The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-10-03
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re-
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Cities of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho.

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and Idaho.
Six schooners were loading lumber
on Coquille, Or, last week.
Edwin Eels has been agent for the
Puyallup Indians for nearly twenty.
four years.
The Herrick cannery at The Dalles,
Or, has put up about 5000 cases Of
salmon so far.
Governor McGraw and the military
board favor, for military reasons, CIV
ing Spokane the new artillery COM
pany.
Fair catches of salmon are being
still made on Coos river, Or, although
the run of fish is Stacking up some-
what.
The Burns, Or, town council has
contracted for the purchase of fire en-
gine to cost $1,275, delivered at Hunt
ington, or Ontario.
A row among the gamblers in Pa
louise, Wash, led the city council to
conclude that gambling should be
broken up. It will act upon the con-
ciusiOn.
Spokane has organized new infan-
Captain, Emery P. Gilbert; first lieu
tenant, Joseph M. Moore; second lieu
tenant, R. A. Koontz.
The contract Of the city of New
Whatcom, Wash. with the Bellingham
Bay improvement Company for light
ing the city for one year at the rate Of
500 a month has been ratified by the
council.
Dog fennel dust interfered with the
harvesters about the machines in Sher-
man county, Or, this season. The
clothes of the workers would become
filled with it, and the wrist, neck and
body were badly blisteredg&
The debt of Curry county, Or, is
about $40, 900, and draws 8 per cent
interest. The debt was incurred in
building good road from one end of
the county to the other. The rate of
taxation is So. so on 500 of the asses
sed valuation.
A saving plant has been fitted up in
Tacoma for cutting lumber into blocks
to he used in paving Pacific avenue.
The block-cutting machine can cut
seven blocks at stroke, 5000 an hour,
1000 day, or enough to lay 400 lin
cal feet of paving on one side Of the
avenue.
The other day fully 100 people wit
messed an exhibition of Cunningham
& Harter's horseshoeing machine, in
Heppner, Or. The machine is made
to hold the widest cayuse without in
jury to him or those shoeing the horse.
The trial was fully satisfactory to all,
says the Heppner Gazette.
Settlers in the Lake country, Or, are
anxiously awaiting the survey of that
country, which will be made this fall.
Work in that section may then be look
ed for, as people are adverse to putting
substantial improvements on unsurvey-
ed land. A townsite will be laid off
at the Narrows in the near future.
The Astoria News says that it may
be authoritatively stated that the firm
of Dickson & Co. has been awarded the
pier and trestlework from Young's
bay to Astoria, and that Corey Bros. &
Co., will do the first ten miles of
grading and tunneling work east Of
Tongue point.
The total valuation by the assessor
of the property of Malheur county is
81 ,138,736 OF this, $112,343 is ex-
empt, leaving the taxable property
81 ,026, 1898. The grand jury of Curry
county, Or, has recommended the ap-
pointment of three capable persons to
expert the records and accounts of the
different county offices.
job Considine, of Spokane, has lost
the first point in his fight to maintain
his right to employ females in his the
alter. The case came up on defendants.
motion for a writ of habeas corpus,
and was heard by Judge Buck. After
the argument Of counsel on each side,
he court held that Considine was le-
gally held, and denied the writ of hab.
cas- corpus.
Yakima, Wash. people hope to OBJ
tain pardon for Frank Lavigne, who
was sentenced to thirty years for kill
ing Tex Bagwell. The effort is based
on recent decision Of the supreme
court that if person is arrested for
murder he must be either convicted or
acquitted of that charge, and if he is
convicted of murder the sentence can
not be for manslaughter.
q. F. Billings has on exhibitions at
his Office in insurance block, Ashland,
Or, the peach the surpasses the record
for size. It is of the twenty. ounce
cling variety, and lacks but 1 "a
ounces of weighing twenty ounces.
The big peach was grown by B. Beach,
of Ashland. 1t has been preserved in
glass jar for exhibition, with several
other smaller ones Zone of the latter
weighing 16 3-4 ounces), and they will
probably be sent to the fairs.
The earnings Of the ladies of the
First Methodist church in Spokane for
the year ending August 81, 1895, ag-
gregated $1,908.94. For six months
| continually the ladies sarvad roools -,