The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-09-08
NEWS FROM THE STATE.
Brief Summary of the Happen
ings in Our Sister Counties
of Oregon.

Monmouth Odd Fellows will celebrate
September 9.
Telephone connections may now be had
with Eugene.
Three prisoners broke Jail at Rosebure
| Friday Of last week.
Labor day. Monday, was extensively eel.
ebrated in Portland.
Crows are reported as doing considerable
damage in the Willamette valley.
| Secretary of State Mcbride is not enjoy.
ing very good health at st. He!ens.
Crickets in large numbers infest the Big
Valley, says the Lake View Examiner.
Rumor has it that hank is to be estab.
| lished in Klamath Fall in the near future.
The Portland suspended national banks
| are reported solvent, and will soon reopen
| for business.
A Mr. Parton fell from his horse while
| riding last Sunday, from the effects of which
he died the next morning.
John Goodman, of Jordan valley, IL years
| old, killed two full grown bears and two
| coons on a morning hunt.
Managers of several county fairs have de.
cided not to give exhibitions this year ON
account of the har1 times.
Eugene is said to have sent more people
to the worlds fair than any other place in
Oregon, outside of Portland.
Judge Fullerton has granted an order
postponing the sale of the Oregon Pacific
railroad until further notice.
j. C. Jones lost a finger while running an
edger in J. c. Jones saw mill at Cottage
Grove Monday of last week.
A fifteen.year-old girl of Albany WAS
caught cheating" the blind baggage of an S.
P. train, aud fired" at Eugene.
The shortage of the ex treasurer of Jack.
son county, Bloomer. amounts to $500,
which will be paid by his four bondsmen.
Rival brewers of Medford have become
engaged in serious quarrel within the past
week. Many a sore joint and black eye is
the result.
The famous slander suit of Robert Craw.
ford against E. G. WIst, for $4,000 dam
ages, was decided in favor of the defend
ant, at 1illanook.
Three hungry tramps "held up" meat
wagon near Havana the other day. Their
demand was: ''Beef or brains," which they
secured at the point of pistol.
At Albany nj. Colleran and John Daley
were arrested Saturday by United States
Marshal Humphrey for cutting timber on
government land up the Santiam.
A reunion of reformed drunkards was held
at the Kelley institute, Forest Grove, last
week. Those who have taken "course" at
that institution are termed graduates.
T Hon. Harvey Shelton, leading democrat.
prominent Mason, popular citizen aud for
several years member of the state legisla.
ture, died at his home near Scio recently.
A short time since L. Belfils' house on his
Olalla ranch near Roseburg was consumed
by fire. The house was not occupied at the
time, and how it caught fire is mystery.
Charles A. Tanner, convicted for appro.
priating county funds, was, upon recon.
mendation of the judge and district attor-
ney of Lane county, pardoned by the gov.
erner last Saturday. .r
State Treasurer Metscham states that an
other apportionment of money for school
purposes. will be made about the first of
December, and that it will be an additional
10 cents per scholar. aAf
Eugene Guard: John Hill is in town and
informs us that much brush is on fire up the
Middle Fork. He is fearful that some of
the finest forest timber in that region will
be consumed by fire.
Sneak thieves entered the store room of
Cottage Grove hotel. Tuesday night and
carried away lot of provisions. On the
same night some clothes were taken from
line near the same place.
Considerable damage was done by fire in
the vicinity of Minto Besides the destruc.
tion of lot of valuable timber, the tramway
of John Ludy's saw mill was burned. doing
damage to the extent of more than $40, 900.
The work in the new tunnel at the Ash.
land mine is progressing little faster now
than at first, as the rock is not quite so
tough and stubborn. The length of the tun
mel is at this time something more than 200
feet.
A report of the financial condition of the
city of r. Rrseburg shows adecrease in receipts.
October /, 1889, that city was free from debt
with money in their treasury. September
l, 1893, her indebtedness amounts to more
than $l2, 600.
Probably the only orange that ever grew
and ripened in Grande Ronde valley is on
exhibition at a Dalles drug store. The tree
on which the orange grew is about eight
inches in height, aud the fruit is little
under the average size.
The suspension bridge at Oregon City
was discovered burning Friday near the
center. 1t is supposed that some one
threw lighted cigar stump on the floor
The fire had extended about six inches be.
tween the planks when discovered by some
workmen coming home at 6 o'clock.