The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-06-05

IS erately proceeded to disambowel th'
quivering carcass Of the Indian
os Stepping back, with smile OF salts
faction lighting up his countenance
/ he quietly remarked: Now | am
even for the killing of my uncle"
g Some time ago VIM. Caldwell, OF
Lapwai creek, was ordered to give VI
Il his farm as an Indian Reservation
g. was located on it, and now he has
been forbidden to remove the grow
a ing crops.
n A basket meeting will be held at
the Highland Church, three miles
n west of Salem ferry, on the road lead
i ing from the ferry to the Oak Grove
school house, Saturday and Sunday,
: June 9th and 7th.
+ A gentleman who came from Vic
toria to Olympia reports that several
3 cases of smallpox exist in that city.
, The parties came from San Francisco
on the Prince Alfred. We hope the
report may provo unfounded
Richard Moore, Of Eugene City,
met with quite severe accident last
Friday morning. While engaged in
splitting stove-wood, by mistake
the axe struck his left hand, severing
the forefnger entirely from the hand.
The -No,ataineer of Colorado
Springs says that the perambulating
Professor, Peter Piper Peck, after
pecking everybody he was able to
peck, has taken up his pack and
packed himself off. Possibly, per-
manently! ,.
The Eugene Journal of the 3Oth
says: Yesterday evening, poor lit
tie boy, named Stewart, who had
been kept by the county for some
time, died. He was about eight years
old, and had been partially paralyzed
for long time.
A Mr.: Post, direct from the Dalles,
and having all the machinery necess-
airy for a good Touring mill, was in
Pendleton, Thursday evening of last
week, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether it would be good point for
the erection Of Touring mill.
The Salt Lake 7rt5aae says: "One
of the rules of the Order of Enoch is :
that all girls, on reaching the age of
Ia, must get married. There is no
deviation from this, and the first offer, T
no matter how many wives the man
may have, or how ugly he may be the p
girl must accept his hand.
A correspondent writes from Baker
county, Oregon, as follows: The El "
Dorado Ditch is now running water CO
o somepf the richest mining ground 81
n the world. This is one hundred
niles long and carries enough water \
o supply thousands of men. The
nnes are rich; climate healthy liv-
1g cheap and cost of travel here reas.
nable.
A match game of base ball came
fl at Dallas, last Saturday, between "
le Modoc club, of Dallas, and the -
willamette club, of Independence.
m. Basket, of the Monmouth club, FC
tied as Umpire. The time of the
ame was four hours and twenty min
les, and was finally decided in favor N
the Modocs-the score standing Y
to Al. and
Messrs. Schwabacker; Bros. 6 Co., 1
Seattle, received last week a con- Nea
5nment of thirty-two ounces of gold =
'm the Sultan River gold diggings, g.
1rth SIS IS an ounce. These mines
about seventy miles northeast of .u
attic, on a tributary of the Snoho- ~
sh. The country has not been very Or
oroughly prospected. There may
good diggings farther up in the Ngr
'"-
Arrangements are about being per-
ted for the shipment from Tacoma ~
a thousand tons of coal from the ~
ookum Chuck mine, for the San
lncisco market. A force is now ~,
ragged in getting out the coal, and AG,
ely preparations will be made in at pr
he upper town for its reception at aoo, io,
shipment. 1t is expected that for ~ e
first cargo will demonstrate the
error advantage OF that harbor and
road for the shipment of coal from
mine. AEK
he difficulty between the Navaios at pri
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS west of 0o'n'
Colorado is unsettled. 1t ap-
rs that two Indians were recently FOl
I'd by the Mormons, being shot
N without the least provocation, u
their tribe is bent on revenge. e.. =,
Mofmons are alarmed and sever. v7nS
Messengers have been sent from
Lake to General Army, at Fort A
ance, proposing indemnifcation 4MN1;s M
le Navjos for the two slain, and the sta
antee for the future, but no posi-. cSroui, srou
has yet been made. IT. that
he meantime, the Mormons are plant.
citing around their strongest set I'D sSHt :, :
ents and preparing for defense,
9 Nayajos will not have peace navy
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