The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-09-29
NEWS FROM The STATE.
Brief Summary of the Happen
-ings in Our Sister Counties
of Oregon. )

Seventy thousand pine boxes are be-
ing made at Grants Pass for California
orders.
There are l l6 cases on the docket
of the circuit court to convene in Nc
Minnville' this week.
Centralia has had another incen-
diary fire. Insurance companies are
said, by the Chronicle, to be with
drawing from the town.
War has been declared IN Baker
City against the male companions of
dissolule women, and numerous ar.
rests are being made.
Foar miles of telegraph poles will
have to be moved ket@een Grants
Pass and Merlin to admit of the pas
sage of the old Grants p SIS depot.
Sheriff Shattuck, of Josephn e
county, ships melons to Portland by
the carload. A Car holds about l 200
MELONS and the freight from Grants
Pass is $50
The Treasurer Of Jackson county
advertises that he will pay warrants
protested np to August lst, 1887.
Tfis means that county is six years in
the hole, and reflects no credit upon
It's officers.
Mrs. Sales, the Foley postmistress,
riding horseback with a strap for stir
rup, fell off and Was dragged in this
way twice through creek, fortunately
escaping being killed outright OF
drowned. She was kicked and other
wise bruised.
The Washington & Columbia River
Railroad Co. have decided to increase
it's warehouse capacity at Dayton to
provide for the enormous quantity Of
grain that is going into storage at that
point The spacious warehouses at
that place are already nearly filed.
A prisoner named Moore, confined
for stealing money from house at
Long Creek, escaped recently from the
Grant county Jail, but was recaptured
after a chase into the mountains. A
key to hi+ cell, which he had manu-
featured, was found in his possession.
The unknown parties who wrecked
the unoccupied residence of J. W.
Brown at Niagara, Linn county, one
night last week with dynamite, have
completed the job by blowing it to
atoms. The trouble grew out OF
Browns Jumping some OF the settlers
land claims.
Ally person desiring to purchase a
tract of land suitable for farming pur
poses, fruit growing, or for the purpose
| of making beautiful home near cit,
limits, should call On Conover & Kit
son, of THE GAZETTE, and learn par
tlculars. A rare bargain that must be
sold soon
In the future Portland policemen
must not talk while on duty. Not so
very long ago Chief Hunt decided
that the police department could
serve the public better by not entering
into long Conversations on the street
on unofficial business while on duty,
SO he issued orders inhibling this
custom, which has prevailed from
time llnmemorlal.
Green Richardson, of Lane county,
contributed ten dollars to the city
excheqner Tuesday evening for the
privilege of stabbing Corvallis young
follow 10y the name of d. C. Rodgers.
The wound received by Rodgers was a
slight one, and he retaiiated by whack-
ing Richardson over the head with a
baseball bat he happened to have in
his hand. On examination Rodgers
was discharged.-Harrisburg Courier.
About twenty years ago three young
men were publishing the Herald in
Portland. These young men were
Eugene Semple, A. Y. Ames and Syl-
vester Pennoyer. There seems to have
been gubernatorial bee buzzing
around the Herald sanctum, for all Of
them have since been nominated for
governor, and two of them elected:
Semple in Washington, Pennoyer in
Oregon and Ames-almost-in Min
nesota.-Astoria Budgeti
An old Indian woman was found
Thursday in a sad condition from age
and sickness, at Chief Peo's place, on
the Umatilla reservation. She was
lying In woodshed, almost unable to
move, and had had little or nothing to
eat, no provisions having been left for
her in Peo's house. DumpliDgs manu-
factured from -four and water seem to
have been her only diet. Peo left the
place week or SO ago for the Yakima
country. AS the old woman is his
mother, his conduct is CRITICS ed as un-
becoming his rank aud dignity.
Eugene Register: Several very sus-
piclous looking characters have been
seen about town of late, and attempts
have been made at various times to
enter houses. Thursday night some
person attempted to enter the house
of Mrs N. K. Frazier, on the hill, and
was no doubt intent upon plumber
But he undertook enter the win
dow of the room where E. III. Ingham
was sleeping, and woke that gentleman
up, He then look To his heels