The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-01-31

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their full part towards the Greeley
monument.
Oregon City is fretted over mischief
making hoOdlums.
Clubs now being formed by Oregon
farmers are large and numerous.
The Territorial treasury at Olympia
has $40, 900 in it. The Treasurer is
ready to pay warrants.
Five Hundred miles of irrigating
canals have been surveyed in Colorado
during the last three months.
The brayest man yet discovered is
the Olympia chap who imagined that
he heard a noise the other night, and
carefully avoiding disturbing his wife,
crept out on the roof with a pistol and
staid there all night.
The following is said to have occur
red at Boise City short time ago: A
gentleman sat down to supper, and
pointing to an object he had discovered
in the hash, Indignantly inquired Of
the waiter: "What do you call-thatY'
THAT, " said the waiter. "appears to
be wrist-band, with II sleeve button
attached" "Well, +" said the custo-
mer in wrath, "do you think that a
proper thing for man to find IN his
hashs" "Good heavens, SIR" cried
the waiter, ''wOuld you expect to find
a ten dollar silk umbrella In fifteen
cents worth of llash?" One boarder
less.
Cl,as. A. Russell, of San Francisco,
the murderer of James Crafty, has
been sentencedt to be hung on the 2lst
Of March next.
1t il stated that the Canadian horse
disease has broken ollt IN the northern
part Of Douglas county. Several
horses had died. and Others were like
ly to die, no remedy having been
found for it.
1t is believed that vicious Indian
warriors. belonging to various tribes
III California, Oregon. Idaho and Ne
vada. are making their way to Capt.
Jacks camp.
The Mercury of the 25th says: The
Governor. on Wednesday last, made
out a list of lands embracing l,840
acres, selected for Capitol building
purposes, and caused the same to be
transmitted to the La Grande Land
Office for approval, said lands being
located in that district. Also a list Of
the same class of lands embracing
GAL 3O-10O acres, located In the Rnie-
burg district. Under the Act of Con-
gress admitting Oregon into the Union,
ten sections OF land were granted to
the State to assist in the erection of
public buildings. The last Legislature
passed ali Act apprOpriating the pro-
Ceeds of the sale of these lands to
assist in building our State Capitol,
and hence the Governors action In
the matter. The remainder of the
grant will be selected IN a short time.
A party of eleven tourists, from
England, OH trip around the world,
arrived in Salt Lake not long since.
Col. Perry who was seriously
wounded in the Modoc fight, was
taken to his quarters at Camp Harvey.
The Umplm Academy at Wilbur
has seventy-five students, and is rapid
ly building up.
From the BMletiAwe learn that by
invitation of DR.. Hawthorne, Snpt. Of
the Insane Asylum at East Portland,
the East Portland Band played for the
amusement and pleasure of the un-
fortunate inmates of the Asylum, last
Saturday evening. The entertainment
was highly relishetl by the inmates,
some fifty tunes being played ,Tas they
called for them. DIR. Hawthorne then
invited the band out to fine collation.
spread for the occasion.
A laborcr oil the pilot boat Astoria.
named Caleb II. Winter. was drowned
on the Columbia river Bar OH Thurs
day Of last week.
1t has been proposed to capture
Captain Jacks forces with fire-water.
Let the Government send down there
a dozen casks Of forty rod lightning
whisky. put upa job on the Indians
and let them capture 1t. And then--
CLANS. oysters, hallihIt, fresh cod,
founders. herring, crabs, trout, ETC.,
form a part Of the living at Olympia.
Santa Barbara has an apple tree
which hears three crops a year, having
always OH its branches ripe apples,
halfgrown apples and blossoms.
Salt Lake City l. troubled with
smallpox, killing the children, and
the epizootic killing the horses. The
Mormons are deeply grieve'l. and say