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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1874)
Roseburghasa Mile Society. Spelling school is Itt order at I Eugene City. Corvallis is donning a new coat of paint. Eugene City is going Maying on the 1st prox. RbsebUrgers are going to have a May-day party. Lafayette Grangers are going a Maying on the 1st prox. Yamhill tanners are organizing tor a general coyote hunt. Wrestling Joe has had a tew of his toes amputate' 1. Poor Joe. Spiritual lectures will interest the Corvallis folks shortly. Dallas, Polk County, is prepar ing to celebrate the Fourth of July. The spankiiig season has com menced in Dalian. Pupils are numerous. A valuable horse died very suddenly on a Lafayette street last Friday. Something like pin-cushions are indispensable in Dallas ladies fix ups. Cohip'aints are made of the miserable condition of roads in the interior. ' Next Monday the Odd Fellows of Oakland will celebrate in An appropriate manner. Chinamen ami Indians engaged in a riot at the Capital a few days 6incd. Nb funerals. . .(Tlie,.Ui)ty Council pf Grangers of Lane County .vill meet in Eugene City on the 5th ot May PendletttnianV clamor for more mutton Jackson villiaiis now want a .fire engine. ' Building material is h brisk de mand at Jacksonville. George Rogers now publishes the Hoseburg Plain dealer. The coming races is the topic of conversation in Union County. Sheep shearing will soon com mence on the t-pfwr Columbia. Montana farmers are busily en gaged in sowing pain. Travel in Montana is reported as being exceedingly lively. Baker City is undergoing sundry improvements. A sign of pros perity. Montana cattle have been eating poisonous herbs. A number have died. , , The raining season in Montana has opeued ' under, favorable apjiearnces. A party of. t oven persons left Tacoma for Swai.k mines last Men day morning. Wesley Roberta is wanted. He is supposed to k living somewhere in Montana. The Keating &, Blacker Mine at Kadersburg, Montana, has 680,000 worth of ore on ? lie dumps. A man named Kelson Was drowned last Snfurday by falling overboard from the Alden Bessie at Portland. Eugene City for the year ending April 13th expended $2,540 96. for citv government, and owes 8720 48, . , Dr. Johnson, of MeMinnville, "A1I bver'tne' valley tho farmers are tprogtessitig rapidly1 with'' their fjprlhg 'planting', in sonfe cases now nearly or quite finished. Eat ' 6f the mountains spring work has inst begun, in eauwsti J. Layman, of Pendleton, wIm last Fall went to-, the lakinm, mines, has : returned home, ai. . gives encouraging accounts of these mines. A nugget, of gold, which he picked up on his claim, is valued at $35. '' The late rains on the foothills with the fcnow on the mountains' still keep water in the ditches and in the large creeks in Jackson conn, ty, and; raining continues active as yet much more so than wasantici-. pated a month or so ago, the streets of Olynipia, each Saturday for some weeks past, have been crowded enough to lead, to the supposition that it must be the Fourth of July, the Grange there has so many members is the cause. 'It is also constantly gain ing strength. At Silver Dale, in Colorado, George Hammond and Bill Mackey differd as to where the next dance should be held. They settled the dispute amicably wtyh pistols. Hammond had the dance at his house, and Mackey has a funeral at w , '. uu - io mi ' i ' m The Jacksonville Sentinel says : I') John Kear'ns and Henry Norton have been sent to th' Penftdntiery foi two year from Yamhill comity for larceny, in a dwelling, , , The pricp of wood in Boise; city is.