The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-08-08
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re.
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

DhlEF SfARhS EROM THE WlkE
Happenings of Interest in the Towns AM
Cities of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho.
A committee of fifty has been organ
lied in Port Townsend, WASH, to pro
mote the welfare of that city.
Lawrence Gronlund, the socialist
is on visit to Seattle, to try to max
converts to his way of thinking.
A party of copper-miners has bee1
inspecting a copper mine on Bear creel
in Wallowa county, that is said to b.
quite rich.
George Edgar, who administered tt
Ada Myers, in Baker county, has beer
held in $500 bonds, to answer to thu
next grand jury, on charge of man
slaughter.
The Port Townsend, Wash, Herald
has suspended publication. It is un
derstood that the plant will be moved
to North Yakima, where a daily will
be established.
The total valuation of all property
in King county, Wash, is placed al
$42, 81O,688 by the last assessment.
This is So, 64S, $50 less than the assess.
ment of last year.
The A. P. AS of Pierce county,
WASH, have decided to have a paper,
to be called the American Citizen.
The first number will appear about
August l5, and the paper will be pub.
lished weekly.
It is claimed that the orchard of E.
Fl. Hanford, adjoining the townsite OF
Oaksdale, Wash, and containing 2sO
acres, is the largest in Whitman
county, if not in the state, owned by
one man and in one single tract.
Hopgrowers from near Salem are
said to be out after pickers at 40 cents
box, agreeing to come and get them,
when wagon-load of pickers can be
gathered together, and to return them
back home after picking is over.
The first tunnel at the Santiam, Or. /,
mines has been run in forty feet, and
free gold ore has been struck. Consid-
cradle activity is apparent in the San
tiam region, and the hills are being
thoroughly prospected for new claims
The Baker City national bank is now
ready to pay its second dividend to de-
positors. Twenty per cent or about
$14, 900, will be paid out. Receiver
Beard hopes to be able to pay 100 cents
on the dollar to depositors by the time
<1,o fFoi of &6o o1o
There seems to be little evidence
against W. d. Alfred, who was arrest
ed and brought to klamath Falls, Or. !,
charged with the Ager-Klamath Falls
stage robberies. So far, the driver s
opinion that he recognized Alfred s
voice is all the evidence amounts to.
Judge Parker, of the superior court
of Pierce county, Wash, has decided
that in the collection of delinquent
taxes the treasurer must not retain the
full amount of the penalty and interest
in the general and salary funds, but
must divide it proportionally among
| the funds specified bylaw.
It is feared that the watermelon crop
of Yakima, Wash, will be b small one
this year, says the Republf fo. In the
Mckee valley, froIA where d many big
loads Of luscious melons cal be last sea-
son, there VIII bs hardly END ugh to sup
ply the producers. The told, back
ward spring is said to be the cause,
and even replanting failed.
Stewart johnson, the La2Ze Chelan,
E7Nash., steamboatman, sayS that from
about the first of September on till
snowfall hunting will be tl e best. The
/ big game will then be &athered in
droves and herds on the ID iddle tide
Hands; bear will be fatte{ led on the
late berry patches and grol Sc will be
plump and plentiful as blak akkbirds in a
| tuIa berry swamp.
Benjamin F. Manning, county treas
urer of Whitman county, WASH, says
he does not think the county will re-
sumo the issuance of warrants this
year. October II, 1894, the commits
sioners found THAI the legal limit of
Indebtedness of the county had been
exceeded by about $50, 900, since which
time no warrants have been issued ex-
cept on the salary and emergency fund.
| The trial of John Mcdowell for kill
ing his son-in-law, John McCalbe,
February 26, 1895, at the Summit,
Or, was completed at Toledo the other
day. The jury returned verdict Of
guilty of manslaughter, and Judge
Fullerton sentenced Mcdowell to two
years in the penitentiary. Mcdowell
is SO years of age, and the reports Of
the murder when it happened were de-
cidedly against him.
According to the Salem journal,
prices for wheat vary considerably
among the six Touring mills of Marion
county, Or. During six months the
highest price paid by the Salem mills
was A cents, lowest 81; while the
lowest price paid by the Aumsville
mill was 40 cents and the highest go.
The average prices were as follows:
Salem, 40 cents; jefferson, 45 cents
Aurora, so cents; Sidney, 43 cents
Gervais, Al ga; Aumsville, 55.