The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-22
rAcIFIc CoAsrrns.

The PuyalIup tobacco harvest com
menced last week.
MeMlnnvllle Is CLOSING up around
the new rallroad depot
Forest fires are raging ut many
points on Puget Sound.
Crlekets have made their appear
aneo In Walln Walla valley.
Salmon are running at Mukiltco
faster than they can be caught.
The potato crop in Yamhill county
will be large aud Of good quality.
The thermometer marked 1929 In
the shade at Baker City, on the sth.
spars for Maine ship builders are
being cut at Mud Bay, near olym.
pia.
A paper called tho Record is TO be
started by II. V. Chadd at Yakima
City.
Four acres Of the Beeler place south
Of Monmouth sold last week for $50
per acre.
A. u. Iavesse, one OF the LoulsI-
ana electors, and well known blk Is
at Boise city.
Tho thermometer stood at 90 In
the shade every afternoon last week
at Jacksonville.
An expert says If timber Is fallen
in this month, the stumps and roots
viii decay rapidly.
The first bell ever cast In Washing
ton Territory was turned out from
the Tacoma foundry.
Mr. Borner, OF McAIlinnville fell
from a load OF hay last week and
was shoclEIngly bruised.
Mr. }. T. Zumwalt, who lives near
Irving, Lane county, has raised some
oats eight feet two inches high.
The annual reunion Of the pioneers
Of Southern Oregon will bo held al
Ashland on the Iith Of September.
a guinea hen belonging TO Mrs. c.
G. Saylor, Of McMInnville has laid
ono hundred and six eggs this sea-
son.
Col. II. II. Cornelius was injured
at his warehouse In Cornelius last
week By falling and striking on n
scantling.
4 100000 brick kiln has just been
burned at MeMinnville. The de-
mand for all kinds Of building mater
ial Is good.
a company Of eleven energetic In
dividuals went from Folcy's Springs
TO the summit OF one OF the Three
Sisters last week.
A large cougar with two cubs Is
making away with sheep near Tur-
ner's station. 4 reward Of SIS is
offered for her scalp.
a steamer $50 feet long viii be
commenced at once for Capt. Geo.
Wright, TO run ou the Colorado river.
II VIII be built at Seattle.
a big bear which had been nm old
resident in the vicinity of Myrtle
Point, Coos county, was killed last
week by I. a. King and friends.
Katie Cosgrove, aged 1G, heroically
jumped into the water on Thursday
at Renton and saved Mary Sutton,
aged nine, from certain drowning.
While bathing, Miss Florence Nor
ton, daughter OF Joseph A. Morton,
aged about II years, was drowned Ia
the Malheur River, on the Sd inst.
A young immigrant got lost while
hunting horses In Southern Oregon,
last week and came near dying from
hunger and thirst. lie was rescued
by klamath Indian.
Three Chinamen robbed one of
their countrymen near Hillsbsro last
week aud then pounded him with
clubs until he was senseless. One of
them has since been arrested.
Mrs. Bean, wlfeofa trader on Tan
NAH river, Alaska, was killed by In
dians last September, and number
of disturbances have occurred among
the Indians which they attribute to
liquor in nearly all cases.
The Alaska Commercial Co.'s
steamer 50. Paul from Ounalaska re-
ports that the Arctic exploring yacht
Jeaanette arrived there August I'd,
and would sail for st. MichaeIs on
August 9Th. All well on board.
The prisoners in the CIatsop coun-
ty Jail were within half an inch of
their freedom last week having
cut through the wall to tho weather
boarding, when they were foiled by
the timely presence of Chief Barry
and others.
John Day, the Tillamook mail car
rier, was thrown from his wagon the
other day going to North YamhiII,
and severely injured. A man named
Williams, who was engaged to take
the mule team back, had a bit ofsim-
liar experience.
Three little boys took possession of
a farmers team at Salem on Friday,
and drove out into the country.