The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1892-01-22


flowers are In bloom.
Oregon @ill be a two horse power In
side of year. Who will be the horsea
Is proving great question.
These are days of elephants. The
Philadelphia Record with forth eight
pages has reached Us. What o waste OF
fragrance on the Webfoot air, for time Is
too scarce to read IL.
An effolt IL now being made by the
managers OF the new Salem Democratic
daily TO bring Tony Nol,nsr's Dispatch
Office up to Salem as the plant for the
pape, here.-Journai
Tho.e who attend the John l. Sullivan
reception tomorrow evening viii please
remember that this gentleman once sald;
"rhem's a. hlsses is loafen." ."-Taeoma
News.
An xchange says; "rhe rental price
of postofiicc boxes has been raised one
half This will make a big Increase In
the income of the postoflice department
In the United States" Albany has not
been struck. Prices remain the sane
here.
Chinese readily pay SIS a piece for dead
wildcats, the flesh of which they hold In
great esteem, as In their opinion It i'm :.
parts fereeltY tp the eater thereof, says an
ex. II the .'wild" were out OF the bar
gain, there would be a fortune In store for
somebody.
The San Francisco Examiner gets of
the following, which will read like humor
to most who peruse It, During the three
months ending with December. forty-fye
deep water ships entered the port OF Sa-
lem, Or. Forty Of these sailed under the
British dag. white only one flew the stars
and stripes.
A Eugene man Il having his hands iuli
dodsing creditors. Tie Guard says. At
torney Geo Doris. this afternoon, flied
two mere attachments agaIt 1t the aiarkus
cigar store, making the aggregate amount,
So, 700. lie has a,Ao commenced q suit
against Rose Netile to sci aside the trans
fer OF the goods from Mrs Markus TO her,
alleging fraud; and also enjolnlng her
from bringing action against Sheriff No
land for the possession OF the property.
John Stanko. a well known Hungarian,
and Mrs kobush were united In marriage
on the sth ai Pueblo. Col. and were on
their way home ia hack, accompanied
5y Andy Martin, who had ofIiclated as
bes, man at the wedding. When near the
crossing OF the avenue and the Santa Fe
tracks, the driver nodced passenger
train approaching and attempted TO pass
Ia front of IT.. lie succeeded In thls but
was s,Tuck By an engine going in an op.
poSlte direction. The hack was demol-
ishcd and Martin and the bildc thrown
under the wheels Of the engine. Both
we're badly mangled and cannot recover.
The Salem Journal says the fight be-
tween Judge Boise and Geo II Burnett
for the nomination for Circuit judge In 20
warm that Salem people have never
heard ot II, a verifcation ol the old
saying.
The woodburn Independent says four
teen ofSalem' . sixteen saloon keepers are
republicans. and the Journal reHenis Il
and declares that saloon keepers are di-
vided In politics there the same as other
people.
The following weights Of produce
which the statutes OF Oregon, page l77b,
Hill's Code, provides shall constitute n
bushel, may be OF interest TO farmers /:
Wheat and clover seed. 60 pounds; rye
and corn, 90; oats, 80; barley. 20; buck
wheat, AZ; potatoes, 90; apples and
pears, ~.
DIR Blalock, Of Walla Walla, took a
sure way Of exhibiting railroad extor.
ton 10 the board Of trade at Seattle. lie
sent a box Of apples, omitting to pay
the freight. The board paid 96 cents
freight charges and rs cents for city de.
livery. Now" said the doctor. "you
can perceive why walla Walla ships 80
little fruit 10 Puget Sound"
II is stated that plan has been form.
ed TO establish gambling resort on a
small island in the Pacific Ocean near
Santa Barbara, after the style OF the
famous Monte Carlo, where the cele.
brated characters Of Europe gather to dc
their gambling. A Chicago paper says
a stock company has been organized
with capital OF SIC, ,000, 900 to establish
n gambling resort on small island of
the California coast, about thirty miles
from Santa Barbara. Most OF the stock
has been taken by New York capitalists.
Pendleton's monthly electric light bill
is $3.50.
The city council OF Portland has re-
fused to grant liquor licenses 10 China.
men rs heretofore, thinking IL will stop
their gambling games; but a Portland
paper says twill make no difference.
The only Oregon towns now supporting
Salvation armies, as nearly ma the DEM-
ocRAr can learn from its exchanges, are
Portland, Astoria and Scio. The atmos.
phere in most cities is not healthy, and
lacks enough jingle.
An Idaho exchange says Frank All.
ANS has been keeping record OF the
snowfall this winter, and up to the frat
OF January Ola inches has fallen. The
heaviest ever known in the country"
The chap who got the blues from our
Webfoot rains should have been buried
in that Idaho snow.
A gentleman interested timed the sleds
which scoot down the Main street side.
walk with such rapidity. and found that
the larger ones made 410 feet in five
seconds, little less than mile min
ute. No wonder the boys go home with
battered heads and sore bodies IL the
sled happens TO strike the fence.-Pen.
dleton 4. o.
II Is astonishing how many first white
children were born In Oregon. There
have been reported not less than forty
within the past year. The S. i. Chron-
icle saws: "Th1 first white child born
in Oregon, Mrs Fred ] Schroeder, nee
Perry, was born at Clatsop plains ,on the
lower Columbia river, in October, lS43."
Nevertheless Mrs Warren,o Brownsville,
continues to be the first white person
born in Oregon.
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