The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
The Dakota people are bound that state.

full ticket of state officers.
ern California is chitum woud, or rather the
''ark of the same. It. is. shipped all over
the world. Dealers pay Sl70 ton for the
bark. 1t is used as remedy for constipa-
tlon.
There are men in San Francisco who
shu der with apprehension whenever public
Improvement is spoken of. They fear that
their, property will enhance in value, and
they Will therefore be called upon to pay
more tax.
The Yreka, California. papers are urging
their exchanges to advise all to keep away
from that part of the c..uu:iy if they want
work of any kind. The resumption of work
on the railroad has attracted fur times as
many as can be accommodated
Second growth cherries, apples and pears
have been reported all over the country
this ia. sea IN, and now a florist announces
that some of his ANIMALS are blooming Sec
ond time. They changing to semi-year
lies to keep up with this fast age.
| A government eng gin.'er points out that in
nine of our seaboard citie, alone property
valued at So, 49,, ,O0O, 600 is ex, osed to des-
| truction IN of war. b. cause of our lack
of sea coast defenses adequate to cope with
the navies of the fighting powers.
Mongolian pheasants have heen noticed
in the vicinity of Sheridan lately. Hunters
II.
the penalty for killing one of these birds
True sportsmen will not kill them and 9th,
ers ought tn be complained of when caught
There is some talk of building the narrow
gua5e railroad from Coburg to Eugene and
then extend it to the head sof tide on Sius-
law bay. 1t would ,pen up quite all exten-
sive country to settle nen and afford di-
rect outlet for the grim and other products
of the county.
A Yakima cattle baron is preparing to
ship six hundred heal ln.et cattle to ,
Montana. Tie value of the shipment will |
ne twenty-f"ur thousand dollars. and it will
take thIrGy-five cars to move it. Thus is
Steam interfering in the domain of the cow
boy and wrestling his occupation from him
Says the Seattle Chronicle: At Snohomish
the other day meeting was held to discuss
he Chinese question. Alter some indlffer-
ent talk it was decided to appoint com
.nittee to request the Oh. nese to leave; but
Utter every man i'll the audience had been
appointed and declined to serve, the meet
ing adjourned without further action.
s. A. Clarke's mission eastward has prov
ell partially unsuccessful. H. found no diff
tcuty in disposing of Oregon fruits to good
advantage, but parties in Oregon whom he
was representing faiiel 10 fulfill their part
of tt contract, thus occasiouing delay and
perhaps prevent ms, the s,. of L lar5e
amount of fruit at stlvant,l eous rates.
Mr.. Jacob Underhill, of Portland has re-
ceived the very gratifying intelligence that
his claim of $4,000 against Uncle Samuel for
war insurance paId upon merchandise had
tere<t This claim was based ON the Gene
Va award in the Alabama case. The princi
pal and interest amount to something over
$4,000
Mr. Geo. Wells, of Buena Vista, weighed
a colt few days ago which was but five
months old and weighed 679lbs. Ben Tharp
raise1 eleven potatoes that weighed one
bushel. Mr.. Whitman raised Is squashes
that weighed ton. Mr.. John McCarty
raised 20 acres of wheat that made nine
hundred and fifty bushels, with several
to hear from.
And now comes the greatest wonder of
the year. Chinese striking in the cigar fac
tories. A San Francisco dispatch says: Six
ty Chinese cigar makers i'll the factory of
Koensberger, Falk & Meyer, Pine street,
struck work because the firm refused to dis
charge their white workmen. 1t is learhed
that the Chinese Union ordered the >trike.
This dictation by the Chinese that ''whi e
men must CO." has created no small sensa-
tion.
Christians in China have been recently, it
seems, undergoing treatment similar to that
recently experienced by some pagans in the
United States. The prosecutions complain
ed of our robbery, destruction of chapels,
bl ,ckmailing and boycotting natives who
have professed Ch'i, tianity. The account
reads like it might have come from Wyom-
ing or western Washington with the perse
cutors and prosecuted placed in reverse or
der
1t appears to US that there ought to be a
farmers detective organization i'll this val
ley. No doubt exists but that the Middle
ton mills were robbed before they were
burned, under very suspicious. circumstan-
ces. The barn W; located on the Robinson
place, near Carlton, and had in it l6 tons of
hay, IA bushel of oats, and l02 bushels of
barley. The ruins left no trace of the grain
whatever, leading to the suspicion that the
barn was robbed nd set on fire Loss,
about $780, The house on that place was
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