The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-19
Pacific SIopers.

Courtney Meek. of Glencoe, lost 140
acres of wheat by freezing.
Three good-sizet1 sailing vessels will be
built at Coos bay this season.
Five persons united with the Congrega-
tional church at Forest Grove last Sunday.
Tie contract has been let for the erec-
tion of the Catholic Church at McAIinn-
vile at cost of $1..00.
It is reported that Uncle Jesse Apple
gate. of YoncaIla. lost 5000 head of sheep
in Southern Oregon the past winter.
The whole number of pupils enrolled at
the district school at Olympia is so, aver
age attendance. 81.
There were so deaths in Salt Lake city
last month, nine of which were caused by
Inflammation of the lungs.
Richard Flanders took in ten wild cat
seal lps to the county authorities of Thurs
ton county, w. T., last week to get his
bounty.
A petition is in circulation at Salt Lake
city, asking President Grant to remove
Axtell and reappoint Woods governor of
Utah.
II is said the name of Fl. 7. Chapman is
mentioned at Washington in connection
with the Office of U. s. Marshal of Wash
ington Territory.
William Dotld. miner working in the
Eastport mine. had his leg broken last
Monday morning by mass of coal falling
on him.
The Coos Bay Oregon Coal Company
have chartered the schooners 3. RAMS
dell and Big Rirer to load at the Henry
vile chutes hereafter.
Mr.. DooIv. in the neighborhood of
Greenvi!le, lost, by freezing. $50 bushels
of POTATOES. 400 bushels of turnips and
about 800 bead of cabbage.
A little daughter of Stephen Lapp was
badly burned by falling into an open fire.
place. at the residence of her parents on
Isthmus Slough, Coos county, about a
week ago.
Over half the Modoc war accounts have
been anlited 1851. .O00l and warrants Issued
by the Secretary of State. and the Treas
urer is rapidly Issuing the bonds in re-
sponse to the same.
The parties interested i'm the coal shaft
east of Salt Lake city. are very confident
| of making a big strike in short time.
The indications are favorable. and should
they strike it. coal can be furnished in
Salt Lake at s. per ton.
We learn from the Steilacoom Express,
that an effort is being made to re-organize
and strengthen the Presbyterian associa-
tiOn of that city, with the view of having
decided TO said society the Presbyterian
church which now stands in the name Of
G. w. Sloan.
A Sifka brave accidentally shot an
Alaska $quaw not long since. when it was
decided by a council of the Hoona and
Sitka tribes that the brave must pay for
the sqnaw one thousand yards of calico,
four camphor-wood boxes, fourteen mus
kets and sixty blankets.
In speaking of the Puget Sound Gus
toms districts. the argus says: sSrhe ex-
ports for February to foreign coHatries.
amounted to 4l.04S. There were 81
vessels entered. with a tonnage of 15.2O4 !;
and 81 cleared. with a tonnage of 1900.
making total of "a vessels, and the
total tonnage 3l,904.
The Coos Bay Ne,es SAYS: s.B. F. Ross,
well-known citizen, Went ont on the
wagon road on Monday to buy cattle,
taking with him $500. He cannot be
found. and his friends fear he has met with
foul play. !"
Four coal banks are in operation near
Empire City. Each mine employs about
IS men. Fifty tons are daily taken ont of
each mine. The coal is extensive and of
good quality most of it is shipped 20 San
Francisco.
The Hillsboro Independent says ssDfr
Benz. Kitchen, who lives near Forest.
Grove, has invented machine which
quickly and easily, in the hands of the
workman. turns ont slaves completely
finished for barrels and all that class of
vessels. -
The Coos Bay Neacs says man actually
tied up bis lett arm ina sling in Empire
last Sunday. and played himself Off for
MoCloc war veteran. About 10 r. M. he
had no more use for that kind of a sling,
bsIt invested the proceeds of charity In =
sling made of gin.
The Vancouver Register has this: .sAfr.
John A. Phillips returned from the Will
annette valley on Saturday last, whittier he
succeeded In procuring some very fine
Oregon Club, Chile Club and Aastr4lian