The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-20
ALBANY REGISTER.

attorney, while attending court at that
place. last week, was mistaken for the
Spotted Boy" and while at supper
hoodlum rushed in and informed him
that his snake was about to get
away.
a corpulent gentleman from Salem.
who talks Latin and swears, got
chucked ina mudhole by Il breakdown
OF the Monmouth and Independence
stage coach one day last week. The
stage coach WAS sulky. and the shafts
pulled out and the man went back
wards.
The Eugene Jo'0naI learns that there
is 10 persons. Is horses and wagons
showed i'll at Crescent Lake, OH the
Military Road across the Cascades.
TIE person who furnished the Informal
tion came over to Pile Openings OH
Snow-ShoeS. and sent the news by mail.
Snow tell first on the Sd lust.
The Democrat tells OF a Benton coun-
ty woman who recently exhibited
$4,000 in gold, relnaiking that this
was the result of her own industry in
making butter, selling eggs. chickens.
etc. and that her husbnd had never
seen the money before and didn't know
Of its existence. Such wife is worth
having.
Scott who shot man named Blaine,
ut Rye valley, Baker county, week be-
fore last, has been arrested and held to
answer on a charge of assault with in
tent to kill. Blaine had Il close call.
being shot in the breast, but will prob
ably recover.
The Coos Record says the Norroy,
while making the turn at the EaStport
coal bunker, lost steerage-way and ran
into the Empire, doing considerable
damage to both vessels. 1t is bad
place at all times. and exceedingly SO
when the wind blows hard.
The law organizing Lake county
does not 90 into effect until next Jan
uary-ninety days after itsapproval by
the Governor 1t therefore is part of
jackson and WascO counties yet. The
fee bill. with the 25 per cent. addition
in the case of Jackson county omitted.
will apply to the officers of the new
county. We believe they wont get
rich off the positions right away.
The Corvallis Gazette says on last
Saturday the Directors of the Wiilam-
cite Valley and Coast Railroad Com
pany met pursuant to notice. But lit
tie business of importance was trans
acted at that time, beyond accepting
:he grant of land, and other provisions,
made by the late Legislature. AS an
evidence OF the interest felt in the en-
terprise, s. Case came all the way
from Newport, sixty miles. to attend
the meeting. He says the people
over there are all alive on the subject,
and will do everything in their power
to push forward the enterprise. Not
withstantling the liberal manner in
which they have subscribed for stock.
he says he thinks he can get $40, coo or
/ $4,000 more.
/ A dispatch from Wichi river. In
dian Territory, Nov. 4th, via Fort
! Dodge. reports that the most gallant.
/ trying and desperate Indian fight of
| the whole campaign occurred yeSter-
! day about thirty miles from this place
on Mcclellan creek. 1t was conducted
| by Captain j. III. Farnsworth. COM
manding a portion ofConpany II. Sth
! I. S. Cavalry, numbering only twen-
ty-eight men. The engagement COM
menced at 1870 p NJ, with 100 Chey-
ennes or Arrapahoes and kiowas, eX-
ceedingly well mounted and in full
fighting trim. and having the advan-
tage of higher ground and equal arms
tbreech-loaders) and more abundant
supply of ammunition than Farms
worths plucky fellows. The latter
fought like tigers, disputing every
inch of ground till dark, losing one
man killed and tour wounded. Fif-
teen Indians were killed. and Il large
number of the ponies and fifty or more
of the stlvages Were wounded. The
exhaustion Of his ammunition and de-
sire to care for his wounded men COM
pelled Captain Farnsworth to retreat,
yet reluctantly, under cover of night.
to this point, whence he had been SEM
out by Major William r. Price, of Sti
United States Cavalry. commanding
Wiugate's battalion, to discover the
whereabouts of the Indians. They
We're supposed to be in this vicinity,
as Cheyenne spy had been captured
by Major Price individually, and 9th
ers had been seen near this point. A
bout dark our soldiers slowly emerged
out of the hollow where they had beer
hemmed in, ard making a neck OF
nothing charge, succeeded in reaching
the plains. The Indialrs did not dar,
to pursue, and they showed eviden
signs ofsevere punishment and having
enough of it for the time. Captaii
Farnsworth Immediately struck on
for his place, where we are resting af
: ter having marched forty-five mile.
between dark and sunrise. 1t is.a ter
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