The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-03-01
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ganizing elhbs.
At Walla Walla wheat has declined to
sixty cents per busilel.
Building is in rapid progress at Pen
dletOn, Umatilla county.
The Dayton woolen factory will be
started by the middle of April.
The Jacksonville Times claims har.
monious Democratic party in Lake
county. m a
Progress of civilization is indicated
By the fact that the new town of Colfax
is to have a brewery.
Julius Wiesick has one thousand
acres in wheat all in ono field, three
miles East of Walla Walla.
1t is stated that this is the first winter
in seventeen years when there has been
SO little snow in the Blue Mountains.
A Miss Buzzard is one of the teach
ers in Portland school. Won't some
sweet.scented fellow change her name
Mrs. Terhurn, aged 81 years, died at
Jefferson on the 2lst. She was the
mother of thirteen children; all but one
living.
A Gre4nbacker has seeded from the
party in Umatilla county. He says the
leaders of the movement amt fit for
fsh-bait r
Mrs. L. Kulam, whom we announc.
4 as having had tumor successfully
removed By physician at Salem last
week, has since died
Heavy wind storms have prevailed in
the vicinity of Ashland and Phoenix
during the winter. The like has never
been experienced before.
Isaac Cox, of Jackson csunty, will
soon publish a book with the title Of
the American Monitor, or Remanism
and the public school system.
A petition is in circulation asking
Congress to make an appropriation fol
a survey for breakwater at Caps
Foulweather of Yaquina Bay.
Heavy SHOWS have fallen in til.
mountains of Southern Oregon, which
win keep up the supply of water fol
mining till far into the summer.
| a family of six children residing OF
Birch creek, Umatilla county, were al
suddenly taken with diphtheria, and al
tdied and were buried the same day.
j. G. Holkert, the Salem candy man
has bankrupted and slzedaddIed fol
parts unknown. His deserted wife hai
sued for divorce. Twas ever thus, &c
The Eugene Guard wants onr neigh
Dor of the Leader turned over to tbs
Soeiety for Prevention of Cruelty t,
Animals because he put burr unds
Edmands' erupper,
| Though the Democrats have alway.
a large majority in walla walla county
their committee has decided to ignor'
politics in the matter of electing dele
gates to the constitutional convention
4 gentleman writes to an Olympi;
paper from San Francisco: ''Frou
what can see and hear, Washington
Territory and Oregon are now the mos
prosperous parts of the United States.
Nearly every family about Heppner
Umatilla county, has been visited b.
diphtheria. It has not been so fatal
however, as elsewhere Out of so Of
60 cases, only FIVE or six deaths hav,
occurred.
The Portland Bee contains an adv
from "a Portland man wanting two we
men "to do hair work" From tn,
number of bald-haded Benedicts in AL
baRy We opine women for chair work
can be found here.
Washington Territory has leased he
convicts at 60 cents per day. At thil
rate it would cost Oregon about $50, ,0OC
per annum, while the entire appropria
tion last session of the Legislature wa.
$4,000 for two years.
The Walla Wall Iytrtesn1an opposes 9
state government for Washington, ap
parently on partisan grounds. It says
The Colorado blunder made the Hayes
swindle possible. Let US have no mors
laundering of that kind.
! The Olympia Standard says that tn,
N. P. r. R. Co. has offered to build 8
railroad over the mountains by way Of
the Pqckwood pass for S35, 900 pei
Fmile and TO complete it within three
years after the surveys are made,
The Bedrock Democrat says: Al
the mine of White d Hoffman, on
Burnt river about thirty miles from
Baker City, one day last week they
made run of twenty ton of rock from
which was realized the sum of $3.50,
being S12.50 per ton.
On Saturday last ninteen Indians
came to Seattle from Port Washington
| to be made citizens of the United