, tJ. S. Official Paper fov Oroyeau -
SATURDAY, JULY . 6, 1871
The woods about Kalama are Ou fire.
The Methodist church in that place, bat
recently erected,' caught re from the
weeds and hurocd down.
Mrt.' Ljdia Sherman was arrested at
Naw Bmrmwipfc ' K. J .Tnlv 1 l.
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officers from Connecticut, on the charge
of haTing poisoned, at different times,
three step children. Proof is said to be
strong. .: .:..,.,,.;.;.'..
Ohio journals announce the J&tter dc
f
moraiizatioo of the Democratic party in
that State it is in a forlorn nd despair
ing condition. Poor fifiloWs, the "new
departure" doctrine has completely
smashed all their h
- The Democratic caucus in New
Hampshire has iViformally decided to
bring-ebarges of Joribery against Senator
Smith, which will suspend hiin till
action is taken by the Senate.
-eThegi6t consistency and honesty of
Democratic journals is shown by the
fact tlzat they denounce the validity of
thejCoMtitutional amendments, and at
'the same time declare that they fully en-j
-dorse the "new departure" doctrines.
Here's consistency for you of the massive
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. A few weeks since a young man got
lost in the foothills of the Cascade moun
tains, a short distance from the Dalles,
lie at last reached the Dalles, after wan
dering over the country for fifteen days
in a starving condition, having subsisted
the entire time on berries.
. . The following named gentleman com
pose the Grand J nry of the U. S. Dis
trict Court, now in session at Portland :
William Whitney, John Ford, Johna
than Jackson, Scoville, Charles Clazgetf,
33. O. Severance, D. Wingate, F. A.
Smith, R..W. Crandall, Vic. Trivit, X.
B. Humphrey, A. W. Ferguson, Alex.
McCourt, W. Powell, James Taylor, E.
Chichester, W. Summons, J. C. Kings-
ky-
Bill Watkinds, Superintendent of the
Oregon Penitentiary, who attempted to
murder S. A. Clark, editor of the Salem
Statesman, a few days since, was indicted
by the Grand Jury of Marion couniy
for the crime of assault with a dangerous1
weapon, pleaded guilty to the indictment
and was sentenced to pay a fine of two
hundred dollars. And yet this ' man
Watkinds, who, upon his own confes
sion, is adjudged a felon, and under
the law is disfranchised, under a Demo
cratic administration is continued as a
State officer, filling one of the most im
portant and lucrative offices under the
State government. We here have the
delightful spectacle ol a felon in charge
of felons I'.-."'
. Something. Aboat Core.
Oar readers will remember the account
we gave of the treacherous and cowardly
attack made recently by the Coreans by
masked batteries on American war ves
sels, which although eunningly contrived,
resulted so uselessly to the aggressors.
Instead of destroying our vessels as they
fondly hoped, our little navy bore down
on their batteries, driving out and utterly
rooting 11,000 men and capturing 481
pieces of ordnance. Such sudden and
unexpected retaliation for their cowardly
attack has thoroughly demoralized these
Eastern barbarians, who : will hereafter
have a wholesome fear of the American
Government, and treat its representatives
accordingly. If the timely lesson thus
inflicted upon Coreaby the naval depart
ment is as vigorously followed up by the
diplomatic, it may be productive of the
most important results in a commercial
point of view. "The Coreans, like the
Japanese, are a far finer race, both phys.
ically and intellectually, than , are the
Chinese. Their country is fertile, hav
ing a climate similar to New York, pro
ducing all the fruits and vegetables of
the temperate climes, and, in addition
thereto, rice and tobacco. The Coreans
formerly dwelt in Mantchooria and Mon
golia, to the north of the great wall, and
being driven thence by the Mongols,
have taken refuge in the peninsula The.
ruins of their walled and castellated cit
ies resembling those of Europe iu the
middle ages may yet be seen in South
eru Mongolia. They arc numerous and
industrious, and a profitable commerce
could be carried on if an opening were
made. Now is the time. Compensation
should be obtained from the Government
fjr those slain and injured in conse
quence of the unprovoked attack, and at
the same time the openiug of the ports
aud avenues should be insisted on."
JOTTINGS.
The Marysville Appeal says that Dem
ocratic papers and orators are profuse in
their professions of regard for labor as
against capital. In the face of these
professions, Governor llaight, at the in
stance of a combination of San Francis
co capitalists, arms a portion of the State
militia with Henry Titles and send them
on their way to Amador county to shoot
down the miners. The calling out of the
State militia to suppress a strike by a
labor organization, wherein not a blow
has been struck, is an outrage without
precedent, for which Governor llaight is
entitled to the fullest credit.
