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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1874)
Am A 1 ALBANY REGISTER. Walla Walla farmers are iiKjair ing for UrvcKt hand. Immigrants are arriving in numb ere at Wall Walla. Walla Walla's Sunday ordinance till hangn fire in her Common Council. A general court martial wan in lewion at Fort W-il a Wal'a last week. MIL. r.i .. ,. . 1 . "0We Dr,,p0?e ing. Boi City raise-1 $115 for the Louisiana suHerers. At LaCVmmn arrangemente have been made for a general celebration On trie Fourth. The people of Pnyallup will have a picnic tvlet.rat.ion on the Fourth, and a good time. The contract fir carrying the mail between Olympia and Tenino has been let to George Coggin, The Fourth will be celebrated at Oak Harbor, Whidby Island, by picnic, at which there will be a bone race- Capt. Doane, of Olympia, write very encouraging news from Dease Creek, B. C. His pnwpecting party baa been very successful. The Corvallia Gazette has been designated hy Governor (trover as the litigant paper of Benton court. ty. Machinery for a small steamer to ply on the Yaquina river, has been sent across the mountains, from Cor valii. A new bridge, 330 feet long, is being built across Little Pudding river, en the road leading from Salem to Silvettan. The log for the Vridge across the Willamette at pnngtient are said to, be in the race and will be ready to use in a few days. Under the recent apportionment of school fhnrts for 1874, Benton county is entitled to $2,425 50 coin and S41 15 otfrrency. Dora Cushraan, the young man who assaulted D. Drake on the 1st inavat Corva'lm, has had a prelim nary examination and was bound over to court ;n the sum of $400 pa Monday last the Yaquina stage met with an accident, when just beyond the summit of the mountain. I he tore axle gave way, compelling the driver to leave .the feJfiofc by (He ro ! side. The letting of the mail contract on the Sound has not yet been an eouocad, ami it is believed thai if has not yet been let, but that the contract will be again put up tor bids. Arrangements have been perfect ed f&Mxtr4 of leciiires to be de livered in Olympia in behalf of the railroad. The opening lecture of the in will be delivered by Kev. Dr. Lindnley, of Portland, whose ability as an orator is so well known. -Dr. S W. Howard, who is now on a professional visit to Yakima City, write the Mountains that two unggets wore taken from the Discovery claim on Swank 'reek last week one weighing $187 75, the otHi.!eii );$61)p was taken from the claim for the week's fo?k. There were also three otheV nuggets, amounting to $100, found at the mouth of the creek daring the flta by other parties. " 1 tialoto Southern Railroad is taxed on atnuwesment of $5,000 .permit. uu pinuu wnere intoxicating liquors are sold Seventy-five thousand dollars is appropriated to continue tlie surveys of the Yellowstone, under Prof. Ilayden It will cost Silver Citv $1fi0 ier month to have an Kpiseopal minis ter, and they arc trying to rata that amount. Ahorse with two heads is tie Inliwt lrlnh cutttttt i.kn Vaumll .i I vt,.., ... ! th Walla Wa la SUUimatl Hull. One hundred and three car loads of freight parsed over the casern section ot the Northern Pacific tor Manitoba, recently. Editor Brown, ot Seattle, is op posed to any member ot the cum. miltiee ot Twenty-one receiving nominations for office in the coming city election. The industrious habits of the grasshopper will preclude the neces sity of m.ich toil on part ot the far mers in harvesting their grain fields this year. One Bartholomew went to school house near Seattle, and thence eloped with one of the school girls It is supposed that they have gone Eastward. Union county gets about $1,000 of tbe irreducible school fund this year The La Grande Sentinel, of June 27th, says it snowed on Tuesday ot last week at Oro Dell. Joseph t'ornoyer, son of Major Cornoyer, Agent for the Umatilla Indians, aged about 20 years, died a tew days since at the residence of bis father on the reservation The "Duke of Oregon," a fi ne thoroughbred bull, owned by Jo seph Shambaugh, of - La Grande, die) the other day, after an illness of several months. The animal was worth $500 or over. The Salem Reevrd learns that Capt. Gou, W. Belt, of the College Club, has suffered terribly with his wounded leg. Jt is thought, how ever, that the limb can be saved, but lie will probably never fully recover from tbe effects of the inju ry. Captain Whitehill, administrator, realized $270 50 from the proceeds ot L. X