The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-05-08
News Summary.

There is great demand in Portlan'
for girls to do housework.
The Washington County Fair vii
be held July end, 3rd, and 4th.
The graduates of the State Uuiver
sity will be IL in number-6 men ane
E women.
About 100000 worth of fruit wa:
recently killed in one night in Boise
Valley, Idaho.
Real estate transactions in Multno
NAH county last week were 2S ir
number. aggregating $25,639.
The foundry at the penitentiary turns
out about fifty stoves per day. There
are now about 5000 there awaiting
shipment.
All the fruit in Kittitas valley was
killed by frost last week, even the cur
rants and other small fruits in bloom
were also killed.
Indians at The Dalles complain that
the white man is crowding them away
from their old fishing grounds, and
that they are thus deprived of their
livelihood.
A new post Office has recently been
established on the Little Luckiamute
about eight miles west of Dallas, Polk
county, called Syracuse.
The new High school building of
Portland will be the finest structure of
the kind on the Pacific Coast, when
completed this fall. There is nothing
to compare with it in San Francisco
News.
About 100000 pounds OF wool
were shipped from Alkali City on the
Oregon Railway and Navigation Road
last year. This year it is claimed on
good authority, that the shipments will
reach nearly 1900, 900 pounds.
The war of rates between Wells.
Fargo & Co. and the Northern Pacific
Express company on the Eastern busi-
ness came to an end last week, when
both companies signed an agreement
to restore rates to the basis of what the
Northern Pacifc's were before Wells,
Fargo IL Co. entered the Eastern field.
Walla Walla Journal: "Plans and
specifications for $4,000 post hos
pital have been prepared, and invita-
tions for proposals will no doubt be Is
sued in short time. 1t would seem
to be the intention, from this and |
other Improvements completed and in
progress, to make Fort Walla Walla a |
permanent post"
A petition has been forwarded to the
post Office department for the establish
ment of daily mail route from Suver
to Kings Valley. The people of that
thriving section of the country have
virtually had no mail facilities at all,
ten days time often elapsing before a
letter from Portland could reach that
office. Over seven hundred people
get their mail at Kings Valley post
Office and they deserve much better
facilities than they now have.-West
Side.
The Dalles Democrat: "Thc last
Sun gives sundry good reasons why it
would be for the good of all concerned
to cut Oregon in two and form anoth-
er State. We have long thought such
a movement would be a good one; but
there is an insurmountable objection
to such proposition. That is, the
federal Constitution says: "No new
State shall be formed, or erected with
in the jurisdiction of any other State
We cannot see how to get over or un-
der, or through this plain provision of
the Constitution"
People generally, and even those who
may be termed steady readers and close
observers, have but faint conception
of the magnitude and influence the
press of this country has attained.
From careful examination of the ad-
vance pages of the 1885 edition of the
American Newspaper Directory, it ap-
pears that there are I4,I47 newspapers
and periodicals published in the Unit
ed States and Canada; of these the
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