ALBANY REGISTER.
Stokers.
There are ten saloons in Van-
couver where liquors are retailed at
a bit a glass, beside the Sutler's
store on the Government reserve.
A child four years old, son of
J. m. Jvichols, ct rayette valley,
Idaho, was fatally burned by his
clothes taking fire on the 18th, and
died on the 25lh nit.
There are only three church
organizations in Vancouver the
Roman Catholic, Episcopalian and
Methodist. The Catholic Church
lias the largest membership, the
Methodist next.
There are three fire Companies
In Vancouver: No. 1, Hook and
ladder; No. 1, Engine; and No.
Z, Engine. The latter is a soldier
Company, with quarters inside the
Q. M. Department.
There is not a favorable pros
pent tor navigation to open on the
Columbia river much, if any, before
the 1st of April, as it will take two
or three weeks of thawing weather
to raise the river enough for boats
to run ; and the thawing weather
lias not yet set in, and we do not
ee any immediate prospect of its
doing so.
According to the Statesman
property in Jefferson must be de
clining. That paper says: "Prop
erty has been changing hands lately
at ruinous figures. That the Bea
ver Hosiery Co., incorporated at
412,000, sold tor $5,000. Comer's
house, which two years ago sold
for $2,000, was to-day purchased
for $520. B. Van Buren's prop
erty, purchased a few years ago tor
$1,600, has been sold tor $800.
The Salem Statesman of last
Friday says: "A trial was com
menced in the Circuit Court, yes
terday, wherein the plaintiff John
Rogers, sues the Oregon and Cali
fornia Railroad Company for
$20,000, which he claims to be the
amount of damage sustained by
him in being dumped out of one of
said company's coaches when tlie
same ran oft the track on a cettam
occasion. A compromise was
effected this morning by the com
pany agreeing to pay $3,000 and
the costs of suit."
The miners in the Palouse country
have been at work most of the
winter, but have not washed any.
The ground where they are at
work prospects better than was
expected when first opened, and
indications are very favorable for a
good clean-up. The snow is about
three feet deep at the diggings, and
about five in other places around
there.
Capt. Starr settled with the
drovers for the 65 head of cattle
thrown off the North Pacific and
supposed to be lost, at the rate of
$30 per head, with the proviso,
however, that sum should be re
turned tor all animals subsequently
discovered and delivered in Vic
toria. Twenty-seven head have
since been captured on San Juan
Island, saving Capt. Starr $810.
At the last term of the Circuit
Court in Marion county, Charles
Miller was tried under an indict
ment for shooting one" Slater near
Jefferson, and the j ury being unable
to agree at that trial, the case went
over to the present term, and after
a second trial, which lasted two
days, the jury brought in a verdict
ot not guilty, and the defendant
was discharged. The shooting
occurred over a settlement iiivolv
iog two dollars and a half which
Miller owed Slater, and out of
which the entire difficulty grew.
At a meeting of the citizens of
Lewiston, the following nomi
nations were made for city offices :
For Mayor, Seth S. Slater; for
Councilman, C. A. Tlmtchor, 11
Squier, Geo. Glass and J. P.
Vollmer; for Treasurer, W. P.
Hunt; tor Recorder, J. K. Vin
cent; for Marshal, J. Jess. 'Lite
Democratic nominees are : Mayor,
H. W, Staioton; Councilmen, J.
M. Curry, M. M. Williams and
I). Damas; Reeder,D. War
nor; Treaswer, A. Bumardj Mar
hal,D. McEhraa,
Eugene charter election will take
place April 6th.
All the public schools in Salem
were closed last Saturday. No
funds.
Washington county is shipping
onions to towns up the Willamette
valley.
A Mrs. Dubraille of Corvallis is
going to sue that corporation for
damages caused by falling on a
rickety sidewalk.
Henry Lloyd, of the Dalles, was
kicked nearly into the middle of
next week, on the 12th, by a
vicious horse.
Salem Fire T epartment has
another new bell weighing 2,000
pounds. The old one has been re
turned to the makers.
Hon. John Burnett, of Benton
county, has announced himsclt as
independent candidate for Judge ot
the Second Judicial District
Jefferson is still ei'gaged cul
tivating a fine crop of measles.
Schools and church exercises have
all been suspended for about three
weeks.
The Capitol Commissioners are
in session at Salem. Work on the
Capitol building will commence as
soon as the weather will permit.