Cutlar'o personal effects, at Saamish, W. T., on last Saturday. Among the items disposed of was the guu with which-Mr. Cutlar shot the hog on ban Juan island Mi 759, which coWfcittf a to toward precipitating the San Juan troubles.. ,,,,,, Says TlelihSgham flay frail: "Every trip the ship Gertnania makes to $a Francisco from this place! she ftakesAvitlAer f.Jotjjf furs This week, Mr. Baxter put on board 1,000 : pounds of beaver skins, 1,000 mink skins, together wiin a mi oi toe smaller varieties. The Owyhee ivalaiuke, of a recent date, in speaking of a windy day at Silver City, says: "The wind tore through, the streets aud through the houses, freighted down with heapsof dust, dry goods botes, granite boulders, cord wood, old ha, yelping dogs, and horseshoe nails. It was tearful." A drove, of sheep belonging to Messers. Andrew Chambers aud Samuel Coulter, and pasturing ft the farm of Mr. Joseph Deaves, on the Steilaooom road, six miles from killed. Good cour dogs were tn demand, and arrangements being made for a cougar hunt. A letter from a gentleman who is now in the Cassiar mines, reached his wife in Olympia. He apjieats sanguine refilling the richness of the diggings in thnt region. He thinks there are some twelve miles o the river valley or canyon which will jy well. Although late in reaching the "Creek ' he secured a claim which prospects finely. The water was begiunii g to fail at the time he wrote. A miscreant near SHverfcon is in the habit of tiring off his'pfatol in his neighbors' dooryards and at their i-tock, as he iiases bv. A tew days ago he killed a valuable bog lieloiiging lo one of them, out of genuine meanness. lie ought to be dealt with, or made leave the country. Au Eastern Oregon taper says : ''Oueday this week several families, from near Snmmerville. Grand Honde valley, passed through town en route tor the Wi laroett valley, They formerly lived there, and had concluded that they would return to the 'leeks, ami onions, and cu ....... I.,,., a. .1 ttaU ..,.. ,.f "..., Last Sunday, a little sou, Joshua Purvine, living one mile and a half west of Lincoln, in Ma rion county, was shockingly injured Sume visitors had called and one of them left a horse in charge of this little boy, but four years of age A young man by the name of J A. J. ( asto, dropped dead, last Saturday evening, while engaged in a game ot base bal, at the Howell Prairie school house, near Mr. Greenwood's, in Marion county, it apars that he had struck the ball and started to run but was caught out before reaching the first base. He walked a few steps towards the fence and remarked that he did not feeljwell and wou'd have to quit. He then walked to an old shed near by and fell. He never spoke, and breathed but two or three times after falling Speaking ot the storm which raged at Ifendleton last week t' e TYifntne says : It greatly damaged the growing hay crop on James Despair's ranch. The water rose several inches in an incredibly short spaos ot time, inree valuable brood mares belonging to William Terhoon, of Heppner, were all sim ultaneously killed by a stroke of lightning. The wind and rain and thunder and lightning in that lo oality were moat terrific. Several fences were blown down over on Wild Horse creek ; but so far we have not heard that any human life was lost in consequence of the storm. A private letter from Yakima states that a mam meeting has been held and a party of viewers en gaged, who started out on the 3d inst, to view a wagon road from Yakima o Seattle by way. ot the ftatchej; Pass. In about ten ays the viewers are expected to return, and if their report of the route be favorable, the people intend to try to build the road, or a part of it, this summer. The Sf'ttesman says : "We fearn with sincere regret that L. S. Davis, of Silvetfon, died yesterday morn ing ot consumption. He was one of the first settlers in that part of the county, coming here, we think, as early as 1847-8- He was a highly respected citizen, an excelent neighbor and a twe friend. Eight year ago He was a member of the Lower House of the Legislature. He dies universally mourned family, friends and neighbors." The people of Union county hav ing contributed in money and labor the sum equal to $9,200 are of the opinion, that as Wa I a Walla is ! largely interested in having a good wagon road aero the mountains, lliat.citiaens there should contribute at least their share, ami, in further am of this, Mr; VVoodwird a prominent citizen of Union county has been selected to call npon the businessmen