The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-09-15
NEWS FROM THE STATE.
Brief Summary of the Happen
ings in Our Sister Counties
of Oregon.

Fairmount's cutlery WORKS have started
up.
1t has been raining at The Dalles for the
first time since July.
Lane county's equalization board meets
Monday. September 25.
Two hundred pioneers attended the Rose.
burg fair On pioneer day.
The Oregon National bank of Portland
resumed business last Saturday.
A Chatarqua literary and scientific circle
has been organized at Brownsville.
An enormous whale was seen off the
mouth of the Columbia, Friday morning.
| Flrtcher's mill in the Blue mountains has
cut 2, ,000, 600 feet Of lumber this summer.
| The Astoria Budgets type.setting ma.
chine has been delay ed by patent infringe.
| ment law suit.
Mrs. Mary Spencer, wife of George Spen-
Ger of Gates, lille, was committed to the asy.
lum last Monday.
The lessons of Foley springs have given up
| the resort after losing, they claim, SIC, 600
| in their in vestment.
The monument to be erected in honor of
| the late L. G. Richmond is being made at
Dallas. aud is to cost l.5OO.
There are now S7S patients in the state
| insane asylum Cos males and 273 females.
The number of eulployes is lU2.
The dense smoke has hindered the work
of the engineers who are making a survey of
! tbe mouth of the Columbia river.
North Yamhill's school board, after hav-
ing advertised for bids, decided not to
| build new schoolhouse at present.
A contract for building the new addition
III L.
| to j. A. Hazel of Salem for $40, ,OS9.
After 10 days work, e. F. Hnbart has got
the boiler and engine for his new saw mill
over the mountains from Dallas to Netart's
! bay.
The salary of the principal of the Rose.
burg school was formerly $l5,0O year. 1t
is now 81 coo and an assistant teacher gets
$40 month.
An Indian woman lost her life trying to
defend her pappoose from the attacks of
hu, cry bear, near Athena last week. The
bear was victor.
The dome of Oreeon's capital building is
/ to be decorated with four arc electric lights,
which will 60 far towards Illuminating the
capital city's streets.
Nat Blum, under indictment for SNUG.
Cling, arrived in Portland Saturday morn
ing from Sau Fr,nci<co in custody of an Of
| ficer aud he was placed in Jail.
A 1875 gold nugget was found in the
Elk creek mines of Sloan & Haskell, EN-.
tirely free from quartz. and is the largest
specimen found i'll several years.
A suit was begun by A. Bush on a note
for So, 900, given by parties who bought the
Salem electric light plant a little more
than \ year ago. Most of the parties are in
I Portland.
The editor of the Springfield Messenger
| announces that he will not move his plant
| to Eugene and advocate popuIist principles
''owing to the financial stringency'' of the
popuiistic purse.
A number of the leading business men of
Athena have arranged to take wheat on all
| accounts, Sowing to the strineency of the
money market, at prices ranging from 4Oc
| to soc per bushel.
Colonel Robert A. Miller. register of the
Oregon City land Office, and Mrs. Sareia G.
| Grubl,s, late superintetaeat of the Salem
schools, were married Monday morning at
! the home of the brides parents at Waldo
hills.
that Is. w. Huffman, the young farmer
poet who left there several weeks ago in
charge of large amount of stock, while in
the vicinity of Green River, Wye, had
| mysteriously disappeared.
The continued rains have had depressing
influence on business, as the hop crop is just
! being harvested. From an examination of
some of the yards no damage is seen to re-
~ult yet. but if the rains continne the hop
lice win ruin many parts, rs they are in
creasing rapidly.
| Eugene Guard: A visit to the twenty
acre prune and cherry orchard on the Blair
donation, owned by the Guard, will demon
| trate to fruit growers the wisdom of thor.
ugh cultivation. This orchard was plant.
! d . year ago last February, but the trees
| have the appearance of three. year .olds.
I No crops have been grown between the
/ rees.
Salem Independent: Mr.. A. T.. Gillian
measured pear tree On Mr.. Aliens farm
! n Polk county the other day that is prob
ably one of the largest of the kind ever
known. Il is of the variety called Fall
| Butter. The tree is so feet and inches
t.igh and 7 feet inches in circumference.
II is estimated that the tree holds 100
| ushels of fruit.
For the benefit of our friends, says the
Brownsville Times, who may be little
| skeptical as to the adaptablity of our soil to
hat of fruit culture, we will chronicle an
| tenn, which however, will be branded as
| rer, insignificant by many of our residents.
| Mr.. s. P. Barger brought several plums to
| this office which measured seven inches in
circumference. They were of the Columbian
variety, which is not, as rule, large
plum.
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