The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-03-29
ate L.P. Buck. "a South Valley,

Cal, on the 9th, BY shooting six
buckshot from q shot gun ihto his
body, as he was seated at table in
| his own house. 1t is thought he
will recover.
New potatoes from California
arc in the Portland market.
Street slrinklers have begun to
dampen the dust on the streets Of
Portland.
Just beyond the north end ofthe
first twenty-five mile section of the
y. P. X. r., the Kalama paper says,
| is a stretch Of four miles which will
require as much work to make it
railroad as any four miles in Amer
lea.
Isaac Carson, of Steilacoom, has
paid to the territorial Treasurer $500
growing out Of the Investigation Of
certain accounts ofhis BY a commit
tee of the last Legislature, it being
the amount over charged by him
for transporting of prisoners, etc.
Jesse v. Boone, of Clackamas
county, was shot fatally last Mon
day, about 9 O'Clock A. NJ, by ia
cob Ipgle, on the premises Of the
deceased, near Boone's ferry land
il,g. The dispute arose about the
division Of some sheep. Boone died
a few minutes after he was shot.
lngle was arrested.
The first municipal election at
kalama will be held on the LIST Of
April. Suggestive.
The lands of the Dalles Military
Road Go. have been bonded at San
Francisco for $4,000.
The number of scholars of legal
age III Polk county is 2,234; the
amount of coin to he distributed is
S3,62S 03.
A bill has been introduced into
the Cnited States Senate, provlds
ing for the appointment of a com
mission to run a boundary line be-
tween the frontiers of the United
States and Great Britain, from the
Lake of the Woods to the summit
Of the Rocky mountains.
The Republicans have carried the
municipal election at Sacramento,
elocting Chris Green, Mayor, by 3S4
majority.
a ranch of 100000 acres in
Lower California recently sold to a
New York company for $4,000.
! The whole cost OF the State Cap
itol at Sacramento has been 81, ,400,-
900, and it is still far from compile
tom There was gross waste inthe
work during Governor llaight's
administration, and overpayments Of
hundreds Of thousands OF dollars.
The Olympia Transcript learns
that a bond has been prepared and
approved, in the sum Of $250,000,
conditioned that the n. p. Il. r.
Company will build tasir road TO.
Budd's Inlet in accordance with
their agreement with the citizens of
Olympia.
The French la,lics of San Fran
cisco intend holding a fair for the.
purpose Of rai,iug funds to assist
in paying off the German war i'll
demnity.
A very enthusiastic ratification
meeting was held in Portland on
the night Of the 2lst. Speeches
were made by Kelsey, Cap'es and
Hare. Wilsonwas unable tobe out.
III Sheridan, Yamhillcolu,ty, last
week, an incendiary made two un-
successful attempts to burn the
town by setting fire, first to a stable
shed, second to an unoccupied buid.
ing.
t,roquct is now the fashion in
Portland.
A snow pow trsinon the North |
ern Pacific Railroad on the 2lst |
inst, became separated during a
binding storm, and when the Or. i
ward section stopped, the rear CHI
ginc came up and te'c>copcd the
two cars, killing the conductor,
Fitzgerald.
At the Democratic Convention at
Jacksonville on'tlr 4s3d, the mod.
crate wing of the party elected o