The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-15
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1hef0 VIII le ABOUT luu,VUu Tics III
the Yskima drive which takes place
this month.
-Four IS selling in Jacksonville ut
$22.50 per loco pounds; and eggs l7l
per dozen.
Capt. AnkenyIhas been offered $780,
900 for the Sterling mine and declined
the offer.
Nj. Symthe has received the contract
for furnishing Camp Spokan with 800
tons of wild hay at $2s per ton.
w. d. lIare, for some years collector
OF customs at Astoria, has returned to
his old home in Washington county to
reside.
The territorial supreme court con-
vened in Olympia on tho llth inst.
with less than score of cases on the
docket.
During the month of Jane there
were issued ut the Walla Walla pos.
Office money orders to the amount of
$6,s07.97.
The report of the couaty treasurer
of Polk county for the year ending
July 6, shows balance in the Il elsury
of Sl620.T4.
Capt. Hunter last week purchased
at Coliax six head OF horses for cavalry
service at AN average price of Sli0
per head. The horses ARE for Fort
Colvile.
Farm hands aie scarce among the
farmers of Thurston county. In fact
there il large demand for all kinds OF
workingmcn on the Sound, on farm :,
in logging camps, saw mills, and on the
railroads.
Ram has been abundant and weather
unusually favorable for large crops in
the Palouse country. About 10000
bushels Of flax will be harvested in
Paradise valley aud nearly 100000
bushels has been contracted for at %
cents. The fruit crop was light this
season.
The board of managers Of the Oregon
State Agricultural Society have ar
ranged for advance payment of the
interest on Indebtedness f1r the coming
year, all expenses of the fair of 1881,
and 80 per cent on the premiums Of
the same.
Absut O'Clock on the evening OF
the 7th, inst. the convicts employed on
the new insane asylum building at
Salem, attempted to escape. The
guards fired number of shots Mt them,
arresting their flight and returning
them 10 custody.
Lieut.. Backus of Fort Klamath,
offers reward OF 800 for the arres,
and return oi two deserters named j.
w. +. Cooper aud Fred Clark. IL is
supposed that they are no~ in the
Siskiyou mountains prepared for horse
- ealing and high way robbery
The whole number of organized
school districts in Polk county Is II.
Of this number ? reported az required
by law and drew from the school fund
There were 1868 pupils enrolled in the
public schools lastyear. Average at
tendance, 1000; number OF school
buildings, 49,
Salem .Stalesnmn: The assistant
county treasurer, II. \. Johnson, in
forms us that during the. year ending
June 80, 1881, he has received into
the general fcnd, s9T, $685. and has
disbursed s95, ,sis II. l-aling balance
on hand of s2,557 u. OF school funds
he has received sl7.072 Is, and dis
bursed sl6,907 64, leaving balance
on hand of sl04 20.
The graders are within about three
miles of Coburg, Lane county, aud it
is expected the road will be completed
to that point in time to move the crop
this fall. III the road IL built farther,
it will necessitate the bridging Of the
Mckenzie, and if connection is m..de
with the O. &C.. 6. r. T.. the Willamette
will also require bridge.
Articles of incorporation have been
fled in the Office of the secretary of
state, Incorporating the Springfield
Siuslaw Railroad Company. Object,
constructing and maintaining rail.
road from point OF the Willamette
river opposite S. ringield to tidewater
on the Suislaw river, in Lane county,
a distance of eighty miles. Capital
stock, sj00,0.0; incorporators. A. S.
Patterson, John Kelly and j. III.
McClung.
The n. p. II. Il. Co o'have completed
their l5,000-gallon water tank at
tSpokan Falls. Water is Brought to
he tank distance OF 90, 90 feet through
a two-inch pipe, with fall Of 81 feet.
The supply is never-faiiing, and the
quality of water most excellent, it be.
ing taken from spring. A trench is
being dug in which the pipe will be
buried about two feet deep.
Mines on Gnat Creek, near Moscow,