The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-07-25
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Te1egraphic Re.
ports OF Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Happenings of Interest in the Towns and
Cities of Oregon, Washington
/ and Idaho.
| The flax crop of Whitman county,
Wash, promises to be a success this
year.
Sheriff PLY, of Union county, Or,
has collected and turned over an addi-
tional sum of $4,000 of delinquent
| taxes.
| Ransom Stokes, whose murdered
body was found near Sunnydale last
week. had $4,000 on deposit in Seattle
banks.
The fruit dryer now being built at
Orcas, San Juan county, Wash, will
have capacity of 5000 pounds every
"A hours
Lincoln county has 81, 931.SO to dis
tribute among the school districts as
soon as the census is completed.
| Major Weed, of Portland, is on a BIZ
cycle tour of the Willamette valley,
with the object in view of starting an
other advertising car East this fall.
The grasshoppers are working in the
grain fields of the Columbia hills, in
Klickitat, Wash, and are said to have
cleaned everything up to Wedge
woods.
Linn county, Or, is in line with
statement showing saving of more
than So. 900 under the salary system as
compared with the last year under the
fee system.
A comparison of the salary law with
the fee system in Lane county, Or,
shows saving under the former dur
ing the past year over the latter in
1894, of $7,527.97.
The Spokane county court house is
to be lighted by 500 incandescent
lights of 16 candle-power, at cost of
1 1-8 cents per candle-power, or 18
cents lamp a month.
An inspection of the mineral bearing
resources of school section 16 in Ia
coma, the land involved in the Nc
Bride case, is being made by an expert
of the interior department.
Deputy County Assessor Beeson, of
jackson county, estimates the popula-
ton of his county this year at $4,000.
He thinks the total assessed valuation
will be less than last year.
! G. W. Tribbey, of Marshfeld, Or,
has applied for patent for mower,
his invention being a double sickle
working eccentric to each other, and
thus, it is claimed, doubling the speed
of an ordinary mower.
Interest at per cent month is not
usurious in Washington, according to
a decision handed down by the supreme
court, reversing the ruling of the lower
court in the case Of G. G. Brundage VS..
II. G. Burke and Emma Burke, from
Seattle.
The purchasers of the Yoncalla, Or. !,
school district bonds have refused to
take them, because of their illegality,
and demand the return of their money.
The outcome is uncertain, but Yon-
calla will not have new school house
this year.
The Oregon Fruit Union, of The
Dalles, is making preparations to ship
peach plums. Already the crop is be-
ing gathered, and the manager expects
to send carload East about July 81.
This, it is said, will be the first ship
ment from Oregon, and the fruit is in
excellent condition.
Rattlesnakes are said to be unusually
| mn IA
Or, probably on account of the dry
season. On Thursday last George NAL
colin lost horse from the effects of a
bite, and on Friday his two little chill
dren, preceded by dog, were walking
along a trail near the house, when the
dog was bitten.
The first electric sawmill on the Pa
cific coast is being fitted up in the
building formerly used by the Fox Isl:
and clay works, at the foot of Fif-
teenth street, Tacoma. The plant is a
of the Olympia Lumber company, of
Olympia, Wash. A 16-horse power
electric motor, with city power, will
run the machinery, which at present
consists of resaw, planer, sticker and
turning lathe.
The school trustees of Asotin, Wash.
received eleven applications. One OF
these came from Indiana. Five wanted
the high school principalship, four
the intermediate department., and one
the primary. The board made the fol-
lowing selections: For the high
school, ]. B. Jones, of Asotin; inter.
mediate department., Mrs. Halle Rob.
inson, of Montgomery Ridge, and fol
the primary grade, Mrs. Blanche Rich
ards, of Asotin.
Several samples of lumber manufac'
. tured on the Pacific. coast have beer
sent to the navy department. at Wash
ington, where they will receive atten
ton when the consideration of new
gunboats is taken up by the authorities
The samples are furnished by Pacif.
coast parties, who propose to put il
bids on the building of the gunboats