The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-26

was sold the otlerE lay tor $Zo per acre.
A man witt. the requisite skill is wanted
to-, to engage gig in the ttery business at Ore
More acres of land have been turned up
in Polk county this year than ever here
tofoFe.
Mr.. and Mrs A. B. Cosper, of Salem,
celebrated the 22tl anniversary of their
wedding last Wednesday week.
A Ledge of Odd Fellows is soon to be
organized at New Tacona.
The qrtaiIs which were let out last
summer about the city of Olympia are
alive and doing well.
The mills OH Puget Sound are crowded
with orders and SeIRraiIy have small
supplies of logs on hand.
The steamer 14da5e, which was snaggcd
M Duwainish river, has been brought
down and repaired and is running again.
Work on the Dallcs and Sandy Wagon
Road at the Cascade portage, will be re-
sumed this week.
The incipient fire department of Cor
wallis is at a dead lock for want of ortlin-
ances to regulate it.
Somebody shot fine COW for Mr.. Owens,
of Salem, the other day, so that she died of
the wounds.
The Good Templars of this State have
increased their membership about 600 in
the last three months.
John I4auglery was found dead in
house near I.afontaine's mill. Bitter Root
valley, recently, shot through the head.
He is supposed to have committed suicide.
The steamer Adtsfe was snagged and
sunk in the DuwaInish river on Thursday
of last week, but it is believed she can be
raised and repaired without much cost.
A drove of cattle crossing the Nasatch
range. i'll Utah, lost their footing and slid
down the frozen snow and over precipice
q hundred feet high, and were dashed to
pieces.
Major Overton has been transferred
from the land office at Salt Lake City to
Fairplay, Colorado, and is to be succeeded
by Valentine Silvers.
On Tuesday of last week the Catholic
| Society at Gervais received their new ], 100
pound bell from the celebrated foundry of
\ Meneely s. Co., Troy, New York. The
same evening it was elevated to its posi-
| ton in the steeple of the church recently
| finished by that denomination.
/ The officers of Mountain View Grange,
! Clackamas county are Master, w.
Ofield; Overseer, r. Irwin; Secretary,
| A. Carmichael: Steward, I'll. Pope !;
Assistant Steward; A. W; Riggs; Gate
l Keeper. M. Brackett !; Treasurer, Isaac
Clawser Female: Ceres, Emily Offield !;
Flora. Sarah Gribble Pomona, Amanda
Adkins; Lady Assistant, Caroline Of1feld.
The Nez Perces had a brush with the
Sioux Indians recently, beyond or east of
| the Big Horn In which two Sioux were
killed. Four Nez Perees were frozen to
death on account of the fight. 1t got too
hot for them, and they skedaddled, throw
ing away their robes and blankets to aid
them in their fight, AMI the consequence
was that Jack Frost got their scalps instead
of the Sioux.
The Corinne 1EdH, in an article upon
the subject OF connecting Montana by rail
with the Union and Central PaSlfic rail-
roads, talks to the point as follows ssThat
| Montana, with her spirited residents and
almost unlimited though undeveloped
wealth, should not have a railroad to the
| continental line ere this, is matter
| of surprise to many who know her re-
sources and wealth.
The Gentiles of Corinne and other sec
tions of Utah are tired of Mormon associa-
| ton, and ask that new Territory, to be
| called Cariboo, be formed from portions OF
| Utah. wyoming and Tdaho described thus;
Commencing at the point where the 4lst
: parallel is intersected by the Tooth merid-
ian, and running thence north on said
meridian to the 45th parallel; thence west
on said parallel to the intersection of the
114th meridian thence south to the 41st
TO the place of beginning.
A letter from Goose Lake to the 1Ael-
uocate says stock of all kinds look well and
!, have wintered with little or no feed. The
snow has not fallen at any one time more
than eleven inches, and only remained
about a week. At the present time there
is no snow i'll the valley. The soil of this
valley Is very productive. / heard one Of
our farmers say few days ago. that he
raised forty bushels of wheat to the acre
and he said one of his near neighbors
5 claimed to have raised forty-three bushels
) of wheat. to the acre.
The Hillsboro Independent says: ssMr
Thos. Brady has applied to the county
court Of Washington county for support
He has filed his affidavit at the county
, clerks Office testifying that he is a either
OF the State of Pennsylvania, having lefl
there month since has been iii thi!
county three weeks; that he has thC
dropsy of the kidneys; has no means o
2 support and no relatives in this State
The county court will notify the Secretary
| OF State ofthe facts in the case, and Brady
t will become pauper OH the county at thI
3 expense of the State. !"
Mr.. VIM. Grant. of the firm of II. Gram
2 & Co, OF the Dalles, returned the for'
| part OF last week from visit to theiI
. ranch on the John Day river in Gran
county. He reports that live stock gen
/ | orally got through tie winter with bu
} little loss, but that the spring is backward
] | and the weather rather cold for this sea
/ son of the year. He found at the ranch ;
large number of cattle that would makt
| good beef, but he didn't think they woult
stand driving to market at present owins
to the shortness of the grass along tin
, route to be driven. 1t is Mr.. Grant
opinion that in the course of irons four Il
SIR weeks, there wili be plenty OF bee
: cattle.
The Corvallis Denocrdt learns that Oh
= Monday Of last week quite large numbe
! of men made f2antic rush for the Alse;
reservation, to take early advantage of tn
: act of Congress making provision i0r tb
removal of the Indians from that reserve
2 The company started down the Alsea in
! skifT, but met with lnisliap which Hpse
Q their canoe and left them to make th
best of their way on foot, minus sundI.
: articles of grub and apparel. When in
Q formed that the Indians had not yet agree
I to the removal, and that the reservation