Two men have bought about
one thousand head of sheep in
Benton county in the last two
weeks, paying from $3 to 3 50 per
head.
Billy Sacket, the mail carrier
between Dallas and Alsea, reports
snow three feet deep on the Alsea
mountain. This is the deepest it
has been this winter.
A Royal Arch Chapter of Masons
has been organized at Roseburg.
It is called Umpqua Chapter, and
Thos. H. Cox is H. P.; A. G.
Brown, K., and N. P. Bunnell
is Scribe.
The ministers and saloon keepers
ot Salem held a meeting last week,
in which the latter proposed to
close their saloons on the Sabbath
if other business men would do the
same.
The Sheriff of Marion county
was out last Saturday looking for
a man supposed to be crazy, who
was seen wandering around a
graveyard east of Salem. He was
not found.
It is said by parties living near
the summit that snow has not been
so deep for years this late in the
season as it is now. At Abrams'
mid, only a few miles from Eugene
City, it is about tour feet deep.
Captain Coffin, ot the Dalles, is
the man who introduced the famous
Chinese knife-throwers and ma
gicians in the United States in
1872, and it was his uncle, an old
sea Captain, who brought the
Siamese Twins from Siam to the
United States.
Mr. John W. Kelly has severed
his connection with the Roseburg
Plaindeakr. In bidding good-fcye
to his patrons he says; "Financially
the venture has not been the suc
cess ray smallest hopes anticipated ;
otherwise I make no complaints."
Le-how-skin, an Indian about
thirty years old, living on the
Umatilla reservation, sold two
hundred horses, receiving therefor
$3,000, in coin. Soon after he lost
fifteen hundred horses by gambling
with another "noble red man of
the forest," &c.
We have received the first num
ber of the Eastern Oregon Weekly
Tribune, published at Pendleton,
Umatilla county, by M. H. Abbott,
an old and experienced typo and
editor. It is a neatly printed sheet,
well filled with local matter, and
will doubtless meet with the hearty
support of the people in that flec
tion Tbe Sixth District Court of San
Francisco on the 14th annulled the
marriage of H. S. Ryan and
Fannie L. Byan, on account of
fraud tbe lady having represented
herself to be a widow, whereas she
had never been married.
The steamer North Pacific
made the run from Victoria to
Taeoma, 115 miles, direct course,
in thennoqualed short time of 7
boars, running time.
An immense land slide occurred
on the 13th on the Virginia &
Truckee Railroad, at American
Flat, a short distance below tbe
Tyler mine, Nevada the slide
was 80 feet in length, 50 feet io
width and 25 feet in depth. The
heavy pressure on the track forced
it up to a position nearly at right
angles to the one originally oc
cupied. At the point where the
slide occurred there is a sharp curve
in the road, and the engineer ofthe
first western-bound train, composed
of cars loaded with ore, which left
here at 6 o'clock this morning,
being unable to see the obstruction
on the track, ran into it. The
conductor jumped off the locomo
tive before it struck the slide, but
the engineer and fireman remained
in the cab. The locomotive and
tender fell over sideways and was
half buried un with dirt. No one
was injured. One ore car was
wrecked, and three others jumped
the track. Passengers arriving
from Reno and different points
were transferred to trains on this
side.
Tbe Jacksonville Sentinel of last
Saturday says : "Quite a number
of citizens of the Klamath Basin
have been in attendance on Court,
principally witnesses in the Gentry
White case. They report the trip
a rough one in the extreme, there
being eight feet of 6now on the
Cascade mountains and the weather
cold. They bring only confirmation
of previous reports concerning the
distress of cattle and sheep men in
that region. Nearly all will lose
more or less of their stock, and in
some cases whole bands will perish.
They bring the report also that
Jesse Applegate, after freezing
hands and feet in attempts to save
his stock, had finally been com
pelled to abandon the herd to their
tate. The Applegates will
doubtless be heavy losers. No
word reaches us from Goose lake
valley. We have no doubt, how
ever, the storms prevail there also,
and much loss in stock will also be
suffered in that locality yet. In
the absence of knowledge of that
fact, we shall entertain a hope to
the contrary."
Here is what the Tacoma Trib
une learns about Stickeen : "It is
reported to be terribly cold on the
Stickeen river, and worse and
worse every mile further interior.
