The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30
State and Territorial.

The miners in Josephine county are gen.
orally prepared for a good run during the
next rainy season, and most of them are an
xious for the wet weather to begin.
One of the bright signs of the times say
the Spokane Falls Review is to see so man,
men marching to their daily labor, and witt.
dinner pals. It is an honorable badge
and gives the city the appearance of possess
ing steady, industrious working class.
The dwelling house of John MCGEE, on
the Santiam above Sweet Home, we are in
formed was burned recently. He was away
from home at the time, and his wife and
three children barely had time to escape
with just what clothing they had on.
Wheat, hops and wool, the great staples
of Oregon, continue quiet in the markets of
the world. A rise in the price OF one Of
them would let loose thousands of dollars in
this state, while boom in the three would
make wealthy men of hxndreds of our
armers.
The laborers for the work on the Pataha
branch are now on the ground ready for
operations. About one hundred white Ia
borers, and four hundred and fifty CHINA
men, with camp equipage and working tools,
passed through Wallis Walla the other day
ON the way to Stsrbuck from the Moscow
branch.
Last Monday tie grand jury returned a
true bill IN the case of Mrs. Amanda Nc
Daniel, charged with being an accessory in
the murder of her husband near Jackson
vile, Oregon, nearly year ago. The trial
will probably take place Immediately. Mrs
Mcdaniel is said to display much nervous
mess ami apprehension since the indictment.
Tacoma News: Information, un +,-:.1
reliable, teaches us that the Chinese em-
ployed by the Tacoma Mill company will go
with the balance of the pigtails in this city.
The superintendent has fallen into line with
sthe people in this matter. There are forty
six Mongolians employed in the mill, ard
their places will be supplied by white men
ON or before November lst.
At,the.special session of the county court
of Linn, held Tuesday evening, an order
was issued by the court that the following
tax be levied for the year 1855: For school
tax, four mills; for support of insane asylum
one mill; for payment of Indian war debt,
one-half mill; for state university, one
tenth.mill; state and county pro rata, nine
and four-tenths mills.
There is fatality among the hogs in Pierce
county, W. r. this fall never before known
to exist. Farmers have already lost large
nnmber, and the disease seems not to be un-
-derstood. The symptoms are droopng of
the eyes, swelling of the limbs, resasal to
take food, followed by death. Ia some
cases the ears appear to be effected, as if by
rot No name is given for the disease nor
cause assigned why it should prevail i
The Baker county courthouse at Baker
City, wa- burned few days ago, together
with p"rtion oftne county records. The
county Jail at that place was burned few
weeks az" 1t looks as if taxpayers would
have to 6uCw III 1hh9 Souhty III VIC
matter of the construction of county build
5ngs, as fire has pretty effectually wiped out
their accumulation in that line.
Mr.. Felix Barger, of Harrisburg, who has
just returned from the Blue river mines,
states that there is great activity as well as
among miners in that region. A
small quartz mill is already at work, and a
large one will probably be taken in next
spring. Several quartz lodges and placer
mines are being worked. As Mr.. Barger
was returning from the mines he met sever
al teams with blacksmith and mining tools
going in. If these mines pan out as well as
preparations indicate, there will be lively
times in that region before very long.
This years fruit trade with the east has
developed the fact that our orc ards are too
much diversified forproft, says e1 hange.
Shippers send east in carload lots, and want
all Of one kind of fruit. They find it hard
to secure enough Of one variety for a full
carload, and have to go SO far and wide
picking up many small lots to fill one order.
1AS oEcuaFu pi6nIiuS vi IAe IuCure must De
large plats of one kind. It will be psofita-
6le hereafter to set ont only the choic.
est varieties, and many trees OF each. Bart
lett and Winter Nellis pears take the lead,
and the best of the long keeping apples.
such as Newtowns, Baldwins, BelAowers,
sGreeniags, Northern Spy, ETC., will be found
:ths most profitable.
In the garden of the hospital for the in
zane at Steilacnom there were gresvn pump
kin vines the pest season that averaged one
thousand pounds of pumpkin to the hill
Sample pumpkins weighed so, rs and GA
pounds. The enthusiastic gardener says
they would have grown twenty-five per
cent. larger had he not plucked them when
green to prevent the possibility of Jack
Frost taking the flavor out of the future
pies that these monstrous growths promised
q such abundance. From the foregoing ex-
lhibit it lis plain that Oregon will not be able