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CG1  Apr 22, 1865

outside news  CG1 Apr 22, 1865   [comments about assassination of' Pres.
Lincoln, also abt recent end of civil war.]

item  [outside]  CG1 Apr 22, 1895
Bancroft's celebrated Writing Papers.   Hand-Made Linen fabric, comprising
Hand made note plain, gilt edge, ruled; Congress letter, plain, ruled;  Fools
Cap, plain, ruled; Legal cap ruled; Bill Cap, Broad, narrow.  Also Ladies
Note envelopes, business envelopes, wedding envelopes, other styles.
J W Souther is Sole Agent in Benton County nq   [M. can't  read well at
all; only a fragment is preserved.)

gap
Dec 7, 1872

Outside news   CG1 Dec 7, 1872  death Horace Greeley  

Other RR  CG1 Dec 7, 1872  defeat of the Corvallis and Yaquina rr bill.

Racism  CG1  Dec 7, 1872  The Modoc War.        

Name politic paper  outside-RR  CG1 Dec 7, 1872
Ben Holladay has sold his Bulletin to H W Scott, J N Dolph, 0 N Denny.

Outside-church, school  CG1  Dec 7, 1872  
Christian College;  T F Campbell, pres.  [M. doesn't say whether
Corvallis: must be]

Dec 14, 1872

Dec 21, 1872

Racism  CG1  Dec 21, 1872  [M. all through here, comments on Modoc war.]

Misc   misc-word   CG1  Dec 21, 1872     earthquake in Oregon; eastern
Oregon, Walla Walla, Umatilla, other; The shock was distinctly felt in
Portland and East Portland at 20 minutes before ten o'clock last Saturday
night, and furnished the "locals" with first class sensationals [print].   No
damage.   +   [not felt at Corvallis and upper Willamette]

Dec28, 1872

fire  outside-Tot  CG1  Dec 28, 1872  great fire in Portland, losses.  city
narrowly escapes general ruin; losses $500,000.

Jan 4, 1873

Outside-RR  CG1  Jan 4, 1873  [Ben Holladay talked about.]

Jan11, 1873

Outside-Srh  OSN Co    CG1  Jan 11, 1873    through the locks of the
Willamette Falls; stmr Maria Wilkins left OSN Co wharf Portland, etc. [M.  as
also Jan 18; believe they must be newly open.]

Jan  18, 1873

Outside-Tot  Racism  misc-word   CG1  Jan 18, 1873
Correspondent fm Newport worries tt Modoc success in prolonging the war
will stir up other Indians and "encourage their infernal inclinations."  [ also
lengthy on Siletz Indian  troubles. (also Jan25) ]

outside-RR   CG1  Jan 18, 1873   Holladay still controls the railroads.   

Jan 25, 1873

Racism  outside-location  CG1  Jan 25, 1873   [lists the forts for protection
against Siletz. see also further papers.]

Feb 1  --  Feb 8 ---  Feb 15 ---

Feb 22, 1873

Srh  CG1  Feb 22, 1873
 Sailing vessels average ten trips a year, each, between Coos Bay and San
Francisco.  [M. but doesn't say how many vessels in op.]
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CG2  Mar 1, 1873

Outside-school  novelty-woolen  condit  CG2  Mar 1, 1873
Willamette University notes.
     While in Salem, last week, we were.., shown through the above extensive
establishment. [ head has said Salem Woolen Factory.]  Thanks to Mr. Hoyt,
and also to Mr. Wrn. Appleby, for special attention on that occasion. The
establishment is in full blast -- and gives employment to eighty or ninety
operatives.  We were pleased to note very many improvements since our last
visit.  Salem cloths, and especially the Salem blankets, have a national
reputation, and are, perhaps, unsurpassed for quality and finish in the United
States.  These mills are unable to supply the demand for their fabrics, and
hence but few pieces were on hand.  On looking over their book of specimens
of the past year, we were surprised at the variety and exquisite designs of the
various fabrics manufactured.  In this department, as in all other respects, the
enterprising proprietors of the Salem Woolen Mills keep even pace with the
best and most popular establishments at [print] the East. Success to the Salem
and all other woolen factories in the State. Encourage home manufacture and
the cry of "hard times" will soon forever cease in Oregon.  Hundreds of
thousands of dollars are sent away every year for articles that should be
manufactured at home, and for this reason money is scarce.  +

