The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-02-25

The Irish citizens Of Portland are
preparing to celebrate, in becoming
manner, st. Patrick's Day.
Monmouth people raised s 800 and
donated half their public square, and in
consequence will soon bc II railroad cen
tor.
Walla Wnlla has thief Who steals
gold rings from dead mems fingers.
Walla Walla means the "iIouio Of tho
Chosen"
Mr.. Morgan Williams, Of Calapooia,
has been running "a Plummcr fruit dricr
all winter, aud has dried over 10000
pounds Of fruit.
Tho recent high watsrs in the Snohs
mish and Skagit rivers, w. T. ,drowne,l
number Of hogs and other stock and
broke several tidemarah dy krs.
A tree has lately been cut by rail
road loegers near Olympia, W. T., that
was > feet without limb, straight A.
an arrow and without knots or flaws p
The Safe Deposit Company Of San
Francisco has laid down an iron vault
weighing 100000 pounds. II is be-
lioyed to bc the largest vault in the
world
Serious landslidcs have occurred on
or near the line of the South Pacific
Railroad in the Santa Cruz Range, be
tween FELTON, and Los Gatos, Cal, and
some fear the tunnels will suffer.
The Idaho Legislature has now
wrinkle in what is called "An exten-
sion" Tho regular session is Of forty
days duration and the extension" is a
sort Of "go as YOU please" arrange
ment.
The California Changers have held =
council in san Francisco, at which they
adopted resolutions asking the LsgiAla-
turr to Inemo,iAlize Congress in fAvsr
Of granting charter to tho Nicaragua
Canal
/ stt -. . ,....., 80. 4. l.. -; Nh, ,,..,,
Ohio AID Indiana looking 10 the ors".
iizttIun 81 Il colony Tor settlement nnIue-
whore ~ Oregon. Il il i thought the
Gnt venture will number one hundred
families.
Tbs Corvallis Library Association
was organized ia 1873 anil now con
tains about 500 volumes. A course o.
lectures Tor the beuctit of the Associa
ton will begin on the 3slh Of the pres
ent month.
j. The members Of the Washington
r Colony are we'll satisfied with thei
c new h1mes ia Thurston county, w. l
u They will be- joined by others of thei
Il band. now ia Eastern Washington, j
/ the cary spring.
" Washington Territory is TO have
telegraph company Of its own,indepen'
cnt of overpowering moaopolies. Th
70 British Columbia and Puget Sound TIE
u egrapL Co. was recently incorporate
u with capital of s25, 200.
- The Tucson journal says that Il
,h whole Of western New Mexico is
m terror from the Apaches. Drivers vi
ht not GO out with the stages, and Wi
, good reason, when the military qua
m offered was only three cavalrymon p
h stage.
In Langell Brss. branded 323 calves
a 1879 and only - in 1880, while Jes
n ID. Carr branded 500 in 1879 and 80
ly year later. These figures illustrate t
ow greatness Of the loss in stock in La
it and Modoc counties in the early spri
to of last year.
The Portland Board of Trade has
ceived communication from tho Nj
chants Exchange of st. Louis, aski
=, cooperation in securing aid for the c,
=. struction of the Tehauntepec Ship II
4. way under the grant from the MexiC
y Government to Capt. Jas. ID. Eads.
ike The gradual withdrawal sf the gr
suo cattle kings to loss populous lccalitie
800 opening up to Klickitat county, w.
r a a new era. Having passed successfr
id through tho hunter and traprer peri
ust now, at the close of the grazing peri
nix, they are emerging into the higher pl
be of agriculture.
The Oregonian Railway Comps
na- limited intend to extend their +
lid from Dallas to Monmouth at once,
re- the probability is that they will con
for ue work until the road is completed
dce Kings valley. N. B.-Whitfeld, /
100 ing charge of a party of surveyors, s
The that force of 800 or 400 Gilman
,ey. will be put to work on the grade SO
, OF of Monmouth.
dge The Eastern Oregon Republican,
late lished at La Grande, Union coul
to came out on red showbill paper in 9
was cent issue. They werc short of SUPP