The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-01-19
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with good teachers, and arc -four
islling.
Numerous burglarics have been
committed in Portland recently.
The Chief Of Police flas discovered
one of the thieves to be q Mr.. Viii
son, whom he arrested last week.
In his cabin wastourd enough stolen
goods, i'll quantity and variety to set
UP a grocery, says the Bn'letin.
Some registered letters arc report
ed to Lave been found recently mn
der piLc t.rc q short distance from
CanyoMillc. The BuR,tin says
that suspicion rests upon three Or
four parties. Postal agent Under
wood has gore to territ out the
matter.
Tie railroad mail bas for points
north OF Eugene, was found about
five miles north of jacksonville,
on the 10th. Tie bag was cut open.
School houses in Portland are
ovcr4owing with pupils. There is
talk Of cnlargiug or building.
\ Portland Journal rays that
ninety per cent. ofthc crime III that
city is caused by whisky and the
remaining ten per cent. by women.
From the Bui!etin we learn that
a desperate Indian by the name Of
Jim, living at the Indian quarters
near Oregon City, while in beast
ly state OF iltox;cation on q night
Of last week, went to lis raLcho ard
assaulted his wife with q hatchct,
almost literally cutting her to pieces
about the head, face aid arms.
With q child III her arms size Ell
deavccd to get away from him,
when lie dragged herto the ground,
and taking the child from her dash
ed it upon the earth seriously injur-
ing it. Another Indian here inter-
frcd, but he was instantly killed by
a few blows from the INfc4Stt:--.s He.
was at length oycrpowsted by other
Indians, and marched, under the
cover Of q gun an pistol, to the city,
but not uEt he had been fired up
on twice, onc shot taking effect in
his arm. lie was then placed in
Jail, but succeeded in getting out Of
the rickety structure, and is now at
large. 1t was thought that tie
woman could not live.
Elisha Cook, a prominent lawyer
of San Francisco, and ore Of Mrs.
Fairs counsel, is reported dead.
The amount Of water fallen i'll
San Francisco up to tile 3D., is re-
ported as 81 inches.
A negro woman, upwards of a
years old, from near Salem,
died in the Insane Asylum last
week.
A Chinaman died Of disease, star
yation and neglect at Marysyille,
CAL, recently.
On the 9th inst, the snow on
Scott mountain, Cal, was from
twelve to twenty feet deep, the tel
pgraph line an many places being
entirely out of sight.
A brick building belonging to
Kelley and Mattingley, Spanish
town, CAL, with contents, was en-
Iirely consumed by fire on tie 3d.
The upper part was occupied by the
Odd Fellows, whose loss was about
81 ,200. Kelley d. Co., lost about
5000. No insurance.
A fire at Hamilton, Ncv., on the
3D. inst, destroyed the Masonic and
Odd Fellows Halls. Loss ten
thousand dollars.
brigham Young, on the indict-
ncnt for murder, was refused bail
BY Judge Mexican on the ID inst.
He was placed a prisoner in hisown
lweIling.
A dispatch from Corlnnc, on the
Both ult., states that no trains have
passed Medicine Bow since the 22d. |
A later dispatch says, the trains
we're blockadcd and were short of
uel and lights; the provisions were
scarcer and prices more
and nasSenoprs mutin- |