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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1872)
William Huntington, of Cowlitz, is lecturing on Pnget Sound in op position to woman suffrage. The County Commisdoners have refused to grant any licenses for liquor selling at Olynipia. Tlie Xortheru Pacific llailrond lias been damaged liut slightly by the recent rains. A macadamized or plank road from Vancouver through the Lewis river cotin'ry to Kahuna, is talked about. The Olympia Tribune is trying to wake up the Hepubliean Central Committee of that Territory, to the work of calling a Convention. Victoria finances are in a satisfac tory condition. Dr. Trimble is speaker of tlie local Legislature of British Columbia. Pajiers of British Columbia de inand the immediate abolition of all toll roads. Victoria is fccliig stood oyer" 'the lively times presouteti. at her har bor.. , " , " . it?tut Uaker is n'presented as threatening to "throw up." Having in their jwssession un stamped matches, cost several gro cers in San Francisco 50 each re cently. Tlie recent rise of the Columbia at the Dalles was twenty feet. The Ttmiwater dam broke away and many saw logs went after it. Pie8 of iron are used by the Vancouver Water company. A. J. Kress is building a steam saw mill near Vancouver. f'owlite, Lewis, Pacific, Skaman ia and Wahkiakum counties send their prisoners to the jail of Clark couuty. It is such a poor concern that the prisoners "take a walk" when they tire of the accommoda tions. To step on a dead tall or water spout and have a stream of muddy water squirted into your (ace, "Say, J ain't it nice ?" asks the West Sile. Xot any more lovely than a "gob" of mud slushed into your eye by a passing quadruped. Ninete?n couples united "for let ter or woracr" ill Baker county last year. A -'.. Tlie bridges on Panther and Ba ker creeks floated recklessly off on the bosom of the, swelling tide. A leg of Dr. Horsely, of Canyon City, -was broken the other day by falling under horse. Tlie horse . got up in his usual health. A club has lieen organized in Yamhill couuty to "squelch the coyotes. : 51ias Ida Waters.no longer super intends the Academy at Dallas, but ZVfiss tiara' Watt does. The Bedroek Democrat is swel ling his. wind bladder over a cord of wood subscription. A portion of the bridge Grossing the Ueschutcs river at Gordon's took a trip, down stream on the .eddying waves. (Joldendate in the Klickitat Val ley was two feet under the wet last week. H. Snipe loss a portion of his fencing, too. f On last Saturday evening a young woman iu Port'lsid tfieo? to burst the pavement by jumiiing out of a second tfory.. window. The pave nt) suWi t Mrs. Carrie F. Young is going to stump this couf on Tempetaw. Jdbb. ( Vitlipriiia, of 1 Vi (land, was ?iitto jailTor thirty days for 'spend ing $75 per month when his wages were only $30. His employer knew howhiicv .';pjl Large immben of grey squirrels are lieing killed near Eugene. High water suspended work iir the factory at Oregon City. William- and John .Justus of Jackson county have been indicted fb altering the ear marks of swine. Millers' mill dam in Yamhill wentaffiu the recent Bwell. The Dallas'' brass band iff now WWH.Ifi jicgotiatc tooting en gng.'inents. Samwl A. i 'lark, editor of tie Salem Statesman, and MrK's. A. ;ark,; hiwife, celebrated ;theii! twentieth . anniversary of married Jito last Friday night. An elegant set of qlnoa was tlio joint contribu tion from their many friends, A Portland barber named John Catharina was arrested lost week for taking change from his employ- er's till and forgetting to return it. Whig You, of Portland, was fined f 50 for stealing $19 last week. Poor investment Chickens were only $9 25 per dozen in Portland last week. A man named Kraft, a gardener by vocation, died suddenly at Mc Minnville, Sunday before last. The submergence of the hollow logs on Mii.tu's Island bv the late freshet, is supposed to hove soaked Mood of tlie great Chief Pee-Pee-the breath outof one hundred thotis- Jiox-Mox hi bis veins, ami being and coons. i an U110ie of Honilie, Thief of the A gang of children, says the j WM Wallas, is dead, says the Portland Bulletin, ranging from i Statesman. ten to fifteen years of age, made an j San Francisco is petitioning Con- attack upon in liiioffcnding Chinese woodsawyer. who was