The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-04-12
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Eugene has a fire company.
Bouquets, in Portland, 81 each.
Portland has the base ball fever,
Portland is infested with robbers.
Portland has $25 1888 35 in its city
treasury.
A chicken in East Portland has
four legs.
San Francisco has u gambling hell
for females.
Last Sunday San Francisco had q
s25, 900 fire.
There are II steamboats, plying on
Puget Sound.
Horse-racing has commenced at
Jacksonville.
Chemeketa Hotel, Salem, is to be
opened June 1st.
Work has commenced on the Sa-
lem court house.
County Court was in session this
week at Dallas.
The Masons of the Dalles are GO
inE IN build q hall.
Work on the locks at Oregon City
is progressing finely.
Gov. Grover will stump the State
during the next canras.
A new saw and grist mill are being
erected at Independence.
Two prisoners Bored out Of the
Walla Walla Jail last week.
Jack Miner, the Oregon race horse,
is on his way to Yreka, Cal.
Board ut Helena, Montana. during
the big snow, was $40 q week.
Arizona Territory is out of debt
and has So ,313 in the treasury.
Plenty OF land ut Astoria to be-
taken up at Government prices.
There is a vineyard in Sonoma
county, Cal, covering 500 acres.
Mails come from San Francisco to
Portland in four days and n half.
Water pipes are being shipped
from Tumwater, w. T., to Salem.
Work has been commenced on the
new Episcopal church in Portland.
An octogenarian. named Hugh
Thompson, died Mt Salem last week.
Rev. C. NJ. Blake is coming on n
lecture tour mp through the Valley.
There has been plenty of frost Mt
Jacksonville, within the last few days.
The treasury of Walla Walla coun-
ty was robbed of $50 900 last week.
Two hundred men are employed
on the San Pedro, Cal, b~reakwater.
California has hired n State tree
planter at 81 800 year and expenses.
4 San Francisco girl rejected a
sutton and he shot hor dead, last
week.
The "free-schoolers" we're cleaned
out ut the election in Corvallis last
week.
A Mexican was killed in n drunken
brawl last Wednesday in Sau Fran
cisco.
Work on the lighthouse at Cape
Foulweather will be resumed the first
of May.
Within the last ten years the Mon
tann mines have produced over $780,
oOO, 900.
Five stemears n month will ply
between Portland and San Francisco
after this.
California Legislature has adjourn
ed and the people heave a deep sigh
of relief.
The attendance at the Mormon
conference was estimated ut Il, 1000
persons.
Up to last Saturday, San Francisco
had raised $1,000 for the earthquake
sufferers.
The amount of fines imposed in
Portland during the last quarter was
s~2,752.5O.
The soil is Sc dry in the lower
parts of Sonoma, Cal, that they
can't pillow.
A boy in Jackson county has a
finger and thumb less by playing with
a cartridge.
A new saw mill is being erected on
Pudding river, Marion county, by the
Davis Bros.
Eliza mine at Humbug, Cal, has
been sold to a San Francisco compa-
ny for s55, 900.
The earthquake in California filed
up a great number of wells and dried
up many springs.
The Columbia is rising. Tt will
be very high this spring on account
of the hard winter.
A woman got "head put on her"
in Portland for dancing with anothe,
woman's husband.
Appeals r being made in Califor.
MIA in behalf of the sufferers by the
great earthquake.
The earthquake business, etc., is
causing many C~aIifornians to immi.