The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-05-02
News Summary.

WallA Walla farmers are esClmaIlnS 1ne
coming crop at forty bushels to the acre.
Gordon, late editor of the Seattle Herald,
il reported as the editor of the forthcoming
Victorian Times.
The taxable property ofthe city OF Nc
Minville, according to the assessment OF
1888, amounts to $3l3, ,55S.
Sixty million pounds of copper are said
to have been produced by the Lake Superior
copper mines last year.
The altitude of Thompson's Falls, Mon
tana, is the same as that of Eagle, VIZ: a
little less than 23OO feet above sea level.
The Willamette University's fortieth
commencement exercises will be held in
june, from the 7th to the 18th inclusive.
From most reliable source the Walla
Walla Union learns that the money has
been raised to build and equip the Palouse
branch to Moscow.
There will be nearly 1000 Cinnamon and
the greater number of 1900 white men
thrown out of work by suspension OF rail-
,road work above Redding.
Initlatory steps have been taken for
organizing law department to Willamette
University. Judge Ramsey has been ap-
pointed Dean, and Judge G. H. Bennett,
Prof. J. 7. Gregg and District Attorney
Holmes, Professors.
Men are engaged in searching in Six
mile Canyon, below Virginia City, New,
for treasure supposed to have been buried
there by the outlaw Davis, who was killed
while attempting to rob Wells, Fargo &
Co.'S express, near Battle Mountain, a few
years ago.
A new vault of the sub Treasury, which
is twenty feet long, ten feet wide and eight
) feet high, will be ready in short time for
'use. At present there are in the sub.Treas-
ury vaults $sl, 900, 900, little more than
$43, 600, 600 of which is gold, $4,000, 900
silver and sll, 600, 900 papers. F. Call.
Albany Engine Company No. l, of AL
bany, has extended an invitation to the fire
d. department. of Salem to attend their 18th
. annual picnic to take place in Albany May
10th. Special arrangements are being made
to make the picnic on this occasion particu-
larly interesting and number of prizes will
be given for those who are most successful
in various contests.
A gentleman from Olympia, says the
Argus, who has had large experience in the
oyster business, has made partial prospect
of Port Discovery bay in the hope of find
ing a natural bed of those deliscious bivalves
He dredged up number of shells and con-
siders the prospect very good. He will re-
turn soon with complete apparatus and
make thorough prospect.
The hop growers of Puyallup valley have
begun training their hops, says the Ledger.
The vines present an appearance of great
thrift. Some OF them reach as high as a
mans shoulder, or from four to five feet
high. The vines are trained by tying them
to pole with string. A large crop is
anticipated this season, as present indi
cations are exceedingly favorable.
Ike Nickerson, of Prineville, left that
place about the first of March and has not
been aeord of since. He went into the Cas-
cade mountains, and it was thought to fish
Lake; but parties in search of him have not
been able to find him. Mr.. John Gilliland,
of Sweet Home, was in Albany Monday, and
said he was at Fish Lake on the 18th, when
he saw indications of men having been there
but of course did not know who they were.
Ell. Haywood discovered curious freak
of nature while looking up some timber on
the head of Kentuck slough last week, says
the Coos Bay News. On side hill, neal
feet in diameter, and the other about three
feet. They are growing seven feet apart,
and run straight from the ground for about
sixteen feet, when the smaller.on intersects
the larger, growing through it in Ithe shape
of an elbow, and from the intersection point
upwards both trees remain separate.
Says the Itemizer, there is annually
$1,000 acres of land unassessed in Polk
county, or one sixth of the entire town and
farming area of:this county is yearly un-
taxed. By an honest assessment, therefore,
the percentage of taxation could be reduced
two mills on the dollar. It has taken the
county surveyor, together with his assist
ant, six months to compute Ethese figures,
which has been done in most perfect
manner, and he is now notifying land own
-ers of the discrepancy in their assessments
and asking for immediate settlement.
The body of John FL. Hewlett. ship
builder, was found floating in the river un
der Hustler's dock, at Astoria last week
Hewlett was experimenting the construc
tion of the new steamer building for the
Astoria Coast transportation Company
After finishing his days work he returned
to the Parker house, where he was stopping
and retired about 10 o'clock. He is said
to have been q sufferer from asthma, and
about IL o'clock he came down stairs and
walked out into the open air. He was moi
seen again until his dead body was found
floating among the spiles. Mr.. Hewlett had
the reputation of being number one master