The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-11-24

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Earhart.
u. B. Nichols, of Salem, is miss
ing. and it is feared by his wife and
friends that he has been murdered
for his money.
A COW was found in we'll at Port.
land and Capt. Crandall thinks the
stingy old thing went down there to
water her milk"
Portland has woman who has
hung out her sign bearing the in
scription, "doctress, astrologeross,
and fortupe-teller."
The Pima Indians killed 32 APP
aches near Camp Apache. Arizona,
and returned to Sanford with s chill
dren as prison ers.
A woman has shocked the modesty
of Portlanders by appearing upon
their streets wearing q pair of mascu-
line red-top boots.
Col. W. W. Chapman has gone TO
Washington city to look after the in-
terests of the Portland, Dalles, and
Salt Lake railroad. -
Mr.. Jordon, contractor on til o
Willamette Locks Works at Oregon
City. has absconded, leaving debts to
the amount of $34, 900.
| A cougar killed S. II. Lanes colt,
in Douglas county, and Lane slew
the cougar. They're even now--the
colt and the cougar, we mean.
A young girl, fourteen years old !,
was forwarded from California to
Maryland by Wells. Fargo & Co.'S
express the other day. A sweet cargo.
L. S. Marshal Tom. Young, Of
Portland. has been presented with n
$500 gold watch by 10 of the Assist
ant Marshals who took the census
last year.
The Lane county sheriff tried TO
squelch the hurdy-guriy house nj
Eugene, but his case was demurred
out of court nnl the Recorder said
"On with the dance"
John Thomas, of Portland, mistook
pair of boots hanging in front of a
store for his own, and now rusts
within prison walls for 80 days for
his inexplicable mistake.
If Matthew Dunn, Of Lane coun-
ty. hadn't stopped on the road to
drink with three strangers he
wouldn't have been drugccd by their
whisky and robbed OF $i03
The lager beer cellars. where fe-
male talent (?) is employed to sling
beer, and the melodeons, entail an
indirect cost upon Portland of about
two thousand dollars per month.
A robber would have got off with
Mr.. Kings watch and things at
Watsonville, Cal, the other day, but
Mr.. KS pistol went off and the rob-
her now sleeps in the valley.
Miss X. Turner sues CALEDONIA
Ortiz, in San Francisco, for $500 600
damages for breach of promise and
q busted gizzard. Nothing like
drawing it mild on poor fellow, you
know.
Over three hundred lives were lost
by the Chinese typhoon Of Sept. I'd.
One thousand persons were drowned
in New Chewang and 10000 square
miles were inundated in Northern
China. f.-
4 careless powder blast in San
Francisco, last Saturday, sent rocks
weighing hundreds of pounds
through the air in every direction
Several buildings were damaged but
) no one hurt. $3.50
A San Fra-cisco militia company
got up ball for the benefit of the
Wisconsin sufferers, but their ar
mory burned up the night OF the ball
and they had to use the benefit mon
ey to replace it.
]. Sherley, of Eugene, was last
week sentenced to ono year in the
! Penitentiarv for larceny, but the
Lane county Jail was old and rotten
and he is now gone where the wood
bine twineth.
The railroad was assessed $4,000
: per mile in Clackamas county, and
Holladay cusses inuchly. He says
he won't again import lot Of thieves
and bummers into that county to
: carry it for the RAIDS.
The steamer John L. Stevens
t encountered the severest storm
a known for years on her trip from
San Francisco to Portland last week.
: Her wheel-house, guards and top.
0 houses were carried away.
The storm at the mouth of the
s Columbia last week tossed the sea
t over the Government property and
damaged "Uncle Sam" to the amount
s of So 900. The lower streets of AS.
s toria were completely submerged.
Judge Deadly has decided that the
half-breed, Mckay, who was refused
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