The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-25
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Oregon will open its second session in
Portland on October 18th.
Assessor Harold's census shows
.Multnomah county to have total
population of 3S,595, with Io,254 le-
gal voters.
A vast amount of Oregon and Wash
ington wheat will be shipped to San
Francisco in the next three months, as
the O. R. & N. Co. will place three adj
ditional steamers on the route for this
purpose.
Rumor says that Matte A. Bridge,
who has taken a cottage for year at
Vancouver, w. T., has done SO for
the purpose of writing up Oregon for
publication, and that much which
is racy will appear.
They have an enterprising lot OF
gamblers over in Omaha. They offer,
if they are permitted to shuttle the
cards without molestation for year,
that they will pay all the street i'm
provements and keep up the water
works.
Receipts of wheat at Portland last
week were I33,64o centals, of which
1890 was from the valley and 90, $40
from the eastern section, daily aver
age of 5,34o centals OF the former and
1890 centals Of the latter. Receipts
for the previous week were I7S,Soo
scentals.
Fred. Winkleman, the half-witted
unfortunate young cowboywho recently
set fire to the Baker City jail, burning
to death all the inmates except him
self, is slowly recovering from his
burns. He will probably be indicted
for this act, in addition to his original
crime of murder. F..
In Garfield county there are 737
single men and only 6S married women.
The Glenwood Echo says: We want
girls in Garfield county, blonds, bru-
netts, tall, short, fat, lean, jolly girls
girls who can ride,play the piano, make
crazy quilts, sew, wash, iron and cook
for us. We are 66o girls short here,
and we want all the girls to know it.
Considerable anxiety is felt by seY-
.eral catt!emen in Baker county over
the rumor that the agents of a Chicago
firm buying largely in that section re-
Gently are not reliable. About $40, 900
has been paid out in checks on Chi
cage banks to several dealers, and the
rumors Of protested checks having
reached Baker City to other parties.
The agents claim that the matters will
be Strengthened around in a few days.
The weeping and wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth on the part of the San
Francisco merchants, over the loss of
Northwestern trade, ought TO be a SOL
emn warning to Portland merchants
not to neglect any opportunity to cul-
tvate the most friendly relations with
every portion of the country, but es,
pecially Of the new mining camps.
Trade opportunities, like others, once
neglected are oftentimes forever lost.
The apparent indifference in establish
ing reduction works in this city is a
case in point. News.
Umatilla county advertises its "poor
farm" for sale. Whether the dearth
of paupers renders its maintenance I'M
necessary or whether the experiment
of running the farm has been akin to
that of Multnomah county, involving
an expenditure of sufficient money to
pay the board of the paupers at first
class hotel prices, is not stated. AT
all events, the farm is for sale on ''easy
installments." The East Oregonian
announcing it, says: "Umatilla county
has poor farm on its hands, and 1t
is for sale. There IS not, SO far any
such rush of high bidders as would
warrant the statement that the county
Indebtedness could be paid off with
the proceeds of the farm"
The Seattle Post-Intelhgencer says:
A pressure is being brought to bear on
all hands todisplace Chinese with white
labor, and from the appearance of
things the abolition of all Chinese la
Dor is at hand. The black Diamond
coal company has given notice that all
the Cinnamon employed in the mines