$12 per cord, and very scarce at tha. The cause is attributed to tne deep snow in the mountains. Idaho has lately received an addition to her fine stock, by the purchase, by a Boise man, of two tine stallions, Kentucky thorough breds. : 1 The rewlpts from the festival of St. John's Episcopal Church, lympia, were Very satisfactory, l aving cleared, after all expenses u ing paid, $135 80. ! i First campmeetlng of the siason ii' announced to commence June 4ti, on the Newsoro campgrounds, 1 ive,r end ot isyjri P rairie, Marion county. Win. Campbell passed Boise on, the 15tjh ilist- on his way to Rocky Bar, having with him a fine band of fat cattle, from Grand Rbnde valley, Oregon.1 The men of Turn water, thirty strong, will commence the grading ot; the OlympiaTenino Railroad through their town, next Saturday. A distance on the line of about One mile has been left to them. Several emigrant wagons, headed toward Easterti Oregon, passed Salem Monday. The usual tar Notwithstanding the risks taken by , ?uckels BWng to fro naer J ' 1 i , a A number of SalemitcsaresuthW'0" ."' " ' :, . T" 17 or iwo ago--ine resaii or a run away. ! i . W ing from stickeen gold fever. The best doctor i ex perigee. f The editor of the 1 'Vmpqna Call has an appetite thirty-six inches lung, lie subsists on vegetables. Marion County Democrats are gouig to wear coon-skm caps on election day. All they want is a hollow log to crawl into. A Corvallis horse, in attempting to jump a fence, run a picket into his .breast twelve inuhea. , lie soon passed in his checks. Somebody stole the axe belong ing lo the Umpqua Call previous to its first issue, which in a measure aecounts'for some of its editorials. i A-sun of Mrs. Keenoy, while working on the railroad track at Eugene City, last Friday, tell and broke his arm het,weei the elbow and'wrlst. The 'mastet of the bark Dublin, arrived at Sail Francisco April 16th from Port GarAble, reports that, on the 18ttrof February, John Oaks, second mate, fell through the hatchway and was instantly killed. The Salt Lake Tribune makes this thrust at the Mormon leaders : "Worse men than Bender remain unhung in Utah, They are Pophets, Apostles, Bidet's, etc,, and are shielded by the garb of religion." The Arizona Miner says : "While all intelligent ArizonianS hope that Congress , will enable Colonel Sc;.tt to build a Southern Pacific railroad, many of them tear that Congress will not grant such aid and cdncessions as he demands " A gentleman who has made a canvass of Tacoma estimates its actua, t .resident, muuicipal-voti ng population at three hundred a number six times greater than that of one year ago, and second to that, a;inother, town on Pngotr Sound: 'J he assessment of the town, though yetKineoWptetev' Hrffcates arf ' ail vauce over last year of 300 ' per ',,':, .'..! ' 4J , to stood, on a teuce uicKet with httyj'1Weral t66lf "jJlifle w next dayv iron: x nui ,?''j I re Bji Wright's store at Tacoma ivas closed by creditors last Saturday, but ho- hopes to pull through all riaht. The'latest joke'at TafcOma is A man who fried t borrow moiiev ol an editor to nuy k lit aid build a house with. Several P.uet Sputiders arrived at rescott, Arizona, on Uie 31t ulu, and are expected to settle in tint vicinity.. The total rail ft II, as reported at Beale Spring, Arizona, from May 1873, to March, 1874, inclusive, was 18.07, ',!. ; Tlie Indefiendent Literary Soci ety of Jacksonville will Shortly, give a benefit in aid of the sufferers by the fire. . JJ Donald McKay's hand of Warm Spring IJraves arrived at Portland Saturday, and danced in war paint and feathers at Oro Fino Theatre during the week, I'aker ' Connty has a Jenkins who caused the arrest of a camping party, for burning a rotton log on his grounds. The1 party were immediately dismissed. The average .temperature at Ua ker (fity dnrrng the week ending April 15th was 44 1 degrees ; cold est weather, 32 degrees; warmest 64 degrees, j (pi A Montana paper' says: Six horse stock on, the Helena route now ; full loads to Deer Lodge, and the carrying capacity inadequate. The world moves, Two Olympia lads, aged about twelve years had a scrimmage the other day, in whidV, knives ami clubs were freely used anc some bad blood spilled. A man sporting the name of Charles Jackson' Wilson played "sick and destitutb",on die cnarita bio X!op)e of lOlympia and: rrised considerable money to enable him to get out of thecoiH$rjv,bnt forgot himself, and diank qp or. gambled away the.gthX whereupou the prfo. pie