The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-25
PACIFIC coAsrEns.
Baker County Fair Sept Is.

Judge A. j. Cain died Ut Walla
Walla last week.
Astorians won't buy from Chinese
gardeners. Sensible.
Southern Oregon mining is ''slaclS-
ing up for the season.
Now Is the time for tourists let
ters from tho fsad sea waves
The Yakima citizens have now
100 stand OF government arms.
ghe most conspicuous features Of
Salem are vacant dwelling houses.
Cow-helIs and ilddlers make !" the
music OF the spheres" at Olympia.
A railroad from Salem to Sllverton
is the latest project. a good scheme.
California crops are turning out
tip-top, and times are getting much
easier.
The Pendleion Oregoaia, adver.
tises Prof. Rice, the ''mind-reader, -
as a blk.
Charlie Vollum, the Portland blu
der, has new daughter--bound
with cloth.
Douglas county has an OK years
old, 10 hands high and weighing
over 1000 pounds.
No need for men to growl about
the scarcity Of work. Harvest hands
are now In demand.
The Portland printers picnic, last
Saturday, was "fat take" for the
boys of the metropolis.
VIM. Eddy, Virginia City miner,
fell 500 feet down shaft last Satur-
day and was dashed TO pieces.
NJ. II. Ward, the absconding rail-
roadlcontractor, has been discharged
at Seattle, no one appearing against
him.
j. II. Upton, many years ago OF
Oregon newspaper,ame, has appear
ed at Coos Bayiwith bag OF job
type.
The Portland TstelraIa calls Astoria
" Fiddlers' Green" We suppose
that It is because it Is 100 miles be-
low Portland!
J. B. Fithian IL making bis new
venture, The Oregon city Democrat, a
readable, racy paper, anA we wish
him all success.
An Oregon City ordinance prohib-
its boys under age appearing on the
streets after . o'clock at night with
out valid excuse. This Is dead
ener on hoodlumity.
The Olympia Experiment says
Messrs. Ions 4 Birmingham are
going TO utilize the milk OF three
hundred cows, at their newt cheese
factory on White River.
Her name was Ada Keinpton, o.
Sacramento, and another woman
dared her TO drink a vial OF laud
anumn. She wouldn't take a dare
and sleeps in The valley.
Richard Gogan, working for a.
w. Nye, in UmatilIa county, fooled
with carbine, and lodged ball ii
his left side. He will live, but ha'
laid that carbine away.
VIM. Rhett, member OF The las
Idaho Legislature, is HOW in limbo a
Mount Idaho, on a charge OF incest
with his own daughter, who gave
birth to a child the other day, claim
ing it is his.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bates Qhe latter Mis-
Annie SWAMI who a few years age
travelled through Oregon as the Ken.
lucky giants. have recently become
the parents of a male child weighing
81 lbs. That Bates onything!
Jackson Grant, the Indian half
breed, who was sentenced at Port.
land to be hanged, has had a new
trial, plead guilty TO murder in the
secoud degree, and has been sen.
fenced TO imprisonment for life. He
is said to be dying of some Ioathsome
disease.
A man claiming to be blacksmith
at the Umatilla Agency says that fir
ing has been going on for five days
between Snakes and UmatiIIas on
The Reservation, the former having
made the attack because the Una
tiIlas betrayed Egan. Cornoyer, the
agent, was busy getting the women
to places of safety. Col. Forsythe
Immediately sent Capt. Bendire with
his cavalry company to inquire
into it. Little reliance is placed in
the blacksmith's story, although it is
generally understood at Pendleton
that sixty Snakes have just come
down on the Tutuwillow from the
mountains.