-The General Council of the Indians of
the Indian Territory, which has been in
session for some time, adjonroed on the
14th ulfr The delegates re-affirmed
the constitution which had been framed
for their government, and resolved ? to
organize thereunder as ;,. speedily as
possible, and hcuceforth lead lives of
usefulness instead of going out upon the
war-path and murdering their own breth
ren and the whites. It is to bo hoped
that the nomads are sincere in their de
termination and that hereafter there will
be fewer Indian raids to record.
II a ij; lit aud Lewis lead the Democratic
ticket, and Booth and Pacheco the Re
publican ticket, of California. The whole
Republican ticket is pronounced the best
ever nominated by a Republican Con
vention in California, and will doubtless
be elected by a large majority.
The Democratic Territorial Conven
tion of Montana, which met on the 19th
ult., nominated Warren Toole for dele
gate to Congress. This lets Cavanaugh
out. : It was a very close contest. The
election of Toole may be regarded as set
tled unless Cavanaugh bolts the nomina
tion, as he did once before in Colorado.
The statement is made that Spain is
willing to sell Cuba to the Cubans, and
a banking firm in Amsterdam, has
agreed .to advance the money, provided
the United States will become security
for the Cubans. We don't know but
that we might afford to do this if Cuba
will give us a first mortgage on herself
as collateral in case we have to pay the
banker's note. i
The Eastern papers are making all
manner of fun of the "new departuie,"
and are illustrating its absurdities, by
many 'amusing and pointed aneeddtes.-
Amoog them is that told of t verdant
looking Yermontcr who appeared at the
office of a chemist with a large bundle iu
s yellow bandanna, and opening it, ex
claimed : "There, doctor, look at that"
"Well," said the doctor, "I see it.''
"What do yon call that, djctor f " I call
it iron pyrites." "What, isn't - that
gold ?" "No," said the doctor, and put
ting some over the fire it evaporated np
the chimney. "Wal," said the poor fel
low with a woe begone look, "there's a
widder woman np in our town has a
whole hill full of that, and I've been and
married her !"- Another ia told of a
negro en bis desth-bed, who declared
that he wanted to "make his peace with
etarnity." Said the father confessor to
hiss i, "Now, Caesar, are you qnite eure
you hare forgiven all ' of your enemies I
Do yoa freely forgive" your neighbor
Crown for the great iojary he has don
you ?" "I say, massa, if I dies, den I
forgib him, but if I gets well, den dat
cier better look oat for hisself, sah 1"
Mr. Norrige, a rancher in Alameda
county, fCal.) who had maintained nu
merous and extensive ejectment suits
against the settlers for years, was fired
at on the 2d instant., some forty bullets
whistling around him, killing the horse
noder him and riddling his clothing
without doing him any injury.
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Ku-Kluxism OS; the Wane. This
formidable institution, which so long dis
turbed the late confederate States, seems
tv be at last in its death throes. At least
we hear hardly any more of their doings,
which, ever since the conclusion of the
civil war, have so convulsed the South.
The terror of the provisions of the Ku
Klux bill seems to have given the insti
tution its death blow, and nowhere are
seen or experienced those direful effects
which the opponents of the measure so
confidently . prophesied. The Constitu
tion has had nowhere to be suspended,
and the military force of the Union has
bad on no occasion to be called cut to
assist in the execution of the laws. :
Judge McKinstry assaulted Charles
De Young, of the Chronicle, with a cane,
in San Francisco, on the 3d inst. As
mutual friends interfered, no damage was
done. ."" ' '"
Latest dispatches from. Bombay, state
that it is the nutmeg and mace crops of
Bavada Island, in the Malay archipelago,
which has been destroyed by the. hurri
cane, instead of the cotton crop. In the
district of Bavada j India, the loss is
jedOO.OOO sterling, j Planters will not re
cover from the blow for years,
A Chieago editor thinks it strange that
the Indians have no phrase to express the
word honesty. Whereupon the Detroit
Free Press remarks tbat there is nothing
strange about it. Does he suppose , that
the Indian agents would befooling around
the past ten years and not pocket the
wrRlE, " ' ' : -;t-";;;: 0 "v .