concluded, , that; m& djdti't want him to'Bo. and , li.id him' an rested unaW-pten'" everybody during the firi?, we have only heard ot one person sustaining any bodily injury, and that is Mr. George Grown, whp cut his , toot with an ax ivlile chopping down awnings Though severe it will not confine him jo the house. , A daughter of Jacob Evans,, ot Cape ArragOi Coos Bays' was terribly burned a few day since, by heY clothes taking fire froni a fireplace. "Hr1 little1 brother;' in atterrrfnii'g'roektingm'sh the flames, n'as also Baaly Hiiriied,' and the llyds of both are despaired of: Tlie -'i'e('of William, McFarlud, who resides on tlie ocean beach, some twenty-five miles north of (iray'k iharbpr, was severely wonnderl, the first of last week, by the acoideutaLesplofioW- fn a metallic cartridge; Site was hand ling it. and dropped it, causing it to explode. , The ball entered, her wrist and ranged up the arm be tween the bones, coming) out near tlie ,eJbow. : , i . i - Th Demooratic County Com mittee' ' ot Marioti, met on last Saturday and made the following nominations to fill the Vacancies on the' Democratic 'county ticket. J. W. Weatherlofd and B.' F, Fletcher were nominated for Rep resentatives, vice Lf'PettyjnhiV and Davis Shannon, declined. L, Judson was hominated Surveyor, Vice Wib. Pugh, defined, Clympia fjinapgp ,had a full meeting on Saturday. Twenty: eight members were, initiated, ad vancing them to full membership as patrons . A bountiful harvest (east was onjoyed by the Grange. Oelegatos i train seven Granges, and a goodly number ol patrons from other Granges joined on the occa sion. Olympia Grange voted' . to turn out on the, 1st of, May and help srade the railroad on Bush Prairie,' : ,htit ii A gentleman at Helena, Ml T., has a pair pf lmge iponntaht lions or cougars, which be lias raised from wne ips, i nose peasis are now the wagon, and the "regulation" number ot dogs followed the tram. , The Salem Record, says : Ben Btauton, who is "reposing upon his laurels" in the county jail, Wcrtt three days Without eating last week -agoing to starve himself to death , but weakened when be found that Billy Barker, the Janitor, didn't scare worth a cent.' ' ' Tlie "Woolen Mills tr ttie 'onit. These , nit' h ! . . k. aiwut two years oia, and fully , as largo as a good sized panther. Tliev do not attain tlteir full growth until four.ycrs.of age. They 're very ferocious, and give no evidence of liocomiug tractable, and an ordinary sized dog, thrown into tie pagei, did not Hiirvivo long enpjjgh to .give a yelp, The owner says they have already devoured some .'ten, or twelve dogs apd, twenty., or, jthirty W w''icn. Kae "oe: , giyen ' therij to play wjl Three, of Ithe tam.e There are on the. Pacific coast eleven woolen mills eight in Cal- lforiua and three mOregon. Those in California are: Two in San Francisco, one at San' Jose, One tit Marysville; 1 oe at Stocktori, one at Sacramentd, One atf Los1 "Angeles, and one at Los Gatos. fir Oregon, theris amrtlat 9igl(in (Dlty, onti at Salem, and one' at Brownsville. They Have in-the. aggregate1 20,840. spindles and S2 broad looms Their capital js $2,000,000 ; the value of buildings and machinery is $1,525,000: the number of pounds of w'ool Used last year was 5yaS0,00X of a y atue ot $1,200,000, and the value of the rnanutactiire was $3,000,000. Of the vf ool used, 3,680,000 lbs was Calitbrnian, t 200,000 lbs was Oregon, and 500,. OdO Australian. About 250,000 ofcottpn were also used. Of cas. simeies, 11,000,000 yards were made, and of blankets, flannels, etc, 1,600,000 yards. The total number of employees was 1,356, of whom 851 were Chinese, 260 white men, 137 white boys, and 138 white w6men and girls. The wages paid aggregated $556,400. The value of goods sent East was about $350,000, and the . total ex ports at least $400,000. ' 'ncb an exhibit is highly creditable to the coast, and gives the highest prom, ise of a. glorious future tor. this industry. A few days ago a very, hadsome lady entered a dry goods house and inquired for "bo.rt The polite clerk threw himself back and remarked that he was at her ser vice. "Yes, biit I want a buff, not a green one," was the reply. The young man went on measuring goods immediately. .