The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-07-06
NEWS AT,THE METROPOLIS
Doings of the Week as told by
the "Gazette's" Special
Correspondent.

Correspondent.
PORTLAND, June %, 1894.
The smu Cling cases have been
on again for a week, but public
interest has had its keen edge
dulled by the previous trials.
This time James Lotan, Seid Back,
a CHINESE merchant, and E. P.
Thompson a e the defendants on a
charge of conspiring to defraud
the government by the illegal
landing of Chinese. There is lit
tie interest in the details Of the
trial, as Nat Bium's racy and none
ffoo veracious. testimony has all
been given before, and the public
mind is pretty we'll made up, first
that he is constituencies rascal,
and second that all the persons in
dicted, some of whom have been
convicted and some acquitted,
have had more or less compro-
missing dealings with him. 1t is
evident that much money was
made in smuggling opium and
Chinese and large number of
persons had a finger in the pie.
The chief interest now is centered
in seeing how successful they
will be in .squirming out of the
penalty.
Portland is again high and dry
! and merchants are back in their
regular places of business. A few
pools of stagnant water in back
yards and neglected Easements.
whose stencil riseth to heaven.
in competition with various and
nameless disinfectants, are now
the chief reminders of our floating
condition. There was a general
wreck of wooden sidewalks in the
flooded district, aggregating sew
eral miles in length, and new
ones are being built everywhere
Actual destruction of property
was comparatively light. Coun
ters, desks and store and office
fixtures generally were damaged
and here and there a slight loss O
goods was suffered. How mucl
damaee there was to docks has
not yet been learned. Generally
) speaking Individual losses were
the equal gain of other individuals
and can not be charged up as /;
net loss to the city. So far as the
;, community is concerned the chic
l loss was the serious interruption
} of business for a month. One o
, the results will be to enhance thu
value of property on the highe
ground and reduce it on From
and First streets. The movemen
of business back from the rlver
-. which has already progressed con
siderably the past three years, will
be accelerated.
The appointment Of a separate
receiver for the o. r. & N; Co
will be of benefit to the whole
state, as the headquarters will b.
, removed from Omaha back tt
; Portland and Oregon will agail
) receive the benefit of It's purchase
, and general distribution of money
Traffic arrangements with the
Union Pacific will continue as be-
fore.
There is a movement on foot tt
establish another daily paper il
Portland, nomlnally Independent
5 in politics. The Sun Publishing
. company has been incorporated
with capital stock of $4,000, t.
publish mo+ning, Sunday an(
: weekly editions of the Sun. The
3 incorporators are three old lin,
1 Democrats and two sorehead repub
licans, all of them active politica
> workers. The nature of its indie
l pendence may easily be predicted
should the very unlikely con
5 tingency of the stock being al
s subscribed permit of the pape
assuming tangible form. 1t is un
derstood that a portion OF th'
scheme consists of about a dozer
Have