The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1886-09-24

Fred Schwatka has discovered an Inn
. mense river IN Alaska.
Several more earthquake shocks wcr,
felt the first of the week at Charleston,
A $si7s school house is to be built a
Ellensburgh, w. 4.
Knights Templars hold forth this week
IN ST. Louis. The attendance Is immense
Mayor Smith, Of Philadelphia, was i'm
lpeached last Monday for malfeasance II
office.
A w. I. hop grower says the price ol
hops for eleven years has averaged 90 cents
a pound in that territory.
! There are now IS miles between the
terminus of the q a. & and the terminus oi
the { Il o railroads.
Since the circus small Albany boys have
become experts at robblng stages. The
whole business Is enacted again and again.
DR. T. 6 Johnson, formerly OF Albany,is a
candidate for Coroner Of Whatcom county,
w. I. on the Republican ticket
We neglected to remark at the time that
one of the two heads of Coles cow was q
deadhead.
Great complaint is made at Salcm's
greediness during the fair In charging
double prices,
The post Office at Upper Astoria has been
discontinued, something that should have
been done before II was started.
Senator A p German, OF Maryland, ar.
rived in Portland Saturday. Senator Cor.
man was once page In the Senate Cham.
Der. Ills term expires next year.
Salem went for the gamblers last week.
The Marshal and the City Council got all
mixed up, SO that Il became a difficult task
TO tell who was running matters.
Linn county fair begins on September
a.nd.-- Vea Side Wish Il did but we
haven't got up to the fair business the way
Marion and Lane counties have.
Pick pockets had their own way at the
State Fair and il was fat one. One might
as we'll hunt for needle In the haymow as
for app.
Fred Merrill,of Portland. took third place
in the great one mile bicycle race at Spring.
field last Friday. Ills time was s;s7.
Last Friday night a Los Angeles man
named Albert Boynton shot his wiic,an old
man named Kipp,and 10 year old daughter
of Kipp All died.
Witnesses ia the case OF the State of
Oregon against Matte Allison have been
subpoenaed to be In Salem Oct. -, at 9
O'Clock a. IN.
The OyegoRiaH saws the State fair should
be held at Portland The Constitutional
Centennial show should also be held there,
Philadelphia is too small a place for il.
Julius Baum s. co.,of San Francisco, fail.
ed last week for about SI,oooooo \. r.
people do not understand it.as the firm were
worth fully S0ooooo a year ago. Perhaps
they are speculating.
While hunting near Tacoma last week
William Hill took Edward Cheever for q
bear and shot him dead. All he saw was
the bushes moving. Hill should be punish.
ed for criminal carelessness and sent to the
penilentiary for life.
Polks Oregon, Washington, and Idaho
Gazetteer gives Albany's population as i7ss
sell out and 90 East. Albany has 500 more
population than Corvallis for fun or new
hal.
A young man In the city from the coun.
try was boasting Monday morning that he
came 10 Albany Saturday with a Xxx and
Sunday evening he hadn't cent left. lie
seemed TO think there was something smart
about il.
The following dispatch from New York
would indicate that the passenger agent re-
Gently interviewed in Portland did not
know what he was talking about New
York, Sept. 2lst.-The Oregon Pacific Il
pushing is way eastward from Yaquina
BAY, and will connect with the Chicago X
Northwestern In Idaho in two years
at Pendleton on Wednesday evening OF
last week Jake Butts was driving his team
across the X. r. track in front of an engine
when the whole concern was struck about
in the middle. Both horses were killed, the
wagon was demolished and Butts had a col.
lar bone broken. The world has to have its
careless men in order 10 make the drama OF
life complete.
The project for the improvement Of the
entrance to Yaquina Bay Is TO build brush
and stone jetty about 1000 feet long with
shore protection, and to close the rock.
obstructed south channel and force the ebb
against the reef of Yaquina head, with the
view Of providing a central channel of least
depth Of twelve feet at mean low water
The amount already expended on the pro
ject is $4,000, and there has been built
25I7 feet Of jetty to average half tide, anc
$50 feet of high spur jetty for shore
protection. The appropriation now avail
dDiCg ~ DfVDvs Will DC ueSa lot NDitliAuitlS
the jetty on the present plan, and il expect
cd to make the best depths already obtain
ed more pernanent--Ex.
Among the funny things said about AL
bany is the following from the News, OF
Portland : "The Oregon Pacific railroad
will give Corvallis the grand go by," said 8
gentleman who has just returned from a triF
up the valley, yesterday. "They will make
Albany their headquarters, but they ars
charging the town big price for the luxury
Already they have been guaranteed tho
equivalent of $4,000 or $4,000 for bring
3 ing the road to that town now they ask
$4,000 more for the establishment Of rounC
houses, machine shops and repair shops, witt
: every prospect Of getting 1t. Albany has ;
better location than Corvallis, and there Il
more water in the Willamette there than al
the latter town besides, its citizens display
a greater amount Of enterprise. Corvallis
will be only whistling station IL its citizens
do not show more enterprise.
Following is list of Crook County mer
paying taxes on over $4,000:
b r Allen. $33,74t
IN Allen. ......s..s........'. l@r44
G NJ Cartwright t........... 1000
M BlakeIy 1910.
ID NJ Baldwin. 2I,33:
l. + Castle. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1908
w d Castle & Son. ......... 34,88
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