The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1893-10-06

Two 0REGoNIANs AT CHEROKEE. The
l.. O. publishes the following live Cherokee
strip item: Justice Peter West is alive and
in the flesh. what little there is left of him.
He arrived in Pendleton on Thursday
nights train from Cherokee strip, after an
experience Mt booming that he will never
forget. Bearing musket in the army, and
charging to the mouths Of the enemy 5 can
non, would be no comparison. Peter West
and l. Reynolds went from Pendietoa
with the idea OF getting soldiers claims.
They found tens Of thousands of other peo-
pie also after land, however, and concluded
to back out But they made the rush to the
new town of Perry, and each located lot
West and Reynolds had good horses, and
rode the nine miles in thirty minutes. They
even beat train of three sections composed
of every kind of cars and each section hay-
ing on board about 5000 people. At Perry
the first night there must have been 120. 900
people who slept upon the ground, holding
down their lots. West secured lot and
erected his tent thereon, but after being
absent four or FIVE hour 20 looks Reynold :
lot returned to find his own stolen BY am
other party. who removed the tent and had
already replaced it with a rough building,
bearing beer sign. West had enough of
TT and Is glad TO ret home. Reynolds con-
Icluded to remain, and Is earning four AMI
five dollars a day at carpenter work.
A WrSDy ITEM The Corvallis Times
continues to have the anti-0 p fever.
The DEMocRAr makes practice OF keep
ing its readers posted, and hence gives
the following from that paper and our
readers may put their own conseniction
on it, for the present; butlthe DgxocRAT
/ hnnac fka s.1s.sA IL .fs IL g al.
per: Many valley newspapers ar pub
fishing accounts oil how party OF engin-
GERS and others are about 10 make a bold
dash into the wilds ot the Cascades with
the idea that the construction Of the o
T will begin in the spring and be prose
cuted to finish. Tae statement reads
well to man mp tree, but il would be
more exhilirating TO the spirits OF those
conyersant with the affairs OF the . z If
money for this business is 10 come FROM
IL is generally believed in this locality
that wind can no longer be utilized in
the construction of the O p, the extreme
limit having been reached some time
ago.
An AccIDExr.-The Salem Indepen-
dent tells of an accident IN which for
mer Albany lady figured; Nrs Tyler and
child and Mrs James Irwin net with an
accident yesterday afternoon that proved
fortunate IL that so little damage was
done. They were driving down a steep
hill just this side OF Fruitland when the
horse became fractions and wanted to
run. Mr. Tyler succeeded in holding
the animal well in hand until they had
reached the bottom OF the hili- The
read was narrow at this point, with
steep ouisets on either side. Mrs Irwin,
who WAS greatly excited, seized the reins
at this point and turned the buggy down
the embankmene Mrs Tyler aud child
escared with few slight bruises. bat
Mrs Irwin received a severe blow On the
upper lip under the nose which cut
through the fiesh and disIocAted cou-
the leg.
The EDEToRs.--The State Press Asso-
ciaticn yesterday At Portland elected the
following officers: President. Ira L Camp
bell, Guard. Eugene; first vice presidekt,
Leo Peterson. Commercial Review. Portland;
second VIE president, Mrs ~ j Plymaie.
Times. Jacksonville; secretary. ALERT To.
zier. Pacife Farmer. Portland; treasurer. G
&c Doughty. 0hsarver. Dallas; executive
COMMITTEES. + Ii White. Chronicle. las.
Portland: w A Wheeler. Odd Fellows,
Portland: J5hn r Beegie. independent,
Hillsboro. One Of the most important
things done was resolution offered By b
Eddy thai all newspapers IN the state i1s
referring 10 Chinese or Nongolian yiiseasants
hereafter designate them ~ Denny pheas-
ants. in honor Of o n Denny, to whom The
honor Of importing them Is due. Tnn
DEMOCRAT has been doing this occasionally
for some time at the suggestion Of a paper
~ The palless
A HUNTING LoDGE.-The editor Of the
Salem Journal. who has been tramping over
Lincoln county says: L w DeyOe. former
captain of the Mascot Gun club of Albany
has bought the hotel here and Is fitting il
up for q sportanen 5 headquarters. He viii
call 1t Elk Lodge and will make specially
Of entertaining hunters and E iisheruaen.
There is probably no place in the Coast
Range mountains where trout are "a fine
and deer as plenty as right here at the
forks Of the Big Elk. The Alsea country.
full OF big game. is only short drive away.
but adeer can be killed by those who know
the runs within two hours any day in the
year. Deyoe's hunting lodge viii be in
great demand with valley sportsmen when
t Is once known.
NEW MONEY ORDERs.-Ihe department
has Just sent ont notice to the several post
masters that beginning Immediately there
viii he used new form Of money order
which will In time digplace the form now
in use. The form which will be sent out as
fast as the old forms are used up will differ
from the old in that it will give upon the
order itself the name of the payee. This
has not heretofore been done and therecipi-
eut of an order c1ald not tell till be had
presented it at the Office whether or not
there had been made and mistake in its is-
sue or whom IL was issued in favor of.
A Bors FIeHr.-This forenoon two Al
bany boys faced eoch other in ring form
ed in Sphinx lumber yard. A warm fight
of several minutes followed, resulting in
several knock downs. One youth, who
seemed to be getting the worst Of 1t. cried
enough and the fight stopped. Several
boys of about the same age were the spec
tators.
RusTLE is what does the business in
everything: The Dallas lteulizer says.
| Three years ago man bought twenty
acres Of land near Monmouth and at the
end Of the year starved ont and sold out in
disgust to a man who has in two years
made enough of Of the land TO pay for it.
The soil was all right it simply uesded a
genuine rustler to tickle IL thoroughly and
make the produce come.
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