The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-14
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.

following account OF a horrible murder
in Yamhill county: On the evening
of the 4th inst, about ~ o'clock. Mr..
Ben. Hasbrook, living up the william
Ina, about nine miles from Sheridan.
was shot and killed by man who was
found in his granery. The particulars,
as we learn them, are about as follows:
| The hired man Went to the granary,
where he found two men. They had
filed off the staple by which the door
was fastened and made an entrance.
The hired man seized one of the rascals
and raised the alarm. wllerenpon the
other thief ran up and struck his part
ner's antagonist with a knife, aiming
at his heart, but ts0me books and papers
1 in his breast pocket staid the blow. and
not much injury was done to his person.
AT this juncture Mr. Hasbrook came
to his mans assistance. when one of
the villains seized Hasbrook's own
shotgun. which was In the granary,
and fired the contents, fifteen buck
shot, through his body, and he fell on
his face without grOan-dead. fhe
murlerers then departed in haste, and
at last accounts. had not beeh captured,
although they had been traced some
distance. Suspicionrests on some par
ties 10 that section, We understand, and
there will probably be arrests made, as
the Sheriff has gone there. Mr.. Has
brook was a peaceable, industrious,
energetic man. He leaves q wife and
young family to mourn his loss.
On Skagit river, W. r., on the 9th
inst, Julian Olney shot and instantly
killed Thomas Bozart. Intimacy with
Olney's wife before he married her,
the cause.
T. w. Brooks is announced as hav-
ing arrived at San Francisco with a
quantity Of precious stones from Ari-
ZOna.
The cupola of boundary exploded
at Grass Valley, CAL. on the 9Th,
throwing molten iron in every direc-
tion, demolishing the cupola and in
juring heather Chinee.
All was quiet in the Modoc country
on the 9TH. Lieut.. Roberts was in a
critical condition.
The Board of Education for the
State Of Oregon., under the law ap-
proved October 20, 1872, effected a
preliminary organization in Salem on
Friday, Mr.. Simpson having qualified
as Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion. The Board consists Of the Gov
ernor, the Secretary and the Superin-
tendent. u, ..-.-,-
AT a meeting Of the farmers Of Ben
ton county, recently held at Corvallis
for the purpose Of forming a Club for
the protection Of their interests, DR..
Bayley communicated proposition
from the Willamette Navigation Com
pany to carry all the grain raised by
members of this Club to Portland for
seven and onc4half cents per bushel, If
insured the whole trade for five years.
This offer was thankfully received. and
will be duly considered by the Club at
an early day.
Forest Grove is reported as improv-
ing rapidly.
J. A. Balch has been appointed Pro-
bate Judge Of Yakima county, W. L.
Rockland has been declared by the
county court of Klikitat county to be
the county seat.
Snow at Idaho City was twenty
inches deep OH the first inst.
Competition among the hotels at
Olympia Is so lively now that when
the runners see stranger on the street
who looks as il he had no lodging
place. they go for him" with the
earnestness ofilncur for vexations
flea.
The Noun aineer gives the following
account Of the journey in state of Old
s.Skamia. " chief Of small, indepent-
ent band Of lazy Indians that cncamp
at the Tumwater, opposite Cello, to
the Yakima Reservation. This old
nuisance. with several Vt his braves,
betecket with feathers, beads and
brass. and bedaubed with paint aud
powdered mud, advanced in company
'front.' to the reservation 10 have a
"waw-waw' with the agent. Tie
chiet was armed with any quantity of
Oapers from innmmerable persons Of
all grades ana distinctions, from ex-
Gov. Woods and eX-Secrehrv May,
down TO half-bped ''tillicunls, all Of
which the old lilk thought wonld have
weight with the agent. One Of these
was 4 letter from an attacie OF some
OF the N. p. II. r. surveying parties,
stating that ''the chief was cOrpl,lent
and colnely In person, fluent IN speech
and arayed like a lily" which state
ment he (the chief assumed was ''hias
close The burden Of his song was
the encroachments If ''cmpire" 80 flr
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