The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-09-22
NEWS FROM THE STATE.
Brief Summary of the Happen
ings in Our Sister Counties
of Oregon.

The Roseburg fair has deficit of 5000.
Ashland's school children number 339.
The Albany races begin September 26th.
| Salem's militia company has received its
new uniforms
| Salem's Indebtedness, $50, 500, it is pro-
posed to bond.
Mrs. M. J. Kinney, of Astoria, is serious
| ly i'll in California.
| A chapter of the Eastern Star has been
organized at Condor.
| There are twenty three prisoners in the
county Jail at Salem.
| Portland now claims population of co.
900 under recent census.
| Central Point will have three day g races
| beginning September 2Sth.
| Baker City has decided to give five days
racing, beginning October 10th.
| Johr f. Holman hauls 10000 pounds of
grain at load into McMinnville.
| Several water-spouts occurred last week
! between Prineviile and upper Crooked
river.
G. A Butler bought a 900 acre stock
ranch of George Hargadine, near Ashland,
| for $780,
warrants on which to float It's coming in
| debtedness
Astoria mayor and other prominent citi-
| football club.
Nat Blum, the Portland smuggler, is still
| i'll Jail, having thus far failed to give the re-
| quired bonds.
Fort Klamath folks will have 2, 500 tons OF
hay put up, with uncut grass enough to
make as much more.
Winnie Brown is coming from Boise to
Weston, where he will join his brother in
| publishing the Leader.
Two potatoes are being shown at Pendle.
| ton which together weigh six and half
| pounds. One is IA inches long.
Frank Gross, of Medford, thoughtlessly
stepped off moving train at Salem and
was seriously injured, but will recover.
| The delinquent tax list of Multnomah
county foots up, In round numbers, $4O0,
900. The sheriff has been paid about $500,
| 600.
The citizens of Oregon City held a public
meeting to protest against the contractors
| on the streets employing nonresident Ia
| borerJ.
Twenty dollars a head is the average
price Of the 600 head of Wood river cattle
sold and to be sold between October Is and
November l.
| Senator Dolph has introduced a bill ap-
propriating 1000 for the erection of first
class fog signat at Cape Arago, near the
| light station.
The grand jury of Tillamook county
failed to find an indictment against Dave
Howard for setting fire to the town, and he
was set at liberty.
An interesting fight is on between Rose
| burg and Riddle over the terminus of the
Coos Bay X. r., and the latter is making a
good showing just at present.
The Sears & Hirehberg warehouse, at
Talmage. now has 1000 bushels of grain
stored, and its owners are compelled to
build an addition to accommodate supplies
still to come.
W. f. D. Jones, formeralIy proprietor of
the Tillamook Headlight, has purchased an
interest in the Historian. This acquisition
to the Astorians staff will undoubtedly
make that good paper better than ever,
Salem Journal: w. w. Martin, the
ieweIer. sold couple of the old pale yel-
low pure gold beaver five dalIar pieces for
S25. They were coined at Oregon City in
lS49 and are now only rarely met with.
We know of no better place for the oper-
aJlOn OF pOrK-packlnS eSIaDllSunenU CnaD
right here in Harrisburg and the wonder is
that such an enterprise has not been started
here long ago, says the Harrisburg Courier.
The Ager-Klamath Falls stage has been
neld up twice within the last two weeks by
the same man and at the same place. He
was an honest robber, however, and returned
some registered mail matter ON his second
exploit.
j. M. Hicks, of ashland, has already
shipped more than 900 boxes of tomatoes
from his two-acre patch, and will probably
send off as many more before the season
closes. He grows them on granite land, not
on the creek bottom.
Ralph Hewitt. an apprentice in Long
shore & 60. 8 printing Office, fell off an ex-
press wagon at Second and Stark streets,
Portland, Saturday morning and was con-
siderably bruised about the head. He was
sent to his home in Albina.
Lee Get, Chinese contractor, has about
finished clearing l0O-acre field for George
Alexander, of Forest Grove. He has EN-.
ployed about fifteen men, has been at work
two months, and has the tract, which was a
burned fir slashing ready for the plow.
The government post office inspector was
in Eugene last week looking after the mat.
ter of securing quarters for the post Office.
Owners of property are slow to accede to
the governments terms concerning lease,
consequently no quarters have asi.yet been
found.