The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-08-17
THE NEWS OF OREGON.
Interesting Items Cleaned from
the State Exchanges.

A'o Pai piloiilaiid "ao OeotiOyGo oJ AiS
at Gervais last Monday evening.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the Grand Army and Sons OF
Veterans assembly at Mehama on Au-
gust 81, % and %.
According to the reports of the
Yamhill County Horticultural assocIa-
ton, the number of acres i'll fruit in
that county is 2797.
A lady evangelist has been conduct,
ing services at Pendleton, with the Jail
inmates as an audience. They were
all very attentive listeners.
The wool securing mill at Pendleton
is proving a boon to sheepmen. BY
being located there, woolgrowers real
ize one cent per pound more than they
otherwise would.
A couple of Milton fruit raisers have
come to the conclusion that the pro-
duction of sorgum molasses will be a
paying venture and accordingly have
erected a brick furnace for the manu-
facture of that article.
J. Dudley, who lives near Athena,
had boasted that his wheat crop would
yield 40 bushels per acre. Harvesting
commenced, and now the record shows
that he is tlrreshing % bushels from
each acre, at which, of course, he is
agreeably disappointed.
Ann mine, the recent discovery in
Rogue river valley, have been taken to
Medford and the coal is being retailcd
at fifty cents hundred pounds. A
tunnel has been run twenty feet on the
vein, which is six feet thick. The coal
is said to be bituminous.
The famous Pioneer rock quarry, on
Yaquina bay, has been sold to a gen
tleman from Flagstaff, Ariz. The
force has been increased and work
on contracts is being crowded. A por-
ton of the land in the site was retained
by the original owner, who contem-
plates opening out another quarry.
While Maggie Scott, seven years
old, daughter of VIM. Scott, who
lives on the SCOTS Mills road, five
miles from Silverton, was playing at
some distance from the house one day
last week her clothes caught fire in
some manner. Before help reached
her she was so badly burned that she
died the next morning.
A printer and sheepherder had
friendly little bout in saloon in Ath-
ena last week They were having
political discussion and the printer EN-
phasized his arguments by hitting his
opponent in the neck. The sheep
herder resented this little breach of
etiquette by gently taking the printer
down and chewing his ear of.
The Pendleton Tribune estimates
the wheat crop of UmatiIla county for
this season at 4, ,OS0,000 bushels. The
average yield is placed at seventeen
bushels per acre. 1t will require more
than $l25,000 worth of sacks to hold
the wheat. Probably too high an esti-
mate of the amount of wheat in that
county, giving it at least a fourth of
the crop of the entire state.
1t is saii that George Ellis, who
works a placer mine on Starveout,
picked up nugget a few days ago val
ued at 1888, and that he and his part
ner washed out S4OO in one week. 1t
is also reported that Pat O'Shea, who
owns the old Dwelley claims near
Green Mountain, Is taking out $l0O a
day. Strikes of this kind pay much
better than railroad strikes.-Rose-
burg Review.
Rev. Bowersox, of this city, mourns
the loss of his horse, veteran of
twenty-three years, that has carried
him and the gospel into many pre-
cinct of Marion and surrounding
counties. He did good work in this
world and if there is horse heaven on
the other side of the Styx, no doubt he
is ambIing gently along in the midst of
green pastures, by the side of the still
waters.-Oregon Democrat.
Judge Wiswall, of Vancouver,
Wash, was drowned at Seaside, Clat-
sop Beach, at 10 o'clock, Monday
morning. Judge Wiswall and wife had
been camping at Seaside for the past
month, and he was In the habit of going