class of citizens are much needed here.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, July 30, 1859, page 2


    A FOOT RACE.--On Wednesday evening last quite an exciting foot race came off in the lane near Clugage's farm adjoining Jacksonville; the names of the parties we have forgot, if we ever heard them. One of the parties is known by the name of "Volunteer," and the other by that of "Big Willamette," stakes $25 a side. It was with some difficulty the latter could be brought to the scratch; however, he was found and placed on the track. Distance, one hundred yards, Volunteer giving Willamette five feet. The friends of the parties having settled all preliminaries, and the judges to their stands, the racers were turned loose, Volunteer leading and coming out some 15 feet in advance--but little side betting--time of Volunteer, 13, and that of Big Willamette 15 seconds--all terminating in a jovial laugh at Big Willamette, who declared he didn't think "keeping" made so much difference.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, July 30, 1859, page 2




    The last Jacksonville Sentinel announces that Messrs. O'Meara and Freaner have purchased that paper, and will hereafter publish and conduct it.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, August 4, 1859, page 2


    Dear Sir: I have information of the most incontestable nature that orders have been issued by the Postmaster General to reduce the present daily mail between Marysville and Shasta to tri-weekly service, from and after the first day of August next. This very important mail supplies Southern Oregon, Del Norte, Siskiyou, Klamath, Trinity, Shasta, Tehama, Plumas and Butte counties, and a part of Humboldt. The mail from Marysville to Downieville, which ought from its importance to be carried daily, is to be reduced from tri-weekly to semi-weekly service from and after the same date. The mail from Marysville to Nevada is to be reduced after the same date, from daily, as at present, to tri-weekly service.
Quoted in "Speech of D. C. Broderick," Sacramento Daily Union, August 4, 1859, page 1


    New Indian difficulties had broken out in Southern Oregon, and the Governor asks for more troops.
Daily Free Press, Burlington, Vermont, August 9, 1859, page 1


    There is a rumor to the effect that the Indians on the Siletz Reservation, Southern Oregon, have broke and returned to Rogue River, their former abode. A requisition has been made on General Clarke by the Governor of Oregon for troops to keep the Indians under subjection, but the General has no troops to spare.
"Army News," New York Herald, August 11, 1859, page 2


    THE JUDDS.--Bill and Ely Judd, who have been confined in the Crescent City jail for over a year, charged with the murder of Rodenheimer, and who broke jail some time since, are reported in the neighborhood of Yreka. They are well acquainted through the northern part of California and Southern Oregon, and from their known desperate character for murder and robbery, it will not be astonishing to hear of some of their desperate deeds before long.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, August 13, 1859, page 2




    A FISHING COLONY.--A number of families have established a settlement at the mouth of Rogue River, and are doing a good business in catching and salting salmon and other fish. A short distance up the river are good mines, which yield a handsome remuneration to the laborer. The climate is very healthy, and the families are all contented with their new home.
Sonoma County Journal, Petaluma, California, August 26, 1859, page 2

Del Norte Record, Crescent City, March 3, 1894, page 1


    OREGON ELECTION.--A correspondent of The National Era, writing from Ashland Mills, Rogue River Valley, Oregon [above], says that the election of Stout will "perhaps be contested on the part of Mr. Logan, as at Walla Walla Precinct, that gave Stout twenty-four majority, the judges of election were sworn in by officers from Washington Territory. And in another precinct that gave him a majority, the poll-books were not certified to." The writer also adds that there "is a growing disposition on the part of the people to doubt the willingness of the Administration to do justice to us in relation to the adjustment of our war claims. This, in fact, is the paramount question in Oregon, and the party that does her justice--for that is all her people ask--will be supported, and none others need ask."
Portland Advertiser, Portland, Maine, September 13, 1859, page 1




