The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1898-03-25

The first to pay his taxes in Marior
ounty this year on the new roll was
] A r. man.
/. ID. Driver is the union nominee iF
heriff of Wasco county. He 10 ~
noueh away from Eugene to be electe.
A Butte paper about hits it when u
lays that the Alaska stories ale aboft
per cent truth and 81 per cen. fictionl
rhefamous j. j. Corbett will perprn
n Portland this week in The Naval "a
let. He, like Portland's Curbett, has
retired from the ring.
A correspondent in an exchange u
afraid OF being bored TO death by nan
keg politicians, there is go much time
before election. There is one sun way
OF escape, go to klondike
The McMinnville Transcript thinks
Rev. Ross did very small shlng IN
catching lot OF innocent old kdies or
that old Hezekiah sag, humiliatng them
in public place.
Hon. III. X. Kincaid sbouls be the
nominee on the union ticket or secre-
tary OF state. tie would receive an im
mense vote. He has made ote oi the
best officials the state has ever lad
Prof Baker, OF the Lebanon schools
kept track OF the number OF msasles In
the schools OF that city and tIe resuit
was $50 cases out OF an enrolment OF
272. or 81 per cent. They certainly had
a measly time.
Soapy Smith, who aspired 10 be the
poss Of Skagway, has been kieked out oil
that place. He was famous enough 10 be
illustrated in the WoIli and other big
pa pers, and was at one time The most
prominent gambler in Denver. Skagsay
did good job.
The rural but me'odions voices of the
| famous beMoss family will sgain be
heard this season. They opened the
season last Saturday night at wascc with
one of their concerts, and "Sweet Ore
eon" will again be in the laud
/ Prof Hawley has come out in a letter
defending his John Brown spefch. de-
claring that he only gave history. Many
people do not relieve he gave history
and any way they do not like seeing the
name OF John Brown DETAINED
Jackson and Jeffries are TO fight il
San Francisco tonight. h. DENocRA'
, man doesn't take any stock in thes'
pug,listic hypodromes, 5ut just TO be II
the swim, he predicts that Iarksou TIl
} win. though the odds are 10 TO oI
Jefiries.
IL IL said 10 be fact that al e.urcl
, | in Portlsnd last Sunday q man who pu
so ceats in the collection has. ct w~
promptly rebuked by his vile. She di
. not say word. bnt when the hasks
reached her she took out the so cent
and put in q niekie, dropping the s
cent piece into her pocke,-we'come.
: The Sa.em Statesman is IL wears %
: today, having been started On March
a 1851. A Bush was the FIRST editor an
: some people think he is interested
the paper now. The Statesman is
a credit as 8 newspaper 10 the ca i;ai cit,
= and has played an impoIi@n; part in !
i upbuilding-
d A new degree has been established
ID the X OF r lodge at wasco Last We
nesdAy evening in the lodge room a. IN
place, Ernest Wei and Miss NeuAh
/. Iwo ks OF p. were formally n.-ited
J. the how bonds OF malrimony. and q
I new degree wzs 30 well carried out IL
q hoped to make il permanent feature
y c. A Johns o! Baker City. form
- resident OF Polk county, is . pFomgns
In candidate fer secretary Of state on 9
lg republican ticket. Mr. Johns seTei
years ago WAS defeated for distgics 4
iorney OF this district, running lar
- hind bis ticket.
re In the iizht al San Francisco lac; niE
&c between the once famous Peter Jacks
u and Jcffries, the pupil of Cor bett, The !
e. Ter in the third roond knocked out wt
Was left OF the once powerful Garkes n
- , wreck from = several years life OF d
ps sips ion, though q ph, sician iGs' hei'
re the hght pronounced him in perfect ph,
ical condition.
rs fes years ago the S'atesman hslI
nj elect Billy Egan county clerk or the
TO publican ticket. and il cou nos
en- enough coed things about him. Nos
'rt is fighting him for county school sup
e, ipteudent or the union ticket and
cannot say enough He-n things ab'
him. Such are the political mutaiic
OF the times.
I'd
Is A grea, deal Of the bitterness OF par
he sanship should be dropped when il
K remembered tha, Fi,zhugh Lee. who |
so brAyeiy represented the goveEnm.
At Havana, Was once a confederate Q
nj dier, a man who does his duty so fai
IN fully as to be endorsed by president
70 opposite party and the people uniye
al ally.
n This is indeed IunnS world. \
Duncan OF Eugene. had her husband
n rested for living with another womi
He was held under $500 b0nde, aud tn
~ what did Mrs Duncan do hut make
C with him and secure bonds for him.
n sides this che paid for his supper q
~ bonght HIM some cigars.
is
Trainmeu on the +. hardly KIN
where they are. The new divisions hs
he been established. Conductors Heuuric
Is kearney and lyman now iun throu
ck from Portland TO Riddles, and Cond
tors Huston. Veatch and Brady sr
n Riddles to Dunsmuir. This necessita
be several families leaving Rosehurg
e. other places. The Shasta division
n been eliminated entirely. Now fol
change in the freight divisions.
ps The Statesman reports practical j
Gu played upon q number OF Sa.em's pat
%, otic citizens. A huge smoke stack '
ss sidetracked at the S. P. depot and Il
IN ny man sent Gen. 0dell and score
'Ie other well known men, including
sfs Oregonian reporter, out to look at the
new coast defense gun on the fiai G