The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-13
State and Territorial.

A1c 1rou "orkS dG OSWegO, oregon clOSeu
down last week with but d. little hopes Of
again being able to reopen.
The Oregon Horse and Land company has
1900 horses on its numerous ranches in
Western Idaho and Eastern Oregon.
The Canadian Pacific is in the near future
to be close competitor of the North Paci
fic for the through emigrant business from
the old countries and Lower Canada
New Northwest: If strong bill to pun
ish prize fighting, its aiders and abettors,
were introduced in the Oregon Legislature e,
it would be interesting to watch the course
of part of the Multnomah delegation.
The law of the state of Oregon explicitly
says that no person who is divorced can
marry again for the space of six months, or
until the time for an appeal has expired;
and any person violating this express statute
is liable under the law.
The population of Union county has in
creased from 5, $50 in 1880 to S,6S8, accord
ing to the census just taken, A much g'elt
er increase is shown in the Eastern Oregon
counties in the last five years than in Yves
tern Oregon counties
A young man in Colusa county, Califor-
nia shot himself about a year ago because a
young woman refused to marry him. The
girl said he was fool, but the boy recover
ed. The other day the girl committed sui
eide because the boy refused to have her.
The werld changes and so do boys and girls.
Dave Small of Walla Walla, has contract
ed for the furnishing of l2,O00,OoO feet of
lumber for company that is now engaged
in the construction of an eight-mile dume
down Pichard creek, through the placer
diggings, luear Murrayville. A practicable
wagon road is being built from Thompson
Falls, which seems to have future before
it after all, but it depends the mines
An idea of the size of the sheep ranches
in Montana and Wyomin5 may be had from
the statement that the Warren Live Stock
company of Wyoming has on hand 10000
head of sheep, besides 5000 head of sheep
which they now have fattening at Gibbon,
Neb. These great western and northwest
ern ranges have for a great many weeks
been sending vast numbers OF sheep to New
York
Seattle paper says: "The Cinnamon in
this city signify their willingness TO leave
Seattle if they can get purchasers for their
property. Gee Hee said recently they We're
not at all nxlous to stay, but felt that they
could not suffer a loss of their property.
He said his company-the Wa Chons COM
pany-hare $4,000 worth of property
here, which they would part with If buy
er m tde his appearance
Chinese pheasants, with all their winsome
ways and .'ng tails, said to be the most
destructive bird known when it comes to |
making attack Oh shock OF wheat. Not !
satisfied with getting enough to eat they
overhaul the whole sAock, scratching the |
VIII ;at i'll eyery direction. When it Comes |
to ii 5htins game cock is said to stand no
chauce WIEN them. One good-sized Chinese |
pheasant will ''clean out" whole barn yard
of roosters. -Deneocrat
Some of our valley farmers claim that |
fields are s,'El from seed brought here in |
1888 from California. The glorious climate
OF California, uninterrupted by frosts, per.
mits the growth of many varieties of weeds
which seriously annoy farmers there, and it
is not altogether unlikely that in the wheat
used here to re-seed our land that spring
some of the noxious things were introduced
and still linger with u.s. YamhM Reporter.
The Walla Walla Journal says: "Wheat
IS pouring into Prescott at the tie of 600
to 700 sacks day, while not more tkau 100
a day, on an average, are shipped out. rhe
along the track at the point
as now over 20, 900 sacks. This is represen-
tative of the situation at all stations on the
road north. The farmer with notes matur-
ing and under compulsion to pay per cent
interest thererfter and unable to obtain pay
for his wheat until it is shipped, finds the
grinning and bearing of it somewhat diff
cult matter"
The people of the western part of Lane Co
held a meeting at Florence lately, and ap-
pointed committees to aid in securing the
annexation of the Siuslaw portion of Doug
change. Hon A. G. Barbour will present
the subject to the Legislature. They will
also second the.efforts of Hon. Bnger Her
imam in securing an appropriation to make a
full survey of the harbor and buoy the chan
nel at the entrance of the bay. Ii success
full, this move will open up large section of
country to settlement which is now almost
entirely unoccnpied.
Last week as Mr.. A. J. Olin, who lives
near Shedd's was riding across small
bridge, his horse broke through and threw
him violently forward, his head striking on
a plank piece of timber at a point in the
left eye brow, cutting cash from that
point back to the top of the head and then
down to the left ear, and tearing the scalp
all down to the ear and temple, leaving all
the skull in front of tn ear and IN to the ,