The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-10

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| quantity Of wheat init and the owner.
feel safe.
The winter, term of the Willamette
University will begin Monday, Dec. 9th
The commercial department will be
under the direction of II. P. Crooke
Mrs. Bowman will have charge of the
primary room.
Transactions of the Roseburg Land
| Office for November: Cash entries
81 acres; p homestead entries embrac-
ing 2,44O acres; 26 fnal homestead
entries embracing 3,701 acres; 46 pre-
emption fling; 3 donation certificates
ssued; one mining application filed.
a man named Robinson, living about
three miles east of Roseburg' let a
loaded rifle fall from his lap few days
ago aud the cap OIL the gun was ex
ploded sending the ball through the
Lonc of the arm. The careless handl-
ing of firearms is costing lots, if not
oceans of blool, nowadays.
Tatric Henry Boyle, a sheep-herder,
was accused of selling liquor to Indians.
Complaint was filed before Z. S. Com
missioner Bailey at Pendieton. A war;
rant was issued and placed in the hands
of Deputy us. Mar,hal I. G. Disosway,
who arrested the accused somewhere i'll
the Willow Creek country while doing
duty as herder.
A person who goes by the name of
w. Starr, and says lie is from Portland,
Maine, las been trying TO impose on
some of the Methodist brethren in Cor
wallis. He strikes them for 50 to pay
his way to Portland, there to collect a
draft of $4,000 for produce he has
shipped 70 New York, and promised to
return IS for the two borrowed. lie
outrages the generosity of the brethren
by intimating they would charge or
receive such enormous psnry.
The Iemizer says man named w.
w. Chapman, residing rear Bethel. met
with a painful accident last week.
Whie he was plowing something be-
came out of order about the doubletree,
when lie stopped to fix it. lie Lad his
finger clGse about tie clevis. between
which and the doubletree it was caught
by the team starting suddenly, and cut
smooth off. He is getting along wei
enough, considering no surgeon was sent
for, as it was deemed unnecessary.
Rev. /. S. kalloch lectured recently
in San Francisco on John Bunyan,
whose preachings he said were terrible
as a charge of the ''lronsides," being
man OF courage, kindness aud common
sense, who if lie had never read Greek,
human nature, Which was much better,
and when lie final y passed over the
river of Death all tie trumpets sounded
for him on the other side.
care the young ladies of the present
lay fit for wlves?" asked, a lecturer of
his audience. "They are fiji tor Lusbads,o
responded a female voice; shut the
trouble is you men are not Fl. for wives!
The applause was great, and SO was the
discontinue of the lecturer.
All the streams emptying into tho
Sound are unusually high. The Des-
Chutes Is within eight inches Of the
highest mark; the Nisqualla is higher
than ever before known by the whites;
and the Chehalis is also very high. We
have heard of no particular damage yet.
The Heanizer says: The dam at E.
Y. Hallock's mill, few miles up the
river from Dallas, gave way last. Mon
day afternoon. The cause, it is said.
was the breaking of a log boom short
distance above the dam containing about
400 sawlogs. Mr.. Pierce Clingan To-
ticed the critical aspect of the concern
and very generously reported to the
men i'll the woods that they had better
stop putting in logs as the boom would
not stand it. They did not heed his
warning, but went on and put 100 more
logs in, and then came down to the
mill when they found the dam, boom
and logs gone. There is no telling how
many logs they put in after the concern
proke. The damage will probably
reach $4,000 The dam was 81 years
old.
The Pendleton paper says: cone
day this week while James or William
Looney was herding sheep at the head
of small canyon, about three miles
from Pilot Rock, he found a saddle. sad
dle-bags and some clothes that had been
placed naturally in the position found.
NIr. Looney rec gnized the clothes as
having been worn by man who stop