The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-03-07
Dates to March ID from Seattle w.

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The roads Throughout Jackso
County arc IN n had condition. f
The City Magistrate Of Port Towr
seud is bankrupt. Some vagrant ha
stolen his hammer coat.
Very little business has heen tlon
Mt the Port Townsend Court thus fsir
Many of the lawyers are already leay
ing.
At San Jose. Cal. on the 81. Sander
solL recently convicted of incest. wa
sentenced to ten years in tlie peniten
tiary-the full extent Of the law.
A large force of white men an,
Chinamen are engaged in grading
Tacoma avenue. When completed 4
will be the finest In Washington
Territory.
In the foothills hack of Walla
Walla snow has fallen to the depth o
three feet and Is still lying on the
ground. Back Oh the mountains it /:
six feet deep.
A degraded Celestial at Olynpi,
has reached that point in the lower
scale. where he fcloniously purloi,n,l
4 load of bark from an editor without
the fear Of law. Fine, $40 aud costs.
The surveying party under Hon.
Lewis Van Vleef has just completed
the survey and subdivision into forty
acre lots of the Swinomish Reserv;l-
ton
About thirty Indians have died this
winter with the measles at Sinroe
Reservation. W. r., and 40 have died
at Priest Rapids, and they are still
dying from it.
Capt. E, s. Fowler las just closed
a contract for large two-story stone
building to be built OH the corner of
Adams AID Washington streets, Port
Townsend.
A petition is III circulation at Stella
COON. asking that the sellteuce of Gus.
Lyttle-who has an appointment with
the Sheriff on the 10Th of March-be
comMuted to fife imprisonment,
HennmakerofO Olympia, was brought
IN before the United States ConnliS-
siOntr on Feb 2jth, for selling liquor
to the Indians. He was held to an
sWer before the grand jury in the SUN
Of $500.
On the 25th ult,, Louis Myers and
DIR. S. Rogers, both of Pierce County,
W. t., were sent to the Insane
Asylum. The latter was pronounced
by DIR. Hemenway to be laboriug
under that form OF insanity known as
"dipsomania."
During the year 1873 money orders
to the amount of $20,G30 80 were
issued from the Jacksonville Post
Office. Orders to the amount of So
$40 so were paid during the same
period. The fees Oh the same were
$l24.
From parties down from Rogue
River the jacksonville Times learns
that little stock has died, though look
ing rather thin. Should the weather
not be unusually severe, nearly all of
t will come safely through.
junction City is the name of the
own located at the mouth of Jordan
Tulch. In Baker County, Town lots
ire selling rapidly, and David SiSley |
'ffers to give lots to those who will
,uild substantial houses upon them. |
The railroad depot is located at this
,lace.
A Union correspondent, Baker
1ounty, puts it in this wise: '.Rev.
!. w. Adams commences the second
ervices of, his prOtracted meeting at
his place on Saturday the 2lst inst.
fay a pure pIatonic love animate his
graphic breast until he brings all to a
nst understanding Of the way to do
INTO Others as they would that Others
hould do unto them.'"
The Baker City Herald of the 25th
1t. gives the following. On last
atmrlay, as the N. W. Stage Com
any's coach was passing the first
rade below Weatherby'S Station, on
Iurnt River, a tremendous slide came
own the mountain and struck the
tage, burying it completely and kill
lg one horse. Fortunately, the dri-
er, Mr.. Dunnigan, escaped. but a
.ock tender from MilIer'S who was
n the seat with thedriver, was caught
| the apron and buried alive with
)me six feet of snow.
The last lM0Matdineer has this: Sew
al years ago ar eccentric ind ividual
led IN this county, who during life,
lhered to the doctrine Of the trans
igration of souls. He always ex-
Iessed his determination to return to
Is acquaintances in the form of some
limal, anu do it in such a manner
mt they could not fail. to recognize
in. True to his determination, he
axes frequent nocturnal visits tn the I
luse of one of his particular friends, I
the guise and semblance of Il hog.
Q walks through the house, through |
e milk house, into the root house. t
nong jars of jelly and rolls Of butter, II