The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-03-14


The Neah Bay Indians captur
whales with steel harpoons, which ar
buoyed up by bladders attached Il
ropes.
Good coal has been discovered a
Auburn, Eastern Oregon.
A daughter of Hon. I. B. Odeneal,
of Salem, died last Saturday, aged
five years and six months.
The ladies Of Baker City vary the
monotony of things by running foot
races on the streets.
Cast iron monuments for the bound
arys line between Oregon and Nevada
are being made in San Francisco.
The average temperature of Baker
City during February was two degrees
above zero.
A boy five years old, son of Mr.. j.
5. Beard, near Pocahontas, Baker
county. was playing near a wagon
box, en- the lst. when the box was ac-
cidently turned over and falling OH
the little one killed him almost in
stantly.
At regular meeting and the annual
election OF the Faculty of the Medical
Department of the Willamette Uni
versity, held Saturday evening, the
following named members of the Fa-
Guilty were chosen as the officers for
the ensuing year: II. Carpenter, NJ.
d., Dean, 5. r. Jessup, NJ. D., aud
G. II. Hall, NJ. d., Auditing Commit
tee F. r. Fiske, NJ. d., d. Payton,
NJ. D., delegates to the American
Medical Association, which meets in
st. Louis, Missouri, next May.
Seattle people are just now much
exercised over the law compelling
liquor saloons to be kept closed on
Sunday.
Robert A. Lee, who so brutally out
ragged a lady at Ogden Junction, Utah,
was examined before Judge Hawley,
and committed to Jail in default Of
$5, 900 bail.
Salinas valley, Cal, raised $4,000
sacks of mustard seed last year.
Florence, gAIizona, has organized
Vigilantes, who have warned all sus-
piciOus persons to travel.
The Postmaster at Trinity Center,
Cal, is paid the munifcent salary Of
one cent day.
The Corvallis Gazette says; Mr.. G.
B. Wells, of this county, shipped three
fine deer for Portland. They have
been purchased by DIR. 0. p. s. Plum
mer, and were intended for a gentle
man in Illinois, whittier they will go
by steamer and rail. !"
Capt. John Cunningham, father-in-
law to Senator Logan, of Illinois, died
of apoplexy at Proro, Utah, OH the
7th. lie served with distinction In the
Mexican war; was 70 years Of age.
Sixty-nine persons died in San Fran
cisco during last week.
There were seven American ships In
the harbor of San Francisco on the 8th,
waiting for sailors.
The warehouse Of II. G. Kinney, at
Eugene City Is finished.
Hon. G. w. Riddle, OF Douglas
county, lost sixteen innocent lambs
last week by cayotes.
A watch, dropped into st. Mary's
river on Saturday and fished out on
Monday, was still running. saysan ex-
change.
A man in Lane county made 4,200
rails each ten feet long and averaging
3x4 inches In size, ont OF one tree.
The Corvallis Library already has
three hundred volumes and fifteen
weekly Oregon papers, with the antic-
ipated addition, in a short time, Of
the leading Eastern periodicals and
magazines.
The Indians around Canyon City,
are beginning to show disposition to !
"break ont"
Spiritual seances are held almost !
daily at Baker City, and some lively !
times are witnessed among the tables,
chairs and other furniture.
The Board Of State Land Commis-
sioners have fitted up the old Senate
chamber at Salem, to be used as an Of |
flee, their former quarters being too
small.
John W. Kelly has purchased . one
halt interest in the Salem Mercury, and |
hereafter the paper will be conducted !
by Thompson q Kelly.
Charles Wrenn, a former resident of |
Pierce county, died at Victoria on the
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