The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1890-11-28

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tiary, feels greatly slandered because thC
oregonian recently said his body was
found along the Columbia in n decom.
posed condition.
Jack Flaherty and Jack Murphy, two
pngilists, are to fight 10 finish tonight
somewhere between Woodburn and Al.
; anyprobably near Salem.
Mrs Partington ia dead, or rather Mr.
Shillaber. lilo made name by bung-
ling tho English language. Most people
who bungle IL never make name.
DIR Koch is getting plenty Of free ad-
yertlsing for hia consumption cure.
Warmer or Aver would have TO pay
quarter Of n million wear for less
amount. II will probably prove ~ much
oi myth as most patent medicines.
The Salem boys whlstlcd for johnson
Boothby x Co., who distributed 1000
double bareelcd whistles among the boys.
The agent was little more honorable
there than here. Here he sold To two
nrms. promising each not 10 sell to any
one else.
! Il ii Mix, ox-County Clerk OF Baker
| City, is charged with stealing {G,St2
from the county on fraudulent warrants
| Quite stir has been mado over the mat
ter. The sum IL sufficiently big to give
Mix 4 high standing In the community.
An enterprising Portland restaurant
keeper has tweniy-six pound turkey In
a cage on the sidewalk IL front ol his
restaurant,an on the cage is card with
| this inscription: "Scntenced To death.
To be touched OF Thanksgiving day, Nov
9Th, 1900, and anuihilated between the
hours OF II O'Clock IN and 2 o'clock y
IN. will be cmbalmed with tho fines,
cranberry sauce, stuffed with oystera,an
served IN iirat.class style tfeo 10 our Gus.
| toners"
A resolution in the Tacoma -. ~
provides for the following salary e. -. 80
city officers the coming year: M".5h'
5000, members 81 council, $500 cam
city controller, 5000: city treasurer,
5000; city attorney, s96O0; police Judge.
5000; members Of the board Of public
works 5000 each city physician, $1,000
chief of police, $1,000; chief Of fire depart.
ment. $1,000; harbor master, $l20O:
health officer, $500 Equal to most CT
ties OF 100000 population.
The small boys have the foot ball craze.
TIE checklist man In the L $ lives In
! YamhlIl county. lie tceen,l, asked the
assessor 10 deduc, from his assessment
| $500, which he owed for delinquent taxes.
! The new street ear just manufactured
/ by 4 ! Anaiyn. Of this city, for the Cor.
wallis company, was taken Ia that city
yesterday on 4 dray. 1, |. fine car and
viii be credit 20 our sister city
! The BrownsYIiIe Times tnAn com plains
1 tina, he only gets about half ,hc advertlalnl
/ patronage Of the Informant, which moved
away on account II lack OF patronage.
/ II Is no wonder that a II an Of the present
editors inhnllIsmaily small eall5rc doesn't
get much support.
| There IS j alIght vein oi hu,nor tn ihr
! following from the Sunday Welcome, of
/ Portland: awe regret To hear that the
| Pacific Baptist ia TO be moved from The
Welcome building TO the foot of Morrison
street, rs III C distance will not permit oI
our exchanging matter with |, henerforth."
! The ASSESSED valuation OF Mui.numah
county Tor this yeal is jus, ll,,le abort OF
I asSlooo. 900, an incfras= OF St4 bgI4ys
| over last year. This Is remarkable, and
| indicates thar some oi Portland's wealthy
moss backs have bcen asked to pay s1,ic
taxes.
/ 4 little drummer who sold an Albany
! iirm one kiGd OF goods and SEQ, another
was III thc city to.day for the purpose of
eating up the members cf thr firm because
they scat shc goods back ard of course
refused to pay for them. Nhon the Uga-
ocaAr mau last saw him hr was hastily
leaving the store ~ invitation of the
merchant. lie ssid lac would have law-
yer attend 10 the matter So q seems
that uewspaqcr men srs not The only ones
who have lots Of fan tn this world.
The exact length Of glic ,rcatle llat fell
AZ Lake Labish was GOO feet o.. inches,
Instead c! 600 fee: as announced In the
Siaiesman by guess the first morning after
the wreck. in the enllrc trcAtlc there are
I26 benis, which are twenty feet apart.
The rails used at this point OF the road are
thirty feet IN length, and by the different
counts thirty-eight or forty were involved
In the wreck. Mr. Coivig counted thirty.
eight and Mr. Pruniy forty. II the entire
trestlc there were i7o rails. There are
sixty-fve on each side of the track from
the break TO the south =mbankmcnt. where
The tresilc commences. The whole length
Of the trestlc Is zSso feet and It's height
shove the ground Is from ten feet In some
places 10 twenty In others.--Sla.esman
awhile knot OF Walla Walla's citizens
were seated around Sieith Rosen'eld's
store this morning discussing the McKin-
, ley bill, an Irishman in the crowd spoke
/ Iup and asked, "phwy don't they pay
Mckinley his bill yc're talkin' so much
about, AN DC done with it?'-Statesman
The Walla Walla Journal says: Chi
namen have caught the fever and are
striking for higher wages, all on account
r Of the Mckinley bill. Judge Lambert
il had two in his employ, but this morning
! they threw down their tools and refused
to work for less than 81 30 per day o
i eight hours. Others report similar ex
lpericnces.
II ia wonderful TO see the number o
5, emigrants that are reported by the des
IL patches as having left Iowa, Kansas ant
Nebraraska, this season, for dilTeren
points on the coast. From one point il
IS Nebraska a colony of six hundred wen
Ie to Southern California. They went full
/ equipped to camp out until they &c
houses built to go into.
Here is q sample OF newspaper bras
ging Of high order: "With great bral
gadocio, the Salem Statesman says it la
r just placed the largest order for papo
20 ever given by any one newspaper outsid
ig of Portland-forty thou and pound
'e Shucks! The East Oregonian could furi
IS sh the Statesman with forty thousan
pounds of paper and then haye enoug
left to run off several issues.
= Charles Nickel, OF the Jacksonvil
y Times, has been arrested for sending
m paper through the mails containing
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