An Indian had come down, and
got over to Wrangle as the Cali
fornia came by. He says that one
white man only, Mr. Isnck, had
got through to the Dease lake
diggings, but that the entire read
was lined with hundreds ot poor
fellows bravely toiling on. All are
covered up as warmly aud heavily
as possible, the faces being shielded
entirely with tightly drawn furs,
having three ot the slightest aper
tures to see and breathe through.
Notwithstanding every precaution,
however, scores of the men have
been frozen, and a great many have
turned their steps back toward the
coast. Another month will le
amply soon enough for men to go
to Cassiar."
Parties arriving at Preseott from
Camp Verde report the surrender
at that reservation of a band of
sixty-two renegade Apaches, who
had absconded some time back to
the mountains, where their retreat
became known to Agent Williams,
who sent tliem word to return at
once, upon condition that the young
bucks should be confined for one
month in the guard-house at Camp
Verde, the old men, women aud
children to remain on the reserva
tion. This they did, and the young
men, numbering seventeen, are now
under ehargo of the military. The
appearance ot the. whpie party was
wretched, indicating great suffering
from hunger and cold in the
mountains.
the Jacksonville Smtinel tells
a yarn that is just a little hard to
believe. It is, that a, Court in that
county fined two men each $6 and
costs, and as the wen had no
mouey, the Court took their notes
for the amount, and , thinking the
State ougbl to have, security from
Hs debtors, the Court signed the
notes as security.
James Gentry, who bad been
held to answer tor the murder of
Henry White, at Linkville, some
time in January, was exonerated by
tbe Grand Jury of Jackson county
last week.
On the 7th inst., the snow was
from 10 to 16 inches deep all over
Powder river valley. The average
temperature for the week ending
that date at Baker City was 27
above zero. On the 6th the mer
cury was at 5 above zero.
Mr. Slater having notified M. P.
Ball, of the La Grande Sentinel,
to give up the material with which
that paper is printed, it is likely to
be suspended tor a time, but Mr.
Bull proposes to re-issue with other
material in a few weeks.
Wash Obenchain, of Jackson
county, who was badly scratched
up by a grizzly bear about a year
ago, had a chase after a huge black
bear, last week, which had killed
one of his cows. In both instances
he succeeded in making meat of
bruin.
All those who have claims grow
ing out of the Modoc war against
the Ouartermaster's Department of
the U. S. Army, should send thcii
address to the Acting Assistant
Quartermaster at Fort Klamath,
with instructions where they will
have their checks sent, giving also
the amount due them.
A. I). Saunders, of Lafayette,
wishes to know the whereabouts of
Johnathan Riggs and Isaiah
Poteet, who came with him !ast
fall from Kansas, and any one who
can give any information ot their
whereabouts will confer a favor by
addressing him as above.
The Sentinel says: "A very
respectable portion of the delegates
to the Democratic County Conven
tion, which convened at the Court
House in Jacksonville on the 7th
instant, withdrew from the Con
vention upon the ground that the
party was not fairly represented."
Henry John, for whom a war
rant was issued by Justice Coffey,
at tbe time of the affray between
Johns and Perry Mansey, at Salem,
was arrested in that city last
Saturday. He waived examination
aud gave bail in the sum of $200
for appearance before the Grand
Jury during its present sitting.
La Grande Grange, the first in
Union county, was organized last
week with officers as follows: M.
Baker, Master; A. W. Waters,
O. ; Jos. Palmer, S. : D. A. Mc
Allister, A. S.; C. Arnold, T.;
Nessly, C. ; S. O. Swackhammer,
Sec. ; J. Ladd, L. ; A. Hemming,
G. K.; Mrs. Mary Webb. S.;
Mrs. Rachel Ladd, C; Mrs. Sarah
Waters, P.; Mre. Lucie Sham
baugh, F.
Deputy Master Buick last week
organized Eagle Point Grange, on
Butte Creek, Jackson county. The
following are the officers tor the
ensuing year: James Miller, W.
M.; Peter Simon, O.; Wilson
Potter, L.; George Nichols, S ;
H. J. Terril, A. 6.: A. C. How
lett, C; Levi 'Hnkham, T;
Joseph Cleft, Sec. ; John Nichols,
G. K.; Elizabeth Simon, Ceres;
Elizabeth Culbertson, P.; Theodosia
Culbertsou, F.; Eola Nichols, L.
