Newspaper snippets about Wasco County from the Weekly Oregonian in Portland
| June 16, 1860 | October 13, 1860 | October 27, 1860 | October 12, 1861 |
| February 22, 1862 | April 12, 1862 | November 1, 1862 | November 15, 1862 |
|
Nov. 15, 1862 Resigned-The Mountaineer says, Geo. E. Graves, Esq., County Judge of Wasco, has resigned his position, in order to accept the U.S. Deputy Collectorship of Internal Revenue. Messrs. Olney and Denny are named in connection with the vacant place. |
|
Nov. 1, 1862 Died- At Celilo, Wasco County, Oct. 22d, John Moore, a resident of Newakum, Lewis County, W.T., aged 48 years. |
|
April 12, 1862 The Advertiser claims Wascoe as the Secesh Banner county "It is not as it used to was" Tom Jordan has left Wasco and is now in Beauregard's staff. |
|
Feb. 22, 1862 J.T. Jeffries, in the Mountaineer, states that the loss of stock in Wasco county, as given in the Advertiser, is not true. It was stated in that paper that he and his brother had lost six hundred head. They had not lose any; and the farmers in Wasco had lost but few. The account in the Advertiser was evidently a fiction. |
|
Oct. 12, 1861
We learn by this arrival that the
four ---- who were arrested some time since for the murder of Mr.
Braggs and son, near Barlow's Gate, were tried and convicted for the
offence in the Wasco county circuit court, and Judge Waite sentenced
them to be hung on the 8th day of November next. |
|
October 27, 1860 Wasco County-The Republicans are moving in this County. On Saturday last they held a good meeting at the Dalles, and adjourned to meet to-day and erect a Lincole(?) pole Our friends in Wasco are doing well. |
|
October 13, 1860 Oregon Legislature, Oct. 4, 1860 Mr. Maves introduced a bill to prevent swine from running at large in the county of Wasco. read and ordered p--nted. |
|
June 16, 1860 The Advertiser says that the sheriff of Wasco Co. has brought to this city two men supposed to have murdered the Chinamen beyond the Dalles. one of the men is named Davis, formerly of resident of this city.
The official returns of Wasco County election give D.W. Dout--t a majority of 108 votes in that county. We advise all democratic candidates who wish to make a successful canvass to hire the Mountaineer to oppose them. |
©Shauna Williams