The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-08-12
PAcIFre coAsrrns.

SaiH tsTe beiHk DuiIt
Al Dayton for y ae w. O. r.
r. M. Hoax insou raised on his farm
near Port Biz Rely, during the past sea.
sOn, 81 buS oels Of s.rawborrics, Which
he sold for 7 1913.
Inc scat 10 barrel factory Is working
s'Sty-iive y zen and boys at present, and
10 turning out n large amount of work.
Tho .l:-.I. Iacto' ywill be kept going, the man.
ayers say for tbe rest Of the year and
next yei n too.
At tie time work was suspended on
the narrow eangc road at Newb irp,
Ynmhill county, young man named
Rodney Dnry got about s400 Of other
persons money into his hands and lett
for parts unknown.
1t is said that tho Coos Bay murder
er, Higgins, was in Vancouver three
days before the bills had been put up
offering IL reward for his capture. lie
bought blankets aud went north.
Geo. w. Miller. who fshed from
Huelet's landing below Vancouver this
year, took l,600 salmon, 81 for high
boat, GO highest drift. The success has
been such that the canncrymen will
have station there next year.
Seattle Post; There Is a rumor up
sound to the effect that the narrow
gauge Olympia Il Tcnino railroad is to
be made standard broad gauge, and the
rolling stock now in use upon it to be
used in building narrow gauge line
out iato the ChehAlis country.
Itis estimatol that 1900 hands will
find employment in securing within sea-
son THE immense hop crop Of tho Puy-
allup this year Indians are already an.
ticipating the work. Down sound In
dian labor Is considerably employed in
logging camps, owing to the scarcity Of
white men, and they ARE leaving the
camps, enc hy one, ns the time ap-
proaches for hop gathering.
The North Yamhill river channel up
at the foot Of the mountains is jam full
Of saw logs, which will be ioated down
to various mills in the valley on the
6rst flood. The Messra. Petch have
furnished lot Of $4,000 feet. These
logs are of tho finest quality. We saw
a couple of trees at Petch's which it was
claimed would cut 10000 and 1000
feet Of lumber. They were monsters.
The late grain in the Wspato lake
country looks splendid. Those rich
bottoms give large yield. Also on
the hills can he soen large fields of
ripening grain. Considerable Slashing
has been done at many places Mr..
Roe has thirteen acres OF excellent
grain. He expects 45 bushels 10 the
acre. IL will probably exceed 500
bushels TO the piece. He is slashing
more Of this rich bottom land. There
arc thousands Of acres just AS good as
this in these creek bottoms and abolft
the lake that would pay large crops to
the industrious farmer
For the first time in the history Of
Seattle portion Of the waterfront was
illuminated by the electric light last
Sunday evening. As many of the citi-
zens Of the place had never seen this
light, Capt. Myers, of the steamship
Willamette, had -four lamps put in OPP
Grafton. They burned with beautiful
white light for about three hours. The |
wharves were crowded near the lights,
and the streets were lined with persons
gazingat the illuminated steamer. These
lights will hereafter be used in the hold |
OF the vessel TO enable the coal trimmers |
to work 10 better advantage.
At the annual meeting Of the stock
holders Of the Olympia and Tenino rail-
road, held in Olympia on the lst, the |
of directors was reduced from
nine to five, and the following elected:
Gen. j. w. Sprague, b. Il. Brown, A. |
A. Philips, Otis Sprague and Robert
Wingate. The following are the ofli-
GERS for the ensuing year: Gen. j. w.
Sprague, president; Robt. Wingate, vice
president; f.. II. Brown, treasurer, and
A. A. Phillips, secretary. The name
was changed to the Olympia and Tenino
and Chehalis valley railroad, and the
capital stock increased from s250,o00
70 SS00 000