The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-05-05
PACIFIC COASTERS.

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The Girsies are in Portland.
There are 9i convicts in tho Peniten-
tiary.
The Sutro tunnel, 10 Nevada Is / ,029
feet long.
Tho Kalama newspaper is to appear
next week.
There is Scandinavian church So
ciety in Portland.
Senator Corbet. aud wife arc going on
an European tour.
Last Friday twenty immigrants arriv-
cd at Salem from Iowa.
The Monmouth (Polk county, Col.
lsge will ast 1000.
The Peniseutia.y couvicts will make
5000, 900 brick this wear.
Senator Nesmiih has Leen offered SIS
an acre for his laud in PoIs county.
Dion beat. RudOlphc every sgamc Of
billiards in..portland during tic past
week.
Seven men were last Sunday killed ~
eating poisoned beef at Oak Creek, Cal
iforuia.
d. 4. Hedden, formerly of Portland.
Oregon, suicided at Omaha last week.
Whisky.
The Oregon Horticultural Society
will hold grand exhibition in Portland
in June.
The "Annie Stewart" ID an opposition
steamer now running between Astoria
and Portland.
Rev. W. M. Punshon. the great En-
glish divine, gave two lectures at Port
land last week.
The New Northrest, Mrs Dunuiway's
woman's rights organ, is..o be issued
to-day at Portland.
More buildings are now in progress
in Portland than was ever before known
at this time Of year.
The Statesman says that Judge Boise
will resign aud that b. F. Bonham will
be appointed to GIL the Vacancy.
Last Wednesday the Ellsndale Wool
len Mills. in Polk county. we're burned.
Loss about SIS, 900. Insured for sI0,-
900.
The old man known as "Wrestling
joe" los. $4,000. in legal tenders. a,
Oregeo City, last week. I, was proba.
oily stolen.
A large colony Of immigrants from
Nextop, Jasper county. Iowa, are now
en- route for Oregon. They will arrive
at Portland next week.
A Wslla Walla paper estimates that
that valley will produce this year three
times as much grain as it ever yielded
before in single season.
Mr.. J. j. Barton, says that the Hest
Side, has field which yielded one hun
dred and thirty-6ve bushels to the acre
from one plowing and sowing!
A large saw mill, engine Of thirty
horse power, to bc set mp about 25 miles
from Walla WalIa, in the Blue noun.
tains, is on the way from Chicago.
Next Saturday the steamer Con-
stantine will sail as an opposition from
San Francisco for Portland bearing
freight and passengers at reduced
rates.
The sentence of Mrs. Fair is fixed for
May 10th instead Of April 10Th. and j,
is thought the Governor may bo induced
to commute her sentence to imprison-
ment for life.
On last Saturday, in San Fran.
cisco, Mike Dyer fell from the passage
way 10 the third story Of house on pu-
pont street near Washington, and was
Instantly killed.
Chas. Bell, the Australian champion
prize fighter, is in Portland aud chal-
lenges any man on the Pacific coast to
fight for 81 900 and tho championship
Won't somebody bust him?
The Aercu-y also says that new
manufacturing establishment has been
put up by Superintendent Watkins. and
an engine and various machinery put
into it, for the manufactures of doors,
sash, frames, cornices, etc.
The Corvallis Gayzesse. says that on
last Wednesday,, atthc instance of Mr..
White, father Of the young man who
was killed At Philomath last week, Judge
Thaycr issued a warrant for the rc-ar-
rest of Eli Mason, Frank Mason and
Charles Simpson as accomplices in the
killing. The three are now in Jail.
The following are the names Of the
municipal officers elected at Oregon
City on Monday Mayor. Thos. Char.
man; Recorder. n. G. Athey; Assessor
and Collector, s. D. Pope; Treasurer,
Chas. Pope; Attorney, G. E. Warren;
Marshal, J. W. Ryan; Councilman,
Chas. LOCUS, j. NJ, Moore, w. w. Buck,
j. D. Miller, j. NJ. Bacon, Owen Wade
j. g. Porter. All are Republicans.
THE upper crust among the colored
population in Washington are on the
qui Uiue as to the report in circulation