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Show Plenty of enow at Baker City last week. Houses in Baker City rent for $10 to $100 per month, and are scarce at that. A school teacher namoa Pice, at Roaeburg.has been bound over in the sum fo five hundred for whi ppinga boy seven years old. A hundred head of beef steers were recently brought from Ochoco to Salem and sold for three and a quarter quar-ter cents per pound. J, C. Ulman, living near Eosehurg, kt his horses run away the other day throwing him out and breaking his leg. The Albany and Santiam canal is ncaring completion. The company expect to have water through by the 1st of December. The people living along the lower part of the Alsca river are sadly in need of a mail route from the mouth of that stream to Newport. Several gentlemen from California and the East are examining lands in Lane county, with a view to making large purchases. A company is abont fo be incorpor-a incorpor-a cd in the Dalles for the purpose of canon of the Yahima mountains. The measles has Assumed almost epidemic form in Jacksonville. Nearly every yoianster and many young-.)teressess--arcsulUrinjfroni its effects. |