of WVla Walla tor sub scriptions. A man, ca'ling himself W, K. Maytield, and hailing t'roiti Spilalift, Hettis ooituty, iwonri, is now uu der arrest at Las Anmas, Colorado, for killing one Joseph Means, also from Missouri, on the I urgatory river, some three weeks ago. The murderer declares that Means was one of a party of three who kil'ed a kinsman of his, John Williamson, iu Henry county, Missouri, in 1871 aud the local papers there confirm his stojy, although, on the other hand, they don't give Maytield a veiy good character. Mr. Hailey, Delegate in Congress, writes to Jo. Pinkham, U. S. Mar shal of Idaho, that the penitentiary bill has passed the Senate in the form it passsed the House. This leaves the Territory to pay one dol lar per day to the United States for keeping tertitoria prisoners, as the whole expense, the same as heretofore. D..L Martin, Chairman ot the Democratic Territorial Central Committee, has issued a call for a Territorial Democratic Convention, to meet at Colorado Springs on Thursday, July 23d, to nominate a candidate for Delegate to Congress. A man named Foulker, accom panied by two companions, left Del Norte in April on a prospecting tour in Ariz-ma, since which time no tidings have been received from them. Died in the hunt for gold, will probably be their epitaph. Salt Lake valley received a shak ing up from an earthquake last 'riday evening. There were sev. eral vibrations, the sensation lasting altogether about ten seconds At Alta and Granite the shock was proceeded by a rumbling noise. D. I eatty, from the Puyallup reservation, says they have been laving a temperance revival at that place, some two hundred having signed the pledge. Tbe LowM Peacock it at the wharf in Seattle loading with coal from the Benton mines, for San Francisco. She will carry between tour and five hundred tons. The festive potato bug ha made his appearance at Trindad. A Greeley, Coldrado, mant;has sold 80,000 cabbages thisleason. Mr. V. Devinny, who resides about three miles west of Denver, expects to pick seven thousand quarts of strawberries this season. The Ottoman Government will send an army to the Turkish fron tier at once. Turkey is upon it. 1 i, The publio'debt statement for Jam shows a reduction of $2,180,- 1M. Tlie ttrtorn receipts at San Francisco for June were 78728. The U- K Mint at San Fran cisoo coined $2,122,000 silver Trade Dollais during tbe last year. Lintie Van Eitan, who works in the weaving room ot the Woolen Factory at Salem, gel her hand jammed rftthe loom in acme way lat Saturday, istlicttog a painful but not dangerous wouud. MU70S. ETC A. CAEOTHERS & CO.. tkabut in- 1lKiVAI, 0IM, I'AIYI'W, DTI UI.AMN, LA.HPM, ETC., All !lw popular , PATENT MGD1C1NGI, PINK CUTLEttV, CIGARS, TOBACCO. NOTION'S FEftriHERt, and Tollvt.tiwMto. Piirttcular care and proiuntneas ipei I'byRlclan1 prescriptions and Family Em: ipts. A. CABOTHKKS i, 06. Altiany, Oregon-4V6 Murder In Albany HASNBVBR VKTBKKN tSOWN, Avi no i hroat ruing of it at present. Death Is a thing which wmttmo must, Wu.il ver-!V)n ahd dungbtei'of the hninan fw, ily ) and yet, At I he Miiday, of vnr life, if disease lays hie vile hand upon you, there is still "a llm in GUead, ' ' hy which you may he restored to perfect health, and prolong your days to a mirau. tons extent XXovcr ? By culling on K. C. HILL A MX With a prescription, where yon oan have it compounded by one experienced in thai particular line. Also, constantly on hand a good assortment of fresh drugs, patent medicines, chemicals, paints, oils, dy stufls, trusees, etc. Agents for the Celebrated Ink Weed Kennedy. r, Oregon Rheumatic Cure ; Dr. D. Jayne Sons' medicines, etc. Snenoe's Positive and Xegative Powder- kept in stock Also agents for the Home aaatOe kewtac Machine, One of the inert usefnl pteeee or rtonserioi furniture extent. CaU and examine. B. C. HILL BON. Albany, June 10, 7140v3 FOUNDRY. ALBANY FOUNDRY tad Machine 64hog A. P. CHERRY Proprietor, ALIUNY, OREGON, Manufactures Steam Engine, Flour and Saw Mill Machin ery, WOOD WORKING And AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, And all kinds of irwn anb ihom CAimfteft. Partknlar attention raid to renaiiw t)l tclmO of machinery. l3 I 9f .. , ' ,-'(,., t..,:.'. ' STOVES, ETC. W., M. MePARLAND, AT A M. HABVET CO.,. , . , . , -. , , . . .yaltfflWtoCbnnfr'jjfcft, ' i .' i .' Willi !. lVi1Kll 'I Lif Albany, Oregon, STOVES, RANGES, Force and Lift Panama, LEAD AND IRON WE, HoUow itlk, Copper and Sheet fete ware , iTlMiiiarawom ta fum Uiut n WA 1aplrlM rrcpevi or. a