The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-17
Pacific sIopers.
Dates to December Sd.

graph wire was stretched through La
Grande amid great rejoicing.
"Oregon Bill'' will attend the centen.
NAL. Who Oregon Bill is we dom,
know. A Philadelphia paper says lie
will be there.
A new paper will probably be start
ed rery soon an Oakland by AIr. Ster-
ling, who will use the material of the
old Umpqua C4H office.
Il is estimated that not over one-half
as much wheat las been sowed in the
Willamette valley past fall as was pnt
out last year by this time.
The weather III Eastern Oregon, is
said to have been much more pleasant
In November than it was in this valley.
1t might have been all that, and nothing
to brag Of
On Inst Thursday the locomotive
"Walla WalIa' was ditched at Wal
lula. 1t seems that switch had been
displaced and that the locomotive ran
off the track and was turned over in the
ditch.
J. d. Riggs says be lost $1,000 in
drafts on NIw York and about S235 in
greeubacks, in an envelope, between
Salem and Perrydale, short time ago,
and will suitably reward the finder on
getting it back.
California now sends hops TO Austria
ala, and the agricultural bureau, with all
the lights before it, says that Oregon
can raise better crops of hops than any
State in the Union. Then why not
supply Australia and other markets
from Oregon?
Mrs. w. 9. Langtord passed through
La Grande on her way to Washington,
d. c., during the week. She visits the
Capital for the purpose of prosecuting
her husbands claims to GAO acres of
land within the limits of the Nez I'erce
Indian Reservation.
A man named Frank Mccoy, min-
ing on the Columbia river. near Fort
Colville, is missing, and has not been
seen for about three weeks, and as he
was known to have had some trouble
with the Cinnamon working OH the river
about some water, it is feared he has
been foully dealt with by them.
The Stanislaus (Cal.A lNe,cs. says ssit
has been stated ON what appears pretty
good authority, that the Central Pacific
Railroad Company has purchased the
Holiday live of railroads in Oregon,
and will now crowd their connecting
road between the two States to an early
completion." /" tWhat authority % is
pertinent and interesting just now.
John Evans, indicted for the murder
of a man named Wilcox, Oneida county,
Idaho, some time ago, tried to hang
himself recently in Jail lie procured
three towels, which he tied around his
throat, and suspendlng hinself to bar
tried to meander off into the unknown
future, but failed in the attempt, his
tongue protruding from his mouth and
his eyeballs gIaring wildly from their
sockets. When taken down it was found
that life was not extinct. He still lives.
His trial has been postponed until the
next term OF the court at Malad.
The Boise City Statesman of the I'd
instant says "Co7. H. C. Page, gener-
al route agent Of Wells, Fargo g Co.,
arrived herenight before last from Port
land, Oregon. He is looking after the
Boise City stage robbers. Mr.. Page
revokes the reward heretofore offered
and now offers reward of So $50, $500
of which viii be paid for the arrest and
one-fourth Of tie amount of any treasure
rOcoyegsda
The Kelton and Silver City roads ale
so horribly muddy that the stages have
to drive along on q walk for many
miles after leaving Boise City. There
are lots cf teams Oh the Kelton road,
this side of tie Cold Springs, some days
unable to move at all, and when they
do undertake 10 move they are not able
30 20 over three or four miles.
The Salt Lake Tribune, otthe 25th
ult., speaks Of > party Of surveyors who
went into aae uiusalt country last Aug
gust, ma M nQt returned # vas
tlsas thsg bad been overtaken %