The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04

There are 2s,247 more males in Oregon
than females. There are ll3, l49. males ano
!, SO, 902 females.
A creamery or cheese factory is in con
who has had experience in the East. will
take charge of it, if enough milk can be
secured.
Grant county has revised it's scalp bounty
list, and now offers the following rates:
Panther or cougar, $5; bear, So; wildcat or
catamount, ST.; black-tall rabbit, 3 cents;
wolf or cayote, ST..
The item recently published which stated
that iMr. Hallett, of Washington county,
had $50, 600 bushels of oats in his granary
was mistake. 1t had just one cipher too
many. 1t should have read $4,000 bushels
| Umatilla county vigilantes ran three sus-
pected horse thieves out of Adams, Oregon,
last week. A concentrated effort is being
made throughout the country to rid that
portion of Oregon of horse and cattle
| thieves.
An exchange says: At the little town of
Boston, in Yamhill county, near Sheridan's,
| in warehouse 40, 900 bushels of wheat have
been destroyed by weevil. Parties who own
the wheat have been undecided what to do
| with it, whether to burn it or throw it into
the river.
The agent at Tongue Station, on the mar
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has cleaned about $4,000 bushels of wheat
this season. The cleaners at Tongue cleans
for three warehouses on the road, and still
people say that the narrow gauge don't do
any business.
Hillsboro Independent: J. W. Gibson
informs US that he raised $50 bushels of
potatoes from three-quarters of an acre Of
land on the Hyer Jack place this year.
The ground has been in cultivation for
thirty years, and the variety of potatoes
raised was the garnet Chill.
Senator Stanford of California has given
$4,000, 900 to endow university in which
young men and women are to be taught the
practical duties of business life, and the old
worn out curriculums are to be neglected.
This is the largest sum ever given by one
man to any object Of public character.
Farmers report that grain is growing fine
ly, some say that it is even growing too
rank to mature well. There is still some
complaint of mice, but not as much as there
was several weeks ago. One of our farmer
friends reports observing several large fields
Of wheat that has presumably been destroy
cd by an insect Of some kind.-West Side.
The aarrsw gage railroad company has
had the survey nads FROM Dnniee to Port
land, distance Of Is miles. In order to
reach Portland from the former point it |
becomes necessary to tunnel through what
is known as Elk rock, some 81 miles south
of Portland. The distance to be tunneled |
is $50 feet, and the company purpose put
ting it through this winter.-Itemizer.
This is what the Umatilla Times says: |
Umatilla county raises the most and best |
fruit, vegetables and grain of amy county in
the State of Oregon. Let the farmers un-
derstand their advantage and COVER them
selves accordingly. Plant fruit trees first,
last and always. Raise vegetables for milch
cows, sheep and hogs in winter. These
products take the place Of q great amount of
hay, and far more satisfactory results.
Confidence men are working eastern Ore
gon with new dodge, says an exchange
Sometimes i. is protest against high taxes,
sometimes one thing and sometimes another,
that the farmer is naturally interested IN
and his signature obtained, that signature
afterwards being found at the bottom of
note. In all probabilities these
swindlers will be in this coun before long
and our farmers will do well to sign moth
ing for persons they do not know.
Last Friday night the usual quiet of
Roseburg was disturbed by the intelligence
that Mrs. Martha Moore was dying. 1t
seems that her husband, Flute Moore, had
purchased some poison, which his
wife took by mistake at about o'clock on
the evening mentioned. She soon went
into spasms and a fit bit off the end of
her tongue Before medical aid could be
she was so far gone that the
medicine had but little effect, and she died
at about S:l5 o'clock in the evening.
The Baker City Tribune in speaking of
the Pine creek mines, says: "Parties just
in from the Pine valley mines report rich
Development of the Forest Queen, which is
said to excel anything hitherto discovered
in that rich region; in fact, they report the
free gold nearly as numerous as the rock.
They also report t. an effort is being
made to dissolve the bond on theamine, with
a fair prospect of success. If but one-fourth
of the representations of this mine be true,
becomes the owner of the mine will |
have more money than he will have any use
for"
An extensive discovery of bitumnous coal
of fne quality was recently made near Fos-
sill, in Gillian county, by Richard J. Wat
,,r 1e &h,@ ,,a;ob horhood which nrornises