The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-01-12
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Items of Interest bout People
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Harvard is retrenchiug and has DIS
missed six professors.
Hailstones as big as marbles fell dur
ing storm at Lodi, Cal.
Charles Clark has been appointed re-
sewer of the Oregon Pacific.
The British Columbia shingle makers
have combined to keep up prices.
Yakima county, Wash produced over
10000 bales of hops the past season.
The Republicans elected c. S. Varian
to the territorial Legislature at Salt Lake.
The Santa Clara Vail " Agricultural
society will build pavi} ;on on the fair
grounds.
chicken epidemic is depopulating
the hen roosts of the Low ct Rogue river
region in Oregon.
Heavy snowfalls in the mountains and
deep drifts in the canyons are reported
from San Diego.
Fresno shows a low crime record for
December, only two cases being tried
and s. in fines collected.
Ashland, Or, is bringing to its aid
the chain gang and bread and water diet
in dealing with the tramp question.
Steps have been taken at San Jose to
form county wine exchange similar In
purpose to that of the fr,lit exchange.
The assets of the suspended Portland
Savings bank have been valued at 49,
009, $40, and the liabilities at &, Ats, 146.
Portland's chamber of commerce con-
demns Governor Pennoyer's statements
in his open letter to President Cleve-
land.
Senator Goucher of Fresno says he
has given up a political life and will de-
vote himself henceforth to his private
business.
A hunter on one of the mountain
meadows near Camas Prairie, Wash,
killed five cougars in one day. The larg-
est was nine feet long.
Judge Virden at Bridgeport, Mono
county, has sentenced A. NJ. Gross to
San Quentin for one year and six months
for selling liquor to Indians.
When the waits of Kalama, Wash.
had enjoyed their Christmas dinner at
the mayors hospitable table, he made
them all take dose of quinine.
Many Sacramento officials propose to
test the legality of the new charter, and
will not surrender their offices until they
are required to do SO by court decision.
Jules Pache, an expert accountant in
the Stockton Savings bank, became i'll
after the hard work of closing up the
books for the year, and fearing insanity
committed suicide.
j. d. Walker, Baptist evangelist at
Sanger, CAL, was rotten-egged while
leaving church. He had spoken harshly
of leading citizen, whose friends it is
believed took this means of revenge.
The Lower California Development
company has obtained a concession from
the Mexican government for the estab-
lishment of a mail steamship service be-
tween the ports of San Diego, Ensenada
and San Quentin.
The business men of San Francisco
are endeavoring to assist the unem-
ployed. Money is being subscribed for
the Improvement of Golden Gate park.
One dollar q day is paid the men and
they are all glad to Owen that amount.
William Morton and George Moesser,
In an extended prospecting tour ON the
desert, about 200 miles north Of San Ber-
nardino and about 40 miles from Goler,
discovered placer mines never before
known and gathered several large mug
gets as the result of one days work.
Ugly runors afoat for several days at
Spokane, Wash, eliminated in the ar
rest of Herman L. Chase on warrant
sworn out by Mary Nelson, his servant
girl, charging him with criminal as
sault under very aggravated oircum-
stances. Chase was released ON $1,000
bonds. He is a nephew Of ex-Secretary
Chase of Lincoln's cabinet and was re-
ceiver of the Spokane National bank,
and is widely known in the state. Chase
Is a confirmed invalid and the charges
are not believed by his friends. He ad-
mits having struck the girl under very
great provocation, but denies the other
charges.
Two rich men at Vancouver, B. c.,
bought up thousands of dollars worth
of Chinese silver ana Straits Settlements
dimes at 80 cents on the dollar and have
been industriously passing them through
the province at face value. AS if by a
tacit understanding, the banks, tram
ways, saloons, merchants and restaur-
ants refused the imported silver. The
excitement resembled a panic after a
bank suspension, as every body lost some
thing. The churches will reap a rich
harvest. as the collection plate is the
only outlet. though hundreds of dollars
have been shipped East in hopes of u.s.
ing Winnipeg and Toronto as dump
ing ground.
Walter Chedic, Carson (Nev.) bust
ness man, in an open letter advocates
the building of railroad from Carson
to the Sacramento river through Car
son, Fredericksburg and Diamond val
ley, around the south end of Lake Ia
hoe, through Lake valley, then over the
hill to Strawberry, down the American
river to Placerville and from there to
the Sacramento river, putting the state
in direct communication with the ocean
and making Nevada a competitive point
He advocates the building of a road by
the state by the issuance of 3 per cent
bonds for 5000, 900, redeemable in sc
years, with the governor, controller,
treasurer, surveyor general and attor-
ney general as the board of directors.
He advocates the formation of new
party, electing legislators on platform
which inficts the death penalty on all
who sell out to competing roads. He
would make the governor superintend-
ent, with the power to appoint an assist
ant. He would fix the passenger rate at