The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-12-01
NEWS FROM THE STATE.
Brief Summary of the Happen
ings in Our Sister Counties
of Oregon.

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| The Laboring World, recently
started at Astoria, has gone back
into chaos.
Prineville for the first time IN
six years conld not hold a public
school this winter.
Stephen Beers, who killed his
brother in Jackson county last
week, has been held for murder.
Judge Galloway thinks Oregon
will have near sixty worlds fair
| awards when the returns are all in.
Two companies of the state
militia. located at Fossil and Con.
don, have disbanded during the
past week.
After eight hours consideration
of Reinhart's case, of Portland,
the jury being unable to agree,
| was discharged.
An entertainment and ball was
given in Portland Tuesday for the
benefit of unemployed printers. 1t
was grand success.
The sheriff has captured the
horses, saddle and brides of the
Milton bank robbers. That will
probably be all that he will cap
ture.
The Evangelical church contro-
versy is ended. Polling and Bow
ersox use the name Independent
Evangelical for their denomina-
ton.
A man supposed to be L. D.
Jones, of Monmouth, committed
suicide near Chemawa Sunday
morning by cutting his throat with
a razor.
Roseburg is saved from bank
ruptcy. The salary of the night
watchman has been reduced $40
per month, and now everything is
serene.-Plaindealer.
1t is AN interesting fact that
while Oregon is not a nut country
Henry E. Dosch, of Portland,
received the prize on English wal
nuts at the worlds fair.
On piece of ground two rods
square mile northwest of Dallas
John Laymond raised two tons of
carrots and thirteen of them
weighed seventy five pounds.
The Stanford university football
eleven will visit Portland about
December 3lst, and ex-California
boys in that city are arranging to
give them a rousing welcome.
John Darling of Oregon City on
Friday last brought home a regis
tered, full blood Cotswold buck
imported directly from England.
His weight is 24O pounds and cost
$3.50.
On Tuesday, in the U. s. district
court at Portland, Nat Blum plead
guilty to a charge of smuggling.
The court is now investigating sim
liar charges against others alleged
to have been connected with Blum
in his operations.
An Oregon City man is grubbing
land by hitching fourteen big oxen
to a plow that turns furrow three
feet wide and tears up grubs and
roots by the wholesale, thus grub
bing and blowing the land at the
same time, so it is said.
Two Cinnamon rented a hop
yard of g. I. Tooze, of Clackamas
county. They sold the hops and
skipped out, allie same 'Melican
man, without paying Mr.. Tooze
5000 due him on the contract. He
offers $50 for their arrest.
Gold Beach is in darkness. The
matches have all been used up,
the kerosene burned up in the can
merry fire, the candle supply has
given out, the electric lights are
not in operation, and the Gazette
says the citizens are going to bed
with the chickens.
AL Newly, a Yamhill farmer,
had a peculiar experience last
week while blowing. The double
trees broke, and the lines were
tied about his waist in the ap
proved fashion, the team pulled
him over the plov. His head
made a posthole about foot deep
in the soft loam, and now he is
laid up for repairs along with the
doubletrees.