    IMMIGRANTS IN SOUTHERN OREGON.--The Jacksonville Sentinel, of Sept. 3rd, has the following in relation to recent immigration:
    "The emigrants are arriving daily. We are informed by Charles Hendere, who arrived here on Thursday last, that the emigration to Oregon will be large, that a number of disappointed 'Pikes' Peakers' were en route for the Pacific and bound for Oregon. H. traveled a good portion of the way almost alone, having a fine wagon and some good American horses--coming in what is called the Honey Lake and Pit River road. There was no trouble from Indians.
    MINING IN JACKSONVILLE, OREGON.--The Sentinel, of Sept. 3rd, says:
    Many of the mining claims that are now worked pay from $8 to $20 per day to the hand, and we heard of one man who washed one pan of "dirt" yielding $14, and that a Spaniard owned a claim on the gulch immediately below Layton's claim that prospected one dollar to the pan. There is no longer a question of doubt about the Williamsburg diggings.
Sacramento Daily Union, September 14, 1859, page 4


    ELI JUDD.--The Jacksonville Sentinel says that Eli Judd was taken prisoner in that place on the 2nd inst., by John O'Brian, who arrested him at Applegate, near Walker's place.
Sacramento Daily Union, September 15, 1859, page 3


    The Jacksonville Sentinel says that Eli Judd was arrested on Applegate Creek by Mr. John O'Brian, and taken to Jacksonville. He is charged with horse stealing. Bill Judd, an accomplice, is supposed to be somewhere in that neighborhood.
Oregon Argus, Oregon City, September 17, 1859, page 2


    EMIGRANTS.--The emigrants are arriving daily. We are informed by our old friend Charles Henderer, who arrived here on Thursday last, that the emigration to Oregon will be large, that a number of the disappointed "Pikes Peakers" were en route for the Pacific and bound for Oregon. Mr. H. traveled a good portion of the way almost alone, having a fine wagon and some good American horses--coming in what is called the Honey Lake and Pit River road. He had no difficulty with the Indians and informs us that he heard of none until the murder of four men at Pit River, that a company of volunteers had pursued the Indians and killed several, taking an Indian child prisoner. Mr. H. would have come into Oregon by the way of Goose and Klamath lakes, but when he passed the road none of the emigrants had traveled it, and it was difficult to get a company strong enough to come in that way on account of the Klamath and Pit River Indians.--Jacksonville Sentinel.
Weekly Oregonian, Portland, September 17, 1859, page 2


    HARVEY'S MINSTRELS.--This troupe of genuine Negro minstrels performed in this place during the week. They have returned from Southern Oregon. This trip up north has "paid" well. We are glad of it. Harvey is a most agreeable gentleman, and his troupe are really excellent performers. By the way, we will bet our hat that no printer will ever complain of Harvey for not paying his bill. On Thursday night he paid our bill twice. Now considering the fact that Harvey don't drink, this is a little remarkable. We were awfully tempted to retain the surplus $12 and procure a respectable hat. We would have done so, and treated all of Harvey's friends on the strength of it, but for the meanness of imposing on good nature.
Shasta Courier, Shasta City, California, September 24, 1859, page 2


    A colony of San Franciscans, including several families, has been for some time settled at the mouth of Rogue River in Southern Oregon, where a considerable business in catching and salting salmon is carried on, and a thriving village has sprung into existence. Gold is found in this river about thirty miles above in remunerative quantities, and the business of the young settlement is further increased by a trade in maple, myrtle, ash and oak.
"Miscellaneous News," New York Herald, September 27, 1859, page 10


     A LUCKY FRASER MAN.--A man named Palmer recently returned to Jacksonville, Oregon, from Fraser River, with 680 ounces of gold dust, or about $11,500. This amount was realized by him from the sale of goods taken from the Upper Fraser by a train of one hundred mules, in April last.
Columbia Weekly News, Columbia, California, September 29, 1859, page 3


