The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-04-24
News Summary.


several parts OF jackson county.
The delinquent tax list in jackson count
is only $40os. which is a good showing, con
sidering the hard times.
Graham Glass, Jr, has resumed his posi-
tions on the Itemizsr under the old tirn
name of Glass Prudhomme.
J. J. Fryer, accused of completely in th
murder of his brother-in.law Mcdaniel, a
Ashland, has been acquitted.
The State Board of Agriculture will keel
the main road from Salem to the fail
grouns well sprinkled during the next State
Fair.
The main tunnel on the Cascade division
of the Northern Pacific Railroad will be
$3.50 feet long. Two years will be required
to complete it.
Five thousand men are reported on &
strike at the east end of the Canadian Pa
citic Railway track, ON account of the syn.
dicate not paying.
A large ledge of valuable isilver-bearing
quartz was found at the head of Calls creek
this county. nnmber Of claims located.
Grants Pass Courier.
Several bogus dollar and half dollar
pieces are in circulation on the bay. They
are of dull, lead celor, and can be detect
edit caresuily scrutinized.
A lady in Salem has deedel lot near the
Presbyterian Church to the Trustees of Will
lamette University, to establi h Chair of
Theology. The property It valued at about
$4,000.
Oregon is the only state in the Union
this year. In California the ground sown
to wheat is S5 per cent. less than last year.
1t is said that millions of crickets are
coming down from the mountains into the
west side of Kittitas valley. The old set
tiers of Klickitat can tell soma wonderful
.stories about that pest.
The little three year old son Of Judge
Bean, of Eugene, last Wednesday, by some
means got hold of bottle of carno!ic acid
.and drank a portion Of the same. By
prompt action, the little one was relieved
and is now out of danger.
The boys of Miles City, Montana. last
week enjoyed the first swimming of the
season. 1t has been only few days since
the ice went out, but the Yellowstone
"couatry can get up hot weather, as well as
cold, upon short notice.
Oysterville Jurnal: Everybody is busy
oystering this fine weather, and from the
size of the loads and the quality of the oys
tiers brought in, the spring catch bids fair
to be the most valuable in years.
Mount Baker is situated so near British
Columbia that he sympathizes with England
in her war troubles, at least that is the sup
position. And it is further stated that he
has given way to despondency and has
taken up his old habit of smoking Port
Townsend Argus
A great many people, who have noticed
the fact that spring is somewhat ahead of
time this year, have been very apprehen-
sive that frost would esme and kill all
the fruit 1t is pleasant, therefore, to note
that on many trees fruit is now formed as
large as peas and is beyond the influence of
any ordinary frost.-Ashland Tidings.
A News special from Dayton, W. T., this
mentions a case of wholesale horse
stealing seldom equalied in the United
States. Recently Fur!ong & Smith, of Day
ton, shipped six and a half car loads of
horses to Chicago, Smith, who is the broth
er-in-law of his par.n.r. taking charge of
the horses. On arriving at Chicago he sold
the horses for Sl2, 900, skipped the country
an left his partner bankrupt.
The Walla Walls Union says: "Grow
ers report that the earliest strawberries
were som what injured by frost, but the
late varieties promise hountiful yield.
Most of the black berries were winter killed.
Raspberry bushes are in fine order and the
yield will probably be very large. A great !
erguantity of peaches than was expected
will be raised, mostly all OH limbs next the
ground"
The forty canneries Of the Columbia 1ver,
most of which are located at and near AS
toria, are all about in shape for the seasons
business. A few weeks ago the outlook
was extremely bad. 1t is by no means good
yet, hut the warlike attitude of several RS
tions has put the cannerymen ia better
humor. and they are all going to risk anoth-
er pack. 1t is to b. hoped they will come
out ahead this year, because for several
seasons past they have made no money!
News.
The farmers of Oregon and Washington
have concluded that wheat must bring
dollar bushel, and refuse all offers at less
than that. There is said to be a coed deal
of wheat in the country yet unsold, but
whoever gets it nvill have to pay for it.
The same speculative spirit prevails at all
the great wheat centers, and the European
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