Cobian Affairs. It is said in offi
cial circles that . Minister Low is with
Admiral Rogers at Corea. . It is in ac
cordance with instructions, as the design
of the expedition was , to open the way
for treaty with the sovereign of that
country, Shipwrecked Americans on
that coast are being subjected to extreme
ernel treatment. Although it U not
known whether this government , antici
pated . hostilities, it seems certain the
con d net of Admiral Rogers under the cir
eumstanoes ia approved. , " 1
Down the Columbia from the month of
the Willamette is a very pleasant trip at
high water, and the water was decidedly
high when your correspondent passed
the rising city of Kalama Appearances
indicated considerable floating property
thereabouts, and if water lots are the
most valuable real estate in a commercial
point of view, the owners of property ; in
Kalama, near the river, must have been
peculiarly fortunate. ' The waters of the
Pacific have embraced the Western end
of the Northern Pacific K Railroad have
regularly immersed it ; may it be a more
auspicious omen than it appeared to ns
as we looked at the place where the track
lay submerged.
The scenery of the lower Columbia is
not unlike that of the St. Lawrence be
low Montreal, a similar evergreen vege
tation, the same bluffy banks, sometimes
receding so as to form some bottom land,
but oftener coming close up to the waters
edge, and a similar majestic river flow
ing to the sea. ;
During our stay at Astoria, we spent
one long to be-remembered day in a trip
to Cape , Disappointment;' and of all
her places we think it wrongly named
We have seen something of the world.
and our humble opinion is, that one
must be Welhsatiated with travel and pic
nicing who caouot epeud a day at the
Cape, pleasantly and without di&ijtpoint
ment. Uncle Sam has built a snuggery
in a nook on Baker's Bay,' and here we
found Co. E., 2nd U. S. Artillery, . sU
tioned; they had just been changed from
Alaska a pleasant change oue would
think, although some or them spoke very
favorably of the climate they had left.
Of course several geutlemanly men were
soon at our service as guides, and our
party started on a tour of inspection to
the batteries, the light house and the
life-boat. A point of the Cape makes
round the South and partof the east
side of Baker's Bay, so that it is really
surrounded on more than three sides.
We landed at the south end of the Bay,
and took np our line of march for the
"left battery," which is on the extreme
southeast corner of the Cape. Here are
some five or six ten-inch guns, all uiouut-
ed aud to our "critical eyes" (for we
know the muzzle of a gun from the
breech) they are in good ' order. Uere
is the magazine, we were told, at the end
of a long, narrow, dark j underground
passage. We did not go in as there was
nothing to see. l'iles of solid shot and
shell in the . symmetrical triangular
pyramids were all around us, looking
inert and harmless. From this battery
the company practice twice a week ; the
target is on Sand island a kind of eleva
tion of the bar three miles oft. It is of
wood, twenty feet square whitewashed
to make it more conspicuous. The center
battery is west and south of this, the
same kind of guns, but fewer, only four,
so there was not much to interest us, and
we passed to the rihtj or light-house
battery, of eight guns, five ten-inch, rifled,
and one monster gun of fifteen-inch
calibre. They say that with the Parrott
guns they could make it pretty warm for
Fort Stevens, seven miles; distant across
the chennel. The Parrott guns carry
either solid shot, time shells or percus
sion shells. There is much of interest
clustering' around the defences of our
country, but we were not sorry to turn
from these means of destroying life and1
property, and see the provision made for
saving both. The light house stands
close by the tight battery y the promon
tory is two or three hundred feet above
the beach below, and the light is some
forty feet above . the' ground. Through
the kindness of Mr. Munson, the keeper,
we were allowed to go over the building.
The light is that known as the "Fresnel"
light. The object is to gather all the
rays that come from the burner, and by
means of an arrangement of prisms
magnify and send them away it horizon
tal beams. The burner is an organd
and so arranged as to keep the; wick
fully supplied with oil, and to signal, by
sounding a bell, any lack in tho reser
voir... "We amused ourselves for some
time looking at each other through the
reflector, or jratber refractor. The effect
is somewhat startling. My vis-a-vis was
a lady, and if high hats without any par
ticular shape about the rim are the style,
she appeared just so ; high forchead,
eyes that did more than stare,: nose and.
