The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-03-21
Pacific slopers.

cOuver Wnere liquors are retalled at
a bit a glass, besides the Suffers
store on the Government reserve.
A child four years old, son of
.. M. Nichols, cf Payette valley,
Idaho, was fatally burned by his
clothes taking fire on the 18th, and
died on the 25th ult.
There are only three church
organizations in Vancouver--the
Roman Catholic, Episcopalian and
Methodist. The Catholic Church
has the largest membership, the
Methodist next.
There are three fire Companies
In Vancouver: No. |, Hook and
ladder; No. |, Engine; and No.
3, Engine The latter is a soldier
Company, with quarters inside the
Q. NJ. Department.
There is not a favorable pros
pect for navigation to open on the
Columbia river much, if fany, before
the LIST of April, as it will take two
or three weeks Of thawing weather
to raise the river enough for boats
20 run; and the thawiug weather
has not yet set in, and we do not
see any immediate prospect of its
doing SO.
According to the Statesman
property in Jefferson must be de-
clining. That paper says: "Prop-
erty has been changing hands lately
st ruinous figures. That the Bea-
yer Hosiery Co., incorporated at
$4,000, sold for $1,000. Conser's
house, which two years ago sold
for $4,000, was to-day purchased
for $500. B. Van Buren's prop
erty, purchased a few years ago for
$1,000, has been sold for $500.
The Salem Statesman Of last
Friday says: "A trial was CON-
mencel in The Circuit Court, yes
terday, wherein the plaintiff John
Rogers, sues the Oregon and Cali
fornia Railroad Company for
$4,000, which he claims to be the
amount Of damage sustained by
him in being dumped out Of one Of
ssid company's coaches when the
same ran off the track on q certain
occasion. A compromise was
effected this morning by the COM
psuy agreeing to pay $4,000 and
the costs of suit"
The miners in the Palouse country
have been at work most Of the
winter, but have not washed any.
The ground where they are at
work prospects better than was
expected when first opened, and
indications are very favorable for a
good cleanup. The snow is about
three feet deep at the diggings, and
about FIVE in other places around
there.
Capt. Starr settled with the
drovers for the 65 head Of cattle
thrown off the North Pacific and
supposed to be lost, at the rate Of
$50 per head, with the proviso,
however, that sum should be re-
turned tor all animals subsequently
discovered and delivered in Vic
toria. Twenty.seven head have
since been captured on San Juan
Island, saving Capt. starr $50.
At the last term Of the Circuit
Court in Marion county, Charles
Miller was tried under an indict-
ment for shooting one Slater near
Jefferson, and the jury being unable
to agree at that trial, the case went
over to the present term, and after
q second trial, which lasted two
days, the jury brought in . verdict
Of not guilty, and the defendant
was discharged. The shooting
occurred over a settlement ilvolv-
ing two dollars and . halt which
Miller owed Slater, and out OF
which the entire difficulty grew.
At a meeting of the citizens Of
Lewiston, the following nomi'
nations were made for city offices:
For Mayor, Seth S. Slater; for
Councilmen, C. A. Thatcher, Il
Squier, Geo. Glass and J. FL
Vollmer; for Treasurer, W. P.l
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