The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-11-15
Senator COFbett was In San Francis
~ an ~ 19kEs Ilaat.

4. A passenger On the John u. BIephsSss
and q girl sixteen years Of age were
arrested In San Francisco on the l2th.
Smith Is charged with abducting her
from Portland.
1t was showing at Yreka, CAL, on
| the l1th inst.
In Jackson county Greeley gets o
majority Of AZ over all--oyer Grant
81.
In Baker county Greeley's majority
is about 30.
Douglas county gives Grant ma
jority over all Of 250--over Greeley,
| 265.
Iii Lane county Grant has received
majority over all Of 2OS-cver Gree
ley 248.
Three inches Of snow fell at the
Dalles last Monday morning.
The first snow of the season fell at
Victoria last Saturday.
BY the premature explosion Of
blast, a man named william Barton,
was blown to atoms at the NanaimO
coal mines, B. G.
lii 1850 California produced 1900
bushels Of wheat; IN 1860 she prOduc-
ed 100000 bushels; this year her
production viii reach 10000, 600 bush
els.
This year California has 6l8 acres In
hops, yielding $4,000 pounds.
Jim Andrews. on Left Hand, Ne
vada, raised this season from one hum
dred and ninety pounds of seed, one
hundred and forty bushels Of barley,
over eighty-four bushels to the acre.
1t IL reported that $4,000 cattle are
on their way from Texas to Idaho
Territory.
The Gentle element is said TO be
increasing much more rapidly than
the Mormon, at Salt Lake.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Is
being snow fenced Its entire length.
Cool mechanics tan make from 81
to IS per day In Arizona.
Golden City, Colorado, is growing
rapidly.
Miss Edith O German had a crowded
house In Salem.
The Oregon Presbytery has appoint
ed Rev. K. n. Geary, d. d., and Elder
Il. M. Reed delegates to the General
Assembly to meet In Baltimore In May
next.
From the Oreg0nida Of Nov. 9th we
take the following in regard to the
Stage Robbers:
This morning the four persons tried,
convicted and sentenced In the United
States District Court for robbing the
stage and mails In Antelope Canyon,
last July, namely: IhOmpkins.
Bramlette, White and Hanson, win
be taken to Salem. In accordance
with the sentence. these men will BE-
confined III the State Penitentiary for
life. 10 tile very last the prisoners
assert their innocence Of the crime for
which they are condemned. Blam-
Iette states that he was taken into the
woods after his arrest and compelled
TO dismolnt by a revolver being plac-
ed at his head. His arms were then
pinioned. a moose placed around his
neck, and he drawn three times from
the earth and allowed to hang until
nearly Strlngulated, under threats
from Ills captors that they would hang
him until he was dead, unless he con-
fessed to the crime; that after being
nearly choked TO death. had contessedto to
the robbery Of the stige. aud at the
instance Of the captors, admitted that
Thompkins. Hanson aud White, were
also engaged In the robbery; that
when he (lSamlette) was allowed to
remount his horse and ride away from
the spot, he emphatically denied every
statement which be had made In his
confessions. He repeated that 1t was
extnted from him under threats OF
death, Int that there was not one
word Of the confession true. Hanson
aud White both stated that they were
innocent ofthe crime. They did not
know. either OF Them, the charge on
which they were arrested until taken
to the house. The parties making the
arrest stated all along that It was for
horses. Hanson said that one
of the principal parties who figured
IN the whole case, had offered him one
dollars if he would escape
but that he (Hanson) Ind refused the
offer. Hanson also suited that he on
" desired to live long enough to see
Ihe whole matter cleared up and to-
recover bis iiaRAe from the Odium
which attached to It BY reason Of his
IN the Matter. He prolOe-
I'd to meet his Elte like a man, and TO-
labor hard and faithfully while be WAS
kept confined; he lMd never set stolen
anything In his lite, and Ills con
science was perfectly clear Oh that
score. All the three prisoners had no
fault t0 tiiM with either the Judge or
jury. They expressed entire sstisfac-
lion with the manner III which the
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