quietly walk- ing along the street, and beat him sosevcrely 'that-had it; not been for assistance he would have been laid ttfet&josritwa.'dtis bcfrLwos button almost to a jelly. Portland seems to be cursed with a lot of boys who ar making rapi strides iti that sort of education which will gradu- uate them at the gallows, or in a Penitentiary eHi situation. A lady passenger on a recent trip ; John Noah says the roads from of the Dixie Thompson from Port- j Kosoburg to Scottsburg are in a ld land to Astoria, caused some excite-1 fix, owing to landslides, etc. Noah ment among the females on board- ought to know-ah. It was suggested tl.at the little Governor Grovel man Vriday, stranger be named Dixie Thompson Ifeitrj- W. Gilfry, telegraphs from (juimf. J Washington :"A1I University and A five year old boy, named Geo. Indemnity School Land lists ap .Miller, was severely burned in Port- t,roved) ef La Grande District; laud last week, by pulling a kettle tnose w approved in a few of boiling water off of the stove. days." A young man named C. Moe, j Fom, j, of sheepk-longing to from Cathla.net, W. T, having j M L. gavgge wre liy Jogs purchased a small b.ll of drugs, i T,,c Portland on Wednesday forenoon ! shwp wcro on i8la)ldi ftlld died of last week, was taken sick, and ratner tha teke to tC ,vater died at the St. Charles Hotel on t t?nrt innr n, the Friday afternooii.follow.iug. The number of children in East Portland between the ages of 4 and 20 Is 314, of which 155 are females and 159 males, an increase of 49 over last year, says the Era. East Portland now has a hat fac tory in full pperatiou. - 1 here are new revelations about Joaquin Miller. It appears from a Sau Fr&Icisco letter to the Yreko Journal that he has with him at the" first named city a girl fourteen or fifteen years old, who, he says, is his daughter, her mother being a Modoc Indian. What new sensa tion about Joaquin will next ap pear? The Utah Southern Railroad Company are "goln oiilrtmiedia'tcly with the work of grading aronnd the. potfit of tlie mountain into Utah County. Contracts have been let for twenty-seyen .sections around the point, amounting to 225,000 yards of cai th jnic coniracwrs.are , Carlisle & Brothers. A marriwl woman forty-five years of age and weighing two hundred and forty pounds, repelled a burg, lar f ui. bur reomiii itait-. Francisco, recently, by chopping him repeated ly ou tte .head with on ax. m A French girl, of San Francisco, made two-ineffectual - attempts to drown herself last week, because her lover had forsaken her. TXlTeim Statesman of last week has the following : Our liquor .ummxmmiwtmmM on neir seven senses Dy tne lost lew aays; . i. I i ..!'... I work, for they realize that the teni perauteause has such a hold on the popular mind thot it caunot be ; leasily dmid-Way h. t he l ortlana post office is being eulMgetfo aee&imDatrdiA grow-1 ing btisincss i v4U& 08-per day was. the cost of boarding prisoners in Portland last month. , . . A burglar in Portland last week got away with a eoat and an alami clock from Mr. Hillman's home. The Oregotiiuu hopes the clock will ! alarm his conscience. The State Temperance Conven tion at Salem was the largest con vent ion ever held in Oregon. t Tlie deficit in tlie Treasury of Idaho Territory is reported to'- oo $5,703 32, bat the Treasurer intends to make It all ftp. 1 ' f ' 1 lie Apaciies are on the war path again, snatching the settler bare on the top of the head. ; Olympia is jubilant over its first J omnibus. Most people feel in a ively mood over a buss, About one hundred Democrats j are seeking the nomination for Con- gress in Montana. "1 hey are quar. j reling like half-starved canines over a marrow bone." Tlie C. f Assay Office at Poise City will soon go into operation. "Old Indian Jim," tlie oldest readout of Wallula, having the gress to leave the Presidio Kesorva- tion to the city for a park.. Pusiness of all kinds wWsniipen. ded in San Francia-o on the 2'Jd, and the city presented a gala ap- pearance. ' j A Texas cattle firm lost $400- j 000 in stock by tlie receut cold ' snap, ' Yamhill county wheat fields look well, but the roads arc in a 'orible M. V X J -IV 111 VA II.' T'l HIV . WBVjjVIJ State Prison are lei ng constructed iu San Francisco. Each cell meas ures 9x7x6 feet, and the iron is 'five sixteenths and' three-eights of an