The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-02-27
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Portland now revels in a Chinese
theatre.
Mosquitoes on the war patl in
Lower California.
Montana is relapsiDg back into a
bowling wilderness.
DR.. Upson, of Los Angeles, jumped
into a well and suicided.
Victoria WoodhulI is on her way
to the Pacific Coast on a lechring
tour.
A human beast is in the Polland
Jail for chasing little school girls with
unholy designs.
Polk county will have 20 per cent.
of an increase Of acreage sow to
grain this year.
The Baker County DemocraticC Con-
vention, held last Monday, nominated
a full county ticket.
T. 4. Smith, of Anaheim, Cal.,
carelessly drew bis gun from wgon.
He leaves no family.
Some 500 Indians are in a starring
condition in Siskiyou and Shasta
counties, in California.
A. II. Hopkins, of Virginia, Ne.
vada, lies in Jail for shooting woman
in the leg Jealousy.
Two Frisco boys last Tuesday
played with pistol, and now one OF
them sleeps in the valley.
Mrs. Rambeau, of Weston, the
mother of six little children, has just
been taken to the insane asylum.
A chicken was shelled out recently
at Sweetland, Cal, having four per-
feet legs, one head and one body.
Farmers plowing in Yakima Valley
and stock looks well. The mining
excitement out there still increases.
George Mansfield and Frank Wayne
have been declared common drunk
ards by the city fathers of Corvallis.
A fellow is lecturing in California
on "Bilks, Beats and Bummers." His
audiences think he is a good auto
biographer.
Corvallisites are circulating a petit
ton to the Governor of Nevada ask
ing a pardon for Dick Baker alias
Dick Bent.
Six town dogs of Dallas last week
shuffled off their mortal coil. They
had gone into the country on a sheep
killing raid.
And now the San Francisco ladies
propose TO organize prayer.meetings
in saloons, as is being done in the
Eastern States.
A Frisco man named Ryan fatally
stabbed woman last Sunday because
she wouldn't leave her husband and
cleave to him.
Mrs. Whittle, of Portland, is the
last victim. She undertook to light
fire with coal oil, and now nurses her
arms in bandages.
Ripe strawberries in Southern Cali
fornia. Wouldn't we like to flop our
lip over some of EN-, rubbed over
with cream? Oh, mol ii
At Salinas City, Cal, last Monday,
two men named Wilson and Irvine
cut and shot each other into good
sized chunks of human hash.
The California Legislature has cut
off the northern part of Siskiyou and
named it "Modoc" county. 1t com.
prises the Pitt River country.
w. B. Singleton, of Roseburg,
killed seven deer in ten minutes,
which is why we think he is more
than a, Singleton at hunting.
Budlong confessed to the Kalama
express robbery, was bound over in
the sum of $1,000, gave bail and has
skedaddled for parts unknown.
The thieves in Oakland are becom-
ing very troublesome. They are
classified as silverware, meat, saloon,
egg and miscellaneous thieves.
Two Portland ladies assaulted. a
gcntlemqa on the street, last Mon
day night, and threw him violently on
the pavement Poor unprecedented
mani
G, V, B. Reeder, of Santa Clara
has applied for a patent for a
railroad Car that carries its own track
with it in tho, form. of an endless
chain.
Two young men named respectively
NJ. Mervin aud L, Thorp, fell a dis
lance of 25 feet, off a bridge, at
Independence, aud were both badly |
injured,
Thos. Brown, after serving four
years in the enitentiary, was last
saturday pardoned out upon a peti,
ion extensively signed by citizens of
Jackson county,
An Oakland young lady entered a
lrug store recently and wanted to see
he papers for a week back, and the |
Intelligent clerk showed her a roll of
ticking plaster.
The King ofthe Sandwich Islands