The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-04-12

pose about 80, 500.
Daniel j. Heltzel committed sui
eide in Umatilla county on the 21st
ult. Cause-insanity.
There were EGO passengers on the
Oriflamme on her last trip from San
francisco to Portland.
At Potero, Cal, last week, Hugh
Riley had his leg blown off by giant
powder and has since died.
The police of San Francisco have
been making heavy raids on the gam
bling houses Of that place.
Measures are being taken to estab-
fish n through mail every "a hours
from Portland to Corvallis.
A young fellow appeared arrayed
in a full suit of "Caliker" at the
Salem calico ball last week.
Caleb Chapman had his hand bad
~ crushed while engaged in hauling
stone in Salem last Monday.
The Vancouver court opened Inst
Monday, at which there was to be
tried a 500. 900 damage suit.
A Portland man gave his wife the
wrong kind of medicine and poisoned
her. She lives to doubt him.
A boy by the name of Vincent, of
Dungeness, w. T., accidentally kill
ed himself while out hunting.
The vessels of the cod fishing fleet
of Puget Sound have been sold one
by n until now none remain.
On last Monday in Los Angeles
one man compelled another with n
drawn revolver to take poison.
The colored citizens of Portland
celebrated the ratification of the
18th Amendment last Tuesday.
G.. W. Lawson, Of Marion county,
announces himself as an Independ-
ent candidate for the legislature.
A sub-contractor on the railroad
near Oakland, absconded the other
day and left several unpaid bills.
A quarrel over n game of cards is
why one Collins shot M Ladner, in
Columbia county, n few days ago.
Two little children of VIM. WEIGH,
of Clackamas county, fell into n mill
race and were drowned let week.
Portland has n brute whose leisure
moments are spentin beating his wife.
Justice must be asleep down there.
The Railroad bridge ut Tehama has
been completed. and trains last week
passed over it and on to Red Bluff.
A school house was burned on Cow
Creek, Douglas Co. last week. Two
men have been arrested on suspicion.
The French of Portland arc sub
scribing Literally TO help discharge
the public debt of their mother coun-
try.
The capital of four mining compa-
MES. incorporated in San Francisco,
last Monday, amounted to Els ,000,-
600.
The loss on Williams pork-packing
house, which was burned in San
Francisco last week, was about $780,
coo.
The residence Of ". j. Robertson
was burned ut Corvallis last Thurs
day. Loss, $4,000. Insurance, ST.
200.
Four hundred men are wanted TO
work on the locks ut Oregon City.
Good wages and steady work guaran-
teed.
A Kalama railroad boss come very
near officiating as corpse at n funeral
by trying to bump n of his Chinese
hands.
A Columbia county boy kicked O
circular saw the other day, and now
his papa has got to buy him an arti-
fetal foot.
j. Holstine, bought 6 claims on
Moultrie Gulch, Baker county for
$3.50 and two days after sold them
for 81, 600.
Geo. L. Woods, the "Sneezer.'
is now in California. The people OF
that State better take in their grind
stones at night.
An italian named Jean Belhomme,
living near the Dalles, died suddenly
ut the Orleans Hotel, in Portland, last
Saturday night.
Three young ladies took the blacl
veil ut San Francisco one day last
week; and a great many men took
whisky straight.
Modoc Indians are trying to raise
trouble in Jackson county. Two com
panies of soldiers have been sen
to Fort Klamath.
California estimates the yield o.
wheat in that state for the coming
season to be 20, OOO, 900 bushels, ant
barley, 10000, 900.
G. II. Walker, the Coolest boy il
Oregon" has yielded the palm t.
Jos. Beers, who, it is claimed. is some