The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-05-20
pACIrIC COASTERS.

Eureka Consolidated declares disi. /,
lend of so cents. Il
Tho Kansas colony are pleased with
Whitman county, w. Il.
Fifty boys aud fifty girls respond
to roll cali in Oakland academy.
Alvin Ifaekett recently caught al
~ pound solmon in tho Clackamas
An ash log, got out by Herman
Bros, Myrtle Point, scaled 1850 feot.
Nearly 5000 eases of salmon we're
shipped from Astoria on the 18th, to
San Francisco.
There ara $50 Chinamen and 300
whitemen at work on tunnel No.
at the mouth Of the Klickitat.
T. +, Moody has imported some Jer-
sey cattle into Wasco county, that
came from Santa Clara county, Cal.
Willard denies that he WANTS Billings
to resign the Presidency Of the N. p. r
r.
David Hitchcock, poor and in i'll.
health killed himself in San Francisco
on the l4th.
Ccal ofa superior quality has lately
been discovered on Hubbard creek,
Douglas county.
II. u. MeGowan, Of Kittitas Valley,
who tried to kill his father some time
ago. was sent 10 the insane aaylnm last
week.
The hop yards Cf Puyalup are
looking fine and promise yield of
notless thanthree.quarters ofa million
pounds:
Mr. Whilston's house near Salem
was robbed on Monday afternoon of a
shotgun, IA watch and several other less
valuable articles.
The Mayor of Oregon City advocates
the issuing of city bonds for the erec.
tion of a City Hall and the conatrue-
tion Of tho Claekamas road.
One OF Claekamas couniys most
worthy men, Joseph Ringo, died on the
Bird. inst. in the 7i.h year Of his age,
regretted by all who knew him.
Mrs. NJ. Brearly,a native OF ireland
aged 81, WAS found dead in bed at San
Francisco ON the 5th, pistol in hand
shot in the right breast; poverty.
The Savings aud Loan Society oi
Ssn Francisco has brought suit to 70
cover s225, 900 from the North Pacific
Railroad and It's sureties.
Two thousand Chinese arc on a
strike at Yale (railroad handsl and are
becoming riotous. The trouble grew
out Of percentage being kept by the
railway officials for Chinese company
in San Francisco.
i Eugene City will celebrate the
Fourth os July at cost of $3.50 800
OF which will be paid for music.
Suitable committees have been
appointed for the various details oi
the festivities.
The Nor thern Pacific laborera at
Ainsworth were gstting s. per day
and struck last week for g 30 per day.
The company offered s. - per day,
which the laborers refused, and the
company supplied their places with
Cinnamon.
Two young men in jackson county,
brothers, have discovered a quartz
ledge in that county, and have pound
ell out within the space OF one week
with hand mortar, from rock taken
from the ledge, the neat little sum Of
$1,000.
The appraisers of Mark Hopkins
estate in a report place the value
of the estate at s20,693, ,762, SO of
of which 100000 Is in real estate,
over three millions in opeHatcounts and
bills recoverable, and quarter Of ?
million in household furniture.
IL is reported in. Philadelphia, on
perfectly good authority, tlata COM
promise is impending between Henry
Willard and the Northern Pacific, by
which President billings will resign
and the Oregon party have BALI the
board of directors.
Mr.. Studebaker, of South Bend,
Indiana, president of the studebaker
Wagon Company, arrived in Portland
by the Oregon, and is stopping at the
Esmond House. Mr.. Studebaker will
visit The BALES, Walla Walla and
Eastern Oregon generally before his
return.
Pat Dunn of Jackson county is
trying a couple ofacres of amber cane
this season, being so we'll satisfied
with the experiment that he tried
last year. Mr.. Dunn thinks that
within five years cane will be the
most valuable crop in Rogue river
valley, both for sugar and for stock
feeding.
The U. S. engineers, in charge OF
the work at Empire City, have
decided not to sink any more cribs in
the lower bay, but to make the wall
of rock exclusively. The space between