The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-04-10
News Summary.

DalIcS during Jne summer
Barley three and a half feet high and
fully headed is to be seen in .ckson coun
ty.
A large number of new settlers are going
into Langell valley, Lake county, this
spring.
A new town namel Lexington has been
laid out six miles north of Heppner, in Nor
row county.
Several farmers near Tangent have been
obliged to stop plowing on account OF the
dry weather.
w. H. Bostwick, of Uniontown has ship,
ped IL ,OOO pounds of apples from his place
to San Francisco recently.
A sneak thief entered the house of John
Richards, Bethel, Polk county, a few even
ings since and stole $50 in money and a suit
of clothes.
The operation of the Ashland wooden
mills has been impeded by the scarcity OF
water, something unknown before at this
season of the year.
The recent decision of the land office at
Washington, relative to line lands of the
Northern Pacific railroads, greatly pleases
citizens of Walla Walla.
Medford Monitor: H. Gilbert presented
us with large piece of native tin. He
says he has located a well.defined ledge, and
will soon lay claim to the State bonus of
$4,000.
Farmers have been putting in full time
for the past four weeks, but the ground is
now too dry for blowing in most places.
The crop prospects were never more fatter-
ing than at the present time.-Eugene City
Register.
The Chinese merchants at Victoria, B. c.,
are so. exasperated at the enforcement of
the restriction bill that it is reported they
are aboat to offer their stocks and buildings
to the government and leave the country.
Miss Buick and Mrs. Drake, of Myrtle
Greek, Douglas county, recently circulated
remanstrance against granting liquor
license in that town and secured more ign
ers than the would-be saloon-keeper obtain
ed to his petition.
Last week nine car loads of horses left
Dayton, w. T., for Chicago. The freis sht
is $235 car, and free transportation for
men needed to care for them They 60
over the Northern Pacific. The shipment
is $50 horses, cost about $l4 head
In this country, says the Walla Walla
Statesman, the cherry and apple are i'll
bloom; we expect strawberries in a few
days mere; new potatoes have been eaten;
wheat is sixteen inches high; volunteer
barley is heading out and all the fields
around are rank with the emerald green
growth.
A new variety of hops has recently been
exhibited by Prof. Max Cornu at the nat
ional and central horticultural society of
France in which the lower lie ives do not
fall off as in the c"'nnnn hop 1t is of very
rapid growth. forming tufts upwards of %
feet in ono year. It Is of japanese origin |
Portland merchants are gong to invest in
a large fruit cannery to be erected in East |
Portland. This is Il move in the right |
direction as tons OF rat go to waste every |
year in the Willamette Valley, and it only
needs little push t" make good market
in the East for the gods. The fruit CT
Oregon is the finest in the world and it is
time that the people of this section made
tie rest of the world understand it.
The gratifying report comes that Oregon
has haen awarded first premiums at New
Orleans for choice dried prunes of German,
French and Silver varieties. Oregon ought
to be able to stop the importation of Euro
psan dried prunes entirely if our people
would only go into fruit raising on the large
s"ale which the natural advantages of the
state would warrant.
The running cars on the Pacific Division |
have lately been improved somewhat. The
ear shops in Tacoma have finished the work |
of replacing the old cast iron wheels, used |
by the passenger coaches, with steel tired |
wheels, and now all cars on passenger trains
including the mail, baggage and express,
are similarly equipped Another improve
ment is now being made by placing air tight
signals on the passenger coaches, doing
away with the hell ,rd. These improve
ments will also be adopted on the main
line.
A recent decision of the supreme court of
Washington Territory, Judge Hoyt deliver
ing the opinion, holds that state legisla-
ture, in the absence of constitutional restrict
ions, has power to grant divorces, and that
such power being conceded, no question of
whether there was sufficient cause for the |
dissolution of the marriage tie can be raised
In the courts. Also, that ''the marriage re-
lation is status rather than contract, and |
so the severance of it by legislative enact
ment would not be an act in derogation to |
the provision in the constitution of the Un-
tied States relative to laws iinnarinp the oh |