inch thick. One thousand dollars lias been invested. in Wheatland .precinct to carrv Yamhill county Democratic for the Legislature. Jacksonville is growing no better fast. John Brown, of Deer Lodge, Montana, perished in a.receut snow storm. - - At Helena, Montana, a Metho dist church fair yielded $2,640, re eeiifly.." --' For accoustic purposes the Tal- emacle at Salt Lake is said to lie extra good. A bill has been introduced into the California Legislature making each comity "responsible for the damage done by mobs, whatever the mim of the damageg may The Yreko Journal is publish ing a ser e$ of .rapere under the diaste head of "Old l?ettlcl)eliy's Musings." .. Two thousand citizens,. of Salt Likle have sigiied a' paper 'eiidor. ing tie action of Justice McKeotr. It is reported that Joaquin Miller has received ttrotfer of cigbt fiions aud dollars to deliver a course of lectures before a Boston audience. j A man named Shatter was or-Tmale forWHf, wlio "ote residents ,.i :.. n.:,. J tiM Ri,riff (lf ixr iM Wn - " " "V"- " TJ Walla Walla. ' .' " ' . Tlie river becran to fall at Port. iand on Weduesdav of last week. S ' A mamuiotll 1JaiWrama of, "over: lod, coues" ,wjs soki tor omere fafti thft"tM me ' sale" M Portland last week. The City Council of Portland still -emse m" c a" appropriation to light, the town clock, says llic On- ?"' " A Frenchman, supposed to have me from this State, shot himself through tlie breast in San Francis- to nvfyiwii in n ariiig outninivit. lie left the following note addressed to Joe Miller, Oregon House : "By the time- that you receive this note I will know the mvsterf. of the 'other World. John. My latt thought wore of jom. Edward Ukakikk." Six passenger terns bound west passed Byron, Utah, on the morn ing of tbelllst t'.w ,!.'! In the Convention, at Salt lake ou the 21st, Judge Hoyden, htte of Nevada, made a powerful speech in answer to Fitch, on tlie admis sion of Utah, entirely demolishing Fitofc. The Methodists of Oregon are in tending to purchase a piece of land to be used as a Conference camp ground. The local of the Bulletin pathet ically asks: "What arc we to do torbeei"?" "Borrow o half dollar or so and. go buy some," answers the Orelunion. Ye Bulletin lo cal must bear "Johnie .Bull," and yo Ortpmian a "puke." The State of Nevada has funded its old debt at 9 V per annum. . Tbe WU Walla beef is com plaiiu'd of As most terribly poor, v TJie.sl-ritf ot: Walla Walla has land agent, on thre dnrtit jcJaim-s. involvintr : Jorery jMuuorwiiion oi , Perjury, all growing out of loud -transac-tiotm. :. : ,Tke-!Orf(fonian says, it is bo lievV tliat tlte appro priation for the penitehtjary tmilding fund has been heavily overdrawn by the present 'State authorities. If so, there will be a large deficiency bill to meet at the next Legislature. It-is said that the SOntiam river has cut a new channel and turned away from the head of the ditch that carries water to Salem, and that consequently when the river falls-no Water will enter the ditch. The Ktigene fVww-vsays : "The boiid-siiakiitg' season of 1872 has commenced, ami the two men in this city who are not candidates tor office are obliged to take back al leys to 'travel on, to avoid being shook to pieces by those who are." A son of Frank. Glover had one of his 'hands caught in the machin ery of the Salem ferry boat on Sat urday. It 'Was so ftightfillly roan- gled that it was amputated at tlie Wrist. The same youth a year or two ago boil one of his legs crushed ill Mw mill. Lieutenant Grant's trip to,.Eu rope has caiisedV vottir DeiWoi-fatic wnteiiisrres. mucli pain ) but, asks teWt- Side, does' it cost tlie peopie'ot" Oregon one-tenth as ihnch oW II. II. Gilfry's trip to Washington? y A iWerit tetter from Goo Lake gives this : The weather is fine, the groiiwVcIer;ofsnow farmers plow ing mid sowing groin .. stock is line ftifcl" fat; without being fed ; enow nas fallen to the depth of six inches iu the rottey- but left tlie ground 'lire'in.llir;dnys. -A telegram from Rawlins on the infii.. says inat inere nau oeen a heavy storm for twenty-tour hours; tttW fad eaistr nd west "was blockadeel again.