A. S.
The primaries for the election of
delegates to an independent County
Convention were held Saturday.
The meeting in this city were
largely attended, and the utmost
harmony prevailed. The meeting
at Springfield is said to have been
the largest precinct meeting ever
held there. The following named
delegates were elected: North
Eugene Allen Bond, A. J. Zum
wait, Jas. Perkins, W. G. Pur
kerson and St. John Skinner,
South Eugene John Bailey, 3,
W. Skaggs, Jesse Cox, J. F,
Amis, Thos. Ifclshaw, H. H. Gale
J. W. Jackson. Springfield-Jas.
Stevens, Geo. H. Armitage, M.
H. Harlow and T. D. Edwards.
Tacoma has a string band just
learning, which baa set the whole
tow by the ears.
The total emeaditeiwe in support
of public sohooV in Arizona last
yr was $11,060 12
Mayor Whitman, of Walla
Walla, has gone on a visit East.
Hon. John Burnett, of Benton
county, announces himself as an
independent candidate for the office
ot District Judge.
Fred Drew, who has been in
Peru for some time past, acting in
a business capacity for the Port
Gamble Mill Co., has returned to
Puget Sound.
Capt. W. Hall and party have
arrived at Port Ludlow from San
Francisco, aud will build there a
100-ton schooner for the California
coasting trade.
Lieut.-Col. Dodge, promoted to
the Twenty-third Infantry, vice
General Crook, is to leave New
York en route tor the headquarters
of his regiment, some time
next month, coming across the
plains to Santa Fe, thence by way
of Camp Apache to Preseott.
Shorty Hayes and Jacob Clark
having received sentences each of
thirty years at Auburn for the For
est Hill stage robbery, which
together with the twenty-one years
for the Shasta stage robbery, will
probably last them for the term of
their natural lives.
A telegram from Elko, March
14th, gives the following account
of an accident on the Central Pa
cific Railroad : The west bound
possengcrtrain No. 2, consisting of
a mail express and baggage car and
one sleeper, two first class coaches
and an emigrant car, met with quite
serious accident this morning.
when'about ten mile west of Toano.
The accident occurred on an em
bankment about thirty feet high.
The train was an hour late, and
running at the usual speed, when a
rail broke and precipitated the hind
coach and emigrant car down the
embankment. The coach was filled
with passengers and turned com
pletely over, and now li?s nnside
down. The emigrant car, which
was in the rear, was thrown vio
lently down the grade but main
tained its equilibrium. The for.
waid coach and sleeper was also
thrown from the track, but did not
go down the embankment. The
following is the list of the injured,
obtained by a special reporter sent
to the scene of the disaster: Jas.
Dick, Colorado springs, Col., slight
cut in right shoulder, was in the
next to the rear coach. Ben j. Caw
son, Providence K. I., deep cut in
forehead, not dangerous; was u
the emigrant car. Mrs. Wm. Roe,
Dundas court)' Canada; seriously
injured alwut the head, right arm
and side fractured ; shows signs ot
internal injury; considered some
what doubtful. Several others
sustained slight injuries, but none
of a serious character The acci
dent was a most fortunate affair in
its results, as railroad men consider
the escape of so great a number
uninjured from the coach that was
violently thrown down thoembank
raent bottom upwards, as almost
miraculous. The heavy snow, Ikw
ever, in the vicinity of the disaster,
probably accounts for the number
uninjured. The wounded with one
exception, that being Mrs. Roe, will
be able to proceed to tlieir destina
tion, The engine, mail, express
and baggage cars passed over the
broken rail and felt nothing of it,
showing plainly that the rail broke
in passing over it. Every provi.
ion has been made by the company
for those who sustained any inju
ries. The snow along the road be
tween Wells and Toana is very
deep, and a slight addition, accorn-
pamed by high winds is liable to
produce a recurrence of tlie block
ades at any time.
The House Committee on Paci
fio Railroads will hold a special
meeting on the J 7th to consult with
the Government Directors proposed
legislation regulating subsidized
railroads; operations of Wyoming
coal and other inside rings are to
be investigated; the question of
the furtlier exemption of railroad
lands from taxation ; the propriety
of having the principal office ot the
Union Pacific Company removed
from Boston to some point on tbe
hoe ofthe road, and soma other
matters requiring wgidauon wiU
also be considered.