The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-06-12
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Baker City.
McMinnville is going to attonc
camp-meeting.
= Serenading is the order of the nigh
3 at Forest Grove.
+ Work has began on the first bricl
! building in Tacoma.
Miss Chaplin is preaching Univer
G salism to the Tacomaites.
( The Salem fire bell has been fix: d
Z and the people are happy.
Wheat harvesting had began in Ar.
9 izona on the 18th Of May.
! The Clerk of Marion county issued
= seven marriage licenses in May.
: Tacoma held her first city election
: on Monday Of this week. Result not
: known.
Some of the Union county folks
7 are agitating the question Of moving
the county seat.
Six horses were recently sold to a
trader by the Umatilla Indians for
! SIT Who can't ride?
Timothy grass is reported as high
as a mans shoulders il the vicinity of
. that wonderful town of Astoria.
There were GG deeds filed for rec
! ord in the County Clerks office, at
Salem during the month of May.
Bishop Bowman will preside at the
Rocky Mountain Conference, to be
: held in Salt Lake on the 18th Of Au.
gust.
There were threo intcrmcnts-two
males and one iemale-in the Odd
Fellows cemetery in Salem, last
month.
-Four barks arrived at Port Gamble
last week. Two vessels at that port
are loading with lumber for the south.
ern coast.
The farmers in Powder river valley
are done with their spring planting,
and the prospects for abundant crops
are splendid.
The Common Council of Walla
Walla has passed to its third reading
an ordinance CLOSING tho Saloons in
that city on Sunday
With the beginning of the mining
season times are getting better at Ba,
ker City and money is plentier than
1t has been for some months
The Tribune says the late rains
will be worth hundreds of thousands
ot dollars to The stock raisefs and
grain growers of Eastern Oregon.
Mr., Mason has been appointed
Street Commissioner by the Astoria
Common Council, and VIM. Oliver
night watchman and City Marshal, ,
Last week, on Friday Ada, daugA-
ter OF N. Langell, of Jackson county,
fell from horse which she was riding
without saddle and was badly hurt.
The recent frost did much damage
to vegetationin several parts of Pierce
county, w. 7. Hill Harmon was
damaged to the extent of some 5000.
IL. S. Stevens and John Smith are
opposing candidates for Delegate to
Congress from Arizona, They are
both running Independent of all par
ties.
The following patent was issued
from the United States Patent Office
during the week ending May 5, 1874;
Car Brake, James Head, Jackson
villo. ..
The Kuappton Mills have secured a
contract for furnishing 224, 900 feet of ,
timber and lumber for the Astoria
Farmers Companys new wharf OK.
tension.
A pleasant Sunday School picnic :
was held at IGubbard's last Friday, !
There were six Sunday Schools repre- :,
sentod, and an enjoyable day was !
passed ~
w. u. Boone, late of Olympia, has g
received the contract for erecting the
now marine hospital in San Francisco, =
1t S44, 500, the workto be executed in .
six months.
A garrison oourt.martial was con. I I
1eued at Fort Walla Walla on Mon :
lay OF last week to try cases of alb. q 3,
ionce without leave, otc,-tho result y
If payday
The schooner Ontario, laden with r
5000 brick, sprung a leak last week, ;,
While ON the way from Steilacoom to a
Tacoma, and had to be run ashore to h,
void sinking. "
A man named Kightlinger, at Sa. .,
em, drove a blind horse, attached to ?,
hack, down steep bank, the other
ay. The hack was upset and several bc
ersons were badly wet, 10
John Reagan, an employe in saw. 81
nil at Tacoma, had his clothing torn n
It entirely in less than two seconds g,
y tho machinery the betting of ia,
'hich caugnt his coat tail, ",
Champoeg was the scene of some
cry disgraceful rows on election day o;,
ho free Whiskev beoan IN taLn oflsnt