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

Pendleton last week, wi ich she had
hauled distance OF 70 miles.
The stages in Eeastern Oregon keep
up good time, notwithstanding the bad
roads. In Southern Oregon they don't
On Thursday the Governor appointed
Robert Newcomb, OF Roseburg, Doug
las county, notary public for Oregon.
Fifty head of Indian ponies were pur
chased near Pendlcton last week. The
purchaser will drive them East in the
spring.
Bruce Wolverton, q graduate of Mon
mouth college, in this State, has chagre
of the school at Hydesville, Cal. He
is sRev.'' now.
A lunatic named S. B. Starr escaped
from the deputy sheriff of jackson coun-
ty at Roseburg: and had not been cap
tured at last accounts.
A good many teams with goods are
on the road from the Dalles to Canyon
City, and it is feared they will have
rough :ime before getting through.
The Jacksonville Times says: Jay
G.. Kelly, superintendent of the Tort
land Company's mil on Althouse, jose
phine county, was in town last week.
He reports the mill as being finished aid
in excellent running order. Rock work
ed once by the former owners of the
ledge has been run over again and yield
ed $50 to the ton. The company is
making preparations to prosecute work
on an extensive tcale.
The James Gorden mine is situated
about five miles east of Baker City and
about four miles west of the Virtue
mine. There has been considerable
work done by the parties who own the
quartz ledge. They have a shaft sunk
to the depth of eighty or one hundred
feet, we'll timbered. A short time since
they had seventy tons of average rock
from this mine worked in the Virtue
mine mill, and sent the bullion to San
Francisco to be minted. Last week
they received their returns and found
that the seventy tons of rock crushed
yielded them the nice little sum of ST.
S44. or at the rate of S26 "a to the ton.
The finances OF Wyoming Territory
are in very satisfactory condition. There
no public d ebt and the treasury has
on hand the snug little sum of $4,000.
The assessed value of property is nearly
s9,0OO,00O, or nearly double what it
was two years ago. The Legislature OF
that Territory is now in session at Chey-
enne.
A postscript to business letter from
Willow Forks, Umatilla county, says /:
1--WE consider ourselves a part of the
common wealth of Oregon, although
somewhat isolated, and we want to
know what is going OH IN the world.
We have been blessed with more rain
than usual the past fall, and grass came
on finely, SO that stock was doing well
until snow commenced falling on the
I4th. The snow is now Nov. 16th)
four inches deep and the weather quite
cold. We are praying for ''Chinook
wind.'
Tie Roi,ttlealer says James, the
second ION OF Mr.. :. {. Movie, who
lives some twelve miles soutl, of Rose.
burg, was engaged in hauling timber
from the mountain side lear his fathers
residence. It appears that in coming
down the wagon came unconpled: throw
ing him from the load, break ny his neck
and killing him instantly.
The Woman Suffrage ASS ciation for
Yamhill county met at Lafayette last
week and transacted the usual amount
of business. Among other matters, q
resolution was adopted authorizing the
appointment of one person in each pre-
cinct in the county to ascertain the num-
ber of legal voters who are in favor OF
woman's enfranchisement.
The Dallcs Mountaineer says: ga
man, who seems to be deraoged, has
lately been seen at different points on
Three Mile and Eight Mile creeks. The
supposition is that it is Mr.. Charles
Walker, the man who so nysreriously
disappeared on the 5th instant from Mt
Gilmore's place, across the river. W.
have no means Of knowing the correct
ness OF the supposition, however.
On Tuesday night, while lady o
Tacoma was paying visit to a neigh
f Dor, the wind blew tree across he
Q house, which went crashing through th'
j building, falling across the bed.
The Indian chief who arrived dow
!, from Fort Rupert, reports that th
u smallpox is raging at Bella Coola an