    WAGON ROAD NORTH.--The Crescent City Herald, of September 28th, speaking of a new wagon road, says:
    The "Josephine Wagon Road" has been surveyed from Kerbyville to a point on the Jacksonville road, at Thompson's, on Applegate Creek, making the distance from Kerbyville to Jacksonville forty-four miles. The present road traveled by teams is fifty-two miles. A company is being organized by virtue of a charter granted January, 1859, by the Territory of Oregon to construct the road immediately. A preliminary organization has been effected, by selecting R. B. Morford, president, and Dr. Holton, secretary. The books are now opened for stock. Capital stock fixed at $6,000.
    The proposed route passes up Deer Creek Valley to its extreme eastern point, thence over the low ridge dividing Deer Creek from Murphy's Creek, thence up Applegate, south side, crossing Williams Creek, about two and a half miles below Williamsburg, to terminus of survey at Thompson's. The route is practicable for a good wagon road, the grade over the ridge being easier than the Crescent City road. A road is in contemplation from Sailor Diggings to intersect the aforesaid road, in Deer Creek Valley, passing over the ridge near Caldwell's, which will still shorten the distance six or seven miles, which, when completed, will shorten the distance from Crescent City to Jacksonville fifteen miles over the present traveled road.
    WOOL.--The steamer Columbia, which arrived from Southern Oregon on Saturday night, October 1st, brought, among other cargo, twenty-six bales of wool.
Sacramento Daily Union, October 5, 1859, page 2


    JAMES O'MEARA, formerly of San Francisco, and subsequently proprietor of the Portland Standard, has become editor and part owner of the Jacksonville Sentinel, in Southern Oregon.
Daily National Democrat, Marysville, California, October 5, 1859, page 3


    STOPPED FOR THE SEASON.--The stage line between Jacksonville and Eugene City has been withdrawn for the winter. The mail service will meantime be performed on horseback. Until spring opens and the roads are good again, we cannot hope for speedy nor very regular mail conveyance between Lower and Upper Oregon.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, November 5, 1859, page 2


    A man named Ferdinand Patterson was shot, and supposed to have been mortally wounded, in an affray occurring at Sailor Diggings, Southern Oregon, on the 29th Sept.
    The Jacksonville (Southern Oregon) Sentinel of the 1st inst. states that Mr. G. H. Abbott, Indian agent, had just brought in the news of a fearful slaughter of immigrants at Tule Lake, which he had himself received from a trusty Klamath Lake Indian. The story of the latter is that somewhere about the middle of September a small band of immigrants, consisting of men, women and children, on their way to Southern Oregon, were attacked at Tule Lake by a party of [Modoc] Indians and all of them killed. Not a soul was left to tell the names of the sufferers, or to give any clue thereto.
"From the Pacific Coast," New York Times, November 10, 1859, page 5


    COUNTY FAIR AT JACKSON, SOUTHERN OREGON.--The Jackson County Agricultural Society held their first annual Exhibition and Fair at the Courthouse in Jacksonville, Southern Oregon, on the 4th and 5th October.
San Francisco Bulletin, October 12, 1859, page 2


    SOUTHERN OREGON.--From the Jacksonville Sentinel, October 1st, we gather the following items:
    News was brought us yesterday by G. H. Abbott, Indian agent, of a fearful slaughter of emigrants at Tule Lake. Mr. Abbott received information of this massacre from a trusty Klamath Lake Indian, who came to town yesterday noon. He states that the massacre was committed about two weeks ago. His story is that it was a small band of emigrants, consisting of men, women and children, who were on their way hither. At Tule Lake they were attacked by a party of Modoc Indians. The men and women were killed at once, the savages reserving the children for slavery. But, seeing other emigrant trains passing a day or two after, the Indians became apprehensive of the discovery by them of the slaughter, and dispatched the youthful victims. The animals were also killed, and the property seized taken to the island in Tule Lake, where it is still kept.
    A shooting affair occurred on Thursday evening, at Sailor's Diggings, between Fred. Patterson and a man known as "Fraser River George." Several shots were exchanged. Patterson is supposed to be mortally wounded; George was slightly wounded in the shoulder.
    G. H. Abbott, Indian agent, starts today for Klamath Lake, to arrest the Indians concerned in the massacre of Ledford and his party last spring. Mr. Abbott will be accompanied by ten picked men, citizens of the valley, to aid him in the desperate service.
    On Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, the Jackson County Agricultural Society will hold their first Exhibition and Fair at the Courthouse in this place.
    A correspondent at Gasburg informs us that the Ashland Hotel, at Ashland Mills, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night.
Sacramento Daily Union, October 12, 1859, page 1