- ..Snow was drift ing badly. Tiir6 .hours' rater from Med icine How reports sevem 1 freight trains . snowed, in' between there and Raw- lhiAnndcutsftiFl. ...IS.yAdmisfiion Convention of Salt Ijke fwn adopted ar tides declaring the right of suffrage f to an ciiizeus oi ijk i niteu aiaies, 91 we territory. ''tiptifam. wMfX by Mex ican bandits. j. ,fv,it: Vi f . ifit fXmteW, Nevada. Four deaths oc. mm?, . Tbu; Ajtacjie Indians have left tlie' Reajion $ Camp Verdi, Arwona, whare they have been toil, and on thefr way to the mountains, Ottcd. jp. C. ilrowii.of provis, tkattlo. is getting, tobequiteohoy market. , Ed. jL Wright, aged , sixteen, a student in H cold's Pacific Busiuu-s College, Sou FrOficisiai, has been missing aiiiea January 2iith. ,ii learctl that be bos been , murdered. . The Son -Froncisos bar -have oe the vMnVf i. Johu..Cur J tMtWWfhm Pmlrti aiidflerte, tlie latter Justice Sprogne..., mi OtM Chinaman was killed and t wo others lia-Uy womided by tlie caving in of bank while working on tlie grade about rive miles south of Eugene on the 28th. ' Portland jonrnals are' cohipla-Iii-ing of retail dealers in that city who give short weights. A scheme is on foot in East Port land to build a plank road from that town along the base lino road to the Sandy river. The office of tlie Oreijimian news paper has been removed to the build ing at the toot of Stark street op posite the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Miners ore returning to Work in Baker county. The work of rebuilding Baker City Academy, destroyed by fire last fall, has been resumed. The Good Templars of Baker City had a festival a few 'evenings ago that brought in 0156 25. Some rascally thief stole a great cake with gold rings in it, or the receipts would haw hr larw. : 1 tie Jacksonville lime or last week oys : On Wednesday, during the trial of the cose of Monroe vs. Waddle, two of the attorneys be came involved -' -1 an affray.- The parties were' promptly sejiarated by the officers of the Court. The Court ordered both participants under bonds of ? 1,000 each to keep the peace, and on Thunday morning iraposed a fine of $40 on one and $30 on the other. Geo. W. Sbazer lost his entire bond of cattle in Kititasg valley, east of the mountains. There are seventy-five prisoners in. the Victoria jaili The Canadian Ministry have de cided not to admit a member from British Columbia, or one from Man itobs, into tlie Cabinet until after tlie general elections next fall: . Thomas M. Gale ha severed Ins connection with the Uoseberg Entigh. One hundred wagons ore iu pro cess of construction at the Bowie wagon manufactory at Salem. Central City is tlie name of a town already laid off iu Coles Val ley , Douglas county, ou the land of Mrf Hehry Conn Sr. It is on the railroad survey. . A. thief enteral the Bclvidere sa loon at Snleni by removing a sky light oiid letting himself down into the building with a" hipc. lie got but $2 50 tor his .trouble, . The Randolph mines on the beach at Coos Bay are, again pay ing well. Lane county' lias a deputy Sheriff so long drawn out OS to hit the signs and porticoes as he perambu lates tlie MflfeWMftO. ' S. A. Clark of the (kettfMman offers himself ns a candidate for clerk of Marion county. A dispatch from Dutch Flat, Cal., says that on the 24th ou immense blast of 700. kegs of: powder was exploded in a miiic at that place. TLi n.Ki.ln ii'Ocnvr.lJnit nt AiwiO Kir aii electrical, apparatus.' ' An Idaho paper says that statis tics of the penitentiary seem to im ply that cVime decreases- in cc-Tres. noriding' ratio to 'the "increase of Chinese. Not very. flattering to the white populaliou, we should m.. .. ... .. . is Tlie Scliell Creekmiiies are about 85 miles sotithwcst from Kareka, Nevmla. .AcuKresHuof ' the; lOaho Wam learns, tjhat Tom Ftftbtifelf! Wmm of Ovyhee, re cently sbH;r4ntiiic1'theo: fbf fiflj. 000-; . ., , f! Liu 7!htvnovNif pnifwiatiiHi 4ili tti propnotes mfltW'lOflfM.lJeor' propnation ior novai,puroses. lie .average juniol cost of our navy., fr,l85; lflfil, was 10,0t)0r The San Francisco Stock and' Exchange Board lias recently raised thesalafyof Howard Colt. tliccaW 'IerMm1f6jp to ST.MfOper'ruonth; Fiiml Bawton, Secretary, from $250 to tSdlt; Jtloir, the doorkeeiwr, from 8150 to SttiOO. 7'iie Illinois. leniteutlary is aself- I snstijnung insututioii. Tlio oon.. t, work . u$er. ooutnet, those. - coiuracting ior jnoir lauor. naying Stated stTf Vitettd iim p "cftxy to the skillWirfjed. 