chin of unknown length, and when my
good-iooks provoked her ; to smile audi
bly, her countenance became open beyond
description. We might moralize about
seeing people through fake media, but
will leave the reader to do this. The
most artistic sight remained yet to
be seen. Just in the center of the glass
the pure French plate caught up a re
flection of the landscape jand we saw. it
delicately imprinted in miniature,? the
guns, the shot, and further down, moving
in indescribable beauty j , the play - of
waves upon the beach. Here every night
as the daylight fades, the light from
Cape Disappointment sheds cheerfulness
and comparative safety over a somewhat
dangerous channel, while around it the
ball-dogs. of war, muzzled and harmless,
aleep the sleep of pee.i Long may it
be so, and the day soon come when" the"
lighthouse and the life boat with its
sinewy crew, shall be the emblems of our
civilization ; when those huge engines of
destruction shall lie moss-covered and
weatherbeaten on the battery slopes,
when it shall be that . . . ,
"Down tbe dark future through long
i tuns, .
The lonnda of war grow fainter, and them cease ;
And like a bell with: solemn, sweet -vibrations,
we near once mora the voice- of Christ sst.
"Peace I" ,
Peace ! and no longer, from its brasen portals.
The blast of war's great organ shake the skies ;
But beautiful as sona of the immortals,
The boljr melodies of lore arise."
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sack of flour. About the same time Tav-
lor Hill had his houso ' entered and was
relieved of all his band-box apparel.
The thief purloined a new suit of clothes
among other things. For a month past
chicken roosts have suffered in this vi
cinity. I urderstand there has been some
pilfering going on in Independence. Not
a good time for stealing either.
Yours muchly, -i
. FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
Bueua Vista Correspondence.
Buena Vista, July 3d, 1871.
Editor 'Register : The reason I
have not written sooner, as agreed upon,
is'ctruse. " - - i
Our people have been suffering from
hot weather during the past few weeks.
The sudden change' from cold, dismal,
rainy weather to the scorching rays of a
bright sun is producing fevers and arous
ing all chronic aches and pains to re
newed energy. I presume we suffer
more from beat than do our neighbors in
adjoining districts, from the fact that a
delegation of hot-headed, one-idea crea
tures nave : been r sojourning with us.
Twelve or fifteen persons, mostly women,
representing the -scattering precincts of
Oregon and Washington Territory some
traveling bjjboat, some in mud wagons,
(none on Ji I believe,) presented their
bloodiesss physieguomies to our peaceful
community, calling themselves the Health
Reform Association of Oregon and Wash
ington Territory. They sojourned with
us but two days, beginning their perform
ance on the 7th and closing on the 8th of
present month. During their stay our
people smiled at their few eccentricities,
aiid the hogs of the mire showed signs of
great anger at the inhuman destruction
of theit natural food wlieat-bran Why
should I say their few eccentricities ?
Because they had but few ideas about
any thing, and every idea they bad was
eccentric, viz : bran bread and cold
potatoes, cooked by the rays of the sun,
for food, and cold water well skimmed
for drink. , Some of their number, how
ever should not be included in these re
marks, as they would not endorse every
hide-bound view originated by the more
hair-brained. The sAnkum chief of the
business was a cadaverous doctor from
Mariou county, who, for want of practice
iu the healing art, has isolated himself
tVom the busy hum of city life to the
more humble avocation of a hay mower
on the red hills of Marion county. It has
been a query with many how white men
could find a subsistence on those red, un
yielding Salem hills, but it the scatter,
ing few of that section are like this won
derful doetor, the query is easy of solu
tion. They are blessed with good water,
aud bran is but $10 per ton. This im-
ported doctor spoke numerous pieces to
the delegation of ladies, from which your
coi respondent culled some parlor phrases
not always called for in the presence of
the more modest sect. For instance, dur
une of his biggest explosions he com
pared doctors of medicine to a Jack ss.
Quite chaste, indeed. And in a sccoud
big noise, he said that flour bread was
not fit for a hog ; that it would give any
body the helly ache. , Supposing that you
might, perchance, infringe upon your re
spect for decency enough to publish the
above dirty facts, I will say no more . of
the general tenor; of his "very "scathing"
balderdash, but simply say that this man
has fair literary attainments and some
natural sense, bence I thiuk these vul
gar eccentricities are not inherent, but are
the natural production of the fern-ridden
red hillside farm. Ue reminds me of
Jack who did not want supper when he
could not get it. When the doctor can
get rothiog : but bran bread he ants
nothing more, but the trouble is he wants
to subject those who are able to live bet
ter to the same horrible punishment.
