The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1877-08-17

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u The hop-growers Of Puyallup VI
Al want $500 pickers, to begin Septemb
Of lst.
RS Hon. D. ?. Thomson Las $50 Chin
at men at work digginga ditch noar Jac
t. sonvilc.
Of Stock sheep Of average quality
Ia Umatilla county arc worth 50 to s2.5
re mutton sheep, sl.75 to So
" w. A. Cowl, of Umatilla county
IS making good white wine. He will pr
E. duce 500 gallons this year.
, Chinese want to fish on Puyallup re
G eryation. Indians are willing, but I'll
! sheriff of the county says they shan
Y Thieves have been stealing consider
! able quantities of bacon from the smok
house of Messrs. McCully, near Salem
A young man named Campbell wa
thrown from a runaway header neat
Sheridan last week and got his leg bro
ken.
G. D. Richardson, from Maine, with
a family Of twelve persons, has arrived
at Pendleton, Umatilla county, and
will settle there.
The man Freiderichsen, who was SO
frightfully lacerated by a circular saw
at Tacoma, has sued the mill company
for heavy damages.
VIM Drew, who killed negro
known as Bob, at Tacoma, two months
ago, will be put on trial for murder.
He will probably hang.
Union Sentinel. "With all due re-
sepect for the opinions of those who
desire an extra session, VIC have so far
been unable to find any reason sufficient
to induce us to sign the petition"
I. Mofit, resident of Roseburg for
IA years, committed suicide by taking
strychnino last Thursday. He had
been ill for some time and had met
with reyerses. He was So years old.
Logs have been sawed at Port Mad
ison, Puget Sound, which weighed 25
tons each, and produced over 5000 feet
of lumber. A whole raft of logs now lies
there which will make over 1000 feet
each.
AT Philomath, Benton county, last
week, G. E, Arnold was charged with
poisoning farmers water bucket, and
Mr.. Denny was charged with prac-
ticing shotgun Democracy. Both were
acquitted.
A farmer in Yamhill took a demi-
john of whisky to the hands in the
harvest field. Before night they had
made kindling wood Of header worth
S4OO, and he had to start to Portland
for new one
A Chinaman in Baker county has
been held to answer for selling liquor
without license. The principal witness
against him is another Chinaman, who
hopes to get the defendant in the peni-
tentiary and then obtain his charming
wife.
A sheep herder named Franklin has
killed grizzly bear in the Blue Noun
toins which weighed 700 pounds. The
bear was young one. The track of
an old grizzly which has been seen in
the same locality measures l6 inches
long and l2 inches wide.
Two children, named Probe, in
Thurston county, W. T., the eldest of
eight years, were drowned last week by
falling from foot log into the creek.
They were found clinging to each other
nearly under the log, The water was
only four feet deep
Isaac and Dorcas Fredenberg of
Dardnelles, Jackson county, are prob !
'Oly the oldest married people in Ore
'on' They were married in New York
n 1915 and have removed successfully c
o Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri and c
)regon, reaching this State in 1864. -
The non treaty Indians who have u
zen on north fork of John Day river Il
nys the Grant county Times, for some W
'eeks past, moved last week to the
ialhour Indian agency to pay a visit Il
} the Snakes. The Indians number N
%, with them something over 1000
ONES They go to trade, gamble and ),
'co their horses, which noble eniov. \, \,
lont they greatly prefer to work. 10