The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-02-22
NEWS ~ BRIET.

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Ceur dAlene mining district is IA
have newspaper in March.
Mining In Southern Oregon has been
checked by want Of water.
Joseph Arniel Of Vashon Island, w.
| T., was drowned there on the 18th.
The Walla Walla Board Of Trade
pstitions Congress on behalf Of the n.
p. land grant.
Tho moving Of the railway terminal
10 Pboenix has caused an exodus from
Grants Pass.
A couple 81 road agents "stood up
James Dsrnan near CALDWELL, Idaho, a
few days ago, and got $500 in coin from
him.
Tho .StGga RerOs, a new paper, il
soon TO be Issued at Mount Vernon, on
the skasit river. Il will be published
by son Of Senator Tom Ewing.
In Walla Walla county, w. T., $685.
7s7 have just been appOrtioned among
forty-two school districts, for the in
s.ruction Of 1850 children. The town
Of WallA Walls gets s973l Of this
money.
Tuesday morning Of last week the
brewery Of MessrG Glasier and Kern,
situated near Gervais, Or, was burned
TO the ground. The stock Of barley,
100 bushels,is 10 amosg tho losses, amount
ing 10 $4,000.
The Burnt river, Or, parties arrest
ed on the charge Of stealing cattle are
held, in sums varying from $500 to
S2500, TO await the action of the grand
jury. The county boarding house 10 full
Of inmates.
The steamer "olympiAn" from Phil
adslphiA for Puget Sound, arrived at
Valparaiso Feb. 2ad. and was 10 remain
until tho 5th, when she would resume
her journey on the west coast. This
will make her due on the Sound about
the first of March.
A steel clad cell, designed for the
Olympia, w. T., jail, is now ia process
Of construction 10 ST. L,uis, says the
Ledger. II will not always be a rscreA-
ii N for hard cases TO crawl out Of the
Oh brick stalls on the hill. when this
modern stronghold is put in position.
Twenty-Five 70 thirty men are avail
Ing themselves Of the Coffee House
cheap meals, says the Walla Walls
Journal. Sixteen slept at toe public
lodging room last night These, the
superintendent, says, are all workers.
Two or three Of the boarders are sus-
Pcctod Of depending entirely on begging
for thsir meal tickets.
Canadian exports 10 Great Britain
during the calendar year just closed,
says tho Victoria Colonist, were nearly
s., ,0o0, 900 in excess of those for 1882,
while our imports from the same coun-
try during the past year were 81 ,o00,-
900 less than in the preceding year.
The apparent balance Of trade was in
our favor by 100000.
A party consisting Of Rev. J. GOble,
his two daughters, and Capt. A. Rid
derbjslke, his son-in-lsw, arrived in Ia
coma on the North Pacific last night,
says the Ne.rs They came from Yok-
ohama, japan, and their quaint and
curious packing would mark them al
once as from a strsnge land. Rev.
Goble and Capt. RidderbjeIke intend
TO 90 into business Of some kind in
Tacoma.
At about twenty minutes before / 9
to-day, says the Seattle Herald oI
Saturday, young man about % years
of age, named Louis VanDoran, met
with an accident in Stetson & Post'I
mill resulting in q loss of his righI
hand. It seems that through being un'
accustomed to the work he allowed hi
hand to come in contact with the saw
which entered between the thumb and
l
forefnger of the right hand, coming ou'
at the wrist, completely amputating thu
limb. He bore up manfully only ex-
pressing sorrow for his wife, he having
recently been married in San Francisco
Although Sitka and Alaska are al
J most synonymous with the North Pol'
to average minds in the temperate zono
a comparison of maps shows that Sitk'
and st. Petersburg, in Russia, are il
the same latitude, and the mouth Of tn
Chilcat river is on line with the soutl
coast of Greenland. The extent Of thi
{ northwest territory and the vast dis
: tances between points are more than be
wildering. Alaska itself is equal i
area to all the United States east G
the Mississippi river. Counting in tn
. Aleutan chain, the Pirbyloff group AM
the 100 islands of the Alexander ar
chipelagc, the total area of the Alaska
islands is 3l,265 square miles. Th
island Of Attu, the last Of the Aleuta
chain, is as far west of San Francisc
as Bango, Maine. is east of it and th
indented coast line Of Alaska, msasur