The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-08-28
News SUNNI ary.

among the cattle near PrlneFllle.
| Bake: City has about 25oo inhabi-
tants, according to the new census.
The usual amount of fruit is going
to waste in Oregon this season for
want of attention.
The fall immigration to Oregon has
about commenced. Teams are arrlv-
ing daily in Baker City.
Wheat is arriving in Portland at the
rate of 100 carloads per day, but most
OF it is going into warehouses,
Four thousand bushels of wheat,
1900 bushels of barley and 500 bush
els of oats were threshed on the Sim
coe reservation government farm this
season.
1t is said that Henry Willard has Sc
cured the proxies of the German stock
holders of the Northern Pacific, and
is again likely to become president of
that corporation.
Farmers are going to get through
their harvest this year three or four
weeks earlier than usual. 1t will give
them a chance 10 get their fall work
done up before the fall rains set in.
Fred. S. Robinson, the man whom
Fred. Merrill, of Portland, recently de-
feated in bicycle race at San Fran
cisco, was last week committed to the
California insane asylum.
There has been no rain in Arizona
since December, and by reason OF ii
there is a stampede from the Country
which is only equal'ed by that which
took place from K1nsas in 1860, when
the rain ceased to fall for nine month.
John Exon, a fisherman of Astoria,
has commenced deep-sea fishing.
Leaving Shoalwater bay last week in
an Oysterville plunger, he made two
hauls, crossed over the Columbia bar
next morning and landed at Astoria
with nearly ton of soles, founders
and other kinds of fish.
A Michigan farmer tells how he
manages to conquer Canada thlstles
by the help of his 200 sheep. He
puts small handful of salt at the root
and the sheep eat the thistle close to
the ground. The s,,lring is repeated
as often as may be necessary, and the
thistles seldom appear the second year;
Salem Statesman: 1t is SAID that
Superintendent Brandt, of the o and
c. Railroad, has been ordered to re-
duce expenses IS per cent, IN pursu-
ance of which it is said the force OF EN-
ployes will be reduced all along the
line. The reduction will probably not
be made until the last of the month.
A Salem paper says: Last week A.
Caldwell was discharged from thc
asylum and immediately startei for
the east, where he has arrived before
this. People here will remember dis
tinctly the peculiarly of his case. He
robbed his b,other's store of several
thousand dollars worth of goods, and
escaped a ten-year's sentence to the
penitentiary by the Sin, anlty dodge"
and gets off with seven months in tn
asylum.
Pendleton East Oregonian: In the
upper portion of the county some ex-
cellent yields OF wheat are reported. |
Monroe Kirkland will get 40 bushels
an acre; Reeder & Bostwick 81 bush
els an acre from $40 acres; ], S. White
20 bushels an acre from 80 acres, and
1000 bushels of barley from 60 acres;
lanes McEwan 42oo bushels from
12s acres; 7. d. Peck's crop averaged
40 bushels an acre; the Mansfield
brothers wheat yielded 80 bushels,
and barley So bushels an acre; G, H.
Reeds 200 acres averaged over 80
bushels an acre; H. Key has over As
bushels an acre in spite Of his wheat
being badly lodged, and Sam Purdy
gets only about IS bushels an acre ON
account of damage done by showers.
Salem Statesman: A farmer friend
was in from Howell Prairie, the garden
spot of Oregon, yesterday, and said he
had been reading the reports of large
yields of wheat. He wanted to tell
the public something about some small
Yields as we'll. He said that James
Kays. of Howell Prairie, had sixty