The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-10-07
PACIFIC, COAST NEWS.
Lotteries are on the waue in Ca

Lotteries are on the waiie in Cali
fornia.
They have been indulging in
tremendous carnival ball in San
Francisco. .ee-s.-...~-=.
Wheat is quoted at W ALA NValla,
w. T., at 65 cents, butter 37a cents
per pound, and eggs at 25 cents
per dozen.
Wheat is quoted at 81 per bush.
at Eugene. Over 10000 bushels
have been taken in at the Eugene
City Mills this season.
The Dallas Republican reports
wheat at 81 25 per bushel, and
oats at rs cents.
The Salem Statesman quotes
wheat there at 81 25. At these
rates Oregon is. certainly getting
along.
The Walla Walla Tnion reports
more houses sto let' in that place
now, Oh account of the small pox
scare, than ever seen by the editor
before. The same paper indicates
that the leadirg question of the day
there is-e How is your scab?"
An eff:.,rt to divide Walla Walla
county will be pressed in the Wash
ington Territory Legislature.
Last Monday a bridge in course
of obstruction across NerdigriS
river, Indian Territory, near Fort
Gibson, fell with large number of
workmen on it. Three were killed
and sixteen wounded.
From Carson, Nevada, we learn
that l>aacs, the guard, who was SO
badly wounded at the breaking out
of the prisoners at Carson, has had
his leg amputated. Fears are Ell
tertai.sed that he will not recover.
Also, few days ago, officers ar
rested Morton and Black, two es-
capped convicts, a d severely wound
ed young Roberts, in Round Val
ley. The officers turned Morton
and Black over to two ranchers liv-
ing in the valley, and started in pur.
suit of Roberts. They took him
after two days chase, and returned
with linn to the place they had left
the other two, but could find no
trace of them. 1t is supposed they
were lynched by parties living near
as the feeling against them is very
strong on account of the killing o
VIM. Poor, the pony rider. Officer
were expected with Bigler and Nc
Cue, captured near Placervllle.
The Portland Bulletin says:
A couple Of weeks ago Miss Ma
rian Evans, who is teaching schoo
at San Marguerite, San Luis Obispt
county, California, was informed b.
her scholars that a strange anima
had taken refuge iii a tree near by
Miss Evans proceeded to the spot
and finding the animal to be Cali
fornia lion, procured gun from
neighbor and killed the animal a
; the second shot. He weighed s.
pounds. Miss Evans is II year
old, and is the daughter of Col. A
S. Evans, author of "Our Siste
Republic . The Pogonip," etc.
. We learn from the Sentinel tina
the stage has been robbed lately
:, near Cottonwood, California, c
some 500, taken from the expires
box.
: Ice one-fourth of an inch thic'
formed in Baker City September L
e There are one thousand Chimes
c shoemakers in San Francisco.
i The Arizo (Prescott) Miner, {
: September 23d, publishes lette
9 dated Aqua Caliente, Septembe
$ 17th, which says: Settlers on tn
: lower Gila are preyed upon b
Mexican outlaws, from Sonoma wit
impunity. The settlements al
: robbed of horses and cattle, and til
citizens are killed on American sol
: Government protection should b
e extended TO put an end to th
> guerfiiifian war. Hundreds ofTe,
- an, cattle have been stolen frol
of droyers coming this route til
e summer. -Four whites and seve
:. Mexicans are known to have bee
:. murdered during the past fe'