The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-05-15
BAcYFrt COASTERS.

I'd Coos Bay. n .
is Wheat forty cents per bushel il
'e Walla Walla.
Is The mining season in Baker coun
/ ty will be short.
6 Grain in Union county is doing
is remarkably we'll.
It Sheep shearing in Union county
?, has fairly commenced.
G Spectators from Victoria are buy
t ing up sheep in Union county.
Baker and Canyon City are to
have weekly connection by mail.
Crops in Baker and Union counties
are, generally looking promising.
]. G. Williams, of Umatilla county,
has put in large crop of peanuts.
Tom Merry, OF the Coos Bay
No,cs, is laid up again with sickness.
The farms around the residences of
Baker City folks are being turned into
orchards.
The coal shipment last week at
Coos Bay was $50 tons; lumber ditto,
$50 NJ feet
Jacksonvillians are preparing to
celebrate the Fourth. They are talk
ing about it.
Mr. VIM. Watson is collecting sam
pies of Oregon wool to send to Aus
tria and Scotland
Cove, in Union county, has a Union
Temperance Society just organized,
with SO members.
Judge Sawyer, Of San Francisco, is
holding term of the U. s. District
Court in Portland.
The Grangers of McMinnville have
purchased lot and will build q hall
upon it this summer.
The stage from Roseburg to BED
ding, Cal, is carrying large number
of passengers every day
Messrs, Patton and Humphreys, of {
tbe Red HillaAIarion county, killed 9 q
wolves in one day last week,
James McDonough, of Jacksonville,
sold his trotting horse Barney Flan~ il
ders," last week, for $1,000 0
A Forest Grove doctor has a live h
specimen of the horned toad 1t was 7
sent him from San Diego, Cal n
The Dayton now only makes semi C
weekly trips up the Yamhill. Freight Il
has become rather scarce up the river. il
7. L. Mace, of Jackson county, has h
recently returned from California IL
with band OF 100 fine blooded An O
CORA goats, t,
The road across the Blue Noun "
aims is now in such a condition that "
reight teams can cross without seri- G,
JUS difficulty. O
Rev. D. B. Gray, formerly Of this $,
'ity, has been invited to accept the II
'astorato of the Forest Grove Con II
yregational Church. h
A stampede of some 500 head OF .i
attic in Hills3oro, few days ago,
featcd quite stir and tremendous
ust for short time, III
Sheep shearing has commenced in q
lastern Oregon, As rule the wool m
long and Of fine staple. The sheep al
re rapidly improving in flesh. ca
They have what they call arTaper- w
lg-OF" Society in Helena. No NJ
lember is allowed 10 take a drink fu
Mess some other fellow Greats"
The Umatila Indians were more 81,
'rtunate than most Of their white ca.
'ethern in Eastern Oregon the past is
inter. They lost but very little is
ock by the bad weather.
The employees Of the Willamette 1
'oolen Mills presented on Wednes- IL
'sday evening, to Mr.. Joseph Hoyt, pi1
e late Superintendent, a beautiful Oei
,ld.bearinc onartv mounted oona agf
by an arrangement between the y
5. N. Co. and Wallula & WaIla car
ALA railroad Company, steamers slal
Il run to the railroad depot, q few stol
les above Wallula, every alternate con
p
The party of seven men who left l.
coma month ago for Swauk, have was
'lved there, at last accounts and For
We since been engaged in mining. ann
ey Travelled a lengthy distance on Z bly,
wv Shoes weel
Wheelock Simmons has offered the NJ
zenS Of Hillsboro the uso of sufli- Guq
nt ground for picnic and base ball dali
poses, and other out door meet. Dem
s, for tenlyears, on consideration the {
t they will ii mn tba oronna. g.. Sury
So purposes. wv /,
he following was the last thing
e by the King County Commiss- GA1 GH
'rS at their session on Thursday; 6Sii 6SSii
dered, that the stock of the Seat BE5 BEl
md Walla Walla Railroad and pr r.
nsportation Company be exempt &
. taxation during the year, Rgl Rg1l
here is quite an, extent of timber CHI
at the head of the bay at Taco s.
and loggers haYe been looking up Tea
eager eyes for some time past c3F
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