The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-10-12

/ A FIRE In ID llas, Texas, destroyed
TO The amount OF half a mil
lion.
Elk Governor John M Palmer has
been interviewed and Says Tilden should
be nominated.
Extraordinary efforts are being made
10 defeat Butler for governor Of Mas
saohusetts.
Two hundred members Of the
Oregon Pioneer Association reached
Minneapolis October sth, and left on
. special train of Pullman cars for
Chicago. "
Great interest Ii created at Riclf-
mond over donunoiatiOn Of Senator Ma
hone b. ex-oogressman Goode, who refer
cd to the senator in card published the
9Th inst" 90 O liar, and, % q man un-
worthy even Of contempt. Richard +.
Bierne, Q party to the recent Bierne.
ELAN duel, abetted Goode and called
Malone coward. This latest disturb.
ance Is caused by reference TO Good g
by Malone, made in q political speech
delivered last Wednesday, in which he
said Goode had held his seat In con-
gress by fraudulent votes and was
therefore cheat. Senator Malone, so
far to-day, has made no answer to
Goode or Bierne.
The anti-liquor selling people Of
Washington are making an aggressive
fight against the saloon keepers Of the
city, with the object Of preventing tho
issuance Of licenses the coming year.
They have brought forward clause in
the license regulations which pro-
vides that license shall not DO granted
TO any person who has been convited
the year preceding the application for
such license Of violating any liquor lsws
of the district, and through the grand
worthy chief templar Of the district,
have submitted To the commissioners,
with list Of names, every saloon keep
or convicted the past year of selling
liquor pn Sundays, after hours,to mi
nors, and without llcease. The list con
tains the names Of many Of the princi-
pal saloon aud restaurant keepers, In
cludiug the proprietors of the largest
hotels in the city. If the regulation
which the prohibitionists have called
up Is enforced in ali tho cases they
have named, they will succeed in prev.
enting the granting Of licenses TO about
$50 saloon keepra.
Pitkin, little city below LeAdville,
aud across the range, is greatly excited
over the elopement Of little Mamie
Ross. she 10 but IL years old, and
the daughter Of Dir. and Mrs. Frank
r. Ross, who reside at the little town
Of Fairview, one mile below Pitkin.
Mamie has been receiving, clandestine-
| ", the attentions of one Edward Hat.
field, . man So years old, for some
time past, and, as Hatfield il q disre-
putabls character, the parents entered
serious objections, and for short time
thought the relations between the
lovers bad been broken up. But Ma
mis outgenerAled her parents, although
they kept close watch over her, and
on Sunday evening, at 8 o'clock, she
left the house and met Hatfield, who
had horses in waiting, and the couple,
mounting them, left the country. The
mother is at home, almost crazed with
grief, while the father has been in hst
pursuit ever aimee the elopement armed
with six-shooters and o Winchester
and declares that be will shoot Hatfelc
! on sight. He is . man Of nerve, snC
IL is believed that he will carry out hi
: Iintentions If the runaways are overtak
en-. The neighbors say that Hatfielc
accomplished the child's ruin befor
stealing ber away. No trace of then
has yet been found.
The following appears as an editoria
! in the Tribune: Il is announced wit
, some flourish Of trumpets that the pas
. ssnger rate between Kansas City o
Omaha and San Francisco has beel
reduced to S95, with the same rate /
Portland, to comply with the admission
Of the Northern Pacific into the poo
In the frst place the amount of th'
reduction Is trifling; in the next plac
the reduced rate is exorbitant, and i
from twice to three times as much q
the average charge for long hauls il
other sections Of the country. TIL,
Pacific roads, by m cans of combina
tion, charge under the new schedul
$95 for, Carrying passengers about ITO
miles. This is at the rate of nearly
cents mile. A sleeping berth, whic
is indispensable in 30 long a journe,