The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
Pacific Slopers.

"A 1OOge OF "A. r.. &c AZ WI. was
recently organized at Yakima City,
w. Z.
Some of the members of the idaho
Legislature draw mileage for over
2,000 miles.
Three fights i'm a single dayat YAM
couver. says the Register. and still
enviotts outsiders say the place Is dead.
/ Within the past few weeks 500. 600
have been invested in the mines OF
Bingham, Utah, by California parties.
The State Land Office. heretofore
located at La Grand, FSas been moved
to Union.
Lafayette now boasts Of having
fotir-legged chicken, and dog thGA
can crow like rooster.
Seventy-ffve hogs were slaughtered
on the farm of .T.aW. Nesmith, I'm
Polk county, last week.
The Gerrand murder ease will come
up in the Supreme Court at Salem
during the ensuing week.
A number of persons are reported
typhoid fever, by the local papers.
In Eastern Oregon the winter, 70
far, has been the mildest known i'm
that region for many years.
The Daily Independent. at Helena, IL
none ofyour ST so sheets, but every
bona .fde subscriber has to pungle the
sum of $36 per annum.
Salem had mad dog scare last
week. The animal acted strangely,
and upon suspicion of hydrophobia
was killed.
The average Corvallis hood1um
nightly parades the principal streetS
Of the city, with his frontispiece orna-
mented with two-bit mask.
A large area Of land has been sOwn
to grain III and about Oak Grove.
Wasco county, this season, and the
crops look very promising at this time.
A good deal of freight for eastern
Oregon is at the Dalles and will have
to be hauled i'm wagons to its destina~
tion or wait till spring.
Silver bullion, to the value ofnearly
5000. 600, from Phoebe, has boen
received at Salt Lake City by Wells,
Fargo & Co., this season.
The body of J. c.. Davis, who was
drowned some two weeks since in
Skookumchuck, was found on Friday
of last week few rods below the
place of drowning.
A boy. n horse and cow were
found piled up near Vancouver the
other day. tile boy at the bottom.
The horse had run away with the lad
and stumbled over the COW. No bones
broken.
The Owyhee Ardlanche says, in all
good earnestness, tsthe Northwestern
States produce annually thousand
million bushels of grain," which Is
within 100000, 600 bushels of the
right figure. says the OregoatGn.
Two camps are engaged in getsing
out ships knees at Squaxum. They
shipped 250 SHORT time ago and now
have another large lot on hand. The
most of them are purchased by ffrm
In Steilacoom and sent below.
According to the returns of Mr.. F.
w. Bier. rs City Assessor, returned to
the Clerk of the Common Council the
total valuation of the real and personal
property of Vancouver as assessed by
him amounts to $192,GS
A petition is being circulated. at
Boise City asking the appointment OF
II. L. Priekett to the chief justice
ship of Idaho. Another petition Is
being circulated asking the reappoint-
ment of. Judge Hollister whose term
cApittS HeAt sptiHS.
The Jacksonville Sentinel has the two
following items Quartz and CHINA
bar is all the go now. and ssthere's
mounting in hot haste and rushing to
aud frO.' New prospecting and lOca-
ting parties leave town for the noun.
tains nearly every day.
Hon. A. A. Denny, Of Seattle
has gone to Washington City upon
frn ffas.& &fAnf
& Walla Walla Railroad movements.
Parties who have that great work In
charge deserve success for their per-
severance in the cause.
An Idaho City husband, who tarried
little too long at sSrhanksgivlng,' -
on going home, mistook the woodshed
for his house, and entering, stripped
himself, hung his apparel on the saw
buck and retired ona pile of cord
wood. His mistake was discovered by
his wife, who had sat up to await tho
return of her s.lortl," overhearinS him
quarreling with an imaginary Old
womann about ther not beingH cover
enough OH the bed; and it Is said that
she made it warm enough for him
without cover for awhile.
Quite number of persons are in
town from East of the mountains---
among them Bill Angle from Fort
klamath and John Herriford of Goose
Lake. They report unusual mildness
of weather when they left, and the
roads fair all the way in. There had
been one light tall of snow at Klamath
which soon melted off. ssUncle Abe
Tenbrook had an adventure on his
homeward trip. He was ignorant OF
new road in one place. The old one
la1 hius..lf and team info n TnrdhNi,.
which it took them two days and
night to get out of. Times are en-
livening and money getting plentier
of. fat cattle, of which there is plenty
there, for Nevada and Ueah markets.
All stock is in fine condition.
The Ashland correspondent of the
Jacksonvill Sesattnei writes Ms follows:
r. B. Hargadine's band Of AngoTas
have for some time Suffered from the
inroads Of thieving grizzlies. much to
the annoyance of r. B., who being
possessed OF tender regard for his
fragile flock tas also were the grlzzliesh
pus his wits togather. mixed with
pounded glass and stFychRine. Result:
Two OF the grizzly variety OF the
Rrttin family submitted 10 be scalped
and the boys were treated to q
segrfzzly' exhibition. We have n
Minister here who Is not afraid to
work. Since his advent among US he
has engaged at chopping wood, build
ing chimneys, &C., and Is now 40
work buildinga parsonage, which he
informs us win soon be completed.
He is also erecting, on Butte creek, at
the home OF Mr.. Swiele. t-water
telegraph, ,, new. novel and speedy