    ROGUE RIVER SALMON.--Important among the resources of our state are the numerous fisheries springing up along its entire coast. This interest, however, has yet to be fully developed. Already limited enterprises of the kind have been well rewarded and encouragement given to the future investment of capital, skill and energy in this interesting and lucrative pursuit. Salmon, mackerel and many other descriptions of the finny tribe are found at appropriate seasons in great abundance, from San Diego to Puget Sound, and of a quality equal or superior to those caught on the Atlantic side. Particularly are our salmon, caught at or near the mouths of rivers or inlets of the sea, found to be of great superiority, whether in point of size, fatness or delicacy of flavor.
    Quite recently a salmon fishery has been established by C. L. Strong, at the mouth of Rogue River (or more properly Rouge River, the present name being a corruption from the French word rouge, red), in Southern Oregon, near our northern border. [The "rouge" derivation for the Rogue River's name is a myth.] As packed for market by Strong, the fish is divested of all superfluous portions, and the curing and packing are so admirable that the article is peculiarly well adapted to exportation. This, in connection with the superiority of the fish itself, must render the article a favorite wherever it is introduced.
    Although the establishment of Strong is yet in its infancy, it has already assumed an importance second to that of no other of its kind on the coast. It possesses natural advantages perhaps superior to any other for this description of fishing. Rogue River, near its outlet to the sea, expands into a lake of considerable size, near the center of which a small island with shores like those of the lake itself, gradually receding, and presenting sandy beaches admirably adapted to the drawing of seines. The outlet to this lake is quite narrow, and the distance is but a few hundred paces from the foot of the lake to the sea. In front of the outlet are shifting sandbars, favorable to eliciting the run of the salmon inland, while offering no serious obstacle to the entrance of vessels of light draft. During appropriate seasons, myriads of salmon enter this pass and swarm the lake beyond.
    At the foot of this lake and along its southern border the necessary buildings of the fishery have been erected. A house for receiving and storing salt and packing materials extends into the lake, and vessels can lie directly at the doors of this building while discharging or receiving cargo. Adjacent to this is another, in which the fish are prepared for the market. Still other buildings are devoted to the accommodation of the men employed, and to the manufacture of barrels, etc., the material for which is furnished in great abundance, and of the requisite quality, by the well-timbered shores of the lake.
    Owing to the brief period which has elapsed since this establishment had a commencement, the product the present season will probably not be large. The fish are in almost inconceivable abundance, and are taken with the utmost facility, but the parties interested have not yet been able to manufacture a sufficient number of packages for their reception. The proprietor, however, is of the opinion that with the appliances which he will have accumulated by another season he can readily turn out 10,000 barrels as the result of the season's operations.
    It is well known that salmon caught near the sea are superior to those found further inland, owing to the more saline character of the water. In ascending rivers the quality of the fish deteriorates. To this fact perhaps the great superiority of the salmon from the fishery of Rogue River lake is mainly attributable.--S.F. Mercantile Gazette.
Sacramento Daily Union, October 15, 1859, page 1


