The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-10-20
Pacific Slopers.


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Steilacoom's streets are kept in order
by chain gang.
The crops at Boisfort are all garner
ed and in good condition.
There are almost as many Indians at
present in Seattle as Chinese.
The receipts of the Fair at Walla
Walla were about 5000 last week.
Wild geese and ducks are plentiful
III the sloughs about Seattle.
About $500 worth of apparatus is
wanted in the Seattle public schools.
Two of Seattle's Ceuncilmen resigned
at the last meeting of the Board.
Charles Moore was lady bruised in
a runaway at Walla Walla last week.
Frank Stresmer cf Seattle, adyertises
himself.as the champion pedestrian.
They cnt 100 laths in two minutes Mt
Ward 6 Nitchell's mill at Tumwater.
Snohor,ish county got most of the
premiums for grain a. the Olympia
Fair.
The salmon run has improved i'm
mensely i'll the last few days at Elliot
| Bay.
Hon J. P. .THdson has chartered the
steamer l1asorite for the canvass on the
| Sound
| The pnblic schools will be kept in
Seattle Notwithstanding the empty ex-
chequer.
Seaitleites can now ar1use themselves
trolling for salmon at the month of
White river.
Upwards of iorty coal and lumber
vessels are now due at the Sound from
San Francisco.
The Seattle Oystermen have consoli-
dated and there is an uwpard tendency
in the biyalSc market.
! j. Christ las charge Of fire engine
~ Seattle, ard received $40 last week
as bis monthly stipend.
Wilson, hatch and others, having
cleared the first jam in the skagit, ave
now at work on the second.
Two eaw-mils are now running at
Goldendale, in the kikitat valley. and
a third is under construction.
The Methodist Church Olympia
essays to pay off its Indebtedness with
a grand huckleberry picking.
The Annie Stewart, after underg ing
repairs for some time past, on the 14th
steamed from Seattle to Tacoma.
Dickinson, the expert, says the mines
in Warren district, Idaho, will pay II
so per cent. of the gold and silver eau
be saved
The Sabbath school children o
Whatcom and Sonome recently gave a
concert which cleared SO towards pay
ing for church organ.
Uncle Sammy Stewart, all Idaho
miner living on Snake river, neal
Payne's ferry. shot and killed man
last week, in self defense.
There was a slight increase in th'
: number OF small. ppx cases III San Fran
cisco last week
There was a slight increase in th'
number OF smallpox cases i'll San Fran
cisco during the last week.
Tie bullion thieves will, most likely
get caught. Con. Virginia mine is sup
posed to have lost $50 900 by the gang
The Aurora restaurant at the Fai
ate over one thousand persons on Thurs
day.
Too tnnch &" encouragement in
liquid .orm, resulted in a young man'
being waited from a Drain, Dougla
county. party, one night last week.
Capt. Tichener wants the Legislator
!, to make Port Oxford the county seat c
, Curry county, and to effect this wishe
to have parts of Coos and Josephin
counties tackled on to Curry.
Mr.. Romaine, living near Harrisburg
while burning straw last week, had TIL
misfortune to lose his harm, several tor
of hay, threshing machine aud heat
er. by the fire getting beyond his col
troll.
Last Thursday, Mrs. Rhoda HUM
;, OF Washington county, the prosecutin
witness against Hume for assault wi,
+, dangerous weapon, left the Tualati
Hotel and struck ont through u
woods to Harris bridge where she W,
% found in a demented condition and take
to II. t'arpcnter's place. where Sheri
d Morgan found her and brought h
back to town.
= Judge Cronin, although no mat,
for DR.. Watts intellectually, we do hi
30 the iuSfice In say is ra4Lar a., odrc