The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-26
Pacific SIopers.


The Silver City Avalanche chronicles
a good many sales of mining property
in Owyiee for the week.
Eggs are dollar a dozen In Silver
City.
The Empire and war Eagle mines
will b. worked this winter.
Fresh discoveries of rich quartz lodges
are chronicled in Boise Basin.
One Chinese merchant in Idaho City
has $4,000 pounds of freight on the
way from Kelton.
Very cheering word comes from
Rocky Bar and other portions of Altu-
ras.
The storm of last week swept over
Idaho and left its traces in various ways
of damage and destruction.
The Rev. VIM. Ballard of Pennsyl-
vania, is expected to reach Boise City,
December 1st, to take charge of the
Protestant Episcopal Church there.
His family will accompany him, and a
teacher for ST. Michael's school.
Judge Clark will hold the December
term OF Court in Boise City, in place Of
Judge Whitson, who is East.
Tie total sum in Wells, Fargo & Co IS
treasure box, when it was robbed near
Eoise Citv, Nov. 10th, was, coin value,
81 ,OG9. A reward of one-fourth is offer
ed for all that shall be recovered. 1t
consisted of an amalgam bar, Virtue
mine, circular shape, 924 fire, assayed
value, s3,O75 silver bar, not stamped,
value, $3.50; Boise City Assay bar,
gold, 5s74 fine, ssO8 % !; gold bar, 733
fine, s237 As; in tuckskin bag, s400
gold in packages, 500 As !; s25 II !;
$50 60; $500: gold dust, s1,7OO; gold
notes. 500.
Warm rains in the lower Payette
and Weiser valleys, Idaho, have made
the young grass to spring up finely and
live stock thrives upon it.
The Odd Fellows new hall was dedi-
Gated in Idaho City, November 10Th,
with appropriate ceremonies.
\ messenger arrived at Port Town.
send, w. r., on the night OF the 2Ist,
bringing word of the finding of another
body of the passengers of the i'll fated
steamer Pacific. This body was dis
covered by Judge Horton, of Port An
gelos, and through in bad state of
preservation, is supposed to be that OF
Mr.. Hastings, of the firm of Crane &
| Hastings, San Francisco, California.
His linen is marked ''E. T.. H." and he
had diamond ring on his finger. The
Steamer Phantom was at once dispatch
ed by Collector Webster to bring up
the remains, and proper appliances
placed on board for the preservation of
the body, in order to transmit it to his
friends.
Daniel Bower, late of Kaneas-where
his family reside-died at Salem, Satur-
day, aged II years.
The farmers of Polk county are put
ting in an unusual acreage OF seed wheat
for next harvest.
George p. Holman, of the Salem Lin
seed Old Mills, says he has contracted
for the cultivation of about 1000 acres
of fax next year.
L MNI1~sHa RoIoww,H
at Seattle on the 18th. One wss At
kins', on his wharf second was Nor
| rill e. Morris, on the Stone & Burnett
wharf, while the third was the new one
on Yestel's wharf. The two first were
hlled with grain, hay and other stuff, !,
and the builhings were not only blown
down but were torn all to pieces. At
Olympia sky'ight in Tacoma Hall
was smashed to pieces, Capt. Percival's
honse on the west side was somewhat
injured, and General Milroy,s residence
little damaged.
The following is given as the descrip.
tion of the parties who robbed the stage
on the road near Boise City on the 11th
inst One was slim man with three
fingers on his left hand. about six feet
in hight and known as Three fingered
Jackson. Another was medium sized
dark complexion and belived to b
Jack Henderson. The remaining rob
! Der was five feet ten inches high, darl
complexion, full face, mustaclle and i'm
perial, and well known by the name Q
Jim Marshall. AL three are said to b
notorious desperadoes, well acquainte'
. with the trails and passes, and are like
" 70 give their pursuers a lively chase
Mr.. T. P. Powers, Astoria, has bee
appointed lay commissioner to the Ger
eral Assembly Of the Presbyterla
Church, which is to meet in Brooklyn
5 n. Y, on the Goth day Of May, 1877