The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-07-18
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Church at salem on Sunday even
ing last.
A man named E. Christensen
committed suicide on the 18th ct
Virginia City, Nevada, by taking
arsenic.
Joseph Mason, of Weston, was
struck in the face with . black
smiths hammer, last week, and
badly hurt.
Frank Caldwell, Of the Cove,
Union county, lost his life recently
while engaged in driving logs down
the Wallowa river. The logs
turned the boat over throwing Mr..
Caldwell under the logs
A school teacher named w. c.
Smith has somewhat suddenly
disappeared from the precincts Of
Boise City.
The Tribune learns from Mr..
Ezra M. Meeker, the celebrated
Puyalltp hop.grower, that his crop
this year will be 10000 pounds at
least. Last year he raised $4,000
pounds, and, as good prices ruled
the market, he realized $4,000 for
his labor and investment.
A three-year old son Of Mr..
George Small, living on the Tou-
chet, Walla Walla county, was
drowned in a ditch near his fathers
residence on Sunday, the 9Th inst.
The MarysviIle (Csl.) Appealo of
the 18th inst. has the following:
A party, consisting of four fam
lilies, and numbering about 80 per.
sons, old and young, arrived here
few days ago from North Car
olina, en- route to Oregon. This
party started from their old homes
in North Carolina with a view Of
settling in Kansas, but on reaching
that State were not pleased with
the country and pushed on toward
Oregon. They stopped over one
day here for the purpose of looking
about, but meeting no tlattering
offers in SO short a time they re-
solved to push on to the Webfoot
country.
The Boise City Statesman speaks
thus of rabbits in that vicinity:
"These long cared birds are said to
be very thick on the other side of
Boise river. They live and breed
in the sagebruSh, forage on the
grain fields, and come down to the
river in the middle OF the day for
water. 1t affords nice opportu.
nifty to kill them. Mr.. Frost,
eighteen miles below here, says the
rabbits have destroyed fifteen acres
Of grain for him, and many others
make similar complaints. Mr.. w.
l.. Thurman says his little boys
killed 1000 last week, and they
don't think it much of . killing
after all, for the rabbits seem to be
about as plenty as ever. Two boys
will shoot from IT'S to 200 a day.
When they get tired of shooting
they lay down their guns and go
to pelting them to death with
stones as they pass BY for water
This is pretty good rabbit story,
but a true one"
A correspondent of the Bed
Rock Democrat says: On June
29th Union and vicinity was visited
by the heaviest rain and hail storm
ever known in this valley. 1t com.
menced at 2 o'clock and in lese
than 80 minutes the whole face of
the country was a lake OF water.
A water-spout burst on the bills
directly north Of the farms OF Mrs.
Gates and Mrs ID. r. Benson,
Snd about two miles east of Union,
and the whole face Of the Hill was
one grand roaring cataract from
summit to base, the water in some
of the guIehes being six teet deep;
washing hundreds Of tons Of stone
down into the road and fields below,
many of which would weigh from
800 to 500 pounds, and two or
three have been estimated at 1000
to 1900 pounds. 1t ruined Mr..
Benson's garden and uprooted some
Of his apple trees; washed down
and carried away nearly q half