The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-16
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At the AInitv school Ineeting a tax of
81. 800 coin was voted to build new school
house.
Col, Cornelius was elected director and
TT. G. Guild clerk for the Cornelius school
| district on Monday.
At Forest Grove. Hon. 4. Hinman was
! elected director and a. S. Watt was re-
| elected clerk of the district.
! The wolves are working on the Cove.
| Union county. They have never before
| been known to be so intimate.
The Record reports a discovery of a coal
mine in Ciiehalem valley which flrri- hes
| good article of fuel for CRATES and stoves.
Another cleanup of the Virtue m;ne.
| Baker City. was made on the 2i. of eight
| days run. making bar valued ut So
| 600.
| f. F. Cooper has concluded an engage
| ment with the YaquiIla railroad company
| for the immediate prosecution of the sur
| vey of the route rs chief engineer.
At the school election at DAYTON last
| Monday. the people voted down the res
| Olntion to raise the sum of 800 by tax
| alton. hnt made up the amount by sub
scriptton.
| From private letter from Gardner. the
| P5diadedler learns that three vessels have
! Just been laden and sent from the old mill.
/
the place good, and Improvements march,
| ing on.
The Historian saws: 'sAhout s.. 900 has
been subscribed toward the road from
Fort ClatSop TO Sea Side. and prospects
| are fair for something being done in the
| matter at an early day. The @. S. n.
Co. evince 4 determination to assist the
work.
Over s400 have been subscribed at Ore
| rvo1 ifxY f.,pf iiaf Of ttA x1-i1n T,f
Samuel Newman who WAS drowned at that
place few days ago. This is Il hand
some Indication If the generosity of the
people of that city.
The II. s. mail TO and from WalInwa
has been interrupted by fhe late
storms, which We're the most severe ever
known in that portion of the country.
snow filling III many places to the depth
OF four feet in "a hours.
A letter from UnatiIla county dated
March l29th says: The winter here
hangs on with the tenacity of grim death.
In consequence large number of stock
have passed i'm their checks. and stock
raiSers are wearing countenanees some
what elongated.
John Martin. of Salem Prairie. informs
the Farmer that he has forty acres of wheat
growing that he considers tlle best lie ever
raised. John says he cultivated the land
last year in corn. potatoes. pumpkins, etc.
|
trouble. and the crop this year is actually
better than after a summer fallow. lie
considers that the best way to summer
) fallow, or rest land and prepare to renew it
in wheat.
On the ID inst. at night. burglar en-
tered the store of Mr.. Burns at McNIinn-
vile, by boring around and cutting ont a
panel in one of the front doors. He help
ed himself To a lot of clothing. and took
. eight or ten dollars in small change from
" the money-tlrawer. At last accounts Mr..
Burns supposed his loss to he in the neigh
: borhood of $3.50. but could not as yet tell
what had been taken.
Mr. Henry Fuller. who has Just come
over the mountains from Goose Lake val
ley. informs the Record that the winter
: | there has been mild and stock have (lone
! well. The population in that region has
increased considerably and the business OF
stock-raising promises to be profitable.
3 The great want of the people there is n
I regular mail. and they consider the want
of it a great deprivation.
The Coos Bay Neecs says the startling
cry of fire awoke the people of the north
{ part of Empire last Thursday night, the
. 1st inst. about o'clock. Arthur Lewis
the u. :. mail carrier discovered too bright
a light in the q. S. custom house Office il
e Luse's new building. and IN the meantime
v Charles Mack saw the same. who acteC
, promptly in the premises by breaking the
window with an AK. and soon extinguish
l. ed the fire. being efficiently aided by Mr.
u Geo. Wasson. and OtllerS.
|. The Yamhill Repoter SAYS: s.Gen
Palmer came over from Salmon river on,
:, day recently. and he reports very bar
q streak Of fortune npon himself. He had
,r large band of cattle in that country. out o
= which he has lost 150 head tlsring th
winter. The General saws dead whale
5. measuring 30 feet long. washed into tls
le mouth of Solnnn river a few days ago
q and it il likely that fhere will be som
whaIebone in this part of the country now
Jndging from the calculations that ar
n being made. ,,
ID From the Sentinel: mot long sine
70 j. w. Moxlev. the champion sshootist' G
Union county, while hunting In the mour
ie tains. ran across a band of twenty deer
IL and after killing five of them. ran the re
i. manning fifteen over ridge into sol
s snOw-tlriff. where they becalne liopelessi
se sswamped'; fhongh under the circumstance
they became SO domestic that y. w
oTtiained them on the spot by going throug
" the process of laying on Of hands: he ais
IL took discovery claisp. by inarkin
several of them with a crop off the Lei
= year and split in the right his (x
to mark. =
Z. The board Of trustees of the State Aor
ID cultural College met at Corvallis Durst
Il. ant 20 call Of the President. at z o.cloc
&. p NJ. on Wednesday. Aprfl 7tE1 I'll
- president announced that the object of m
meeting of the board was to make pre
vision for the payment of the Locke wa
10 rant, and take steps 10 reliuqtlish the n
OF naming debt against the agrieuItur
A., farm. On melton the treasurer was ii
- sfTalcfed 20 pay the Locke warrant ont
a. the flrst college funds that came into b
to nalid. The c0I1tnitfee on aorict,ifnr
farm rendered their resignation. wfft
gas accepted. motion was made th,