The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1900-03-09
HOME AND ABROAD.

For the best bed spring In the city go
70 t. Brink. He has them.
Dancing school" every Tuesday night
and Saturday afternoon at Hollands
Hall In Vance Bldg. Second Street.
Charles L. Davis, famous as Alvin
Joslyn died in Pittsburg, Pa, this week.
II 10 reported that Centralia, WASH,
has over one hundred cases Of smallpox
and that the city has been quaFantined.
Perhaps.
Two car loads OF cotton wood lumber
one Of the chair factories from the Cor
wallis saw mill.
On April 2nd the rights OF different
people 10 the steamer Eugene will be
settled by the U. q. court In Portland
according 70 sD advertisement appear.
Ing iD the 0regonlan.
An appendicitis club has been organ.
ized 10 Cleveland, o., with good mem
befship No one can belong without
having bad an operation performed upon
them.
joaquin Miller lectured 10 Salem last
night. While there IL was learned that
at one time ne split rails for Jeeeie Loon.
ey and when twelve years OF age fell in
love wIth Miss Helen Ltoney twenty
years Of age.
J. u. Howe received two letters today.
one from Rosebnrg and one from
Brownsville, conveying the startling In
lntelligence that Eugene was full OF
smallpox" Each OF these persons de-
sircd 70 do business hsre, bat Gaid 70.
ports scared them away Eugene does
not contain q case u smallpox, chicken.
pox OF Manila itch.--Snard.
II. g. Mckinley, the cruiser. tells u 9
I Salem correspondent Of the Ores oman
he sold $1,000 acres OF timber land at 81
| per acie, and that the same lend Is now
held at 4S per acre. He expects Il to
double ib price In the next year. Mr..
Mckinley lays that the Northern Pacific
company has tix cruisers In this state
and they are rapidly getting control of
the best timber lands aud further thinks
that within one year all the vacant tim.
Der 1and will have been taken up.
As nearly 40 can be learned from the
few who attended the entertainment at
the armoiy last night given by the
Duncan CLARK Female Ministries IL was
40 rocky an affair 90 was ever permitted
presented TO the public. Daring the
entertainment as q side attraction q
woman rushed into the room from the
front door as IL after her husband and
grabbed On s. p. man ne ii che were
going 70 take him away from such a
place. The last part was 30 bad that
the management had the small boys
present leave the place before giving IL
An Ashland paper says they ere worse
than the smallpox. They may be art.
lists but they are Of the kind that shculd
be stopped at the edge Of the town.
Investigation OF the causes, effects, and
means Of Prev ntion Of forest fires in the
west, will be carried on this summer in
Washington, Oregon, Cslifornis. arizona,
New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming,
Montana, Idaho, south Dakota. Besides
6eld study, detigned chiefly 20 discover
means OF preventing the evil, the Divis-
Ion is making o historic record Of all inn
portant fires which have occurred in the
United States since 1854. Althoug.- yet
incomplete. This indicates that the an
! uAl recorded losa by forest bu.nings in
the United States 10, at the very lowe3',
go. 100000 II viii probably run Tar
above this sum ,as the Pacific coast states
have been only partially examined.
In letter TO the Herald Postn aster
Train gives the particulars of the inter
eating case that took him as q witness
back to Louisville, Ky. In Aug. 1898
while Mr.. Sites was in the Office,
letter was received from w. J. Hawk, at
Milby. Ky, offering 800 Of money TOR
sl0. The letter was turned over 10 the
postal authorities and the matter was
traced TO the postmaster at Milby, ]. r.
Milby, who was arrested. He gave 80
defence that the money was confederate
and hence no effort to defraud by the
use OF the mails, which was sustained
but the defendant was held on a separate
count.