The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
News Summary.

Baker City has organized a military
company.
Morrow county pays S. per cord
for it's wood
The o. R. & N. Co. pays taxes en-
$6I5,7oo in Umatilla county.
]. R. Hoods wheat field of 24o
acres in the Milton neighborhood gave
an average yield OF fifty-four bushels to
the acre.
The bar at the mouth of the Yam
hill river has been so much improved
this month that the steamer A. A. Nc
Culley now makes regular trips to Day
ton, carrying out fifteen tons at a trip.
Gazette: This years second COP
of roses are now blooming the sunny
hours away in some of the Heppner
gardens, and many pear trees. have
bloomed a second time since losing
their spring crop by late frosts.
The editor of the Murray Sun, in
the Ceur dAlene mines, says the out
put of that camp amounts to some
$I2, 900 or $4,000 in dust every week.
This is very favorable showing
when compared with last years work
The Pine Creek mines, in Grant
county, are reported very rich, and
there are already about 400 men in
camp, which is fifteen miles long.
The best feature of the ledges thus far
opened is that the deeper they go the
richer the rock is found to be.
The large force of men employed on
the Cascade division on this side of
the mountains, are busily engaged in
the work of railway construction. Tun7
mel No. 2, which is 400 feet in length,
was pierced on Sunday last, and the
work of its completion is going rapidly
ahead.
The building to be used for the Or
egon fat stock show, which will be
held in Portland in the early part of
October, has been completed, and &C
cepted by the association. 1t is sltua-
ted at the northeast corner If West
Salmon and King streets, and its dl-
mensions are 7ox136 feet, two and
onc-half stories in height.
The city of Portland has $4,000
less in sack now than it had at this
time last year. On Saturday the COM
mittee on Ways and Means borrowed
5000 from the Portland Saving Bank
at per cent. This will help along
for time, but it is only a drop in the
bucket, as it will be six months before
any taxes begin to come in. The city
seems to have increased its capacity
for spending money faster than its
power for collecting it. 1t is probable
that a pretty heavy tax will be levied
next year.-Cregonian.
A Port Townsend paper says: E'Six-
teen Cinnamon were brought here re-
Gently by the Virginia. They were
picked up on a rock near Stewards is
land, where they had been landed by
boat from Victoria. The Cinnamon
had been on the rock four days with
out anything to eat. They were tried
before the district court and remanded
back to Victoria, but as the Canadian
government requires payment of $50
for each Chinaman landed on Cana
dian soil, the United States authorities
have knotty and expensive problem
to solve"
Superintendent Fillmore, of the
Southern Pacific company, stated re
ACllOlf III odl1 IldlI(lS(O llldl WI .
would be commenced Immediately on
the extension of the California & Ore
gon road. From 500 to 1000 mer
will be placed on the line north 0
Reding, and kept there until spring
occupied chiefly in tunneling, excava
ting and otherwise preparing for grad
ing which will commence as soon a
the rains are over. The Superintend
ent stated that they would not hkel.
reach the state line inside of year.
The supreme court at Victoria de
>clined to liberate Hibbs, the default
ing postmaster of Lewiston, on a wri
of habeas corpus, and he was remande'
for extradition He will now, withou