The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1890-10-17
LOCAL RECORD.

SAND AND WEEDS. While we are rev.
cling in tho glorios Of Webfoot mois-
turc, the following from the Pondleton
l.. .. will tell I'd an entirely different
condition Of affairs:
This section was visited by atorrlilc
wind storm last night, which has again
blocked the Union Pacific track with
sand drifts along the Columbia. This
mornings east-bound train Is reported
six hours late, and ut this writing had
not arrived. North Of town the wind
ragged with great fury, Fields were
cleared OF tumble weeds, which lodged
against fences, tearing them down in
many places. This is n godsend for the
farmers, who are now rid OF the pests
and can 20 on with their fall seeding
without further warfare. Lanes are full
OF tumble-weeds, and IL IL said, are near
ly impassable.
WHAT DoEs RI MKAN?-The Stayton
Sun man must be behind the times, ,judg-
ing from the following. Tho bridge at
that city has been accepted and was paid
for several months ago. The item sug-
gests something: "Somo time ago the
Bates, bridge builders, were here 10 in
suppose the county court having in view
the reception or rejection OF the bridge.
Some Of our people, who claim 10 know,
say that the tubes are not filled with con-
lcrete and that the bridge should not ac-
Icepted. This week Hoffman 4 Bates
men were here tightening up the irons.
Are We to understand that this tighten
ing up will settle the matter aud the
county court accept the bridge?"
TAKES EXCEPTION. MIR Henry LIebe,
of 34o Stark street, Portland, takes ex-
eeption to the statement made by Mr. Bert
Lucas in the West Side and copied In the
DEMOCRAT and Oregonian, concerning
what Mr Lucas saw In France and Ger
many. Mr. Liebe says; "There Is no man
or woman In France or Germany that
would work for } cents Us Pfennige) and
board day during harvest .imc. but per-
sons, male and female, receive from 90
pfg. or IS cents, 10 mrk., 20 pig t5o
cents) and board a day. There hre siso
plenty of self-bIndcrs to he seen In both
countries. In regard to women being har-
messed with dogs,among the poorer classes
| they do sometimes help their animals pull
the wagon. The statcsmenth made by
Mr. Lucas are much exaggerated "
AFTER TwESrY-Sn YEARs.-A fcw
evenings ago when Mrs Murray, Of the
Exchange Hotel, went home from the
theater, she found u stranger in her par.
/ lor, talking with her daughter, n fine
looking lady weighing nearly 200 pounds. |
She was asked II she knew her; but fail |
ed TO recognize her. Upon being told
that IL was Kate Tierney her sister whom
she had not seen for twenty-six years, |
who had come in on the night train, she |
Is said to have jumped nearly to the cell |
ing and exclaimed g. -, Is that you
Kate" Mrs Tierney only weighed no
poonds when they parted years ago. Old
settlers who have met relatives after |
years OF separation only Gnow the joys |
o. such occasions.
TuEArRIcAL.-You will want n good |
seat when Clara Morris comes, the last |
Of the month, as she Is the greatest ac-
trsss ever in Albany. 80 20 at at once |
and get a reserved seat. Besides, big |
house means that in the future we viii |
get most OF the irst-class troupes here. |
This Is somewhat OF an experiment, and |
VIC should show our metal. Let ua pack |
the house, and get an assurance OF the |
leading attractions. We can have first
class entertainments as well "a fourth
class, II we will only support them.
Polk CorSrY.-The 2l4,0O0 acres Of
land in Polk county arc assessed at about
t2, ,600, 600 and the gross assessed value Of
all property is about double that. After |
all exemptions are taken out there is left |
taxable property 10 the amount Of ST.
S73, 600. The average assessed value is |
about $l2 per acre; horses $40, cattle |
AIO EO hnerg 40 IN ard shaar. Al EO ham. 1
ocrat.
A PECULIAR FIRE.-Ed Goodnight, a |
Umatilla county farmer, lost his wagon |
in very peculiar manner while hauling |
wheat TO Yoakum station. On reaching |
the station with load he found that his |
wagon was on fire. The flames had at |
tanned such headway that he could not
save the wagon, so he unditched his
horses, unloaded the wheat and let the
fire burn. The only cause that can be
assigned for the fire, says the East Ore
gonian. is that the axles were not creased
and the vehicle was ignited by friction.
THE NHw CLERK.-The live young re-
publican element OF Salem, is said to be
worked up considerably over the APP
pointment Of J Murphy-bettef known
The younger generation had hoped for
the office, so when the republican ma
jority in the court appointed Mr. Murphy,
who has been in the harness for more
years than most people can remember,
and is somewhat antiquated, there was
some gnashing OF teeth, and even the
papers there did not enthusc very much
over the matter.
: OSE WAY.--In front of a First street
grocery store a watermelon had been
placed on a chicken box. The chickens
reaching up through a crack had picked
| away at the melon until a long deep canal
had been made, getting good meal. The
chickens we're recently surpassed very
much by a man who had learned the ex-
act location OF the boxes and barrels In a
store In Woodstock, Ga, craw,ed under
the store and bored auger holes through
the floor into the coffee and sugar barrels,
AMI then, by holding sack under them,
succeed In getting supply OF these ar
ticles.
A CHEEKY WRITER.-For monumental
gall the writer or writer's fixing up sore
| goniana" and "Weshingtonian," In the
great Portland daily, will be unanimously
| awarded the medal. Items of fact are de-
liberately lifted sometimes several days
after original publication and are inserted
as news without credit, while statistical
article that has taken some other paper
days OF close work to perfect, Is appropri-
ated to the Oregcnian column a week
later with the assurance that that paper
had just unearthed the facts,-Jcurnal.
GRowLs.-A man who recently rode on
the o p r from Mill City, says that pas
sengers on the train killed numbers of birds
of foreign plumage, and that a man who
was stationed on the forward car would
Jump off, bag the game and climb aboard
the rear car. This may be good record
for the fowler, but If Is meant as a railroad
advertisement 1t fails of Its purpose.-Leb-
anon Express.
PENDLEToN has three banks, five large
merchandise houses, six grocery houses,
three hotels, eighteen saloons, two large
Touring mills, manufacturing company,
waterworks, electric lights, telephones,
two railroads, o new court house, q
board of trade, two newspapers, and a
faint prospect OF motor line; also seven
churches.-Ex.
SEND HIM ON.-A Boston agency, no
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