The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-04-25
News SUNNI ary.

walla have registered with the intention OF
voting at the next election.
Within the last month upwards of 500
emigrants have located north of Uhe North
ern Pacific railway in Washington Territory.
The Dominion government is about to
erect extensive barracks fer regiment OF
soldiers at Victoria The fortiicatieas are
also to be strengthened and enlarged.
The Marion County Com nissioners have
appropriated 5000 towards carrying case
to test the mortgage law, up to the highest
tribunal and SO obtain a final verdict.
A movement is on foot to divide Multnc-
NAH county, taking that part lying east of
the Willamette river for a new county with
East Portland as county seat.
According to the roadmaster's report A.
567 head of cattle were imported into the
Yellowstone valley in 1882. The exports
during the same year were 80, ,573, showing
the excess of exports over the imports to be
l6,eO6
James Watkins mail carrier on the Sans
valley and Butte creek route, jackson
county has been arrested for appropriating
to his own use 500 entrusted to him by r.
B. Brown of Eagle point, to deliver to G.
&. Beekman.
Reports from Eastern Oregon concerning
the coming wool clip are cheering. The in
crease of fiocks will average 100 per cent,
and as the sheep have been kept in good
condition all winter the clip will be unu-
sually hea.y.
The most dan yerous counterfeitsilver dol
Tar ever known is now in circulation at Salt
Lake city, all branches of trade being caught
by it. An assay will be made of it as it is
believed to be of pure silver and overweight
It is not known where it is made.
At the close of the Mormon quarterly
conference in Salt Lake recently, president
John Taylor put to a vote the question:
''Shall we uphold the doctrines of our
church, including polygamy, stand by it
and defy the powers of the nation?'' and
1000 Mormons shouted eyes"
The Wasco Sun says that an immense fish
wheel now in construction at The Dalles
will soon be completed and ip position. Ii
the people of Eastern Oregonl lwish to pre-
serve the 1isn rest annually come from the
ocean and ascend the Columbia, they will
insist that to use fish wheel shall be un-
lawful.
The City Recorder went below Pendleton
Oregon, and married a couple the other day,
e. Il II 4
side Of his jurisdiction. The couple were
notified and came into town, and were once
more pronounced man and wife. Very few
couples can boast of being married twice in
one day.
Reports from the Puyallup hop fields are
to the effect that pretty much all of the
poles are set and cultivation with the plow
is well under way. The plants are in
splendid condition, and while it is too early
to venture prediction on the crop it il
certain that the prospects could not bt
better.
A correspondent of the Olympia Courier
at Tenino. writes of cedar log cut nea
that place, which measures SO feet and {
inches in length, and feet and inches Il
diameter at the small end. 1t contained
7.O00 feet of lumber. This is supposed t.
be the largest cedar log ever cut in tn
Territory, if not in the United States
The Ashland saloon keepers demanded j,
jury trial when examined for violating tn
Sunday law and were acquitted. 'Tis sal.
nearly all the jury had some of the ''pig
The city officers, however. propose doin
their duty, and Monday morning of las
week the saloon keepers were nearly al
pulled" again for violation of the law tn
day before. They propose carrying tn
matter up and testing the legality of tn
law.
The Astoria Independent in writing u,
the Ceur d'Alene mines, says: From
gentleman who has just returned from tl,er
we are informed that all the gold taken on
of the mines last summer was three ounces
that at present there is five feet of snow OF
the ground, while hundreds of men VIII
went there are dead broke and are prayin
to get out of the country.
A month or SO ago, says the Seattle Pos
rich placer gold diggings were discovered o
a stream in Snohomish county. No nois
was made about the matter, but yesterda
a company was formed in this city con
posed of our best citizens, for the purpos
of developing this discovery. The strear
will be turned so that a mile and a ha
of the river bed will be exposed SO that
can he Wnrk ed nm an extensive scoJo w
are not at liberty to give further particular
at this time,
Barney Rees and Tim Terrell have joint
located l60 acres of mineral land lyin
along the north fork of the John Day rive
Oregon. They claim to have discovered a
old river bed, lying. about twenty feet abo,
the present one. from which good nrosnec1