The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-04-03
News Summary.


California takes forty-fwo fruit prizes
the New Orleans Exposition.
Southern Methodists expect to build
$4,000 church at Pendleton this summer.
The farmers of the Waldo hills are nearl
through sowing grain, of which they hav
in large crops. Parts of the grain is alrsad
up.
An insane man, called "Wild Bill, wa
captured in the mountains beyond Wsstol
last week, and taken to the Walla Wall
hospital for treatment.
A new town, to be named Lexington, has
been staked out nine miles below Heppner
Alternate lots are offered for S25, or free tt
any one who will build thereon.
Speaking of the winter wheat crop, th'
Chicago Inter-Ocean says it looks scorcheo
and withered in nearly all the Western
States. In Oregon and Washington il
never looked more promising for good
crop.
Tho Legislature of Dakota passed bill
granting to women the right to vote, but ii
did not give them the right to hold Office,
and had some Objectionable features besides.
The governor vetoed the bill, and it will
not become law.
Many immigrants are arriving in Portland
daily, and to say that they are delighted
with the country only half expresses their
Joy at reaching a land of sunshine and YER
dure after getting away from the frozen
East. Their reports to friends will increase
the immigration. y,
Eastern people have become very much
agitated over the demoralizing effects of
roller skating rinks, and recently bill has
been introduced in the New York Legisla-
ture to prohibit the admission of girls under
sixteen to rinks after eight o'clock in the
evening, unless accompanied by their
parents.
Cinnamon don't let load of wood get
cold in the streets of Portland. They
watch it in squads and companies from the
time the granger crosses the city boundary
till it is unlosded, then they pounce upon
the purchases like a pack of hungry wolves
to get the job of cutting it. A poor white
man stands no chance in an uneven contest
over wood pile.
The deputy assessors of Pierce county,
Washington Territory, have just completed
their labors of taking the census, and the
total is approximately stated by Assessor
Macready at nearly 1000 souls. The city |
population will reach nearly or quito 1000. |
showing handsome increase in the last
two years. The Chinese in Tacoma number |
about 500.
The present indications are that the |
stagnation in business which prevailed so
long is about 1T An end and new era of
prosperity is dawring. Pittsburg and other
great manufacturing centcrs report a
brighter outlook. and general move on the
part of manufacturers in the direction of
active operation. All lines of trade and in-
hopeful feeling prevails where all was gloom
and desponaency a short time ago.
A gentleman residing in Linn county ha,
Just returned from east of the Cascades by
l
valleys of Wasco and Crook counties ver
dant with young grass and stock of all
kinds thriving finely. There is but little
snow in the mountains for this season of
the year, and it is his opinion that all will
have disappeared by the first of May and
that the road will be passable for wagons.
Polk county's share of the state tax for
this year is $l9,G55.S5. OF this SO, 600 has
been paid, together with $1,000 which re-
mained unpaid from last year, leaving a
balance of over $4,000 yet to be paid into
the state treasury from this county. The
county school tax for the year amounts to
Sl2, SIT ,S4, which has been apportioned
among the various school districts. As the
full amount of the school tax has not yet
been collected, county Treas. Miller is pay
ing only sufficient amount to keep the
schools running, on the warrants presented.
West Side.
We are informed, says the Albany Her
aid -Disseminator, that the stock. holders in
the Linn county fair grounds propose to sell
out the grounds to the county for use as
poor farm. The larger share, if not all the
stock holders, will donate their stock, SO
that the price to be paid will not be large,
and the investment good one for the
county. If such an arrangement could be
male it certainly would better than let
ting the grounds go to ruin as they are now
geing. The county needs a place of tina,
kind and it would be economy to procure it.
Mr.. L. Westacott, who cultivatcs ten
acres of hops, short distance southeast of
Salem, sold his last years crop, consisting
of Il, 600 pounds in bales, a few days ago,
for Is cents per pound. Eighteen hundred
dollars for one years yield from ten acres
Of land is pretty good. Hop ra;sers are
now very busy throughout the valley. The
of the spring has caused the