The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1899-12-15

= ed to a thirty foot channel 10 poFtlan,
per se, and then proceeds 10 oppose Il
Albany pays over $l5a day interos
: money ON it's debts. That sounds BIZ
but il sinks into smallness besides Port
5 lands $1,000 day interest,
In civil service examinations the max
imum rate OF speed ON type writer that
secures marking of 100 is 65 words
q minute. There are experts who can do
over one hundred, but IL takes rustllng
nevertheless to actually do sixty i've.
Try it.
| 1t would he money in the pocket of
the owners OF property on First street II
they would pave the street from Lyon to
Washington, four blocks. A glance at
the present mud Is a good argument in
favor OF pavement.
Yesterday two Kansas politicians mis-
took bottle OF dsinfectant for whiskey
nd drank il. They vii. die. Another
warning against the drink habit.
The tumble OF the English In South
Africa made atocks tumble in Wall
street. Wall street tiuctuates with the
world. Where is congress.
The Oregon delegation will be asked to
secure big appropriation to enlarge the
Portland post office and will probably
secure It. And yet they couldn't secure |
an appropriation for Yaquina that would |
benefit the entire northwest.
The new city council win have an ad'
ditional $1,000 to face in the intricate
problem OF getting tie city out of debt.
Nowadays though Il is very fashionable
for cities TO be in debt over their heads. |
1t also suits the big money loaners to see
the bonds piling up. But 1t makes the
dear people squirm.
There is a current report of an Albany
man having been dropped from his
church's roll, by order OF the session, on
account OF immoral conduct. By all
means keep the record clean.
The other day Judge Boise was COM
plimented by being told that he had
as much sense on the bench as oil the
bench, supposed to be rare thing in
Judges, who frequently act as II they
thought they were the whole shooting
match just as soon as they get hold OF
the judicial gavel.
At noon Saturday the steamer Eugene
entered the mouth OF the Long Tom and
started to Monroe. A delegation of Mon
roe citizens had met her. Hall a mile up
The boat, after encountering drifts and
1ther distractions, gave mp the trip and
steamed back down the river. This is
he river for which an appropriation was
made through the colossal efforts OF our
who could not secure .one
or the completion OF the Iaquina inn
provement.
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L, E. Brookfeld, Sterling, ILL.,, man
who was recently in the n. W., among
0tlier things said:
sour next stop was Salem, the capital
Of Oregon. We were much disappointed
in the place. 1t is mot in it. with Ster-
ling. supposed the capital of a hust-
ling Western state like Oregon would
make better show.
"We were soon satisfied there was
nothing to amuse u there"
This Statesman very properly reeents
this. Really what right has one to look
for much at a capital city except the
state buildings and their inmates.
The question OF who Anti-Pop-Demo
crat is, has become as humorous as the
old one of who struck Billy Patterson,
and is not much more important though |
creating consid derable interest like the
former editor OF the DEMOCRAT In ms
early career and later one. 1t having
been stated that the author was an OLD
editor of this pa ger the three men In the
city who had filled the position were
Immediately suspected. Each having
denied it, and they are truthful men, II
leaves the authorship with Jas. OMera,
Of Santa Rosa, Calif., Judge Bellinger, oil
Portland, and Hon. George +. Chamber
lain, whose solemn denial is now in Or
der. AS whole the article instead oil
stirring up strife in anticipation oi next
years election has simply been diver
sion enjoyed by the public who IKE
little spice with the serious things oil me-