The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-06-28

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entire desert may be reclaimed by
artesian wells.
G. D.. Wells, of Corvallis, mourni
lachrymosly in IN obituary notice in
the Corvallis Gazette, over the deatf
Of a favorite dorg.
One hundred families near Walla
Walla recently pulled up stakes ant
moved into Idaho, to settle on lapdt
north OF Lewiston.
The proceeds of the eggs that
Utah hens lay on Sunday are devo.
ted to assisting immigration of Nor.
mons to that country.
A soldier named Marony was kill
ed at TT. Klamath a few days ago by
q discharged soldier, named Brooks,
who is now in custody.
Mrs. Duniway recently addressed
an immense audience ut Boston and
awakened q good deal Of interest and
inquiries about Oregon.
California is ahead yet. A boy on
lyS years old was broughtinto Stock
ton the other day charged with steal
ing q horse and buggy.
Mrs. Kidder, wife of Charles A.
Kidder, late County Clerk of Solano
county. is an applicant for tho posi-
ton held by her husband.
San Francisco is to have a grand
old fashioned barbecue on the
Fourth, ut which several oxen and
sheep will be roasted whole.
Gen Mckinney caned Chas. Proch,
editor of the Olympia Tribune, last
week, for abusive language used in
his paper against the General.
A boy named Fee was killed in
Stockton. last Sabbath, by becoming
entangled in the halter of a horse
and being dragged for a few blocks.
After July LIST the express train
will leave Portland in the morning
and run through to Oakland, return
ing in the evening Of the same day.
1t is said that the 0. S. n. Co.
have sold out to tho North Pacific
Railroad Co. and that the property
will be turned over about the LIST of
July.
Goldsmith Maid and Lucy, the
celebrated trotters, will be at the
State fair of California. The Maid
will try her speed with S.anford's
horse.
The sheriff OF Jackson county is
en- route for Salem with two Indians
who will take up their quarters in
the Penitentiary-both sent up for
larceny.
Mrs. l.. d. Lattimer has been
elected School Trustee in Russian
river township. Sonoma county. by
a vote Of two to ORG over her male
competitor.
W. G. Hull and J. NJ. Gwin have
just arrived in Boise valley from
Canada, with a large lot of chickens,
bulls. heifers, sheep and hogs of the
most improved breeds.
San Francisco enjoyed the sensa-
ton of Witnessing an unannounced
comet N night last week. II was
in sight five minutes and was witness
ed by thousands of people.
The Bulletin cries Justify for gas
for the Portland town clock. The
editor Of that paper might spare
enough without any inconvenience
to anybody-but the clock.
A step-daughter OF Chris. Taylor,
of Long Tom, Benton county, was
last week thrown from n horse and
dragged by her foot, which caught
in the stirrup, until she was killed.
Last Friday the thermometer stood
liz in the shade at Los Angeles. 1t
was only IS in this city, and We
thought then it vas hot enough to
melt the conscience of Beast Butler.
At Virginia, Nevada, last week one
Ryan shot his wife and then himself
through the head, being instantly
killed. Cause supposed to be jeal-
ousy, she having applied for n divorce.
The contract for furnishing Fort
Boise with 800 cords of wood, $50
bushels of coal, 100 900 pounds of
grain, and 100 tons of hay, has been
awarded to Orlando Robins, of Boise
City.
Fighting Joe Hooker is now en-
tirely helpless from palalytic prostra-
ton, and has to be supported by at
PENDANTS wherever he goes. He is
now in California for the benefit of
his health.
The Salem Mercury calls Holiday
the railroad hog" andth Willamette
Farmer allndes to him as ''the il
centious old reprobate." A rose by
any other name certainly wouldn't
stink worse.
Some execrable wretch at Dallas
last week removed the nuts from the