The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-11-18
Albanv 2egister.
PACIFIC soAsr NEWS.

4oUI IlOlis, tAic iOos IouSuLS eSliH&sttcu
t,t $4,000.
The.Eugene City Guard says that on
Wednesday night of last week Mr.. A.
j. Crugaa killed large cougur on the
,1arie between his house and Clover
dale.
A surveying party east oftle noun
tains reported TO the Jacksonville Sen
s$eal that on the mountains east of
I.angel valley, they had found sew
cral sections ofland covered with wild
plums. They estimate the crop at
from four to five thousand bushels.
Matt. Bletlsoe, who is now under
going sentence of Imprisonment in
the penitentiary for period Of ninety
years, for murder in the second degree,
committed some half dozen years ago
in Portland, is to be pardoned soon. it
Is reported.
Ex-Governor Goodwin. Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, accompa-
MED by Gen. Sprague and Others, are
now ia Washington Territory. for the
purpose of selecting terminus for the
road. This, of course, puts the people
Of the aspiring towns in flutter.
The sight will be chosen within the
next sixty days, SO says the Tribune.
The s.no fence law" is being strong
" agitated by nearly all the press in
California. Even the papers in ''cow
counties declare for it. and all declare
it necessary for the progress of the
State.
William Winter, of San Francisco,
whose son committed suicide there
about year ago, dropped dead in his
office last Saturday.
On Monday of last week about thir-
ty Apache Indians attacked the stage,
containing seven passengers, about ten
miles from Winchester Arizona, on its
way to San Bernardino. At the first
fire two passengers on the outside of
the coach and the driver, were killed.
Tll1ee of the five inside of the coach
were killed. VIM. Keeper of Prescott,
and Miss Mollie Sheppard, We're woul-
ded and escaped to the brush. MIR.
Keeper defended himself and Miss
sheppard with six-shooter. They
escaped and reached Wickenberg,
though both severely wounded. The
killed are Fred Shohlm, +. NJ. Loring.
n. N. Solomon, P. w. Harmed, q. s..
Adams, and John Fritz, the driver.
'rhe bodies of two of the men We're
found fifty yards from the stage,
sealped. The baggage and malls We're
Numbered and one horse shot. Great
excitement prevailed and parties were
to start i'm pursuit..
The Kalama w. ~, Te cor, has been
fully adopted as the organ of the n. p.
R. r. Company. and is now furnished
wsth An Office free of rent and is pat
rolized extensively in other ways.
The Vancouver Register has this:
Special Constable jacob Isaacs ar
rested Lewis Miller of Lewis river bot
tom, on Saturday of last week. under
a charge of incest by living in adssiter-
Gus cohabitation with his own sister,
but before the officer had time to wink,
after reading the warrant Of arrest, the
-,,risoner gave ssleg ball. took to
Ssae brush, and has not yet been arrest
ed.
Portland, for its size. is said to have
more drinking. saloons than any other
place in the United States. If.that Is
so, 1t is no credit to- Portland nor the
State. ~
The ssperjury cases of Porslalad is
Suspended for the present, on account
Of the severe illness of Wrestling
joe"
A, nugget of pure gold, worth 500.
vas picked up not long since in French
(,llicii, Baker county.
Last week a. female. performer in
one of the nlelodeons in Portland took
cup of cold pizen,.' with the inten-
ton of shutting off this mortal coil. .
but a stomach pump, kept her from 9
eoroners inquest.
The Utah Northern railroati cosnpa-
ny intend to connect the Union Pacific
and Northern Pacific by rail, extend
ing from Ogden through Utah and
Montana to the line of the Northern
road. They are building now between
Ogden and Soda Springs.
The famine among the farmers OF
San joaquin valley, CAL, according to
their own. statement. is not So great a.
reported, All they ask. is credit for
seed.
We gather from the. Forsland orego-
,aiaa of the 18th, that the Chinese are