The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-27
PACIFIC COASTERS.

week.
Mrs. Ida North IL State Librarian
Of California.
Railroad track is laid miles be-
yond Eugene.
Moxie Morton, Of Indiana, is in
San Francisco.
Portland has raised SIC, 900 for the
late fire-sufferers.
Nearly 5000 negroes voted in Cal
ifornia last week.
The Gnnde Ronde Indians will
have fair next fall.
Mrs. j. B. Frost is still upon the
truck of Miss Anthony.
Hay is $40 per ton at Salem, and
oats so cts. per bushel.
The Sisters Fair at Salem week
before last netted 81 500.
The Utah tin mines are said to be
the greatest in the world.
The West Side railroad track is
laid 10 miles from Portland.
A company mining on Rogue river
employ about 100 Chinaman.
A vegetable farm Of 100 acres is
carried on near San Francisco.
The cars will be running to Hills
boro from Portland in Is days.
San francisco had an earthquake
scare last Saturday. No damage.
The n. p. Il. II. will be running
20 miles from Kalama next month.
Over 1000, 600 bushels OF wheat
will be sent from Oregon this year.
The Washington County Fair this
week was q failure. on account of rain.
The Democratic majority in Los
Angeles county, Cal. last week, was
400.
Mrs. J. B. Montgomery has a con-
tract for making 35 miles of the n. p.
r. II:
A musk melon five feet long is one
Of the wonders of Los Angeles, Cali
foYnia.
Matthew Smith. OF Siskiyou coun-
ty. CAL, was burned mp with his house
last week.
The taxable property of Marion
county has increased ip the last year
sl3s, ,964.
Over l 500 people attended the
Chicago aid concert in Portland last
Friday night.
A man had his leg horribly crushed
in a railroad sawmill near Portland
last Tuesday.
The editor of the Gunrd has recent
ly gazed upon an Oregon apple which
weighed 2 pounds.
Each member OF n "coyote club" in
Benton county gets IS fer every coy
ote which be slays.
A Jackson county chinaman had
his skull crushed by wagon running
over him last week.
That excellent Democratic paper,
the Eugene Guard. is launched upon
its fifth annual voyage.
Col. Cobb, of Missouri. q noted
rebel during the war. has lately NOV
ed to Rogne River Valley.
Two new locomotives, named re-
spectively Eugene and Harrisburg,
will shortly arrive at Portland.
The railroad in Marion county has
been assessed at 80 500 mile. There
are A miles OF it in the county.
The house OF j. l.. Clinkenbeard,
at Wilbur, Douglas county, was
burned last week. Loss, $4,000.
That sterling old Democratic paper,
the Yreka Union, has entered upon
its Goth volume in an enlarged form.
Dallas has the champion harness
thief. He steals the "gears" while
the team is travelling along the road.
A dish-pan full of hot water was
the persuader which ono Portland
woman used on another last Satur-
day.
A young man named Knot. OF Port
land, carries his arm in n sling be-
cause Of carelessly handling shot
gun.
The mock-legislature of McMinn-
vile has elected the editor of the
West Side State Printer and he be-
comes ecstatic.
Frank David had his jaw broken at
Portland last Monday Ly running
against lever which was used in
moving house.
Crandall, of the Oregonian, has got
the Autumn fever bad and now jerks
'the melancholy days" with the avidi-
ty of love-sick swain.
Jackson county has a quicksilver
mine, and the Sentinel says its discov-
cry occasioned considerable excite
ment and rush for claims.
The Yamhill county Jail has thief
in "durance vile" who gobblsd up q
horse, % bushels of wheat and q
purp dorg-all from one man.
Mrs. Whitlock was thrown from
her horse at Oregon City. and, her
foot catching in the stirrup, she was