Mar 8

Outside school  agric  CG 2 Mar 8, 1873
Legislature of Or. permanently located the State Agricultural College in
Benton co; Benton citizens promised to purchase a suitable farm; 2 yrs ago
farm 35 acres adjacent to town purchased for $4,500. $2500 been pd; $500 is
on avail, subscription, $1500 with interest remains unprovided for.  Unless
this amount promptly secured mortgage to be foreclosed, lose land, all tt paid
on it, and prob. also the College. College has actual endowment in lands worth
not less than $200,000; a late act Congress has increased this endowment to
munificent amt $600,000; when these means are made avail. College will
have annual income of not less than $40,000; then the law requires Regents to
open to all students free of tuition; earnestly ask to liquidate debt and also
purchase more land.  F A Chenoweth, B W Wilson, B F Burch: Com.   nq

Mar 15

Locale  other coal  CG2  Mar 15, 1873   A four foot vein of coal has lately
been found in Siuslaw valley. +

Mar 22

Outside-Srh Outside-Tot  CG2  Mar 22, 1873
Although the canal and locks on Willamette R at Oregon City completed abt 3
mo, people Upper Willamette could not realize no boat tt visited them had
passed thru direct fm Portland.  This distinguished honor had been reserved
for new and elegant stmr, Governor Grover, Willamette Transportation co;  
[lengthy descr. of passing various towns.!

March 29 --

Apr 5  missing

Apr 12, 1873

[  M. note says: Apr 18, 1873 to Jan 1878 -- all issues missing.]  [Then a
handwritten note adds:  see next page.]
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CG 3   Jan 7, 1876

outside-Tot  holiday  Xmas  New Year  misc-word and saying  condit?
Outlook CG 3 Jan 7, 1876
[Head:]    FROM THE METROPOLIS.
Portland, Jan 3,1876.
     The old year has been rung out with...glad and joyous greeting.  With its
many joys and sorrows, trials and triumphs,  has been forever buried, the
past, and the New Year, with its hopes and unknown future, is before us.
What it shall bring forth, no one can know. These holidays used to be glad
and joyful occasions, when in our youth, the world appeared to be one vast
playground, and
           "All the men and women merely players."
and even now they are delightful because of the glad reminiscences of days
long gone, as well as for the joy they bring to young hearts who delight in
the coming of old Santa Claus, with his presents, so brimful of happiness
and rolick [print]. But for us, the world is getting far too real to look
forward to these holidays with the zeal of youth...   The stage is
transformed into a battle-field, and the players seem like warriors who
must do or die... Then we longed hopefully for the future; now we look
regretfully into the past...
     The holidays have been well celebrated in Portland. Well loaded Christmas
trees in all the churches, and in very many private families, have brought
delight to the young folks; and the opportunities for calls upon fair
entertainers, have been well improved on by the chivalry of the city. The
merchants who have dealt in holiday wares, have had a successful season, and
are therefore happy; while the recipients of friendly remembrances, rejoice
and are glad.   +

Outside-Srh  outside RR  condit progress  CG 3 Jan 7, 1876
Willamette River Transportation Co have sold their boats, the Locks at
Oregon City, and all property to Oregon Steam Navigation Co; a new co
organized, but same men as OSN Co; freights and passage will go up to
monopoly prices on Columbia, though Capt Scott's boats, City of
Salem and Ohio, and boats of 0.S.S. Co. [print] ply those waters,
cannot be much danger of oppression; rumor has it purchase these
boats only part of program.  [M. other articles]
another rumor, that Ben Holladay has sold out all his interest in his 2 RR
and steamship lines in Oregon, to the German Roadholders, and tt
Union Pacific RR will soon assume management of Oregon Railroads.
If true, this means a RR will connect Oregon with UP at Ogden; the
trade of  China and Pacific Islands with US thru Oregon;
unparalleled career before us.

