The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1892-01-08

club, held last night, officers were electe,
for the ensuing year a. follows: @
Gabrielson, president; 4 A Turner, vice
president; W w Brooks, secretary; II
McNary, treasury. diamond medal 4
be shot for will be one os the features @
tho club during 1899. This organization
is growing In membership and the inter
est Is increasing. II seems the Alban,
"shootists" are not going to accept tn
challenge issued to them by the Salen
club, but II is said the Jefferson hoy
will challenge the home team for q shoe
at no distant.-Statesman The Alban,
club will be glad 10 shoot at any timl
under reasonable conditions. A mattel
can easily be made with ten men on
side.
EroENE's STREET CARS. The Rose,
burg Review Is authority for the follow
Ing; Eugene has probably the NOS
unique street car service In America
| Whenever the cars are to make trip The
proprietor advertlscs the tact several day,
ahead in the newspapers probably so no.
body will get leiG when the bell rings. liz
Is Texas man and his imported mule
isn't accllmated yet, so that his sickness
during the rainy season causes business IN
that line to be a standstill most OF the
time. Then the proprietor Is also OF a
trifty turn and takes outside contracts oI
excavating sewers and the like which also
compels him to stop the cars while his
mule assists him In Ing out his con-
tract, as he did In Roseburg while on the
sewerage WORK last fall"
A New 1owN'-The plot of the new
town OF Mimic, which Is located on the
north side of the North Fork of the San
tam, has just been filed In the office of
the county recorder by Douglas Mimic.
II Is situated on the Oregon Pacific rail-
road, and IL contains three blocks, each of
which Is divided into twSlve lots. The
new town Is In the south one half of the
southwest one-fourth Of section IS, town
ship nine south, range three cast.--States.
man.
p. OF Following are the new officers
CT the Linn county council l. Of II elected
ut their meetiLg at Knox Vutte Saturday /:
III Scott, of Tangent, president; NJ II
Wilds, OF Knox Butte, vice president: X
q Wigle, of Charity grange No 1903, sec
retary; A G. Marshall, Of Harmony
grange, treasurer; F 8 Doughion, of Knox
Butte grange, chaplaln;J Glenn, of Har-
mony grange, gateke~per;J w Propst. OF
harmony grange, agent; A Blevins, OF
Tangent aud Bricc Wallace, of Knox
Butte, trustees.
Corvallis Is one OF the staid towns In
the Willamette valley. In iS4S Joe Lane
laid the territory out Into their judicial
districts with Benton county In the second.
On September 3 1919. Judge o c Pratt
held the first court at the house of ] c
Arcy, In Marys river, near where the
main town now stands. Lo,s worth ST
per foot are now worth Sioo and yet there
Is not nor has been any boom theTe-a
good, prosperous, steady, educated I've
town. Welcome.
AFFECTIONS TRANSFERRED. An Albany
business man was considerably startled
this morning on receiving letter,-.con-
tanning n faded flower,-which began,
Take back the flower you sent me. l
love you no longer. Ny affection has
been transferred to - -" aud
then followed strong words Of praise for
blank, over the signature Maude. This
reads sensational; but let the truth be
told: the blank is n New York wholesale
house, and the flower was some faded
catnip leaves, cheaply obtained. As an
advertising dodge il is very cute.
A REWARD PAID.-It will be remem-
bered that one r J Mcdonald was sent to
the renltentlary at the last term of the
circuit court for taking subscriptions to
numerous publications. The New York
Delineator being ore Of the number. That
paper offered Sfoo for the arrest and con-
viciion OF Mcdonald. The Delineatur has
paid Sheriff Noland The reward ed and
also forwarded their ihanks.-Guard
THE ASSESSMENT. - The increase on
agricultural land In the state as raised BY
the state board OF equalization Is found 10
be $5.2o6,S S34. The increase on railroad
lands amounts to S5S,t3I. On wagon
road lands the increase Is SSoI ,S64.
Swamp lands have been raised SI72,6o4
The raise on town lots will be 81, ,o6o, ,sIs.
The above totals added give the increase
on all lands OF the state as SS, 49, gas =
A BRAKEMAN KILLED.-Last Saturday
E Frazier, a brakeman, aged only abou.
70 years, was run over and Killed by a
gravel train at Marion. In some manner
he was thrown across the track while the
Na'h was eNltCNinBi anu the WnceIs sew
cred his head from his body, causing one
of the most frightful accidents in the
history OF the Southern Pacific. Frazier
vas popular brakeman and was we'll
known along the road.
EPISCOPAL CHUcH SERyIcE.-There
will be morning and evening service in
the Episcopal church next Sunday, Jan
10th, at the usual hour Rev Geo +
Plummer will officiate. There will be
an Epiphany termon in the morning on
The star which led the wise. men /" In
the evening the subject will be "Turn-
ing Points" The public Is cordially in
vited to attend. Seats free.
MARX TWAIN is writing some letters
from Europe for a syndicate Of papers, of
which the Oregonian and Examiner are
in the list. Good judges declare the two
letters already published to be the worst
kind OF slush, and not in keeping with
Marks old reputation.