The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-08-15
NORTH PACIFIC NEWS
Happenings of Interest in the
Progressive Northwest.

happenings OF interest IN the
Progressive Northwest.
BRIEF REPORTS OF LATE EVENTS
A Budget of Items Gathered From
All Parts of Oregon, WASH
ington and Idaho.
Tacoma has ladies' cycling club,
with membership Of twenty-five.
Seattle has raised in cash and pro-
visions more than 81, 900 for the relief
of Sprague, Wash.
The total taxable property of Spo-
kane county, Wash, less exemptions,
is valued at $21, 1872, ,053.
The Spokane Chronicle says that the
small white butterfly is damaging the
pine forests in that vicinity.
There is talk of annexing Fidalgo
making Anacortes the county seat.
Douglas, county, WASH, is agitating
for a permanent exhibit of it's re-
sources and products at Waterville.
Rumor has it that the raft builders
will build another raft at Stella,
Wash, and also one in Coos Bay, Or.
Prairie chicken shooting is said to
be excellent in Eastern Oregon now,
and hunters come back laden with the
birds.
IT, >f
Washington, has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Puget Sound National
bank at Everett.
Frank Patton, of Astoria, has made
proposition to the people of Nehalem
to rebuild the saw mill there, if a
sufficient subsidy is raised.
Sheepherders report that the grass on
the Camp Watson mountains, in Ore
gon, is very poor, and that some sheep
men have been compelled to drive their
sheep out.
G. B. johnson was sentenced by
Judge Buck at Spokane to six years in
the penitentiary. johnson was arrest
ed four days before his sentence and
pleaded guilty.
There are $50 children of school age
on the Warm Springs, Or, reserva-
ton, but the school building will ac-
commodate but sixty. A new build
ing is being erected.
The grasshoppers are reported to
have done damage to crops in some in
stances in the upper portion of the val
ley above Ashland, Or, particularly
where the harvesting was delayed.
The Monte Cristo, Wash, school
district has voted to issue $1,000 worth
of twenty-year school bonds. This
district is the largest in Snohomish
county.
Most of the women out camping at
the Tollgate and Saling's camp, in
Walla Walla county, Wash, have
adopted boomers as costume for fish
ing, hunting and camp duties.
R. D. Shut, teacher at the Cheha
lis Indian school, near Yate City,
Wash, was saved from drowning in
the Chehalis river last Saturday by
some of the Indians in the vicinity.
In few days the cable from the
mainland to Tillamook rock light
house will be laid. A force of men
and one of the lighthouse tenders are
busy with the work of making con-
nectiOns.
Unsubstantiated charges, that will
probably be Investigated, have been
made of improper conduct on the part
of those charged with the manage
ment of the House of the Good Shep-
herd in Seattle.
The farmers around Oaksdale,
Wash, are preparing to make an Or
ganized fight against the Chinese
thistle. They claim the weed is brought
by threshers from Walla Walla, and
Northern Oregon counties.
This season seems to be particularly
favorable to figs in Southern Oregon.
A tree in General J. M. McCall's lot
in Ashland has fair crop of ripe and
green fruit, the ripe ones being as per-
fectely matured as if grown in Su-
matra, says the Tidings.
Mrs. Ethel Pitts, in her suit for di
vorce from Henry Pitts, brought in
Tacoma, alleges that while living at
Kalama, July 81, 1891, Pitts compelled
her to accompany him before justice
of the peace and marry him against
her will, he telling her the replies to
the questions asked in the ceremony.
Pitts is negro.
The Ollala postoffice was robbed
some time ago, and reward of 500
was offered for the capture of the rob-
bers. The postmaster, w. R. Wells,
arrested two men, Dean and Miller,
who turned out to be the guilty parties.
The government, however, refuses to
pay the reward, claiming that the law
does not apply to postmaster who
captures the robbers of his own Office.
The Gold Beach, Or, Gazette re-
lates that Charley Bailey and Dave
Frame, while fishing two weeks ago,
saw a very brilliant meteor, which
reached the earth just west of Doyle's s
house, on the north side of the river.
The aerolite showed a very white
light as it descended, and when near
| the ground it exploded with q loud re-