The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-02-14
PACIFIC COAST
Oregon


At Albany five men are now in jail charg.
ed with felonies.
The Santiam canal is likely to become the
subject of a lawsuit.
Wild water fowl are not so plentiful on
Coos bay as formerly.
Linn county has paid in her State taxes,
amounting to S33, 900.
Albany warehouses now have only about
45, 900 bushels of wheat
Wheat is worth SOC per bushel at Inde-
pendence.
Several head of catt'e died in Polk coun-
ty during the recent cold weather
Wolves are troublesome in the country
about the forks of the Luckiamute
Messrs. S. NJ Pennington and O. O. Ben.
son have purchased the Pendleton hotel
Enlargement of the public school build
ing at Albany, the Democrat says, will soon
be a necessity.
The Dayton narrow gauge is steadily 60
ing on toward Dallas. At this season the
work is necessarily slow
Gen. Ell. Applegate has purchased pro-
perty in Albany, and will soon move his
family to that place.
There is four feet Of snow on the Green
Springs mountain, on the Southern Oregon
wagon road.
On last Friday there was 10000 bushels
of potatoes on one dock at Seattle awaiting
shipment to San Francisco.
U. S. troops are collecting struggling Indi-
ans in the southern counties, and taking
them to their reservations.
Young Lafoon, the boy who was recently
nearly frozen IN Wasco comfy, is now in
the hospital at the Dalles and is doing we'll,
The revival at the M. E.. church at Alba
ny continues, and over twenty conversions
are reported. The meetings will be continued
through the present month.
Mr.. John Mcfarland, who resides near
Tangent, received kick from a horse,
which broke and badly shattered his right
arm. He is recovering slowly.
The taxable property, according to the
Reporter, within the corporate limits of the
city of McMinnville is valued by the asses
sor at about $245,000 above indebtedness.
Sheriff Sperry, of Umatilla county, has
made application by requisition to the gov
ernor of Washington territory for Indian
GO Sam one of the supposed murderers of
Chas. L. Jewell.
The people of ''The Meadows" in Una
tilla county, held mass meeting last week
for the purpose of making arrangements to
build fort for the better protection in case
of another Indian outbreak. Resolutions
asking the governor for redistribution of
arms were passed.
James McGarvey, who lives about twenty
two miles up the Kalanlath from w. S.
fuckers place, was shot by an Indian in
the back. The shot, it is thought, will
prove fatal. The assault was caused by
McGarvey's refusal so p,y the Indian some
money which he claimed was due him.
A letter from Sublimity to the O,egoniaa
says: The cold weather has retarded the
work on the farms in the Waldo hills, so it
will be impossible to get as large an acreage
sown as was contemplated; yet, as there
was more fall grain sown than there ever
was before, you may look for a large surplus
from these hills. Fall sown grain looks
well. Never in the history of these hills
was pasture so scarce. Some stock dying,
mostly sheep; and nearly all stock rs poor.
When will our farmers learn to provide?
The RiYersiae of Polk county says: ''Nev-
er have the prospects of an abundant crop
been better than they are at present. The
winter has been very mild and open, and a
much larger area of ground has been sown
to full wheat than In any previous year
within our history Not only does the
Tall S0Wn gram look Well, not De1nS IN any
way injured by the freezing weather of the
winter, but our farmers are still engaged in
blowing and sowing, thus making their
springs work very light, and laying the
foundation for u bountiful harvest. Not
only have our farmers sown large quantities
Of wheat, but very large acreage has been
sown to fall oats; and they are fourishing
eq Tally well with the wheat"
Capt. John Smith, Indian agent at the
Warm Springs reservation, writes to a rela
live that recent reports of disaffection
among the Indians there are untrue and
without any foundation whatever. He says:
The Indians are farming and well-to-do IN
in cattle, hogs, ETC., and they in council the
otner day authorized to say to the
whites that they will put their lands, their
stock and all they have as security to the
whites that no Warm Spring Indian will
ever go on the war-path against the whites.
All they are able to hear about any coming
trouble in the spring comes TO them from
the whites" And further adds: "I have
thought of making a public denial of any
and all charges made against these Indians
recently, but have refrained from so doing
from the fact that I know there are a class
Of people who If the Saviour of mankind
were an Indian agent would not believe
Him"