The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-11
State and Territorial,


thieves have been caught.
Yamhill county has organized local
board of immigration. with j. C. Cooper as
agent 1t will work in conjunction with
the state board.
James Hamilton will experiment. in flax
raising on the Chayney place on Rogue river
during the coming season. He will try
seeding one acre the first year.
George Kowlton, the printer, who lived
at Medford for year past, died in the in
sane asylum last week. He suffered from
lead poisoning in the first place.
Over $500 immigrants arrived in Port
land during November. The total arrivals
of immigrants in that city since January l.,
1885, have been nearly $1,000.
A cougar measuring eight feet and five
inches and weighing 200 pounds, was killed
few days ago by Joseph Dewey and others
at II. Martins place in the Cow creek val
ley.
The Statesman gives the political status
of the men who were sentenced to work on
the streets of Salem during the past nine
months. 1S4 were democrats, % repubi
cans and greenbackers.
Alaska has 500, 900 square miles of trees,
all fit for lumber. The forests of that terri
tory would keep the world i'll planks and
timber for the next 500. Alaska is the
greatest lumber region in the world.
A whale was washed ashore at Nestucca
bay last Wednesday during the severe storm
$50 feet long and Ia feet across the tail fin.
Parties are cutting it up and rendering out
the oil. This is a bonanza for the citizens
of Nestucca.
Our Scio correspondent writes us that a
fatal disease has made its appearance among
horses in that vicinity, Peter Bilyeu having
lost three valuable head and David Myers
.one. 1t was thought at first to be leach on
the brain, but post mortem examination
-explodes that idea. All OF the organs are
said so be in entire state of health and
the disc ease puzzles every one.-Daily Her
aid.
Mrs. NJ. H. Mcdonald, of Lebanon, who
with her husband were among the early
settlers of Linn county, died suddenly at
her home recently of neuralgia of the heart |
She was 5S years old and had been in the
best of health, and died after an illness of
but few hours. She was the mother of
Mrs. James Crawford Mr. Matte Moist
James Med 1nald, of Alban Y, besides sever
al other children, the most of whom reside
in Liun county
Ed Dove informs us that he has sold his
this years crop of hops amounting to $1,000
pounds to New York house at an average
of seven and half cents per pound. AL
though the hops cost him nine or ten cents.
he thinks it payed him well for the trouble
of picking them. He still has about ninety
soales of last years crop on hand for which
little or nothing is offered. Mr.. Dove is
confident that prices will be better next
year and will cultivate his yard. West
Side
The following libel is travelling over the
country without responser and seems to
meet with ravenous satisfaction in some
parts: "An exchange says: At the little
town of Boston, in Yamhill county, near
Sheridan, in warehouse, 10000 bushels of
wheat have been destroyed by wevil. Par
ties who own the wheat have been unde-
,cided what to do with it, whether to burn
it or throw it into the river" There is no
such place as Boston, such wheat, nor
no parties any where on the west side so un-
decided.
This is one OF the busiest times in the
year in the land departments of the rail
roads. Inquiry at the Portland office of the
Oregon & California railroad reveals the fact
that every mail brings applications for rail
road lands somew here along their lines.
The sales this year will surpass even those
made last season. The favorite counties
seem to be Lane and Clackamas, and this is
attributed to the fact that those counties
were for a long time but sparsely settled.
It is, of course, matter of great pleasure
to the employees of the road to know that
the country adjacent to their line is being
settled, for every new man is another patron
for their employers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed travelled afoot from
Aurora to Oregon City, on Sunday, because
they were unable to pay railroad fare.
They have just left behind them the coolie
cursed soil of California. They say that in
the southern part of the state laboring work
as, with few exceptions, done by Cinnamon.
In the regions of Los Angeles, the grape and
hop pickers, the table walters, the field
hands, the cooks and the dairy hands are all
coolies. Thousands of poor whites that
have focked into southern California from
the eastern states are unable to earn liv-
ing because the conlies underbid them in
the labor market.-Oregon City Courier
The inexhaustible resources in Douglas
and Coos counties of coal, lumber, gold
mines, grass, and, with proper attention,
vegetables, fruits, dairy products and other
industries, make an argument to capitalists