The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-02-09

NuptVJNh NJ bAt0 NVAA1ss tAkveON' Sa ANep
railroads MIsfu; $500 pCrnAOulh
and expenses paid, but was unable
to obtain them there, aud was com.
PEELED to seek them in New York.
IN tho United States Court at
salt Eake, Jan. s1st, Deputy AT.
torney High, pursuant TO instrnc-
tions from Attorney General Will
liams, moved that al prisoners IN
custody Of the United States in
Utah, be dismissed on bail. Chief
Justice Mexican delivered the de-
cision, which receives universal COM
mendation from gentiles and liber-
ais. lie alluded to the fact that Of
eleven prisoners charged with mur-
der SIX were held in custody in the
city without expense to the Gov
ernnent, and five at Camp Douglas
at thirty cents a day each. Some
OF the murders were committed
under circumstances ofgpat mys-
terry and atr6eity; some openly in
the face of mankind. Now these
prisoners are turned loose before
trial. SIT isMitl precelcnt. Re-
sides there 40 reasons which can
not be made public why those per-
sons should not be admittedto bail,
reasons which District Attorney
Bates cannot have communicated to
Attorney, General Williams, and to
which Mf. Bates seems quite in
different. Indeed, he is known by
the Court to have made in other
particulars serious m'sstatemelIts in
regard to affairs in Utah ON this
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judicial question. | am placed
here to decide under the law all
judicial questions that shall arise in
the District Court. Were | to
shrink now from a plain duty, it il
not improbable that the irresponsi.
bic magistrate called Judge Lynch
would assume the Office which
would thereby have proved myself
unworthy to hold. | refuse to sd.
nit these prisoners to bail. Mr.
Bates urged upon the Attorney
Generalthe application for bail or
the ground ostensibly Of the heavy
expense.
Bridget Mcguire was severely
/. 3 j
burned by tie explosion ofa coal
oil lamp in Portland last week.
Capt. Freeman, ofthe brig Bre'c
ster, died ON the 10th Of January
during the voyage Of the vessel from
Portland. tFeE t9 r. San isHt Francisco
Mr.. II. 4. Morris caught a runa
way horse near Dallas, which rear
ed and stuck him on the lower jaw
fracturing it severely, and knocking
out a tooth, says tho Republican.
Forty Chinaman attend th'
Methodist Sunday School in Port
land.
he Bulletin says, four curls, de
pending from the top of the head
fastened by black velvet or bright
ribbons, is how the Portland ladies
ornament their craniums.
The colored people have q dan
cling club in Portland, numbering
some thirty.
Accounts from Willow Creek and
Antelope Valley report that stock
has suffered very little thus far.
From the Eugene Journal We
learn that Charles Montgomery, a
brakesman on the Railroad, while
the construction train was backing
up to the front from Eugene, lost
his footing and falling upon :he
track, had one arm and both legs
severed from his body by the wheels
Of four cars and the locomotive pas
sing over them. He died in about
twenty minutes, his last words be-
ing, 4JohnAS wake me up."
A locomotive aud tender was run
of the track at Eugene last week
on Thursday, damaging the latter,
and making q black place on a col
orcd mans leg, says the Journal.
The Statesman reports that J.
H. Upton, late Of the Salem Her
cury, issuiag 70 Lafayette, instead
OF Grande Ronde valley. TO start a