Xmas outside-Tot  CG  3  Jan 7, 1876     The Christmas tree at Gaston, held
$400 worth of presents.  Lafayette had a $1,500 tree.  +

Outside road  outside-RR  Tot?  Srh?  CG 3 Jan 7, 1876
The completion of the wagon road following Elk creek from Drain, on the
O.& C. R.R., to the old Scottsburg road on the main Umpqua river, will
materially shorten the distance to the coast at Gardner [print], from the
interior. In ordinary weather the through trip, connecting with the Gardner
[print] steamer at Scottsburg, can be performed in a day.   +

Other mining   CG 3  Jan 7, 1876
 Nonpareil Quicksilver mine on Calapooia creek, 9 m. east Rsbg.

School  CG 3 Jan 7, 1876 
Prof. E B McElroy,  Mental Arithmetic, taught at Agricultural College.  Nq
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CG 4  Jan 14, 1876

Srh  harbor-refuge  CG 4 Jan 14, 1876
terrible disasters to coast commerce awakened necessity of having some
harbor of refuge between SF and Puget Sound. For more than 800 mi of rocky
coast, no place to go in storm; yet much shipping not only coastal, but orient
trade.  [ed. thinks there should be expenditure at Cape Foulweather to provide
harbor; other possib are Port Orford, Cape Blanco. The entrances are all river
entrances,  and ships can't get over bars in storms; only recourse is to run out
to deep sea and ride out; many don't make it.   nq at all

outside-name  CG 4  Jan 14, 1876   Mr. Mulkey, b.

Srh  interest  CG4  Jan 14, 1876
 this...story we find in the Tuscumbia North Alabamian:' ...The Savannah left
Savannah, Ga., in May l8l9, for Liverpool, with a supply of pitch pine in lieu
of coal, which could not be had.  She was a sailor also, and used but little
steam until she neared the coast of Ireland, when she fired up with the
Georgia pine knots, producing a pillar of fire by night and of cloud by day,
 that demoralized the whole British nation.
     When the fire and smoke were first seen, an English Admiral sent his
cutter to the relief of what he thought was a ship on fire. The more the
gallant tars strove to reach the burning vessel to rescue its people, the more
they would not be rescued, but kept puffing right along like the devil, which
 it was thought to be, going straight to Liverpool, where it created a
commotion from thence to Johnny Groat's house.
     On learning that it was not the devil's boat, or hat his majesty was not
aboard, the British Admiralty took possession of  it and held it for weeks,
fearing that it was to be used in rescuing England's terror, the Great
Napoleon, from St. Helena. The English nation was as much afraid of
Bonaparte [print], and prayed as earnestly for deliverance from him then, as
their Continental neighbors formerly prayed to be delivered from the Turk, the
Devil, and the Comet."  --  The South.  [M. the first steamer to cross the
Atlantic.]

Jan 21, 1876

Outside-RR  outside-Tot   condit-progress  misc-saying?  CG4  Jan 21, 1876
YAQUINA BAY RAILROAD.
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Don't be startled, gentle reader! We have written the above headline so often,
that it seems stereotyped upon our very soul, and yet we do not tire of writing
it. The railroad is everything to Benton and adjoining counties, and upon its
success depends the future prosperity...of the entire Willamette Valley...  With
less than sixty miles of railroad, we are two days nearer San Francisco, and
our freights would be reduced fully one half...  
     Col T E Hogg, European capital;  local people asked to raise $100,000; one
year ago, no progress since then. nq
     ...With this short railroad, Corvallis, the beautiful shiretown [print] of the
county, would become one of the wealthiest and most populous cities of the
State.  Without the railroad it will continue to be a healthy and lovely little
village only because of  its proximity to Albany... our citizens would do well
to heed [the facts]...and not let another season of culpable inactivity pass.  +   [cp]

Jan 28, 1876

Srh  lbr  CG4 Jan 28, 1876
 3 sailing vessels, l stmr cleared fm CB last wk.    /    schnr Arirel, now
running  in CB lumber trade, was once the U S revenue cutter Wm. L. Marcy.     
/     There were 28 sea-going vessels in CB, at last advices.  Who says
commerce of CB going down?   

Coq-Valley  church  CG4  Jan 28, 1876    Through the efforts of Rev. Z.
Cook, a church for the use of all religious denorninations , is being built on
the Coquille .+
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CG  5   The Corvallis Gazette  Jan 28, 1876

Mail  locale  CG5 Jan 28, 1876  
mail service on rte fm Gardiner [print] increased to semi-weekly, to date fm
Jan 16.   

