The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-05-29
News Summary.

Lexington wants to be the county
seat of Morrow.
The Canadian Pacific Railway is
completed to the Columbia river.
Assessor Harald reports Portland's
population to be about 10000, exclu
sive of Chinese.
Citizens of Heppner have raided an
opium den and house of i'll fame in
that town and ordered the inmates to
leave
Large numbers of salmon are being
speared in Albany and Santiam ditch.
A new kind of fish is also caught
thele.
The steamer Occident, of the O. R.
& N. Co., is tied up at Salem by the
Sheriff for $4,000 taxes assessed
against the Narrow Guage road.
Oregon City has twnty-fve bache-
lors between the age of thirty and sew
enty-fve, with several out lying pre-
cincts to hear from.
A barn on Newton Whites farm,
near Albany, was burned few days
ago and with it wagon and threshing
machine. Origin of the fire mys-
terry.
Yakima's citizens are furried over
an order from the Northern Pacihc's
headquarters, cutting down construct
ion expenses from $4,000 to $1,000 a
month.
Silas Haight, a pioneer of As, died
at his home near Albany on the 18th
inst. an an advanced age. He moved
to Linn county in 1847, where he has
resided ever since.
Many sheep have died in Eastern
Oregon during the past few days.
They had been sheared and "dipped,"
and when 2 cold rain came on thou
sands were chilled to death.
The -ettlers in Clark county are
crowdin3 over into the unsurveyed
tracts in the foothills and the noun
tains, and are calling for surveys by
the United States authorities.
The fhermen at Astoria have made
demand for 10 cents fish, to COM
mence after the 23rd. The canneries
offer 50 cents. The consequence will
be probably to close up the canneries
At Luelling's nursery men are en-
ployed to pick part of the green fruit
from the trees, SO that they will not
break down as it natures. In many
other places trees are equally over
loaded.
A Piute Indian is cultivating sixty
acres Of land in Pleasant Valley, Nc
vada, this season. He has several
acres Of wheat and barley, besides po-
tatoes, cabbage and other vegetables.
He receives no assistance from the
government and manages the ranch
himself, using Indian labor exclusively.
The Dalles Times-M -Mountainee says:
"The question is no longer a mooted
one that even if the Cascade locks are
constructed boats cannot reach the
foot of the canal during certain stages
of water. The tri rip of the Cascades
last Saturday demonstrated the fact
that an ordinary steamboat can enter
the canal from the west side at any
season."
Eugene City Register: Lane coun-
ty contains more OPENINGS and valu-
able unimproved lands for immigrants
than any other county of western Ore
gon. The immigrants calling at the
rooms of the state board last week rep
resented over $4,000, and yet Lane
county didn't get one of them. The
reason is simple and plain; other coun-
ties are represented there and far bet
ter advertised.
Hon. Spencer F. Baird, United
States Fish Commissioner, is collect
ing car load of shad to be sent out
here. 1t was expected to start the car
on May Ist, but considerable difficulty
has been experienced in securing the
needed amount of fish, and the car
will hardly be loaded before another
week or SO. The shad will be turned
loose in the Willamette at Salem
which is said to be good locality for