The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-10-13
NEWS FROM THE STATE.
Brief Summary of the Happen
ings in Our Sister Counties
of Oregon.

| Va oASS0AAs
Eugene's school children number
$40. as= f-s.ea.-.H
The state insane asylum has S94 in
F., mates. -
| Typhoid fever cases are numerous
at Beaverton.
| Astorla's water rates have been re
duced 25 per cent, ...s... --..s.e. 3
Polk county's assessment roll lists
3O8,OOO acres of land. -. .......
-Four hundred bales of hops left
Salem Saturday for the east.
Norris Humphrey, of Eugene,
picked 10000 pounds of prunes.
The Haruey county hay crop for the
year is estimated at $4,000 tons.
The Grand Ronde has marketed
100 carloads of hogs the past year.
The DuDiway Lumber Co., of East
Portland, has been attached for $685.
600. 2 g.
Hungarian sprunes, three inches
long, grew on Samuel DAVIS trees four
miles westsof Halsey. !,
Henry Barnhart has sued the Union
Pacific at Baker City for $50, 900 dam
ages sustained in an accident
e. Schanno, of The Dalles, has sent
another large consignment of fruit to
the Chicago horticultural exhibit.
It is estimated that the grain yield
Of Grand Ronde and adjacent valleys
will this year be 100000 bushels
Wallowa county sheep marketed in
the east .netted So to $3.50. The
shippers are satisfied and will send no
more. - - '' 80 -
A SVitus and sons have bought for
$4,000 the Samuel Meek farm of
s752 acres eight miles northwest Of
Eugene ~ ts
The Eugene warehouses are getting
prettywell filled up with hops. The
smell around the depot lis decidedly
strong ofthe pungent hop. i
sPrineville is suffering from coyote
plague. Large numbers Of the hungry
horde surround the town and make
the night hideous by, their hungry
howls. = { ~. f.>if<s : go 80
Some forty. odd hoboes arrived in
Roseburg from the north on Monday
nights freight train. It was the
largest crowd OF tramps that ever ar
rived at that station on one train. /,
(, James S. Averill was fined seventy
five dollars and costs last week by the
circuit court in Curry county, for deal
ing IN deer skins. That is pretty
broad hint to stay out of the deer hide
business. 1t isn't profitable. -
The Central Point races were dis
NAL failure financially. In all the
races the entrance fees constituted
more than three-fourths of the purse,
and the money received by the third
horse in a race WIS less than the en-
trancesfe s*-' -
Black wood-peckers are great pest
in Jackson county, They descend
upon the orchards in swarfns and de-
astroy large@quantitiess Of both fall and
winter apples. .Sportsmen are prac-
ticing upon them about Ashland with
pea guns and shot guns. :
Hov's th,rty-siix Bushels: Of Bartlett
pears from one tree} That is what one
of George Balls trees did for him last
week. Set out more fruit. We will
soon have as goodsan eastern ! market
aa California. Set out.the best vari-
eties only.-Sheridan Sun.
A large proportion of the surplus
cattle. Of Eastern Dragon will be- ship
ped to Omaha this fall. Fifteen
thousand head have been bought in
Malheur county for shipment ito that
point, and shout the saWel amount in
Umatilla and Morrow counties.
Henry 'Whitef and, Fred ll,fwho
went ssoyer the traiIn with one bunch,
containing !, 900 head Of the E.~Boett-
cher sheep drive from Umatilla county,
have returned sto Pendletop..i The
drive>was successfully made, and stop
Ped at Laramie, Wyo., where 10000
sheepswere delivered to purchasers.
The DalIes r. ME-. Williams,
the man mentioned as being arrested
for ehorse-stealing by the sheriff OF
Benton county was in this city for