The second great light was a female
from Salem, who cut sirae tall didoes to
the disgnst of the ; audience. She ap
peared to be opposed to everybody and
everything threw herself into the posi
tion of t Grecian- bender, and detailed
much on fashions, the abominations of
eating, the horrible butchery of Salem's
noble people by the m?dical school at that
place, and many other things too numer
ous and of too little , importance to men
tion. Some very good suggestions on the
general laws of health ,werc made by the
less practical members, and had it not
been for the two beacon lights above
mentioned the meeting might have been
a success.J
! ' Our' Farmers say the hot weather, is
catting grain short. Unless we have
rain soon there will not be more than a
half crop on high lands. Hay mowing
has commenced actively.
... . ... . ACCIDENTS
Joe. Newcome, living near this place,
while running a foot-race a few days
since fell and strained his leg very badly.
He is now housed up.
Taylor Hill, while running a raft of
logs down the river, last week, had his
craft wrreeked and lost half of the cargo.
This is the fifth toss he has sustained, in
a similar manner, since last fall.
Mr. Robinson's warehouse was entered
clandestinely one night last week anda
barrel of sagar, sack of coffee and a suck
of dried ' peaches' extracted therefrom '
During the same week Mr. MoGarty'a
house, a rajl from here, wao rabbd of a
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The last Democratic administration
with which the nation was cursed 'cost
the people 84,000,000,000, the lives of a
quarter of. million of brave, loyal men,
made a million of government pension
ers, and has subjected us to an annual
tax of nearly 8200,000,000 for interest
and pensions. Is there any reason to
hope that the party is any more honest
and patriotic now thao they were then t
On the contrary, they have become ; teu
fold worse. By their ten years of erime
and blood they have proved this. Their
success in 1872 would prove, therefore,
as terrible a calamity as their success in
185C did. This is the opinion of mil
lions of voters, besides the editor of the
New National Era..
While the Rev. T. A. Sampson, color
ed, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was address
ing his flock, a few days since, he was
struck dead by lightning. His funeral
occurred Tuesday, and while his remains
were being carried to the grave, another
flash of lightning struck the coffin, tear
ing it to splinters and leaving the body a
ghastly sight. lie was then buried be
fore any more ligh.niug struck him.
The Royal Betkothed. Alfred
Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburg, Duke
of Saxe Count of Ulster aud Count of
Kent, in the fourth child and second son
of Queen Victoria, and was born on the
Oth of August, 1844. On the com pie
(ion of his education he was commissioned
a Captain in the Royal Navy, and as
such made numerous voyages and visited
the several Colonies of Great Britain.
He is said to be a young man of ability,
though somewhat wild. Princess Thyra
Amelie Caroline Charlotte Anne is the
fifth child and third daughter of Chris
tian IX. of Denmark, and was born on
the 29th of September, 1853. Her
eldest sisttr, Alexandra, is, as the reader
is aware, the wife of the Prince of Wales;
and another sister, the Princess Dagtnar
(now called Maria Feodoiovna), is the
wife of the hereditary Grand Duke Alex
ander of Russia. The Princess is said to
be a charming young lady, and wilt
doubtless become as popular with the
English as her sister, the Princess of
Wales.
The New York Tribune thus briefly
comments : .
As for Mr. Yallandihara personally,
we incline to respect his sincerity. His
career shows many thinrs we do nor
like, but two that we do he is never
afraid of the noise of his own opinions,
and he is not a fool. The latter accounts
for his unwillingness to keep on trying
to fight the war which Genertl Lee stop
ped at Appomattox ; and the other'for
bids the belief that he is afraid now to
assume a position which hundreds of
leading Democrats know he favored in
the private discussions at the Tammany
Hall Convention or leuo. liut he is
doomed to be the victim of a party too
slow to coaprchend the policy and too
rebellious to appreciate the patriotism of
accepting the results ot the war. lbey
still want to keep up the fighting.
A fearful outrage was committed near
Orleans, Lawrence county, Indiana, Jane
25th. . A DSrtY of IUUain nttalrA tt.A
house of the Moody family, consisting of
focr bachelor brothers, their widowed
sister, and a man named Lee. They first
threw jags of benzine into the room.
then several large loaded torpedoes,
which exploded. The victims were
aroused and ran out, when the villains
commenced firing at them with revolvers.
Moody was fatally shot, and the woman
terribly burned. There is intense ex
citement among the citizens. A thous
and dollars has been raised as a reward
for the discovery of the assassins. C
Four narrow guage railroads are about
to be constructed in Pennsylvania. ., One
running from Philadelphia ' to a point in
Chester county will have a gange of only
thirty inches ; another, which is to cross
the Alleghany, Mountains, will have
gradients of 100 feet to the mile in sever
al places. , '
The gross amount of the city debt of
New York is stated at $105,058,949, and
the net indebtedness at 981,843,514.
