The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-03-22
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Minmvillc, and the Board Intends to
erect a $4,000 building oil the
ground as soon as possible.
The Olympia papers say that
the recent mOvemeutot Good Tenn
,lars in Olympia to prevent the to-
tai issuance of licenses 10 keep a
saloon, has resulted in angmentlng
the number of saloons in that place
who pay nothing whatev,r.
\ brass howitzer, twelve pound
rr, consigned to the Vancouver ar
~ual, was accidentally deposited III
the river from the Hdyedrd the
..tAermoraiug, al the Government
wharf at that place. One hundred
dollars is offered for its recovery.
We learn from the Vancouver
KeqiSter that the Land Office at
that place has received Instructions
from Washington that hereafter in
all eases of communications OF home
stead entries, Agricultural College
scrip may be taken III payment.
Heretofore such scrip was only
available in entries under the pre-
emption law.
SchwaI,acher Pros. q Co., of
Seattle, have madearrangcmcntS for
erecting a brick building for their
business which will cost them when
completed lot ilIcludel) $4,000.
1t will Ike the largest and tlnestat store
in the Territory.
\ mysterious murder has come
10 light at Maple BAY. Some days
ago Mr.. John French, a farmer who
is working land-claim about one
mile from Maple Bay, left bis farm
and came to Victoria i'll the Sir
James Do"Gios, leaving his place
in charge of all old man by the
lame Of james Simpson. Simpson
was seen down to Sunday. On
Monday he did not make bis ap-
pearaLcc, and one Of the neighbors,
having occasion to go to the cabin,
pushed open the dooraEd found the
old man lyingdead. y bullet-hole
in his breast and other circumstances
showed that he had been toulIy
dealt with. Nothing had been
stolen. An inquest was held by
Mr.. Morely, Justice OF the Peace,
and a verdict of "mur,lered by some
person or persons unknown" was
rendered.
The roads are horrible in the re-
gion about Portland.
Thomas Callcn, aged seven, had
o foot crushed beneath carriage
wheel on Saturday, in Portland.
Mrs. Mary Murrer, on an East
ward bound train, while tile train
was still in motion, fell from the
platform of an eunigrant car at
Yoans, Nevada, on the 10th, and
was instantly killed.
Robert Pollock, a brakeman III
the employ Of the Virginia e.
'rn,ckee Railroad Company, while
passing from one car to another
while the train was passing through
the tunnel above Silver City switch,
Nevada, fell through between two
cars and was instantly killed.
From the Corvallis GuzetIe:
George Mercer, last week, surveyed
q twenty acre reservation for the
Lighthouse on Cape Foulweather
point. Work on the Lighthouse
will be vigorously prosecuted in a
short time.
The overtirnilg of a carriage
near San Francisco on the 18th, re-
suited in the killing of an infant,
which was in its mothers arms.
An effigy ofSt. Patrick on pole
in San Francisco on the l7th, stir
red up Irish "blud." They wanted
to find the man that did it, but
didn't.
During a fire in San Frarcisco
Oh the evening Of the 18th in which
a building was consumed, Mr.. J.
johnson fell dead on the sidewalk
from heart disease.
Angora goats in Klickitat valley
have wintered well.