The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-02

A Union county man caught wild elk |
last week with lasso.
L. B. Merry, late of the Coos Bay Ne,os,
will publish in book form his People
Have Net
while crossing the bar on her way to San
Francisco.
The bridge across Mill creek. at the
north end of Commercial street, Salem, is
nearly washed away.
The stages will be placed upon the route
from Coos Bay to Roseburg probably by
the middle of May.
An administrators bond was filed in
the Marion county clerks Office few
days since in the sum of So.
The Lafayette Courier says: Quite
row occurred at this place last night in
which knives were drawn. and probably
would have been used had not the conf
mantling figure of the sheriff appeared on
the spot just in the right time.
The Aste1tam says; Emma Holden. a
little daughter of e. G. Holden, of the
Ast0rian Restaurant, was hurt severely
while playing OIL some timbers at the ship
yard on the 18th. A heavy spar fell upon
her, hurting her head considerably, and
bruislng her limbs badly, but she is getting
along very we'll.
The Teachers Institute for 9TH judicial
district. including the counties of Clatsop.
Columbia, Clackamas, MultnOnah and
Washington, will be held ut Astoria on
Monday, the 9th day of August. j.. w.
Gearhart, of Astoria. school superintend-
ent for Clatsop county, is chairman of the
committee of arrangements.
Tie Yamhill Courier says: s.For the
trial and keeping of Cooke and Wyant
will cost the county somewhere near 5000.
The property they stole is worth-so conn
petent judges say-not to exceed SO. We
are in favor of giving justice of the peace
or county judge power to send this class
| of ombIes to the penitentiary.
The Hemizer says: Mr.. j. H. Robbins,
| of Bethel, was in Dallas this week and
had in his possession specimens of coal
| found on the place of A. III. Denny who
resides near Bethel in this county. Mr..
| Robbins states that the lead seems to be
about six feet in thickness and thinks the
prospect for coal in paying quantities
| good.
A couple of Corvallis dogs made raid
| on Mr.. f. A. Horning's fine sheep FRI
day night and Saturday morning last week,
| causing sad havoc. Ont of a band of forty
| head of choice Cotswolds, selected from
| his entire band not more than five or six
| escaped death or serious injuries. Out of
! fifteen lambs, only tour had been found.
One of the dogs was killed on the spot.
| The Benton Democrat learns that the
\ people of Newport and vicinity held a
! railroad meeting at that place on the 18th
| inst. about s., 600 stock being subscribed.
The people on the Bay are bound to have
| q railroad, and If our substantial farmers
| will take stock according to their means
| the long wished for whistle of the loco
| motive will awake the echoes in the Coast
/! Range ere many months
| The Courier says of Cooke, who is now
| in Jail at Lafayette: 'Cooke is a young
man OF rather prepossessing appearance;
| D years old; he was a deserter from
| Uncle Sans army and when the call was
Issued by the President for the pardon of
deserters if they would report at head
| quarters within special time, he and
| Wyan were two of twenty that arrived at
Vancouver on the same boat in answer to
the call. Since then we understand that
| out of that twenty, nine are now in the
penitentiary, and these two have an open
show. -
Hon. I. N. Smith, OF Linn county, and
Capt. Gist, late of the steamer Success,
have been examining the channel of the
Willamette river along both sides of the
large island above Albany. They report
having found that the east channel, which
on the river. considered the main channel,
but which has since been abandoned, has
again become practicable, having, in fact,
| greater depth of water and lever OBJ
structions than the channel on the west
siCe. The island is about nine miles long.
and the river bank, on the Linn county
side, is thiclSly settled. and it will be a
welcome sound to those farmers to hear
again the familiar sound OF the steamboat,
and to have chance to ship direct from
their farms as in days gone by.
Speaking of the resources of Washing
ton Territory, the Transcript says: 1--WE
have q large scope of country, as yet but
little known, rich with natural resources,
for which our chief need is population.
We say but little known because we have
only just begun to realize what our Ter
ritorY contains. The lumber trade has
been and still is the greatest business, but
our coal trade is just beginning to loom up
as ono that win be of greater importance,
| as the ineXhaustible beds of coal which
are daily being discovered in new locali-
ties are opened and worked. Large tracts
of agricultural lands within short distances
of settlements aud heretofore unknown
are constantly being discovered, where
hundreds of settlers win eventually find
| homes. -
| From private letter to 5Tr. Gould
Hubbard from Monroe. w. T.. the Guard
culls the following items The snow is
about all gone, as well as nearly all the
cattle. We have had a regular old
stswfnger - up here this winter. but are
having the usual March weather now.
| Inefe mas Oeen ABOUT 1.OUU heau Oh caGCio
died in this county this winter. have
lost about half of mine. / never saw
stock suffer so much in my lite as they
have here this winter. Two gentlemen
drove 100 head of cattle in here last fail,
and have lost them all. More sheep have
died here than cattle. stopped at a
sheep ranch about the middle of the storm,
and the hertler said he was losing about 25
every night. He had about 1900, and
have learned since that he lost the remain
der.
The Yrela tcal.l Journal of the s1st ult.,