-, - --'rT;-: '" , "You .cannot taste in the dark." said a' lecturer "NaUvre ,has in tended p to 'j see j 0r !tood7: "Then," inquired, a forward pupil, "how abo; a bujd,jnaft at dinner?" i lessor, "has pWhW'With ejp teeth.' 1 The steamer Otter has returned to Victoria, bringing one passenger aml'thfl 'fbllowlnjr iiewti rrom the northern mining country ! Mj.'A. ChxMpiette (Buck), who went up on the first trip of .the Otter this year, has heen through to the mines, and reached Wrangel, on his return, the night befor the Otter arrived. He reports having discovered iili(ther paying gulch; also, that Tke Stevens & Co were making $8 a day on a piece of ground which they had been able to thaw out on one ot the creeks discovered last year. Mr. Silvester, the expressman, was at Wrangel, awaiting the arrival of the Otter, and intended to start again for, the mines the day after that vessel left. Several of those who went np ori the last trip had returned to Wrangel, ' finding traveling difficult on account of water on tlie ice,, It is improbable that the Sttikeen River will be open before the end of this month The Nass and S"keeny Rivers are fitill closed,' aiid the Government trail men who went upon the Otter do not expect to be able to ascend the latter for another ten days. To miners who left Victoria about the end of January, and wf6 have been through to the diggings, furnish the following information of "matters and things'? there: ;.; The snow,, from Buck's Bar averaged about 30 inches, was soft and spongy, there laving beeli no night-frosts to form a crust, and snow-shoes were necessary. Excel. lent use 'was made of the dogs in hauling the' tobogans. The men who were first ou the creeks had confined the operations lo the old diggings. Six and a half miles of Dease Creelc were staked off,' and the miners, after obtaining good pro-pects, had commenced to build cabins'. About 250 men were' on the cretVkfc " '' 1 ' ' " Provisions of all kinds were from 1 to $ I 60 a pound at airy place above Buck's liar. There wa no supply at Buck's Bar. There were only about 80 sacks of Hour at the diggings-tor sale at $50 per sack, 1 he trip with a loaded tobogan, from Buck's Bar to Dease Creek, consumes nine days, Men were paid $50 for packing in goods. 1 wo hundred and fitly men weifi encamped on the Stickeen River banks. Snow on Dease Creek wa lorn4 and five feet deep. The tlierniom. eter stood below zero on several consecutive days in March. When our informant left, the "boys" were thawing earth 10 prospect the claims. . The Government trail men,' whe went up on tlje last trip of the Otter, were still at Port ta-singtoh, unable to proceed' with their, sup plies. A great number of British Columbia Coast IndSanffhadstarted for Stickeen to engage in packing. 1 he ice m atickefii Itivc -js breaking np slowly. In sorn.e places the traveler comes across gfeat fissures and chasms in'ilhe ice, through Which the water fouie and spouts in its eagerness to sur mount the barrier. Jt other patt, where the current is uot rapid, the water lies on the fields of ice ahd men have to wade through it waist deep Of course all rJbis makes traveling both ditfieuH and hazard' ous, and fow care to , imperil, their lives in braving the difficulties ' aiid haVe encamped on' the river batik to await the final breaking, ' it Dr. Everson has exeftfei thfe'e rision of little people-oi' Iwth sexes by stating in a. lecture Umt, "little women should go out, of fashion. Physical diminution can be avoided by right methods iii 'the pse otfood, 1 diss :uiitiaJ;;lii(n A New York gall got mad- at her Kansas lover and, expreed hm 1,400 love leftersi As she coUld express her own teelihss flv i8.tpressiug liis; they otight' tjb'.'he one. m l",RT W tit-Hum JtnwNH w, f nn Two hundred people in nQobr ado town recently turned! daft fa a bixly to look iipdoia; bedrtiaad' h castors, it beiag tlie jitia, ptii n the country,