The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-07-12

fal Just how.at Canyon City.
The late rains have been source Of
great good to the Marion county crops.
ReTs T. Il, Parrish wants to 60 as .
volunteer against the s'blOOning reds.
The Grant county Times thinks the
Umatillas win join the Piutes aad Ban
nocks. s ,ls1 sses
A company 6as organized at John
Day City, June 2Sth, O. I. Hs1lstine,
captain
The Congregational church at Salem
celebrated its 26th anniversary last
Sunday.
There are about 500 citizens and set
tiers in the post at Harnoy-but few
ha re arms.
Stages of the Northwestern Company
leave Pendlston daily for Pilot Rock
and Heppner
Over $500 hns been pounded out Of
eighty pounds Of rock from the Fort
Lanc quartz ledge.
Capt West hasss large force Of men
and women picking blackbsfriea for hia
Westport cannery. 5
The lone tree on Alki Point, well
known TO Sound nsvigators for twenty
five years past, is dead.
The arson 6snd Is abroad at Astoria,
but fortunately his efforts have not
besn successful thus far.
Judge Prim received l,I4l votes in
the LIST judicial district, and there were
but 21 votes agsinst him. r
Gen. Howard's transportation Is
hauled up the hills by HE soldiers, the
horses being badly used up.
/ Luckey Bros' new sA4milI On Hood
river vas destroyed BY fro On the I'd
The loss win aggregate $4,000.
Fhrss Lane county Eea got 3 barre
Of honey from 3 bee tree on the Ed
mandsons farm, one day iast week. ~
The Seattle Dispatch says large
nunbst Of settlers are locstiag IN
spunk valley. This place Is SONS dis
tanoe back Of Seattle.
The fourth annual fair of Walls
Wells agricultural society viii be held
at the Collins driving park during th,
Eve days succeeding September l7th.
| a boy ten years Of age, named
Willard Hayes, Was drowned in the
North Yamhill some days ego. H
was bathing and went beyond his depth
/ Mr.. Rcbie, who he's reached Camp
Hsrney, tells correspondent there
that net more than eleven Indians wer,
killed in Bernard's 6ghs on Curry
creek.
The Vancouver Znaspe.dass ssys il
hes made inquiries in Clark county, and
finds not more than one man out q
four opposed to establishing state gov
ernment.
It is expected that the grade on th'
Yamhill narrOw-gauge win be finished
TO Dallas by The 10Th Of August, ans
that the track viii be laid by the l5tl
of September.
The Assosian thinks it viii be diff
acule thing TO replace Mitchell IN tbs
Senate. Inasmuch es the Dsmocrnt'
have the majority nothing win b,
simpler in the world.
Gov Ferry has sued the Dep,ocrGti,
Press of Port Townsend for LIBEL, claim
ing ten thousand dollars damages The
offence alleged wGs in charging the
governor with corrupt exercises of the
Pardoning power.
Quite an enterprise has sprung up on
Puget Island, Wahkiakum county, W.
T., in the business of extracting oil
from the heads Of salmon. The firm
operating there viii this season put up
about 9, 900 gallons of oil.
| The Jscksonville Times has infcrma-
tion that the houses of Messrs Wilson,
WalIscs, Gilism, LOckhead and other
ranchera in Warner valley have been
burned. All property has been aban-
donsd By the fugitive settlers. / ~
r. D. Hume's steamer, the ALsr.
Dssmcast, which run from San Francisco
to the mouth of Rogue river, was wreck
ed on the bar Of Eel river on June
18th. Tbs crew and cargo we're saved
but the vessel is probably total loss
All coal mines on Coos Bay are
practically shut down. EsstpOrt and
Newport are closed and Southport il
running only about sufficient to keep
the mine open. Many Of tho minera
are looking about fer land claims to
make bomes' atsn
The Columbia River conference q
the ID. E. church, will hold its next
annual session. 1t Dayton, beginning on
the 9th Of September. Rev. 4. ].
JOsslyn contemplates holding camp
meeting in the Dayton park, commenO
ing during the week. Many represent
atlve men of the NJ. E. church will bt
present.
AN INFAMOUS MONUMENT.