The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1874
Pacific SIopers

There are six divorce cases on
the docket of the Circuit Court for
Polk county.
The Firenan's benefit at Salem,
on Friday evening of last week,
was fsrouser."
The Grangers Lad a harvest feast
at Dallas, last week, and enjoyed
themselves hugely.
AS an instance of the attention
the mineral lands of Washington
Territory are attracting the zrat-
script reports the sale of the Land
Office at Olympia of over 1,100
acres of coal land in King county,
at SO per acre. Seven entries i'll
all made on one day. Capitalists
in San Francisco are the moving
spirits.
Among other proceedings of the
Third District Court of Utah,
we find the following: The United
States VS. George Q. Cannon; indict-
ment under the act Of Congress for
polygamy; ordered that defendant
give bail in $5 1000 to appear from
day to day to answer said indict-
ment. The defendant is the present
Delegate to Congress aud has been
reelected.
The Northe,mer, of Lewiston,
Idaho, of the 4th inst. says: The
wife Of James Crooks, of Camas
Prairie, died on last Monday. Her
death was very sudden. We also
hear of the death of number of
children from diptheria and whoop-
ng-cough. Jas. L. Bounds, of Pa
taha, has lost three children with
in as many weeks, AMI Thomas
King and Herd Harriss, of T'uka-
non, have each lost a child during
the same period.
Messers E. c. Furguson, T.. T.
ireland, NJ. w. Packard, John
Cochran and other Puget Saunders.
have filed articles of incorporation
OF the "Silycr City Townsite Com
pany. The object of the company
is ii e founding of the city or town
OF Silver City, situated at the forks
OF Silver Creek, i'll Snohomish coun-
ty. The site is Oh unsurveyed land !,
and the founders design to secure
title in accordance with the law re-
lating to town sites.
A combination has been perfected
between the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad Company, the
Colorado and New Mexico Railway
company and the Pueblo and Salt
Lake Railway company, to build a
line of road from Granada to Pue-
bio. The road will be built from
a point at or near West Las Ami
mas; there it is proposed to build
two branches, one coming to Pue-
bio and the other going south into
New Mexico.
The curious spectacle OF cutting a
dead man off from the Church OF
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
was witnessed in West Jordan,
Utah, a few dayssince. The names
ofseyeral liberal San.t were brought
up to be turned over to Satan, and
among them was that of man who
had beon gathered to the other
shore. The ungodly Bishops at
tention was called to this fact, wher
he grufHy said, 'It don't make any
difference; he was bad man, and
must be out off, dead or alive, from
the Church of Jesus Christ OF Lat
r.day SaintB!' And off went the
dead mans head.
The Courier says; "Scaroely 6
week passes that discoveries are moi
made of coal mines, gold and silver
lodges, ETC., in the Puget Sound ba
sin and the mountains adjacent
Well-defined ledges of iron, lead
copper, plumbago, silver and gold
of greater or less degree of richness
are known to exist in the Cascad,
Mountains. OF all but gold ant
silver there is no question or doub
Of their extent and value. Th,