The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-09-19
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic 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.
There are now said to be 1885, 900
fruit trees in Hood river valley, 80, 900
of which are apple trees.
o. M. Moore, of Seattle, has bought
the Pythian Herald, and will remove
its publication from Ritzville to Sc
attic.
1t is said that the board of regents Of
the Oregon agricultural college will
dock" teachers whenever they are
absent.
Thomas W. Potter, the new superin-
tendent of the Indian training school
at Chemawa, Or, is expected to take
charge in few days.
The Tacoma city council has passed
an ordinance prohibiting the employ
ment in city work of any person not a
citizen and voter of Tacoma.
The consolidation of the Bellingham
bay, Wash, towns is still being talked
about. There is not much sentiment
in favor of it apparently outside of
Fairhaven.
George W. Van Fassen, of Tacoma,
has bought forty acres of land in the
Puyallup reservation, and proposes to
divide it into five-acre tracts and sell
it to his A. P. A. friends for homes.
In The Dalles the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company has gang of
men repairing the bridge from First
street to the company's house. ALI
the piles are being replaced by new
ones.
G. P. Moody is under arrest in
Pendleton charged with forging two
checks, one for $14 and one for $16,
drawn in the name of George Per-
ringer, of the First National bank of
Pendleton.
Work of ditch construction is to be
commenced at once at the Travillon &
Mann gravel mines at Parkersville.
The length of the ditch is to be about
two miles, and it will be an extension
of big ditch already built.
The Spokane council in a spasm of
economy, took out of commission the
North Sides chemical engine, and now
the insurance companies give notice
rates will be advanced 30 per cent un-
less the engine is replaced.
A colony of North Dakotas, with six
prairie schooners and thirty head of
cattle, passed through Palouse, Wash,
Tuesday on their way to the Nez Perce
reserve. They report that hundreds of
families are leaving the Dakotas for
the West.
Whitman county's assessment roll
has been made up and equalized by
the county board, and shows: From
realty, $685., 1856; railroad track,
81, ,741, ,648; town real property, ST.
653, ,872; personal property, $2,205,-
$40; total assessed valuation in coun-
ty, $11, ,236,375
Judge Denny, of the superior court
in Snohomish county, WASH, has de-
cided that United States court COM
missioners have no authority in the
state to make acknowledgement of
deeds, or similar instruments, and no
authority to administer oaths outside
of United States court matters.
1t is said there are 16, 900 sheep scat
tered along the hills from Catherine
creek to Cornucopia, without a sheep
herder, the herder having notified the
owner by posting notice on tree
that he had hetter get another herder,
and then left the sheep. The owner
is said to live in Umatilla county. Or.
Hillyard, Wash, has two sets of
school teachers and promise of much
litigation on hand. Three of the
teachers hold contracts from the old
board, while the new board have en-
ployed others. Those holding the old
contracts have demanded their full sal
ary, after expressing willingness to
| teach.
Rev. Francis L. Palmer, the coming
rector of st. Paul's Episcopal church
of Walla Walla, will be married about
the 1st of October to Miss Payne, the
accomplished daughter Of wealthy
manufacturer of Oshkosh, Wis. Mr..
Palmer, accompanied by his wife. are
expected at Walla Walla about Oc-
tober 15.
Deputy Fish Commissioner Hawkes.
arrested three Puyallup Indians Tues
day for maintaining net in the Puy-
allup river contrary to the state law.
The Indians will fight the case on the
grounds that under their treaty rights
they are entitled to hunt and fish re-
gardless of the state law. Just such q
question was the cause of the Jackson
Hole trouble.
Some large horses were shipped from
Benton county Tuesday for heavy work
in the coal mines around Seattle. The
largest of the five animals was mare
sold by James Edwards for $50, an6
she tipped the beam at 1910. Henry
Dunn sold one horse that weighed
$50 pounds for $110, and Fred Whit
by's horse, weight 1885 pounds
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