The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1890-02-14
LOCAL RECORD

LOCAL RECORD
Nor AHEAD. The board of directors of
the Salem Building and Loan association
met At the Office OF the Capital National
hank last evening and auetioned of $1,000.
John Holm bid IN $500 at forty months
Interest In advance, and + Sirayer
5000 at sixty-thrcc months interest
n advance. The association Is IN
very aourishing condition. Fifty three
new shares have been sold since the last
report, leaving only about one hundred
yet for sale. A premium Of seventy-fve
cents a share was fixed as the price OF this
unsold stock. The way the association l.
growing, Il looks as n there win soon be
$4,000 a month to loan. So soon rs the
one hundred shares OF the present series
are snld. another series will be opened.
Astoria and Albany will please take notice
that Salem Is ahead OF them on building
and loan association, as well as every
thing else, even II the association Is young
In age.
The DENocRAr Is veey glad 10 see tha
Salem people are learning the value OF It's
B& L association and that they are begin
ming 10 understand is workings, though
the above remark sounds funny TO those
who remember what the Statesman said
when the bidding was only about thlr
teen months in advance. Speaking Of
being ahead of Albany, our average bid
ding has been over 50 months, the highest
being 6s months Now, there.
fMPRIsoNRD.-ASa Salem man came into
the. city Sunday evening on his way home
from cottsge Grove, in Lane county,
At which point he has been imprisoned
since the. irst Of the month by the floods
and washouts He gives au interesting
account of the dire disasters that befeli
the people and railroads up the valley.
The railroad track Is now in fair run
ming condition from Junction to Rose
burg. There was terrible wreck of the
railroad track between Junction and the
Harrisburg bridge. Three crews Of hands
arc at work repairing Il. and Il will 5e
ready for travel BY Tomorrow, or next
day. There were some washouts about
Harrisburg, but they have been repaired.
and as soon as the Junction washont Is
repaired the track will be clear from here
to Roseburg. The man made his way
this far By walking some and by The hand
car.
BRIDoEs.-1he Marys bridge at corval-
Us, which went out last we Il, cost $4,000
Mr. Stone, the bridge man, informs us,
$1,000 being put on Il less than year ago
The Brownsville bridge, part of which
went out, II replaced entirely, ,as Il is said, il
needs TO be, would cost nearly $ISoOc.
Mr. Moss, the Assessor, gives us the situa-
ton of the Sweet Home briSge, which is a
peculiar one. One of the abutments Is
nearly washed out, so that the bridge at that
eEd hangs by the corner and was liable to
topple over at any moment He reported
the Wiley bridge as one of the structures
washed out. The bridge repairing ex-
pense to this county will be found 10 be
considerable when all the precincts are
heard from.
Is ALL RIeHT.-The little cabin that
was seen floating past Buena Vista carry
Ing Chinaman has been found. II was
swept into he bottom below Salem and Is
now standing on David Grierson's place.
badly iacked and twisted. Its contents
were scattered but no sign could be round
Of the companionless Chinaman who sat
astride its roof II is probable from this
that the wood chopper was washed from
the building and drowned.-Salem States
man. Instead Of being drowned the Celes-
tial was saved at Independence, much 10
his Joy, for he was not anxious TO die yet.
FRAEIER DEAD--The following dispatch
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papers on the 9TH instant: "The body ei
Nicholas Frazier, wealthy young mar
Who some time ago was lost in the noun
tains east Of Pendleton, was found to-day
ihree-fourths of a mile from where n,
was last seen. lie had slid down the aid
of a mountain, thousand feet, and hi
neck was broken. The body was trough
up TO Pendleton tonight"
BRIDoE INsPEcroRs.-A hand car loa,
of bridge inspectors went South last No
day. All the bridges between Albsn
and Aurora had been inspected and wer
pronounced safe. Beyond Aurora the
track was in a bad condition but ali tn.
men TO be secured were putting It In con
dition and II will only be two or three day
before trains can run TO Portland. Thougl
there are two trains between Aurora an
Junction both are lying idle,aBd many won
der WHY they are not run on local traffic.
II SETTLES IRA speaker on the al
hrmatvc side of the question, "Resolve
that farming pays in Kansas" recentl
took rhe floor at the meeting of dc
batting society In Western Kansas, wne
a fellow on the negative side opened II
stove door and shoveied in three or fol
pecks of corn. There are several Kai
sas men in Albany owning land wort
about fifth Of what they paid for
who will laugh heartily at the Joke. The
declare though that a matter of fact Il
cobs are used more than the corn.
ErTERPRIsE.-There are all kinds
species of enterprise in this world. o.
of a very marked nature was that of t
Portland man who took one hundr
copies of the Oregonian to Salem Satt
day By different routes, and in the hor
of paper receiving Associated Press
patches, sold every copy at 50 cents
copy. That looks like mining days;
there Is nothing like taking time by
forelock. The time when the Oregoni
Is appreciated most is when 1t Is not
- for several dsys.
DIFFERENCE. Mr. p Queen
vn here, writing to the STAY
II would not give 100 ac
y, Howell or French prairie
land In this country as or
on the carcass Of Gould or VI
could Hy ovei in 90 days, an
number Of others are living her
me opinion