    GOVERNOR CURRY ON THE STUMP.--This gentleman was recently at Jacksonville (Oregon), where he made a speech. The Sentinel, of October 15th, thus refers to it:
    "His remarks were confined principally to matters connected with the war debt, and the position the Democratic Party occupied upon the vexed, entangled subject of squatter or popular sovereignty in the territories. We are not aware that he shed any new light upon the former as to what was the best and speediest method to secure the payment, but what he did say was truthful of the past and correct of the present. His position upon the latter subject was not clearly defined, but we believe he favors the position assumed by Senator Douglas more than that promulgated by any other of the great party leaders. Governor Curry announced himself a candidate for United States Senator, and undertook to show that his elevation to that distinguished position would be more beneficial to our people in several aspects than would the election of any of the other known candidates. He barely alluded to the dissension existing in the ranks of the Democratic Party, and briefly counseled moderation and reconciliation, and expressed the hope that at an early day the party might be united upon a common basis in indissoluble compact and harmony. His remarks partook more of the nature of talk than a speech, and were attentively listened to."
Sacramento Daily Union, October 27, 1859, page 1


    The county seat of Curry County, Oregon, is to be removed to Ellensburg, at the mouth of Rogue River.
"Oregon News," Daily True Delta, New Orleans, October 28, 1859, page 2


    GOLD FROM SOUTHERN OREGON.--Mr. R. H. Smith, late postmaster at Port Orford, yesterday exhibited to us, says the S.F. Times, a box of beautiful gold specimens and other curiosities from Southern Oregon, consisting of vials of gold from Pistol River, a small stream discharging into the ocean nine miles below Rogue River, and numerous specimens from Rogue River, Lobster Creek, Galice Creek, Port Orford beach, Randolph Creek, Sixes River, Coquille (seventy miles above its mouth), a variety of rubies found on the above beach, and also some beautiful specimens of platinum. These illustrate the quality of gold found in that part of the country, and are valuable for that reason--the Port Orford gold seldom finding its way here. There are also some fine specimens of amalgam from Cape Blanco, one of the most westerly places in the United States. Some of this assays at the rate of $13.40 the ounce.
Weekly California Express, Marysville, California, October 29, 1859, page 1


    FROM SOUTHERN OREGON.--We find the annexed intelligence in the Jacksonville Sentinel, of October 15th:
    We were shown at Maury & Davis' the other day several very rich specimens of quartz gold taken from the diggings at Williams' Creek. Some of this gold has assayed as high has 947 thousands--being far richer than the gold found in California, save in rare localities. The pieces were taken out by Mexicans. There were besides a few specimens of placer gold, of exceeding richness, and of most curious forms, the product of the diggings near town.
    A defaulting scoundrel, George W. Sharpe, has fraudulently disposed of a large quantity of jewelry, watches, etc. entrusted to him for sale by George C. Robbins, of Portland. The fellow had also a batch of bills due Robbins, and others due the Democratic Standard newspaper office, given to him for collection. Many of these he collected, and eloped with the amounts realized from them, and from the sale of the jewelry. Sharpe was at Canonville about five or six weeks ago, where, it is ascertained, he exchanged a quantity of jewelry for a pair of horses. He passed through Jacksonville about a month since.
Weekly California Express, Marysville, California, October 29, 1859, page 3


