The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-06-13
FFICIhL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY
News SUNNI aYy.

A bee tree at Chehal;s, W. T., yielded
800 pounds of honey.
The Southern Oregon Agricultural Society
was organized in Roseburg recently.
Wheat is almost ready for the sickle in
the vicinity of Forest Grove, Oregon.
The value of lumber shipped from Puget
Sound region for the month of May was
$7S,754.67.
A California company has purchased
Dream Gulch in the Cour d'Alene mining
camp, for SS5,OOO.
10 pound can lard ST 25.-Country cured
hams, sides and shoulde's, :oceries, glass
fruit jars and jelly glass at popular prices at
S. L. Kline's.
1t is reported that about $50 miles north
of Missoula, M. T., region has been dis
covered by an exploring party in which are
twenty-five cascades over 500 feet in height,
and true glacier with mile frontage and
500 feet fall 1t is said to be a more won
derful region than the Yellowstone.
Says the Albany Herald: Strawberries
inches around are not often in any
country, but We were shown some raised in
this city few days since and on vines that
were set out last fall at that.
The first of the week, says the Democrat,
Bert Scott and another boy were hunting
near this city, the latter having killed
bird, when Bert requested to be allowed to
shoot. The gun was double barreled shot
gun, both triggers of which Bert pulled
giving the gun chance to do some heavy
kicking, which it did. In the course of its
backward acton the hammers struck Bert
on the upper lip, tearing itself through into
his mouth, knocking out several teeth. The
wound was properly dressed, and the victim
of the accident is doing wei.
Some people think that most of the fnan-
cial embarrassment occurring, as well as the
changing of business occurs here in the
Willamette Valley. As matter of fact
there is no comparison between this Valley
and Washington Territory. The Com
mercial Reporter publishes each week list
of failures, compromises and sales, and
most of them, excepting those in Portland,
are in Washington Territory cities
The Eagle, published iu the Ceur d'Alene
mining camp, gives an indication of what
is going ON there when it says there are
more men around town jndulging in the
luxurious but not lucrative employment of
enjoying sun baths and holding dowl side
walks than we like to see. These men
should remember that our seasons are short
and that they should get out when the hills
are clear of snow, if they expect to strike it
rich. Now is the time for prospecting.
The Oriental Lodge of Free Masons has
decided to proceed against Senator Sharon,
General Barnes and others connected with
the exhumation of the body of Anson G.
Oliver in the Masonic cemetery, in order to
obtain testimony in the Sharon Hill divorce
case The lodge claims the act was un-
justifiable, and that the health officer ex-
ceeded his duties in doing what was not
subscribing any public end toward the pres
ervation of public health.
With all the fault usually found .th the
newspapers of the country they generally
keep abreast of all moving things. The
condition of the local press is the index of
the character and prosperity of the locality
in which published. Flourishing towns
have fourishing newspapers and vice versa
A rusty church, windowless school house
and shabby newspapers are sure and certain
evidences of decay; half starved preacher
an uu. lerpaid and illiterate school teacher
and haggard, ragged and hollow-eyed
editor are three ravens that croak over the
corpse of a dead town.
Last Friday afternoon, says the Albany
Democrat, the pastors of the churches in
Albany, instituted pastors meeting, the
first of which they held on that day at the
Congregational Church. The only ones al
lowed to be present were the ministers of
the city, their wives, and two ladies from
each church, the latter ones, as q qualifica-
ton, being obliged to know something of
the art of cooking. The afternoon was
spent in such manner as to unite the min
listers in common purpose for good, and
BIND them closer together III their strife
against sin so that they can fight it more
effectively.
Utah is pouring her surplus population
into the. Upper Snake River valley, and the
new settlers are settling down wherever a
running stream is met. Hundreds of
wagons have already arrived, and train men
tell us that at least thousand more are on
the southern road. Rexburg, Egin and
Pools Island are getting the lions share,
but the new settlers are by no means con
tined to these, A new town has been laid
off on Sand creek, just east of Eagle Rock,
and all the land along that spring freshet
stream has, we are told, been taken up.
Last Wednesday, says the Albany Dem