The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-10-25

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There are 10 bc some big races at Sc |
attic on the 22d and 23d Of next
month.
Competition has reduced the prices
Of passage between Coos Bay and San
Fnncisco 10 IS and 90.
The gross value Of the taxable prop
erty in Umatilla county ia s2,253,l72;
indebtedness, s657,251.
The boys in blue were paid or at
walla Walla on Monday, and they
made that town 'hOwl."
About 10000 pounds Of Jackson
county wool was sold at Roseburg last
Week at Is cents pound.
Sheep men in jackson county are
very busy hhearing, and the yield Is
said 70 be unusually large.
On account Of increased acreage the
wheat crop on the lower Sound will be
much larger than last year.
Professor Tapp, tho horse trainer, Is
in Jacksonville. He made tour Of
this valley several years ago.
Hon. II. q. struve win institute
Grand Lodge Of Odd Fellows In Wash
ington Territory in short time.
Squire Ebberta, Of Washington eoun
ty, has raised potato weighing FIVE
pounds. This is the boss thus far.
The groas value Of taxable property
in Josephine county is S4l0,Ds5; in
debtedneAs, s92, $50; number Of polls,
3ss. @
HsydeR's hop yard ON the Mckenzie
bottom, Lane county, will not be
stripped this year, the price not war
rantihg It.
The Klickitat San is very bitter
against General Howard because his
treaty with Moses gives the latter too
much land.
The salmon run on the sound is not
10 great as last year. Fishermen are
not catching a. much a. expected all
over the sound.
Yamhill county blows about its hnv-
ing more brass bands than any county
in the State. Tho people Of that lila
hes have our sympathy.
1t is generally believed at Junction
that Cohn's and Salamon's stores were
robbed before they were fired, rs all
their jcwclry have disappeared.
Tho people Of Muck, on the Sound,
have organized bear and panther
club, giving $50 to tho member who
kills ono Of either kind Of animals.
Nine marriage licenses have been
granted thus far in Yamhill county for
oetobei. The cold weather fetches
them in that county as well as Linn.
A Mr.. scaright intends to purchase
IL or 10 thousand head Of cattle in the
Waila Walla country during the winter,
and viii drive them east in tho spring.
The business mon who lately burned
out at Junction are rebuilding their
stores. They should secure a FIRE en-
gine before they put up even a single
frame building.
A. G.. White, Of WldeIville, Lake
county, caught fawn last week that
had only one foot, and one leg was OF
at the hook joint, and the other two
legs were covered something like rab
bit.
John Holman drew the gold watch
rallied of at, the Sisters Fair on the
Fair grounds. Farrar Bros. drew the
$500 piano which was offered by Bow.
en- Bros, the yeast powder men at the
Fair. 4 ~ d.as.s ....4s
Four companies arc now fishing be
tween Parkersburg and the mouth Of
the CoquiIIe river, and are catching the
finest variety. Of white salmon. They
take out on an average abont 5000 8
day in the aggregate, with Seine and
gill net. M
II Preparations are progressing in Jack
son county, for more extensive mining
operations the coming season than hal
been done for many years with larg,
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out lay of capital already invested and
in the hands Of competent and expert
cnced men.
Louis Mayer, of Vancouver, has {
contract with parties in Europe to shiE
fir cones. The seeds are to be extracted
at the destination and planted in con
genial places. If Oregon could mar
ket all her fir cones she would be il
circumstances.
The Inland Empire says that "im
provements Of all kinds are going on il
The Dalles. II says: On every sid'
Of us we hear the the noisy clink o
the hammers of busy carpenters. Gt
in what direction you will, in any pOr
ton of our city, there is to be noticet
daily evidences of substantial improve
ment and prosperity. There is no town
to-day in the state of Oregon which
presents SO many evidences of adysnce
ment as The Dalles." Come dow