    A correspondent of the Echo du Pacifique, writing from Jacksonville, Southern Oregon, gives some interesting information, which we translate as follows:
    "When the Fraser River excitement arose, we all hoped here that there would be a great increase in the population of Oregon, and that we should finally see our mines developed--mines which, as compared with those of California, are scarcely prospected. Our hopes proved delusive; a multitude of miners passed through here, but they cast a disdainful look on our mines, and went back to the diggings which they had abandoned for Fraser. To tell the truth, our mines do not offer any grand prizes; it is probably more easy to find here than in California a claim paying two or three dollars per day--but there are few spots where great fortunes can be made; and two or three dollars per day was a small consolation to the extravagant wants of those who went to Fraser. Nevertheless, some stopped, and among them a number of Frenchmen. More than thirty French miners were present several days ago at a burial of a compatriot.
    "The miners are making little now at Jacksonville and vicinity for the want of water, which will not come for several months yet. Meantime the miners are preparing their flumes and cutting away the trees and brush which would be in the way of the sluices.
    "There is an excitement just now about Williams Creek, where a town has been laid out and styled Williamsburg. The ditch company has made a reservoir, and thus doubled its supply of water, and the miners are doing very well. Next winter it will be the most lively place in Southern Oregon, but its prosperity will probably be brief, for it is said that the gold is found only in shallow gulches or small flats.
    "New diggings have bean found on Applegate Creek, thirty or thirty-five miles from here, and some Germans are doing well there.
    "Little is to be said of our agriculture. The harvest has been a poor one, owing to the coldness of last spring, The wheat crop is poorer than in 1858, but it bears a double price now. Potatoes, cabbage, onions, etc., are worth six cents a pound, and we look forward to the winter not without anxiety. The time has passed when Oregon sent the surplus of her grain and vegetables to California, and now we should be glad to receive some supplies from the south."
Daily Alta California, San Francisco, October 31, 1859, page 1


    DIVORCES IN JACKSONVILLE.--Divorces were granted lately at Jacksonville, Southern Oregon, in the following cases: Betherny Hill vs. Legeran Hill; Emeline Grotts vs. William Grotts, and Sophia Snead vs. Finlay Snead.
Alta California, San Francisco, November 2, 1859, page 1


    RETURN OF ABBOTT'S PARTY.--On Thursday afternoon, October 20th, says the Jacksonville Sentinel, G. H. Abbott and the party who accompanied him returned from the Klamath Lake expedition. They were gone twenty days. Abbott failed to apprehend the Indians who were engaged in the massacre of Ledford and his party last spring, or to get any reliable information as to their whereabouts. That they were secreted by members of their tribe he is well satisfied, but the paucity of his force and the difficulties which would have to be encountered in pursuing and capturing them forbade him from making the effort.
Sacramento Daily Union, November 2, 1859, page 2


    RESULT OF THE KLAMATH LAKE EXPEDITION.--The Jacksonville (S.O.) Sentinel gives an account of the recent expedition by G. H. Abbott and others to Klamath Lake, in search of the Indians who were engaged in the massacre of Ledford and his party last spring. The expedition was gone twenty days. The Sentinel says:
    "That the Indians who had been engaged in the massacre were secreted by members of their tribe Mr. Abbott was well satisfied, but the paucity of his force, and the difficulty to be encountered in pursuing and capturing them, prevented him from making the effort. The Indians were peaceably disposed while the party were among them, although they evinced considerable dissatisfaction at not being furnished with goods and presents, but they were made to understand that until they delivered the murderers of the Ledford party over to the proper authorities, no such articles would be dispensed to the tribe.
    "Mr. Abbott made careful inquiry into the correctness of the report brought to town just before he left of the massacre of a party of emigrants by the Modoc Indians. The statements were conflicting--some declaring that there was a massacre, others as stoutly declaring that the rumor was without foundation. Among others, Mr. Abbott met the chief of the Modocs, who assured him it was the Pit River Indians who had committed the massacre upon the emigrants about the time specified, and that the Modocs had nothing to do with it, nor were they within several miles of the scene.
    "A broad, extensive valley of surpassing fertility, and thickly grown with luxuriant bunchgrass was discovered to the north of the lake, beyond the divide which separates the emigrant trail, some twenty miles. It is described to be larger than the Rogue River Valley, and admirably adapted to the grazing of numerous herds. By abandoning the old trail and striking over the northern slope of the great butte, the party obtained a full view of this delightful valley, with which they were very much charmed.
    "The whole party returned in first-rate health and in fine spirits. They found a superabundance of elk, deer, bear and other game during their absence, and brought in the saddles of three or four bucks. The rain prevented them from hunting two days, but they did not suffer any lack of game from this cause."
San Francisco Bulletin, November 3, 1859, page 3




