The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-09-06

Of about l2 miles.
A seven months old calf recently
displayed in Port Townsend market
weighed 800 pounds.
Il Is rumored that the Nanaimo coal
mines viii shut down on account
Of low prices in coal.
They had a sirocco at Boise City last
week. Il was hot and dry enough to
dry up the sap in the trees.
Such an amount Of building Is now
going on at Jacksonville that there il a
demand for good carpenters.
About fifty emignnt wagOns for
Warrington territory passed through
Boise City on the 25ah and 26th ult.
]. G. Cooper will commence tho pub
lication Of a semi-monthly temperance
paper at McAfinnvillc aboat the frst Of
October.
The bridge over Salt crcds on the
Yamhill narrow gauge is 1920 feet
long and 81 feet high. Il will soon BE-
completed.
The Cnord says that in Zane county
the wheat crop is superior in quality
and quantity TO what waA expected two
months ago.
Two extra men are on the o. & c.
R. r. mail car weighing mail, one for
the government the othgr for the rail.
road company.
Within The past year, thero has been
two large mercantile establishments, one
drug store and several dwelling houses
erected At Philomath-
The survey for ra;lroad route over
the Cascades By tho Cowlilz pass has
discovered several large tracts OF good
land awaiting settlement.
2. S. Patton, tbs, mail rider between
DOiss City and Jodan valley, has been
missing for three weeks. The hostiies
mnat have murdered him.
The Lafayette Courier: says "slan-
ders, lies, rows and bad feelings gener-
ally, seem TO be epidemic in this region. I"
Rather bad state Of affairs.
Property in Ashland shows an ad.
vance Of SIS, 900 on last years. assess
ment. There il an advance generally
throughout jackson county.
MsTimmons was arrested on last
Saturday by Sheriff Hall, Of Polk
county, charged with assault with a
dangerous weapon on II staley.
Last year about GOO tons Of hops
were exported through New Tacoma
from the Pupallup valley, and this sea-
son tie outlook is just as favorable.
NJ. cOfey, Of Salem, lost his new
COW some days ago, and he found her
shot. and one of her hind quarters gone.
Il bi supposed that tho tramps did It.
The Nonparel quicksilver mine in
Douglas county, pear Oakland, has OK.
G. llent prospects. There is a tunnel
Va $50 feet, and a smelling furnace viii
soop be erected.
The HiIlsboro Tndepe,adcnt announces
the fact that some of the boys of that
place steal watermelons. That is some
thing strange. Boys don't generally do
such things-not in Oregon.
There viii be meeting at Coquillei
City on Saturday, Sept. 7th, 1873, at ]
o'clock in the afternoon Of that day for
the r2rpOse of considering the improve
ment Of the entrance Of the river.
The body Of John Way, who was
perhaps the first victim Of the Indian
raid into Umatilln county, was fonnd
recently near Camas prairie. It bore
marks Of the most shocking mutilation.
Settlers are rapidly occupying the
lands in the neighborhod Of the line Of
the Utah Northern Railroad in Eastern
Idaho. Thousands Of acres Of the I'm
lands are lying m that sec
ticn.
Mr.. VIM. Barlow, Of Barlow prs,irie,
has just finished threshing l66 acres Of
Spring wheat, Chill Club, which yielded
BOZ bushels per acre. Ten acres Of
White Norway oats yielded 10 bushels
Der acre by weight.
A. Mckay, of Fort Jones, Cal, and
J. B. Wilson, of Lake county, have
eceived q contract for makhsg surveys
f some government lands in tho vicin-
y Of Stems mountain. The value Of
hecontract is something over $4,000.
Frank Points saw five Indi,lns armed
nd mounted on poor horses making
heir way north through the timber
ear the Palouse river last week, and
. now thinks they are . part az thel
ostils party who crossed the b
et With Tahaboo.
1haaaT supt Coleman bFol ground
4 The nov e6ion of tho Ssntfle
ID NalIa WAlla roAs eastward