The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1890-02-21

= that an angry food cannot rush through
fertile vallsy, carrying away iactofic
houses aud bridges without conslderasl
loss. II may be well enough to max,
: damages as light as possible, but whel
such an unprecedented flood occurs as III,
one of few days ago In the lWillamctt,
valley Il Is not honest or fair 70 term il
"muddy bath simply The drouth Il
Eastern Oregon was hcralded forth as III,
greatest drouth IN the history OF IN,
country but when great iood happenl
In another portion OF the state, Il Is moth
Ing OF anv consequence. .--Dalles Times
Mounlalnecr.
The above would indicate spirit 81
rivalry between Eastern and Western Or
egon, equal almost to the Polk conny
scaishlp There is no desire 10 cover NJ
the facts, A few bridges and some
bnildl igs were lost, but the percentage oi
loss Is remarkably small We don't know
OF any suffering or hardship, Take
away the loss Of the Salem fridge aud the
Oregon City Mills aud there remalas
only very scattered loss IN low places,
some fences, Coz or two. few small
bridges etc. The ineonvenlenee to bust.
ness and the loss OF communication with
the outside world was the greatest cam.
age
TuEY FAiLrD.--Abous year ago a
drummer,who had travelled for big New
York house, who wore the biggest pants
legs OF any man on the roadeoneluJed he
would quit drumming and, with his broth.
CT, show Portland people hnw To run a
store. Being very captivating he didn't
need 10 advertise. The following Is from
a Portland pape-, and will interest some In
ALBANY ".ietich Bros,gen,lemen's furn.
isher, have been slcsed bv the sheriff on
attachments agsregasing $1,000. Other
creditors not yet ,scard from will probably
run up the liabilities TO $4,000, after n
briet business career Of ten months Ia this
city. The firm had about $1,000 cash cap.
ital, Il Is said, with which To begin, and OF
this about 5000 was expended In fixtures,
$500 more in prepaid rent, and another
outlay OF n couple of thousand In a bad
speculation In hats, thereby exhausthng
the original capital. Added to all this, the
irm were almost total strangers TO The
Portland public and imagined they could
succeed and patronage fairly crowd them
without advertising their wares IN a single
newspaper since their advent"
FRoM Crook CouNrY.-Mr Frank
Wheeler wriing from Sisters, Crook eoun-
Feb. 3rd. gives the following iu,e resting
particulars about the winter there 1T
has been raining for J DAYS just as hard as
Il can. The snow Is about all gone. This
the first hard ground we have seen for
"a days, during that time there has been
about S feet of snow fallen but Il has
never been more than 20 inches deep at
any one time. haye not lest any horses
that know of The weather for the last
ten days has been warm On the sStd OF
january Il ralned all day and showed
inches at night rained the 96th for "a
hours, then froxe anJ showed inches
rained on the sSth, showed the soth {
inches rained ON the 3Ist and has rained
ever since, so you see there Is lots Of chuck.
II would mire q saddle blanket any place"
The frs. regular passenger train from
Portland 10 Corvallis since week ago
last Saturday. came over the West Side
road yesterday on time and will here
after run regularly. Notwithstanding
the fact that this road does not receive
nearly as much attention as does the East
side, Il has proven itself 10 be the proper
route for The main line from Portland.
oh, yes. Two or three days ahead ON
a several weeks blockade, that proves a
good deal. The lice is several miles
longer, much slower to travel, and has
se.eral other little items against i,'s be
coming the main line. There Is no dan
ger of the main line leaving the State
Capital and the principal railroad center.
Keep that IN your head. East side peo
pie are no; troubled Al all about il.
ASSUAL MEEriSG.-At the annual
meeting of the Prcsb ,,erian church last
Tuesday NJ Irving was elected trustee,
Wan Fortmiller, treasurer; Prof Lee
financial secretary The following OH
GERS of the Sabbaeh school were elected; :;
Prof, Z y Condit, superintendent; Prof.
w II Lee, assistant ;(,has Cusick, secretary.
Miss VelIe Irving. librarian; Mrs c w
Sears, organist; Prof Lee, ehoister. Ini-
tiaeory steps were taken TO build a parson-
age, and il was voted to light the church
BY electricity. The financial report was a
good one.
A WELL Story We recently told
pump story IN the DEMocRAT. The
following from the Ocsoco Review, we
admit surpasses It:
"Mark Twain, In his "Big Bonanza"
tells of the bottom falling out Of well IN
Virginia City, but an incident occurred on
Willow creek last week that lays Marks
story In the shade. S S Brown had
we'll near the creek, and when the food
came the entire well, pump and all, was
washed away. Mr. Brown found hts
pump several hundred yards down the
stream bit his well was nowhere 10 be
found.
The BIGCEsT.-ws have beer looking
for some TIME for the biggest prevaricaior
and now we have found him. The As,o-
rian tells the following story One OF
our most respected citizens tells startling
story regarding his curious adventure
while killing tame fowls Wednesday morn
ing. He was preparing for an extensive
dinner and killed three fowls. The last
one instead of topping around like an or
binary hen and dying, when its head was
cut off, got up and walked about ten feet,
laid an egg and gave up the ghost. In the
meantime, the man says, the head cackled
for nearly a minute before that, o,be-
came quiet.
LOOK OUT.-A woman, who Is claimed
to be Of very questionable character, ha'
been doing Harrisburg collecting funds foi
a pretended new Christian Church at Day
! ton, Wash. Parties there, who claim tc
know, say she IS not genuine,and the pub
! liS there was warned against her. Th
DEMocRAT Is informed that she arrived Il
, Albany Monday; but what church she
working for here or for any,we are not ye
informed. II will at least pay to keep bot
r ey cs open and get her responsibility befor
o contributing, If asked to do SO.
New BUSINESS MEN. MIR II s Crissma
1 and wife have moved to Albany from II
E East to reside. Mr. Cdssman has rente
the Mcfarland store and will open ha
ness shop. He Is pronounced goc
3 business man and will be an addition
E, our city.
ri MrJ M Bardue has sold his grocei
\ business at First and Ferry 10 r ID Mo
tague & Son. The purchasers a
as 4 4. -.t.t.<.-. II Me- DO1Irrk