The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-06-12

{ and made his escape, taking with hi
all Of his clothing. He was indicte
in 1872 by the Grand Jury for hors
stealing and arson, for the first offenc
t he served one year in the Penitent
ary.
The steamer Fontenelle, of the N
7. r. r. line, arrived at the hea(
waters Of the Missouri fort Benton
on the morning Of the 2lst ult.-th
first boat of the season to reach tina
point.
We have it from a reliable sourc
that Matt. Morgan, the great carrie;
turist Of Frank Leslie's illustrated
newspaper, will pay his respects to til
wonders Of the National Park thii
Sumner.
a Spaniard at Boise was throw
from a wild horse the other day, anc
getting tangled in the laTiat was drag
ged some distance, lady scratched NJ
and his arm broken. His name wa,
John Perris.
The loss by the burning of Mrs
Waymire's S residence in Polk count,
last week, was $4,000. That by the
Dueting of Mr.. Nesbitt's barn in Sa
lem, $4OO. The latter was the work
Of hoodlums.
The Idaho Statesman irreverently
tells it thus; He handled his gun
carelessly, and the fellow that went
home from singing school with his gal
put on his angel plumage and flew
away to be forever at rest.
Hon. r.. A. Tarlton, late member
OF the New South Wales Legislative
Council, has arrived in San Francisco,
en- route to this State, where he pro-
poses establishing himself, to engage
extensively in sheep-raising.
An election foa the purpose of
choosing a Mayor, five Aldermen, one
Marshal and one Recorder, will take
place in Dalies City on the third Mon.
day in June, the 18th inst. Candi-
dates are respectfully solicited.
Montana stock men are driving no
less than seven herds OF fat beef cat
tie, numbering 1890 head, to Utah
and Nevada, travelling the old road
by way of Bannack, Salmon River
and Lemhi, where they find plenty of
grass, l'.N
On Tuesday night Mr.. J. w. En-
win, of Seattle, returned from a visit
to the new mines at Sitka, He re-
ports that the extent and richness of
the mines have been greatly exagger-
ated and good many were returning
in consequence.
D. L. Jackson is engaged in run
ming an incline in the Young America
Ledge at Pocahontas, in Baker City.
This quartz ledge was abandoned
several years ago by parties who own
ed it, on account of the lack of funds
to properly develop it.
Grading on the Seattle and Walla
Walla Railroad continues in a salts
factory manner, thirty men being CON
stantly employed, On Monday next
some thirty Cinnamon will be put to
work, and efforts made to hurry the
enterprise through with all possible
speed.
VIM. Royals, of Soap Creek, BEN
Ion county, is now having constructed
canal, one hundred and twenty-five
'ods long, seven feet wide, and four
md half feet deep, for the purpose
II transporting wheat from his farm
o the willamette river at Calloways
warehouse.
There are living in Corvallis an old
,eutleman and lady who celebrated
heir golden wedding" on 9th day of
february last, They were married
1894, at Mount Pleasant, Indiana,
" n minister named James Love,
'rnly life with them has been a
pleasant dream"
Oakland has a first class sensation
n her tongue just now, and it is all
bout a full.grown citizen of that =
lace-very sandy com plexioned and I,
OF very good looking-leaviug q
ood wife and eight small children,
nd running off with another citizens
life and two children.
Messrs. Il, r. Smith and David Il
ook, having been on a prospecting /"
'nr in the Coast Range, returned to o
lympia on Saturday last in good
aalth and spirits, Owing to high
ater, they did not make thorough
Samination, but report having found N
BAL and gold bearing quartz, IL
During last week Benton county Il
Is let two bridge contracts, as fol-
ws: The trestle work over Beaver te
ough tide lands, on the Pioneer & Y
export Road, to II. NJ. Thompson, I, d
r $3.50; and bridge over theLuck. S,
mute, near Chambers Mill, in Kings W
alley, to II, NJ, Stone for $40.
On Wednesday morning, last week, p =,
shteen white laborers, employed on n
rrr