    VALUE OF LAND ABOUT JACKSONVILLE, S.O.--James Pool has sold his claim on the borders of Jacksonville to John Bigham, for $18,000. The tract has somewhat over 500 acres of fine rolling and meadow land, with portions of it well timbered. There are but few improvements upon the claim. Both gentlemen are old residents. This sale will give to persons at a distance an idea of the valuation of property in the Valley (Rogue River) and show to them that there are few places in Oregon which offer equal inducements for settlers to come and take up the yet unoccupied lands. Mr. Pool located this claim in 1852, himself and James Clugage being the first to settle at Jacksonville.--Jacksonville Sentinel.
San Francisco Bulletin, November 10, 1859, page 2


    KILLED IN SOUTHERN OREGON.--On Tuesday evening, October 25th, a Mexican named Viciente was shot dead at Applegate Creek in an affray with an American, whose name is not given. The latter has been examined and committed to the custody of the sheriff of Josephine County.
Sacramento Daily Union, November 10, 1859, page 2




    OREGON POTATOES.--The Jacksonville Sentinel chronicles some large potatoes grown at Applegate, Southern Oregon. Two weighed a trifle over three pounds each, and these with thirty-six others, from the same seed, measured a good bushel.
San Francisco Bulletin, November 17, 1859, page 2


    SALMON FISHERY.--Messrs. Strong, Baldwin & Co. have established a salmon fishery at the mouth of Rogue River, in Curry County. They have taken as many as 1000 to 1,500 at a single haul. The salmon are said to be of excellent quality.--Oregon Statesman.
Daily National Democrat, Marysville, California, November 18, 1859, page 3


    Divorces were granted lately at Jacksonville, Southern Oregon, in the following cases: Bethenia Hill agt. Legrand Hill, Emeline Grotts agt. Wm. Grotts, and Sophia Snead agt. Finlay Snead.
"Later from California," New York Daily Tribune, November 28, 1859, page 6


    HOMICIDE IN SOUTHERN OREGON.--The Jacksonville Sentinel chronicles the killing, on 15th November, at Williamsburg, Southern Oregon, of a man named Marion Dildine, by one Archibald Christman. It appears that the parties had been at enmity for some time past, growing out of an affair in which a woman was concerned. Dildine had seduced the woman from duty to her husband, and ran off with her to Yreka. At the time of this affair, some of the residents at Williamsburg threatened to inflict summary chastisement upon Dildine for his offense, and prominent among them was Christman. Nothing of the sort was attempted, however, and Dildine made off with the woman unmolested, save by a suit instituted by the husband, after giving bail for his appearance for trial of the case.
    On the 15th November, Dildine returned to Williamsburg alone, having left the woman at Yreka. Christmas was told that he had threatened to shoot him, and knowing Dildine to be a desperate man, he prepared himself in the event of meeting him. About half past 8 o'clock in the evening, the two men met in the street, in front of a public house. Dildine came towards Christman and offered to shake hands with him, but the latter, fearing some design against his life, refused, and drew his revolver. Dildine turned to run, and had got but a few steps off when Christmas fired at him. The ball took mortal effect, penetrating the back, and coming out in the lower part of the right breast. Dildine fell helpless, and was taken to a house nearby, where he died next morning. Christman gave himself into custody at once. Dildine had killed a Mexican a few months ago at Williamsburg, for which offense he was acquitted, and as he threatened to kill Christman on sight, from his known dangerous character, some persons think the latter was fully justified in shooting him, and that he did it in pure self-defense. Before his death, Dildine declared that the woman was in Yreka, although it was reported at Jacksonville that she died somewhere near Scotts Valley. Christman was arraigned before Justices Dunlap and Luther, at Williamsburg, on 17th November, and after a full examination into the facts of the case was discharged.
    This is the story as told by the Jacksonville Sentinel, Our readers can judge for themselves whether Christman was justified in shooting a man who was apparently unarmed, and was flying from him, because he had been told to beware of him.
San Francisco Bulletin, December 2, 1859, page 3