The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-08-07
STATE ITEMS.

In Grand Ronde Valley the crops will
fall short at least one half on former
years. The farmers will be fortunate
if they get enough TO feed on during
winter>and seed next spring.
At the Umatilla agency the crops are
failure, and the Indians are fishing,
hunting, aud gathering roots for winter
The Indians predict a very severe
winter.
Tn Walla Walla valley CIV. 7. crops
are very short and the vegetation is dry
ing up.
The fruit crop east of the mountains
will be abundant.
The Burnt River Ditch Company has
placed one hundred Cinnamon at work to
complete their ditch to Shasta creek
mines.
The people in Eastern Oregon are
organizing for the purpose of going
before the next Congress and asking for
branch railroad from Promontory Point
to the Columbia river.
Chicigo runners are in Boise City
offering goods for greenbacks Mt Port
land coin rates.
John Haley's stage line is now making
four day time from UmatiIla to Indian
creek, on the G. p. Il. II.
The last number of the Oregon City En-
te,prise informs us of the retiracy of D.
G. Ireland as editor and proprietor. The
Oregonian is informed that Mr.. D. NJ.
Mckinney will assume control of the
paper, and that its politics win be Dem
ocratic.
The Eugene Journal states that Hon
j. II. D. Henderson has growing in his
garden several fine young fig trees, upon
which there are quite number of figs.
The trees are about four years old, and
seem to be in a fourishing condition.
The Jacksonville Ne,cs says
Last week -four advanced from two
dollars per hundreds ruling price for
years-to three dollars per hundred, and
will probably go up to four dollars. The
short crop of wheat, and a lack of water
to run the mills, has caused the rise.
The Wasco County Fair will COM
mence on the 18th of September, and
continue four days. The first two days
will be devoted to the exhibition of
articles of produce, manufacture, stock,
etc., and the last two days to "agricul-
tura1 trots''-trials of speed and bottom.
The Corvallis Gazette says there are
over thirty farmers in Aisea Valley.
The fall crops in the valley are reported
good, spring crops light. The first
thresher had just been taken into the
valley by Russell & Holgate.
The editor of the Polk County Times
speaks of being at camp meeting of the
NJ. f. Church, near Ellendale, last
Sunday evening, and denounces the dis.
graceful conduct of parcel of young
men, from seventeen to twenty-five years
of age, who made night hideous with
their profanity, obscenity, blasphemy,
and lawlessness, such as would have dis
graced prize fight. 'sCard playing
was carried on during service under the
pulpit and alongside the enclosure that
surrounds the altar. Wrestling and
gymnastic exercises were kept up inces-
sanity within fifty feet in front of the
pulpit, and other shameful performances
that we don't care to mention, and all
during the progress of divine service"
and when the meeting broke up, the
scene of demoniac recxlessness and BIAS
phemous shouts that ensued, were ac-
tually appalling" IF the editor has not
overdrawn the picture, that quarter of
Polk county is fast approaching bar
barism.
The. Portland Commercial, an evening
paper, now employs two reporters, Char
ley Skidmore being the new quill-driver.
Bully for Charley.
From the Oregonian we learn that on
last Sunday man named Claiborne
Morris, the man who shot Gull Hess
some few weeks since, was waylaid and
killed while riding on horseback in Che
halem valley, Yamhill county. The shot
| came from the bushes at some distance
from the road No clue to the shootist.
Adolph Miller, a drayman of Portland,
| died very suddenly on the End. He
had, a few hours previous to his death,
an alteration with Col. Gibson, and it is
said the Col. administered two or three
blows on the neck of deceased. A cor
oner's jury found that Miller came to his
death from disordered condition of the
aorta, q large artery near the heart,
which would eventually have terminated