Other coal  misc-word?   CG5 Jan 28, 1876  
[cp>] The new coal mine in Coos county being developed by Mr. C.B. Jones
is said to promise to be equal in value to any in that carboniferous section.  +    

Tot-Marshfield CG5 Jan 28, 1876   The town of Marshfield has been
incorporated about a year and in that time a cemetery has been graded and
cleared, and streets made. There are yet several hundred dollars in the
treasury. +     [ cp? ]

RR   CG5 Jan 28, 1876
[Pacific News. ] Roseburg Call says: "We have heard the subject of the
railroad to the coast spoken of during the past week, but what action will be
taken remains to be seen. We understand that a survey will be made next
summer. A gentleman who professes to know, says the cost for a narrow
gauge railroad would not exceed $6,000 per mile, and as the distance to tide
water is not over 50 miles, $300,000 would build the road."                 [this
was previously cp ]

Feb 4, 1876 --

Feb 11,1876

Mail  road  condit   CG5  Feb 11, 1876
A petition is being circulated praying for a daily mail service between Empire
City and Roseburg. +    /      Chapman's survey in Coos county embracing the
line of Coos Bay wagon road, has been approved, and the plats filed in the
Roseburg land office. +     /    We learn from the Plaindealer that the present
owner of the Coos Bay wagon road grant positively declines to make any
contracts to sell land till the patents are issued.  +    

Health condit  paper-advice CG5 Feb 1l, 1876
Wm. Crashley and wife, living about four miles from Coquille City are in a
state not only of absolute destitution, but closely bordering upon starvation.
He has been sick since May last, and their small stock of household goods
have been exchanged for provisions till nothing is left. This matter should
receive the immediate attention of the people in that vicinity. +   

[Lhc military census]  CG5 Feb11, 1876  
 the persons subject to military duty in 1875, Coos 454; Benton 634; Lane
l458; Multnomah 2897.
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CG6
Friday, February l8, l876

Health  interest  CG5 Feb 18, 1876
Cure for dyspepsia,
1.    Eat thrice a day.
2.    Not an atom between meals.
3.    Nothing after two o'clock but a piece of cold bread and
butter and one cup of hot drink.
4.    Spend half an hour at least in taking each meal.
5.    Cut up all meats and hard food in pea-sized pieces.
6.    Never eat enough to cause the slightest uncomfortable
sensation afterwards.
.7.    Never work or study hard within half an hour of eating.
...Hall's Journal of Health.                            +

how to make beef tea for sick persons; l lb of the best beef cut in sm pieces;
placed in good sized open mouth bottle, pickle jar is convenient. cork bottle
loosely then set into kettle of water and kept boiling 2 hr. If bottle now
removed contains considerable quantity of fluid which may be turned off and
beef subjected to slight pressure to remove still more; in this way have
concentrated article of nutriment. May be given after seasoned, either diluted
or pure, according to condition of the stomach   [nfq but is fm Herald of
Health.

Food  CG6  Feb 18, 1876
Hard Gingerbread; 1 cup of molasses and sugar; 1/2 cup each of butter and
lard; 1 teaspoonful soda; l tablespoonfuI ginger;  1 cup warm water. Take
about a teaspoonful of the water and dissolve the soda, then pound 1/2
teaspoon alum, dissolve tt in a teaspoonful of water; then put in enough flour
so you can roll it out abt 1/4" thick, spread it on long tins, mark it off in
squares. Will be light and nice. Have your oven about as you would for
biscuits.   Nfq  [M.  gingerbread bar cookie, evid. ]

paper  Lhc  CG6 Feb 18, 1876
The Coos Courtly Record learned that Messrs. Carr, Crocker [no comma in
print] Stanford, Mills, Cornwall and other prominent politicians and capitalists
of San Francisco, are taking a deep interest in the improvement of the Coos
bay bar, and are bringing their influence to bear m upon the U. S. senators and
representatives for the state of California to work for an appropriation from
the present congress for that purpose.  +

