The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1890-04-18

NAALno ~ NJ Inv
Ealssss aad rroprtcier..
A SIND OFr.-The Albany Board o
Trade has been revived. The city Il
now centered in harmonious effort "a
make itself still more widely known.
Albany has always seemed 10 grow spon-
taneously, but with the aid Of an enter
prlsing board Of trade this promising
city OF tho Upper Willamette will more
than ever surprise her sisters all over
the state. While preparing to adver-
tise extensively abroad, home matters
are not being neglected. A new city
hall will soon be erected. .hnd nc q special
election Monday, April Z, cily council
vote Of 10 10 decided TO bond the city
for t75,OO0 TO put In complete sewer
system, work on which will begin immo-
diately. April has ushered In unusual
building and real estate activity. T. q
Beardsley, an enterprising dealer, has
Just issued neat folded descriptive of
Albany and Fair Dale, a new suburban
addition.-Portland Real Estate Review.
woRK BEouN.--A busy look Is pre-
sen,ed along our streets. Work has been
begun on the foundation Of the Oregon
bank. The East boarding house Is being
moved to Mrs. Cheadle's lot on Eleventh
street, and will be placed adjoining the
house now occupied by Mr.. Phil Cohen.
Dubruille and Klein, the owners of the
First street lot, Il Il understood, will build
q brick during the summer. Mr.. Phil
Baltimore will erect slxty-foot front oek
at First and Lyon, ani already the corner
store Is rented and six or seven appllea.
lions are ahead for the other s,ores. One
of the prettiest blocks will be the one ON
the CannOn corner, 10 be built by DIR,
Maston aud others. IL will. have two
ground stories, the corner store being dou.
ble size, with entrance In metropolitan style
from the corner. The three stories will
be topped by dormltory, and where, by
the way, Il there better place for a town
clock.
SOME SALKs.-Geo Warren has sold to
w II Maple his house and two lots, on
West Seventh street, for $aIoo.
John Maxwell to Mrs NJ Baumgart. a
house and two lots In lis and A, for
$1,000; Writsman & Hulbers, agents.
4 NJ Hustoa X Co sold to III { Wilson.
recently IRON the East, his 6S feet front.
adjoining the Albany iron Works, for
$1,000; Ashby & Neil, agents.
Mr. G p Warner has purchased the resi-.
dence of Mrs Arch Monteith, on Ferry
street. paying $4,000 for the same.
MIN Redfield has sold 9iS acres and
Geo + Fish acres to Mr. Davenport, a
new conner from Kansas, for 1850 an acre.
Mr. Redfield has owned the property for
several years, Mr. Fish paid 800 for his 8
acrpa less than two wears ago.
AT THE MISEs.-A correspondent frcm
Gatesville of the Corvallis Times writes;
About two weeks ago iive men left here
for the mines at Quarizville sS miles from
here on the South Santiam. A man who
wintered theie and came out yesterday
says they arfssed at their destination and
that there is IS feet of snow on the road
IN the mountains and Elk feet In Quartxville
but this will disappear rapidly. Everyone
expects a boom there this summer, they
undoubtedly have the stuff for have seen
hin large Quantities.
How FIRED. In our account Of the Gre
In Alex cunningham's house on the $. p.
switch we ss,ated that It was GAINED
the FIRE was set from passing engine and
that two or three barns were also fired.
And 80 Il was by "a large rumber. A mar
who investigated Il though, says that was
impossible; that Il must have started from
the inside, anc that only one barn was set
on fire, and that after the flames had gone
through the roof The inside of the gar
ret was nearly all burned out before the
flames got through the roof.
IsrERvIEwED.-T The president of the
Standard OH Co. was recently interviewed
In the East, and. 10 view Of the price of
oil In Oregon generally, the following will
be interestlngi
ITO what extent has oil been made cheap
10 the eonsumerP
nWhen the Standard began TO be pfomi-
nent In the oil trade In 1872. refined oil
was selling At an average Of 73H cents per
gallon. That selling price has been re-
duced to an average of7h cents per gallon,
which represents a total saving to consum-
ers of of Of over $ISo,ooo,ooo per year."
A LUxATIc AMONG LUSATics. Prank
PIxley Ia the Argonaut says I: "we ar
rived In San Francisco by way Of Victoria,
through the crazy land which margins
the beautiful waters aud surrounds the
most attractive inland sea on earth. Every
body In the new state Of Washington Is In
= luna,ic condition. Passing so hastily
through II and stopping only at Port Town
send, Seattle and Tacoma,w have no sufil-
cient data upon which to base an opinion
how mucn Of the phenomenon we observ-
ed Is traceabls to honest and innocent in
tellectual alteration and how much Of II
Is chargeable to speculative, culpsblc
gambling greed. The lines which mark
the debatable ground l. altogether indis-
tinct
ITs TAXES In Calif,rnia, Il is said the
S. p. paws taxes on $40. 600 to $4,000 a
mile on its rcadbed, the latter being the
assessment in Siskiyou county. In Oregon
Il kicks voeiferously at anything between
es,soo and 81 noo mile. In its transfer
from the o. q q. 10 the S p It Is said, It
was given a bonded Indebtedness Of $3o,-
600 4 mile. II so, the fact suggests some
thing for our assessors to act on. There
nothing like equality In this glorious
age.
DrED.-Mr Thomas FlCwman, Young
man about IS years Of age, son of Rev.
Plowman of Beuna Vista died Sunday
morning at that place of pneumonia. On.
ly q short time since he was hearty and
well, having attended the teachers insti-
tute held IN this city He was brother-in.
law to M Payne of this city. Mrs Payne
went down yesterday to attend the funer-
al.
EXCURSION TO ALHAEY.-The boys oi
the Second Regiment band have secured
the fine Columbia river steamer Bonita,
and have decided MT to have their excur-
sion to Albany until Sunday, April 7oth.
The steamer will leave .be Union Pacific
dock at Salem at 7 O'Clock, returning a.
In the evening at about 7 O'Clock. There
will be good music and everything frs
class. Statesman.
TRY THEM. Conn & HENDERSON, to ge
down to business right in the start, pro
pose to sell first-class quality Of srocerie
at bottom prices. They have a goo
stock and are always on hand to wait o.
their customers. When wanting good
fresh article call on them. Their stock {
crockery ware also is well selected
ANormER REsrAURANr.--Mr. lIarr
Jones has opened restaurant and oyste
house opposite the Russ house, and pre-
poses running It IL good style. Mr. Jont
understands the business thoroughly an