According to figures presented io the
New York Times, the net debt has been
increased from less than $30,000,000 on
the 1st ot January, 18G9, to nearly 882,-
000,000 on the 1st of May, 1871, all
favorable balances being deducted. New
xork is a nice place tor tax-payers to live
in.
An Iowa paper gives the following
uniquft pedigree : "The Hon. Rodolphus
Bennett, the first Mayor of Davenport, is
yet alive, and now resides in Princeton,
in this county, and issun-in law to Mrs.
John M. Owen by a previous husband to
our well-known fellow citizen, John M.
Owens.
The old maids of the Eastern States
who have been shipping themselves to
the Territories to get married, can't se
cure a Husband an i a home the urst
thing after eating supper, as supposed
There has been such a rush that the
bachelors have become particular, and
uow put them through a catechism, as
where s your other glass eye! "Ho
long have you been buld headed ?" "Are
your false teeth paid for?" etc.
A Cincinnati dispatch of June 18th
gives a detailed account of how Vallan
disham received his death wound: It
appears that with his assistant counsel he
ha 1 been out Friday evening expert
mooting, with a view of ascertaining how
near the muzzle of a pistel could be held
to cloth without burning it. the te
was made, and they wcin returning, two
balls having been tired from the pistol.
Milliken, associate counsel, urged bun to
discharged the remaining three balls, but
Yallandighain said "No, never mind ;
and though Milliken repeated the sug
gestion, allundigham declined to dis
charge them, and took the pistol up
stairs and laid it beside an empty one
wnich he intended to use in the argu
ment on Saturday. This led to the trag
edy which soon followed. The Enquirer
(Dcm) pronounces bis loss to the Demo
cracy almost irreparable.
A Terrible Picture. The descrip
tions of Paris just before the culminating
horror of the last few days of the siege
are terrible pictures of the misfortunes of
the gay city. The streets were darkened
early in the evening, by the order which
commanded lights to be extinguished and
the cafes closed at II. Peter's, and a
a few uf the favored, managed to stretch
out the time until one o'clock in. the
morning, and these every night were full
At midnight, the fag end of the popula
tion would swarm on the boulevards
those poor beggarly girls who. finding no
purchasers for their wares, ottered incm
selves for any hideous purpose. Distress
induced depravity, and young girls, form
erly surrounded with comfort and le
sncctabilitv. were driven bv want into
the streets. Father killed in the war
mother taken away by fever; no work;
everything fiat; no friends. This is the
Parisienne of to-day. Sadly suggestive
of moral rottenness is the part which wo
iner have played throughout the revolt,
and the rv scenes then enacted : in the
fashionable haunts of folly form a ghastly
contrast to the general desolation which
preceded the blod and slaughter of the
street fighting which closed the tragedy.
JFi&C at Ybeka. A disastrous r
occurred ia Yreka, California, on the 4tb
destroying about one-third of tbe city.
The Odd Fellows Hall, Catholis eLwreh,
theatre, three livery stables, all the hotel
but one, and almost all the business por
tion of the city was swept - clean. - FL
commenced at 3.45 P. M. Following is
theaceount; .
It originated from a small China wash
house on Miner street, opposite the old
x rcza liptei. rom the time tbe alarm
was given scarcely eight minutes e la Deed
before the flames extended over four or
five blocks, everything being dry as tin
der, owing to the continued dry weather.
Both Ji.ngtne Companies were promptly
put to work. The flames swept in ooe
vast sheet from house to house. - Miner
street, from Clelland & Walbridge's store
to tbe creek, on the south side including
the Odd Fellows Hail, Union Hotel, and
several brick stores, is all in rains, except
Laurrs Buildings King s, rfooman s and
Kissler's, which are somewhat damaged.
The Union printing office escaped with
some damage, but the Bank Exchange
Saloon, underneath, was gutted. On the
north side of Miner street, from Tbird
street to Yreka creek, all is ia ruins, in
cluding the Colton Theater banding By-
extraordinary exertion the - fire was
checked at Third street, thus savir-g the
Telegraph office, No. 1 Engine House,.