7-rw ffekireili-at noli ctefngonsccoiKVbest.' TU o-. oijd was between an Irishman' aiid a TflWT. TMA M railroad, agent, the former going down three times before hi "eafhv cieucy wastull, " A man atile maaijMrVui of, wood oat of to late flood. YambiUem indulge in the sport of turkey shooting.. An exchange says the city of Olympia is six miles long by four mites wide, and is still spreading. It in something larger than the vil lage of New. York, but New. York labors under the disadvantage1 of having no terminus. One hundred and twelve boxes filled with the bones of deceased V hinese have been received at Port 7bwuscnd from British Columbia, for shipment to China.. .V Puget Sound pnpersaye : Gen eral Stevens bought lost Week of Stewart & Lcary thirty imported Australian sheep, fa-which he paid $500 in coin. 7'he prisoners confined in the Idaho Penitentiary, at Idaho City, made their escape on the 19th. Huch .;t6u'',rtt.''oafiiB 'te,ere. nevep totwu. .... ..Many. work oen perished in Snoke river valley, soys the Boise Statotnxihr liotwitbstaiiding the mild winter'in that region.-. Otrficr stock suffered.. A mo i Ky the name- of Dowry was shot by another, named Craw- lord in a row on tJw 17th at Owy hee. Not fatal.' , , Father William Harmau,, of Wasco county, lias been appeintcd State Deputy G. W. C. TimA State Lecturer ot the Order ot Good. Templar. A horse attached to adray, which was loaded with lumber, bWk'ed off the wharf at Portland lost Tuesday and was drowned. 7'lie lumber on the dray floated off. "J 7'he Salem jitottmm bs tlie following : !i ': One of tlie members of the State 7empcrance Alliance from Yamhill informs us that the whisky ring of Dayton has ot late been disturbing the equilibrium of the society in various ways. It seems that a sa loon keeper -circulated a petition for a license and in order to accomplish bisdesign,obtainetlhignatures fraud ulently, whereupon the -temperauec element remonstrated, and things were earned to such an extent that the affair finally landed in court, to teat tlie veracity of certain parties who had mode sworn statements. We have it that the persons alleged to have perjured .themselves, since the trial have been tormenting the village blacksmith, who is oiGooth 7jLmplar, and who played a'promi neut part in their prosecution. Early on a morning of lost week: they slipped into Ids shop unobserved. and placed iu the forge a heavy blast of powder, which they though t would explode, as soon its the- fire was kindled. He wentto liis work at the usual time, started his .fire, and fortunately for him, he wo not in the building when thebieft went; oft. Other parties were, bufrscap ed. uuhaniied. Damages to the property were quite severe. Sever-, ol other cowardly and rascally tricks have also been performed. At this rat of procedure, we shall expect to cliroiiicfc somebodys funeral soon. A NOraae KMrje. V" Amoiiir tliedWingnWied nerswuiw. wlm .visited (lie poJH liead-unarters at ainaiiy, was .ur. souiatiUiorl, a Kin nan,"" rlio 1 one of Pr'mw. Alexi' party. AVhtte vtewhiR.tl hbtens of Interest in the rogi' fiUlery, the dis tiiiguished.fiirelj&jcr -wasttcat'k by the face of one of tlie females in the frame. If Ills recollection served Mm rerliL lu knew tlie woirfihi, anttof courK' lntt- giiteU somo inquiries, l.pou .'(xirnutt ing (he. book cotaiiiug M lapws of me jKrauu rereuu)M, ur was lotiud that the fkbe IslenMrteH ' hy ChMtraagi v was set uowu aa aauame ttmtow.sk i. which Waiuft'w, :Shb mmSS&d on tlie charge of slii-Hrtirig at tlie stores of slvewJ ofwir-inerrfiaiits, and nner a trial, was sent to MnjHw"' ij . .i. , .......v ... n I ij"" ww jwiiniw six nientli-. wm wmm xvm w native, of bis counfrf, tThpier name of, wis of the tin tkiuiliue. ot the F.mpire; aisl wliat. was more, since Iter departure, sbalwviug; bv Wfc way, efoped, Ir father diwllcviu ln...Kri iiimiens Wtiuie. Chief Kthv mu Canton flofe both, recdleehrfl- tl e nullum nn,.itiiu iier KcueriU tttfurij - tion corrcspojMled with tlieir!lnmr- sioni exiH-fiy. These eflMiik'ajtei't that tbe woman served iou hsrMiaiJii Slug Sing, but was. arrested riviljtlii a venr.at New York, ami Is nowfttMu.r ang scrv;iigoufuotljer trtriW' !iie sSpuiger inififeft niemonmdum'.ojr g . ; otheCJ'l.piiml eannrtn iBflsiU-i,) WNlfJiiliWued, t MttvftawOwi. V .would mafttt the hurt known, te M ureuntotancwsismuectcU witli-Vio ir. . tPMilfW lit . i ... I .11 ....... I. . I-""" 1- i