Feb 18, 1876

Racism  condit? Outlook  Outside-RR outside-Srh   CG6  Feb 18, 1876
 The people along the line of the proposed Monroe and Corvallis canal are all
on tiptoe about the matter. Who will take the lead in the matter, and suggest
time and place for a meeting of those interested? The matter should be
attended to at once. The advantages of' such canal are so apparent to every
citizen of the county, that it seems like nonsense to urge its construction.
It can be built at much less expense than people imagine. Plenty of Chinese
labor at hand. Let this canal be built, and a new life and vigor will be infused
into every department of business. Build this canal and the southern portion
of Benton and the northern and western portion of Lane county will find a
ready market, at remunerative prices, for their products. Build this canal
and the Yaquina and West side railroad [print] will be completed within two
years. Now is the time to move in this grand enterprise.  +

Feb 25, 1876

Outside-school  CG 6 Feb 25, 1876
Rev.  J H Babcock, genr'l supt.  The state instiitution for the education of the
blind, located at Salem, has in the past year enjoyed a period of unparalled
prosperity and success. It is desireable that every blind person of suitable age

CG 6a   [Feb 25, 1876 cont. ] should have the benefit of such education as can
only be obtained in institutions especially adapted.  Nq
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CG 7  March 3, 1876

Srh  misc-word-ult  CG 7   Mar 3m 1876   Eight vessels sailed in over  Coos
Bay bar on the 17th ult. without the aid of a tug.  +

[ Jan 7,Jan 14, Jan 21, Jan 28,1876; Feb 11, Feb 18, Feb 25, 1876;  March 3,
1876]

health  CG7  Mar 3, 1876  There has been considerable sickness on Coos Bay
for some weeks past.  +  

Srh  Tot  CG7 Mar 3, 1876  The steamer Fearless last week took the schooner
0rient out of the Umpqua, and going five miles to sea got the schooner Sarah
and towed her into Gardiner.  +

Srh  conditions   CG7  Mar 3, 1876
We learn from Capt. Winant that the schr. Lizzie, lost at Yaquina recently,
was insured for $5,000. There was no insurance, however, on the cargo,
which was worth about $500, and subject to the general average, in such
cases, after deducting proceeds of sale of wreck. Her crew, which went
down the coast, has not been heard from.   +

March 17,1876.

Food  misc-word-saleratus  CG7 Mar 17, 1876  
poor man's cake; 1 c. sugar, 1 c milk, l tablesp. butter; l tsp dry cream of
tarter; 1 tsp soda dissolved in the milk; 1 egg; a little cinnamon; flour to make
as thick as pound cake.       /
 Indian Rusk; 2 light cups Indian meal; 1 c white flour; 1 tsp saleratus; enough
sour or buttermilk to dissolve 1 c sweet milk; stir in 3/4 c molasses.

Mar 24,1876

Outside-Srh  CG 7  Mar 24, 1876
[lengthy article on proposed canal  Corvallis and Long Tom.]  A similar
enterprise is on foot in the southwestern part of Lane county by which they
propose to bring the Willamette out at some point near Springfield and empty
the same into the Long Tom river...

outside-RR   [all these papers have articles abt the proposed Yaquina -
Corvallis RR.]

Mar 31, 1876.

Road  misc-word?  CG7 Mar 31, 1876  
The Coos Bay wagon road is in a very bad condition, and the mud is hub
deep; consequently the mail carrier is dubbed General Growler. [M.  is this a
take off on Governor Grover or something?]  /

Outside-Tot  CG7  Mar 31, 1876   [article on what's in Corvallis, what you
see there.]

Misc   CG7  Apr 7, 1876.
to wash black calico: to boiler full of strong soap suds put 2 handfulls
logwood chips, let boil 1/2 hr; strain. free garment fm spots of grease, wet
thoroughly; put into boiler and let boil several minutes; rinse in clear, cold
water till water
colorless.  nq

food  CG7 Apr 7, 1876
 recipe for fried cake. 2 cupfuls sour cream, 2 cupfuls sour milk, 4 eggs, l
tsp.cinnimon [as typed], 2 tsp soda, l cupful sugar.

Racism  condit-opinion  CG7  Apr 7, 1876
[Head:]    The Siletz Reservation.
The abandonment of the Alsea reservation by the Indians and its occupancy
by white settlers would be a great public benefit and would not work hardship
on the poor Indians. nq   [lengthy.]
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