The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-10-11
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!, The Union county fair begins to-mor
row.
! Corvallis is going to have new Gr,
: engine.
Farmers near Vancouver are sowing
lfall grain.
Dogs are taxed 80 80 each, per year
in Seattle.
The Walla walla apple croI. is short
this season.
All the warehouses at Oakland are
filed with wheat.
Dayton, w. T., wants machine
shop and foundry.
There is lots of game in the country
back of Vancouver.
Wheat is quoted in jackson county at
60 cents per bushel.
Seven persons are confined in the
Douglas county Jail.
Tho long-looked for salmon run has
commenced at Yaquina bay.
Wheat is worth 72 cents per bushel,
from the wagon, at Roseburg
The Jacksonville Sentinel has new
dress and is greatly improved.
A man named Campbell proposes to
put tug on the Yaquina bay bar.
Silverside salmon are running in tho
Columbia. This is unprecedented.
The Monumental Mine, Grant county,
viii soon have twenty stamp mill.
The public school building just com.
pleted at Eugene City cost $4,000.
The Chinese miners in Northern
Idaho have "laid up" for the winter sea-
son.
1t costs 81 25 to ride from Olympia
to Tenino on the new railroad, distance
10 miles.
Miss Carrie Wasa has been appointed
an assistant keeper of the lighthouse at
Cape Foulweather.
Tho gross valuation Of property in
Josephine county, as estimated by The
county assessor, is about $4,000.
The citizens of Yakima have been
protesting very vigorously against the
plan of giving Moses big reservation.
Snow was visible on the high peaks Of
the Blue mountains on Tuesday Of last
week. It was the first of tho season.
No less than thirty barns with their
contents, have been burned in the Will
lamette valley during the past six weeks.
The grand lodge of Good Tsmplars
of Washington Territory gave $50 Of
800 in the treasury to the yellow fever
sufferers.
The Oregon Prcsbytery of the Cum
berland Presbyterian church will meet
at Fairfield, Marion county, Thursday,
the 25th inst, at 7 P. NJ.
One hundred thousand bushels Of
wheat has been hauled into Roseburg
80 far this season. Onefourih AZ much
more viii probably come in yet.
A correspondent says that the gov
ernment pays enough to support the
Indians at the Siletz reservation TO
board them all at n first class hotel.
Tho rush of fortune hunters TO the
Skokornisl gold mines continues One
man, a Mr. Cook, who has returned, Z
pronounces the discovery a "Gzzle."
The potato crop on the Sound is re-
ported 70 be partial failure The sea ,
Ion has been altogether too dry for this
'rop excepting in the lowest and bottom
ands. :
Tho ship Barring Bros. took from Sc
title last week cargo of $3.50 tons Of
oal which by nearly thousand tons
B the largest cargo<of this kind ever 7
AIKEN from Puget Sound. i
The Lake Loon country in southern :
oregon, lately brought into notice, is 6
aid to be very rich in agricultural land Z
nd timber. A wagon road will soon
e made to the upper part of it.
The Ashland Tidings learns that a j
arty of U. s. engineers are taking the 4
ltitude of tho various peaks in south q
rn Oregon, and placing monuments on n
be SUBMITS, with proper inscriptions. Il
A ferryboat al Silcott & Whites, on Il
be Snake river, sank few days ago j.
nder a load of Uncle Sans mules 9
he mules SWAN ashore and the boat,
.lieved of its load, came up again all
ght. d
The quicksilver retort used by the ~
incline company at their mines on a y
eaver creek has been found defective y
nd is now in such condition as to be 81
tterly worthless. The company will u
ny new outfit. p