The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-07-30

Hands and Teamss-MacalfMe shops 20
be Located at EsrOwnsviIie---Sharp Crit.
icIspn of City Dads on their recent ac.
IIOn I'm the matter of LIquOr License
An Interesting Letter.
BROWNSVILLE, Or, July 2s. 1880.
ED. REGISTER The change OF the
weather from very hot to cool. has made
the farmers feel much better this week.
For the past ten days the sun has poured
down his rays so hot that there was dam
ger of completely killing all late sown
grain, but has not hurt fall or early wheat.
Last Saturday night, late in the even
ing. an affair happened fq Brownsville
which Is getting far too COMMON in our
country oflate. man named R. Warren,
a painter was shot, it is supposed fatally,
by Geo. Goodman, while both parties were
at the house of A. Masterson. 1t seems
that sort of Jealousy existed between the
two men. and at last Goodman shot War
rem, and he is not expected to recover. the
ball passing nearly through the body and
| injurtng one of the lungs. Lawyers
Blackburn, Humphrey. Strshan and
| Bilyeu. of Albany were here on Monday
! and Tuesday. and Goodman had a pre-
liminary examination before Esquire
| Averill, and after the examination of
many witnesses, Mr.. G. was put under
bail in the large t?) sum of $3.50 to appear
at the next term of the Circuit Court of
this county. In the meantime Dolf
Brusha was sworn in as special constable
to take charge of Goodman till he furnish
ed necessary bail.
Mr.. Baird's folks leave with Mrs. Hen
derson and family for Wasco Co. this
week. both intending to make that part of
the couutry their future homes. Wm.
Lemaster and W III. Robe left lately on
prospecting trip up towards the head OF
the Willamette, where it is reported that
good prospects OF gold were found some
time ago. We hope they will find it i'll
large quantities. and return heavily laden
with the precious metal.
Many are fitting out for the blackberry
patches in the mountains. andmany haye
already gone, IA it is reported the crop is
unusually large this year.
Mr.. F. f. Croft has gone down to Port
land this week. One of his chief errauds
| tHSf6 Is 10 iIAke the necessary arrange
ments with the railroad company so as to
commence building a warehouse here at
once, In company with Mr.. o. P. Coshow
Last Saturday will be looked upon as a
sort OF red letter LAY for this city, as we
had here the following gentlemen from
below WIN. Reid, Esq. President of
the O. R. Co, Donald McCleay, Vice
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directors, Maj. Sears. Chief Engineer, J !.
B Montgomery, head contractor and Mr..
Lawrence, contracting engineer. They
expressed their determination to push the
road through TO this place this fall, and
| they wait all the men and teams that can
be got in this section. They have two loco
motives i'm Astoria, and have hown their
good taste by having one OF them name
ed the Brownsville, so of course that raises
US one notch in the scale of greatness. Mr..
| Lawrence informed me that they would
| commence track laying at the Willamette
river on the 1st of August, and would push
| the road as fast as possible from that
date that they have been waiting for
material. but by that time everything
ecution of the work all along the lite
The Company are paving good prices at
| present. as parties who have gone from
here can testify and as soon as cutting
grain comm enceS they will pay $5 for
man and team per day, and pay the
coin every month. The company want
ten acres of land here to build machine
shops, etc. but they have not made any
arrang yet but as we have such a
fine water power they will undoubtedly
locate them here.
At the meeting of the City Council last
week, the proceedings were a little warm,
rs the subject OF granti4g license to sell
li4Aor was brought up. Certain parties
want saloon opened very badly, so they
importnned the Council till they authorz-
ed the Marshal to canvass the city and see
how matters stood Oh this question and
so he took vote by ballot, and the result
they claim stood as follows for saloon
40; against saloon %. So the Council
PASSED an ordinance reducing the license
from SIS to S35 The Council tied on
the vote to place it at $50, and our friend
j. B. irvine, Mayor, and ex-Presldent of
the Blue Ribbon Club, cast the deciding
vote in favor of the lowest sum. Now,
Mr.. Editor, why did not the Council
make Mr.. Moore, the applicant Tor a
license. go with a petition arounl this
city and get majority Of the legal voters
to put ther names down and say they
were in favor of a saloon heres Instead
of this we see that nearly every man you
meet Oh the street is surprised to see
where all the temperance men have gone
to but how easy to talk temperance and
declare themselves against a saloon. and
yet on a ballot to 0ote in favor of it, when
they know it will never be found out how
they voted. Where is the manhood in
such proceeding as this? Ifa man claims
To be man let him show it open and
above board, so we may know where to
find him ; but how many there are in this
community, that, on political or religious