The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-23
State and Territorial.
Wheat Soc. at Pendleton.

ousAnSSs 10 AfS35 VI ukS2lAe
Rain is needed badly, says the jackson
willie Times.
Echo has shipped 400 ear loads of grain
this season.
ll5 pupils are registered at the Grant
Pass public schoal
The new Presby yterian church at Linkvills
is nearing completion.
Considerable building is going on at Cen
trail Point and Medford.
Union county was in debt July l, 1885
-S77,04S. Expenditures since then making
the total $4,000.
The government snag boat is at work be
low Wheatland ON the Willamette ant
working down the river.
Constable c. &. Burkhart has brought {
suit against Linn county for $l33. fees fol
arresting Findley in the Sweet Home case
Coal has been discovered in Jackson cOun
ty in paying quantities. The vein found il
four feet in width and resembles Ohio Goa
very much.
Kitty Lynch, the level-head trotter, has
again won laurels. She won $500 purse
at Pendleton, beating Tempest and Mount
Vernon. Best time, 2:27d.
Over 200 immigrants visited the State I'm
migration Board rooms, at Portland. during
September During the past six months
1896 immigrants visited the Board.
Some very wintry weather, was had in
Eastern Oregon last week. At Meacham
the thermometer was at the fir 'ezing point,
and stood at 80 at Union. Ice formed in
pools.
Fine silver side salmon are reported I'M
usually plenty in the Nekanikum this fall.
They are being caught and smoked and
sailed in large numbers. So says the As
torian.
A young man named Jesse retherow, 81
years of age, was found dead recently at
The Dalles with bottle of alcohol by his
side. He lived near Prineville, and his
parents reside there.
During the past ten days more than $780,
900 have been added to the volume OF cir.
culation of the state by purchases made by
immigrants under the auspices of the Port
land Board of Trade
George Bancroft, the venerable American
historian, celebrated his eighty-fif birth
day on the Sd of October. He received
many valuable gifts and was overwhelmed
with messages of congratulation.
Donglas county is enjoying indian sum-
mer weather, the annual migration of the
wild geese to the great lakes and valleys of
the southern coast has commenced and a
change i'll the weather may be looked for
soon.
No beef sales are reported in Klam sth
county, although there are some ofthe finest
fat b-eves out there now ever raised in the
klamath, basin. The drovers will no doubt
be auxi"u~ to take them before the driving
sea&on ID over.
Snow she Is are being built at Pyles Can
yon to prevent a repetition of last years
snow blockade. Heavy timbers, I2xl2 in
cnrs, afe oeIng placed in position along the
track 1or distance OF Two miles to form a
framework for the sheds
A board of Equalization is not always a
financial success as at the last meeting OF
the Jackson county boarl they had to re-
duce the assessment something like $1,000
ON Account of mortgages being assessed
more times than the law calls for.
If the apples now going to waste in every
orchard in Oregon, were converted into cider
and the cider into vinegar, at least $780,
900 would be saved, says the News. This
may seem a small matter to the farmers of
this state, but it is worthy of consideration
The Grand Jury of Spokane County have
indicted John R.. Mooney, the defaulting
agent of the Northern Pacific Express com
pany at Spokane. 1t is thought that
Mooney has fed to British Columbia. A
determined effort will be made to capture
HIM.
Red June apples in October are somewhat
of rarity usually, but many trees of this
variety have fair crops upon them now-the
second crop of the season. Mr.. C. E. Min
niger brought in few from his place OIL
Granite street, which were fully matured.
and could not be distinguished in any wa,
from the apples of the first crop.-Tidings
Says the Waitsburg Time: There is now
piled up in warehouses and the mills in this
city not less than 5000 tons of wheat; about
1000 tons have been shipped, and it is esti
mated that not much if any more than hal
that belongs to this point has been hauled
Waitsburg will ship and grind this seasol
not less than 20, ,OOO tons, or 666, 666 bushels
of wheat.
Flowing and seeding in this county, say.
the Yamhill Reporter, is well advanced
now, further perhaps than ever before al
this season of the year. The long continued
warm weather after the fall rains make tn,
hills look green and lovely. The tree
hold their foliage; many are in bloom again
and bearing the second crop. June wheat