The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-09-25
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The Salem Mercury has begun its
sixth volume,
Wheatin Eastern Oregon is worth
about 80 cents.
Utah apples find ready market in
Montana at high figures.
Uncle Bill Bragg of Polk county,
now claims to be III years old.
The best wheat is selling al eighty
cents per bushel in Salt Lake City.
A Salem bag factory has turned
out 100000 grain sacks this season.
Utah shipped last season upwards
of a million bushels of choice wheat,
Much of the grain on tine Siletz has
been lost on account of wet weather.
The amount of assessable property
in Umatilla county foots up $85S,4O3.
The Salem mills have 800 tons of
flour in their warehouse awaiting
shipment.
Gen. Braxton Bragg is Chief Engi-
neer of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa
Fe Railroad.
Thomas Gale, formerly publisher OF
the Hawk-Eye, is said tob be in the last
stages of consumption.
An old hummer in South Salem
celebrated his 5Sth birthday last
Saturday by keeping sober.
Several car loads of fax were taken
up from Brooks Station on Saturday
for the flax works at the Pcnitentiary.
A good many of the Waldo Hill
farmers have got their winter wheat
sowed or have about finished sowing.
The Indian Moos Moos was hanged
at Walla Walla, on Friday OF last
week, for the murder of James Cor
rigle.
We learn that the farmers in the
Luckiamutte valley have finished their
harvest, and are housing their ma
chinery.
1t is stated that the office of In
spector so lately abolished at New
port, YaquiEa, will shortly be re-es-
tablished.
Masons are laying the foundation,
and carpenters are busy framing the
building of the Alden Fruit Preserv-
ing Company.
An emigrant train of ten wagons,
direct from Kansas, "the Plains across y
passed through Eugene on Tuesday en-
route for Coos Bay.
The late rains started the grass to
growing on the Polk county hills,
and they are now wearing of the
the green of Spring.
There is a talk of a Lightning
Gymnastic Club" being formed in
South Salem to compete with the
Turn Vereins in gymnastic exercises.
Ned Weston, who sold placer
mine in Canyon City, Montana, re-
Gently, for $27 400, has just struck a
rich gold lode ten miles above Silver
City.
Eugene Chapter Royal Arch Ma
sons las just received from Chicago
a complete set of jewels and all the
regalia and paraphrenaIla necessary to
conduct their work.
Snow covered the tops of the
mountains on the west of Powder
river valley last Friday morning, and
! heavy frost made its appearance in
portions of the valley.
Farmers in the Sound country have
-hus far escaped damage from frost,
20 the advantage of vegetables. Veg
station was seriously affected last
year before this time of the month.
A San Juan miner, who has been
prospecting in southwestern Colorado,
las found a whole forest of petrified
,rees, with petrified birds sitting on
oetrified limbs singing petrified songs.
DR., G. A. Whitney, of the Slletz
indian Agency, will resign his posi-
ion as physician on the reservation,
IN the LIST of October, aud DR.. E. M.
Carter, of Elk City, will fill the po-
iition.
Messrs, r. A. Ross d Co. threshed
asst Tuesday, on Capt, Cochran's place
n Clackamas county, 1,242h bushels
If wheat in seven hours. The thresh.
'r that did the work was vibrator,
.S-inch cylinder,
On Wednesday night the steamer
North Pacific carried from the depot
1t Tacoma seventy tons of Oregon
produce, thirty of which were for the
Lower Sound and the remainder for
Victoria,
1t is Sioux-icidal for small parties
o attempt to reach the Black Hills,
without Government protection,
when it taxed General Clusters In.
,un,annuity to get there with one
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