The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1894-11-02
TcLD Amour EACH orHER.-Tae DEW

TcLD ABOUT EACH 0THER. The DEMO
cRNT mentioned few days ago the hunt
ing expedition Of c z Fields- son-in-Iax
of VIM Rumiaugh and A W Lambert Of
Portland. Upon their arrival home they
began telling stcIies about each othsr:
Mr. Iaubeyf's Eas: '.Wekiiied fsrucious
cougar, and We had lively time with II
Fields gets the craait Of killing the best.
He vxas some distance ahead Of ne one day.
xhen heard a perfect volssy Of shots in his
diresfiau. whicE sounded Ike the firing Of q
regiment of soldiers. ! hurried TO the front
10 ascertain the cause, but had gone onIy
q few feet when heard a wild yell that al
most rzisSi me OF my feet Presently
Fields ezIsed cut. Al. Az I've shot the
liver cut q : coJgar. and ! IN afraid be will
jump ont0 me Bring on the dogs, quick.
g-u-l-c-k | T-sle1 forward. and
found Field standing behind Tee trying
to climb IL His legs and arms were
claSped tightly asoSznd ;h2 tTunk- but he had
made no progress uP tie tree AZ all The
cougar Was lying aboEt 30 yards Of, dead
as a heTTing
Fields vas: Lambert had neen giving
me POINTERS about deer shooting. He said
o1e must never get exciee2 at q critical
moment On une ociasion he SEzs ahead Of
mysslt and cur guide. as We tho&ght be was
The man to do the shooting. Presently
tine back jumped up about 30 feet from
Lambert The deer looked at Lambert and
Lambert looked at tfe deer. Tbe latter.
seemed 10 have some ditfScEisy EithIhis gun
he could not get II % his shoulder. When
ne did get il elevated il did I point toward
the deer az all lie seemed 10 oe aiming
everywhere ous az the deer. Ny companion
whispered. Hes gos the b1ckag1e; lets
get cut Of here. or well bes shot We
-ssEzk behind big tree. and none TO soon,
for Lambert presently began shooting. The
b1lss<S flew IN every direction The tree
Ss ESzs standing behind Was struck sever
al hlEss. Finally lambert exhausted all
toe l0als IA his gun. ard we stepped out
I've killed the der. but We could fSad No
deer The cid mouutaineer said, That
the worst case o< huck-ag1e ! evsr saw
DEATH or AzxHUR PORTER Mr.
Arthur Porter. Deszsy Postmaster, died
last night. Oct 26. 1884, al tae home Of his
mother. in the Sri Ward. Ut the age Of %
years. after : short Illness, OF liberation of
the yermiform appendix. An operation
was performed On Thursday. when the con-
ditiou Of the disease was f0and 10 be such
that his res0veEy was practically impossible.
The deceased was born in Harrisburg, In
this county, and had been ! rl<iieut Of
Albany for about fifteen years he was .
%op1iar yoGng man. and, besides mother.
fzher. brSotheTs and sisters, caves snary
xh0 will mourn lis death Tue deceased
wa a member Of the A o c W, his bene-
fieiaxy being in favor Of his mother.
In Illinois there are ten parties in the
political field, all with state tickets to be
voted Tor at the election next
month. They are as follows: Demo
cratic F&sty, republican party, prohi-
bition panty, peoples party, independ-
ent republican, party. the peoples silver
party, pcpEfist party, independent party,
Independents democratic party AID in :
independent eeoplc's party.