Franco-American ; flotel. Journal print
ing office, Masonic Hall, D several
other brick buildings. Above . Third
street, the-Post Office and Clelland &
Walbridge's store are seriously damaged
by fire and water, and in the rear ot
Huseman's, Dunker'sand other buildings,
above Fourth street, on Miner, much'
damage was done to outhouses and sheds.
From Miner street southward, the fire ex
tended beyond Butte street, destroying
stables, blacksmith shops, etc. . They are
now quenching the fires to get out the
safes The board of Trustee met this
morning to order the walls of eighteen or
twenty ot the burned buildings pulled!
down. A number had their bands and
faces burned in endeavoring . to save
property, and the firemen lost some hoae
which they were unable to get away from
the fire. Some horses were burned, and
all the livery stables. -The women also
worked heroically in packing goods from
stores and dwellings to a place of safety,
and about two hundred families had their
household goods out ot doors before .the
fire was checked. The town this morn
ing prcseuU a desolate looking appear
ance, several acres of ground being an.
open space of bu ruing embers. ,
In the State of 'Wisoons'iD there are
probably not fewer than twenty thousand
women at work in the field. They are
not only Gcimaos, Irish and Scandina
vians, but Yankees; not only the pour,
but thousands of the fair and intelligent
class. When the pinch conies, it is com
mon for girls to hang up the rolling, pin,
shut up the piano, and go to the field and
help their fathers. , v They ride a reaper
as skillfully as any man; they rake and
bind dextetously ; 'they direct the culti
vator; they run the threshing machine ;
they pitch the bundles ; in extreme need,
they . can give their arms . and ingenuity
to that bucolic architecture, building the
load and stack. ' A blue eyed girl in the
central part of the State, last year shear
ed forty sheep iu a day and received $4
for it. A hundred thousand Western
women arc working in the field this sea
son. " i; :' . L'w
It was a dangerous thing to expose a
dirty hand after the Versaillist troops
got possession of Paris.. - The soldiers ex
amined every man they found; and if his
fingers betrayed that he had been hand
ling cartriges he was shot without farther
ceremony or inquiry.' ' ' ' - 'n.?-.,',riJ,r.-.
Pacheco, July 2. A Spaniard was
shot in Maraga valley this morning and is
now dying. It appears that a Mexican
claims some land Irom Maraga family and
b is been trying for the past ten days to
obtain possession by force, having brought
up men from the city and armed them
with rifles and pistols. Two Maraga
girls, with their brother, have been
guarding the premises day - and night,
repulsing Yoakum in his attempt to gain
possession. A warrant is in the posses
sion of the Sheriff now for Yoakum on a
charge uf assaulting one of tbe girls, he
having struck her with a crowbar, and
yesterday cut her head open with the
stock of a gun. The Spaniard who is
shot, had just finished patting up a fence
where Yoakum's men had torn it down,
when one of Yoakum's men shct at him.
On the part of Yoakum, it is claimed
that tbe Spanaiard shot first.
Los Angei.es, June 29. Last Janu
ary the two Bilderbeck brothers were
murdered in a canyon near this city, it
was supposed, A ilenzon Gardner, Al.
Henry and a notorious character known as
Buckskin Bill. Gardner . was shortly
afte wards arrested,- and is now ia jail.
Search after Buckskin Bill and Henry
was unsuccessful until now. From infor
mation received here. Sheriff Burns
started for Iower California, procured
neccctsary capers from the Governor of
that province, aud after weeks of search
the p'lrtuers .came within ten feet of
Buckskin Bill before he was aware of
their presence, i. Buckskin Biil grabbed
one of the men's guns which went off
and the ball entered Buckskin's left side
below the heart. : He died in two hours.
He made a lengthy confession . of the
murder. He slated that he, Al. Henrv
and Gardner murdered aud buried the
Bilderbeck brothers, but that Gardner
did the shooting. Henry ueoompnnied
Buckskin in his flight, but is now miss
ing. There is no doubt Buckskin Bill
killed him to get rid of a witness.
Chicago, July 2. Olive A.IIalstead,
a well known character, familiarly called
Pet Halstead, was shot through the heart
and - instantly killed, this mortiing, by
Geo-ge Bait, in a house of ill-fame in
South street. ; ; ' '
: New York, July 3 President Grant
signed the pardon of C. C. Boweo, the
bigamist, yesterday. Three hundred
Mormons, just from Europe, left for Salt
Lake Friday night, io charge of Brigham
Young's son, and 300 are at the quaran
tine The steamship Wyoming, from Liver
pool, took off the crew of the brig, James
Curtin, of Queenstown, fof M iramicue.
abandoned in a sinking condition, and
brought them po this port. , -'t.
