The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-08-07

u llght night, last week, some aspiring
young men of the town went to the
! Doctors oat field and cut and bound
the entire crop.
: The Salem Statesman tells of a
doctor at wheatland who was hung in
It efHgy last week because the citizens
supposed him to be trying to get up
y a misunderstanding.
Last Saturday week Brown Dick,
" of Pendleton, and Sturgill's sorreI
: horse ran over Baker City race course,
600 yards, for $500. and SturgilI's
2 horse came off victorious.
On Sunday last a fire got out on
Winkel's Butte, ten miles south of
Corvallis, and burned over almost the
entire mountain. About three thous-
and rails were destroyed
} Sam. Parish, newly appointed Agent
of the Malheur Reservation, left
Boise City Sunday evening, July 26th,
on the Canyon City stage, to take
charge Of his Reservation.
While boring the well at the Court
House, Corvallis, last Wednesday, at
a depth of twenty-six feet from the
surface, the auger struck fir log.
The wood is firm and hard.
The deaf mute recently run over by
the cars near Oregon City, and taken
to the hospital at Salem, is named
L. Morris, and has a wife and one
child living in Powelps valley.
A colt belonging to Mr.. Henry
Woody, OF Hilsboro, ran against
fence rail Monday, which entered near
the last ribs, nearly tearing it wide
open. The colt was worth 500.
There are two companies ofsoldiers
in Wallowa valley. They will scout
around fou about two months, and
should no Indians make their appear
ance the soldiers will return to Walla
Walla.
A few days since a Walla Walla
farmer became enraged at bis horse,
which he had attached to a plow, and {
and taking swingle-tree from the
plow, hit the animal over the head,
killing it instantly. :
Mr.. Johns, Of Forest Grove, has a i
young wild cat which he has raised. {
He has kept tame kitten in the cage {
with it, and they are as friendly as =
kittens generally are. The wild cat
however, is sulky fellow.
Messrs. Jones and Patterson sold
last Wednesday to thrifty German
farmer, recently from Wisconsin, '
farm containing 800 acres, near the
about twenty miles east of
Salem The price paid was $500. G
The first grain hauled to Corvallis p
of this years crop was load of oats, .
from the farm OF T. 7. Henkle, on
Tuesday last To James Robinson, l
living near that town, belongs the
credit of bringing in the first wheat [
On Wednesday.
Small amounts of new wheat are 4
coming to the Salem mills, which are p p
1ot yet ready to run SO people are
rot in hurry to haul it in. The Mill
company have already contracted to
purchase the product of two hundred Il
lcres at 70 cents q busheI, 4
Our Washington county cores al
oondent says: The oat crop in the p,
ijllsboro plain is yielding excellent le'
o Tar as harvested, The wheat is as
,ood rs can be expected, considering -
he comet. The loafers in town have
zone to the harvest, but left their 4
logs, Al Al
In some localities on the Palouse pa
rain has been damaged to some IT, i"
xtent by the excessive heat, and will rel re,
OF yield the same per acre that it =
id last year The most of the grain 's'
A Whitman county ls being cut for
ay, and wheat may be quite an OBJ
oct there before another harvert. 10
Mr., Il, NJ. Waite, the Secretary of dee
he State Agricultural Society, in.
'rms the Record that there has been OF OF
yer seventy tons of hay cut off the s6r 50
air Grounds this year, against sixty fss
lst season. The change in the plans TiI TSi
the grounds made two years ago
as proved profitable There will DO |
ny enough to use during Fair time, Nj
III about S59J worth surplus to dis S
Dse ot of
Gle
A waterspout at Eureka Nevada, gor
st Sunday bursted, destroying the dir
est part Of the town and looSing ~
any lives-men, women aud chill. at
rem. So sudden was the occurrence SfG for
at the people were carried away COT
'gether on the torrent OF angry j
aters, With but a single wall of -
'spair they went down among the
mbers of the buildings and the mass
earth and stone that was swept !
rough the narrow dehle in which va
e town was situated, ~,
A letter dated July Ism, for Kit rec
tass, w, #, to the Onion says rsnt
'here is bnt little to report from the sac