The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-09-12
NORTH PACIFIC NEWS
Happenings of Interest in the
Progressive Northwest.

| Progressive Northwest.
BRIEF REPORTS OF LATE EVENTS
All Parts Of Oregon, Wash-
ington and Idaho.
Hood River, Or, has council COM
mittee at work devising sewer and
drainage system for the town.
The uwaco, Wash, cranberry ranch
will yield 2, 900 barrels of berries this
year, and they will be worth, it is
said, $12 barrel.
Mr.. Hume's Rogue river cannery has
closed down, after successful season.
The run of fish was so large that the
eannery could not pack all the catch.
Hood River. Or, will have fruit
exhibit October 4 and 5. There will
be all kinds of fruit on show, but the
far-famed Hood River apples will be
the chief thing.
The new millrace which is being
built by w. S. Byers, proprietor of the
Pendleton roller mills, at q cost of
81 900, will be completed within a
week or ten days.
Sheriff Houser, of Umatilla county,
Or, turned over to County Treasurer
Kern Monday the sum of SO, sos. is,
which he had collected for taxes be-
tween August 16 and 81.
Vale, Or. the county seat of NAL
heur county, is having quite a build
ing boom. Two large f1reproof build.
ings are going up, and hotel to take
the place of the one recently burned.
A petition signed by many citizens
and nearly all of the business men of
Waitsburg, has been presented to the
city council, asking that the laws re-
garding Sunday closing be rigidly en-
forced.
Superintendent Lawler, of the London
syndicate, received another check for
$40, 1000 Wednesday to continue work
on the Santiam mines, says the Albany
Democrat. The mill is expected at AL
bany in a few days, and will be run
ming by November Is.
The election to vote upon the ques-
tion of consolidating New Whatcom,
WASH, and Fairhaven will be held
September 81. Little interest is mani
tested in New Whatcom, as only
three-fourths of the qualified electors
have thus far registered.
The Umatilla Indians are camped in
the valley near Enterprise, Or, await
ing the arrival of the Lapwais, when
they will indulge in horseracing.
"seven up," etc. 1t is very doubtful
| if the Lapwais visit Wallowa this fall,
as they have business to look after at
home.
| Professor johnson, collector for the
foresty department. Of the United
States, has found in Cow Creek canyon
new species of pine, the eleventh
found in Oregon. The wood Of the
new tree is unusually tough, and sam
pies of the needles in Mr.. Johnson S
possession are Is inches long.
! The warrants drawn during the
month of August to run the city of
Walla Walla, Wash, were: For
street lighting, $3.50. SO; general de-
partment, $4O7.40; fire department,
1878. 90; health department., $78.45;
cemetery department., $56.25; street
department, $SO1.2O; total, $3,354. So.
Because of trouble in King county,
Wash, between the coroner and COM
missioners over the fees that shall be
allowed the former. the body of Baby
Hansen was left in the undertaker's 8 es-
tablishment in Seattle for ten days,
awaiting burial. 1t has not been en-
balmed, but was temporarily preserved
from decay.
The report of the Spokane Falls,
Wash, district land Office for the
month of August shows the following
business transacted: Two cash sales,
ITO. 43 acres; one pre- emption, 100;
two script entries, $40; two timber
proofs, $40; sixteen homestead entries,
l,4s6.15; twenty-eight homestead
proofs, 3,989.67.
| J. P. McMinn, who lives on Walla
Walla river, has fruit dryer in op'
Grafton that has a capacity Of $4,000
pounds for twenty hours. He uses
little wagons to handle the fruit on the
platforms and in the dryer. He il
now drying varieties of the Italian,
silver and French prunes, and has 1O(
tons of his own, and has just bought
100 tons more.
G. o. White is interesting farmers il
stocking Umatilla county, Or, with
Mongolian pheasants In the vicinity
of Milton, the increase has been very
rapid. e. j. Sommerville put out two
of the pheasants a year ago and nov
there are forty or fifty about his place
There are at least 800, and perhaps 40(
near Milton, all bred during the pas
year or two.
Peter Christopher, who lives 81.
miles north of Pendleton, lost abou
sixty sacks of wheat one day last week
The men came about o'clock in tht
, morning, and loaded it in a wagon ant
, drove away and then returned fo
3 more. Someone saw them when the.
, came the second time, and frightene'