..New York. J uly 2. Panama letters
to the 20th state that the survey of the
Napepi river route for the Darieo Ship
Canal, is satisfactory, the route having
been demonstrated practicable, and tnat
Commander Self ridge . was at Panama,
anwaittog the return of the surveying
party, which had ascended the ' A Itrato
river, and; the : ship guard,; when the
entire expedition would sail. Should
tbe Guard not arrive before July 8d.
Commander Selfrdge and the ofSeers of
the expedition will proceed to New York
ea the steamer of that date. v.-:T -
WILUAHX DAVIDSON,
REAL ESTATE DEALER,
Office, Mo. 64 Front Street,
PORTLAND .-: - . - OREGON.
REAL ESTATE In this CITY and EAST
PORTLAND, in the miut desirable localities, eon
siotitig of LOTS, HALF BLOCKS and BLOCK8,
HOUSES SBd STORES ; also,, , . ,
IMPROVED FARMS, sad rateable at.
enhirated LANDS, located ia ALL parts of the
STATE fur SALE.
RE AL ESTATE and other Property pur
chnsed fur CorTC-fv.ndc-nts. in this CITY and.
thronghont I he STATE sad TERRITORIES.
with treat rare and on the mort AJV3lNTXI
GEOt S TERMS.
HOt SES aad STORES lresed. LOANS
NEGOTIATED, and CLAIMS OF ALL DES
CRIPTIONS PROMPTLY COLLECTED. Aad
a 0arral FINANCIAL sad AOENNOY BUSI
NESS transacted.
AGENTS of this OFFICE In all the CIT
IES and TOWNS in the STATE, will receire
descriptions of FARM PROPERTY and forward
the same to tbe abore address. ' 9t2X
The War fas Eareps -
lias at last come to an end aad the friends ol xooct
order and stable gOTernment hare achieved what
appears to be a complete success. Nut so the
war in Brownsville between the eld aad new
systems of doing easiness, , whieh has not yet
reached a terminsUon ; sad ready-pay euslossera
..ntlna. .a It A YVI.l.a L . t .
- .. v. w mm upfranBBI- i
y to gtt the benefit of tbeir prudence and fore
thought. Large additions have jmst been ssadeta'
the stock, and people can probably supply a larger
portion of their wants from Wheeler's store, than
from any other one establishment ia the eoantr.
SEW TO-DAY.
GROCERIES & PROYICICseS,
Wholesale and Retail,
CORNER FIRST A BROADALBlJT,
ALBANY, OREGON,
A. C. LAYTON, PROP.
AC. . LAYTON HAYING PURCHASED
a the stock of Geo. W. Young, and added to
it a large assortment uf . pl
GROCERIES ...
AND NOTIONS t
solicits t'.e patronage of bis friends and tbe pnb.
li-. The block is well selected, and will- be sold
At the Lowest Prices.
We mean TRADE, and will aire yoa VALUE
RECEIVED.
IV E V S A T hi A Is .
- A. C. LAYTOX, ,
Corner First aad Braaaalbia streets :
We want your Produce, sad will give as rood;
a bargain as eaa be found ta this burgh. Call
and see as. , . , . frSaSO
FRANK A. COOK,
- .r war- :. ., - : .
Blank Cook Ilanufit.urcr,
U,, V---. SALEM, OREGON.' . f f f f
HAVING ESTABLISHED A FIRST CLASS ,
Bookbindery in Salem, is now prepared to.
do all manner of work knowa to the trade.
Magasines, Newspapers aad Mask) bound la
any desired style.' ' , ,
.. Old Books re-bound. .-, : . '' ( . -
Blank Books, of eTery description, with' or
without printed headings, saaaafaetarad to order.
Blanks, of eTery kind, raled, aA ; printed to
order. . . . , , . lB
: p PBICES KEAftON CH"
v Ia Gray's Brick Block. u , :, 4,B4
StocliboLSrrs Illectn. v
NOTICE The Stock haters ta the Willamette -
Valley aad Caea-t ?antaia TTi t Road
Company are hereby aot..xl that ve;r aext aa
nnat meeting for tbe election ef a Losra of screa
Directors will be acid at tiair -a ia i'.bsvy,
Line coanty, Oregon, ea the a - T - t. tee '
Utkaayof Jaly, aeat.atl aV ,)...
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