The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-10-06
NEWS FROM THE STATE.
Brief Summary of the Happen
ings in Our Sister Counties
of Oregon.

Five South Salem radishes weighed
seven pounds.
The deaf mute school at Salem will
have Al inmates.
Salem's wharf accommodations are
being vastly improved.
Pacific university. at Forest Grove,
will have about l25 students.
Elk Governor James E. Boyd has
been visiting Oregon this week.
Methodist conference was held at
Tillamook Saturday and Sunday.
Forty tramps got off the overland
train at Grants Pass last Saturday.
Gervais will have races and other
outdoor sports on Sunday, Oct. 18th.
Oregon City is paving her streets
with vitri6ed brick of home manu-
facture.
The closing of the Wasco indie
pendent academy is lamented at The
Dales.
w. J. Foster, southeast of Pendle-
ton, harvested $4,000 bushels of
| wheat.
The Albany cantilever bridge is be-
ing tightened up for the high water
| strain.
Judge Riddle, the Southern Oregon
fruit-grower, will have 100000 pounds
of prunes.
Parke & Lacy have sued the AS
toria & South Coast to pay for lot of
railroad ties.
The Commercial bank of Portland
| opened for business at the usual hour
Monday morning.
Salem's current street assessment
notice makes three and one-half col
umns of small type.
Mrs. Mcdonald, the old woman as
saulted in Columbia county, cannot
live more than day or SO.
The WOODEN mill at Albany has re-
ceived a contract from Philadelphia
for 1000 U. S. army blankets.
@. III. Page, the new collector of
customs at Astoria has 276 appli-
cations for positions under him.
w. L. Ward threshed an average of
ls1 bushels per acre from large field
of volunteer wheat near The Dalles.
1t is said that the celebrated Linn
! county breeders, Barrows Bros, are
going to move their business over into
Polk.
Geo. Miller, of Eugene, expects to
have his skycyIe perfected in time to
fly to San Francisco for the mid
winter fair.
Go to the River Front planning mill
of F. j. Oberer for all kinds of turn
ing. Prices reasonable and satisfac-
ton guaranteed.
George H. Foster, Baker City's new
postmaster, has left the railway service
and arrived there Saturday to wait
for his commission.
w. II. Daughtrey has 800 cattle on
the way from Wallowa county to Pen
dleton to ship to the sound, and 300
more from the John Day country.
Geo. Ball, Of Ballston, picked SO
bushels of Bartlett pears from one
tree At the price they have been sell
ling at, that trees fruit was worth $lS.
Robert Campbell stepped into the
cylinder OF threshing machine in
Wasco county to avoid swinging
derrick fork, and one leg was crushed
instantly.
Circuit court at McMinnville con-
fronted 129 cases. Work will run
we'll over into this week, and the next
legislature will likely be asked to pro-
vide three terms annually.
1t is not necessary for Nelson Bros.
to keep poet employed to write up
their praises as they still continue to
do good and thriving business at the
Occidental shaving parlors and bath
rooms.
James Bell has begun in the circuit
court at Salem an action against the
Benedictine fathers at Mt. Angel for
81 800 damages, sustained by reason
Of alleged fraud and bodily assault
upon him.
DR.. n. A. Davis, of Harrisburg,
has finished picking his hops. The
crop is in excellent ,scondition, better