The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-11-17
NEWS FROM THE STATE
Brief Summary of the Happen
ings in Our Sister Counties
of Oregon.

The O. P. owes Marion county
some $4,000 in delinquent taxes
o., An exchange says that there are
1000 vacant houses III Portland anu
500 in Salem.
An order for $4,000 trees has heen
placed with Woodbuln nursery by
California firm.
There died in Portland last week Il
colored woman who hal reached the
age of l05 years.
A Salemite ADVERTISED for man
with a family to 60 on his farm ana
received ten applications.
APolk county man this year cleared
$500 over all, including family ex-
penses, on fifteen acres OF land De
voted to potatoes.
Thirty-five convicts were received
at the state penitenti"'y during the
month of October The enrolment
at that institution is now about sou.
The young savages Of Oregon City
wantonly destroyed more properly on
Halloween than the value OF their
hides If sold to the tanner as Call sk'n'
The state encampmert of the U. A.
R. will be held in RoseIjurg May 9TH,
1894. 1t is intended that the soldiers
home will be completed and dedicated
at that time.
The mayor of The Dllles, Oregon,
has received letter from crank In
which a threat is made that if the
mayor does not give him position he
wants in three davs, he will kill him.
PRESBYTERIAN Preacher Dllworth, of
Astoria, accused of hugslng and kiss
ing female members Of his flock, has
resigned from his pastornoe. He says
he has done nothing he would not do
again.
A burgular broke into Bakers store
a few nights since, but after looking
over the stock he found the goods
marked so low that he WAS ashamed to
take hardly anything.-Lebanon Ad-
vance.
Jessie Busch and Pearl Moore, two
6fteen-year-old girls of Eugene, have
each been sentenced to ninety days IN
the city Jail for vagrancy. Oregon
evidently needs reform school for
girls.-Ex.
CDR" Ernest Gunther, tramp
doctor, was arrested at Grants Pass for
Npracticing medicine without diploma.
In default of $50 bail he was put in
sheriff Shattuck's care tc wait for tie
gand jury sitting.
, J. P. Lewis, Josephine county
farmer, planted 500 pounds of spnds
CAST summer and has just harvested
$4,000 pounds as result. That is
1he way the Oregon soil responds to
the Industrious tiller.
Surveyor-General Byers, at Portland,
will receive bids up to Dec. l, 1898,
for surveying number of townships
of government land in this land district;
surveys to be completed inside of a
year. For full particulars apply to
hinA
A crank has been arrested in Port
land who thinks the world will 60 to
ruin unless he is empowered to govern
it, and thinks it is necessary for him
to kill senator Mitchell and several
Others. He was committed to the
asylum.
The Denny pheasant has crossed
the Cascades into Crook county. Mr..
Darsey took three hens and two cocks
over from the valley, and Prineville
raised 500, bought the birds and
turned them over to farmer to prop
agate in trust for the town.
Sandy, stage driver on the Burns
Ontario line, was shot at three times
from ambush on his last trip. His hat
and necktie only were hit, and, urging
his horses, he escaped. 1t happened
at night, on a lonely piece of road,
and Sandy will 60 armed hereafter.
Richardson, the "hero" train
wrecker, who is doing time in the state
penitentiary, has been boasting of his
ability rs Jail breaker, and the Of
ficials put on him boot loaded with
iron and weighing about sixteen pounds.
This IS intended as an admonition to
him and others like him.
A temporary organization known as
the s'mock senate" has been effected
BY a number of the citizens of Oregon
City, believing that they could derive
pleasure and profit from studying and
discussing economic and national
questions. A meeting is to be held
to effect permanent organization.
The changing current o. the San
tam is threatening to the Sanderson
bridge. 1t has already cost about
$4,000, and the Linn county officials
are debating whether it will be cheaper
To keen followinp I'M the channel ol