The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1898-09-30
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. "''' ~ HAAhS iotiuN itiis
FROM MAN.Lt.
number OF Manila letters received by
relatives and friends this morning. They
were mailed as late as August IL, which
was two days before the big battle there.
The following from Fred Westbrook to
his parents here will give the situation
at the time.
CANfTE ARSENAL, Aug. 9.-Dear father
and mother:-l received your welcome
letter last evening. Ii came by way OF
Hong Kong. Admiral Dewey uses one
OF the transports for a dispatch boat. |
She makes trip TO Hong Kong near !
" every week and II there il any mail I.
there she brings il. Dewey communi- ,
Gates with President Mckinley every |
eight or ten days. Yesterday we we're |
l'aid for two months, up 10 the LIST of |
July. l have sent some of il home, |
would like 10 have sent more but my eX- (
lenses We're heavy crossing the ocean,
Tor could not go hardlack black coffee |
ana BOILED beef that smelt and tasted af- |
Ter ocing boiled two hours, and when the /
dead COW ran ont they gave us pork. no,
such as you get at home, but pork all fat. |
served boiled. We are faring better nov
for We have biscuit TO eat, fair coffee fried |
bacon and rice. or biscuit. rice and cof- !
lee. We have a slox quarterma,ter. He
Is as slow as | used to tie when you /
wanted any work done. He is a good |
man nevertheless. Our captain, who is
lnsI man acting in that capacity. said /
Tie other evening that he would drill I
ii out OF us II We didn't get around |
F.4aH HEaF sHn4a
We were given 500 cash by the Elmer
gency Corps OF Portland and $3.50 by
Oregon Cuy.all in the possession oil Cant.
PIckens aud others. OF course the H.
tamy boys do not expect any oi the Ore
gon City money but We are entitled TO
some OF that gwen the company l,y Port
and. Oren Beam asked the captain for
tSocent stamp TO mail his mother q
letter and the captain said lac had no
STAMPS 10 give aWag. lie asked II he
could not buy one with the company
lund and the captain said - am
not furnishing the whole company with
stamps and ] want you TO 90 aNav Aud
not say another Nuri about cornEsauv
funds 10 me, ] have heard enough Of yon /
lie does not come into the quarters ex-
eept when be has 10 and Lieut.. Huntley
- about the same. but Lieai. Phillips
has made friends with sill the boys.
II vas reported that I'd Suox, OF Al
hAny. OF The li,h infantry. ot Vancouver,
got one leg blown off and t!le other will
have 10 come off. bg. mentioned il TO
J ieui- Phillips and he said il was no;
tFue' that the Colonel said 80. We had
O<en Told by man from across the Bay
where Ed i.
War here is at s:andsiill aEziiing or
taRFG from Fhss s.-nsss.,..
nicsly.
Mex, Sunday xill De the 45;h anniver-
sAry OF the Presbyterian cl urch At Cor
Wallis.
Nighiwach Beach OF Corvallis upon
trial vas hned s. fer using too much
ioTCe IN aTres,ing J j. Stafford. /.
Seth Hammer. o: Salem, IS hammer
ting away At bill Tor The amendment of
oregon's game Law il IS already
amended 10 death
Some Of the papers have begun TO
make fun Of the senatorial question.
The Lebanon Criterion mentions the
name Q! Walter Tooze for the Office.
i man in Cmaiilla county has filed =
petition in bankruptcy in Portland. His
schedule OF assets shows that the estate
consists OF q Gov, span oi horses. a
wagon. set OF harness. and few pigs
and chickens. the total value Of which il
sSSO- His Liabilities aggregate some
thing ike $500. aud consist OF notes,
unsecured accounts. wages due, etc.
From east 20 west Oregon is SO miles
across, and go miles across from north
TO south. giving it an era OF 81. 900 square
miles The area IS greater than that OF
all the New England states, West Vir-
ginia and Delaware added: or greater
than the aggregate Of New York, Penn
svlyania and Delaware: or Iowa and
Ohio; OF OF Illinois and Lonisina: or OF
the total area Of England, Scotland
and Wales.
The large barn OF Ex-county commits
s.oner Il. J.. Curl was burned last We'd
nesisy evening. having caught on fire
from fire in the adjoining field With
the barn there WAS burned horse buggy,
six hundred bushels of wheat and twen-
ty five tons Of hay the property OF MIR.
Curl. and binder wagon. mower and
several other things belonging to Mr..
Kendall who rents the place. The loss
WAS estimated at s2,uoo, with no insur-
ance.
ST. Patrick's theological seminary was
opened at MEMO Park last Tuesday, the
first of the kind on the Pacific coast.
There are four students in it from Ore
gun, " i'll Mciee and John Shea of this |
city, aud Edward Wright and =. A. |
Hahn, residence not given. The school |
will start with about forty students. The |
course consists OF six years in the junior |
college and six years in the senior col |
lege, twelve years in all before ordina-
tion to preach.
Lieut.. Hackleman of the S.A. came up
| from Portland this noon.
Senator DAILY of Corvallis went to
Salem today to help elect Corbett.
F. NJ. Smith of Lebanon precinct was
loing business in Albany today.
Dr. II. Erskine went to Portland
yesterday to meet his family, who have
| Just arrived from Cleveland, 0.
Rev. George II. Greer, of Dundee, Or,
who was in Albany the first time in 1889
has been in the city.
The Girls Military Club will meet at
the ". &. T. L. hall tomorrow afternoon
at O'Clock, which all members should
attend.
| Col. and Mrs. G. h. Montague are in
the city the guests OF there sou, h. B.who
is confined to his home on account oil Ill
ness.
+ Mr.. Gus Currie, resident OF Linn
county fifteen years ago, was IN the city
last evening on his way home from q trip
up the Corvallis and Eastern, where he
has mining property which he thinks
has good prospects.