The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-12-22
NEWS FROM THE STATE.
Brief Summary of the Happen
ings in Our Sister Counties
of Oregon.

Oregon City and he is LOG years old.
A Marsh6eld man is filling an order
for 200 flag poles for the mld-wlntei
fair.
The pupils of the state blind instl-
tute gave pleasant musical recital al
Salem.
Fourteen families from Vale, Iowa,
will settle in Southern Oregon this
month.
PendIeton will undoubtedly be the
location of the Eastern Oregon insane
asylum, provided it is located.
A hunting party in Jackson county
with four dogs killed 81 deer IN SIX
DAYS recently. One day they killed "a
deer.
The corrected net increase of the
states taxable property for the year.
according to the county rolls, is 500
697,397.
Salem has been invaded by the
salvation army, which has established
regular military post IN the wicked
capitol city.
The convicts in the state penitentl-
ary are rehearsing for a minstrel en-
tertainment which they are to give
Christmas night.
A religious census is being taken oil
Salem. The per cent. of intdels and
those who are Indifferent is encourag-
ingly small to canvassers.
There is only one woman among the
1868 convicts at Oregon's penitentlary.
She was sent from Morrow county for
cutting harness to pieces.
The recent food did serious damage
to the Portland General Electric Co. s
plant at Oregon City. The loss will
probably reach many thousands.
The Oregon press association will
make an excursion from Portland to
the mid-winter fair by rail, and the
date fixed for leaving Portland is Feb.
9Th.
Instructor King of the Klamath res
ervation has been removed. Edward
G.. Paine, of the Oneida reservation,
Wisconsin, has been appointed to fill
the vacancy.
Charles Burgett, son Of J. J. Bur-
gett, the city treasursr of the Dalles,
had his collar bone fractured in tum.
BILE received while playing football in
that city Tuesday.
The Oregon state reform school al
Salem contains sixty-six boys, ten
horses, eleven COWS, forty hogs and zoo
chickens. Only the boys are there for
reformation. The rest of the animals
are all right.
The Southern Pacific will put in a
night watch for every six miles of road
over the Siskiyou this winter, to guard
against danger from slides, and also
from depredations by the hordes ot
hobos now passing through.
The verdict of the jury in the Judy
murder trial at Roseburg was murder
in the second degree. On Sept. 26tt
c. Judy killed Charles Kendig at Loor
Lake, where both were ranchers, shoot
ing him with Winchester rifle
One hundred and seventy-five hobo
tourists came into Ashland from the
north last Sunday evening on freight
train on the top of box cars. The
town refused to feed them and there il
some fear of violence on their part.
Mrs. Alice J. Wells, an enthusiastic
believer in the doctrine promulgated
by Mrs. Geo. H. Williams, died a
Portland last Sunday. She ''passed
through the wilderness" once, and wa:
killed in an attempt to repeat the
journey.
Forty cars of cattle, hogs and frui
were shipped from La Grande to ON
aha last week. Of the hogs, the
Chronicle says: "Ihe probabilities are
that some of these same hogs will
come back next spring in the form o.
Omaha bacon"
At meeting of the board of trus-
tees of the Oregon Soldiers Home helc
at Roseburg Tuesday, the contrac
for the building was awarded to r
Stoker, of Portland for 81, ,4S3, and th'
plumbing contract to Dugan Bros, O
Salem for So, 200.
But few have an adequate idea Q
the magnitude Of Portland's foreig
trade. The wheat fleet for 1929
was larger than ever before and fall
but two vessels short of the numbe
that sailed from San Francisco durin
the same season.
There is on exhibition at Baker Cit
the jaw of an American elephant, &C
cording to the classification of Pro
Henry Montgomery, of Salt Lake un
versity. 1t was found about fiv
miles from Shoshone Falls. There al
enough of the bones to fill a freigl