The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-02-07
PACIFIC COASTERS.

j. 8. Rodebaugli has leased tho
Lucky Queen mine.
A great deal of ditching is being
done near Junction.
Hon. II. II. Gilfrcy and wife have
returned from California.
COquille -four retails on tho Coquille
river at 50 30 per barrel.
Mckay creek, near Pendleton. has
been permanently bridgcd.
The Independence 'red shirt" bows
will give ball on the 18th.
Oakland, Douglas county is adding
to its population from Tennessee.
Hay is scarce in the Eugene market
and is selling at from SO to sls.
Tho Marshfeld cit, government does
not owe cent aud has on hand nearly
s40O.
A six foot vein Of iino coal has been
discovered above tidewater on the
south fork Of Coos river.
Messrs. Wright and Mcclellan have
concluded to carry the mail between
hoSeburg and Coos Bay.
a scow loaded with match wood
Swamred in Coos bay last week and
most Of the cargo wna lost.
Mr.. Burgess, a Wasco county com.
missioner, made about $500 out Of the
soldiers and Indians who camped near
his place.
frof Rice IL painting panorama
OF scenes of eastern Oregon, which he
proposes to exhibit throughout the cast |
ern states.
Hedges, Baroh & Co, of Indspond.
ehee' have contracted to supply the
town Of Monmouth with $4,000 feet of
sidewalk lumber.
The world moves. This is because
f"mbill county is trying to elevate
Galloway and prosecute Dale, the de
fanlting ex.Sherifr
The narrow gauge railroad nhipp.d
the last bushel Of wheat from Hub.
bard's warehouse last week. The Dal.
las warehouse is next in order.
a koSeburg paper says that bank
would DO n great convenience TO the
people OF that section, and thinks such
an institution would be "a paying enter
prise.
The captive Indians from Camps
Henry and MeDermott, who are to be
quartered on the Yakima agency.
passed through tho D.,llea en- route last
week.
The taxable property, according to
the RsporteT, within the corporate lin.
its of the city Of MeAIinnville, is valued
by the assessor at about SEAS, 900 above
The indebtedness.
Hon. T. G. Bradshaw fell in the
river a. Salem last Friday while trying ;
70 board the steamboat. City Of .SaGem. {
lie lost his hat and Valise, and but for :
timely assistance would have drowned !
Since resumption il accomplished it
$ pretty hard for grcenback bov To
'et an Oregon girl to swing on the gate
Fith him. Our webfoot lassies never
'ay with the "under dog in tho fight"
We notice the Jackson Vile Times
las recipe 'for renovating black dres.
es. 1t seems TO us that the best and 1
aS'est method would be to have Mary
Ann to eat dried apples instead of b
MONS $
Mr.. Charles Ludjens is now building a
small schooner ut the Oneatta mills. T.
n Yaquina Bay This schooner will .
9 used for the coast trade, carving i,
imber, and also for scaling during the !. =
cal season. il
The "Gold delds of Alaska" is the :
ame of a book, and that is all there Z
OF the gold fields. 1t is something
ke Geo. Humphreys biographical .
Setches: always promised but never &
'rthcOming. e
A Eugene negro, known as ~Coal," \
alked into saloon on Thursday Ia
ght OF last week, and shot pistol at s'
o barkeeper, named Peake, barely fr
issing him. He gave no reason for 20
o murderous assault. =
a correspondent writing from the Al
per Wallowa valley says: We are =
Pecting an Indian war in the spring,
d arc preparing to meet it as best we
n. But few Of our citizens are in ST.
ned to join the state militia. j
Farmers in the hilly country are :
about the chances for their Or
wheat. 1t is suggested that they M M
ght to be well contented because Or
leat on the hills is "away up" This the
original but out of the usual routine
jokes.-ED. ~
According to report Of the weather Co
nperature, DC, for the past year, da,
't by Geo. Bennett, Esq, of Bandon, If
os Bay, the mean temperature for reg
year was 1885,. There were 3s she she
3ts and Ia rainy davs . ra;reolI &c asiC