The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-23

/ Ihe Josephine county court mouse case
Twill be argued on the 24th inst.
ALI w. Wyman, the actor. WAS stricken
Idowu with paralysis and died in Chicago q
jfew days ago
The Oregon Furniture company have
bought so, 600 Feet of ash and maple lumber
from MIR. Douty OF Independence.
The melon season in Josephine county has
proved very profitable this year, and a
larger acreage than ever will be planted
next year.
The statement of the Oregon Short Line
railway for August shows gross earnings OF
iS77.967, an increase of $3S, l76 compared
with August of 1884.
: During the last week two families of i'm
migrants have made purchases of valuable
farms in Linn county, to the amount of $751;
500, and located permanently.
Work on the sea wall at Cape Blanco will
not be commenced till spring, but the crew
of men at present employed there will be
retained for few weeks, getting things in
ITeluluGSS lOT UuSlueSS ueAG S6dSOu.-IOOS
Bay Newx-
The earnings of the penitentiary for the
Iquarter ending Sept. Both, were S2,4O4, ex-
penditures, $6, 692 40. The number of con.
victs i'll the penitentiary now, 269, only s of
which are unable to work.
Thomas Davis of Sacramento, CAL, has
l f,r, & hot
place for $40, 600, and with his family came
to this State. He has purchased farm of 4S0
acres, five miles from Albany, for $l2, 900.
The wheat yield of the Inland Empire is
astonishing. Fully 900, 600 acres in Eastern
Oregon and Washington have been harvest
ed, with an average yield of over 80 BUSH
els. The great snow storm last Winter con-
tributed to this result.
| The Yaquina Post says that Sullivan &
Co. caught ITO salmon Tuesday night;
Cook & Stubhs, 100; Dan Hastings, 40 odd.
Sullivan & Co. sent out 1000 pounds to the
valley on Wednesdays train. The bay is
literally alive with salmon,
L. W. Therkelsen, of the North Pacific
sawmill, during his recent visit to Omaha,
secured an order for $50, 900 feet of lumber,
principally bridge material, from the Union
Pacific railroad company. He expects to
get another order for 500, 900 feet.
| The citizens of Whatcom went about
solving the Chinese evil there in a very SEN
sble manner. They held a meeting aud
signed pledge not to employ Chinese.
There was no talk of violence and the sig
natures were so general that the little yel--
low man positively fluids himself without
job Oh Bellingham bay.-Seattle Chronicle.
| A Salem exchange says: While i'll CONVEX
sation with the secretary of the state board
of immigration, he informed us that he had
sent number of immigrants to Marion,
Linn and Lane counties, lately, who desired
to make purchases i'll other counties, think.
ing that the lands near Salem wa, held at
too high price.
Says the Lakeview Examiner: klamath
county, while only about two years old,
boasts of a substantial church building.
Lake county hasn't Il sign of one, and the
academy building that would do more to
make :. town substantial than anything else,
remains unfinished where the contractor left
it nearly two years ago. This does not
speak well for us. ..
Lively times are expected on the Walla-
met river next mouth, in consequence of the
opening of the o. z. r. to Yaquina bay.
1t is said the o. R. N. is fixing up and rem.
ovating all its old steamers, getting them in
readiness, so that when the river rises, they
will be prepared to carry all the grain along
it on short notice. ce.-Yamhill Reporter.
T. S. Patty goes east with $4,000 acres of
Yamhill farming lands in his pocket to sell
to enquiring people OF Tennessee, North and
South Carolina, Florida, etc, His acquain-
tances in the regions of the south, and his
plan Of operating insures a big immigration
to this country next year from those parts.
-Yamhill Reporter.
| The Dallas city council has provided that
all manufacturing enterprises costing $1,000
more, shall be exempt from city taxation
tor the hrst five years after their compile
tion. Dallas has a magnificent water power
which should be utilized instead of running
to waste as it has for the past two years.
If few of the moss-backed capitalists
would invest few thousand dollars in some
manufacturing enterprise, instead of work.
alg the per cent. rule, Dallas would boom
as it never has before.
A correspondent of the East Ore2onian
writing from Pilot Rock, UmatiIla county,
states that if half the reports that are in cir.
culation are true, large part of the male
population of that region would be serving
terms in the penitsntiary. Stock stealing
and land grabbing are the special crimes
mentioned in connection with these citizens
of Umatilla county. These are peculiar
vices of the frontier and are apt to go un-
punished until murder renders them partic.
ularly notorious and lynching steps in and