The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1893-11-17
A SARCASTIC wRrrEn.-The Leban

n cARCAsIlC " RlTER .-'lne LEBANON
Express has q very live correspondent at
Waterloo. Here are few lines.
There is some talk of n 50-bb Touring
mill here, hut first the community is asked
as usual to furnish everything and let some
one take all the Toll. Why not combine
and dig ditch and build mill by n Joint
stock company.
The science of dancing, as developed by
TIE average Waterlooite, consists in few
vigorous hops, preceded by a hasty stamp;
said stamp can he heard distance of seven
blocks. The good old days of smooth dane
ing have departed from here at least, and
in its stead we have something that cannot
be described; a kind of cross between a
barrel factory and George Sanfora's ma
chine shop,
OF all the dry speeches in the last decade
ii mas been our lot 10 hear. was one de-
hvered in the church by the Hon Steen. II
consisted of an extract from the 0reconian,
interspersed by few of Rork's old anec-
dotes. To think that the average man will
be persuaded 10y such an orator is prepos-
ferrous. Waterloo will vote as ever unless
they produce something other than an
arithmetcal progression or a simple pro-.
blem IN compound interest,
WORTH SEElNd.-Tbe Dunsmnir News
tells the following about our own Joaquin:
If the Commissioners will give US space we
will exhibit at the MidwiEter fair the old
log cabin, which was built and occupied by
Joaquin Miller in the early SOS near this
place. The cabin stands there now in
about as good condition as vixen it sheltered
the famous poet of the Sierras. The walls
have been pierced in several places by
bullets. and some broken off arrow heads
are still imbedded in the logs. Joaquin
stood of about n hundred Indian warriors
one winters day. who were storming his
retreat One arrow entered through crack
where the chinking had been knocked cus,
cut swath through Miller's luxurious hair
and buried itself in the wall beyond, nail
ing a lock of the poets hair to the wall
The arrowhead, with the hair around it. is
TO he seen there this day.
Az ExcITINe RACE. Talk about the
sport of the fox hunt. it IS nowhere beside
chase for king salmon in his own domain,
says the Oregon City Enterprise Sunday
morning the water was turned of at the
head Of the locks TO permit certain repairs
to be made in the canal. and when the
water Was pretty well out Of the canal one
Of the workmen discovered large salmon.
and immediately gave chase. One and an
other joined In the race till nearly ali Of the
men at work were trying TO catch fish for
dinner. but the willy salmon eladel them ai
every turn. aud the race furnished lots Of
sport, as many Of the pursurers would strike
a the fish with spade or other convenient
weapon only 10 miss him and fall into thu
Ls1Fzs A al 4
the length Of the canal August Kulisch
came out clinging TO his prey with both
hands while with his teeth lie firmly
grasTed fin. The fish weighed about
thirty pounds.
THE FINANCIAL oUrLooE.-Ciapp& Co.
of y y City. send out weekly over the [ 5
70 the lvspers a market letter. The cue
just received gives the following financial
outlook. The person interpreting il is en-
ii;led 10 a chrome: Progress Is developed
intelligence demonstrated IN the Eroducti1n
and usa Of things. Seeds of discomfort
wlth Ignorance and poverty grow info de-
uland which fosters production. The wealth
Of nations l. The average comfort ot Its
poorest classes. Additional fai.tories and
industries are the Gully excuse fer cglstem
officers and revenue collectors Production s
expense account Is not Iighsened By addi-
tluns to cost al necessities or vices. Grow
ing opinion points TO land values and puolic
franchises as tia natural harden hearers
hs issf1 century sunlight ougass 70 kiss ta1e
stars and bars over American merchantmen
in every foreign and domestic port.
OsEGoS A0AISsr THE woRLD. = The
Eugene Register tells the fol wing: MI
II Hanlow Ir reports the nest crop of po-
ts;oes We nave heard OF this fall. lie
planted sS foshels Of potatoes In the
spring on three acres of ground ard has
just harvested SEQ bushels Of gooi sound
potatoes 4 man in josephine couaiy
has been boaS,i5g ot having plai.,ed zoo
pounds. or one-,hird as many as Mr. iiA,-
lew, and harvested Il. COO pounds, or one
fourth as many. We cali him down. Sir
Hsriow's crop sold al 80 cents Ter bushel.
the ruling price AZ present. would Yield
him $3.50, or SIc6 67sS per acre. On
our table j. paper from iowg, one ga the
best states In the East. telling of a man
who has sold his crop from 10 acres for
IS cents per bushel, bringing 81 per acre
and boasgingly asks, "What other crop
viii do as wel'" Could Mr. Harlow sell
his crop at is.e same price. they would
dces that compare win Iowa. Oregon
against the word,
PROBABLY Losr There is possibility
II no. probability tha. the slS goo Of
Agricultural college funds on deposit in
the Job bank nj the time OF the suspen-
sion will pe wholly lost. 1t will be re-
membered that shortly after tie bank
passed into the hands OF a receiver that iu
order tn secure the college claim, an at
tacbment wss placed on the property by
treasurer Shipley. II now develops that
the attachment was irregularly issued.
Having neglected The opportunity for
making proof claim before the assignee,
the date for which expired October 3rd,
il the technicaliiy in the issuance OF the
| attachments is held to be valid the college
be without any claim whatever TO the
funds nu deposit when the hank suspend
ed. The exact amour. OF these funds is
sl7 664.7s and by so much the remain
ing creditors will be the gainer.-Cor-
wallis lines
| Contrary To LAw.-D + Harold
| who resides In Linn county just opposite
Sialton was arrested last evening in
North Salem TO answer 10 the charge oi
running a traclipn engine over the bridge
across North Mill creek on Liberty street.
without having previously rlaukei 1t. 1t
is claimed that he did this some time
during last June Mr. Harold, 1t is un.
derstood, sal that he was simply riding
upon the engine, and that it was In cnarg,
of other parties. The complaint was file6
In Judge Bachelors Office on the Ioii: O
August. The defendant was released up
on his own recognizanee until $50 o'clocI
this morning when tis examination viii
be held. Statesman
4 TRAMP REwARDED.--A man namet
Swoper, vending his way from San Fran
cisco to Portland, on foot, called at the S |
X Il office in this city last night and re
ported having found and pulled crippiet
COW off of the track. about one mile nortl
Of Henderson station Section Foremai
Patterson went out and on his return .veri
fed the same, whereupon the S Pscompan
showed, their appreciation by granting t
the said Swope free transportation to Port
land -ovar tho 'rpqt of hia inurnav u Euoar