The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-09-16

sch0ol.house has just been completed
upstairs, and will be furnished with
new school furniture.
Mechanics will be busy the balance
Of this year In Astoria. Besides ten
or more dwellings and residences In
course OF construction, several rather
imposing structures will be built, In.
Guiding the Pythlan hall, Methodist
church, ETC., and about a miIe ot
street planklng Will be laid down.
From almost any standpoint the out.
look Is altogether moro promising
than In long while.
Grant County Ne,cs: Cattle buyers
are plentiful this year and bovine,
command a good price. We heal
that as high ~ SIT per head has
been offered for two.year olds and
cows. II Is tho Judgment OF many
who are In q position to form q cor.
rect opinion, that prices will still fur.
ther advance.
Malheur river bottom Is said TO bt
100 feet lower than Baker City. The
Malheur valley Is said to be- fasl
settling up with a good class Of emil
grants. A ditch; some ten or flfteer
miles long Is being constructed foi
irrigation purposes.
Van ogle OF PuyalIup valley, hai
sixty acres OF old hop vines and four
teen acres planted this year. lie ID
confident the. yield will average l..
500 pounds per acre on the old ground.
Not more than q couple OF tons will
be gathered from the new vines, buI
the quality Is Al.
Mary. l.. Mayer, German won.
an, formerly the wife of Frederick
Mayer, who lives near Cedar Mills,
Washington county, committed sui.
eide on the 5th inst, by taking
strychnine. She was dive rced from
her husband last June, and troubles
growing out Of family quarrels caus'
cd her TO commit suicide.
Martin GImel, while going q
Puyallup on tho train, on the after.
noon OF the ist inst, dropped u pock'
etbeok containing 500 dollars Ia
greenbacks and valuable papers. Con-
ductor Lindsley found the property
and returned Il 10 the owner next
morning.
Listen 4 Co., OF New Tacoms,
have a contract for overhauling the
revenue cutter Oliver Wolcoit. The
repairs to the Wolcoit will consist o.
a new smoke-stnck and thorough
overhaullng Of her machinery. Work
viii be commenced at an early day.
II must be completed In forty days
]. w. Anderson, OF Tacoma, has a
coairact 10 deliver 1900 tons VI TIA.
coma lime 10 the Oswego Iron Com.
pany. So far In 1881, $4,000 barrels
OF lime have been shipped from Mr..
Anderson's works 10 Portland fol
building purposes, aud the quantity
will be increased TO $4,000 barrels
before the first OF January next.
Ed Mace, employed as a workman
at the stone quarry below WIlkeson,
was killed last Monday. A blast
had been exploded and Mace, who
was on the cliff above, fell down the
precIpIcs and received injuries which
caused his death. Deceased leaves q
wife and and child, who resides At
the lime kiIns. The funeraltook place
at Puyallup on Tuesday.
From Newberg: To-day Geo. w.
Parrish, son OF Ed. Parrish, got his
foot canght and crushed to some ex-
ten. by the bull wheel and pinIon to
the horse power OF a threshIng ma
chine while treshing. J. NJ. Holston,
while hauling grain to the same ma
chine, this afternoon, turned over
his load, fell and hurt his shoulder.
The Oregon Improvement Co.
have finished the contract OF getting
cut all the ties and bridge timber
for the o. r. & N. Co.'S limo from
Prescott to Colfax. The company
have nine large saw mills in Colum-
bia county, under contract until the
FIRST OF November, and are getting
out large quantities Of lumber, n
large portion OF which will be ship
ped to Colfax as soon as the railroad
Is completed.
Walla Walla Journal: We under
stand that there Is daily laid in Blue
Mountain station over 200 tons Of
wheat, while only In the neighbor-
hood to IS tons of this Is shipped
consequently mountains Of wheat are
awaiting transportation and grain
blockade is In progress. The rail-
road company should not be misled
by the size Of the place into thinking
It of no importance as a shipping
point, as there Is no finer wheat
growing country in the world than
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