The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-06-20
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY
News Summary.

ShlppeQ from Gne fenOleton uePoS 1hAS Seo
son.
It is estimated that immigrants are bring
ing into Washington Territory not less thai
$500, 1000 per month.
Fifteen families from the East arrived il
Clackamas county lately and have settled IL
the Russelville country near Soda Springs
The county seat of Klamath county ha
been permanently located at Linkville by
the vote of the people Of that county at t@s'
lastelection.
There are thirty six circuses headed toward
the Pacific Northwest. Thirty-nine time'
81. so, $3.50, to say nothing of the rel
lemonademan's gettings.
A movement is on foot to build
Soldiers Homo on the Gulf of Mexico tol
the disabled Union soldiers scattered
throughout the Southern States.
The business season for stockmen of
are all actively engaged now in gathering
and branding tine wealth of the country.
The time of year aas come when every
ice cream sign is a chilling terror to the
young man with girl on each arm and
only punched dime in his personal treas
Jury.
The Masons of Philadelphia have the
finest temple in the world, and it IS said
to be the only Masonic building in the
country that is given up entirely to Masonic
uses.
Eastern Oregon papers estimate that
800, 900 have been saved to the wool grow
,ers of the Territory through the recent re
'duction in freight rates on the Northern
Pacific.
A man in Kansas has started five papers,
each of which died within a short time. He
has just started another and calls it Kind
Words, because, he says, kind words can
tnever die.
At a meeting Of clergymen in st. Louis
Last week banquet was served without
wine. 1t was such an unusual occurrence
in that city that the papers devoted half a
column Of space to comments upon it.
IN -oASPa1CA IIoHi Cdu OoSt, Caj, says:
Mrs. Louisa A. Woods was to-day granted
a divorce from ex-Gov George L. Weeds,
on the ground of abandonment. Cusvody of
the MINOR child isa~arded to Mrs Woods.
The parties were married in Yamhill county
Oregon, in 1852. Abandonment is alleged
to have occurred in August, 1882.
Polk county has school teacher, who, to
his shame be 1t said, goes into the school
room putting cigar. The art of cigarette
making Though perhaps not in the curricu-
lum of studies) among the youth of that
school no doubt reaches perfection, with so
good an example continually before them.
The bunch-grass country il. Eastern Ore
gon has been much excited lately by the
of horse and cattle thieves;
several have been sentenced to stat prison,
but as that did not stop operations, more
severe proceedings have been had. Two or
three bodies of men have been found on the
cattle ranges recently, hanging dead, labeled
"horse thief, '*cattle thief" and other pet
names. No coroner's juries have been called,
and there seems to he no demand for them.
Philosophizing asito his venture of daily
paper at Spokane Falls, the editor says:
We are wide awake to the many difficulties
to be encountered. Others. and they more
competent than we are, have endeavored to
make daily paper success in this city.
The failure was through no fault of theirs.
The same fate may await the Review. If it |
does we will have enjoyed the experience of
having tried to meet the demand of the (
public, even if the exertion proved fruitless. |
A wild woman was chasing the children
at Beaver Creek school house on Wednes- |
day, says the Oregon City Courier. Her
long hair is disheveled and few rags cover
her nakedness. The children relate that
they have seen her lying down by logf
asleep. Several men went out immediately
to hunt for her in the woods but could find
being of the feminine gender is missed from
the neighborhood, and where she comes
from is mystery.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 18th inst.
says: The heavy rains of the past few days
have wrought all but disaster to the grow
ing crops, just now approaching harvest.
Thousands of tons of hay have been ruined
As it lay out in the fields, aud the half-ripe
wheat has been Frustrated. The damage
already is reckoned at millions of dollars,
and as the barometer is still low, it is feared
hat the havoc has only begun. Reports
6eing received tonight show that the late
rains have done enormous damage to the
srops. At Hanford the rainfall to-day was
one and quarter inches. Hundreds Oh
;ons of hay lying in the fields will he TOT
oss, while thousands of ACRES of grain are
aid fiat on the ground. A dispatch from
Salinas says: 'The rains have been the
heaviest ever experienced in the valley in
;he month of June. Thousands of tons of
lay are lying in the fields, soggy mass,
'endered unfit for any purpose All the .